Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1892 — Page 4

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V THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1892 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SEXTIXEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MOnSS. PreidenL

llctered t tfca PostoSice at Indianapolis u Mcond class di alter. I TEID1S I'KU YKARi flP!e wpr (iDTariaMy in AdTance.)- I 0 AVra'k demfxratu to Kar in min.l and wWt thMr mn tat parr when they com to täte iubwrip. i;trand niak'tip club. Agent mkiii up club' aen-l for anr Information ircd. AUtitTUE LN11A A 1'OIJS SENTINEL Indianapolis. ind. WEDNESDAY. APK1L 27. 1S02. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA EHITANNICA. Ijcdiajcapolis Sintis el Compart: W received the "EncyclopaMli Itritan nlc" all riiiht. and aro highly please tl with it. It in niiuh more than I expected, and in cerainly a Tery excellent work. Please accept our thanks. Yours respectfully. Letter I- Allison. Malott rari, April 2. To THE Editor Sir: Having been in possession of t he revised Encj clopied ia Britannic about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel the extrem low price thru you furni at sh It at. Being a student 1 llntt it of ßre.tt Teneflt to nie in the solution of a great many perplex in jf questions. 1 belie.e that all young reader- or "The Sent Irel" should have it, and many thanks to you for having been the medium through which 1 have been matle able to pr)cure so useful a book, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so small an amount of money. William P. Parr. Lamong, Ind., Feb. 20. Indiana will stand up and be counted for Mr. Cleveland at Chicago. John G. Shasklin ia a man who would rather be right than be governor. Isn't it prettty nearly time to make the tattle-cry Cleveland and a western man? The Indiana democrats are Lappy over the ticket and the platform and will mate things lively for the common enemy from this time until election day. As the democratic convention paid Thursday with great emphasis, tarilF reform ia the issue, and upon that issue Grovek Cleveland id the logical candidate of the democratic party. A writer in the Forum pays that there la enough anthracite coal in Pennsylvania to last 100 years. This is doubtless comforting to those who ueo coal, but we who live in the gas belt would like a similar propheiy as to the slaving qualities of natural gas. "We trust that, like the poor, it "will always be with us." A "Washington special to the Commercial Gazette says Attorney-General Miller will te nominated next month to succeed the late Justice Bradley on the supreme tench, that Secretary Nolle will La made attorney-general, and that M. M. Estek of California wili get the interior portfolio. Thia is "interesting, if true." In our editorial mention Friday of the several nominees on the democratic Btate ticket the name of II. D. Vöries, the candidate for superintendent of pub ic instruction, was inadvertent'y omitted. Mr. Vöries is the present incumbent of that office, which he has filled most creditably. He ia a model official, a good democrat and an excellent citizen, and his Uame is one of the strongest on the ticket. There waa one enake left in Ireland at the great killing, or perhaps he had just escaped from a passing menagerie. Very recently, near a place called Nora's Glon, not far from Belfast, a snake was killed that waa nearly Beven and a half feet long and seven inches in circumference, This solitary serpent of the old eod at traded much attention, and it was finally determined to preserve it in g'ass for the Inspection of future generations. Poor old bankrupt Russia, it is stated, Is offering to loan Persia $2.500,000 to in demnify the British tobacco speculators, hose monopoly the e!iah wai compelled ty a rebellion to cancel. This is full of suggestion to American contributors to the Russian famine fund. What sort of a country ia it that allows her people to Etarve. while ehe can make a loan to another country of so large an amount as that mentioned above? Loaning, like charity, should begin at home in such a case. A bill was recently introduced in the lew York legislature imposing a fine of $.500 on any person who should violate thia law: A person who, directly or indirectly, knowinglv aids or encourages a married person to Jive separately and apart from is or her wife or husband, without the consent of such wife or husband, except for such cause or causes and under such circumstances as entitle the party bo aided or encouraged to a judgment of divorce or separation, or annulling a void or voidable marriage, is guuty of a roi3demcanor. It waa well that the proposed law was cot enacted. This thing of "stealing" wives and husbands is all nonsense Neither hypnotism nor theft can ccount for wife or hu9bana leaving a mate, it is pure natural cussedness. The true situ etion was explained by the email colored toy who responded to hia mother's wails over the 'accident'' that had beiallen her daughter with: "Noacciden 'tall, mammy 'twas done a purpose." The state of Indiana ia able to pay as it goee, and should not have piled up a debt of nearly JIU.OW.iWJ by borrowing money to par current expenses. Journal. Thia ia an interesting confession from a pewspuper that is daily complaining be cause the new tax law provides for raining enough revenue to jay current expenses but it is 'a wholly unwarrantable mis representation to etate it as the Jouma does. The total state debt on Oct. 31, 1877 was 5.002,533.34. On Oct. 31, 1801, it had Increased to $3,826,143.13. In fourteen ears there naa puea up a atv o $3,823,600.79. It was not ''piled np" by borrowing money to pay current ex oenses," but by extraordinary expend! tures for new state buildings, and on that account the creation of the debt was hel to be constitutional by the republican eu creme court. The constitution of Indiana prohibits borrowing money to pay curren expenses. Whether or not it was proper to borrow money to meet these eitraordi nary expenses is a question on which tLiro is perhaps room lor a reasonable

difference of opinion between the Journal and the supreme court, but our esteemed contemporary will probably have some difficulty in establishing its proposition

hat it waa both right and wrong. If, as t maintains, it waa wrong then to go in debt, it must be right now to raise enough revenue to avoid going in debt. But if, as it maintains, it is wrong now to raise enough revenue to avoid eoing iu debt, it must bavo been right then to go in debt. We are not at all particular which position the Journal takes, but for the eake of consistency we trust it will stick to one or the other. The Journal owes it to its readers to settle on some line of argument as soon as possible. If it does not, their minds are liable to become fatally twisted on the tax question. Tho Democratic Ticket. The democratic state convention nomnated an exceptionally strong ticket Thürs Jav. The great popularity of Clatde Matthews was attested by his selection. on the first ballot, over such worthy and crniidable competitors as Messrs. Siianklin, Nillack and Nye. Mr. Matthews is not a professional politician, but a man whose life haa been parsed in tho voca tion of a farmer. He is identified with the agricultural interests of the state, and the farmers will rally around him at the election as they rallied around him two years ago, and as they rallied around "Blue Jeans" Williams in 1S7. lie ia a man of brain?, education and character. lie lias made an unex ceptionable record as secretary of state. He will make an aggressive but digniüe 1 canvass, His candidacy will appeal to the people with irresistible force because of what ho is and of what lie represents. The republicans can name no man for governor of greater personal worth or possessing more elements of popularity. Mr. Mortimer Nye, tho nominee for ieutenant-governor, male a creditable race tor governor. He is a gentleman oi fine ability, cf irreproachable character, and of the most attractive personal qualities. His name brings great strength to the ticket. The judicial nominations are uniformly excellent. The convention had a long list of able jurists to pelect from, and was obliged to reject a number of gentlemen of the highest character and capacity. Hut no sound objection can be urged against a single one of the nominees either for the supreme or tho appellate bench. Of the three nominees for the supreme bench Judge New has made an enviable record in the appellate court. His asso ciates on the supreme court ticket, James McCabe and T. K. Howard, are, like Judge New, able lawyers and upright citizens. Judge Keinhard, who is named to succeed himself on the appellate bench, has made an admirable judge, and no Indiana juriststands higher for ability, industry and integrity. The other persons nominated as appellate judge", Messrs. Frank Gavin, Theodore Dams, A. J. Lötz and Geokoe W. Ross, are all men of good 1 gal attainments and the highest personal standing. Capt. William 11. Myers, who was nom inated to succeed Mr. Matthews as secretary of state, ia one of the best known and most popular gentlemen in Indiana. He numbers his friends by the thousand, and no person deserves more of them. He has filled this office before to the entire satisfaction of the people, and has also served with distinction in con gress, lie was a brave I nion solclior and is a man of whom nothing can truthfullv be said that is not to hin credit. Mr. Sidney K. Moon, who was an intelligent and useful representative in the last two legislatures, was nominated by acclamation for reporter of tho supreme court. Mr. Moon is a sound democrat, a good citizen and a capable man, and will ''run" well up with any of his colleagues on the ticket. The present incumbents of the other Btate offices were, in accordance with cus tom, and in recognition of their faithful public services, renominated by acclamation. Space does not permit of any extended mention of them this morning, nor is it necessary. Treasurer Albert Gall, Auditor J. O. Henderson, Attorney-General A. G. Smith and Statestician W. A. Peelle have filled their respective offices most acceptably. Their official and personal records are without a blemish, and they will be handsomely re-elected upon the timehonored principle that "one good term deserves another." The convention made a good ticket throughout. It is strong from top to bottom. It is entitled to the hearty support of every democrat in the etate, and will receive it as well as that of every other man who knows a good thing when he sees it. A Dangerous Measure. The more the Paddock pure food bill is examined the more clear it becomes that its enactment into law would be in the highest degree dangerous to the best interests of all the people. Indeed it would seem impossible to discover any honest American citizen who could be even to tho 6ljghtest extent benefited by its passage. With a most benevolent exterior the contents of the bill are wholly obnoxious. Its professed purpose is to secure to American people unadulterated food, but iu real purpose seems to be to establish a gigantic system oi wholesale blackmail under government control and by legul eanction. This bill, as it has gone to the house from the senate, proposes to establish a bureau of inspection in the department of agriculture, whose duty it shall be to inspect all foods and medicines offered for sale in the United States. The force necessary to accomplish this work ia roughly estimated at 30,000 people, though it wou'd probably require many more. This in itself is an objection which ought to defeat the bill, for the country is already ridden to death by officialism. But the worst and most dangerous feature of the measure is the arbitrary power which it invests in the chemist of the bureau of inspection. It is proposed that ho shall have the power to absolutely prohibit the advertisement, sale and manufacture of any artic.e which he may find "impure." Thus if the farmer, durinar the period "between hay and grass," should use a little harmless coloring matter to make his butter yellow the chemist of the inspection bureau would have it in his power to impose heavy penalties on the farmer and confiscate all his butter. But still more dangerous is the opportunity for errors, or worse, on the part of

the chemist. We all remember that equally reputable chemists held directly opposite opinions regarding the healthfulness of tho water furnished by the Indianapolis water company, one side maintaining that no better water could be found in the world, while the other as stoutly insisted that the fluid was packed tight with death-dealing germs. So, too, with the baking powders. Scarcely a brand is made which has not the indorsement of Borne eminent chemist as absolutely the purest, and which has not been condemned in unsparing terms by other equally eminent chemists 83 highly harmful in its composition. With all thia honest difference of opinion between chemists it would be foolish to pick out one whose dictum should be absolutely final. But even this evil is not the worst feature of the bill. If, aa frequently happens where offices are dealt out as rewards for political services, a corrupt man ehould step in and he should be placed at the head of the buicau, his opportunities for evil would be only limited by the degree of hia avarice. He would have it in his power to levy tribute on every manufacturer of food, drink or medieine in the country. The manufacturer would be forced to pay whatever was demanded or go out of business. And among the army of subordinate inspectors the acceptance of bribes could reasonably be expected to become general. In all theie ways it is almost certain that the Paddock bill would fail of its professed object. The man who would manufacture impure food, drink or medicine would not for a second hesitate at resorting to bribery to get it on the market. And the cost of the bribery would not deter him, fof he would make that up in the additional price of the product or by using still cheaper adulterants in its manufacture. While the proposed law would thus fail to protect the people from fraudulent articles it would also enhance the cost of every genuine article affected by it, by just so much na would be the cost of de

lays, fees and other expense of inspection. Altogether the bill is bad from almost every point of view. "A Campaign for a Principle." In Weduesday's impression of The Sentinel we said that "the issue of the approaching campaign will be tho tariff, by which we mean not the mere details of schedules and rates, but the whole question of taxation." The 6hibboleth of "tariff reform" has a deep and broad sig nificance. It means very much more than a mere readjustment of tariff duties. Tariff reform is not at all a question of percentages. Edmund Bi'rke declared in the houso'of commons, when he was defending the American colonies, that "the great contests for freedom in England were from the earliest times on the question of taxing." Quoting this remark in the Forum for April Mr. William L. Wilson adds: "And so must they always be, for a just and equal system of taxation is the only foundation of free government." lie proceeds to show that "tho high and never-ending mission of the democratic party" is to secure and maintain such a system. "That party," he pays, "came into existence to uphold the idea, not very old in the world as yet, and nowhere in the world fully acted upon as yet, that all government is the servant of tho people, that it should always be under their control, and never in the control or service of privileged classes or favored individuals." Mr. Wilson's Forum paper is able, thoughtful and timely and by far the clearest and most forcible statement of the tariff reform issue and of the democratic faith in itsentirety that has been put into print for many years. Wo with it could be read by every democrat in Indiana. The following extract illustrates its temper and scope: Tariff reform is, therefore, not only a great issu ; it is a cardinal democratic issue. It means not only the rescue of the government from the service and control of privileged classes and favored individuals, but it involves and carries with it all the other great reforms which unselfish citizens are so anxious to secure, and at times eo hopeless of securing, in our politics. It is truly eaid by Herbert Spencsr that every principle has its momentum, and the principle of protection brings with it a brood of evils more incompatible with pure government than are all its unjust money exactions. In the very outset it teaches that some men have a right to rely on government for success in private business rather than upon their own efforts and merits. Such a doctrine wrests government from the service of all and turns it over to the service of a class. Moreover, it bestows upon government, to use the words of an old Virginia statesman, "the worldly omnipotence that belongs to the power of dealing out wealth and poverty," and thus changes political campaigns from contests for nound principles into battles for private booty. A reform of the tariff must therefore precede any genuine and lasting ballot reform. We may adopt the Australian system, just as in days past we adopted the secret ballot, and for a while bahle the briber and the intimidator ; but greed and ingenuitv will soon learn the combination. if great pluoder is still tobe had by rifling the safe. And it is not only the voter who must be shielded from temptation and corrupting influences, but also the law-maker. A permanent lobby is a necessary part of a protective system. "Close the doors this morning," said Senator Dec k, when the tariff bid of 1S83 was under consideration in congree, "and there will be found 500 men in the corridors, in the lobbies, in the committee rooms, in the receptioa room, everywhere, besieging senator and representative to stand by them und their interests. Promises, flattery, threats, everything ia resorted to." Equally strong was the outcry of Senator I'll mb of Kansas: "Tho moment it wrs announced that it (the tariff question) waa to be discussed, there came to this city from all quarters of the country scores of men interested in the various industries to be affected by the tariff, who came to counsel, came to advise, came to cajole, and came to threaten, almost, in some cases, I have no doubt." Mr. Wilson shows that tariff reform is the condition of any great and permanent reform of the civil service. England was not able to get rid of the spoils system in her civil service until she bad abandoned the policy of protection. "The principle at the. basis of the protective and the spoils systems is identical the claim to use the power and patronaee of govern ment for private favoritism." Tariff re form, Mr. Wilson declares, is also "the essential safeguard of that doctrine that lies so near the democrats party the doctrine of local self-government." He Bserts that "every one who was not blind discovered the hand that was behind the force bill in the last cocgresa." The

strong and driving force which pressed that measure was "the great and vigilant combination of our tariff-supported industries. It was an attempt- on their part, under a false mask, to get control of the power of government." in perpetuity, without the constantly recurring hazard of submitting their bounties to popular elections." Mr. Wilson declares that if the democratic party now falters in the fight for tariff reform, it "will manifest such a trifling with duty and such a throwing away of great opportunities as to provoke a moral reaction against itself, involving not only disaster, but disaster with merited disgrace." He continues: The mere suspicion that all this might happen has already thrown some confusion into its ranks and awakened the most anxious feeling in the country. Yet success still waits upon the discharge of duty, and duty requires two things at its hands in the presidential campaign of 1S02: First, the adoption of a clear and unambiguous tariff reform platform, and a campaign made upon that platform alone with the exclusion of issues on which the party itself is split and the country undoubtedly against it; secondly, the nomination of candidates whoso names an I characters shad give the people the unmistakable guaranty that they represent in person all that the platform sets forth in words. If it be said that this ia pitching a national campaign upon a pingie issue, I nave already shown that this single issue involves, not remotely, but directly and vitady, almost everything that we understand by good government, and to tha enumeration already made must be added the ever-present issue of frugality and

honesty in government expenditures. Mr. Wilson states the case with singular lucidity and force. The democracy of Indiana will today ring out boldly and clearly the demand he voices so eloquently for "a campaign for a principle" a platform that mean Tariff Keform, writ large, and a candidate who is a Tariff lieform platform in himself. Cleveland's Growing Strength. For several weeks there have been a number of democrats stalking about with an air of deep contemplation and solemnly stating that they do not see how Mr. Cleveland can be any stronger now than lie was in 1SSS. If these doubters will strain their memoiiesa little they may remember that four years &40 a number of astute politicians voiced the opinion that while Mr. Cleveland was rieht in his tariff message he had mpda a mistake in issuing it at the time he did, because there was not enough time before the election to educate the people on the subject. After the election it was generally con ceded that this view was correct, but since that time there has been an enormous amount of educating doae. The republican party, carried away by the result of the election in 1SS8, proceeded to carry its protection theory to its utmost limit, and enacted the most radically protective law that was ever known in any country. Under that law the evils which free-traders assert to be produced from a protective tariff have all resulted. Trusts have sprung up in abundance. ages nave been 'reduced in hundreds of instances and increased in none. The prices of the products of protected industries have in creased and the prices of the products of unprotected industries have decreased. In the latter class aro included tnose industries which, though nominally protected by law are by nature not capable of protection. The people have seen theae results. Their eyes have been opened. There have been no such extensive revolts in political parties of recent years as have occurred in the republican party on account of the McKinley bill. To whom is it due that the tariff issue was forced, and that this situation, so convincing of its true solution, was producod? Grover Cleveland. He led the way. He stood for what he clearly saw to be right, lie drove the protectionists to tho extreme of putting into force the ideas they advocated, and but for the foresight of the fcreat champion of protection, Mr. Blaine, who saw the certainty of destruction before his party, the republicans would have been left without standing ground. In a recent editorial the Brooklyn Eagle, replying to the Boston Journal, says: The results of the e'ections of lS'.K) and 1S02 in the states of Massachusetts. Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota demonstrate beyond all question the existence there of a public sentiment vastly more hostile toa high tariff than that which existed during the last presidential contest, the election returns of which are used by the Journal to prove Mr. Cleveland's weakness. This fact alone ia sufficient to convince the least intelligent reader of its insinceritj. It was Mr.( Cleveland's bold message of 1SS7 that set the peoplo to thinking on tho subject of the tariff. The conclusion they reached after three years of study and cogitation is attested by the overwhelming democratic majority in tho house of representatives. The author of that message is the logical exponent of the popular opposition to McKinleyism. If nominated ti e sentiment that made the house democratic will make him president. That is why G rover Cleveland is stronger now than ho was in 18SS. He is inseparably linked to the taritl issue as it now stands. It be ia no stronger our position on the tariff question is no stronger, and the democratic party is no stronger than it was in 18&8. We do not think that any intelli gent democrat believes we have not gained strength greatly on the tariff issue, and every vote gained has been a vote gained by and for Gkoyeh Cleveland. Two Very Modern Instances. One would think that Indianians outside of the larger cities do not read the newspapers. The green goods swindle has been repeatedly exposed, and yet we note that every now and then some ona from this ßtate in visiting New York falls a victim to the sharpers of that city. Only a few weeks ago a prominent citizen of Parke county had quite a serious experience there in apparently negotiating for counterfeit money, finally terminating in. his arrest. He was extmined by a justice of the peace and promptly acquitted of the intent to commit a crime. Yet the story was telegraphed over the country, and he found his friends and neighbors anxiously awaiting an explanation when he arrived at home. This was not a pleasant experience to a man w hohfld aresponsible office in the community where he lived and where he was highly respected. He will probably not hear the last of the story as long as he liven. That was one case and it only haoneaed

a few weeks ago, but notwithstanding this, just over in a neighboring county to Parke there lives a gentleman who has had a very Teceut and a similar experience. His home is in Sullivan county. We ha've his name, but do not care to give it for obvious reasons. He recently went to New York and invested $240 hard cash in what he supposed were "green goods." He received in return a very neat little box that he eupposed contained enough money (?)to make him very wealthy if properly handled. When he opened tho box, much to his amazement, he found a collection of pretty litt'e blocks of wood.

As a New York paper observes. "the green goods men evidently thought that for a man who would bite at a bait like that nowadays a box of blocks would furnish just the most suitable and entertaining amusement." Do our people read the newspapers? If so, why do thev get caught so frequently by New York sharpers? The State Platform. The democratic platform might have been improved by judicious coudei;sation, but that is true of party platforms generally these days. Aside from this it is not open to criticism in any material feature. It contains a clear an 1 forcible statement of democratic principles and sets forth very cogently and vigorously the issues upon w hich the campaign will be conducted. Upon the tariff question it ia outspoken and emphatic. It demands a radical and comprehensive measure of tariff reform ; declares that the necessities of the people and the crude materials of manufactures should be freed from federal taxation; denounces the reciprocity humbug in fittiue terms, and asserts broadly the fundamental democratic principlethat no money should be taken from the people, for other than public purposes, under any pretext whatsoever. Conservative ground is taken on the currency question. The resolution declares, in efft-ct. that the currency requirements of the country should be met by a full eupp.y of honest money gold, silver and legal tender paper, kept at par with each other. Its arraignment of the Harrison administration is severe but just. It condemns the administration for its subserviency to trusts and monopolies, for its scandalous abuse of public patronage, for its indifference to its pledges to the people and for its attempt to fasten the force bill upon the country. The platform also declares for the election of U. S. senators by the people, a reform which is urgently demanded by an overwhelming majority of the citizens of Indiana. A great deal of epace is very properly devoted to state issues. The Australian ballotand school book reform?, introduced by democratic legislatures, are warmly indorsed. The republican attack upon the new tax law is met by a fair and square indorsement of that measure. The last legislature is commended for refusing to adopt Governor Hovey's recommendation to increase the 6tate levy from 12 cents to 25 cents, and for arranging to raise theincreased revenues needed for the support of the state government from corporations, which have heretofore escaped their just share of the public burdens. Our senators an 1 representatives in congress aro asked to labor for a repeal of the exemption of greenback currency ami interstate commerce from taxation. The f ie and salary reform, adopted by the last legislature, is squarely approved. These are the main features of the platlorra. It re'lects very faithfully the sentiments and wishes of the democratic party of Indiana and is a declaration of principles upon which it can safely appeal to the people. Shall Corporation Anarchists Break Down the Law? The latest move of certain railroad corporations of Indiana ia well calculated to arouse the tax-payers of the state to a more complete realization of their danger and a fuller appreciation of the grasping spirit which inspires the conduct of these companies. The threats so freely made by railroad attorneys at recent conferences held in Indianapolis have taken definite form in the commencement of three suits at Terre Haute; one by the Monon in Lake county and others here by the Pennsylvania and Big Four systems. The petitioners seek to enjoin the treasurers of all the counties through which their respective lines run from the collection of taxes assessed and returned on the duplicate of 1SDI. The proceeding, uuder the code oi Indiana, is anomalous in several particulars and especially wherein it asserts the jurisdiction of a judge in Lake county over the conduct of a county officer in Marion. But these are matters of slight importance, except in so far ae they indicate the determination of such concerns to create methods for the accomplishment of their purposes where none are at hand. The situation, however, is well defined. Having heretofore escaped the payment of an equitable proportion of the public expenses, they now seek to establish as a legal right that which in years past has been but a shameful, if not an unlawful, exemption. During all this time these arrogant corporations paid upon little more than onethird of tho true value of the property owned and operated by them. They raised no objection to the machinery of the law. although as to its practical operations there has been no material change. The state board of equalization was constituted in a similarly manner to the present state board of tax commissioners. But now, when demand is made that they do their honeßt part toward the maintenance of the ßtate which gave them life, and out of the labor and substance of whose citizens they have grown prosperous and powerful, they rush in to the courts for the purpose of restraining the execution of tho law in so far only as it aects their interests, leaving to the people the sole responsibility of government support. A more wicked defiance cf law or brazen disregard of public opinion has never been manifested even by professional anarchists. Occasion for public alarm will be presented whenever such conduct shall find sanction in the courts of IndLana. Will tho people stand idly by and permit their laws to be overturned and their tax machinery destroyed with a resultant lo?s to the state and county treasuries of nearly $3,000,000? For the law correcting the flagrant abuses heretofore practiced by railroad comcaoiea. banks and other corporations

credit must be given to the democrats of the general assembly of 1S01. For a rigid and ju6t enforcement of that legislation much praise belongs to the state board ot tax commissioners, whose course was advised and ably seconded by that vigorous and courageous officer, Attorney-General Smith. The advantages gained must not be surrendered or abandoned The cowardly attacks made upon this most righteous enactment must be repelled, and such a severe penalty imposed upon its assailants as to teach them obedience to and respect for the law. The fight is on. The isue is formed. Let it be once for all determined whether or not there is one rule for these rebellious, tax-dodging corporations and another for the farmers, manufacturers, merchants and laboring men whether or not the former are to "step from under," aud the latter, unaided, ara to be compelled to meet the heavy obligations of the ßtate and local government. True to the record of the democratic party tho state convention, soon to assemble, will doubtless declare in no uncertain terms its allegiance to the people in thia contest. To the democratic party alone nrist the honest tax-payers of the state look for relief.

Representative Bynum was Wednesday nondnated by acclamation for a fourth 1 by term in congress. Mr. Bynvm's career in that body has been an active and a brilliant one, and he I. as become one of the leading figures in national politics, lie will be elected next November by a decisive majority. The Indiana democracy is for Cleveland, the convention wart for Cleveland, the resolutions are for Cleveland and the delegation, which is composed of honorable men, ia, of course, for Cleveland. The voice of the people Las made itself heard. ET CETERA. The prayers we are proud of never receive any attention in heaven. Ham's llirn. One of the singular facts in the publishing line is that poisonous literature ia never a drug in the market. A. Y. Herald. President Harrison has designs upon j purchasing the old Harrison homestead, J which is part of the Berkeley estate ou the James river. Mks. Gladstone has an orphanage at Ilawarden with thirty-five or iorty boys five or six years old in it, and she gives the lads her personal attention. Mrs. Gladstone is a G. O. W. While on bis recent snipe hunt President Harrison said to a fine-looking little fellow who caught his attention: "What is your name, my little man?" "Grover Cleveland Brittingham," was the response. "Well, my boy," was the president's cordial rejoinder, "you are named after a mighty good man." Ex-Senator Edmunds' withdrawal from the senate is now set down to the account of profit and loss, it being claimed that while he was able to earn ?100,000 a year from the practice of his profession as a lawyer it would be financial suicide to allow his senatorial duties to interfere with more valuable engagements. Of all managerie stock the monkey tribe is the most precarious. The comparative comfort of a roof-tree does not compensate for the activity of their natural life, and, considering that they feed on fresh fru ta in their primeval forests, it ia not amazing that after a time an unlimited dietary of hazel nuts and stale buns ia apt to disagree with the quadrumanal digestion. The Abaza, a Circassian tribe, have a strange way of burying their boys. They put the body in a cofiin of wool, which they nail on the branches of some high trees, and make a hole in the coffin by the head, that the boy, they say, may look unto heaven. Bees enter the cofiin and make honey, and cover the body with their comb. When the season comes, they open the coffin, take out the honey and sell it. Edwin Booth, America's famous tragedian, has contributed to the great fair of the women's executive committee of the Actors' fund of America, for the purpose of endowing a home for the orphans of dead players, the sum of $1,500. A lady in Belfast, Ireland, writes to the ladies having charge of the fair that she will send them the finest and most valuable piece of lace that ever came from that countrv. The fair will be held iu New York City. Is Manipur, where we recently had some trouble, there exists a peculiar native labor system, not found elsewhere in India, based on the theory that every man between the ages of seven and sixty is bound to place hia services at the disposal of the state for a certain number of davs every year. The citizens may give the actual time to such public works as may be designated, or they may commute this by a monev payment baeed on the actual value of their time. Two young girls, yielding to temptation, stole each a trifle on Saturday morning. When arrested and brought face to face with the judge, they were remanded in the custody of their counsel, and matters might have been arranged eo that the severity of the lesson taught would bear good fruit An enterprising modern journalist heard of their trouble, however, so he wrote it up nicely for his paper, put their names in the headline, told w here they lived, and settled them forever. Quite a feat, wasn't it? -V. V. Recorder. When you buy your spring medicine you should get the best, and that is Hood's Sarsaparilla. It thoroughly purifies the blood.

THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH WASHINGTON, D. C. In Bulletin Supplement No. 6, page 33, places Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder HIGHEST OF ALL IN LEAVENING STRENGTH.

Prof. R. C Kedzie, of the Michigan State Agricultural College, who personally superintended the examination, 6ays: "With the exception of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Towder, which is a cleanly, pure, wholesome compound, conforming with natures own formulas of human diet, Ve found every sample more or less tainted." ,

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What the State Sentinel Can Do for You and "Where the Header Can Save Money. Everybody knows that there is a socalled watch trust for the purpose of keeping up prices, also to keep newspaper from handling them. Tue Sentinel, however, has been able to get ahead of tho trust, and is enabled to furnish lino filled gold watches at wholesale prices. A filled case for all practical purposes is just as good as a eolid cold watch. It will wear a life-time, and in case of its being stolen the loss ia not so great. fome of ol r r.Aitr.Aixs. No. 5. Size No. IS Liberty (engineturned) case, New York standard movement, w ill wear ten years, $12.23. No. 8. Size No. t. Liberty (or American) engraved case. Dcret movement (Swiss), seven jewels, ?12. No. 14. Sie No. 1. Box case, Louia XIV style, W altham or Elgin muvement, Peven jewe'1, $1!.75. Thee watches are told by retail defers at from $30 to $ 'j. No. li. S;z.; No. IS. Wahham , or Elgin movement, t-neii jewels icngincturncd ), Montauk c:'e, SIS. This watch a cost Irom ?- jeweiry 1 ,. :ize No. IS. W altham or Elgin movement, sven jewels, beautifully engr.ived Montau case. SIS. This watch would cost from to S35 at jewelry stores. I No. IS. Siz No. IS. Monarch eise, twenty-one years' guarantee, 14 carat, ' Wlt ham movement (engine-turned), I S2 .2-. j No. 19. Size No. IS. Monarch case, I fancy landscape engraved, Elgin movej nient., S.M.ö". I No. L'o. ize No. IS. Monarch case, i w ith wide Vermicelli border and engraved j center, Wn'tham movement, seven jewels, j S23. Ti:is is the finest watch we oner and ia well worth $10. according to the prices ' charged in jewelry stores. The cases are j warranted for twenty-one years. I No. '21. Size No. (H. Monarch case, VerI micelli border, fancy Elgin movement, ' seven jewels, $19.00. No. 2-S. Size No. IS. Montauk case (engine-turned). New York staudard movement, seven jewels, ?ltl.25. The Sentinel does not keep the watches on hand neither do we furnish any other make or kind. Just the watches advertised are all that we can sell. The readers of The entinel never had an opportunity to get first-clafs watches at any such prices as the above, and after this stoclc is sold they will probably not eoon have such a chance again. This offer ia open only to subscribers to The Indiana State Sentinel. One of these watches will make a handsome birthday present for your wife, your sister, your daughter, or your sweetheart; ior your husband, your father, your brother or your son. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes the watches shou d be ordered only by their nu-nbers, thus it is only necesary to say: "Send watch No. S (or whatever number ia desired) to the following address." Write the name, town, county and state very plainlv. The cash must accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which can be cut out, filled up and sent to The Indiana State Scntinel with a craft oa Chicago. New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a postorfice money order for the amount. All orders and cash should be sent to State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind. 16 J2. Indianapolis Sentinel Co. Please tend cue watch No to the fol lowing address: Narue rostoffics - County State Enolosed find t A M drn CorMcalum. Street 1 Smith's Good N'ewi.J Visitor "I understand that the public schools of this city are models of nineteenth century progress." Little Boy "Yrs'ra, that's wot every one savs. 1 go to 'em." "What do you study?" "Oh, everything free' and drawin, an' cookin', an' bacteriology, an' music, an spectrum analysis, an' sewin on buttons, an' agricultural chemistry, an' dishwashin an' everything." A Smtt X.liti Woman. IN. Y. W'ekly.J Jinks "Minks' wife is a mighty clever little woman. If there were more like lier there would be fewer divorces. She knows how to keep the domestic machinery moving smoothly. Did you hear what she eave her husband for a birthday present.'" Bsnks "No; what was it?" Jinks "A big leather-covered box containing 150.OJ0 collar buttons." jtn'lrr Pin. N. Y. Weekly. Aged Admirer "Think of all the luxuries a rich husband like me could give you." Miss Pe Young "Ob, a rich father would do just as well. Marry my mother. H Street A Smith's Gool Nws. Mamma-"Why do vou call that beautiful doll an 'ugly old thing?' " Little Dot (wiiipering) "She'sso pretty I is 'fraid she'll get vain." If sick headache is misery, what are Carter's Little Liver Pills, if they will positively cure it? People who have used them s!eak frankly of their worth. They are small and easy to take. ro Ammonia. Ivo AI am.

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