Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

S. E. MORSS, BEN A. EATON, Vice PTmidvvt. b. McCarthy. SereUJ7 and Trcuurer. CGntered at the Poatoffloe at India a a poll aa second class matter.) TERMS PER YEAR t Single eopjr fin Advance) ft OO We ask democrats to bear tn mind and select their own state paper when ther come to take subscriptions and make np clnbs. Agents maklns np elnbs send for any Information desired. Address THE IXDIAXAPOMS SEXTIXEL, Indianapolls. Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDSEJDAT, FEUni ABY 7. 1S04. Every alleged democrat who voted against the Wilson Mil should be blacklisted. . Indiana's democracy Trill be found doing business at the old stand next November. The Sentinel smashed the school-book trust and It -will smash the other book trust. See the bargains it öfters in standard works. McKinley put his bill taxing the people through the house in twelve days. A democratic senate ought to break his record in passing the Wilson bill to untax the people. Now let the senate pass the Wilson bill as it ramo from the house and pass It within thirty days, and the democrats will have a larger majority in the next congres3 that they have in the present one. Now watch the protected interests swoop down on the senate to defeat the Wilson bill to reduce taxation on the multitude! The senate has an opportunity, which it should make haste to take ad vantage of. to refute the charge so often made that it is the representative of the classes against the masses. An agent of the Oklahoma bachelors' a.ssociaton has pone to New England to pick up a job lot of wives for memttcrs of the association. The fact that Mrs. Iease lives close to the Oklahoma line has probably had something to do with the agent's determination to secure a stock so far from the market to be supplied. An esteemed contemporary says Indiana's democratic congressmen will all be candidates for re-election. And why shouldn't they be? They have made very few blunders and in the main hae given complete satisfaction to their constituencies. Not only will they all be candidates, but the chances are more than even that they will all be re-elected. The project to hold a festival week In Indianapolis next fall Is a good one. St. Louis, Cincinnati and Kansas City all secure big crowds each fall by similar attractions and Indianapolis ought to keep up with the procession. Anything which attracts visitors to a city does for that place a much greater good than can be measured by the sum of money expended l.y those visitors. Stone, the murderer of the Wrattan family, it is said, ha.s made another confession. It could hardly be any worse than his others, but thl. last supplement accentuates them with a terrible imderllre. He says now that he "killed little Ethel after she had iarvived the others of her family. He called in to fee her when she was being nursed back to life and deliberately smothered the feeble little creature while her attendants were at dinner, and jet people say that the old theory of total depravity Is a myth. It Is alleged that Minister Smythe, our representative in Haytl, made himself non grata to President Hippolyte by endeavoring to instruct him how to run that interesting country. Mr. Smythe was an editor before he went into diplomatic business, and therefore probably knew what was lacking in Haytl. but he ought to have followed the example of his esteemed contemporary Stevens. Instead of advising the party in power he should have fixed up a revolution and put people in charge of the government who would run it as it should be. That Is the correct road to fame in diplomacy. The National farmers' alliance, through some of its members, proposes to change its plan of organization and become more than ever a secret society with grips and pass-words and all that these imply. Should the change be made It will be the signal for the disappearance of the alliance from politics. American sentiment Is too strong against any secret political organization for one ever to prove very influential. The alliance under the new plan may prove beneficial to the farmers and it may not. Hut if it seeks to carry on a political propoganda under lock and bolted doors it will meet with such opjtition from the rest of the country as to soon render It entirely ineffective. Every report from other states thnt have adopted less stringent ballot laws than our own shows the wisdom of our law. In Iowa, where the ballots are marked with a pencil instead of a stamp, a case is now up that shows the danger of pencil marking. In one township it was discovered that fifteen republican ballots were marked on representative, county treasurer and sheriff with a red pencil for democratic candidates, while the top of the ballots were marked in black. It is charged that some democrats bought these vote, and took this meajis of making sure they had been delivered, requiring .the voter to use a fed pencil in marking his ballot so they could tell it when it appeared in the enonL It is very certain that for whatever purpose they were marked there

was an unlawful purpose .to, identify the ballots after they had been voted, and cl course this can "be easily done in a dozen different ways when pnci marking is allowed. - J A GOOD BEiIIG. - f ' . Democrats throughout Indiana will be pleased with the first woik done-by their new central committee. In the election of the Hon. Thomas Tagpart for chairman the committee voiced not only Its own deliberate judgment, but also that of the democratic voters of the state." Mr. Taggart has demonstrated his ability as an organizer many a Um and oft, and no, man in the state enjoys in a higher degree the confidence and esteem of Indiana democrats. His selection, though made much against his own wishes, was the very best that could have been made; and it will inspire the democratic hosts with confidence as no other selection could have done. Mr. Taggart is too good a democrat to lt his own wishes or his own comfort stand against the desire of his party or Its welfare, and has announced his acceptance. In selecting Indianapolis as the placo for holding the convention The Sentinel

also believes the committee acted with wisdom. Ft. Wayne, while an enterprising and wide awake city, hospitable in the extreme, abundantly able to care for the convent ion in a royal manner a tnl dear to every democrat for its loyalty to democracy, is not suitably situated geographically for holding a state convention and to this fact alone is due its failure to secure the gathering. In in creasing the representation in the convention wisd"m was displayed, for the theory of democracy Is government by the many, and the closer the convent loa is to all the people the. greater will be the satisfaction with its work. - The date fixed t.pon for nominating a ticket is abundantly early. Congrfcs" will have then done its work and the issues of the campaign will be clearly defined. A short, sharp, vigorous campaign will bring victory. The feeling manifested at the meeting was of the very best. Harmony and earnestness were reported to characterize the democrats in all parts of the state. Nowhere have they been stampeded by the defeats of last fall; nowhere is there, any fear as to the result next November or any disposition to permit it to be anything but victory. All in all the effect of Thursday's meeting, both in the results accomplished and the views expressed, cannot fail tj be an inspiring one. The members of the committee, many of them new men, have rhowu a clear conception of the duties to be ierfornied, a linn grasp of the situation as it presents itself, a willingness and a determination ' to act that can but commend them to the respect and confidence of the party at large. MHKHTV AM) Llt'FAM:. The announcement of the conviction at Kansas City of J. V. McNamara on the charge of libeling Father Dalton of the catholic church will be pleasurably accepted by liberal-minded and decent people everywhere. There is no disposition in any quarter, and least of all upon the part of The Sentinel, to in any way abridge or limit the right of free speech guaranteed by our national and state constitutions. Free speech is the greatest safeguard of the popular foui) of government and it has become such a part of the American system th& any attempt to hamper or. prescribe it wo,uld be met with stubborn resistance and ignominious defeat. But thinking people, decent people, have long felt that It would sometime become necessary' to make the distinction clear and precise between freedom of speech and the license to slander which has been taken by certain men under the cover of a guaranteed freedom granted to public speakers and the put'lic press. It has often been belie ved by thoughtful people that perhaps we were going too far in permitting the public ranting of Herr Most and other agitators of his ilk and at times It has been deemed necessary, in the interest of public morals, to suppress "liberal" orators of the Vicjoria-Woodhull-Tennessee-Claflin stripe who voiced vulgarity and immorality under the guise of semi-religious doctrine. Politicians of the cheaier variety, too, have been wont to give utterance to the most malignant slanders under the pretense of discussing public questions, and the whole country has frequently been scandalized by their utterances. It Is pleasing to be able to say in this connection that there has been a marked improvement in the tone of political discussion of recent years and that personal abuse and general falsehood have been largely abandoned because they were found no longer effective In making an impression upon the public mind. , Hut one of the worst abuses that has grown up under the license of the popular understanding of "freedom of speech" has been the practice of certain mountebanks to travel about the country for personal gain making the most infamous and slanderous charges against tl.e catholic church in general and its priesthood in particular. Of this scurvy brood J. v. McNamara, Juat convicted at Kansas City, is a fair sample. -He pretends to be an ex-priest and to reveal secrets of the church and the confessional. In the pursuit of gain and for the sake of giving, his addressee local coloring and thereby increasing the gate receipts, he makes the most infamous charges against -the various catholic clergymen in the cities where rw speaks. Almost invariably, his. lectures are followed by riot, the indignant followers cf the priests being unable to

i control their tenfpers under such villaln4 ous. charges as he . makes against the

pastors.. At Kansas City Father Dalton who, by the way, 1 known to all oil residents of that section as one of the most generous, polished and loveable men in the world took the wise and manly course of prosecuting the offender I In Vi r i vti irt b tt Ha T-n . 1 & was announced in yesterday's dispatches. It' can not be doubted that if a' similar course were followed in every case where these mountebanks seek gain by wholesale slander they would soon be quieted and much disorder and ill-fee;'ri' in communities would be prevented, -'nere can 1 no cry raised that this is infringement on the right of free speech. It is merely the application of wellknown laws for the protection of society, and these laws, almost lost sight of in the rast, should be more frequently enforced. THE M ; lt Till NT. The esteemed Journal comes to the relief of the sugar trust as follows: The thousands of men in Brooklyn and other cities who worked in the sugar refineries are entitled to sympathy for the free sugar proposition of the Wilson bill, which will interfere with their employment, but the sugar trust, which runs the refineries and which took millions out of the people before the McKinley law, and recently practically withheld sugar from the markets, deserves no pity. This, it will be observed, is the same defense that is made for all the protection robbers. Protection is not for them, but for their unfortunate employes. It is presumable that this is. inspired by the recent statement of yr. Havenieycr that the American sugar refining company tthe trust) will have to go out of business. It. should be remembered, however, that Mr. Havemeyer often speaks figuratively, and that the price of sugar sto k has already revived from the drop and is standing alout where it did when sugar went on the free list. Mote probably Mr. Havenieycr means that the trust can no longer pay such high dividends on its $so,ooo,ooo of capitalization of property which experts pronounce to te worth $20,000,000. Last year the trust paid 22 ier cent, on its $37,0110,000 of common stovk, which is distilled water. The St. lentis Clobe-Demo-crat, which is a somewhat wiser protection organ than the Journal, said on Wednesday: It will be well, therefore, for the country to prepare itself for tales of disaster to the. refining industry if the Wilson bill pusses in its present shape. Some of the tales have started already, Brooklyn's board of aldermen protesting against the placing of refined sugar on tiie free list. The refining interest in that city and throughout the country, so the board says, will be "annihilated" it" the duty le removed. That lwdv, however, will be quickly made to understand that the refiners forfeited all claim to protection when they entered into a trust and made an assault on the laws of trade and the laws of the land. They have organized themselves into a monopoly to stamp out all competiti -n and to control the market by means which are hostile to the interests of the people and prejudicial to good government. Being compelled in one instance to dissolve, they obtained a charter in a different state from the one in which they effected their first organization, and have been successful since then in dodging the law. It further calls attention to the fact that several years ago Mr. Havemeyer in formed several members of congress that if he was given free raw sugar he wanted no protection, ind that the American refiner could nicVt the competition of the world. This is true lyond question so far as anything like legitimate profits are concerned. The sugar trust is not interested In legitimate profits, however. Mr. Warner showed that very conclusively in the house, a few days ago, and the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, a conservative trade journal, taking up the subject, proved the same facts by figures from the Sugar Trade Journal. It says: . This is the record: what does it mean? It means that for eight years of free competition among the refiners the margin of profit was steadily reduced, the total reduction being nearly one half. The trust was organized and the refiner's margin was nearly doubled for two years. The great profits made then stimulated the Independent refiners, and the effect of competition was to reduce the profit. The outside refiners were brought Into the combination or forced out of business, and the market was again forced up and kept moving in an upward direction. This record substantiates everything that Mr. Warner charged against the trust. With competition suppressed, and the whole purpose of the trust is to suppress competition, the refiner's profit is about doubl? what it was reduced to under free com petition. The sugar trust is one of the vilest monopolies in the entire country, and If it makes any reduction of the wages of Its men it will simply be in continuance of the policy of highway robbery which it has successfully practiced on the country for some years past. A (iREAT AM) tJOOI) MAX COXE. The death of C.eorge W. Childs, the noted philanthropist, which occurred in Philadelphia "Saturday morning, is a source of sincere grief to the entire country. Mr. Childs was a perfect type of a genuine. American nobleman, who won his high place among the American people, not by any right of high-born ancestry, but 1-ec-ause his own untiring efforts placed him at the head of the aristocracy of b latins. His life was but one of hundreds of lives in America where a poor boy carves out his own fortune bit by bit until the structure stands a monument to himself and to his country- The great nobility of character displayed by Mr. Childs influenced those with whom he came in contact with an undying influence. Connected with the largest publishing houses of the country, and editor of a large newspa per, he made a marked Impress upon the literature of the world. Ills first step upon obtaining possession of the Ledger was to elevate the moral tone of the paper and to cull from It everything that might in any way be rffensive to good morals. His care in this direction "extended even to the advertisements, which were carefully selected and refused If of an objectlonal nature. Known as the keenest advertiser in. the country, and a man whose business capabilities were wonderful, he never allowed the metal of commerce to enter his soul and make him hard and selfish.

i The wealth gained by hard work was

I not left in vaults to rust, but scattered ! broadcast among the needy. His loyalty to literature and to art made him anx ious to erect monuments aril memorial tablets to authors, artists and scientists of every land. The Drexel institute of Philadelphia received from him countless treasures of art and literature and his best efforts' toeneourag' and aid its success. He .was .the honored friend of men like Hawthorne, Washington Irving, W. D. Ticknor, James T. FiclJs, ex-Trud-dent Pierce, Longfellow. Lowell. Oliver Wendell Holme's, John Iathrop Motley, W. H. Prescott,. George Bancroft. C. p. R. James, T. Buchanan I lead. Paul du Chaillu, Tfiomas Hughes, bwium Miller, Wilkie Collins, Charles Bickens, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas H. Benton, Jen. Scott and hundred ,,f ,.ther authors. To the men in his employ, who are proud to call themselves members of the Ledger family, his relations were beautiful. To them he was father, brother and friend, in the truest sense of the word. He was their inspiration In work, and their sympathizer in every grief. His love, his time and his moneywere at their command, and he was richly repaid in the undying love which bound them to him and his interests. His name is the password used to encourage and strengthen fainting laborers. His gifts were not alone to men whom the world has publicly honored, but the poor and unknown received far more generous behests. That his printer friends might not be buried in the potter's field he gave to the Typographical society of Philadelphia a handsome cemetery. The home for aged and invalid printers at Colorado Springs is one of the grandest monuments to his memory. Men like Jeorge W. Childs make the history of Ameri.-a. one of which any nation might be proud. The influence of a man who ha given thousands to better his fellowmen, who has helped hundreds of poor, struggling young men and women to become self-supjvorting and useful citizens," who has planted the name of America In the memorial places of foreign lands, cannot die. His death, which has brought many of his deeds of kindness and Jove to light, will but strengthen his influence over the va?t number of men and women honored by his friendship, directly oy indirectly. His impress mon American literature will be lasting, and the greatest and imperishable monument to him will bo the prayers offered by hearts saddened by his death, and the reverence in which his name, now but a memory, is held by the entire country. Several cases In our own locality lately, where young girls- apparently respectable, have been the means of wrecking happy homes, has led many to question the advantages of the perfect freedom which American girls enjoy. The American chaperon has been proven and found to bo a glaring fraud. In her desire to be popular with young people, and to be in demand as n chaperon, she gives the young people in her charge wide latitude and plice no restrictions whatever upon them. American mothers, too, seem utterly indifferent as to the actions of their daughters and instead of knowing tho latter's companions and having her receive her company under her father's roof, the girl of today goes with whom she pleases, meets men clandestinely that she would be ashamed to recognize in public and does it all unmolested or unquestioned by her father or mother. Few girls are asked to account for th-Mr goings and comings; and many a mother would be amazed to learn that her daughter, the pink of perfection in her eyes, . smokes cigarettes, drinks beer and knows men whose whole business in life is to ruin reputations. Strange to say it is rot the girls f poor and working parents, who at present are running wild, but daughters' of fathers and mothers in the best society. Parents should be responsible for the children and should interest themselves enough to know if their daughters parade the streets and frequent stores and business offices. As it is now parents are the last ones to learn of any scandal connected with their children, but surely these parents cannot be free from blame if they close their eyes to their children's interests and allow the latter absolute freedom from all restraint. The Pittsburg Post has the correct idea of the feeling of the people toward tariff reform. It says: "Put the Wilson tariff bill on the statute books and we challenge with confidence the verdict of thIeople as to whether it shall be replaced by the McKinley law. We are reasonably sure of four years' trial of the Wilson law. should it go into effect in June. Before that time elapses we believe the people will be "more apt to demand a further extension of the reform principle in tariff legislation, just as they did in 1S:77, rather than a return to the regime of trusts monopolies, bounties and subsidies, and the taxation of the many for the benefit of the few, which are the dominating Ideas 'of the McKinley law. Time travels with the reformers, and revolutions don't go backward. Temporary reverses should nerve them to greater determination in the good cause." That is just the'Vay, thei protectionists feel. They are frightened to death at the prospect of the people getting a taste of the "ruin which they predict that tariff reform will bring. Only a few democrats disregarded the pledges of the Chiyago platform and voted against the Wilson bill. Ard how mighty sorry, these few ' will be when they come to k a renomlnation! ET C KT Kit A. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Tennyson. To get out of Mie world for the sakecf getting out of debt is suicidal. Picayune. When It comes to conversation the barber has the ede on us. Galveston News.. The book to read is not the one that thinks for you. but the one which makes you think. McCosh. y A Russian scientist has traced all of a map's diseases, to the' fact, that he weara

clothes. That ia the reason, probably, why soubrettes and ladles of the ballet are so healthy. "A. woman is as old as she looks." The princess of Wales is forty-nine 'years old and looks but thirty. , When a good idea strikes a musician it Is only proper that h? should make a note of it. Buffalo Courier. lie "My love will have no ending, dear." She "Now, I say. George, aren't you going to marry nie, after all!' Yonkers Statesman. Adele "Would you marry a man simply because he rieh?" Mabelle"Xo, but I would try very hard to love him." Atlanta Journal. A street car conductor knows what the wild waves are saying when he sees a woman wave her parasol. Binghamton Republican. "They sny Brown has taken the lecture platform?" "Shouldn't wonder; take anything he can lay his hands on." Atlanta Constitution. Wife "I wonder what became of that angel cake I made yesterday?" Husband "I I gave ft to a por boy for a foot ball."

New York Journal. Teacher "What is the feminine of tnan. Thomas?" Thomas "Woman." Teacher "And the feminine of gentleman?" Thomas (unhesi tat ingly) "Dude." Tuck. Mo need to read the weather news .Inst pawn your heavy coat And you'll know that then a blizzard Will be straightway set afloat. rhlcago Inter Ocean. Mrs. .Tarley says that her husband Is a commercial traveler, and as such i one of the most prominent scenters of trade in the country. Rochester Democrat. Today I boupht her a robe of fur, And praising It now I hear her. She was dear to me when I courted her. But, by Jove, as a wife, she's dearer. New York I'ress. They were playing foot ball on roller skates at Spokane. Wash. The way they play it in the eflete Enst H not fatal enouph fr the wild and woolly Washingtonians. A traveling Russian hypnotist attempted to influence a few subjects in a Milwaukee saloon over the telephone from e'hlcago, He lacked faith in the hypnotizing qualities of Milwaukee beer. Mrs. "Bonanza" Mackay of San Fran cisco and Paris, principally Paris, paid Meissonier, the French artist, $"A0u to paint her portrait. This is said to be the largest sum ever paid for a iortruit. "Jim. what is steajn, anyhow?") "It's a sort of wauorous sweat wot the millions of hanimalcula wot's In the water throws off in their hansriiish at bein' scalded to dea.th." "Wot a gflly I am! 1 might ha' knowed as much." Life. The island of Madagascar has been for years the must important and fruitful field of English missionary endeavor. It contains 1.30" congregational churches, and many of the?e hud martyrs In earlier davs who are still piously remembered. They have a novel way of enforcing the payment of taxes in Saxony. At Rurg stadt the proprietors of cafes and beer shops are not allowed to serve those de linquent In the payment of their rates and taxes, under a penalty of a heavy tine. (Jlil.hy "A man can never make anything out of politics unless he's a hog." Gabby "T don't know. I've been in politics a pood deal." Glihby "And never made anylhing? Oh. well, there are always exceptions, you know." Boston Transcript. Knniia Marwedel, who died some weeks ago in San Francisco, was one of the flrst German teachers of the kindergarten who came to this country when Elizabeth Peatody called for missionaries in this field. In 187) she went to California, where in Los Angeles slu made her home up to the time of her death. Fred J. V. Skiff, who was chief of. the department of mines and mining at the world's fair, has been selected as permanent director-in-chief of the Columbian museum of Chicago at a salary of $6.0X a year. Mr. Skiff was formerly a Kansas boy. and that is why he is so successful in "paddling his own skiff." Bull fighting is to be carried on in Mexico under the protection of the government. The funds received by the government will te used to prosecute the great drainage works of the valley of Mexico. The City of Mexico will be granted the concession which v ill then be sub-let to a private party for a ."0 per cent, royalty. Mis Trella Foltz-Toland, a western actress, makes It a practice to nncheck horses that she finds standing in the street with their heads strained hack by the modern halter known as the check rein. For a similar work in Kansas she receive! a letter of thanks from the president of the Kansas City humane society. She has been arrested once. Saco, Me., is having a lovely divorce trial. The defendant 1 a minister who, when he returned from a Sunday fishing trip and was met with the remark: "You are an angel, ain't yon?" replied, "Yes, I am, and I have been blessed with a mother-in-law. a father-in-law and a brother-in-law." His better half was dipping hot corn out of the cooking pot and Phe thereupon pelted him with the steaming ears and beat him with the long spoon. Baltimore is applauding a young fireman. Frederick Zallinhoffer. who gallantly rescued an aged negress from the third story of a burning building. He stood In the window of the second story and told her to hang from the third and drop on his shoulders. The smoke and flame were pouring out and she became rattled and dropped on him with such force that both went to the pavement. He fell underneath and thereby saved her from serious injury, while he was but slightly hurt. TIIK STATU I'itKSS. Any almanac will show that wool has gradually declined as the tariff has gradually increased. Hartford City Tele gram. If our Governor Matthews had been governor of Florida the Corbett-Mitchell fight would not have come off. liushville Jacksonian. The income tax is all right. It is a goHj law whether passed by democrats. republicans or populists. i-ountain County Democrat. Factories are starting up again and new Industries are being established re gardless of the lact that the Wilson bill proposes to destroy every factory in the land. Lafayette Journal. Whenever any article once goes on the fre-e list it will require a stronger lever than the republican party to hoist it on to the tariff sihedule again. Let us go tight en enlarging the free list. Fvansville Courier. It seems that immigrants seek the more advanced and highly-develoied communities, rather than those in which thev are most needed, or in which they are likely to find the lest opiortunities, Seymour Democrat. The Income tax will yield millions of revenue, but it will be even more of a success as a vote-getter Mian as a revenue raiser. It is just and right and crystallzes into law the platform promises of a century. Terre Haute Gazette. The culling smoke as rtpours from the chimney stacks and the buzz. - of ma. chinery in manufacturing establish ments, is the multiplying evidence tnat the croak of the conker is no longer frightening Miss Confidence. Frankfort Crescent. The income tax is no more inquisitorial than the tax levied for municipal, coun ty and state purposes. If it is wrong to Inquire into a man's business and holdings these taxes are visclous; but up to this time no one has demonstrated that any more satisfactory plan exists for raising revenues. Peru Sentinel. Roby ha.s bid $40.000 for the fight be tween Corbet t and Jackson. Governor Matthews sttmps his foot and says, "No!" The governor should temper his opinion of "glove contests for scientific points," since it hinted that he said a few days ago when the dusky pugilist was playing "T'ncle Tom" in Indianapolis, that Jim could wallop Peter on less ground .than he stands on. Portland Sun. ... . .

THE WILSON TARIFF BILL.

Jadse D. P. Baldwin Anl)ir the Measure, In a recent address hefore the Progress club on the subject," "Is McKinleyistn a Benefit to Manufacturers." Judge D. P. Baldwin of Logansport said: "The Wilson bilf is an honest effort to equalize our public buCdens." . It proposes to reduce the ost of living by taking TO.noo.rKK) to $10o,ooo.ooo of tariff taxes of)" from the necessities of life and still leaving our manufactures 42 per cent, average duties. It also proposes to divide the burden of federal taxation between consumption, which, under McKinleyism, pays it all. and accumulated wealth, which now pays nothing. This it accomplishes by a supplemental bill, which taxes all incomes, personal and corporate, over Jl.fHirt per annum. These bills will be followed by radical measures reducing our enormous public extns"s and doing away with billionairism. which since lSf0 has demoralized both our congresses, it creating in th McKinley con gress over l.rmo new offices. For these measures Cleveland and his supporters are venomously and fanatically attacked by the entire republican party. If they were common horse-thieves they would not be more bitteriy assaiWl by the high tariff press and orators. A Higher Tariff. "Forty-two per cent, tariff (such as is left after the Wilson bill takes effect) is a higher tariff than we had at any time during the war. when our expenses were $1.000,000 pr day for about three years, and Is only per cent, lower than that in effect just prior to the McKinley act. The wonder is that the Wilson bill is so conservative. For this reason it is ridiculed by the McKinlevites and assailed by Henry Watterson and his school as cowardly. I ask the question: 'If our manufactures can't thrive with a 4'- per cent, barrier against foreign competition, and with the privilege of taxing our people 42 per cent., is it. not time that they should epiit the business'." And that brings me to the question, viz: That the M.-Kinley tariff is a detriment not only to our farmers (foreign commerce was killed by protection twenty years ago) but to our manufacturers. For years we have had the changes swung upon our enormous accumulations of national wealth. In 1o it was lii.ooo.ooo. ooo. in isso $n.noo.oofl.ooo and In 1S90 it was $so.0o0.ooo.ooo. 'Behold.' cried the hilarious high-tariff advocate, 'what protection hath wrought." But when put to the test our hot-house, artificially stimulated Industrie?, which have cost our American peopl billions upon billions of dollars, ignominiously failed and are still failing. Last May. June and July, wlven the financial storm the product of fifteen years of mismanagement broke upon us. these protected industries were the flrst to shut their doors and turn their workmen on the streets and to bawl like so many calves about the threatened reduction of their subsidies. If their prosperity and wealth were genuine where is the occasion, with 42 ier cent, subsidy left, for all this uproar? The worst iart of all this calfim is that the workihgmen engaged in these govorutnont-fed industries are made to bear the burden and to le converted into the cat's-paw to save the capitalists' profits. These .0 per cent, protected industries are crying. Vut us IS per cent, and we must turn our employes into the streets.' Why not deduct this IS er cent, out of your remaining profits? Why not be content with less gain and give your workingmen their aecustomd wages? There is but one answer: "This would stop the agitation and take away our material for harrowing speeches and editorials.' The truth alout the matter is that the protected industries have lieen so over-stimulated that there is no strength or backbone in them. It is the insolvent and not the solvent men that raise all the racket about hard time's. The non-protected industries our hotels. newspaiers. etc.. did not shut up their doors last summer nor have they discharged their employed.. They have grown up In our midst, taught to oxiwt nothing from the government, and are, therefore, self-sustaining and solvent. Any industry that can run to Washington and get a subsidy in a pinch will always le unhealthy and will always do as did our tariff-fed and tariff-fat establishments last summerrend the air with calf cries, and as they are doing now denouncing the government for only allowing them 42 per cent, instead of fiO per cent, protection. You can't raise an oak in a conservatory. Artificial heat under a gla.?s roof will only make shrubs pretty enough to look at- and talk al.ut, but utterly worthless for the purpose of strength and endurance. So with these boasted protected industries. They are all fair weather establishments and Will go to the wall every time when a squall comes. They are like a rich man's son who can always in times of trouble go into his father's pocket-book. It is the poor boys who have to "root hog or die" that makes the strong men. Another Reason. "There is another reason why McKinleyism is a detriment to Its bene ficiaries. It converts them into poUtioal machines. There is no such thing as mixing manufacturing with politics and making a success of it any more tha.n mixing polltie-s and religion. Politics is one thing, business another, and. like oil and water, you can't mix them. If you try you will find that polities is the oil of the firm and industry the water, and the oil will come out on top and the water underneath all the time. This I repeat is the trouble today with our protected manufacturers. They ate under the cunning hand of politicians made instruments for furnishing camraign funds. 'Put them over the fire and fry some fat out of them.' said the irate senator, when the mill bosses were slow to shell out. The threat was sufficient. Our protected industries are compelled to maintain perpetual and enormously expensive lobbies at Washington. They are obliged to carry congressional districts to supply the requisite votes to maintain their subsidies; in a word, they have become an adjunct to a great political party, who furnishes the legislation in consideration of the manufacturers furnishing the money. Everybody who knows that this is so and everybody knows that this is the reason why the 60 per cent. McKinley duties ate so vehemently insisted upon. The iayment of high wages is the pretense the payment of campaign funds the hidden and ugly realitv. This partnership is demoralizing to both sides. It has lost the republicans the (Confidence of the people and it has robbed the mauufaoturer of their real strength and prosperity. It is like the combination forty years ago between the democratic party and slavery. McKinleyism makes a political foot ball of great and beneficient industries. " 'Your subsidies are in danger' is the lever with which the protected manufacturers can always be aroused and bled. This 'danger to cur subsidies by adroit political skill (which always' commands the highest market juice) is converted into the cry of 'Workingmen's wages in danger' for the manipulation

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of unthinking voters.. Money buys brains and brains manufacture subtt arguments by which honest, well-meaning people axe led astray. This, however, is not the worst product of the alliance between, industry and politics or between manufacturing and McKinleyism. Corrupt leg-rollir.g between differ ent branches j?f the protected indu?trie are constantly necessary to . "protect each section. Iron at Washington must combine with glass, coal, lumber and sugar so as t-keep up thejr respective taritT dtie. ;And after the robbery at Washington has been accomplished and

I prices at home begin to fall through com- ' petition developed by enormous subslI lies, endless corrupt . trusts, combines and what-nots must "be'Tptered into to ' neutralize by combination the results of ( competition. Worse than all 'this: Ex'K ecutive duties develop extravagance and waste in the conduct of the industries themselves. Why economize when the government stands back of the plant j and when the consumers can always b deluded by ihe cry of "European pauper labor to support the theft? Rut the worse effect of McKinleyism upon its protected pets the manufacturers remains to be told, and that is the moral effort of taving the many for the benefit of the few. Sound morals are indispensable to business prosperity. Any industry who.se ljf and prosperity is founded upon forced contributions in th long run win go to the wall. Coyer it up as you will. th rsino of McKinleyism in the power of the United States government to compel its ppie. willing or unwilling, to buy the products of the pet manufacturers at an aitifi. ial and gov-ernment-fixvi price. Wonderfully Ingenious arguments are devised by such subtle and powerful brains as those of Tom Reed and Governor McKinley to i'iiet the consumers into the belief that this is ? blessing, but some how. just as conviction occurs, a voice arises within that can't be hushed and ns. 'Robbery: No matter how mu.-h fin talk you pour into a man who wants to build a house or buy a woolen shawl for his Wife. ,,r put a marble head-stone tr ni baby's grave, the fa, i thai he must pav loo to :o p..r cont ,1(My ipfi) ,hrMV ,.,( ties to potne .monopoly vrjll upset hia argument. The farmer will alwavs ask after McKinley has shown hini how chap everything is 'getting under hH policy. -Rut why should ti-ie ,na n that makes a pound of steel get 3 cents from the government. -while I v ho raise wheat have my prleo fixed in Liverpool, and get less than it costs to iHJse it? Whv don't the government treat us alike?' gentlemen, the weaknss of McKinleyism is the weakness of slavery injustice. Just before th war ar.o.roo men owned all the slaves. Todav le5 than 2.0.ooo men own all the piotccted plant and mills. The same defect that weakened and overthrew the one weakens and will overthrow the other, notwithstanding each owned and was championed by a great political organization. !- you want to know its name? Injust ice. Presen I nhappy ( ul lt.,n. "There is another fact that 1 want to al'ude to. and that is the present unhappy condition of ih tariff-protected laborer, about whose high wages so innen has been said. The truth is. that . his boasted high wages are connterbalanced bv the I Of what use is it to raise a man's wages from $2 to $4 r,M- day if at the same tame you double the cost of his 'maintainance? How much better is he off? Thefo inercased wages, it will be remembered, have never been voluntarily given bv the protected employer. They have always been forced out of him by strikes or labor organizations. Why for-d? Became the workingmen found thev coiild not otherwise live; that high tariff lmd doubled the cost of supiorting their families, and it was a case of more wages or starvation. Whenever there has been su h increase the mill loss hast always advertised it. Do they advertise the increased cost of living caused by their monstrous duties? Xot much. Our tariff schedules . are written In a language iiicomprehensible as the curlform inscriptions of Assyria. Fnder an innocent-looking .V per cent, per yard er .'!5 per cent, ad valorem, a working girl's c loak is taxed by her boss 3im per cent. How much U-tier eMT.this winter are our protected workingmen for theiir boasted high wages? How much had they accumulated to fall back upon? Nothing. Why nothing? Not because the American workingmen are unthrifty, but because the margin between the cost of living and the rate of wages is too small to save anything. Every protected worker In Indiana is a witness to this fact. Of what value then is this boasted high tariff to a protected employe? "Why Is it that farmers only get R0 cents per bushel for their wheat? I will answer that question, on honor, fair and square. Liverpool, by common consent, is the great wheat clearing house cf th world and fixes the price of wheat in -Chleago and all over the Northwest. I'ncle Jerry Rusk said, in his llfetim, there were lSO.OOO.ooo hungry ieople Just across the water: with transportation a e-ent a busbej. and with 600,ooo.OOO bushels of .surplus- wheat, why should th Indiana farmer only get e0 cents a bushel for it? The answer is so plain that only those Mho. having eyes, won't see, and having ears, won't hear, can fail to understand it. The republicans have built up a tariff wall so high that the l.vt.ooo.noO hungry workers in Europe can only buy American wheat for gold. The United States government won't allow us to take anything else, except in Russia itself a wheatrasing country whose people do not raise gold and never will. But they do raise the very same things which our farmers most need in exchange for the4r wheat, but as they are not allowed to exchange them for wheat we have to g witiiout and our farmers lose them as wheat consumers, except on terms damaging to both sides, viz.: payment in. gold. We all know that gcld has been appreciating enormously in value for th last de-cade, owing to unwise republican legislation. What is the reason fer this serious state of things to our farmers? Why do we refuse t exchange our wheat for European cutlery, woolens, cottons, glass and pottery, the free exchange of which would send the farmer's wheat up to $1.5o per bushel? Why, localise 25.000 mill-owners want to gt rich by taxing farmers, and our government has foolishly gone into partnership with them and forces the farmer to buy of them their manufactured goods at two juices, and then leaves the same farmers to shift for themselves when they want to sell their wheat or cotton. All this is done in ihe nam? of the home market. T never se that term 'homo market' that don't want to kick it. Home market has put $4.000.OiMi.ooo of mortgages upon American farms and reduced our wheat to r.Ooent per bushel, and the same is true of viol. Ever siliere the McKinley tariff was set in operation wool lias steadily dee-lined in price. "The farmer is the dupe of the manufacturer. Between the upper mill-stont of -home market' and the lower millstone of protection, the farm and farm products are ground to )Mwder. We learned in lx:H) and again in 1SH2, but in this year lsf4. that a desperate effort is being made lecaus' the farmer's wheat is e.nly 50 cents ier bushel and he don't understand the reason, to bulldoze him into returning to his old servitude which has kept him ixor so long." n H

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