Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL EY THE INDIJNAPOLB SENTINEL CO. S. E.MORSS, BEN A. EATON, President, Vice Prudent. b. McCarthy, Fecreta.ry nJ Treuorer.

(E(rfd at the PoatofHre at Indianpolls as second class matter.) TERMS PER. Yn.n t Single ropy (In Advance)., fl OO IVe asU democrats to bear In mind and select their own state paper irktn they come to take subscriptions And make up clnbs. Agratf maklnic up clabs send for ay Information desired. Address TUB ISDIAXAPOLIS SENTIXEL, Indianapolis, lad. TWELVE PAGES. avedm:sday, dkcemher is, ihs.i. ISDIAXA'S IDLH 1XDISTRIES. It must be very painful to the republican calamity howlers to note the way In which the manufactories of the state are starting to work Immediately after the publication of the Wilson tariff bill, notwithstanding the predictions of Col. Conner and other manufacturers of politics that they would all be ruined, our state dispatches of recent date were unusually striking In this respect. From Munde came the information that the last of the Idle glass works started Tuesday, and now the eight glass factories of that place are working full forces. The one which started up Tuesday was the Nelson bottle works, v.hleh employs 130 hands. At the same time the news comes from Noblesville that the glass works at Cicero have been fold to the Modes glass company of Streator, ill., which owns the patent l:nwn as the "Modes continuous tank system." The new company will at once comnvr.ee work to double the capacity ..f th plant, and expects to be ready to "begin work in part by Feb. 13. and to be in full opcru'kn by April 1. It will employ ".tut ni'-n. Likewise come? from Anderson the anrounvni"nt that the American wire nail works of that place will put on another shift f f rty men In their galvanizing dpartm -ist on Jan. 1. And what is mre si-.nltlrant is the fact that the managers of the concern say that the propped tariff is "just what they want, and.- that it will improve their branch of trade '.') per cent." Evidently these parties hive cause to be satisfied with the stylo of "ruin" that has been prepared for tiicr.i. As a matter f fact Indiana has comparatively few industries that could in any way be ben-l'ite-l by a protective tariff. T.V principal "manufactories" of the stale. !'s classified in statistical returns. n-f- rVur and grist mills, meatpacking establishments, and saw mills. These produce more than one-third ot a li til? "manufactured products" of Indiana, and th m; products do not come within tie- scope of protective measures, except as they are in some respects injured ty (hem. Me.it packers, for example, w re handicapped by the düt' on Fait, for they cannot use domestic salt advantageously, and dairymen have been under the same disadvantage. This item of rr.'!" importance than may be imngined by sonic. The firm of Kingan & Co. alone usually pays over $5,000 per annum duty on salt imported for packing. The leather industry of the state has grown to be quite important, and it will be largely benefited by the removal of the duty n the greases and oils used la the preparation of leather. We may reasonably anticipate muh better business in manufacturing from this time forward than formerly. The Indianapolis Industries show a reival of business similar to that eliewher? in the state. The Journal of Monday, in a l-.cal trade review, shows improvement every' where. The meatpacking establishments of the city claughtercd SS.sOO hogs In November, .gähnst 3',;:00 in November, 1S02. The birg bakeries of the city are employing twelve more men than In November, J (32. Dean Krothe-, steam pump manufacturers, increased their force from twelve to nineteen in the past month. Nordyke & Marmon, mill manufacturers, have orders that Insure the continuance cf their present force through the winter. Iendenhall & Williams, manufacturer cf sweat collars, have resumed work with sixty hands, and will Increase the r.umber to lnO this week. The White river p?per mill start ed up with a full force last week. Chandler & Tasdor, engine makers, have Increased their lorce from twenty to fifty-four In the past month. The Udeil wooden ware company is working full-handed, and running till 10 o'clock at night five nights In the week. The licit road handled ,331 car loads of live stock, at the stock yard. In November, against 2,972 car loads In November, 18D2, and 2,208 loaded l arj on switches of manufactories, against 1.C0S In October. All that I necessary to make Indiana's industries hum i3 to go ahead and pass the Wilson Lill. MH. LODGE'S Ul IIIHI.K. Of all the criticisms of the president's message by republicans, perhaps the most remarkable Is that of Senator Lodge, who declares that the passage treating of the Hawaiian imbroglio "appears to announce the extraordinary doctrine that it is our duty to overturn a government we have recognized in order to recognize another government." Proceeding on this theory he says "we ought to instantly reätore Texas to Mexico; and Franc, which entered into in alliance with us during the revolution, ought now to restore us, by force, if necessary, to England." Mr. Lodge of course knows the distinction between the cases mentioned and the one in question. Foreign nations can properly recexmize an insurgent power and enter into alliance with it, but no country ever pretended to have any risht or power to enter another country

and support citizens of that country in establishing an insurrectionary power. At the time the American forces were landed under direction of Minister Stevens no Insurrectionary power was in existence; no provisional government had been announced. There was merely a "committee of safety," which was claiming to act under the Hawaiian government, and was demanding that .the existing constitution of Hawaii be sustained. There was no power "that ' this country could recognize and none with which It could enter Into alliance at the time the troops were landed. Indeed the committee of safety itielf notified Mr. Stevens that It was not "ready" for the landing. Mr. Lodge's proposition is the more remarkable in consideration of the fact that the republican press, and republican leaders, have been insisting on the fact that the president has no right to "declare war," and that any attempt to interfere with the existing Hawaiian government would be an act of war. This being true, it is much more true that a resident minister of the United States has no right to declare war against a friendly nation. Mr. Lodge assumes that the acts of Mr. Stevens placed this country in the same relation to the provisional government that the United States was placed in as to Texas in the Mexican war, or that France occupied toward the United States during the revolutionary war. The idea that a minister could place this country in such a position 13 simply preposterous, and if Mr. Lodge had no other means of learning this, he might have obtained the information from the fact that President Harrison promptly disavowed the acts of Minister Stevens in so far as they were of that character, ratifying them only as to the necessary protection of the life and property of American citizens. Hence when Mr. Cleveland took charge there was no standing whatever for the theory that our government was in alliance with an insurrectionary power. The condition was one in which a minister had acted outside his power, his action had been disavowed, and the government was under moral obligation to make reparation for the offense.

STATIS OF THE SILVER U ESTIOX. The Inauguration of President Cleveland opened a naw era in the history of silver coinage in this country. The bank panic of the summer forced tne special session of congress, r-.nd the president announced his vb?w.s to the legislative body in the most explicit way. Congress adopted his view. It conceded that the financial trouble was due to the Sherman law and repealed the measure. Relief was felt almost Immediately. Money has become a drug on the market. There is no financial trouble remaining. The repeal of the Sherman law concludes the experiment of attempting to bolster up the value of silver by purchases and other artificial measures. For fifteen years this country undertook to cure a disease of the world by taking all the medicine itself, and it failed. It will not renew that attempt. That may be taken as an established fact. The long debate on the subject in the senate had some educational value. It developed the fact that the more intelligent advocates of free coinage admitted that it would put an end to bimetallism; that the Inevitable result would be silver monometallism. There is not a leading bimetalllst In this country or in the world who does not accept that proposition. There are of course many of the smaller order of politicians who still hold to the idea that this country is great enough to maintain any kind of money without regard to the rest of the world, but these are found almost exclusively in the ranks of the populist?. There is not the slightest ground for any such belief. Our own experience has shown us that this country' could not maintain bimetallism when our coinage ratio varied but a small fraction from the market ratio of the two metals, and to attempt to do so now, when their ratio is fluctuating more rapidly and - more violently than at any preceding period in the world's history, would be a palpable nbsurdity. The only existing choice is gold monometallism, silver monometallism, or international bimetallism. We understand the president's statements on the subject to mean that he will endeavor to secure the last named, and he evidently intends to make the effort through the ordinary channels of diplomacy. He does not propose a reassembling of the international monetary conference at present. His words on the subject are impressive. He says: It seems to me that it would be wise to give general authority to the president to invite other nations to such a conference at any time when there should be a fair prospect of accomplishing an international agreement on the subject of coinage." To call a conference "when there fhould be a fair prospect," lie expects that time to come or he would not suggest the power. How is it to come? Doubtless events will hasten it. The indications now are that the Bank of England Is In serious "trouble. If so that will do mpre than any other one thing to hasten international bimetallism. Put this government must be ready to take advantage of events. It must be able to urge Its cause. It can do so through the usual modes of communication. The international monetary conferences of 1878 and following years were purely educational in character. None of them had power to act. Their sessions were devoted to academic debate. They have been of immense value in showing the intrinsic defects of gold monometallism, and of equal value in ehowlng the necessity of international money. .The time for debate has now passed. The time for action has come. This country has already taken the first step toward bringing pressure on foreign countries by the repeal of the Sherman purchase law. It has served notice on them that this country did not propose

to carry the world's silver. That step Is already having it3 effect, and there is good reason to believe that the time Is not far distant when a conference may be called with "a fair prospect of accomplishing an international agreement on the subject of coinage."

WHERE IS TIIEKVIiyfcXCEf We regret. to observe that Mr. Lucius B. Swift is still "chewing the rag" in the Van Alen matter. We have a great deal of respect for Mr. Swift because we believe him to be one of the few civil service reformers who are thoroughly in earnest and quite disinterested. Although he carries the logic of his hobby to an extent that makes his ideas utterly impracticable, he is usually fair in his statements, but we do not think he is at all fair In the following: The facts in the Van Alen case are not in any manner changed. It will always be true that his sole distinction was In being a society man. moving in a limited circle, and that ordinarily the president would never have heard of him, to say nothing of making him an American ambassador. Van Alen's denial does not make it any less true that he received the office solely because Whitney got It for him for having made a large contribution to the democratic campaign fund. It is one of the healthiest signs that public opinion made a stand against this gross misuse of a public trust. There are comparatively few men appointed to office of whom the president would ever have heard if they had not been recommended to him by some one. That is one of the necessities of any administration of government. It is absolutely immaterial whether the president ever heard of him before the appointment was recommended to him or not. Neither is it material that an applicant should have attained any "distinction," nor is it any detriment that he is "a society man," or that he moves in "a limited circle." The only question is whether he ls"fit"for the position. That Is Mr. Swift's own standard for appointment. That is what is urged by all civil service reformers, everywhere, as the proper standard. President Cleveland says he investigated the matter and was thoroughly .satisfied of his fitness, and until some evidence can be shown to the contrary the opinion must stand. The president Is the head civil service examiner, and he has passed this man with the highest mark that could be given. The only further evidence before the public, of which we have knowledge. Is Van Alen's letter, and that certainly confirms the opinion of the president. We do not understand on what grounds Mr. Swift asserts positively. In the face of the denial of Van Alen and of the president, that It Is "true that he received the office solely because Whitney, got it for him for having made a large contribution to the democratic campaign fund." This Is not only a gratuitous assumption, but it is an assumption in the face of evidence. What does Mr. Swift know about the relations of Whitney and Van Alen? How does ho know that this contribution is the only link that binds them? How does he know that Mr. Whitney did not know the "fitness" which the president ascertained, and which the public now generally concede? And even if that were Whitney's only motive, what right has Mr. Swift to say that It was the president's motive? If Mr. Swift has any evidence to submit on these points we should be pleased to have him produce it. , Mil. .NEAL EXPLAINS IT. The explanation of Mr. Neal, late democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, of the recent landslide in that state is remarkable as to the exactness with which the causes are apportioned. Of the democrats who voted the republican ticket he estimates that 95 per cent, did ro on account of the pension policy of the national administration and the other 3 per cent, on account of the A. P. A. movement. Of the democrats who stayed at home he estimates that 90 per cent, did so because of the slowness of the administration in turning republicans out of office, and the other 10 per cent, on account of delay In the paspage of the sliver bill and the general business depression. He thinks that the tariff had nothing to do with the result because he ran about 4,800 votes ahead of the other candidates. We do not agree with his conclusions. It is very probable that his vote in excess of other candidates was due to mistakes in making ballots, he being at the head of the ticket, and Ohio having the Australian ballot law. Neither is it apparent that democrats would stay at home on account of the failure to remove republicans from office, for the persons most affected by this would be the democratic candidates for office, and they would hardly fall to show their fealty to the party while they. were still candidates. If anything, they would be tho more active in their work. It is probable that the pension matter affe:ted some votes In Ohio, but not to any fetch extent as Mr. Neal states. The ha-d times certainly had a greater effect than he credits to that cause. Mr. Neal is probably right. In , his view that the tariff had little to do with the result, except so far as voters may have erroneously attributed the hard times to the democratic tariff policy. There Is little room to doubt that many voters did this throughout the whole country. It was merely a case of suceesh of a demagogic appeal to Ignorance, and these same voters will recognizee their . error on the revival of business under the new tariff law. To many men tariff reform Is an experiment which will be Judged by its results, and It is not surprising that some who were not firmly grounded in the faith should have considered the recent financial disturbances the result of the announced tariff policy Instead of the necessary result of an existing vicious financial policy, as they actually were. Mr. Neal's opinion of the tariff bill Is sound. He indorses it heartily except as to the sugar schedule, and in that he objects to the continuance of -the McKinley bounty. lie says: "The pay-

ment "of such bounty is radically wrong.

j and I am . not in favor of palliating a wrong or recognizing it even for a limited period of time." As we understand the ways and means committee. Its members do not defend the sugar bounty in principle, but hold it to be. a. necessary concession in order to secure the passage of the bill. It would have been wiser to make the concession in the line of democratic precedent and democratic doctrine. Sugar is clearly a revenue article. The government needs revenue. It can be obtained from sugar and Incidentally any protection necessary for the sugar industry may be given. The republicans have unequivocally declared protection to be necessary by the bounty on sugar. They could not make any consistent objection to a duty on sugar even for protection, except on the ground that it is a southern product, and as sugar and rice are practically the only southern products that can be protected that objection is of little consequence. - FOOT-ÜALL AS PLAYED. Complaints .are being made In some of the colleges that foot-ball Is beginning to absorb too much of the student's time, and also of his money. The game is in many respects a valuable addition to American athletics, but it should be humanized. There- Is too much brutality exhibited in many games. Surely there Is some way to avoid extremes and bring it within the pale of skill minus the brutality frequently exhibited. Five young men during the past autumn lost their lives from injuries received while playing foot-ball in New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan. The case of Carew, at Adrain, Mich., whose neck was broken by unnecessary violence, is sufficiently shockingv In a game between the Toledo high school and Adrain college, Carew of Toledo, says the report, "had the ball and downed to save it. Three Toledo boys dropped to aid him, and in an instant the Adrain team was upon them. The Adrain team, it seems, purposely brought ' its combined weight upon Carew's head. "When the strugle was over," the account continues, "Carew remained motionless. The young man's neck was dislocated." It was found that his body was paralyzed from the chest down, and he died the next morning without having recovered consciousness. Another member of the Toledo team was kicked in the groin and so much hurt that he could not return home. A third had his right leg seriously Injured. In a recent game between Yale and Harvard colleges Capt. Waters had his leg so severely injured that he was obliged to leave the field- One man knocked another over and several others werr hurt and bruised. In the game played here Thanksgiving day one of the players had his collar-bone broken, and several otbr minor injuries were recorded in the report of the contest. The Detroit Free Press In discussing the subject says: "Foot-ball would be a much more admirable gam? if it were played without kicking, gouging, biting, slugging and breaking of noses, heads, limbs or necks. A real lively match is always good for a cripple or two, and an occasional death serves to illustratj the possibilities of the game." The Toledo Pee notes that certain alleged changes in the rules have not yet made it safe for life and limb, and adds: "More people are injured In foot-ball games in proportion to the number engaged in the sport than in railroad wrecks or any of the other forms of disaster." It Is said by some that only the Inexperienced players get injured and that the skillful ones do not hurt others or get hurt themselves, but the records of the games do not sustain this view of the case. FEMIMXE CIRIOSITY. The morbid curiosity which calls Itself sympathy and Interest has broken out in an alarming degree In the case' of the Annie Wagner trial. Even the people from the outskirts of the city are piling into town early In the morning to crowd the court-room where a human being Is being tried for the gravest crime. As In the case of Minnie Mabbitt, who was tried for murder, women are rushing to the court-room in great crowds fairly knocking each other down in their eagerness to t-ee the prisoner and hear every detail. ' Strange to say, it is the wom?n with families and household duties who seem to take the greatest interest in the case and who leave their husbands and children motherless to attend the trial. In fact, one poor man was so overcome at having to wait for dinner that he went to the court-room and cried, either because he could not get inside on account cf the crowd or because he wanted to spoil his wlfo's fun. The women may be there out of sympathy for the defendant, but their actions belie them if this be the case. They act more like a set of children Just out of school than like intelligent human beings with any attribute save that of curiosity. They bring opera-glasses to watch the face of the prisoner who, fortunately, does- not seem to mind them, and they giggle and laugh over every tilt between the lawyers as if the whole affair was some huge joke. Nor do the women who attend the trial belong wholly to the class supposed to enjoy sensations. Ladles from the wealthy residence portion of the city, women of apparent ' refinement, rub elbows with women of . the street. All seem to view the trial ns some good" show which they can witness without paying for a seat. Curiosity, which leads one to explore wlth the Idea of bettering any condition, is valuable; but curiosity which enjoys seeing a woman, .however guilty or innocent, tried for her life is degrading and about as laudable as that of the stableboy who turns a rat loose from a trap aud enjoys seeing his dog worry and toss it or kill it. However, since no remedy has ever yet

been found to lessen woman's curiosity, she will probably conlinue to revel in sensations no matter how pitiful they be.

In spite of the revival of business throughout the country the representatives"" protected industries in New England are still protesting that the new tariff will close the woolen and cotton mills of the country. The Boston Herald reassures them thus: "We pointed out a day or two ago that in 1846 Abbott Lawrence predicted that the tariff bill of that year, the so-called Walker tariff, would close every cotton mill in New England; and yet the result of its operation was so salutary that during the years that followed the passage of the law the cotton manufacturing industry of this state increased at a more rapid rate than it ever had before. One has only to go through the list of our cotton manufacturing corporations, and see how many were organized between the period of 1S4S to 1860, to realize that this was. In this line of trade, an era of unusual and prosperous activity." There is no use kicking. Tariff reform is assured, and we shall soon know whether any mills will be closed or not. Thus far there has not been the slightest ground for any anticipation that the predictions of the republican calamity howlers will be fulfilled. Two young men, each only about twenty-one years old, were executed Friday at Danville, III., for murdering a farmer who was riding peacefully along the road with his wife. They failed to rob him and then murdered him. There were altogether four of the little gang of amateur freebooters. Two were executed as stated, and the other two were sent to the Joliet penitentiary to serve out a life sentence. The lesson that the rapid youth of Indianapolis and of other cities may learn from this frightful example of youthful depravity is contained in the dying words as uttered upon the Danville scaffold by young Pate. He said he wanted to warn all boys "against bad company and bad books." There it is in a nutshell. Will the advice be heeded? Representative Peltzhoover of Pennsylvania has Introduced a bill to transfer the pension bureau from the interior dejiartment to the war depart- ; ment. From a business standpoint this would be a very eensible thing to do. The interior department has become a sort of dumping ground for bureaus of a miscellaneous character, without tny special reason for having them in charge. The war department would seem to be the natural place for pensions, and in time of peace It has comparatively little to do. It would probably bo a good thing for both departments In a business way to remove the bureau. Missionaries should be sent to Philadelphia. The clerk of the orphans' court in that city Issued a marriage license for an Italian girl who had been sold by her father, although the girl was present and declared "No, no, I do not want to marry him." The brldeI groom was an Italian dwarf, and a priest who was present informed the clerk of the facts of the sale. Congressman Dalzell says that putting petroleum on tho free list "will break every oil man in Pennsylvania." This is the cheekiest appeal for a local interest that has yet appeared. We will venture the prediction to Mr. Dalzell that the Standard oil company will be doing business long after lie is forgotten, no matter what duty is on petroleum. The esteemed Journal thinks that a tax of 10 -cents a pack will ruin the card manufacturing Industry. Nonsense. People do not buy playing cards because they are cheap, but because they want to play. The Miller Bros, cutlery company of Meriden, Conn., threatens to reduce the wages of its men from 40 to 50 per cent, if the Wilson bill passes. Worklngmen should make a note of the firm name. The "gripie" is reported to be prevalent in many parts of the country and medical authorities are warning the people to renewed caution against unnecessary exposure. ANSWERS TO t'OH It ES POX DENTS. Levi Clark. Winchester, Ind: Ohio produced more wool in 1890 than any other state. The output amounted to 20,r.:$9.C43 pounds. John F. Jeffries, Mansfield, Ind: The supreme court has never decided that It is unconstitutional "for trustees to employ teachers without the-consent of a majority of patrons at school meetings." ET CETERA. John P. Rockefeller's two daughters are likely to Inherit at least $3."i.000,0e0 each. C. H. Greathouse, the new postmastergeneral of Corea, was formerly in attorney in San Francisco. Mrs. Hattie Gothrle of Lowell, Mass., Is the youngest grandmother so far reported. She Is only thirty-two. De Roue "Have you read A Hook of Strange. Sins? " Miss Speisse "Why, have you really published an autobiography?" Detroit Tribune. Maud "Did you know that chaperon In French was masculine, not feminine?" Marie "Really? How I wish I had been born In France!" Brooklyn Life. "Sa the young widow Is going to marry Mr. Jingles? Is he a good catch?" "I sincerely hope so. They say she used to throw rolling-pins at her first husband." Truth. Count Kofnigfmark has published In Berlin a book relating his adventures and observations in all parts of the world. He calls the American woman the crown of creation, and places her far above the women of any other race. "I don't see what makes people go to foot ball gamen on Thanksgiving day," remarked his wife. "It hasn't anything to do with the spirit of the occasion." "Oh. yes, it has," was the reply. "I never went to a foot ball grame in my life that I didn't feel tremendously thankful that I wasn't one of the players." Washington Star. Capt. Isaac Rassett has Just completed his sixty-second year of continuous service In the employ of the United States senate. He began as a pa?e, appointed on the recommendation of Daniel Webster; and today his face ia as rosy, bis white hair u

as luxuriant, and his step is as elastic as it has been at any time during the last twenty years. "Bobby Is attending to his. piano lessons very faithfully of late.,"s44 that youth's uncle, "res." replied his mother. "I don't haVe any . trouble with him about that now." "How did you manage It?" "Some of the neighbors complained of the noise his exercise made, and I told him about it. Now he thinks it is fun to practice." Washington Star. John Palmer, the Inventor of the railroad check system, died a few days ao in a little town in Michigan. He was a fiddler years ago, and took charge of the hats and wraps of those who came to the dancing parties. He gave numbered checks for them, and some railroad men who attended one of his dances appropriated the idea, and in a little while the system was adopted all over the country. The civil list or salary of King Humbert of Italy is the largest of all those pa'.d by European nations to their respective sovereigns. This Is so much more remarkable because Italian, finances are at the lowest ebb. Humbert's civil list is fixed annually at 14.5w.000 francs, nearly Jl.OW.000. The European sovereigns who receive the highest, pay below that cf Humbert are Emperor William of Germany, with a civil list of 12.000,000 francs and Queen Victoria, with about 9,000,000. London is laughing at a little "bull" worthy of an Irish member of parliament with which a newly-elected mayor In the north of England unwittingly entertained the guests at a banquet. In making acknowledgment of the honor thrust upon him, and with a desire to emphasize his high appreciation of the duties of his new office, he said: "In fact, gentlemen, in my opinion, the mayor of an important borough like this should be, like Caesar's wife, all things to all men!"

Intent I'pnn Mlnchlef. There is something incongruous in the solicitude' which republicans sometimes, but very rarely, exhibit about the constitution, says the Louisville CourierJournal. When they do it at all there are good grounds to suspect that they are intent upon mischief. The time is not long past when any reference to the constitution by democrats was greeted with satirical remarks about the number of constitutional lawyers in the country, and that habit has not yet fallen Into total desuetude. Seventeen years ago they blossomed out Into extreme advocates of state rights; that was when they were preparing to steal the presidency. It is a little odd. nevertheless, that the annexationists fail to perceive the reflex action of their position. If overturning the provisional government by force would be an act of war what shall we say of the forcible deposition of the queen by the use of United States marines? Where was the constitution when Stevens was levying war upon Qu?en Liliuokalani? When the republicans raipe this constitutional question they virtually assert that the democrats are bound to show more regard for the constitution than the republicans have ever done. XVlio la IlenpoiiH t lIe f Two or three weeks ago the Democrat reproduced an article from The Indianapolis Sentinel giving an account of the poor people of that city. The Paoli Republican and other republican organs express great surprise that The Sentinel and Demcrat would admit that such a state of affairs existed ur.der a democratic administration. The Democrat is a broad-gauge newspaper and is not guided by partisan prejudice and a spirit of contemptible littleness like some of its republican exchanges. Why is the democratic party responsible for the condition of - t'ie worklngmen at Indianapolis or anywhere else? The blessed McKinley bill Is still in force and we are yet paying tribute to the manufacturers of the country in order that they may pay their employes good wages. Then why don't they do it? Corydon Democrat. ' All Done Inder .McKinley. Wheat has continually gone down In price since the passage of the McKinley bill. Wool has done the same. The price of horses and many other things has gone down in like manner. Many of the shops and factories have closed under the workings of the McKinley hlph tariff, and we have had a financial panic that has been disastrous in the extreme. All these things have happened under a high protective tariff that the republicans solemnly told the country would insure good times. There seems to be no alternative but to repeal this law and give the country a chance to recuperate from its bad effects. Let the work be done quickly, and these who want good times should Insist on Its being done without delay. Laporte Argus. Xeeda Xo llliiah. flood wine needs no blush. Neither does President Cleveland's message need the blush of commendation. It is clear and explicit. First and foremost and most important of all and more important than all is his statement of the position and the pledges of the party to the people in regard to a reform of the tariff. However, as to this. nothing else was to have been expected from the man. who, flinging policy to the wind, declared for the principles of equal rights for all and sieclal privileges for none in his famous message, thus making tariff reform the leading Issue of the democratic party. Terre Haute Gazetto. Consider Wanainnkrr. While republican newspapers are commenting or. the act of Mr. J. J. Van Alen declining the ambassadorship to Italy after having been appointed and confirmed, to avoid even the appearance of evil, he having made a contribution to the democratic campaign fund, it would be well for them to turn their minds backward to John Wanamaker, who did not decline a higher office after having contributed a larger sum to the republican campaign fund. New Albany Ledger. Juat reunions AH Right. The more the republicans abuse the fair and just opinion taken in Mr. Cleveland's message on the pension matter the more friends and followers will the president have. Nobody Is objecting to Just pensions; it is unjust ones that are objectionable. There are rightful owners of things and there are thieves. Which do .you associate with? New Albany Ledger. Prnlme Enough. The republicans who. In disparagement of the new tariff bill, say it was built upon the lines of the Walker tariff of 1846, could hardly give the bill greater praise, as the Walker tariff was one of the best the country ever had, and the people of all classes were never more prosperous than while It was in existence. Kokomo Dispatch. StiKJir I'nder .McKinley. Sugar has nearly doubled In price since the McKinley law went Into operation, and It Is well to remind the republicans of this well-known fact occasionally. It will make life sweet and toothsome for them. Laporte Argus.

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OTHER QUESTIONS TIIAX THE TARIFF CAfSCU DEFEAT IX OHIO. Thr Democratic Lender Oltlrlaea the Administration for Soopendlng Peuton Liken the WHnon IHII lint Xot the Proviso Concerning: Sogar. COLUMBUS. O.. Dec. 6. The Hon. Lawrence T. Neal, defeated by Mr. McKinley, and the author of the plank In the democratic platform to the effect that a protective tariff is unconstitlonal, has been approached repeatedly since the election to say something about public affairs, but only consented today to talk about the Wilson bill. He said: "I have not examined in detail the provisions of the bill, but the bill as a whole, with the exception of the provision relating to the bounty on susar. meets with my hearty approval. I feel gratified that the democratic members of the ways and means committee had the courage to prepare tuch a bill, but am sorry that they ft It constrained to make any concession whatever on the sugar question. I hope the bill will be speedily passed by both houses of congress, but that it will be so amended before Its passage as to repeal outright the provisions of the McKinley law authorizing the payment of the bounty of 2 cent per pound on sugar. The payment of such bounty is radically wrong and I am not in favor of palliating a wrong, or recognizing it even for a limited period of time. Besides free sugar will save to the people the $10,000,000 now annually paid as lounty to the sugar producers of the country. I especially commend the bill putting coal, iron ore, lumber and wool upon the free list." "Do you eonsHer the bill in accord with the tariff plank of the Chicago platform written by yourself?" "I do with the exception I have named. I regard it as a step well taken In fulfillment of the pledge made to the people by the democratic party in that platform. "A failure to enact this bill or some bill tending to reduce the tariff to a revenue basis into a law in the near future will, in my judgment. Impair the strength of the democratic party and endanger its prospects for retaining control of the government." Mr. Neal said it was absurd to claim that Ohio in the late election indorsed the McKinley law. The people were controlled in their final action by other questions. "Ninety-five per cent of all changes In votes from the democratic to the republican party can be charged to the pension question, and for this the noministration at Washington was directly responsible. The action of the pension department in the matter of snsn?nsion was utterly indefensible. The democratic party to regain the confidence of the old soldiers and pensioners must do that which ousrht to have been done years ago, pass a service pension law giving a pension to every honorably discharged union soldier. Such a law will forever take the pension question out of polities. The sooner It Is passed the letter. "The new order known as the A. P. A. was the factor that most largely contribute! to the change in the votes of the remaing 3 per cent, of democrats who voted the republican ticket. The principal cause of the large stay-at-home vote in the democratic party was the general dissatisfaction and dlsguest with the action of President Cleveland and his subordinates in retaining republicans In oflice and keeping democrats out. Ninety per cent of the democrats wh stayed at home did so I am satisfied on this account. "The delay in the senate in acting on the silver bill, the dosing of factories and depressed agricultural interests and kindred causes influenced the other 1 per cent, of the non-democratic voters. That the tariff was not the principal factor is shown by the fact that it. as a reported free trader, received 4,700 or 4.S00 more votes than any other candidate on the democratic ticket." Prompt Tariff Revision. Prompt tariff revison Is now the urgent need of the country, says the New York Herald. On it trade and industry are waiting. It Is essential to disjel the prevailing doubt, uncertainty and suspense in business circles. Imixrters, merchants, and manufacturers cannot make contracts ahead or determine upon future dealings until they know what th tariff Is to be. Until this Is known many mills must remain closed or continue to run on short time, employment must be handicapped, wageearners kept idle, values unsettled and markets uncertain. Anyone can seo that such a condition f affairs Is fatal to a. restoration of confidence and revival of business. It Is vitally important not only that the tariff shall be revised with all promptness. Needless delay can only Invite disaster and menace panic. The Mnsk Rrlnic Torn Off. Some of the newspapers are making quite an objection to the fact that the dutieH under the r.ew tariff law are to 1m? levied so largely ad valorem, or according to value. They prefer specific duties, those estimated by the pound, weight, yard, etc., taxing the high priced article no more than the cheaper article. This is but another instance of the republican party's devotion (?) to the Interests of the poorer and humbler clafscs and of its antagonism (?) to the interests of the rich. Is it posFible that the laboring people will longer allow themselves to be deceived by the profession of the republican party that it is their friend? The mask is being torn osf. Huntington Democrat. In Re Vnn Alen. His hone- was more valuable than the office. And having received the commission he returns it to the president In h very dignified letter, which ought to make those who have been pursuing him ashamed of themselves, if they are capable of shame. Philadelphia Times. The 'nne of Rliciimntlsni. An acid which exists In sour milk and cider, called lactic acid. Is In-lieved by physicians to be the cause of rheumatism. Accumulating in the blood, it attacks the fibrous tissues In the joints, and causes agonizing pains. What is needed is a remedy to' neutralize the acid, and to so invigorate the kidneys and liver that all waste will be carried off. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is heartily recommended by many whom it has cured of rheumatism. It possesses Just the desired qualities, and so thoroughly purifies the blood as to prevent occurrence of rheumatic attacks. We suggest a trial of Hood's Sarsaparilla by all who, suffer from rheumatism. i Ln i. Powdec

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