Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL,' WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 22, 1891-TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS. President. (ZstercdattlitrottoSceatlndlaaapolia u cond clajj matter. TERMS PER YEARs 63 rifle copy (Inrariably In A3Tsnce.).......81 OO Wc ak democrats to War In mind anl wlcct their ei itatt paper wbf n they come to tike tubscrlptioot and make op club. Agent making uv cluhs nd for inr Irformatlon ieiired. AddTHE INL1A A PC LIS SENTrNEL Indianapolis. Ind. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1S91. TWELVE PAGES. President Harrison has made a good many ecandalous appointments. But from all accounts that of Nebeeek, the Fountain county boodler, to be treasurer of the United States beats tho record. Nebekei; is one of the rottenest politicians In Indiana and has been known to Een.iaiin Haiuuson as such for many years. In fact, he has done a great deal of very dirty work in politics under direct commission from the man of many prayers. He couldn't bo elected constable in his own county, anJ those who have innocently supposed that character and fitness had gome little weight with this administration, and who are familiar with Is ebek eii's record, are utterly amazed at his appointment. According to Elper, tho farmers' alliance speaker of the last Kansas house of representatives, reciprocity is a good thing, and the Kansas farmers want all they can get of it. That is to say, they want reciprocity that reciprocate. Reciprocity "with countries which do net want and cannot uso our agricultural products is villi right enough as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough to be of any material benefit to the western farmer?. What they want and must have, before they can begin to pay oiF their mortgages, i- reciprocity with countries which are willing to double their purchases of American frrain, meat, etc., an. J pay for the same in commodities which we need. This port of reciprocity is some-times called free trade. Among the resolutions proposed in the commercial congress at Kansas City was one by W. J. Bkyan of Nebraska declaring in favor of a ead?d income tax for federal purposes ; also setting forth that "no advantage was to be gained by tho people from the system of reciprocity as now propose!," but that "freer commercial intercourse with those nations which hiii the prwlurts vf enr ftirms' is essential to our welfare. The resolution further calls for the placing of coal, iron ore, wool, salt, lumber, binding twino and cotton tics upon the free list; for a liberal reduction ot the tariff on tho necessaries of life, and for the imposing of the heaviest burdens of taxation upon luxuries. There is more good, sound senso in Ihis resolution than in anything tine which has been submitted to the congress. If the policy it indicates were to bo carried out, the West and South would soon find relief from some of the greatest ditliculties with which they now have to contend. To the Eoitoii . In an article in the Princeton 1 democrat tho writer cites the valuation of Gibson county. Admitting that increased valuation decreases the ratio, what do we pain? If I pav 1 per $100 on $1,000, or $2 per $100 on 5.b'J what is the difference? Increase Gibson county valuation, as he says, to S-OiOO.ut!, how wid he figure that, at a state rate of IS cents, and which the count v cannot niter, taxes are less? We have a 10) per cent, increase on valuation and oO per cent, increase on the elate rate, and yet taxes are less. Please explain. W. II. Boyd. Indianapolis, April 13. The author of the Princeton Democrat article, it seems to us, made this very clear. The local taxes township, city (or town) and county in every county aro very much greater than tho state taxes. In Gibson county, for instance, it is said that for every dollar paid in state taxes last year $14 was paid in local taxes. If, tinder the new law, the total valuation of the county is doubled, the total tax for state purposes will be more than doubled. Hut this does not mean that the state tax of every citizen will be increased correspondingly. The state tax of many citizens will not be increased at all ; the state tax of some will be decreased. The local taxes of all who have heretofore been fairly assessed (in proportion to others) will be decreased. Wc will suppose that a man paid ?:) taxes lat year, of which, pay, $ went to the state and $2i for local purposes. If his assessment is increa-ed bO per cent, this year, his state tax will amount to fll.2." next year, an increaso cf $0.25. But his local tax ought to be dedecreased at least $10, in view of the great increase of the total valuation, which would be a net reduction of $:.7o in his total tax bill. This is the way the law will fleet honest men. Tho tax dodders, however mostly wealthy men or corporations will sutler, and it is in their interest and for the sake of making political capital that the howl which is now heard has been raised. The Rockville Tribune, in a sensible article on the new revenue law, says: In th listing of real estate there is no rule that can be followed. It is a recognized fact that there has been a steady depreciation of farm values in Park county, but even to this there are exceptions. Somo land is still valuable or desirable and can be justly appraised at something like its cost; but to thus assess the average farm of Park county would be a great injustice. We know of a farm that has b-en orered for sale after the most complete advertising and could not be sold at one-third of the sum t-.t which it is assessed, the reason being that it would not pay the required per cent, as an investment. So it will require the utmost good judgment to arrive at an equitable assessment of real estate. The farm referred to, which "could not be sold at one-third of the sum at which it is assessed," ought to be assessed under the new law at something less than onethird of what it has been assessed at heretofore. The new law contemplates the assessment of all property at its "fair cash value." The fair cash value of a property is what it will sell for in open market after due notice, not "under the hammer," but in the manner that property is ordinarily sold. There are hundreds of farms in Indiana which are now, and have been for years, assessed for a food deal more than their "fair cash

value." Under the new law, if properly carried out, the assessments of these farms will bo materially reduced arid the taxes of the owners correspondingly reduced. The deficiency will be made up by raising the assessments of other property which has hitherto been appraised too low and by putting property on the duplicate which has hitherto escaped taxation altogether. As we have repeatedly said, the new law will not hurt anybody who has been carrying his fair share of the public burdens, and it will benefit many farmers and others who have been carrying more than their share. The Reciprocity Humbug. Private advices received at Washington from Caracas are to the effect that Venezuela will decline Mr. Blaine's reciprocity proposals with thank. Chi i is in a condition of anarchy. Her internal trade is prostrated and her foreign commerce praetVally suspended. There will bo no opportunity to negotiate a treaty with her until she cots a stable government, and even w ith a treaty there is little likelihood that a profitable trade could be built up with her for many years to come. Argentine is bankrupt and it will be a long time before the is able to purchase very freely from the United .States. Much is said about the benefits to accrue to this country from the treaty with Brazil, but it is not likely that they w ill be important. Under th reciprocity clauses (so-called) of the McKinley law we offer and can offer Brazil no special inducements to increase ' her trade with us. Of our imports from Brazil, amounting in round figures to $00,000,000, about S-"v 000,000 consists of articles which have been oa our free list for many years coffee, hides, india rubber and gutta percha. The McKinley law leaves these articles on the free list, where they were before. It abn puts raw sugar, cf which we import about $.",0O0,000 worth from Brazil, on the freo list. There is, indeed, a clause giving the president power to impose, by proclamation, duties on coffee, hides and sugar imported from any country which lays duties upon our products which he may choc.-'.' to regard as unreasonable. But everybody understands, of course, that this provision is unconstitutional and impracticable, and that it will never be executed. It will be seen that no special inducement is offered to Brazil or any other South American country to trade with us. And the McKinley law, by increasing the co.-t of raw materials to our manufacturer?, makes it impossible for them to tell extensively to South America in competition with EuropeEn manufacturers, even if their products are admitted to South American countries free. Tho Brazilian treaty, which the monopoly press is pointing to with so much pretended pride, will, it is safe to say, be aiinost barren in practical results. The only reciprocity whifh will be of any great benefit to the United States is reciprocity with the nations which want what we have to sell, and are able to buy it. Any great expansion of our foreign trade must come along lines of latitude and not of longitude. The value of our I exports to the leading countries of Europe and Spanish America was as follows in ly.'J: . ' Sjani.'fi Amfrira. l'nitl Kin. i liu 54-4 1. ".(. f9 ! V.'et ludio ?rv.l8.1.f.71 CiiTira'IT . M . Moxk-O IiYji,!" Yuwn ;:.nr.,' i4 l'.iai! ll.!0:.4; K-;glutu i.r.,1 i . . Aitr-niiiie S,.i2-!,ti.:7 The Nether- Centr.il Auurlaods 22. hT.-VS ! kit 5,! 04,27:5 L.tal ti;j'.,41.rj.l : ToUl f7n,17D,177 Our total exports to Europe in 1S!0 were j $077,2 l,r'.o ; to Spanish America, $S?047,f20. Our trade with Europe, immense as I it is, is capable of almost indefinite ex- ' panion by the adaption of a liberal coinmercial policy; that with South America, small as it is, cannot be greatly enlarged until we give American manufacturers an opportunity to compete for it on something like equal terms with their European rivals. In PW, the last year for which ! we hive the fi cures at hand, all of Latin I America, embracing the vast territory exJ tending from the Bio Grande to Cape J Horn, imported from the United Kingdom, France and tho United States, all told, only $,7.i'ii1.'SS7 worth of goods, or only about C- per cent, of the amount we sold la.-t yeur to the United Kingdom alone. So that it the Latin countries of America were to transfer every dollar of their trade frori Europe to the ITnited States the addition to the volume of our j exports wou'd be but little more than half of our annual exports to the United Kiugdom alone. The truth is that there is a verv small demand for onr agricultural products in I Latin America. The Latin Americans J produce their own food. They can buy most manufactured articles cheaper of Europe than of us, and will always be ablo to do so as lon as we lay heavy taxes on raw materials. Besides this there are many articles which, beeaus9 of our lack cf technical or artistic skill, or our natural disadvantages, wo can never produce as well as Europe and can never sell as egainst Europe. The truth about Mr. Blaise's muchtrumpeted reciprocity scheme is that it is a political dodne, intended to humbug the farmers and working people of the country. Th republican party won Us last victory on the protection issue in 18-S, and Mr. Blaine was smart enough to know it. So he cudgeled his wits to devise some scheme by which the curse of McKinleyism could be taken off the party without taking any of their special privileges from the mill bosses and the other protected monopolists who furnish the republican campaign funds. lie hit upon the reciprocity dodge. He has undertaken to bamboozle the people with the notion that they aro to be benefited by free trade with half a dozen sparsely populated countries of low civilization and correspondingly few wants to be supplied, while commercial intercourse with the great nations of the world is to be restricted, so fur a.) possible, by excessive duties. Under Mr. Blaine's precious reciprocity scheme tho combine, trusts and monopolies, created by protection, will h'tve the same license to extort tribute from the American people that they have today. The people will get their manufactured articles no cheaper than they do today. Wages will continue to decline, a they have been declining ever since the McKinley law took effect. The fanners will, as heretofore, have to sell their rurplus products in open competition with the products of tho pauper labor of Europe and Asia. They will continue to buy in a

protected market and sell in a free trade market. Some few articles of general consumption may be a trifle cheaper, but the sum total of benefits to the people will be inappreciable. It is like offering a man a teaspoonful of water to bathe in. It remains to be seen to what extent the American people will be deceived by this reciprocity sham. Manufacturing and the McKinley Law. The Pwi of New York is fishing out all the new mills and factories that are Wing started in the country and putting them all down to the credit of the McKinley law. One would euppoe from reading the Press that there were no mills or factories in the country before the McKinley law passed or at least that there were none before the high protective tariff policy was adopted. But that is a mistake. As a mat:er of fact there were, comparatively speaking, extensive manufacturing interests in this country before this government was formed and when the commercial laws of England were framed particularly to discourage manufacturing in all the colonies. Under the "free trade tariff" IMC to IStJl manufactures multiplied with unexampled rapidity, and the beauty ot it is that the new mills and factories w hich sprang up during those yearB in Indiana and the other states came in response to a legitimate and natural demand, and were not forced by the hot-house process. Tiiey did not have to be supported by excessive taxes upon the people, but they stood, for the most part, on their own merit', and flourished because they grew up under normal conditions. There is no doubt that in certain lines of industry the McKinley law, by increasing profits inordinately, will result in tho establishment of new plants. But this will not be a healthy expansion. It will be made at the expense of other industries, or other concerns in the name industry. It will cost the people a good deal more than it will be woith to them. It will divert capital and labor from channels in which they can bo profitably employed, without any subsidies, to channels in w hich there is no legitimate demand for tbem, aud in which they can only be employed with profit when bolstered up with subsidies wrung from the peoplo. Of course there will be no general extension of our manufacturing industries because of the McKinley law. This will only come with the opening of new markets to our manufacturers, and new markets will not be accessible to them until we permit them to get their materials on the eae terms as their European rivals. Here and there a new mill or factory may be started on account of the extraordinary' inducements of'ered by the McKinley law in the shape of a license to levy excessive tribute upon the people. But every mill erected under these conditions will be a detriment, and not a benefit, to the country. And for every mill thus opened it is safe to say that another, somewhere in the country, will be closed. With our present manutacturing facilities it is estimated, by the most competent authorities, that we can produce in eight months all the commodities wo can market in twelve months. It will take some years for the country to grow up to our existing manufacturing capacity. There are hundreds of miils and factories in this country id'e today which were in full blast when the McKinley law was passed. New England is full of them. There are a number of them in Indiana, The enterprising rms of New York ought to compile and publish a list of these concerns many of which are in "trusts," and closed because, as claimed, of "overproduction," under an arrangement by which the owners get a regular bonus every month and the protected ( ?) employes get nothing. The l'nts should also compile and publish a list of the etrikes, lockouts, boycotts, reductions in wages, etc., which have been reported in this country aincei Oct. 1 laet, when the McKinley law took ertect. It would fill a good many columns of the Vfx.and it would make "mighty interesting reading" for its patrons. It. Harrison Write a Ijetter. The commercial congress which assembled at Kansas City Tuesday was regaled with a letter from Benjamin Harrison, in which that eminent "uninstructed political economist" discussed the tarll and currency questions. Mr. Harrison, it appears, has discovered since he became president "the necessity and evn the value of larger markets," of which, if we remember aright, he was blissfully unconecious during tho campaign of 18s8. But he observes, with a laughable assumption of w isdom, that "a home market is necessarily the best for the producer, as it measureably emancipates him, in proportion to its nearness, from the exactions of tho transportation companies." From which it would appear that Mr. Harrison has not yet become a student, either of markets or of maxims. He eeems to be laboring under the impression that tho Indiana farmer who sells wheat to be consumed in Indianapolis gets a higher price than does the Indiana farmer who sells wheat to be consumed in Liverpool. The veriest tyro in these matters can tell him better. Mr. Harrison evidently does not know it, but the fact is that, the price of all the whoat marke'ed by our farmers, whether for domestic or foreign consumption, is fixed by the price which their surplus wheat fetches abroad. Not a fraction of a penny more is paid for a bushel of wheat for home consumption than for a bushel for export. As a general rule the farmer does not even know the destination of his wheat, and it often happens that his product is divided, a part going abroad and a part remaining at home, but all bringing the Liverpool price Icbs transportation charges and expenses. Mr. Harrison also 6eeras to be laboring under the impression that a home market and a foreign market cannot both be assured to our farmers; that if they nd larger outlets abroad for their wheat the home demand will fall off. Apparently he supposes that if the tariff taxes on manufactured goods were to be reduced the American people would largely stop eating, or would emicrate, or die off, or go to buying wheat from countries which do not raise enough to supply their own population. Thi , of course, is a very droll notion, but it seems to have found a firm lodgment in Mr. Harrison's mind. The fact is, of course, that a reduction of taxes would not destroy or impair the eating ca pacity ot the American people; that it would not diminish, but would rather increase, their purchasing ability ; that it

would not kill them off, or cause them tS emigrate, or stop them from replenishing the earth with their kind; and of course that it would not caus them to buy wheat or other agricultural products from abroad when they could buy to so much better advantage at home. If Mr. Harrison doesn't know these things the western farmers do, as they demonstrated last November when they repudiated the McKiuley bill so emphatically. Mr. Harrison tells the farmers that "a coat may be too cheap as well as corn." Precisely what he means by this, we cannot even guess; but it is certainly a discordant note in the chorus of protectionist rejoicing over the cheapness of sugar, caused by the reduction of the duty. We think we are safe in saying that Mr. Harrison's letter will not add to his reputationsuch as it is as an authority on economic questions. The Duty of Assessor. According to the Elkhart Henoc the assessors in that county are appraising residence property at what it is actually worth "as an investment." As investments, it is claimed, expensive residences are generally worth a good deal less than they cost, while cheap and moderatepriced residences are worth as a rule all they C03t, and are assessed accordingly. Tho argument in favor of the proposition to tax poor men's homes at what they cost, and rich men's homes at a cood deal less than they cost, runs like this: A ton-thouand-dollar house is worth, perhaps, $1,000 as an investment. If it were taxed at its real value wealthy men would cease to build fine houses and the city would suffer. A fine house benefits the whole city, and every citizen can afford to pay a dollar extra taxes for this benefit. The Rei:ieic disposes of this argument very effectively in the following: What we object to is the theory that the fine houe nhould escape its proportion of the burden of taxs on the pica that it is bo precious to the city. Bich men do not build line houses for anybody's benefit but their own. They are not actuated by philanthropic motives, but build them because they want them and can afford to have them. Is the ten-thousand-doKar house any more benefit to a city than ten one-thousand-dollar cottages, or twenty five-hundred-dollar cottars to some suburb? Has the rich man done any moro for the city, according to his means, than the laborer who has built a thousand-dollar houe? We takt; exactly the opposite view. Wo can not see that the ten or twenty-thousand-dollar residence, occupied by one family, has done as much f r the city as the ten or twenty one-tliou-saud-dollar dwellings, occupied by their ten or twenty families. The assessors of Eikhart county and of every other county should understand that their private views as to the correct theory'of taxation have nothing whatever to do with their duty under the law. Tho law is plain and its intent is clear. It contemplates the appraisement of all property, whether owned by rich men or poor men, at its fair cash value. All the assessors have to do in their official capacity is to carry out the law. There have been in the pHst marked discriminations in favor of wealthy men and corporations in the appraisement of property for taxation. The last lecislature decided that these discriminations must cease. A good deal is to be said, of course, in favor of exempting all improvements from taxation. This would stimulate the erection of building, both great and small. It would discourage the holding of vacant land in our cities and towns out of the market for speculative purposes. This would be a very different thing from assessing cheap and medium priced residences at what they cost and handsome residences at a third or a fourth of what they cost. rut the question for the assessors is not what system of taxation they prefer but what the law requires them to do. It is their duty to follow the law implicitly and assess all property of whatever nature at its fair cash value. The Commercirtl Congress Against Protect ton. After several days of full and free discussion, in which the representatives of every section, every political party and every economic school, were heard, the commercial congress at Kansas City on Friday evening adopted resolutions declaring, among other things, against the protective principle and in favor of a tariff for revenue only. Thereupon a htndful of delegates who, it seems, went to the convention in the capacity of political partisans, withdrew. Alter vainly endeavoring to commit the congress to an indorsement of protection thev charged that it had been "packed in the interest of the democratic party" and retired from the hull. Tho action of this hanJful of delegates only emphasizes the significance of the attitude of the congress on the tariff question. The congress was distinctively a representative body. Every state west of the Allegheny mountains and the southern seaboard states was represented in its deliberations. Agriculture, trade, commerce, the manufacturing and mining interests and the professional classes all participated in the persons of gentlemen of ability and experience in the proceedings. And after a full and fair interchange of views the congress, by a decided majority, declared against the existing policy of taxation and in favor of levying duties on imports for public purposes only. There can be no doubt that, in taking this action, the congress voiced the overwhelming sentiment of the peoplo of the West and South. They have become convinced, by bitter experience, that the tariff policy now in force i's inimical to tho best interests of the great masses, and that its abandonment, at tho earliest practicable moment, is dictated by every consideration of practical expediency and enlightened patriotism. The fact that one of the great political parties of the country is, by tradition and principle, committed to the policy of taxation for revenue only, does not lessen in the least the significance of the action taken by the congress. It only shows that, upon one question at least, one of the great parties is in accord with the interests and wishes of the people of two great sections of the country. The withdrawal of a few professional- republican politicians because of their failure, after persistent efforts, to manipulate the congress in the interests ( of their priy will only serve to invite public attention once more to the fact that that party is out of touch with the people, and icsponsive oa:y to the wishes of tho aaiall

privileged class, to whose overweaning cupidity it has so long ministered. There is no doubt that the declarations of the congress against McKinleyism will have a profound influence upon the course of events in this country in the near future. The outrageous lies told by the republican slang w hangers of Indiana during the last campaign are still on their travels. The Ulohe-Democrat of St. Louis said the other day: In Indiana democratic extravagance has bankrupted the treasury and so reduced the credit of the state that it can not borrow money at any price. These stories are doing the state infinite dan. age. Iudiana is suffering greatly in reputation because of the malignity and mendacity of the Indianapolis Journal and it cang of s'ick-sixers. The credit of the state is as good as that of any other state in the union in the money market. Her securities are in demand at a premium. But hundreds of thousands of people throughout the country believe that she is bankrupt, thanks to the reckless Indiana partisans who have slandered their state eo grossly. Bepiblican methods and republican alliances are about the same the country over. It has developed that the Illinois steel company discharged those of its foremen who would not support Hempstead Washrurnk for mayor of Chicago. The company wants to close a number of streets inhabited by poor people a grab which the democratic administration would not tolerate. The 6teel company, therefore, sougLt to secure the success of the republican party, which is always for the corporations as against the people. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. """ """ Democrat, Noblesville: Daniel Webeter died b-for- the republican party was bo.n. He was a wtiig. Ciuri.es Hinki.e, lYrkin3ville: The dog law was approved March 5 and the tax law March 7. Both bad emergency clauses and are now in force. A Header, Ladoga: Benson J. Lossing holds a very respectable rank as a historian. His "Cyclopedia cf United States History" is recognized as a standard authority, although it is not, of course, infallible. ' A. C. Stephen, Solsberry, Ind. : The old dog law and the act of 1S91 requiring dogs to be registered are both in force. The owner of a dog can take his choice of the two laws; he can have him registered by the township ttustee or assessed by the assessor. It is the duty of the assessor to list all dogs not registered. (2) For garden seeds apply to your congressman. (3) Write to the commissioner of internal revenues, treasury department, Washington, D. C, for a copy of the rules and regulations prescribed for the payment of sugar bounties. ET CETERA. Mrs. Sarah Wainewright, the last surviving granddaughter of Dr. Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen, recently died at Brighton, England. M. Droz, a thirtj--four-year-old French citizeu, has plan nee to go round the world on foot fwith fast steamers between continents) in HoO days. The duke of Edinburgh will play the violin and lead the orchestra at a charity concert to be given at Bristol, Encland, next week. II. It. II. is a better tiddler than auy other European prince. Not long ago the protestant episcopal bishop c f a far western state administered tho rite of confirmation in a little town, and the local paper, in a long and appreciative account of the event, unctuously described the good bishop "in his lawn tennis sleeves walking up the aisle with eolemn step." James A. Bailey, the managing partner of the Barn urn & Bailey show, is a native of Detroit, and forty-four years of age His first experience in the show bueinesa was as a paste boiler in the bill posting department of Kobinson fc Lake's circus, before the wnr. He was also a sutler's clerk during the war at $r0 per month. Dr. Patrick Stirling of Dunblane, who died recently in his eighty-second year, was one of the best-known literary men men in Scotland. His great work, "Philosophy of Trade," published in 1840, and his more recent "Gold Discoveries," sta-nped him as an original and careful writer and pave him a high place among European authors. A lady in the northern part of Missouri only received 6 votes for county school commissioner. She offered a reward of S")0 if the depositors of the votes would reveal their names to her. The same day sho offered the reward 780 men called and told her they voted for her. She says ehe wili contest the election if she convicts half the county for lying. A canary died in New York recently at the age of fifteen years. Tho bird was blind for the last two years of his life, but sang at times till within a few davs of his death. One morning he retused food, but took a little water, and then, according to the writer, he nestled down in his case, ruined out his feathers as usual, coiled up as if to sleep and thus gently died. A few days ago an old man of ninetythree arrived at Barcelona who quitted his country at the age of twenty to seek his fortune in America, and has now returned to Spain with his family, which is thus made up: Sixteen daughters, of which six are widows, nine married and one young girl; twenty-three sons, ot which four are w idowers, thirteen married and six single ; thirty-four granddaughters, of which three are widows, twenty-two married and nine maidens; forty-seven grandsons, of which four are widowers, twenty-six married and seventeen single; fortv-five great-gran ddauchters, of which two are married and forty-three are maidens ; thirty-five great-grandsons, all sincle ; three great-great-grandsons. Besides this there are seventy-two son and daughters-in-law. In all, -7 persons. That the president's journey to the West is undertaken purely for political purposes, and not with any hope of rest or recreation, was made very plain in a conversation held with the president by a prominent republican a few days ago, writes the Washington correspondent of the Chicago i Herald. The latter, while calling at the executive mansion, congratulated the president upon the fine tour lie was to make and the good time he was to have. Mr. Harrison replied by saying he did not expect to have a good time; that, in fact, ho had dreaded the journey. He knew, he said, that rest and comfort would be practically out of the question and that he would return to Washington after a month's travel complete worn out. The caller somewhat injudiciously blurted out: "Then why do you go, Mr. Harrison?" To which the (.resident replied, with a smile: "Oh, I must see Fome of the country," and hastily changed the subject.

A DAILY MIRACLE.

Th Work of Getting Out a Great Dally w.ppr. fSundar Stit!nl. The numerous inventions and discoveries of the last few years have cheapened the cost of a great many articles enormously and added immensely to the comforts and conveniences of life. But we know of no commodity which has been so greatly cheapened in price as the daily newspaper. Its quality has at the same tin e oeen improved to an extent that is hardly conceivable by those who are too young to know what the daily newspaper of thirty or fort)' years ago was. All things considered, tho daily newspaper is tho cheapest article in the market today. Take The Daily Sentinel for instance. All daily newspapers are cheap in one sense, but The Sentinel is cheaper than any other eicht-page morning newspaper in the country. It is furnished (six days in the week) to regular subscribers at 10 cents a week. This is but ljj cents a copy. The Indianapolis Journal costs 2" cents a week or 4 l-t cents a copy. The Enquirer and Commercial Hazttte. of Cincinnati are the same price ; the St. Louis liepublic and the Louisville Courier-Journal, 20 cents a week ; the Ghhe-Democrat of St. Louis, 18 cents; the Chicago morning papers 12to loccnts. The Sentinel is cheaper than any other first-class morning newspaper in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago or St. Louis, and it covers the field of legitimate news as completely as any of them. Besides this, it makes a specialty of Indiana news and politics, which none of these higher priced journals do. The Sentinel's special Indiana service is so far ahead of that of any other newspaper publi.-hed in or out of the 6tate that there is really no comparison to be made. The Sentinel lias over one hundred special correspondents in Indiana, covering every county in the 6tate, who send it. mainlv by wire, reports of all events of interest occurring in their respective localities. Every fire, crime, casualty, death, marriage or other social event occurring in Indiana that is worthy of note is reported in these columns on the morninz after it transpires. Political movements and developments, the proree iincs of religi ous, literary, fraternal and other bodies, j udicial decisions of special interest, etc., etc., are all promptly and fully reported. In fact, nothing happens in Indiana of interest to any considerable number of persons, whether of a political, religious, social, fraternal, sporting, criminal, educational, legal or personal nature of which the readers of this paper are not immediately advised. The Sentinel presents every morninpr an accurate photoirranh of lite in Indiana for tho precediug tweuty-four hours. The daily issue of The Sentinel never contains less than forty-eight columns; it frequently consists of fifty-six columns; upon special occasions it is still larcer. About 75 per cent, of its space is, on the average, devoted to news ami miscellaneous matter, the remainder to "live" advertisements, which are always worth reading because they always contain information that is valuable. An ordinary issue contains thirty-five to forty columns of "pure reading matter," and the variety is almost endless. The city and suburbs are very thoroughly covered. 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VOORHEES FOR '92Dr. II. TV. Tsylr of Andron Advocate ti Nora In hi Ion of Our Senior Senator. To the Epitor Sir: With Cleveland ; out of the rpce for the democratic nomi- : nation for 'resident by reason of thesingla J gold standard. New York idea of currency, and Hill cqualiy out by reason rf his antipathy to the very smell of free trade, the democratic masses au 1 smaller newspapers are leadinc their lead rs in a hunt for a . suitable mm. In th s hunt Palmer of Illinois. ( ami b 11 o? 0::io. an 1 Tur.de of our own state buve been repeite.ily suczested. So frequent are these suggestions that they bccoin evidence of the w idespread feeling in the party that a new man must be chosen to lead us in '".'2. But how come it that no go-id po'itician has, so far, suggested the name of a ivan who is head and shoulders above all the nj"n mentioned? A man to whom no objection can be off-red ; a man who is far better kn-wn personally as a transcendent advocate; politically as a consistent and always successf.il champion of every measure of tho pcopL" acsinst monopoly 1). W. Yoorhecs, our senior senator? No man in all the Northwest would be more warmly welcomed by the South. No man cou d so completely rally the old green backer?, w ho aTeof all parties, and who are arousing to mske another such campaign ha wa made in 1--74. No man iu either of the old parties, or for that matter, in the pew w estern party, could poirt to a public record so completely in lu.r i.ony w;th every essential demand of the farmers' alliance. No man is dearer to the democracy of Indiana and the Northwest. No m.in basso long and so eloquent!" advocated the very n-torms that are now rending the repullican party to shred. In every element of a glorious national repiration an 1 a comph te alignment with the osition of the western p op e on the matters that must constitute the points of contention in the next campaign, D. W. Yoorhees is head and shoulders above any man in the democratic party a race of giants though its leaders be. With Yoorhees as its candidate the democratic party could elect 'ts ticket without even so much as thinking about an cBst'Tii Btiite. New York is no loner nec ssary when I linois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa. Kansas and Nebraska are reasonably certain to go against the candidate of the republican party. ()n every ground of availability P. W. Yoorhees is ut this time the het-t man for the supreme hadership of the democratic party and the people in the coming presidential campaign. And since Harrison is conceded to be the republican leader in , the next race, it must not be forgotten that Senator Yoorhees has never failed to carry Indiana against Harrison. II . W. Taylor. Anderson, Ind., April 17. ANOTHER ATTACK ON STANLEY. Col. Williams Stri-.s nt Him From the C'nnco ItitoD. Still another attack is made on Henry . M. Stanb'v. It comes from Col. George ! W. Williams, author of "The Colored i Troops in the Krbehion." who has been l for some time in the employ of the Congo ; Free State. Last year be wrote from h:s station what he has since published m pamphlet f rm under the title of "An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty I?opol l II, King of the Belgians and Sover- ' eign of the Independent Stute of Congo, ' by Col. th'j Hon. Goorg W. Williams of the United States of America." The letter is an attack on the government of the Congo. Concerning Mr. Stanly Col. Williams says : "The agents of your majesty's government have misrepresented the Congo country and the Comro railway. Mr. II. M. Stanley, the man who was Your chief agent in setting up your authority in this country, has grossly misrepresented th : character of the country. Instead of it j being fertile and productive, it is sterile ! and tmpnwluetive. The natives can j scarcely subsist upon the vegetable life i produced in some parts of the country, j Nor will this condition of athiirs chants until the native shall have been taudit by i the European the dignity, utility and ' blessing of labor. There is no improvej ment among the natives, because there is j an impassable gulf between them anil j your majesty's government, a gulf which i cannot le bridged. Henry M. Stanley's i name produces n shudder among the simj pie folk when mentioned ; they remember I h's broken promises, his copious" profanity. ids hot temper, his heavy blows, his severe and rigorous measures hy which they were mulcted of their land. His lat appearance in the Congo produced a fr found sensation amonc them when ho ed .ri00 Zanzibar soldiers with 300 camp fo lowers on his way to relieve Emin Pacha. They thought it meant complete subjugation "and they fled in confusion. But the onlv thing they found in the wake of his march was misery. No white man commanded his rear column, and his troops were allowed to strac'le, sicken and die, and their bones were scattered over more than '20 miles of territory." A rt!l Curiosity. Mocbes?er T:ra -.J A curiously addressed letter passed lately through the postollice of Madrid, which was deciphered and correctly de ivered, notwithstanding all difficulties. The address was a perfect rebus. At the left band side was the figure of a lady; it was clear, therefore, to which t-ex the recipient should belong. Ove? the lady's bead the sun was rising; hence her name was inferred to be Aurora. For her surname stood a hill, with a cast e at its foot, which gives us "Montes y Cistillo." Next comes the town, for which the plan of a city was drawn, on which the name Alaunbta was lecible, This indicated Granada, but in order to leave no doubt possible a pomegrana e w as drawn bes de the plan. To complet the address, a number w as indicated in one of the htreets of the city plan. The postal authorities took three days to study this curiosity, and then triumphantly delivered the letter to "Senorito Aurora Montes y Castillo, Azacayas No. 20, Granada," and, so far from censuring tiie sender, they had the envelope photographed, and a copy printed in the Madrid pspers as a proof of tho intelligence of the department. Improved II a Opportunity. f Firiglmnitoa Rrpub'.lesn. "We'l, good niifht, Miss A ," wid a young man ti.e other evening to a I)w ightvillecirl whom he was visiting. "I think it's better for me to g . 1 feel certain thai if 1 6tay two minut s longer, I shall be ia discreet enou. h to kiss vou." "Well, good night, Mr. V ."replied the young girl. "Oh, by the way," h added, "I want to show you my sachet bag before you go. It will only take I couple of minutes." Il is only necessary to state that th voung man in question is possessor of i bright intellect, and he quickly embraced the situation, and wc can further assert that the girl w as in it. A I'roof f LofN Mudmi'i WeeklrJ ' Amy "I'm sure that Charles love me. Ethel "Whtt makes vou so sure." Amy "Although he don't say so, I ca; Eee that he hates all my relatives."