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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

S. E. MORSS, President, BEN A. EATON, Vic President. b. McCarthy, Secretary and Treasurer. (Entered at the I'ontofHce at Indianapolis as aecond claaa matter.) TERMS PER YEAR I Single ropy (lit Advance) 91 OO We auk democrats to bear in mind aad select their own state paper when they come to take subscriptions and make up clubs. Aarents making up clobs seud for ay Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY, FEURIARV 2S 1MI. Protection has carried Pennsylvania! The Dutch have taken Holland. The democratic press of Indiana is ' unanimous in Its demand for the immediate parage of the Wilson bill by the enate. Sam Small has been enjoined from running a democratic newspaper in Oklahoma City. Go to Cincinnati, Samuel. They need one there. Italy's treasury is short i:,0,noO,000 lire. The Indiana republican editorial association ought to make up this deficiency and still not thin its ranks very much. - A duty on lead would bo an injustice to the infant tin-pite industry which has barely got started in its work of passing off lead composition plates for tin pUtes. Coal has dropped 25 cents per ton in New York City. There are big piles of it in Chicago which will have to drop more than that before It is sold. Chicago Inter Ocean. And yet yoa favor a tariff on coal. Now it is claimed the slate is already fixed for the republican state ticket. This 13 as it should be. The republican party is entirely governed by bosses who merely permit the masses of the party to do the voting. The appointment of Mr. Bynum as a member- of the executive committee of the democratic congressional committe? will give general satisfaction in this state. Mr. Bynum is a, good general and a hard fighter and democrats of Indiana will feel that their interests will be well looked after by him. It is pretty hard at this distance to see what Mrs. Woodhull-Martln expects to fpaln by her suit against the trustees of the British museum. Judging from her past, however, it might be pretty safe to guess that she merely seeks to keep her name before the public. Notoriety Is food and light and air to the erratic Victoria. The record made by the Indiana democrats during the deadlock in the house has been a splendid one. They have been in their seats at all times and have answered to their names on every rollcall. They apparently realize fully what they were sent to Washington for and are endeavoring to carry' out the wishes of their constituents. They may have the satisfaction of knowing that the democracy of Indiana Is well pleased with them. During the quasi riot in the house on Thursday, when an attempt was male to call Gen. Sickles to order. Mr. Cummlngs arose and "with uplifted arm and ringing voice," shouted. "You did not call him to order at Gettysburg!" We were very much impressed with this dramatic event at first, but on mature consideration there seems to be a want of connection between the two events a lack of aproposness. as it were. Bo far as we can learn no one was called to order at Gettysburg not even the rebels, who were engaged in the obnoxious business of shooting at the national flag. If the fact that a person was not called to order at ttysburg exempts him fnm being called to order at any subsequent time it would appear necessary to dispense with calls t order alt -father. It strikes us that this Gettysburg business is being a triffie overworked In the case of Gen. Pickles. This world is slowly washing1 away, pays the author of a book recently published by the French Academy of Science. French savants are given to sensationalism. However, this theory need worry no one alive today, as the author Fays it will take four and a half millions of years to do away with our planet by this process of washing. The theory is to the effect that, taking into consideration the wear and tear on the solid land by ocean washing, river erosion and wind and weather, to say nothing of probable volcanic action, the world will, by the end of four and a. half million years, be completely washed away, and the ocean will roll over the present foundations of our great continents. But does this Frenchman consider that the land washed off of our continent or body of land will simply cling to another or bank up Into a new continent. The acres of land that are washed down the Mississippi river stop at its mouth or in that vicinity and eventually Louisiana will grow into a much larger state. The city of New Orleans stands on made ground. Cypress logs have been bored through 150 feet below the surface of the land on which the Crescent city is built. Many devices are constantly being created or suggested to persuade people to go to church. Why I it necessary? Some of the metropolitan paper hav recently given space in their Monday l-sues to descriptions of the toilets worn by certain fashionable l.idir. This may Increase the attendance of tome churches, and at all events we are assured that the columns containing ser mons and describing toilets are read j

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with more than ordinary Interest by some people. Charles Dudley Warner, in a recent contribution to Harper's magazine, says In regard to this matter: "Wouli not many a sinner be induced to turn his steps to. the sanctuary by such announcements as these: 'Pretty women in pretty gowns,' TrcUy gowns at the churches.' . 'Faultless creations worn by the ladies at the houses of worship?" Especially when the names of the women are given in full, so that the descriptions can be verified. The descriptions are not chance shots by dazl?d leiHjrters; they are minute ;nd a (.-urate, and could bo used by a .nodiste for the reproduction of the costumes." "Surely some kind of a millennium is at nand," concludes Mr. Warner, "when women study their toilets for the church and have them reported in Monday's newspapers." But what about the men, Mr. Warner? We suppose you have already made up your mind that if the ladies can be Induced to go to church, the rougher and more irreligious s-x will follow. THE COST OF PROTECTION. Our Attio contemporary, the Crawfordsville Journal, thinks that the German government is doing a wise thing in paying a bounty on sugar made in that country and exported from it, and that we ought to do the same thing. It

thinks that the "policy of buying of other nations who can manufacture things cheaper than we can would be a capital iolicy if we were all millionaires and had tixed incomes." but inasmuch as we are not we ought to tax ourselves to give ourselves incomes. The thing appears to be axiomatic to the Journal for it asks: "Jf we buy our supplies from nations that can manufacture them cheaper, on account of cheap labor, than we can, where will our own laborers lind employment?" And after ruminating on this proposition it winds up with this statement of the case: The theory of The Sentinel and those who train with It entirely ignores the consideration that before a poor man can buy he must be able to earn something to buy with. He has nothing to sell or exchange for what he wants but his lab'r: and it is idle to propose to him a jolioy that promises him cheap good3 at the expense of a sacrifice of the only market in which he can sell his labor. If we buy of other nations and thereby destroy our own industries where will our own laborers rind employment? Who will answer this question? This is a false assumption that other nations can produce eheaer than we can. As a matter of fact it is known to everybody that there is no nation which cannot produce enough to support its people cheaper than any other nation can furnish support to them. It makes no difference how ignorant the people are, or how poorly supplied with the tools and processes which science arid art have devised. Where is the nation that is not self-supporting, free trade or tariff, black or white, civilized or uncivilized? There is none. All nations supply themselves in some way, and where they are not pushed into artificial lines by mistaken legislation they always produce that which they tan produce to greatest advantage. In this particular case Germany cannot produce sugar a-s cheaply as other nations can. The fact that her rulers have given this bounty is conclusive evidence of that. Her farmers, who are now raising sugar beets, have been taken out of employment at which they formerly supIorted themselves, and put into employment at which they are supported by the government. And this is the universal case with protection. It takes men out of remunerative employment and puts them In unremunerative employment, in which they are supported by taxes levied on their fellow citizens. This is the fundamental principle of protectionism. It is conceded by all protectionists. The justification offered for it is that after a while these industries will become self-supporting, and the tax oh the remainder of the community will be withdrawn. But. if we may believe the political protectionists of this country, this time never comes. We have been protecting various industries for a century, and we are fctill informed that if we do not continue to tax ourselves thse industries will lo ruined. The Sentinel does not believe this. It does not believe there is a single industry of any kind in this country that cannot compete with foreigners in this country or elsewhere. It does not believe that "cheap labor" is .as cheap as "dear labor," or that it can compete with It anywhere. But the Journal and other Iolitical protection .tapers insist that this is all wrong, and let us suppose for the. moment that they are right. Supine that we are in a condition where none of these industries we have been supporting for an hundred years are aide to take care of themselves. Supjone that the moment the people quit ta,xing themselves to support them the , Industries go to pieces, and the workmen are thrown out of employment. What then? Necessarily this. We have subjected ourselves to perpetual taxation to support people, who would have supported themselves if our legislation had not put them on an artificial plane. If this be true, certainly any country is foolish to start more industries of the same kind. That is exactly what Germany is doing with its sugar bounty. When the time for the expiration of the bounty comes the Interested classes will say, you Induced us to go Into this business. You induced us tc buy farm machinery and build sugar factories. We have built up a great industry. If you withdraw the bounty the business will go to pieces and the men will be thrown out of employment. That Is Just what the sugar planters and refiners of this country are saying today. Hence you must continue the tax on people- engaged in remunerative employment to keep others engaged In unremunerative employment. Is there any wisdom in starting such an Industry? Would any sensible man aet that way In his own affairs? And yet this country Is today taxing the people who arc earning their living In order to '

support others who are engaged in industries at which they say they cannot earn a living. That is protectionist theory. As a matter of faef! think the peojWe are taxing themselves to build up gigantic fortunes for manufacturers and mine-owners.

THE PROGRESS OF CALAMITY. Among the telegrams in our colums recently were the following in regard to Indiana manufacturing concerns: KOKOMO. Feb. 19. Special. The Union fiber company of this place began the enlargement of their plant today and will increase the present capacity of their mills fully one-third. They make binder's board and trunk board exclusively and have been running only since the first of the year. The demand for their product is now far in excess of the capacity of the mills. ANDERSON, Feb. 1?. Special. The Pennsylvania glass works of this city resumed operations today, putting 300 men to work. The outlook in the bottle and flask line is promising, and should it prove as good as anticipated factory No. the Meridian, employing a like number of men. will be opened in the course of a week or ten days. ANDERSON. Feb. 19. Special. W. H. Porter today let the contract for the erection of the buildings of the corrugated iron works company that located in this city last week. W. S. Hays & Son secured the work. The excavations will be commenced the last of the week. These are quite conclusive evidence that Indiana Is in lino with the remainder of the country' in the resumption of business, notwithstanding the great dread of the infamous Wilson bill. As the passage of the bill draws nearer factories are resuming in all parts of the country. All through February there has been a resumption of business, in several of them strikes having ended favorably to the men. On the I'd the Pioneer pottery company of Wellsville, O., acceded to the demands of the striking potters, and work was resumed at the old wages immediately. One hundred and fifty men are employed. At Detroit the Farrand Voley organ company has increased its force to fo men, and running with full complement of hands In a couple of weeks. The Detroit safe company is working full forces night and day. J. F. Holies fc Co. have 50 per cent, of their regular force at work; the E. T. Barnum wire and iron works are running at half capacity, and the Detroit dry dock company has put additional men to work, and reports that the prospects are decidedly brighter. At a meeting of the board of directors of the American tin-plate company, held Feb. 1, it was decided to double the capacity of the plant, as it has been found impossible to fill orders at the present rate of production 3,0'X) boxes a week. With the increased facilities they will employ 70o mn and turn out 1,000 boxes a day. Operations have been resumed in three butt mills at Middletown. Pa., ti be works, giving employment to 500 nun. The Ashville emery mills of Perth Ambcty, which have been closed for several months, have resumed business with a full force of employes. The Birmingham, Ala., rolling mills, the biggest industry there, signed a contract for raw material and decided to resume operation at once. This means employment to over 500 men. The mill has been shut down for six months. The Oregon paper mills of reekskill, X. Y., have resumed operations. The Uulon stove works' "big shop" has begun work. The "little shop" will soon follow and more than foundrymen will find employment after a forced vacation. The New York stove works have resumed work with nearly 100 men and in a fewdays will le running full blast. The other foundries are getting ready to resume labor at an early day. The I'oekskill hat factory, which has just removed from Yonkers to Petkskill. and for which the Peekskill board of trade has just completed a fifty-thousand-dollar factory, consisting of several fine, large brick buildings, is about ready for Work. Many workmen have moved up htre from Yonkers with their families. President W. II. Belknap announces that work will !egin at once. The hat factory will employ f.on men and women. The factory of the Baker underwear company has just started, the company having built a large three-story brick manufactory. The force of the factory will be 400 girls. Mr. Penman, superintendent of the steel works of Benjamin Atha & Illingsworth company of Newark. N. J., says that since the 1st of January business has been picking up steadily. He reports good prospects for spring. The Monitor iron works have resumed work after being Idle a month. Pinter & Co. report that their business in wagon manufacturing is improving. Mr. Meeker of the firm of Pa.smoro & Meeker says the prospects are good In his business, especially in the woodwork department. Trade revivals are reported from many quarters of Newark. In the leather business the oujtlook is good for this spring. S. Halsey & Son are steadily increasing the force of men in their leather factory and reixrl increasing sales. T. P. Howell & Co.. another big leather firm, are working a full force of men nine hours a day. The firm was working on half time less than two months ago. Hugh Smith. Stengle & Rothschild, and Henry Bang, who employ hundreds of men at their tanneries, report that full time is being made by all. In the kindred .alioe industry! I'- Boyden & Co., Johnson & Murphy and J." A. Bannister & Co.. whose employes have been working three-quarter time, are now running their shops on full time. On the 19th the immense factory of the J. I. Case thrashing machine company, which has been closed for the past five months, depriving six hundred men. nearly all of them heads of families, of employment, started tip with a full force. Enough orders ha.'e been received to keep the works in operation for several months. On the same day the works of the Wheeler &. Wilson manufacturing company, which has been idle for several weeks, started up with a full force of employes. The only thing that is necessary to make this resumption of business more rapid Is the passage of the Wilson bill. Let it be a law by March 4, and business will be in good condition very soon afterward.

WHO LOOTED THE TIIKASIRV. We have repeatedly warned our neighbor the Journal of the awful danger it incurred by resorting to figures, but it again risks its life in that way. It is now engaged in showing that there was no money In the national treasury when Mr. Cleveland went out of office in 1889 and that there was a large amount In the treasury when Mr. Harrison went out in 1S93. It says: "The public debt statement of March 1, 18S9, three days before Gen. Harrison's inauguration, shows a net cash balance in the treasury of $18,000,000 Instead of $185,000,000, as Senator Voorhees says." This is perhaps the most extraordinary discovery that has yet leen made concerning the condition of the treasury, and It shows ur the duplicity of republican officials in a Ftrung light. For instance, in his message to congress of Decernljer 9, 1MI1, President Harrison said: The presence of a large cash surplus in the treasury has for many years been the subject of much unfavorable criticism and has furnished an argument to those who have desired to place the tariff upon a purely revenue basis. It tvas agreed by all that the withdrawal

from circulation of so large an amount of money was an embarrassment to the business of the country and made necessary the intervention of the department at frequent intervals to relieve threatened monetary panics. The surplus on March 1. 1SS9. was J1S3.S27.1 90.29. The lolicy of applying this surplus to the redemption of the interest-bearing securities of the United States was thought to be preferable to that of depositing it without interest in releeted national banks. There have been redeemed since the date last mentioned of Interest-bearing securities J259.079.r,50, resulting in a reduction of the annual Interest charge of Jll.6R4.67r. This shows what a liar Mr. Harrison is. according to the Journal's statement, and also shows his policy of getting all the money out of the treasury so that it would not be an argument for tariff reform nor a breeder of panics. The republican platform had declared in favor of getting rid of the surplus, and every republican official went In on Mr. Tanner's principle' of "God htdp the surplus IC I get a chance at it." And Mr. Harrison and his ab'.e assistants did get the surplus out of the treasury. But note this fact, after Mr. Harrison had used up the surplus which Mr. Cleveland left he never redeemed another lond. In his message of Dec. 6, 1X92, Mr. Harrison said: "The public debt has been reduced since March 4. $259.074. 200. and the annual interest charge $ll,CSi,4C9 the same figures that he gave the year before, with a reduction of a few hundred dollars, probably due to some clerical error. A winde year passed and not a bond redeemed. Why? Because Mr. Cleveland's surplus was all gone. And in this message of Dee. 6, 3892, Mr. Harrison further says: "The cash balance in the treasury at the end of the fiscal year (June 00, 1S93) it is estimated will be 52'.992,377.03." At that time .Mr. Harrison made no bones of the looting of the treasury. He admitted it and said he was proud of it. In this same message of Dec. 6, 1JW2, he says: If there are any who still think that the surplus should have been kept out of circulation by hoarding it in the treasury, or deposited in banks without interest while the government continued to pay the very banks interest upon the bonds deposited as security for the deiHjslts, or who think that the extended lension legislation was a public robbery, or that the duties upon sugar should have been maintained. I am content to leave the argument where it now rests, while we wait to see whether these c riticisms will take the form of legislation. In view of these statements, and of the known fact that Mr. Foster changed the system of treasury bookkeeping in order to avoid showing a deficit, and that bonds were ordered to be printed by Mr. Foster In preparation for replenishing the exhausted treasury, it is rather late now for the Journal to attempt to claim that there was not about $1S5,K0.000 of surplus cash in the treasury when Mr. Harrison went in, or that there was a deficit tmder the ante-Foster system of bookkeeping when he went out. It was this exhaustion of the treasury that produced the pnnic of isr:5, which was a bank panic purely at the beginning, due to a belief that the government would bo unable to . maintain specie payments under the pressure of the Wall-st. bankers who were trying to force an issue of bonds.

WHEN THIEVES FALL Ol T. An interesting case is in progress at Toledo, which develops the fact that the A. P. A. of that place have been furnishing themselves, with the latest improved firearms. It results from a quarrel among the members of this treasonable organization at that point. The defendant, G. W. Ostrander, says that he was one of a committee of five appointed to purchase the arms for -the organization, and that he believes the suit was instigated by the other members of the committee in order to satisfy personal grudges and get him into trouble. Tint he did not propose to bear the responsibility alone. Far from it. When the case was called the defendant, by his attorney, 15. F. Reno, an A. P. A. leader, filed a motion, supported by his own affidavit, to make Police Commissioner Poville, Joseph Batch, G. H. Jay and G. L. Butterfield parties defendant as partners. lie said they were equally interested in the purchase of firearms, which it was soon admitted were purchased for the local American protective association councils. This revelation is the more Interesting because Toledo is one of the cities in which the A. 1. A. worked the canard that, the catholics were preparing to ariso and murder all the protestants in the country. A deputy sheriff named Stanberry was iartieularly active in circulating a statement that the Pasement of every catholic church in Toledo was filled with arms and ammunition to be used for the slaughter ordered in the forged encyclical letter which we exposed several months ago. The story caused a great deal of excitement and was finally settled by an investigating tour by a number of gentlemen, including representatives of the press, who examined every nook and corner of the churches and found nothing more dangerous than stove wood and coal. The same scoundrelly falsehood was worked at Saginaw, Mich., In behalf of a republican candidate for congress. And now It appears from this quarrel among the patriots that they are guilty of doing the very thing that they falsely charged on their catholic neighbors. More than likely they were engaged in It at the very time they brought their false accusation. How comfortable they must feel in their present situation. How satisfactory they must find it to be exposed to the contempt and scorn of all decent people. We wish them joy in this development of their scheme for their own political advancement. ABANDONS ITS PARTY. Our neighbor, the Journal, has decided to abandon republicanism altogether. It asserts now that nothing Is to !c hoped front foreign trade, and that the only relief that can come to the people of this country is from fencing themselves in entirely. It ays the "facts go to show that the farmers of this country must look more and more to the home market for .the -sale of their wheat and othr products. That market is worth all the

others in the world." All of the great things that were to come to the farmer from reciprocity have vanished. The Pan-American scheme is a fraud and a delusion. The Hon. James G. Blaine did not know what he was talking about, and B. Harrison wasted his time' in claiming credit for it. Not only these distinguished republicans were all wrong, but dozens of other republican leaders who saw the necessity of free raw materials for this country were equally mistaken. There was Henry Wilson, for instance, who was considered a good republican in his day, who said: I think American labor will be best protected by taxing all the necessaries of life lightly; placing the raw materials which enter into our manufactures on the free list: raising revenue to support the government upon articles that come in competition with our manufactures and upon the luxuries of lifewhieh are consumed by the more wealtny classes of society. And Senator Henry E. Dawes, also an eminent republican authority, who said: The duty must be levied on the raw material or on the manufactured article. Jf you levy It on the raw material you discriminate against American labor, and if you levy it on the manufactured article you discriminate in favor of American labor. You must have either a protective tariff or a tariff whth discriminates against American lalor. Ulysses S. Grant wifs known as a republican, and he said in his mesage of 1ST: I would mention those articles which enter into manufactures of all sorts. .Ml duty paid uin such articles goes directly to the cost of the article when manufactured here, ami must be paid for by the consumers. These duties not only come from the consumers at home, but act as a protection to foreign manufacturers of the same completed articles in our own and distant markets. President Arthur said in his message of 18S2: I recommend an enlargement of the free list so as to include within it the numerous articles which yield Inconsiderable revenue, a simplification of the complex and inconsistent schedule of duties upon certain manufactures, particularly those of cotton, iron and steel, and a substantial reduction of tiie duties upon those articles, and upon sugar, molasses, silk, wool and woolen goods. And again, in his mesage of p;si: The healthful enlargement of our trad" with Europe, Asia and Africi should be sought by reducing tariff burdens on such of their wares as neither we nor the other American states are fitted to produce, and thus enabling ourselves to obtain in return a better market for our supplies of food, of raw materials, and of the manufactures in which we excel. Mr. Knute Nelson, the foremost republican of Minnesota, said on March 29.

1SSS: Worthier, better and juster, it seems to my mind, would It be to give our people the tolling masses cheaper food, cheaper fnel. eheayer clothing anil cheaper shelter cheaper because released from the heavy and unnecessary bondage of high tariff taxes. I will put free sugar, free coal, free salt and free lumber against free whisky and free tobacco under all circumstances, and so v PI the great mass of the American people. The Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the treasury under Presidents Eincoln and Arthur, said in his annual report for ixvi: 1 Tint the existing duties upon raw materials which are to be used in manufacture slculd be removed. This can be done in the interest of our foreign trade. 2 That the duties upon the articles used r consumed by those who are the least able to bear the burden of taxation should be reduced. This also can be effected without prejudice to our txport trade. And President Garfield said on April 1, 1S70: Duties should be so high that our manufacturers can fairly compete with the foreign product, but not so high as to enable them to drive out the foreign article, enjoy a monopoly of the trade, and regulate the prices as they please. This is my doctrine of protection. If congress pursues this line of policy steadily we shall, year by year, approach more nearly to the basis of free trade, because we shall be more nearly able to compete with other nations on equal terms. 1 am for a protection which leads to ultimate free trade. The Journal has now not an idea on the tariff question in common with these recognized leaders of its party. Following in the lead of McKinley and Reed, who are the brains of the party as it now exists, the Journal has submitted, body and soul, to the conscienceless demand of the trusts and combines which have been built up in this country in the name of protection to American labor. What an awful descent from what was republicanism when republicanism was compa i-at ively respectable. The employes of th Trenton potteries are making things very pleasant for their employers, who are proposing to rut wages al:iit 20 per cent, in order to bulldoze congress into giving larger protection to p'jtt'-ry. But the men have retaliated by publishing a statement in which they declare that the manufacturers "want to bulldoze t he senate into permitting them to retain their bounties, drawn from the American people, which they have never shared with the men, and then they will reduce wages just the same." And further that "many of our men have worked in England and know that the proposed scale, even without the 20 per cent, conditional reduction, provides for lower wages in many branches of work than are paid there." They wind up with the following exposure of the tariff fraud in that industry: The cost of raw material in plain china Is about 50 per cent, according to most authorities. The tariff is imposed not vqon the co'st of labor in goods, but upon the whole value of them, and if it is imposed to make up the difference in wages in England and in New Jersey, then tha money ought to le given to the man on this side. A tariff of 55 per cent, on Imported crockery, one-half the value of which is in the labor that went to make it and the other half in the raw material, ought to give an American workman 110 per cent, more wages than are paid in Europe. The American worklngman seems to have considerable skill in protecting himself. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. Truth. Noblesvillo We have heretofore mentioned the difficulty of giving exact figures as to the reduction of the public debt in the past eight years on' account of the change of bookkeeping. On June 30. 1S9. what were classed as available assets in the treasury and depositories amounted tr $5S7.tG",G07.S7. and the certificates, etc., outstanding against this amounted to $391.227.794. leaving a -balance of $2. 702. R13. 97. But this did not iii-lud-th 'minor coin" and fractlonaJ rtlver

coin," amounting to $2,263,800.33, which are clashed as "available assets" in the report of 1893. Adding these, to put the comparison on the same basis, the total balance in the treasury of available funds was $322,008,614.30, or less the gold reserve held as security for the greenback circulation, a total of $222.0$S,61 4.30. . . On June 3, 1?93. the available assets were reported at J74S.538.655.5S, and the certificate, etc., outstanding against this amounted to $584.593.920, leaving a balance of $161.941.735.58, or. less the gold reserve, $61.944,735.58. To ascertain what is the "net balance" in the treasury there must be deducted from the sums.sivcn above the 5 per cent, redemption fund, disbursing officers' balances, outstanding checks and notes, fund for redemption of notes of failed national banks, etc. . This leaves the two funds as follows: June 3". I flX".,124.srt June 3. 193 2.141.251.74 This Is about as near a comparison of the funds in the treasury ot the time Mr. Harrison came in and at the time he went out as we can give from the authorities at hand. By the report of the secretary of the treasury for the year ending June 3" 1893. "the amount of free gold In the treasury on the 7th day of March, 1!3. was $100,982.410. or J9S2.410 in excers of the lawful reserve." On June 30, 1SS. It was $1Rfi.2i.7.49. 79. It was this decrease of the gold reserve that precipitated the mouey panic of 1893. The figures above given are taken from the reports of the secretary of the treasury for 1S-89 and 1893. TIIE SENATE AND THE TARIFF.

It would be be'ter to report soon. The people ate waltiiif.. There Is too much delay. Osgood Journal. It has been humiliating to all honest democrats to see the senate committee giving heed to the sugar and whisky trusts and listening to men who have special interests to "protect." to the detriment of the whole people, it is to be hoped there will le no cause for further complaint. Lebanon Pioneer. The I'nited States senate is a contlnu.il stumbling block to useful and urgent legislation. The Wilson tariff bill, in such hili favor with the people, is likely to be sn badly delayed and butchered In the senate that it will be unrecognizable when it is parsed. Tn- Sentinel moves to abolish the senate. Failing in this the next bet thingwould bo to elect the "old grannies" by a direct vote of the people. Then the people could make them walk the chak If they were derelict In their duty and service to the people. Clay City Sentinel. ET CETERA. Chameleons they may wear, but there are ho Hies on American girls. Philadelphia Times. One of the greatest troubles mankind experiences Is how not to say what it desires to say. Milwaukee Journal. A good many men are like cheap theatrical bills. A very little money cause them to be stuck up. BufTaJo Courier. During lAnt one is expected to give up earthly pleascres. Mrs. Incase should quit fighting for awhile.- Chicago Dispatch. The Mexicans propose to revive their national sport, hull-tlirhting. in the lwlief that It will t?nd to decrease drunkenness.-N. Y. World. The Jewish historical soci"ty of Kneland recently held a meeting in Iondon In honor of Oliver Cromwell on the 2-'Cth anniversary of the prant of riuhts of residence to the lirst Jewish settlors in lxndoii by hi 111. The ct ynu.lopisl deals a blow to sentiment by showing that the mountain from which the Kearsarge look her name was originally known as Ibzckiah Sarent's mountain, from which the slovenly speech of the natives evolved Kiah Sarge, then Kearsarge. Ha ron Cauiille Blanc, one of the principal owners of the Monte Carlo casino, told an American last week that the tables were S.:.','") francs behind last year's winnings, and last, season w as not a good one. The hard times, and not any Improvement in morals, are to blame for it. They tell this story of a Chicago man in New York. He went to Abbey's theater to bear "IEnfant Prudigue." the dainty pantomime, which everyone has either seen or heard of. After the lirst ;o t he rushed off to an car cbxtor's to find out why he couldn't hear anything but the orchestra. Society people in New York are getting sonic amusement out of the ice bridge which has formed at Niagara Falls. They make up little congenial parties, charter a special car and take along a cook and plenty of provisions. The ice formation at the falls this year is sail to be wonderfully leautiful. A fond father in New" York has lost his little Willie. The Sun prints the following communication from htm: "He in POl'T 4 foot 4 or 5, dark complexion, black hare, wore a black sheviott suit, long pans, brown felt hat. and soft blew shirt. If he is in New York city holt onto him. and notify his father." .lust before he dieil Sir Andrew Clark sail in an interview just published in the British Medical Journal: "The force, energy and versatility of Cladslonc's nervous powers are far beyond those of an ordinary man in the prime of life. To him work H not exhausting, but restorative: it is his true stimulus and keeps him young and Vigorous." The city of Vienna i now purporting. partially or entirely, about 21.) persons who are aged or infirm, and to I6, of them it grants monthly pensions, and also in many cases rooms, fires and lights. For the rest it provides homes in charitable institutions of one sort or another. These homes are very comfortable and pleasant and the inhabitants contented and happy. Charles Dickens once received an invitation to a "Walter Scott" party, each guest being expected to appear In the character Of one or the other of Scott's heroes. On the eventful nicht, however, Dickens appeared in simple evening dress, among a host of Bob Boys and Ivanhoes. The host asked him which of Scott's characters he represented. "Why, sir," replied Dickens. "I am a character you will find in every one of Scott's novels. I am the 'gentle reader.' " . The Country' editors of Illinois are planning an excursion to England and "the contlnong." The itinerary will Include London, Stratford-on-Avon, the principal cities of Kngland and Scotland, and. In fact, all the principal cities of Europe, including Antwerp and the international exposition. The queen has given directions that Hampton Court palace and Windsor castle lie thrown open to their inspection. It is to be hoped that the country' editors of Illinois will approve the queen's domestic arrangements. An authority on how to do everything correctly says: "It cannot be too strongly emphasized that "pink dinners." "yellow dinners," violet luncheons." and the like are not "good style," although they are "continually recommended to the public by writers on decoration. Yellow satin ribbon and yellow tissue paper flowers can never take the place with people "who know" cf the spotless napery, brilliantly polished ilver and immaculate crystal of a well kept table.

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The express companies " calT it "OH Horse." but to the masses it. Is known pimply as the fieterogeneous pile of stuff which Is sent through the express offices and which is sold to the highest bidder to pay for the charges, never having been called for by those to whom the package are addressed. A man bids for a bundle and it is knocked down to him for a small sum. He doesn't know what he has bought until he opens the package, ard then there are some amusing discoveries. There was one of these sales yesterr, at one cf the express offices and as usual there was 3 large number of Udders for the several packages and bundles. Everybody was there to get something for nothing. Ten years ago, in a sale In New York, a man liouht a pacjeage of money containing $i2.0 for BO cents and that ha made a ready sale for "old horse" ever since. No more packages of money hav turned up. however. At the sale yesterday there was put up for sale a large. ' oblong-shaped bundl that was so nicely tied up that there wa spirited bidding for it. Some one started It at $2 and it was raised in a few minutes to $7-$S $9. Everybody wanted It, becaus b thought some one else wanted it. That is always the way at a:i puetiori sale. Well, finally the price of the bundle wa raised neyond the pile of the bidders one by one and it was knocked down to a young business, who is unmarried. There, was great excitement. Some man offered him a dollar for his bargain, but It wa refused with scorn. Everybody Insisted that it be opened right there and at last the purchaser acceded to the general demand. He was a little anxious himself to know what was the nature of his valuable purchase. The papers were taken off on by one and the eajrer crowd surged back and forth trying to pet the firs view of the treasure when it was brought to lipht. When he came to the last piec of paper his luuid was trembling and tber was deathly stillness in the room. Th sale, had, of course, leen stopped. The paper was lifted and the treasure revealed a baby's coffin. And he spent the rr-st of the day visiting the undertakers trying to fret them to take it off his hands. Th highest bid he Kot for it m $n cents. All can't draw prizes, even in an "oil horse" sale. In the evening, when from business eure The mind would fain b free. How it turns to hours of childhood That were spent en mother's kne. That dear old face, so leautlful. ThouKh lined and seamed with care 'Tis gone now; and before the hearth There stands a vacant chair. How she'd take 11s on her knee, and. As we gazd up In her face. She would utter words of comfort That even time cannot efface. And then again, the mind fills up With echoes of thos sounds When she'd turn us up across her kne With our faces upside down. T. (To bo suns: to the tune. "That Is Love.) Tw o men were struggling in the dark indeadly fight. The neighborhood for blocks round wo in a ft ight. A pistol phot rang out upon th? coldcold -nicht. That was all That was all. II. A man lay deal upon the street robbed f his wealth. Policemen ran up swiftly to the scene of -death. And when they pot thre stopped to only cn t eh t liei r brea t h. That was ail-That was all. TIIK STATU IMtKSS. The striking peculiarity of the Harris! presidential boom is that it doesn't boom in Indiana. Seymour Democrat. Perhaps Mr. Sovereign is besrlnnintf to have doubts as to the extent, and accuracy of his legal knowledge. Osgood Journal. We should not be surprised to hear through th republican newspapers that Judge Oresham was a deserter. Loganslort Pharos. The land teems with the "herring" class of tariff reformers. Legislation that lenefits all. and not a cla.s is tha demand of the hour. Frankfort Crescent. Gen. Sickles seems to be fighting th president now about as bitterly as he did before the presidential nomination was made. Likewise with about the same amount of harm. Lapo'te Argus. Let laboring men remember that th two republican congressmen from this state voted against the income tax bill. Republicans don't want the capitalists to pay their share of the tax. Kushvill Jacksonian. The pinch-back republican enAtor have done their party quite as much harm in the Teckham business as Hill has inflicted upon the democracy. Both are squarely against decent government. Kokomo Dispatch. While congress can do nothing for want of a quorum, members are off looking after their private affairs and ilitieal fences. When a man is paid to discharge certain duties he should do hi duty or resign. New Albany ledger. The latent news from th senate subcommittee having the tariff bill under consideration Is to the effect that whatever changes may be made In the Wilson Mil the income tax will be retained. For that much let us be duly thankful. Kvansville Courier. The fact that" hustling, wjde-awak Thomas Taggart has again been selected chairman of the state central committer is sufficient to infuse renewed confidence in the democracy of our Hoosier state. With such ?. leader defeat is very improbable. Clay City Sentinel. "Wheat is two bushels for a. dollar." suggests the Hushville Republican, which leads us also to remind our cs teemed friend. Editor Moes. that wheal is yet enjoying the twenty-tive-cent "protect i ji" of the McKinley bill. Rul it won't long. Greensburg New Era. The truth is there can be 110 sweeping reforms accomplished until most of th "back numbers" that now make up the roll of membership of the senate are replaced with live, energetic, capable men in sympathy with the genius and inspiring impulses of the present generation. Evansville Courier. Gen. Fred KnePer evidently has a. grievance against Gen. Gresham. This grievance is a small exhibition of petty spite work which will do the accuser no good with thinking people. For one soldier, thirty years after the war closed, to try and blacken the record of another soldier, for partisan purples, is to say the least, dispicable. Frankfort Crescent. Ex-President Harrison simply ppokg the solemn truth when he referred ! "the present distress which we enjoy.' He was speaking to the members of th Lincoln league, and there was perhaps not a man there who does not thoroughly "enjoy" the present depression in; business, or who would not regret to see prosperity under a democratic administration. The army of the unemployed is all too small to satisfy them, and the starting of a factory has a depressing effect on their spirits. Lebanon Pioneer.