Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1894 — Page 4

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THNpiANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1891-TWELYE PAGES.

IXDIAXA STATE SEXTIXEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

B. E. MORSS, President, BEN A. EATON, Vies fras.dcat. b. McCarthy. Secretary and Treasurer. (Entered at the Poitofnee at Indianapolis a iccond class matter.) TKXIK9 1T.K YEAR t Single cojiy ! Ailvimci") ?1 OO We irnk democrat to lienr in mind anil nelcct tlieir unn state paper wbfn thejr come to take subscription and niiLe up clubit. AgcnH muklnK up club send for a ii j- Information desired. Address THE IXDIAXAl'OHS SESTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. m-edm:sdav, i EJim aky h, i:m. PASS THE INCOME TAX". The report sent out from "Washington that the senate sub-committee contemplates removing the Income tax from the Wilson Mil an-i putting In Its place a tariff on raw sugar, coffee, tea and coal. Is one that will cause a storm of protest from the country if It should prove to bo true. If the senate" should persist in an attempt to accomplish such a change it would draw down on itself condemnation a hundred times more Fever and more extensive than appeared during1 Its obstinate resistance to the repeal of the Sherman law. üvni in the revenue from a tariff tax is a tax m consumption, and the d( moeratie party has fought that system of taxation, and so completely ox pose. I its injustice that the people sire waiting with open arm:? to wel'ome any move for ;i more equitable substitute for it. An income tax is an equitable substitute. In abstract morals it is the most just tax that can possibly l-e laid. At the foundation f the frienco of taxation 113 the question, fhoull we tax property or the product of property? So far ;ts justice is concerned it is fairer to lax the product. The owner Is better able to pay. To tax unproductive property sometimes amounts to practical confiscation. The :;!' reasonable objections that have ever been mad"' to the principle of taxing the product are the difficulties of administration. The objections that are now belli.' urged b the income tax in this country pre puerile and absurd. It is said that it is a "'war tax." It luis been a "war tax" in the United Slates because in time of peace it has b-on impossible to Fccure any form of taxation that b-ars equitable mi wealth. We have been far behind the rest of the wrld in the science of taxation, and only in th past ten years haa the country begun to I aroused to the injustice of our system, und to im.H.se a just share of the burden o public expense on those who benefit most by public expenditures. 15y our new tax law rf Indiana we have made some approach toward the eouitable taxation of wealth, but there is still much to do before justice is attained. Though the income tax is in a reuse new to this country it is not new to the world. It is the oddest form of taxation known. It was the form recorded to have been given by the Divine Being to his chosen people. His tax was on the product "the firstling of the leasts." and "all the tithe of the land, whether the Feed of the land, cr of the fruit of the tree." It has been used in many nations since that time. As a distinguished writer reeeirtly said: "It is the most scientific the most equitable and the most practicable tax that can le imposed. The weight of authority of political economists i3 all on its Fide. It exists in all er nearly ail the civilized countries of Furope. In England it was introduced after a tremendous tdruggle with the privileged classes, but is now so firmly entrenched in the financial policy of that country that no political party and no Ftatesman or politician of any prominence would dare to propose its repeal; in fact there is no income tax question in England. The income tax is accepted as a permanent fixture by everybody." It is said that the tax is inquisitorial. It is no more inquisitorial than, the property tax, which is In existence in every Etate ia the union. Every propertyowner is required to answer under oath as to the amount and character of the property he owns. It is said that it will cause perjury. No more so than the property tax. In fact the very class of men who evade the property tax by perjury would be caught by the income tax the men who have their property In stocks and bonds, or loaned at interest on personal security, or otherwise in form that easily admits of concealment. The country has Just had an Interesting' revelation of this nature in the ease of the Gould estate, and it is a matter of open comment that a large per cent, of the wealthy people of the land resort to fraud of one kind and another to avoid taxation. In so far as the income tax reaches them it will be an fegency of the highest Justice. But besides these there Is a large class a very large clasa who enjoy large incomes on account of advantages given them by the laws of the land, and some who have them by defiance of the laws. Here are all the protection beneficiaries, Includirg the trusts and combines. Here are tlu.e engaged in interstate commerce. lTtre ar the owners of national bonds and other non-taxable Becurities. These form the targest par of the opposition to the income tax. and it is only natural that the greatest opposition to that measure should come from New York, for that city has. by a policy of exempting personal property from general taxation, drawn to it a very large number of people of this class. The fight for an Income tax is emphatically a struggle of the m isr.es against the privileged classes, and the people are as thoroughly. In earnest in support of it as they are for tariff rtform. or for any cth-r mode of releaFe from Industrial fervltuie. It would not b wise for the

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senate to attempt to deny their demand. The "rich men's club" Is not In good odor, now and it will not take much more to make the demand for Its abolition emphatic and universal.

THE KAI LI" RE OF JUSTICE. Some days ago we had occasion to make some remarks on the favors extended to criminals under our system, in connection with the supreme court's decision of the Parker and McAfee case. That case presented one of the forms of escape from justice that has made the American people distrustful of the lawful procedure against wrong-doers. The uncertainty of punishment, more than any other one thing, has encouraged the commission of crime in this country and more than any other one thing is now developing the spirit of lynch law throughout the United States. It has already developed to such an extent that we have annually more lynchlngs than legal executions. We are confronted now by an example of escape from justice in another form by the exercise of the pardoning power in the case cf Dr. J. Frank Benham of Richmond, who has been serving a sentence of two years for criminal seduction in the southern penitentiary. It is not often that an offender of this kind is brought to punishment. The victim is usually not desirous of publicity and can ordinarily be persuaded to accept enough money to enable her to slip away and try to hide her shame as best she may. And this is known and counted on by a certain cla.s of men, who hunt their victims as wolves hunt their prey. They count the chances of detection and punishment. They rely on wealth and social position to protect them. Of that class was Trank B-m-ham. He followed this girl with a pertinacity that could not le balked. He oxercamo all obstacles thrown in b'.s way. II" V',teritlo,l to love her. lie engaged to marry her. There is not the slightest loom for doubt on the subject, because actual preparations for marriage v.ere made. Ui.der promise of marriage he finally accomplished his purpose, and when it was known that the girl was to become a mother be abandoned ivr with th" cold cruelty of an accomplished libertii.e. Her appeals to him to carry out his r remise and save hir honor, as far as he might yet do, fell on deaf rars. Prayers, entreaties, threats, were of no avail, and so the matter was put before the criminal authorities and proceedings were K-gun against him. She was an unedueal-d Irish ulrl of v-;ry respectable, but not wealthy fair.il'. His family had i'sition and respect. His father was tin imluential democratic politician. He wa.s educated. He seemed to think that his position was sufficient ai.s'.vci- to the charge. Although tic trial lasted through Jive days the defense amounted to little more than a sneer at the prosecuting witness. The jury 1 brought in a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was given the very moderate s- nter.ee i f two years, when the maximum of live would have been more consistent with the facts of the case. The l the pressure for a pardon began and was continued until it was granted. It appears that Benham has paid the pirl $7',H since the sentence was passed, and the local reports furnish the extraordinary information that, "the governor, in granting the pardon, stated that he did so after having been guaranteed that Benham would give to .Miss Fuller $200 in addition to that already given her." We hope this is an error. We hope that the time has not come when a convicted criminal can secure release in Indiana on any such basis, even if the prosecuting witness desired it. Our law provides a mode by which the father may be compelled to support his child under such circumstances, and this payment can hardly be considered more than that. The evil effect of such a pardon is nut confined to the encouragement of similar offenses. It is an encouragement to relatives of the injured party to take the law into their own hands. Hardly an encouragement either, but a warning that justice may not be done unless it is done by violence. And this is even now so commonly recognized that it is an understood thing that American Juries will not convict a man who kills the seducer of a relative. We had in this city a case but a few days ago where a prosecution of this kind was abandoned by the state after a portion of the evidence had been heard. The existence of the present state of public sentiment is a solemn warning of the unsatisfactory character of our criminal system, and it seems plain that the tendency of public sentiment is strongly toward greater dissatisfaction and more extended lawlessness. The strongest safeguard against that result is the prompt and vigorous enforcement of the laws in all respects. AX ANSWER UECEIVEI). We have at last found a republican editor who attempts an answer to our interrogatory concerning the foreign price of agricultural implements and other machinery exported from this country and sold abroad In competition with the products of the pauer labor of Europe. The one man that understands the process is the editor of the Hoosler State. His answer is triple in character, the parts being as follows: 1. He does not believe that our manufacturers sell cheaper abroad than at home. 2. "Owing to the system of reciprocity with certain foreign countries our manufacturers can send their agricultural Implements and oth'-r machinery there without having to pay the tariff that manufacturers from other foreign countries would have to pay." 3. Granting that they do sell cheaper, "our only answer Is that the industry, which has grown to such an extent that It Is able to do this, no longer needs the fostering hand of a protective tariff and the duty they produce should be reduced or removed altogether." It will t observed that the first and

third answers do not apply to our question. We did not ask if they were sold cheaper, but how the competition was made if they were not sold cheaper. It is immaterial what the Hoosier State believes or concedes in regard to that matter. Neither is it an answer to say that some articles no longer need protection, for that ignores the opening part of our question "If the American manufacturers of agricultural implements and other machinery have to be protected against foreign competition in thi3 country-" We have long insisted that they need no protection, but republicans say they do, and we want them to explain their theory on their own declarations as to the facts. The second answer is to the point and the only question is whether it affords a satisfactory explanation. Wo think this can easily be decided by looking at the statistics of reciprocity. None cf the reciprocity treaties were in effect in lsO. Since that year wo have enjoyed the blessings of reciprocity as well as the other good effects of the McKinley law, under which republicans assure us we have been extremely prosperous. The reciprocity treaty with Brazil, the first of the series, was proclaimed Feb. 5, ISM, though a treaty with Great Britain for the British colonies of Trinidad, British Guiana, Tobago, Barbados and Leeward and Windward islands was concluded on Fob. 1. The dates of the proclamations of the other treaties were: Nicaragua, Match 12, 101; Honduras, April 12; Guatemala, May I: Austria-Hungary. May IM; Costa Klca. July Kl; Santo Domingo, lire. 1; and Gcrm iny, Feb. 1, DP2. Now, if the answer be correct our exports should have increased somewhat in lHl and much more in IV':?. The official record of extorts, is as follows: ix. 1PI li'2 Agricultural im

plements .... 5 $ r.i:r.t,i30 ?,th?s3 CarrHees. horse cars and oilier vehicles Clocks and wutche Iron nnil Meet, and manufacture-: of ' I.ea ther, n-.a'i-ufaot'.uvs "f . .. V. o d. and manufactures of... 4.716.07S OM.129 3,:tI,i3G l. i.V., i.:.so,k.i i.cjs.cpj 25.:i-,.2'S 2S.W.011 CÜ.MVCO 12.4".M7 W.27'.SI7 12.I.7M 2V.27U.2! :;.27t'H') 2T-.TSS.W Total- 577,.V.';.r-2 7.K.v.!;5 74,tH;S,712 This list covers the more important manuf n-tures used by farmers, outside of clothing, and certainly include everything that ecu hi be classed as farm machinery.' It appears that the exports in every Km- fell nff in 112 as compared with lv'", excepting iron and steel and tlv manufactures thereof, an 1 in the aggregate there is a falling off of two millions and a ball". Moreover the trade in th'.-o iivinufactuies with the reciprocity countries js small. For example, the totar'Vxports of j'grictiltural implements to all the reeip (X ity countries in amounted to only Jir.;),:;i"i, and of this J"2S.S'J was to (o'lnniiy and AustriaIlungary, where wo could have no possible advantage from rcvijruciiy, because the Germans are our l rira ip U competitors in these manufactures. And. furthermore, reciprocity cannot possibly explain how we competed with the foreigners i:i their own countries before there was any reiprn. ity. wl-.n we sold them even more than we do now. For these reasons we fear that this answer will not prove satisfactory to the committee, but we shall take pleasure in submitting it, nevertheless. UlIEHi: OES WOMAVS IM'UE.ME LIE f Every once in a while woman's curiosity gets overpowering, and she determines to investigate yome of the evils of which she reads and which she is not willing to take on trust. In vain her husband and her friends try to persuade her that she will do no good, but will only be disgusted and sickened by the result. She will not heed, but starts out by herself or in company with other women on a "slumming" expedition. Her horror is always pitiful, but fails to arouse any sympathy in the persons wb j warned her against going, and who knew that her weakness measured against so powerful an evil could have no reforming influence. Generally the only result of the reformatory excursions is to get the ladies who participate into, the newspapers in an unenviable light. Sometimes the W. C. T. U. or other organization of women sends a committee to Investigate the wine rooms, and other evils of city life, and the reports cause much excitement among the worthy women o? the club, who feel that the evil must be eradicated right here and now. The committee eenerally admits its own powerlessness to make any reform in the matter and having satisfied its own curiosity and brought Information to the other women, it asks to be discharged from further action. Strange it never occurs to the women so Interested, most of them being mothers, too, that while they cannot make laws nor influence the men interested in the evils, one remedy lies within their reach. The mother has it in her power to so educate her daughters and to keep so careful a watch over them that they be proof against the evil influence that mut come fmm their associations In school and society." Here and, here alone can women exert a powerful influence in their homes where their boys and girls may be taught the consequences of evil and trained to choose the right. The fact that parents do not exercise as much influence over their children as they should has been amply illustrated in our city recently, where several case9 have occurred where the daughters of respectable parents have figured In disgusting scandals. Persons oblige to remain down town late at night are amazed at the number of very young girls, not over fifteen or sixteen years of age, who are seen on Waühingtfn and other principal streets at nearly midnight. Go to the cheap theaters and one sees young girls there unattended in crowds flirting and acting In a manner that makes one shudder for their future. These' girls are not the poor workinp girls about whom society women love

to weave so many sentimental theories, but the daughters of parents who stand high in the social world and who little dream that their daughters are in such company. The girls who as yet move in iha best society and who carry on clandestine correspondence and meet men outlawed by their society friends may be named by the ecore, and yet mothers never- seem to question when the daughter lias business which takes her down town every afternoon. The girls who frequent the public library with no other purpose in view than to carry on flirtations are innumerable, yet the library officials are powerless to step them. A case in point was noted recently. An afternoon party was given at the Propylacum for charity and followed by an evening reception. In the crowd attending in the afternoon were about sixteen boys and girls about fifteen years of age. When 3 o'clock came the ladies in charge gave orders to have the building closed until 8 p. m.. but the young girls who were all from the best rank? of society announced their intention cf not -going home, but remaining until o'clock, and showed their feeling in the matter by hissing the ladies who tried to prevail upon them to go home. The building was closed and the crowd of boj s and girls adjourned to a restaurant, where tlLey ate supper and then ran around the streets acting like young hoodlums until S o'clock. Thrt record does not show that a single mother worried about her daughter's whereabouts or sent to inquire why she was not at home for supicr. This is only a mil 1 incident, but servos t show the unlimited, confidence whi-di mothers place in their sons and daughter;. The ir.ilucnce cf a wild girl over her girl companions is far more harmful than that of a wild young man, yet parents do not seem to think it their duty to inquire into the habits of the girls who visit their daughters. Let the mothers begin in the home circle and make sure that their own children at least are not going to be led into downward paths before they try to influence those grown old in sin to reform.

A I'ltlf'HTKt 1. EXAMPLE. Our republican friends are not pouring ii: the ir answers to our inquiry as to the foreign price of apricu'tut al implements. Some of them have made denials that theSe articles were sold cheaper abroad than at home. ?nd some have said that it was fo to tall; about selling cheaper abroad than at homo on account : th' at coiiipcf'tion here, in order to give those of ih,; latter i-l-'-.ss a "little niore food for thought we wo eld ask this simple question: Did you eve- le-ar of a trust? If v, yeti can easily imagine how prices may be kept mit of the poach of competition in this cocntry. Iet us take, however, for illustration, a tool that is in use in every form in America the ax. Is there an ax trust? There is. In lvt2 Senator AldrW h . indignantly denied this statement in the senate of the United States, and in corroboration of his denial read this letter: NKW YORK. July 20, 1S?2. The Ib.n. Nelson W. Aldri h: Replying to yours to Fnderhill edge tool company, no trust controls production or prices f axes, which arc lower than ever before. American manufacturers supply the world. AMERICAN AX AND TOOL CO. This is doubly interesting, for while it denies the existence of a trust, it also admits that "American manufacturers supply the world," and therefore there is no excuse in the world for the McKinley duty of 4j per cent., which is imposed for the protection of our ax manufacturers from the competition of foreign ax-makers, who cannot compete with them in foreign countries. Now, why was that duty imposed? Of what use was it? "Why should the manufacture of axes be "protected" in this country when there is nothing from which it needs protection? In October, 1SC2, Mr. George W. Francis, who had been a manufacturer of axes, but who had joined the trust (which did not exist), and whose works at Buffalo had been closed down by the trust, gave some interesting information on this subject. In an interviewpublished in the Buffalo Courier of Oct. 24, 1S'J2, he says: The trust called the American ax and tool company was formed in January, 1S!K, and embraces fourteen factories, and all the principal ones in this country. Five of these factories are now shut down. Mr. Francis was asked why operations bad been suspended in these, which include his own. "When I went into this trust." he said, "it was dune-with the expectation that my factory would not be shut down. When the trust was first formed prices were advanced $2 a dozen on axes. I opposed this advance strenuously, but the majority believed that higher prices could be maintained. The consumption of the product was curtailed as well as the production." This very institution which denied to Senator Aldrich that there was a trust was itself the trust, and by the testimony of this acknowledged member of that trust it is proven that the pr!ce of axes was advanced $2 per dozen in this country when foreign competition was shut out by the tariff wall. Was the price advanced abroad? Not a bit of it. The trust was endeavoring to extend its fcreign trade in every way. Mr. Francis further proceeded to state the following slmjUe truths: We must have larger foreign markets, and to enlarge our exrrts we must have free raw material. Under the present tariff, as soon as business improves, the trusts will be ail-powerful. When higher prices can be maintained, the trusts will Increase them. The only way to make the trusts harmless is to reduce the tariff so as to permit foreign competition. The whole tendency of taxes on raw material is to depreciate the quality of goods. This tariff question has become a question of right and wrong. When a majority of the people understand it as I do, they will rise up in their might and bi'eak down the excfwlve tariff. All thi3 talk about "free trade" is rank nonsense, and ia indulged in by demagogues and dishonest men who know better. The requirements in the way of revenue make necessary all the tariff that is needed for any honest purpose. There Is not a manufacturer In the country who does not know that with free, raw material America can compete with any country f tn2 ae ot the

earth, and that we have been competing in hundreds of lines without any reduction of wages. The reductions of wages that have occurred and are occurring in this country are without Justification, so far as profits are concerned, and are usually made by the most villainous combines in the country. Only a month ago this telegram appeared in the daily papers: BEAVER FALLS. Pa.. Dec. ."). The American ax and tool company has ordered another reduction in wages, to go into effect Monday. The men have been reduced several times during the year. Tt D rumored that this reduction will amount to 2 per cent. This trust, that controls the trade pot only of this country, but of the world, makes this great reduction under the McKinley tariff. Did the tariff have anything to do with its action a.s to wage? Certainly. By shutting down five of thrt fourteen factories they made a competition of labor in that line and so forced down wages. The men who start out to rob the iieor'e will not hesitate to rob thir employes if they get the opportunity.

I1ILLISM 1 THE SENATE. The delay of the senate in filling the vacancy upon the ben"h of the supreme court is fast creating national disgust and indignation. Every excuse thus far advanced by H'llisnt for delay and refusal has been demonstrated to be a matter of contemptible subterfuge and false pretense Hornblower wa.s young, said Hi'l. Tl-.e bar of the country quickly responded with the declaration that this objection was founded on a density of ignorance which was utterly inexcusable. Story was thirty-two vIm-ii appointed, William Johnson was thirty-three. Bushrod Washington thirty-six, Jredell thirtynir.e. Curtis. Campbell and Todd each forty-two. Jay, McLean and Harlan each forty-four, and Marshall forty-five. These were among the most distinguished judges in the history of the supreme court. Hornblower was forty-two, exactly th right ace for most efficient work. "But lie has corporations for vlients" was the next pretext for Hill's opposition. The answer promptly came that such an objection would exclude every lawyer in the United States whose abilities, attainments and character were adequate t the performance of the duties of the position. In haste, and before tl-.e opinion of the country had an opportunity to dissipate the nasty spirit of Hilüsm !i the senate, j-js body rejected Horn blower. Thereupon the president nominated Wheeler II. Beckham for the position. This eminent lawyer is sixty years old; conies- from a family of juris's. his father having been a distinguished judge of th" court of appeals of New York, and his brother is now recognized as one of the ablest judges of the same court. Wheeler H. Beckham stands today as one of the leaders of the bar of New York, with a varied and successful experience in every department of practice; he has been three times chosen president of the New York bar association, was the friend of Mr. Tilden in his great iight against official and political corruption in New York, and one of the leading lawyers in the successful prosecution of Tweed and his associates. What objection can be made to him by any honest senator who has at heart the purity, dignity and efficiency of the supreme court? None whatever. It is true he denounced Maynard. but what lawyer of standing did not do likewise? It is true he opposed Hill's presidential aspirations and denounced his political methods; so did the democracy of the nation, and the demo cratie senators may as well know that their constituents have not changed their minds one whit on this supject. HillLsm today is more txlious than ever it, was, and Hillism is fast growing so intolerably odious in the minds of the honest masses of the democratic party, because of its alliance with those basest of Influences which seek to debauch the judiciary, that all who give it aid or comfort may well begin to consider their future political prospects. Reports still continue that the senate Is considering radical changes in the Wilson bill. It is said that the committee is proposing to recommend tariff duties of 1 cent a iound on all kinds of sugar, 2 cents a pound on coffee, SO cents a ton on coal, and a duty on iron ore; also that the bonded period for whisky is made five years. Any democratic senator who favors any such changes, or any one of them, is simply a traitor to his party and recreant to the campaign pledges to which he assented, if he did not expressly make them. The Wilson bill is none too good an article of tariff reform as it stands. It is a step toward genuine tariff reform, and is justifiable only on the ground of not moving too rapidly in changes that effect the business interests of the country. There must be no step backward from the position of the Wilson bill. Any change must be in the opjMisite direction. An income tax is more easily borne than any other kind of tax except an inheritance tax. It falls on those who are prosperous and have money to spare. If a man meets with misfortune or is unfortunate- in business, he is relieved of the burden of the tax. while a property tax or a tax on consumption would add to his burdens when he is least able to bear them. It may be a tax en brains, but brains cannot make money without opportunity, and brains ought to be willing to pay for the opportunities furnished to them by our laws. The Washington correspondents all agree that Senator Vonrhees will push the tariff bill to an early passage through the upper house of congress. And that s just what the democracy of the country, and especially of Indiana, most desire. The statements from Washington as to the outlook for the tariff bill In the senate are of the most reassuring character. There is every leason to l.-nie-ve

that the bill will pass in practically the same form in which " it came from the hou?e and that the country will be operating under a revenue tariff in the very near future. That is all the democracy needs to enable it" to cerry the congressional elections next fall. If the .first democratic; congress in twenty-five years adjourns with a record of having put the country on a tatiff-for-revenue basis there will be nothing but democratic congresre" for the next twenty-five years.

The population of Now York is rapidly increasing. Two Peruvian mummies, between 40 ;ind ) years old. were taken Iber last week. In spite of the Wilson ill the trade reviews continue to announce a, steady improvement In the industrial situation. Prof. Harper of Chicago university says that Cain did not. kill Abel. of course not. Tt wn thrt Wilson bill. ET CETERA. When fhe and T a-sleihinc went. Though no foot-warmer furnished heat. Her little toe? were quite content. For my warm heart lay at her fret. New York Herald. Seme mouths ago a Genu an tribunal sentenced a man to several months" Imprisonment for lest -ma.iesiy. because - kept bis sept while the emperer's health was drunk. The captain of a battery stationed in Berlin recently condemned an artl'.Irict to r.evcral hours of extra drill daily as a punI'hmer't for "P.oMnmpfnng fines Ko.-nig-liehcn Dlenstferdes" (insnliir.g a horse in the royal service by trilling the noble animal a "pig",!. Janes Robinson, who for a lor time held the title of champion bareb.u-k rider of the voi'd, i:; .'pending his declining years on his farm in Missouri. lie is by no means an old man, but has retired from the circus arena. He ttili liar, many of the valuable gifts that he received in many part of the world, ineludinc those from Queen X'lctorla. and the old Emperor W illiam of Germany. Mr. Robinson is the same little wiry man that he always was. anil, except for his hair, has not the appearance of lving more than forty years old. The story that "Freddy" Gebhard has discarded a watch charm made of pearls for one which is being made from the first teeth of his fiancee. Miss I.euls- Morris, sounds suspiciously like an old stcrv of a similar nature in a book f remain-, ; published arly in the century. If the story tr true ngarding Mr. Gebhard's action, it only proves that lie has more scntinier.t, even if of u ,K:itnl character, than be has lK-rn credited with, -'nd that hi-t-uv repeats itself, or rather fiction, for it is not probable that Mr. Gebhard was inspired to his action by a perusal of the romance in question. A great sensation was caused in the Caucasus a few weeks ago by the cxceij. tion of Prince Rik.xlze jn the marketplace of Tiths. The prince entered t he station at Tirlis recently in an ir toxica ted condition and picked a quarrel with ;i peiiee ollieer on duty in the building. In tne course of the quarrel the prince drew a. da ape r from his pocket and stabbed U-.e officer so severely that ho died a. f -v hours lat r. A trial was held and Prince ;:.kode was condemned b death. An appeal was made to the czar to pardon the aristocratic murderer, but he declined to interfere. He belonged to an influential family. STUF KT I'll KIMiS. Yesterday afternoon at about " o'clock there might have been seen walking eagerly along Yashin:rtoH-Kt an old woman plainly but m-atly dressed and bar1?ned with a huge basket and bar. There was something striking about the woman's appearance something which prompted people to look the second time in her direction. Her dress was of the cheapest material, and showed sijjns of bavins been made over on more than one occasion. She wore no cloak, the oiiiy top garment bring a small breakOst shawl, which hardly kept ciff th" chill of the fierce wind which blew all day. She was about sixty years old, slightly bent with acre, and stoopirg more under the burdens she carried. On her rijrht arm she carried a basket covered with two lids, which failed to conceal the interior, so full was it crowdl. Some sort of a calico cloth prevented the curious from taking an inventory of the contents of the basket. Across her left shoulder she carried a coarse bap, possibly a pillow case, which seemed to be filled with clothing of some description. She walked with a determined expression on her w rinkled face, which bore a look of satisfaction which a tired traveler might wear at the end cf a lonsc journey. She parsed on to the corner of Washington and Tennesseests., where she paused for a moment to lex.k up at the windows of t lie state house. Thtn crossing the street sh plodd.il wearily up the avenue leading to the entrance. Inside the building she met Custodian Griffin, whom she saluted with the query: "Can you tell me where Judge 's office is?" She was informed that he had no office in the building, nor in the city; that he had resigned from the supreme court and was residing in another city. "Why," she responded, and the tears began to trickle down the furrows in her cheek, ' his wife is my daughter and she never told nie thus. I have como a'l the way to Indianapolis and now must .suffer this disappointment." "Where did you come from?" she was asked. "I lived in St. Louis when my daughter was married, and later in Terre Haute. It's strange that I was not told that they had left the city. I will go to Louisville, where I have a niece." And she walked from the building towaid the Union station. A party of Indianapolis gentlemen who went down to Jacksonville to see the Cur-bctt-Mitchell lipht had a rerious disappointment. The party went in a private car and laid in a supply of Champagne, wines, cipars and accessories; in fact, prepared to have a royal good time daring tl;e progress of the fluht. The crowd assembled In the tent accompanied by baskets, etc., but before they could open a sin-le bottle the whole thing was over and people were leaving by the hundred. The fight lasted just six minutes, and not a man in the crowd had a chance to even look at champagne. Mrs, Dennis "Phat's that I hear about walls having ears. Dennis?" Dennis "Sure it must te thim pe.rttyears, I hear the women asking fer in the rthore." About the funniest thing In the world is to see a man chasing his hat dov. n one of the crowded thoroughfares of the city said 1 trying at the same time to look dignified. !

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THE STATE PRESS. The cause- of tariff reform is marching cn. Lafayette Journal. Protection? Bah! Did it ever put a dollar in a poor man's pocket? Noble County Democrat. The McKinley Li 11 -r-tri kr s. The Wilson bill p-ospeidty and cor..i waees for the American laborer. Noble County Democrat. All eyes are upon the sente even thos of Beckham. Mr. Wilson and Queen Lilli. Mt. Vernon Demovrat. Jf the incon;" tiv becomes a. law it will be th prcaiest victor?" th West evr gained over the Lift. Mt. Vernon Democrat. There ar indication.'' thit the credit of the United States Is still f od. Witness the greed for ill" United States bon d . K ok omo T i 1 n es . Th prospective reduction in tin-p'ate tariff is having little d--riniental effect on the industry. ELxood works are i.j full blast and new null. about tu be erected. Madison I emo. rat. Fvery dollar of the deficiency tint exists or is in sight is ilun to republic?. n legislation and republican extravagance. The new bond issue will bo known in history ar the rcput'li'-an deficiency debt. iSvnn-sville Courier. Of the thirteen congressmen In th rtatc of Indiana, eleven recorded their votes in favor of the Wilson bill. If other states could show t-uch a record the hlph-taxers would not be in it for a single minute. Columbia City lV:-t. With that precious tin-plate infant giving the puJiic-pr. niot ers the roar, '..w-br.-d horse laugh from a igornxis

pal f I -tries 'Id shivers are chasing themsch'e? down the spiivil columns of liie protection c rcar.s. Kokomo D;spat. h. The republican state central vonunitt;o is issuing written instrin tie-ns to the local organizations P adopt the "blocks and neighb-.rh" -1 system" at the coming election. We tiresome this is a revial Of Dldley's 'blocks of live" scheme. Washington Denioera t. Kep sowing we..d. democrats. Th tide has turned in your favor and It will sweep everything before it. The cloud that, have bidden th- sun of Austerlit;? are passing away and a. xiop.ry greater than that of Napoleon will crown the army of Crescent. the plain people. Frankfort The conduct of the democrats in the hor.se. as we have before remarked, i.-i admirable. The adoption of the resolution reported by the committee on foreign relations with only three dissenting democratic votes tells the story a eiiscipline that is invincible. There has been no disjHesition exl-.ibtfd 10 shrink rsp.ntdhilUy for the acts of the administrate. n. Audi rsott I enioerat. Yes. the Wilson mopt rovjt y has passed the house. If it passes the sri ata in its present form we will five bond f ray to public harity $.. on the day the republican partv passes a tariff la-v materially increasing its schedules, provided the country Is not at war. This offer 5s made with the understanding that it is void unless some protectionist agrees to pay a like amount if the increase is not made. Rookville Tribune. The republicans in the senate fir trying to delay the tariff bill all they inn, and yet the country is cursint the Fnat8 for beinp ?,- sjew on a me-asuie fj,- important to tl: country. T hold the Wils-in bill back until ov-ry interested manufacturer In the country attends and puts in his protest would be an outrac on th masses of the people that cannot po to Washington o inter, ed" in thel own behalf. Washington Democrat. Gen. Mau.-'T.. the stalwart old veteran, li3s j-'lneel tlie incthodist chun h. ar.el after an active career in jea. . and war will prepare himself for the final summons, whc:i he must answer for th eleeds done in the body. The Ru.'er of the unherse will deal kindly with the old veteran. He has a humane heart. He has achieved nierite 1 recognition in an honorable way and abides peacefully near tl-.e river of death. Loganport Pharos. At the meeting e.r the deiii"crat?c sta' central e-oinmittce last week at th" apital the Hon. Tib-mas Taggart wa reelected chairman. The rec-rd mad"' ry Mr. Tagtrart in the campaign of ls2was a meist enviable one. and placed him in the f rent lank of political managers in this country. He was absent from the meeting, but says he wi'l accept the offie-e and make the campaign this year a repetition of the campaign of two years ago. Columbia City Post. The crank. Coxey. of Massillon. o, wl.o proposed to mareh rn Washington. "jOo.txid stronr. te demand tin- passage of sundry wild schemes of finance. i reported to be meeting with a great deal of ene-ouragement. He may be able P pet together a crowd of cranks, communists and anarchists that will raufe a good deal of trouble before they can be dispersed. If they could all be thrown into the Potomac- they might prove of some benefit as food for the run of shad this summer. New Albany Ledger. Now that he tariff bill is in the senate, the people are looking anxiously to that body to do- something find that promptlw The temporising, dilly-dallying policy employed by the senate last summer in the discussion of the repeal of the Sherman act was so disgusting in the public eye that, the body was universally condemned and looked 111 n as a sort of an obstructing nuisance. There is now present an opportunity te regain the prestige lost, and the senators will be very short -sighted if they do not reeop-rdi the chance. Columbia City Post. No tariff hearings are needed. It is known already that the tnritT-prote. te.J trust proprietors will say. They will say they can't walk al ne. but must continue to be carried on the hacks of tli; toiling millions. And they will lie when they say u lie as they announce in advan e that they intend to lie if the income tax bill is passed. They can walk as well as any of us. They can walk be tter than any of us. f r they have had a century's rest. Walking i-m't as pleasant as riding, and what they menwhen they say they can't walk is thit thfr-y don't want to. Torre Haute Gazette. There are but few better managed publie, institui b-ns in this or any other state than the northern prison under the supervision of the H.ei. J. W. French, the present warden. During the year tho improvements ordered by tim last Dpislature have be-on maele by a much Less expenditure thin was at first thought necessary: the buildings being exceptionally fine in appearam-e and modern in const i notion. A water works plant of large capacity was also put ia at a nominal ovt. N public officer has ever better performed his duty -r more earefully guarded his trust than has Mr. French in his efforts during the summer. If all publi.' money appropriated for such purposes was as well invested and a carefully paid out as that voted to tie northern prison th.re weuld le no oaute for complaint on the part of tax-payers. Llgonier Banner. I lure XrriiiUDDrhi it ml rot ln i Ion. Dr. Shoop's Restorative Nerve Pills sent Lee with IrdhiJ look to pro merit, for 2e stamp. Druggists, 20c. Dr. Shoop, Box X, Racine, Wis. 14 r 1