Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1891 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 15, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.

CHICAGO IS IN DOUBT.

Cregier Still Has a Good ' Fighting Chance. Official Count Will Probably Be Necessary, St. Louis Gives Big Democratic Majorities. Large Democratic Gains In Michigan and Ohio. Denrer Elects a Democratic Mayor General Result. Chicago, April 8. At 2. Comptroller Onahan stated that all precincts had been beard from and that the complete return gave Cregier, 46,566; Hempstead Wathburne, 46.133, a plurality for Creer of 433. The gain for Cregier was in the stock yard's district, where the Irish-American votes appear to have clung solidly to their first favorite, Cregier. Chicago, April 8. At midnight tonight both republicans and democrats were claiming to be victorious in the exciting election for the mayoralty. Each side, however, had practically minimized its claims to a plurality of 200 to 300. The official count to begin tomorrow was being awaited with impatience, the narrowness of the margin for either party and the charges and counter charges of fraud making the suspense almost distracting. The democrats put forward the assertion that in scores of instances, the votes for JUmer Washburn, the citizens' candidate, were deliberately counted for Hempgtead Washburne, the republican nominee, each a substitution being facilitated by the similarity of names. On the other hand, the republicans protest that in one precinct alone at the stock yards over one hundred votes were deposited for names that were refused registration and that some of the names are those of persons who have been dead for weeks or months. In this particular precinct, it is charged, affairs were so manipulated that every judge and clerk without exception were democrats and the plurality for Cregier was something abnormal. ot a few people tonight were inclined to believe that the many alleged mistakes and changes in estimates were in the interest of the gambling ! fraternitv, and were designed to give certain big book makers a chance to Ledge out on their bets. Chicago, April 9. The official canvass of the votes in the late election began this afternoon and it is expected that the work will not be completed inside of a week. Both the republicans and democrats continue to claim the election of their reFpective candidates for mayor and until the official canvass is finished it will be impossible to declare positively which Is correct. The alleged errors in the returns made on Tuesday night were discovered today. In the Twenty-seventh ward the republicans claim that Washburne, was not credited with fifty votes which were cast for him, and in the Twenty-fifth ward the democrats claim that the number of votes credited to Cregier was one hundred short. The TnZune claims the election of Hempstead Washburne (rep.) by a plurality of 4CG votes. This result is arrived at on complete returns, partly of those pent by the judges of election to police headquarters and partly through "independent research and made by its reporters in cases where police returns were missing. The Inter-Occan (rep.) makes Waehbnrne's plurality 1,98.1. The Daily Neu$ find.) gives no figures on the xnavoralty, but charges Cregier's friends with attempting fraudulent work on behalf of their candidate. The Herald fdem.) says that it will require the official count to determine the result and quotes the claim of Cregier's friends to the effect that on complete returns he has a plurality of 235. Chicago, April 10. Owing to the abBence ci one ot the attorneys, who was ill, the canvass of the returns was postponed until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Mr. Harrison now thinks he has a chance in the contest and claims that many votes cast for him were improperly set down. ' On the application of CoL James W. Isye, chairman of the republican committee, a bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Dennis Hheehan, charged with breaking open ballot boxes. AT ST. LOUIS. Democrat Win a Magnificent Victory for ling Majorities. St. Loos, April 7. Election dav dawned bright and cool, only a few clouds being seen in the sky. But for the fact that there are three tickets in the field the election would be of little general interest, as only candidates for the city assembly are up for election. The election, for the most part, passed off quietly, there being few disturbances at the polls and only eight arrests made for illegal voting. The complexion of the next assembly is democratic, the democrats having elected their entire ticket for the city council, which stands seven democrats to six republicans and of the twenty-eight seats in the house That extreme tired feeling which is so distressing and often so unaccountable in tbe spring months, is entirely overcome by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which tones the whole body, purifies the blood, cures scrofula and all humors, cures dyspepsia, creates an appetite, rouses the torpid liver, braces tip the nerves, and clears the mind. Yfi soUcit a comparison of Rood's Sarsaparllla with any other blood purifier in the market for purity, economy, strength, and medicinal merit. Tired all the Time "1 had no appetite or strength, and felt tired all the time. I attributed my condition to scrofulous humor. I bad tried several kinds of medicino without benefit. But as soon as I had taken half a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparllla, my arpetite was restored, and my stomach felt better. I have now taken nearly three bottles, and I never was so well." Mrs. Jessis F. Dolbeaee, Pascoag, JL I. Sirs. C W. Marriott, Lowell, Mass.; was completely cured of sick headache, which she Lad 16 years, by Rood's SarsapariUa,

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of delegates they secured eighteen, while

the republicans have ten, the independents not being successful in a single instance. The average democratic majority is about 6,000. OHIO ELECTIONS. Tlie Democrat Make Large Gain Kvsry. where. Cincinnati, O., April 7. Specials to the Commercial Gazette show the result of elections at the following points: Ironton, republican, except council; Vsnwert, redublican, except one assessor; Rucyrus, democratic; Galion, republican mayor rest democratic; Lima, democratic; "Washington, C. II., rewiblican council, others democratic; Oxford, one democratic assessor elected; Sidney, democratic; Marion, republican mayor, rest democratic ; lroy, democratic mayor, rest republican. At Newark the republicans gained but verv little, but the democratic ring was broken. Maillon, while electing all the democrats to city offices, has a republican majority in the council, the lirst in four years. At Norwalk the honors were about evenly divided between the democrats and republicans. At Middle-town, while a republican mayor was elected, the democrats had all the rest of, the ticket. At Findlay the republicans obtained the regular officers, but a democratic majority, was elected to the council, tho whisky question being at issue. At Kenton and upper Sandusky the democrats gained everything. The Milwaukee Election. Milwaukee, Wis., April 7. The election in this state today was for justice of of the tupretne court. Political lines were not drawn. S. U. Fenny was nominated bv a convention of lawyers and 11 II. Fdlia candidacy was backed by democratic politicans. but he was not formally nomi- ; nated. Both men were democrats. The vote was light, but dispatches to the Sentinel from all parts of the state point to Penny's election. He carried Milwaukee county by over three thousund. A judge of the superior.court was elected in this county, ltoth candidates were democrats, and with one county town to hear from, it is expected that Austin, the bar candidate, has defeated Ludwig, the democratic candidate, by a small majority. Austin carried the city by one plurality. Lacrosse, Wis.. April 7. In the election here today the democrats carried the entire ticket with the exception of mayor. The council is democratic by a fair majority. Evansvllle Democrats Happy. Evaxsvillk, April 7. Special. The democracy of this city is in a happy frame of mind tonight. It is learned that an inspector of elections in one precinct opened a ballot-box Monday to allow a voter to change his vote. This, of course, is contrary to law, and as that precinct gives a big republican majority, if thrown out, it will give the democrats the surveyor. There is alfco a charge of irregularities in other precinct with big republican majority, and if thrown out it will give the democrats the full board of public works. Tonieht it is rumored that warrant will be issu-.rd for the arreBt of the election officers in these precinct. If the democrats are successful in throwing out these precincts and debarring one of the recently elected councilinen they will then have the whole city government with the exception of the republican councilman. The Ile it t tn Omaha, Omaiia, April 7. All over Nebraska today municipal elections were held under the new law, which embraces the Australian plan of voting. Reports from nearly every city and village in the state indicate that the law is one of the best ever devised. General routine work of receiving and counting the billots has been greatly expedited. Returns so far show general resumption of the power by the republicans where party lines were drawn. In most of the towns the question was between the license ana no license and the vote mainly resulted in favor of license. At Lincoln, Weir, citizens' candidate, was elected maj or by 500 plurality. The balance of the city ticket will be divided between the citizens and democrats, with the council uncertain. Minnesota and Dakota. Minneapolis, April 8. Reports from the municipal elections in Minnesota and South Dakota show the following results: At Stillwater, Minn., the democrats leeted the mayor, the Hon. E. W. Durham, and one alderman ; the republicans, city treasurer and two aldermen. The issue at Fergus Falls was municipal reform and no license was beaten. At Albert Lea both mayoralty candidates were republicans and the city council is equally divided. The republican mavor was elected at Fairbault with two democrats and one republican aldermen. In South Dakota Watertown gets a democratic mayor, the rest of the successful ticket being republican. At Huron the republicans got everything except police magistrate. The Denver Victory. Denver, Cob, April 8. Complete returns from yesterday's election give the follow ing figures: For mavor, Rogers, (dem.), 12,093; Milburn, (rep.j, 7,538. Denver today has a democratic mayor for the first time in her history and the members of that party are celebrating the event as they have never celebrated since the elec tio'n of Governor Alva Adams. Mlehlcan Election In Doubt. Detroit, Mich., April 8. The result of the late election is still held in doubt by the slowness with which the returns enroo in. The changes in the two previous elections were so radical in some counties that indications are hardly trustworthy now, and it is probableithe result will not positively be known till the official count is in.

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Everybody needs and should take a good spring medicine, for two reasons : 1st, The body Js now more susceptible to benefit from medicine than at any other season. 2d, The impurities which have accumulated in the blood should be expelled, and the system given tone and strength, before tho pros t rating effects of warm weather are felt. Hood's SarsapariUa Is the best spring medicine. A single trial will convince you of its superiority. Take It before it is too late. The Lest Spring Medicine ' "I take Ilood's Sarsaparllla for a sprlag medicine, and I find it Just the thing. It tones up my system and makes me feel like a different man. My wife takes it for dyspepsia, and she derives great benefit from it. f-' says it Is the best medicine she ever ten k. ' F. C. Ten En, Hook & ladder No. l, Doston, Mass. "Last sprit I was troubled with boils, caused ly my blcod being out of order. Two bottles of Ilood's Sarsaparilla cured me. I can recommend it to all troubled with affeotions of the bipod." J. Scnocu, Tcoria, 11L Bold by all drugi,-UU. (1; six for fs. Prepared by C. L HOOD CO., Apottecarles, Lowell, Xui, . IOO Doses Ono Dollar

THE FARMER MUST GO.

HE HAS SOLD OUT HIS BIRTHRIGHT And Is 1 Dondag-a to tho Milt Oviir Recl- - proclty is Bat m Schema to Farther the Machlna Man's Interests at tha Farmer's Kxpsnsa. To TiTE Editor Sir: There were in the United States in 1SS0 322,357 tenant farmers paying rent and 702,244 tenant farmers, villeins or metayers, farming on pharos a total of 1,024,701 tenant farmers. The total number of tenant farmers in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is 1,009,127. If the 574,222 Irish tenant farmers should be compelled to share their crops equally with their landlords, as 702,244 American farmers must, such an outcry would go up to heaven as was never be fore beard m the world. If the 414.R04 English tenant farmers were required to rto it, thev would take only from thirty-six to forty-eight hours in winch to wipe out the whole svstem ot land tenures. The greati6t share ever asked of them was one-fourth. This condition has been brought about with the consent and at tho desire of the republican farmers ot the country, who have heartily approved and supported the conspiracy entered into bv the chiefs of their party with the plutocrats to change this free republic into a plutocracy. In pursuance of this conspiracy a republican congress 1. Gave in two years to a dozen cor porations over two hundred million acres of the best farming land in the country, and locked up for plutocratic purchase as much more, in alternate sections. 2. Granted to 14,500 owners of machines protection for the product of their ma chinery from the competition of American farm labor. 3. Increased the value of machines and plant and decreased the value of labor and all products of labor by demonetizing silver. 4. Decreed that Europe, now paying us for our surplus farm products in SpanishAmerican checks (or bill3 ot exchange). given by Spanish-America for European mill products, winch, when transferred to us. we use to buy Spanish-American tropi cal products, shall be deprived of these checks by supplying Spanish-Amenra with American machine products, and that the payment of these South American products shall be transferred from American farm labor to American machine labor. The Brazilian note now eent from Rio to London to pay for British cloth, then sent from London to New York to pay for American wheat, and finally sent from New York to Rio for cancellation alter payment in Brazilian coffee, must hereafter be sent from Rio to New York to pay for American cloth, and returned from New York for cancellation after payment in Brazilian coffee. The American farmer must find a new customer and a new market for his farm products if he can. The one he has now must go to the American mill-owners. Thirty years ago, wh -n this conspiracy was formed, we boasted that every American owned his own farm, and we called upon tho oppressed to come from every nation, to come from every way, believing Lnde Sam to be rich enough to give then eacli raid all a farm. The" census of li00 will show one-sixth the farmers of the United States reduced to vassalage, tenants at will, farming on eharee, giving one-half the crop to the landlord; and one-ha;f the remainder nominal owners only, mortgaged to the full value, struggling against foreclosure. The plutocratic machine-owners have invaded farming. So rapid has been this invasion that, while in 1S70 there were only 1-YS73 farms between 500 and 1,000 acres, in 1830 there were 75,072; and of farms over 1,000 acres, 3,720 in 1870 and 28,578 in 18S0. These bonanza farms range from 500 to 500,000 acres. - They have no homes and no home life only" barracks where a few hirelings live for a few months in the year. Machinery and animals do the work, and the only labor is for machinetenders aDd herders. When the harvest is over these machine-tenders are turned adrift, a dozen of them not having earned enough to support one familv for a year, and a new gang is hired when the next harvest comes. The land that would support fifty families in comfort does not furnish wages to support five, and furnishes employment only for tramps without families. It is the machine labor on our 100,000 bonanza farms bonanzas to the capitalists owning them that has brought the cost ol an acre of wheat to S3.55, of corn to $3.15, of barley and oats to $2.87, as againBt four times that cost when cultivated by men and not machines. The plutocrats who have bought this government from the republican farmers of the country paying for it by pandering to their ignorance and their bigotry do not intend to let one independent farmer remain upon the land. Plutocracy has enslaved wage labor. It proposes to enslave and will enslave our independent farm labor. The plutocratic mill-owners demanded and obtained in 1SG8 a decree that the surplus products of nearly 2,000,000 farmers shall be fehut oft' from an exchange abroad for products that will compete with American mill machinery. Tho screws which at first were hardly felt have been put on harder and harder, and now, over 1,250,00 have lost their farms and are tenant farmers only, while twice that number are too heavily mortgaged to hold on for five years more under the sharp turn given by the McKinley tariff. Can any man doubt that the order will bo fully carried out, that our farm surplus wi I be destroyed and this number forced out of farming? Can any one point a way of salvation method of escape for them? The plutocratic farm owners, using machinery entirely, who have driven the cost of producing wheat down to 18 cents per bushel, will continue the battle with those who remain. Farm by farm wid pass into their hands until a few thousand men will own the farming land of the United States, and the villeinage of the sixth century in Europe will be repeated here in America. Reciprocity a Tinnoo. Reciprocity is a bunco. Ita avowed object is to have the ?JOO,000,000 in tropical products annually sent from South America to this country (to pay tho notes he'd by our American'farmers, or their agents, and taken by them in payment for their farm products 8nt to Lairope) paid for in American machine products ; but its real ob ect is not ho much to steal this small market from the farmer as to steal his home market. Here is the balance sheet forl8U0: Imports . 6,739,622 . 23.374,0 . :U,13if 826 Export 132,8v5,OW 6,150,576 Merebandlv Gold inl f?llTer...... Ameriea. Mirctisn 1 UoH and Silver ........ Fri'Ort Bureau ofSlatUOct p. xeil. and pp. 50-70. These account were wttled bjr transfers of credit for no gold or silver was used er could b used, the bullion excels always poing with the merchandise excess. But any one who imaging that reciprocity seeks for the mill owner only the $100,000,000 in the South American trade is deceive. - Europe sent the Spanish A mericaa $1,100,000,000. of mill goods, receiving

$900,000,000 in Spanish-American farm products their only exports and took notes for $200,000,000, with which it purchased American farm products. Our American mill-owner3 intend to capture this whole Spanish-American market for mill goods and to receive in payment for our American mill-goods the $000,000,000 in Spanish-American farm products now sent to Europe, as well as the $100,000,000 now coming here. They are plotting for billions, not millions. If any man doubts this I offer him the proof. Export and Finance is the name of a new weekly journal established in this city at 5 Bowling Green, "devoted to the financial interests of the manufacturers of the United States and the exporters of South America." Under date of March 21 it sends out a prospectus which begins with this paragraph: Instead of the eleven hundred millions ($1,100,000,000) dollars of Spanish-American commerce (farm products) annually going to build up ana enrich the great commercial and manufacturing industries of England, France and Germany, these millions (in farm products) should all come to the United States. With earnest and patriotic effort we can 6ecure them. Every true American should lend a helping hand. Every dollar of these "eleven hundred millions" represents farm products. Every dollar's worth of goods for which they are exchanged is the machine products of mills. Onlv two hundred million are tropical products which cannot be raised in the United States and over nine hundred million dollars' worth of thee Spanish-American farm products will enter directly here into competition with our own, as they now do in Europe with our exports, being made up of breadstuli'a, provisions, cotton, animals and other articles, the price of which is now driven down here to the lowest possible point because we raise more than we can consume. In so many plain words this organ of the plutocratic machine-owners of our mills declares that "with earnest and patriotic effort we (the plutocratic owners of millmachines) can secure them" (these $1,10:),000,000 worth of Spanish-American farm products) in exchange for our American machine products. A part of this plan

was defeated by the democratic senators in the last congress the bill to give American machine product transportation to South America at the public expense. "Every true American should lend a helping hand" and the italics are its own, to dump this "eleven hundred millions' of farm products on us as the payment for American machine products, enabling our machine-owners to supply the farm products as well as the machine products consumed in this countrv. As the total value of tfie farm products consumed in the United States in 1880 was only 1,600,000,000 the plutocratic bonanza machine farmers and mid machin owners propose to destroy every independent farmer and make every "man in the United States either a machine lord or a wage slave. Let any man who doubts it write to Ilrport and i'inaace, No. 5 Bowling Green, New ork. The Fanner Munt Co. The American farmer must go. lie ha3 sold his birthright in freedom and independence for a bloody fhirt and a British lia2. Men are living who will see the day when every tiller of the soil wi l wear a sen's collar unless something can be done to put a little manhood and a touch of self-respect into the republican voters who "prefer to be buncoed rather than know the truth," and who "prefer to become serfs rather than believe the Amer.can niil-owner is not their best friend." As the wealth which could purchase armor and build a castle once enslaved the half-nak-d and defenseless poor of Europe, so the wealth today which can buy machinery and dispense with human labor is bound within the next d-ntury to enslave the people of tha United States. From that there can be no escape for our grandchildren. Plutocracy will triumph again as it has always triumphed, and history will repeat itself on this continent as on every other. Over eight million farmers, comprising a majority of the voters of the country, once formed a bulwarkagaiust which plutocracy might have dashed in vain. Each man was an independent sovereign, owning his land and lord of his acres. His product was all wages. There was practically no raw material, for that was air and sunlight, furnished free. The machinery used was his own, and its protits were added to his own wages. His farm labor furnished all he used or enjoyed, and when ho exchanged his surplus corn for French silk or English broadcloth every cent of value in every yard of either represented his wages. He had made the silk or the broadcloth on his farm, out of seed and 6unlight, in nature's laboratory, at no other expense than his labor. When he sold tho bilk or broadcloth to hU fel-low-citizens what he received for it was wages for his farm labor. Capital controlling machinery first entered into competition against his farm surplus, to cut off his foreign wages received ior labor for foreigners, but before doing so asked for protection against the foreigner ( !) who exchanged machine mill products for our farm surplus. It meant protection against the exchange by the American farmer of his labor for foreign wages, not against the foreigner. Congress, to protect the machine, fined the American farmer 50 per cent, on every exchange of his labor products that eriTakes i coo people to buy Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, at 50 cents a bottle, to make up $500. One failure to cure would take the profit from 4000 sales. Its makers profess to cure "cold in the head," and even chronic catarrh, and if they fail they pay $500 for their over-confidence, . Not in newspaper words but in hard cash! Think of what confidence it takes to put that in the papers and mean it. Its makers believe in the Remedy. Isn't it worth a trial? Isn't any trial preferable to catarrh? After all, the mild agencies are the best. Perhaps they work more slowly, but they work surely. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are an active agency but quiet and jnild. They're sugar-coated, easy to take, never shock nor derange the system and half their power is in the1 mild way in which their work is done. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take. One a dose. Twenty-five cents a vial. Of all druggists.

tered into competition with American mill machinery pioducts, and an average of 30 per centon every dollar his labor rereived in foreign waires. How did this affect the labor market? Originally, 1,000 bushels of wheat, representing at the most $100 for seed and interest, were exchanged for 1,000 yards of cloth worth $1.000 and !T900 went to the farmer for wages and $1C0 for raw material and plant. Congress imposed a fine of S450, and what was left did not pay the farmer for his time. Capital and machinery then made the cloth and eupplid the demand. Only $200 was paid in wages to machine tenders, and the remainer was the earnings of the machine and the cost of the imported raw materia!. The farmer was euchred out of the market for his 1,000 bushels of corn (after the exchange;, and $1,000 worth of farm labor JiKX) to be exact lost its profitable foreign employment. The machine and the capitalist got it 11, but gave back 6ome of it to the machine tender, and a little to the producer of tho raw material. Dut the machine got the lion's share. The farmer lost all. What ha lost was divMed between tho machine and other workmen, but what little the machine h-ft for labor did not help the farmer. Though the machine tender pent all his wajres for extra foo 1 the farmer was a loser still of four-fifths. Labor lost in wages what the machine made for the machine owner. Every machine built takes its profit out of the wa?es of labor. The Massachusetts bureau of labor fctitist'ca presents some startling facts to show this. COTrOS FABRICS. lSo. tS7. Trodtictlcn in yards X73,875,9"4 874,776,74 No. of workers...... -21,151 31,707 WOOLKX GOODS. Production In yard 45,008.141 90.20S.2V) No. ot workers 1S,7J3 11,510 BOOTS AND SHOES. No. of pairs 51,87 5S1" 69,76C,8fi5 No. of workers . W.8J1 23,854 The constant improvement in machinery is such that an increase of 500 par cent, per decade in the production increases the number of machine tenders only 25 per cent., while merely to increase the pro luction 109 per cent, results in a reduction of the machine tender by onehalf. When Nat Lud was ordered to set his needles he took a hammer and smashed his lo ni. The memory of the "LudJite days" has almost vanished, but if we in this generation had the sense that he had or the backbone that the Luddites had

we would repeat them, even though tha result should be tho fame. But nwnodi a nos motdon the sheep who "vote in Vermont." The gift oi protection to the machines against his surplus farm labor was not enough to satisfy the republican f irmer. He gave it all he had lie surrendeied the eovernraent to it. He spurned a l warnings, insulted every man who asked him to Mriousiy think of what he was doing, and by Ids approval of reciprocity opened wide the gate for machine products to buy inikmth America three-fourths of the farm products consumed in tho United States. The machine now has him by the throat. His surplus farm labor has gone. His other farm labor within five years wid be pitted squarely againet the machinery of the bonaza farms, and the cheaper farm products f-l our neizhbors bouuht with our machin? miil products. In fifty years he will be a wage slave to the machine, a wace slave working with a collar around his throat,in competition with Asiatics, as the mill machine tenders in this country are now doing. So will we all. The struzgle between labor and the machine outside of farming has been hopeh-ss ever since the republican farmer surrendered his mind and body, and with it the liberty ot all the people, to tho triumph of plutocracy. There is only one way of saivation left for the farmer a short, sharp and bloodv one, beside which that of the French revolution was child's play. But that way wiil never be hi. The republican farmer "prefers to be buncoed. He takes his anger out in talk and kisses the hand that smites protection in 1S0S and reciprocity in 1891. The American republic has been destro3'ed by the American farmer. New York, April 10. T. E. Wilson. ' TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Mexican Robber Murder Threa Men and Rob th Exprea. Eagle Pass, Tex., April 11. Word has just been received here of a terrible tragedy which took place near Lerdo on the Mexican Central road. Last Tuesday evening after the arrival of the southbound train, Juan ltoderiques, a clerk, with the driver and porter, started in a wagon with tho express matter for the company's olfice at Lerdotown, three miles distance. As the wagon made a 6harp turn in tho road about a mile from the town, some men concealed in the brush fired a volley at the clerk and his two companions. At the same instant several mounted men charged upon the wagon. The driver foil dead from his seat, but Roderiques and the porter though wounded, managed to get oil". The clerk made a straight break for Lerdo at h.s utmost speed and fell dead just as he reached the gate of the grita, or municipal custom-house. The road agents captured the wagon and made away with the entire contents, which fortunately included less than $-00 in money. RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. A Pair ot Murderer Lynched At Sealant!, Washington. Sealand, Wash., April 11. Forty masked men broke into jail here at one o'clock this morning and shot to death John Rose and John Edwards, who were convicted of the murder of Hans Fredericksou and his wife about a year ago. The men were confined in jail awaiting a new trial. The murder was committed in cold blood and was for the purpose of obtaining possession of a piece of land on which Frederickson was living. Edward Gibbon and George Rose were also charged with assenting in the murder. Gibbon was acquitted. Georee Rose was convicted of murder in the firjt degree, but afterwards escaped jail. The mob overpowered the jailor, and going to the cell Where the ?rip oners were confined, riddled their ndies with bullets. The mob then quietly dispersed. THE PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR. Hsof Arrest Inl nt m IIoi Officer Kill II tnlf. LoN-nox, April 11. The Telegraph correspondent at St. Petersburg says: Shamekin, the man who was arrested on Monlay on euspicion of being about to make an attempt on the czar's life, belonged to the Scavelolo club of Khradoff, the members of which are bound by oath to make continual efforts to murder the czar. Most of the members of the club have since been arrested. A number of etudents also have been arrested at Khradoff. It is feared that riots will break out at the university there. Another sensation has been caused here by the suicide of a hussar officer who. It is rumored, was involved in tho plot against tho czar. The case is Shrouded in mystery.

Kfghest of all in Leavening Power.

a THE NEW REVENUE SYSTEM. HOW IT WILL BENEFIT THE PEOPLE. A Fair Statement t the Principles and Provision f the New Law Flow It Will Dentflt Iloneit Men and Particularly the Farmer A Wli Meaanre. f-U. C." in Princeton Detn.crt. A knowledge of the law destroys much of its supposed rieor and injustice. When a law is once enacted, the partisan press ef the opposite political party exhausts all its energy in magnifying and flaunting its j imperfections and in studiously , and falsely concealing its virtues. This is strikingly illustrated by the conduct of the republican prets in reference to tho I new assessment law in Indiana. The tax payers are informed that the valuation of all property is to be more than doubled, and that hereafter taxes will, by reason of the new law, be enormously increased. In this talk about the burden put on the farmer and other tax payers, the republican press add to falsehood both insincerity and hypocrisy. Strango to say they find some people who believe these unwarranted inferences and statements to be true. Without examining the new law, or comparing it with the old, they at once "understand or "hear" the law to be "so and so" and jump at violent and unfounded conclusions. "The farmers," says one prom neut republican journal, "are quick to see that their taxes are juct about doubled." The vital change in the new law is in reference to the valuation of property. When the sections of the old and the new law are placed side by side they will be found to differ most in their resemblances. Sec. 4S of the acts of 1S91, provides as follows: That the owner of the property iball fir what he deems the true C3ih vnlr.e thereof to each item of property for the guidance ot such aiesor, who shall determine and settle the value of each item, ofter an exnmination of such statement and also an examination uuder oath of tue party or auy other person, if he deem it necessary. In deteruiinin? itud settling such valuation, he shall be governed by what is tbe true cash ralue, such being the market or the usual selliug price at the place where the property shall he at the time of its liability to aesftment, and if there is no market value tbeu tha actual value. Sec. 6.X50 of the revised statute of 1SS1, in refence to the same subject is as follows: The owner shall affix what be deems the fair cash value thereof to each item of persenal property for the guidance of the assessor, who shull determine the value of each item after examination of such statement, and also an ex. animation of the p irty, uudf r oath, if he deems it necessary. In determining and settling such valuation the ussessor shall be governed by what is the fair cash value, such Le ngths market or usutd selling price at the placs where tbe propei ty shall he at the time of its liability to assessment, and if there be no market value then the actual value. Sec. 95 of the act of 1891 provides: Lands and the improvements sn l the build inz therei n or affixed thereto shall be valued at their full, tine, cash value, estimated at the price they, would bring at a fair, voluntary private sale, not at a forced or she rill's cale, taking into consideration the fertility ot soil, the vicinity ot the same to railroads, macadamized roads, state or county roads, cities, towns, villages, navigable rivers, water privilezcs on tne same or in the vicinity of the same, the loeit on of the route of any etnal or canals, with any other local advantages of situation. Sec. 6,379 of revised statutes of 1SS1, on the same subject is as follows: Lands and improvements and tha buildings thereon or aCiied thereto, shall be valued at their full fair cash value, estimated at the price they would l-ring at a fair voluntary sale taking into consideration the fertility of the soil, the vicinity of the same to railroads, moa1mized roads, olny rials, gravel rou!s, turnpike roads, state or county r aii, cities, town?, villages, navigable rivers, watr privileges on the same or in the vic.idty of the same, the h cation of the route of any canal or canal with uny other local advantages. Sec. 53 of the new act provides: The words "value." "cash value." "true Talue" or "valuation," whenever used iu tlii act. shall be held to mean the usual selling price at the place where the property to which such term or terms are applied, shall be at tne time ot assessment, being the price which could be obtained therefor at private tale aud not at forced or auction sale. The chief differences between the two in reference to the valuation of personal property are, first, tbe old law provides that the owner shall fix a "fair" cash value and the new law, that ho shall fix a "true" cash value ; and the second, the new law gives to the asesor the power to "examine under oath any other persons if he deem it necessary" to secure a true valuation. The worJs "fair" and "true" as u?ed in the two acts are exactly synonymouseach meaning "the market or usual selling price at the place where the property shall be st the time of its liability to assessment." Section fifty-three simply gives the words "true value," a meaning that "fair value" was always intended to have, and which, in trtith it always did have and should have been given. "True value" in this section is defined as being the price which could be obtained therefor at a private sale and not at forced or aution 6ale." No ono will contend that what an article will bring at a "forced or auction sale" is now or ever was its "true value." The different sections define tho two words and this definition fixes their meaning. Both sections provide that tho valuation should be honest and fair. The new law adopts the theory that it is easier to determine what an item of property is worth than it is to guess at what it is not worth. Thus believing it has detertimined what "true value" must mean. It has given a legis'ative definitian to these words, and who doubts that it simply declares that to be the law that has always ben the law. Fair appraisement, under the law as it was, grew to be a "custom more honoied in the breach than in the observance.'! The necessity of determining the valuation of property by the oaths of persons other than the owner is evident Assessors are only human. No man can be found who has a knowledge of tho yalue of all the diversified forms of property in any community. Take an assessor who is a farmer and eend him into a drug 6torc, blacksmith 6hop or printing office, and what can he know of the value of the various articles. He is eimply at the mercy of dishonest proprietors. Until the new law he can call to his aid another drugzist, blacksmith or editor, who does not know what the articles therein contained are worth, and this

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Powder compels a true valuation. The necessity of this provision arises from the complexity offX)cial a'Tnir and industries and from the dishonesty of too many property owners. It is intended to thwart and foil the ingenuity ot thosu who have hitherto escaped their just f-here of taxation. liut the farmers are greatly excite 1 over the valuation of land under'the new law. And why? For the plain aad eimple reason that fro n time immemorial the va'uation of land, even more than that of personal property, 1ms been everything but "fair." The statute of 1SS1 made it the duty of the as-es.or to value the real estate at its "full fair cr.sh value, estimated at the price it would brine at a fair voluntary private sale." The law of 1F91 says tho assessor ehall value the land at its "full, true, cash value estimated at tho prict it would bring at a fair voluntsry private bale, not at a forced or rheriiTs sale." In each law the Fame e em-nts are pointed out as those which Rhall be considered in fixing its value. The new law simply says to thoe who own the land: "Yon ehall no longer be fale and insincere in this matter. You must value your real eftate at what it is worth and not tt what you know it is not worth." It is paradoxical to ee a merchant insure his storehouse for SV 000 and value it for taxation .at S!,KK. Yet such is common. It ia common to hear men talk of the sacrifice of property sold "under the hammer." Yet when the assessor rails thr6e same men give "force 1 sale values" as "fair." The law is a etrong, sincere and just eiTort to compel every "particle of wealth, in whatever form its owner may have clothed it, to bear its part of tbe burden of taxation. These are tbe only sections of the lw that affect tho agricultural peop'e, and no farmvr will coinplr.in of a law thrt compels exact and equal taxation. Odier sections cf the law, however, fairly bristle with penalties against concealment of property. The aeest-or is armed with unusual and extraordinary power to compel corporations banks, railroads and insurance companies, etc. to reveal their hidden rtches and share with the fnr.nr their just portion of the taxation. If the asesor does his duty the operation of the law wi 1 inure to the benefit of the farmer. If he has not the courage and ability to execute the law the censure Ehould fall on him. Manv people are unduly and intensely excited and c airn that Uxs will be about doubled. This information conies from the game persons who knew the reforms of 1S89 were all failures. Let us see how much of tliid is true and how much false. The taxable property of Oibson county last year was SlO.HlJ2o. The amount of taxes levied in the whole county, including delinquent, was S1'.Hj,469.2.3, of this arm uut $2;,03-- 06 was for tate purpose. The ba'ance was for the ue of the county and the various townships and cities therein. This would show a necessary local tax, that is a tax for other than etato purposep, of about 1.7 per cent, less than derived from pool tax and lo-s from delinquency. Now suppose the new aseesment law doubles the valuation of property in the countv increases it sav from il 0,000,000 to S2O,O00,OJ0. There is a certain amount of money needed for local purposes and the merest novice can gee that as you incrcae the valuation you decrease the rate. If you double tho assessment you diminish the rate onehalf. You decrease more even than this, I for, bv reason of the new law, more than S,000,0(J0 of property tnat nas never been taxed for any purposes wid be compelled to bear its share of county taxation. Take for illustration, the single item of raiiroads. Thy are valued under tbe last afseestnent at $700, 95 in this countv. They couM not be purchased for "less than $1,500,000 and will if justly assessed of themselves add an additional million almost to the valuation of Gibson county. For every dollar of tax paid in the county last year one part went to the state and fourteen parts w ere U3ed for local expenditure. If the new assessment decreases the county tax onefourteenth by reason of the taxation of property heretofore untaxed, this will equal the increased taxation for state purposes. Will it do it? If it does not it wdl bhow one of two things to be true ; either that assessors have been unable or untrue or that many people heretofore unsparinely censured for the concealment of property are innocent. Last year the man whose property was valued at $400 paid a state tax of -JS cent?. This vear the same valuation of propertywill pay to the state $1.14. This is true of the theory that the assessment doubles the value of the property. But, as heretofore shown, if the county tax is decreased one-fourteenth the increased state tax will be exactly equaled. While it is no doubt, true that' tho taxable property of the county will pay alarg-r amount for taxes under the new law than under the old, it is equally true that the tangible and uncoucealable property, that has hitherto borne all the weight of taxation, will not pay a farthing more to the million than it paid under the oid law. Under the new law Indiana's valuation of property will reach near $000,0uJ,O,0. With an IS cents levy her date debt should rapidly melt away. Her additional revenue is a financial necessity and legislative ingenuity could not more hnnoily devise the means of obtaining it. From the foundation cf the government to the preeent no patriotic citizen has ever murmured at a just and necessary tax however high. The social upheavals have been against unnecessary taxation. Indiana, even under the new law, has a state taxation much lower than the vast majority ot American common we dths. That part of the ttate debt that the democratic party placed upon it is for the institutions of which every citizen, when properly informed, ought in justice to feel proud. CRAZED BY THE GRIP. Aa Ion Frm.r Trlei (o Kilt Iti WiT anl Injure Several feoola. Cedar .Rapids, la., April 11. News has just reached here of the terrible work of llilico Jansen, a farmer living near Cleves. While- temporarily ins me from the effects of the grip Thursday, he attempted to kill his wife and almost sue ceetled before the Rev. Schmidt and Dr. Simington, who were in an adjoining room came to her assistance. He turned upon them and gave the licv. Schmidt a terrible cut in tha face and severely kicked the doctor. lie then dashed up stairs where he held the crowd otT until the next morning. Iteinhart Abbass attempted at one time to lead a party to his capture, but on reaching the top of the stairway was struck on the head with a piece of wood. The kull was fractured and it is feared be wdl die. Jansen finally quieted down and fits been taken to Grundy Center.

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