Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 1. 1892-TWELVE PAGES,

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL tY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS. President.

ratered at the roatofTioe at Indianapolis m eecond tias matter.) TKHMS I'EB YEAR . flrtle eopv (InrarlaMy in AlTanee.) 00 IVfitk democrat to K-ar in mind and wlwt thrir cwn etate paper wben tbcy Co ma to take aubscriptioBf and make up claba. .Agfnts making up clubs send for any InfnrmaMnn esixcd. AudewTlii; IS VIA Ami.Iä SENTINEL Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. 1892. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. Indianapolis Sentinel Comfary: "VYe received tho "Encyclopjedia Itritannica" all right, and are highly pleased 'with it. It is much more than I expected, and U certainly a very excellent work. Please accept our thanks. Vours respectfully. Lester I Alliso. Maiott Park, April 11. To tiie Editor .Sir; Having been In yesaession of therevied Kncyclopiedia Brltannica about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel at he extrem low price that you furnish It at. Being a student 1 find it of great benefit to me in the solution of a great many perplexing questions. I believe that all young readers of" "The Sentinel" should have it, and many thanks o you for liaTing been the medium through which 1 have been made able o procure so useful a hook, which I -consider the best investment that I ever made lor to small an amount of. nonay. William D. Parr. John R. McLean wants Blaine elected president. No wonder the Enquirer opposes Cleveland. It is war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt, between Rlaine and Harrison txom this time forward. Tite world over, as a rule, the lowest wazes prevail in the countries having the lughest tariffs. And vice versa. It is extremely unfortunate that Mr. Harrison's board of governors of the soldiers' homes should ask the confiscation Df veterans' pensions just at this time, vhen soldiers' good will is so politically ieeirable. Washington diepatches eay that tho 'tnti-CIeveland men have, since hearing from Kentucky and New Jersey, given up their fight. Which merely proves that these gentlemen know when they have ot enough. The presidential poll of the democratic editors participating in the national editorial excursion resulted: Cleveland, 317; Boies, iL; Hill, 7, with a half dozen scattering. That is a pretty large straw. "Commissioner Ru m," says the New York World, "now has the consoling assurence that no further revelations that may be made can injure his character." As with FanUne in tho novel, all that can liappen to i;aum nas nappenea to mm. It is pad, but truo, that there is scarcely en important republican newspaper in the country supporting Hark:on for renomiCation wllOSO editor haa not held OjTice Under the administration. .And, as a rule, tho fatter the office the warmer the support. Nf.oroeh who talk of, borab-throwing thoull remember the fate of the last American bomb-thrower. They cannot fright their wrongs through violence. Tho wjlack race has so far found the whites more anxious to right its wrongs than to Wight its own, and their best plan by far is 'to still continue to appeal to the eecsa of (justice of the whites. What a credit it is to Harrison's a1ninistration that his census bureau should Append 2-0,000 in ascertaining what states have laws for imprisoning women until they divulge the named of the fathers of their illegitimate oti'sprin. The president ought to send a message to congress setting forth what great American industry '-demands eiatistios on this subject, and 'whether it is the republican policy to probet it or not. The average wages of labor in the states vhich went republican in 1SS-S ia 1.33 per Tlay, while in those that were democratic the average pay is S7 cents a day. If two northern states were left out the wages of 'the democratic states would be considerably less than 87 cents a day. Journal. Ah, indeed. Thea the tariff doesn't regulate wages after all! The McKinley Iaw applies to all the states alike, and if it governed wages the same scale would prevail all over the United States, North and Couth, Eaefand Went. Tho fact that it doesn't, and that there are as great variations in wages in the United States as there are between wages in this country nd in the hisrh tariff pauper labor countries of Europ.e and Asia, shows conclusively that there ia absolutely nothing in the pretense that "protection" increases the earnings of labor. . The esteemed Journal ig deeply grievod because local democratic officials reduced local tax levies eo as not to raise more money than last year instead of imitating the republican local officials and piling up local taxes mountain hih. It says this is democratic conspiracy. Of course it ia. The democratic party has been conspiring to red ace the taxes of the people and increase the taxea of corporations ever fcirjce it was in existence. That is what democracy means. On the other hand, the republican party has always advocated increasing the taxes of the people and giving everything possible to corporations and monopolies of all lands. "This is a billion-dollar country," you know. Tni talk about Harrison's administration being "clean" doubtless emanates from the profeeaional humoriata. It is preposterous to associate the aijectiva "clean" with an administration which cold a cabinet position to John Wanamakes, which put Porter at the head of the census bureau and allowed him to fill the official records of the republic with lies and forgeries, which called Steve jEi-Ki.N?, prioce of land-grabbers and whisky ringaters, to its council table, which put a coarse rascal like Kaum at the head of the pension bureau and permitted him to proatitute it to the vilest personal and 'Laxtma.ejjj, and whjeh reward. Will

iam A. Woods with a promotion on the federal bench for using his judicial power to protect the scoundrels to whose crimes thia very administration owed its existence. Clean? The Harrison administration has had more scandals than any other in our history save Grant's. These scandals will be thoroughly ventilated between now and November.

Congress and the Tariff. It would be interesting to know upon what issue the democratic leaders in the house of representatives expect their party to conduct the presidential campaign ! The overwhelming majority by which the democrats carried the elections of 1890 and secured for their party a greater preponderance in the house of representatives than any political organization has ever had in that body since it had an existence was the protest of the American people against the McKinley law a measure which, in the words: of William L. Wilson, is "but a vast and voluminous system of class taxation, in which private interests- were invited and allowed to write their own demands upon a taxpaying people." The country, when it returned 235 democrats and nine farmers' alliance representatives to the house of congress, as against but eighty-eight republicans, confidently expected that that body would do all that lay in its power to give the people relief from the onerous burdens imposed upon them by the McKinley law for the benefit of a few favored interests. They expected that the house would organize by putting its ablest, most experienced and most aggressive tarifT reformers to the front; that it would proceed immediately to the performance of the great mission intrusted to it; and that, within a reasonable time sixty or ninety days at the longest it would either, by the passage of one bill or of a series of bills, provide for the reduction of the tarifT to a revenue basis. That these reasonable and just expectations hare not been realized is a source of the greatest mortification and disappointment to democrats everywhere. When the house began its existence by refusing the speakership to its foremost tariff reformer the democratic party throughout the country was chilled, to say the least. Still the gentleman elected speaker proclaimed his earnest devotion to the cause of tarifT reform, and democrats expected him to or ganize the committees in the interest of that policy. His refusal to continue Mr. Mills at the head of the ways and means committee was another keen disappointment to the party, which waa, however, greatly modified by the fact that Mr. Springer, who was selected for that position, was a man of great ability, who had long been ncti ve and conspicuous as a tarifT reformer. Although the names of certain prominent tarifT reformers in the house were not found on the roll of the ways and means committee, aa expected, yet the composition of that committee was, as a whole puch as to command democratic approval and arouse the liveliest and most hopeful anticpation of a sharp and vigorous campaign in the house against the McKinley monster. There was some democratic discussion as to whether it would be better to attack the McKinley law with one bill, providing for a general revision of the tarifT, or with a series cf bills, each dealing w ith some particular article or ecbedu'e. Mr. Springer announced himself in favor of the latter program, and The Sentinel, in view of the hostile attitude of the president and senate, and for other reasons, coincided with him. We believed that separate bills, each attacking some particular McKinley iniquity, would answer the democratic purpose better, perhaps, than a general tariff bill. The senate would have to consider each of these bills on its merits. That body might, perchance, be forced by public opinion to pass some of them, in which event the people -would get some relief or President Harrison would have to assume the responsibility of denying it to them. On the other hand, the senate by, rejecting these bills, would reduce the great iesue between the two Darties to certain specific propositions, easily understood, upon which the democratic party could not fail to win on an appeal to the country. Therefore, when Mr. Springer proposed to make a series of attacks upon the enemy's line at its weakest and most exposed points, The Sentinel said "Amen" and "Gon be with you." Nearly sir months, however, have passed since the house assembled and only three tariff reform bills have been passed by that body, each one dealing with a single commodity. These are the bills for Tree wool, Free cotton ties and Free binding twine. Righteous measures, every one oi them. Eut their passage by the house does not begin to be a fulfillment of the duty owed by that body to the country. Tho ways and means committee has also reported bills for Free tinned plate and Free lead ore. These bills should be taken up and passed at once. There are bills pending in the committee for Free iron ore with substantial reductions in the duty on iron manufactures, and for Free sugar, which wouH destroy the sugar trust. The delay of the ways - ad means committee in reporting these bills is inexplicable and very disheartening to good democrats everywhere. , We say to the democrats of the house, And e&peoäUr o the wars and means

committee, that if the bills for free ores' free tinned plate, and free sugar, fail to pass that body, Indiana is going to be a very doubtful state this year, with the chances largely in favor of the republicans. When all these bills have been passed by the house some of the most monstrous features of the McKinley law will remain undisturbed; but with anything less than the measure of reform above indicated to point to by way of achievement in the house, the democratic party will have a pretty hard time explaining to the country and in the approaching campaign, what it ishere for. It is not too late for the house of representatives to do its duty. An Impressive Contrast.

DKVOCHATrC COUKTIES. If The SasuxaVs figures prove anything they proT a deuocrauo conspiracy to deeei-e the people as to the affect of the law by reducing the local Ist in democratio counties below a living point, thua compelling them to borrow money and increase tbe-r indeblednee and ioterett account. Thii cons.Uracr was outlined and foreshadowed by Cbairman Jewett's circular. Journal, May 21. ECPVELICAIC C0U3T1IS. The increase of 8306,779.35 in the school rerenue is due to the faet that, notwithstanding the large increase ia the assessment of property, the tebool Ury m left at 16 cents on thvSiOa It remains to be seen what the counties will do with this exce?MTo rerenue. Journal, May 24. Fleapant contrast, isn't it, for those smart republican politicians who thought it would be a great scheme to increase the local taxes and blame it to the new tax law? The state school levy was not changed wnen the new tax law was passed for two reasons: (1) No one could tell how much the total appraisement would be increased under the new law; (2) whatever the increase mu;ht be it could easily be offset by a decrease of local school taxes. When the time for levying local taxes came around the assessment had been made and the local officials knew exactly what to levy in order to raise the same amount as in the preceding year. They were warned not only by Chairman Jewett, but also by the democratic press, by the superintendent of public instruction, and by prominent citizens, and tax-payera in nearly every locality. What was tho roeult? The democratic officials generally reduced the levies so as to raise no more money than formerly, unless there was special need for it. The republican officials, wiih a few exceptions, made no reductions, and in most cases actually increased the levies. For this reason in most democratic counties there is no increase of taxes unless local trustees, town boards and school boards have increased their levies, but in republican counties the people are paying largely increased taxvs. The official returns from a few republican counties will illustrate the situation:

Increase I Increasa Incr'se of COUNTIES. of local of stato railroad taxes. taxes. taxes.

1? nton Ivcniur Faye'.te f'uiin ain Hendricks Henry Js-per .lay .Ii'iinii'a; . Kuso us KO ........ Lake Lawrence MorK-.iu Nekton ranxe , 1'srke i'ort r Kanlo'ili , Kiah 1 1 pecanou I'mon Veriuiiiiua Wfrrcu Wayne 11,M7 f.itVi 7,tiU 1M.4: 12,4 U l.'.(vH) 7,'.2'i 6.473 ls.iKii; 2J7ß 821 S J,M2 :),I12 ln.OlO r;,-7 r.2'".:t 14 '.22 21,912 3,'Ji:i C,i2:j 1,774 Hi 3 13.P4S 12 a.3U5t Sj; 0.C22 1) i'-V.' ':! )'-' S.J'.C 27, i -.7y. s l 31 Mj si t-fi, 37i 741 421 lti,S15 "J3 ls.-,o.' si 22, "l'.l L5 11 077 '.'1 11.I.7 i'J 11.1.42 fi 19,101 1U 4"..r,9 "'$ 15.087 M 7,8'tfi 5'J 12.104 30 3,1-5 hi 12,20'J r.7 3".,723 16 2D;S'i !'l 17, 5 ! '.'. 23, -OJ U3 a, j?7 ys 10. -.91 3. J 1161 yl 22.1.. 2 24 , ölt 31 1,22" 3j,r.4a '..V l.M i.,2; 4s.j , X pi-VC'll 2',. 41 t I 47 ; r.i ! fit1 ! 1M"2 V j.i u7 f7 7u 'I t ii.;!'; 12, J.i 7S ! 3 "..i 3-Y.OJ 73 ! 41.2..Ml ' 1S.T2U I. ."2 1 ! 4'.i. .v..t.t In all but one of these counties (Parke) the local republican officials have increased the local taxes more than tho entire increaao of stato taxes some of them twice, three times, and Union county more than eight times as much. In every one of these counties the increase on railroads alone would have paid the increase of etato taxe.-?, and there should not have been one cent of increase on the people. In every one of these counties the republicans had full control. There are but two possible explanations ior their conduct. One is that they wanted largo funds in the treasuries to loan at interest, or tor jobbery and corruption. The other is that they did it for political purposos, hoping to cast odium on the new tax law. Take vour choice. The Socialistic Abortion. Tho people's party has met and gone, leaving behind it a state ticket and a 15-14 prize puzzle platform. Outside of the usual socialistic declarations of the party it has practically nothing to say on the issues of the day. It declares squarely for woman's suffrage, which is not and will not be before the people for action. It declares for redisricting the state, which, by the constitution, cannot be done until 1897. On the tariff question it has not a word, and from this we infer that the people's party is satisfied with the McKinley bill in fact, the common talk of tho members is that the tarifT question is not worthy of their attentie vi, notwithstanding it takes out of Indiana yearly $13,000,000 ot taxes into the national treasury and at least $10,000,000 into the pockets of protected manufacturers. If the circulation wore increased to 50 per capita, as this platform demands, Indiana's portion of it would not pay her people'a tariff taxes for two years. It has not a word to say about the trusts and combines that are ia absolute control of the prices of hundreds of products of thig country and manipulate them in the interests of the controlling capitalists. Presumably the peopio's party ia satisfied with them. Wherever it touches live issues it reeorts to evasion and quibbling. It favors a "safe, eound and flexible" currency, but neglects to tell how to make one. It proposes to supplement this with the subtreasury echeme "or some better system." Heaven knows it could find no worse one. It demands that revenues be limited to "the necessary expensesof the government economically and honestly administered," and immediately afterward declares in favor of poBtal savings banks, government railroads, government telegraph, government telephone, and paying the soldiers the difference between the values of greenbacks and gold in their pay during the war. These things would necessarily increase taxation in this country an Ii undred-fold. In the words of a distinguished reformer, "God help the surplus" if the people's party ran the government. In regard to the state tax law it declares in one place that property shall be valued "according to the net receipts derived therefrom' aud la auothsr that it

shall be "at fair cash value." Perhaps the latter represents the sober second thought of the convention. It proposes to abolish the county assessor, who baa been one of the chief instrumentalities in reaching equality of assessment. From beginning to end we find in it nothing helpful nothing even suggestive of any practical mode of solution of the questions that confront the American people or the people of Indiana. The fact that the taxes of railroads in the state have been increased $0S7,L'03.20 by the new tax law ia not noticed. The fact that the local taxes of the people have been increased by republican officials over $1,500,000 is not noticed. The fact that the corporations of the state have united to break down the law that brought them to justice is not noticed. The fact that a national administration has in three years squandered an enormous surplus, increased taxes and bankrupted the national treasury is not noticed. There is nothing said as to the taxation of greenbacks, nothing as to the taxation of interState commerce. What does this line of action mean? It can Bignify but one thing. The people's party, young as it ia, has already fal en under the complete domination of politicians, and those of the cheapest etyle of the peanut variety. Instead of being in fact an organization of the people, speaking boldly for the right, denouncing wrong wherever it appears, and commending good no matter by whom done, it ia apparently a clique of political wirepullers trying to be all things to all men. Without principles, if we may except a few chimerical socialistic ideas, it comes before the people with a string of glittering generalities and cheap quibbles for a platform. We would suggest to the socalled leaders of this party that political parties cannot be builded on any such foundations. We Are lvx posed. The bundling deception attempted by the democratic manipulators of tax duplicates can be expoted in every case, but two will suffice at this time. The figures in full are given by tho Ma lison Cot nVr in the case of Jefferson county. The Sentinel's figures make the total increase of taxation in that count under the law of the democratic legislature -J,3)1.43. of which it credits t!)t1fl').47 to the increase of "state tax, benevolent and reform funds," leaving $12,4 l5.!o aa tho increase due to a republican conspiracy. The Madison f ount;-, copying from the official papers, gives the ßtate tax as follows: tate university, ?5J3.14; etate, $14.3)7..H(j; state school, $18,553.02; state benevolent, fo,l'77.70; soldiers' monument, $5L'3.14; total. S40.244.S0. In 1WK) the aggregate of these taxes laid by the etate was 24,81S.03, or an increase for this year of $15,42(5,83, $0,511.36 more than The Sentinel's manipulators make it. This leaves $(,934.00 increase of lead taxation to be accounted for. JA this not accounted fur by the increased railroad ta.r? Journal, Jay 25. If there is one thing Tub Sentinel enjoys more than another it is being exposed, and we hasten to give our readers the full benefit of the exposure something, by the way, that the Journal never ventures to do. In reply we would first quiet our esteemed contemporary by assuring it that the increased local tax is not "accounted for by increased railroad tax." The increased railroad tax ia due to the fact that the state board of tax commissioners, in accordance with the new tax law, increased the rui.'road assessment in Jefl'erson county from $191,455 to $707,285. The local olliciala had nothing to do with that. It waa a result of the new tax law, which the republican press and the corporations are now lighting. In the second place we would invite attention to the fact that the only difference between the figures of the Journal and Courier and those of The Sentinel is that they call the state school tax a state tax, while we call it a local tax. The etate does not receive a cent of it. It is all apportioned back to the countiea and ueed for the support of the common schools. Under the common school System of Indiana the local authorities report to the state authorities tho interest collected by them on the common school fund, the unclaimed fees, the etato school tax, and such other items as by law go to support the common schools. The total amount of this is apportioned throughout the stato in proportion to the number of children of school age. Thia forms the basis of the support of the schools, and it is the duty of the local school officials to levy as much additional tax aa is needed to support the schools in their several localities. If the state funds are decreased the local officials should increase their levies. If the state funds are increased the local officials should decrease their levies. The result is practically the same, and the etate school tax is to all intents and purposes a local tax. It is merely a matter of collecting taxes with your right hand instead of the left. Suppose, then, we take the system of figuring adopted by the Journal and Courier as correct, what is the result? They conceal from their readers the fact that Jefferson county will receive more money from the stato distribution than it did lastyear. The May apportionment gives 35 cents additional for each school child, and the January apportionment, according to the estimate of the superintendent of public instruction, which is very conservative, will increase it 40 cents more, making a total of 75 cents. The enumeration of Jefferson county shows 9,644 children of school age, and at 75 cents each this will make an increase of $7,233. Th local officials should have reduced their taxes by thia amount, but instead of doing so they have, according to the Journal and Courier, increased their local taxes $'5,931.60. This money will be paid into the local treasuries for local use. There will be the Fum of these two amounts, which is $14,167.00, more than last year. By our figures the local increase was $12,445.9G, but if the Journal prefers its system of figuring will it kindly etato what the republican officials of Jefferson county are going to do with this $14,1(57.(50 of additional revenues? Why was it collected? Why was it taken from the pockets of the people? The total increase for etate purposes in Jefferson county is $9,915.47 and the Journal professes to think that is a great hardship. If so, why ia it not a worse hardship to increase local taxes $14,167.60? The state increase was made because the stato needed the money, and the same law put this increase on the corporations the increase of railroad taxes alone in Jefferson county being $6,279.67. The local increase was pot on to make the tax law odious, and thereby gain votes from the democrats. 24 there ia aa democrat .ixieCersoa

county who is silly enough to be caught by such a trap he ought to go over to the republican party and stay there. He hasn't sense enough to be a democrat. The second point of expose made by the Journal is in the democratic county of White in which it charges that the local taxes were reduced $13,037.69. That is true, and what of it? The people of White county are not complaining of the new tax law. And what is more this reduction was made by democrats. The republican olficials in White county were as anxious to increase taxes as they were in Jefferson county. The little republican town ot Monticello increased its tuition tax $90.93 and its special school tax $190.87, although its enumeration decreased from 527 last year to 523 this year, and although it will receive $392 more from the etate distribution than it did last year. This is an increase of $o73 of school taxes alone in one little republican town. And that is the sort of scheme the republican officials have worked all through the state. If you do not think republicanism is a eteal, look at your local tax levies. And, by the way, we should like to be exposed some more. "Lead, Kindly Light. It will hardly be questioned that the esteemed Journal has printed more really startling information concerning the new tax law than any other paper in the state, or that it has carefully suppressed more of the truth concerning the new tax law than any other paper in the state. It started ia with the important information that the law decreased the burdens of the corporations, and was in profound grief for thia until it found that the corporations were fighting the law because it increased their taxes. Then it fell into deep silence, without mentioning the fact that it had prevaricated. Shortly afterward it came out with a flaming statement that Prof. Koss had denounced the Indiana tax system as one of the worst in existence (which he neither did nor thought of doing) and gave a hearty indorsement to hia theories of taxation, which are largely in line with those of Henry George. It probably did this through pure ignorance, as it does not seem able to distinguish a Bing'.e tax from a combination safety brake and as it retreated precipitately from its position aa soon aa we informed it what it was doing. Its latest sensation is a series of valuable reports of the May settlements of the various counties, with comments, of which the following, from its issue of yesterday, is a sample : Settlements with the auditor of state were made on Saturday as follows:

Countitt StUlinj. Amount J aul In. $29,50 24 15,114 t3 Apportioned Jor Schoo.. $14,e09.41 11.221.32 9 8,58 11 $11,62.1 rs 12,1542 28 $ 1,215 60 $11.812 40 8,401 ii Miami, is?2 Miami. ltJl Increase of tax....... $11,137 3S Dariess, 1:2 $2S,lf Oi Dariesp, 18J1. 12.547 51 Increase of tax.... Cairoll, 192 Carroll, lsyl Increase of tax. SpenctT, , sponc-r, lyji Increase of tax Whitley. 1'"2 Whit.cy, leyl Increase of tax.... 8t. Joseph, 1S:2 St. Juspph, 18'jl $10.621 39 S23..VJ9 10 15,'JCl 39 $ 7,037 71 Si (1,259 01 i).5i. 4; $ 4 6.'3 .- S24.fi'.l S7 H.S'.Miii 8 9.7"S 31 ss.s.n 73 30,12 33 $ 3,44 ) 60 $ 9,453 09 11,302 W 5 2,879 43 $12,2:7 5i 7,631 ?3 t 4, 022 63 $30,471 CO 18,445 0i $i2,027 01 $ 5.411 73 5.9Ü3 7 3 5.12 03 Increase of tax $22,fiij 45 rn!aki, 1812 Sl't7 1 Pulaski, 13J1 H.VI7 71 Inorene of tax 8 4,000 23 In these settlements it will be observed that in Daviess, Spencer, and Pulaski countiea the amount apportioned to schoois has fallen oil" under the new law iu the minus amounts named. While the law increases their state taxes it deprives thorn of money needed for their public schools, which will be crippled for means. The Jewett circular waa seemingly taken in good faith by the officers making the levies, and the local levies were pared too closely. Democracy is a tax. An examination of the facts reveals that thia ia perhaps the most stupid piece of blundering tho Journil has yet been guilty of. The sums named under the words "amount paid in" inclu le the following specifications: (1) The state taxes collected up to date, which are retained by tbe state government; (2) the etate school tax collected, which is apportioned to the counties for tuition ; (3) the interest collected by the counties on the common school fund, which is apportioned to the counties; (4) tho amounts collected from unclaimed fees and other sources, belonging by law to the school fund, which is apportioned to the counties. The difference between the "amount paid in" in 1891 and 1S92 the Journal calls "increase of tax," and the average republican, who, as we have often been told, ia much more intelligent than the average democrat, will believe it. It must be remembered that the May settlement is a partial accounting for tbe business of the first six months of the year, and necessarily involves more or less guess work. The final and accurate settlement is not made until December. The significance of this will become more important when we investigate the JoumaVi second column. The amounts named under the worda "apportioned ior schools" are not what are apportioned, but what are retained by the counties. School moneys are apportioned twice a year in May and January. The May apportionment was made yesterday by the superintendent of public instruction, in accordance with the law. At the May settlement the counties ordinarily retain all the money collected by them for school fund purposes and after the apportionment is made settle by paying or receiving the difference between the amount retained and the amount apportioned. In the six counties mentioned in the extract from the Journal the result of the final settlement for May will be as follows: Apportirmrd Apportioned . tor Schoot$ jor hoots I Jourua?i (bit ti'ate Counlifl. Miami... lavli-M...., I'arroll , Stat'mrnt). Siiit). PifTrrenft. ..S14.HII9 43 SU.") 61 8 3118 i-1 . 11,62 63 16,793 52 6,lt6 4 . 11,842 40 10,021 67 1,8?0 TS . 8,41 08 14,532 34 6,049 28 .. 12.257 (A 9.670 97 2.BiM 69 ... 30.47 69 24,584 07 5,83 Ci Hpeneer. Whiiloy ... St. Joseph. Pulaski 6,411 73 7,807 25 2,395 6 The three counties of Daviess, Spencer and Pulaski, which the Journal thinks to be "crippled," will receive the amounts of difference opposite their names, while the other counties will pay into the etate treasury the amounts opposite their names. These figures are for six months only, and are not an accurate index of the total that will be paid in, because some counties do not return any of the school fund interest until the December settlement. Every county, township, city, town and school district, democratio or republican, will receive more school money from the JLetata a&i thilXi Ihaj didJjJdxaaav.,

The May apportionment la year was $1.32 for each school child timeratei. This year it is $1.67 for each ecol child. The increase in the January ppcrtionment will be about GO centiiaking a total increase of 95 cents for eii child. The local school taxea should -ve been decreased to this extent. Whe democrats were in power they were creased, but where republicans were in poar they were increased, as for examp'tin Indianapolis, where the republic school

board levies ll3,014.Si5 more t.n last year in addition to the increase of$32,000 it gets from the state. Republicttm is a steal I As we said before, tbe oppoejon to Cleveland is very largely oppotion to tariff reform. The eo-called dehcratic newspapers. North and South, whh oppoee him (there are not many of hem) were, with very few exceptions, enly for protection until they were whippt into line, and have been covertly for prot-tion ever since. Such papers as the New'ork Sun, the Atlanta Constitution and the Cincinnati Enquirer supported Samce J. Randall as against Jons G. Carlisl for speaker and sustained Mr. Randall wen he opposed the Morrison bills andhe Mills bill. And it is also true of mot of the democratic politicians who are fitting Cleveland that they atfilid with the Randall wing of the party upto the very last, made protection speechs, wrote protection articles for the nepapers and magazines, bad protectin clubs named after them and cast protection votes in congress. Take away tb protection democrats, so-called, from tlj anti-Cleveland crowd and it would dwii. die to a beggarly handful. ET CETERA.. The Punch of Melbourne is edited by a woman. Misa Murphy, who is said to Le both brilliant and beautiful. Mks. Si'san C. Yeomans of Walworth, N. Y., appointed by Governor Flower a trustee oi the New York state avlum for I feeble minded women, is a eister of ex - President Cleveland. The next Lord Mayor of London will be a He man catholic, and he will appoint a catholic priest as his chaplain. It will be the first instance of a Roman catholic holding the latter position sinco the reformation. The Rev. 8am Small will run for congress this fall in Livingstone's Georgia district on the alliance ticket He announces as his platform that if elected he will not attend the horse races while in Washington. President Harrison, they say, is not easily disconcerted on state occasions, but when Hassan Ben Ali, the world's fair commissioner from Morocco, in an interview at the white house last week, prostrated himself in true Oriental style and refused to rie until the president had left the room, Gen. Harrison hardly know how to dtal with hia visitor. Carholl D. Wright, in the Forum, pays a deserved tribute to the moral character of factory girls, underpaid as they are. A generation or two ago some of the beet young women iu New England found employment in tbe big cotton mills and factories, and Charles Dickens was so forcibly impressed by their good standing in the community that he violated hia rule of never praising anything American to testify to their worth. Tiiot'Gii Longfellow wrote a vry beautiful poem about the Hermudas, be never visited those lands. Not long before his death he was called upon by the Misses Trimmingham, who were among the wealthiest people of liermuda. They sought him out in his Cambridge home, and though at that timo he denied himself to most callers, the poet we comed the ladies quite cordially. As he conducted them to the door at the end of a pleasant chat he paused in saying goodby and said, as it in reverie: " Bermuda, Bermuda; how I have longed to go there, but now I never shall !' Your Minister's Wlfa. Do not remind her every time you see her of her failure to attend thia meeting, or that, writes A. J. Parry in the June Ladies' Home Journa'. Do not allude more than is needful in her presence to the devotion and activity of your former pastor's wife, or of the wifa of some other pastor in town. Do not make her president of all your societies, or chairman of all your committees. Do not forget that she is a woman, and a wife, and a mother, before ehe is an resistant pastor. Do not forget that her time is not paid for. Parallal Cosa. IN. Y. Weekly. Mrs. Grumpps "There are thousands of occupations in which men have places which women ehould filL Why shouldn't women be druggists? Answer me that." Mr. Grumpps "This cottage pudding isn't good at all. How did you make it?" Mrs. Grumpps "I took a few handfuls of flour and some milk and a few eggs, forget how many, and some sugar, I think, and I believe I added some salt, and maybe some baking powder, don't know how much. I never measure." Mr. Grumpps "Thai's why." Cliatica for Athletes. N. Y. Weekly. Farmer "Yes, I want a man. Are you a good jumper?" Applicant "Jumper? Well, yes." "You could jump a barbed wire fence without much trouble, 1 s'pose?" "Um I ' pose so." "Weil, that's all right then; you'll do. You s?e 60ine of our bulls is a leetle wild." Tha prostration after the Grip is entirely overcome by Hood's Farsaparilia. It really oes make the weak strong.

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A FINE HISTORY OF INDIANA

"THE SENTINEL'S" GREAT FOR 1892. PREMIUM What Ex-Prestdent Cleveland and Senaters Yoorhaee avnd Törpla Say or Is. Fl Madison-Ave., New Yoek, Nov. 3, 1S9L f Mt Dear Mr. Moass Please accept my thanks for the "History of Indiana" which you kindly eent me. The examination I have been able to give it ia sufficient to justify me in expressing the opinion that it contains a great amount of historical information presented to the reader in a most pleasant way. I do not see why it should not prove itself a very useful book. Yours truly. Wh Senator Voorheoa Bay. United States Senate, Washington, D. C., Ocl SO. f Indianapolis Sentinel Company: Gentlemen I am just in receipt of the "History of Indiana" which has juet been given to the public by Mrs. Themas A. Hendricks. I have looked through it with some care, and eay sincerely that I am delighted with it. It ought to go in the bands of all our people. Thu young will receive instruction from it, tnd those advanced in lifs willeb pleased by the recollecti on et awakens. The people ot Indiana I think are not sufficienily aware of the real growth and creatress of their etate. It re quires, in fact, ut little 6tudy to aecer1 tain, and not much effort to ehow, that i I T ,. , ,v , , tnd most productivt etate in the Union, and possessed of greyer and more extensive educational advantages thau any other commonwealth of eqjal population in the world. These fact! should be taught everywhere among ur people. I fully behave in the doctrire of state pride, especially when there is a 6o'.id foundation for it. Such a publicition as the one now before me is well calci'.ated to inspire the young and eld alike cf Indiana with just and laudable eentinenta of pride and gratitude. It is indeed a most charming book. The likenessei, taken altogether, are the best I have ev?r eeen in ensrav irjg8 of their character. Please accept my sincere thanks and believe me al ways very faithfully yours, What Senator Törpla 9avya Indianapolis, Nov. 7. S. E. Morss, Esq., Indianapolis, Ind: My Dear Sir I have carefully real "The Popular History of Indiana," and have verified its data by comparison with older and larger works. It is an excellent abridgement of our etate annals, elegant, accurate, in style admirably adapted to the character of the book. The table of contents and list of illustrations make a very complete index, adding to its practical use for ra ly reference. Yours truly, J. What Ei.flo?rnor Gray Saya. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11, 1S9L, The Sentinel Company, Indianapolis, Indiana; Gentlemen I have examined a copy of your illustrated "Popular History of Indiana." It is in my judgment an admirable epitome of leading events and mention of personages in both territorial and state history. It appears to have been carefully and intelligently compiled, and certainly will be inspiring and instructive to the youDg reader, as well as favorably received by all who feel a patriotic interest in the subject to which it pertains. I trust it may obtain a wide circulation. Very respectfully. Couldn't Suit floth. N. T. Weekly. Mrs. Spinks-"Yes, I wish to hire a servant girl. Do you like dogs?" Applicant "No, mum." Mrs. Spinks "Then you won't do." Applicant 'Tlease. mum; when I told Mr. Spinks I hated dogs and ud like to. kill them, every one, he said I'd just suit." Will positively cure 6ick-headaehe and prevent its return. Carter's Little Liver Pills. This ia not talk, but truth. One pill a dosp. See advertisement. Small pill. Small dose. Small price. OTHER.