Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1894 — Page 4

THE -INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY "MORNING, MAY 9, 189 iT WELTE PAGES.'

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. B. E. MORSS, BEN A. EATON, Fraidaot, Vic Praaldcnk b. McCarthy, Secretary and Treaarr. .

Entered at the PoatofDce at Indian polls aa itrond class matter.) TERMS PER YEAR t Single copy tin Advance) fl OO We ask democrats to bear In mind nad select their own state paper Trhen they come to take subscriptions and make up clnbs. Agents maklic np clnbs send for any Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis. Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, MAY 0, ISM. 3Ir. Harrison Is wise in having no idea of being a candidate in 1S96. Such an Idea is too preposterous for anyone to seriously entertain. The Salvadoran rebellion has at last reached the fighting point. It has now assumed almost aa serious a phase as the Pennsylvania coke riot. Rüssel Sag has finally consented to let his assessment of personal property, for taxation, stand at 5500,000. Generous man! Possibly La Id law may get something after all. The reception tende.-ed Col. Breckinridge at Lexington gives some color to Miss Pollard's theory that the colonel Is an expert hypnotist. The only charitable explanation for the conduct of the LexIngtonlans 13 that they are under a fttrong hypnotic influence of some sort or other. In passing, it may be noted that all the republicans -who are talking about democratic concessions to trusts in the tariff bill admit that tariff concessions are for the benefit of trusts and not of the American workingman. of whom we used to hear so much. Keep this confession in mind for future use. In the last century savants had an idea that Immense possibilities were bound up In electricity. So far back as 1743 a Dr. Watson stretched a wire across the Thames and sent an electric shock through it from one observer to another. He was accused cf witchcraft and had much trouble in proving his innocence. Now it is announced that Sirs. "Willie K." Vanderbilt intends entertaining most lavishly In England during the season, surpassing anything the Astors have ever attempted. How Dickens would have enjoyed the spectacle of these descendants of a Dutch hide collector and a Hoboken ferryman dazzling the English aristocracy with their displays! Mr. Harrison's campaign is to be conducted on newspaper lines. The Commercial-Gazette was captured some weeks a uro. leaving McKinley without an influential organ in his own state. Now the Chicago Inter-Ocean, which has been carefully nurturing: the boom of the Napoleon of protection, has experienced a change of ownei:hlp and will advocate the renomination of the Indiana man. It Is Incidentally announced that John Wanamaker and Senator Quay are largely interested in the venture as financial backers. Steve Elkins is in the Commercial-Gazette deal. These interesting money-makers found President Harrison very useful and are willing to risk a good deal to get four years more Df his administration. We acknowledge with many thanks a copy cf the Madagascar News, published at Antananarivo, conveying the important Information that the government of that Island has granted to the Hon. John L. Waller a concession of land fifteen miles square in the newly discovered rubber district. It appears that a new rubber tree has been found, and that trading houses have been established at Farafangana, Yangiindra, Manaimbondro and Andrahomby. We congratulate John L. that while he has lost his Job he has done almost as well as Dan Ransdell's relatives in Washington in getting something better. We infer from the tone of the paper that Jchn would sell his concession in case there should be a general demand for such a movement on the part of American capitalists. Various dispatches from Washington Intimate that both Senators Voorhees and Turpie were artificially stimulated when they m?le their remarks on Monday. As to this we know not, but if it be true we trust they will stimulate again and sm.ish a few more of the traditions and precedents of "senatorial courtesy." Vices are objectionable, but senatorial courtesy is a crime. For years it has been the cover for fraud and scandal of ali sorts. We welcome any light that may be thrown on the actual proceedings of the national senate. We want the people to know that body as it is, that they may rise up in their wrath and either abolish or radically change It. It has become an excrescence on American government, a hindrance to progress, a walled town for the plunderers of the people. Last winter was a very peculiar one In Europe. Only a few weeks ago severe cold and snow were experienced so far south as Italy. Even in Venice the enow was five or six Inches deep. A correspondent, who was there a day or two ago, 'says the streets and the Piazza were almost deserted. At San Marco the bright mosaics and bronze horses looked cut of place and unhappy under their snow coverings. The snow was cleared away from the road, and great heaps were made in the Piazza. On the narrow pathways it froze so hard that It was difficult to keep one's footing. The lagoons from Mestic and all along the mainland were one 2iet fcX Lye, ßttetchix ;siSt to

Venice ' Itself, and large masses . -were floating In the Grand canal. Anything more funereal and gloomy than the sight of the black gondolas creeping about with snow on them cannot be imagined. Great suffering and misery prevailed among the poor. BIMETALLISM IS COMIXG. Well! well! Here comes old monometallism himself, in the person of the esteemed News, and says: "There are indications that the cause of bimetallism, in a general way. is winning: ground, both in Great Britain and on the continent of Europe, among economists and publicists." We should say it was, and it is not coming as a rleader. It is storming the strongholds of financial error both in England and in America. President Andrews has just fired a broadside Into the monometallists of Chicago, and there never were narrower and more bigoted monometalllsts than the gold-bug press of. that city, and the heads of the department of political economy in the University of Chicago. The only thing worth quoting, in the answers offered to him, by "the Chicago Tribune, is this statement of Banker Keith: There is not a single commodity that I can think of where the decline has not been the result of a cheapening in the cost of production and distribution or some advantage of science over nature's forces. Apparently, Mr. Keith is not a strong thinker, but even if what he can think of were true, did it ever occur to him or to any other monometallist that in the past twenty years the cost of producing gold has cheapened more than any article he can name, except a few manufactures made by newly invented machinery? In England, as appears from the telegraphic dispatches, the blmetallists are storming London, which is the last great English stronghold of monometallism, and we would call the attention of our free silver friends to this significant statement in the dispatches: Mr. Balfour claimed that the action of the United States had forced the Indian and British governments Into the system now prevallng, adding: "We ought to enter into an agreement with the countries of the world for a bimetallic joint standard. The solutions of the problem is easier now than it will be five years hence. Great is the responsibility of those who keep England in stupid, selfish isolation in this great question?" What action? The repeal of the Sherman law and the firm stand of Mr. Cleveland against free coinage by this country alone. How could that affect England? Simply enough. We have used Mr. Ehrlch's Illustration before, but It is so good that It will bear frequent repetition: There are ten mines on a hillside. All can work and take out ore, but all are greatly troubled by water. It interferes with making their output as large as it ought to be. One of these mines is at a lower level than the others. Every gallon that the owner or that mine pumps out tends, just In that proportion, to drain the other nine mines. He cannot afford to pump out the water for all. He wants the other mine-owners to join In that expense. What is his policy? Is it to say, "I shall keep rieht on pumping until you others join with me." Will that force the others to join? Is it not rather to sav firmly: "Not another drop will I pump out until you co-operate with me both in the labor and the exnense." That is the situation. Free coinage men are Insisting that we shall do all the pumping. Mr. Cleveland has notified Europe that we do no pumping during his term, and the water is rising rapidly In European shafts. They are obliged to pump. Thy are in worse financial condition than we are. Our action forced England's Indian experiment, and that experiment is demonstrated a failure. The situation in Europe is becoming desperate, and as soon as Europe is brought to its senses the ques tion is settled. Even republican politicians see the end coming and hasten to fall in line. Gen. Harrison dwelt on his devotion to international bimetallism In his recent speech here, and Tom Reed, while he condemns Harrison's plan for hastening the event, said in his speech at Pittsburg last week: What course the republican party will pursue to obtain international bimetallism, which we must have, I can not venture to predict, but I am confident that the wisdom which has guided that party safely and securely through even greater financial questions than that will, when we have the power and responsibility, be found to be still with us for the great glory and advancement of this country. We advise our free coinage friends to join in or they will still be calling for free coinage by this country alone when there is free coinage throughout the world. It KT H I II fT I O.N". Amid the general Interchange of sentiment among democrats concerning the late elections in Indiana, it may be worth while to remember that most of the events which we now deplore would not have occurred but for the imbecility of the legislature of 1S93. But for that legislature most of these elections would have occurred in May, 1S03, before the panic came on, and before the people had any opportunity to become disgusted with the national senate. Of course no one anticipated these occurrences, but Mr. McIIugh and a few other slick politicians thought they could work a great scheme by extending the time of the democrats, who were already In office, and so a bill was prepared and pushed through providing that all city officers should hold until September, 1894, when they should be succeeded by officials to be elected in May, 1S94. This bill came to the governor and he had not the stamina either to veto It or to sign it, and so it became a law by lapse of time. Of course the law was merely a piece of cheap political trickery, and lfke such things usually do, it has come home to roost in the most startling and unexpected manner. Instead of being a political advantage to the democrats it has given the opposition control for four year3 of a number of( democratic cities with all the patronage and other rewards which the slick politician usually covets. And it is really singular how frequently just that sort of thing results In such cases. There was that ingenious movement of practical politicians known a the tally-sheet forgery.

which gained nothing for anyone, landed part of its authors in the penitentiary

! and furnished loads of ammunition to the enemy. There was that Ingenious ; effort of Governor Hovey to capture the state patronage, backed by a majority of the supreme court, which resulted In his getting control of one very small and unimportant office, the disgrace of the court, and a large amount of public sentiment for the democrats. These things do not pay. They are not good politics. There are a great many men in this country who consider themselves politicians who have never learned the primary principle of the science. It is this: In a country controlled by the votes of the people the smartest thing you can do is to do honestly, fairly and fearlessly what is for the best Interests of the people. THE EUROPEAN PROBLEM. Premier Crlspl's speech in the Italian deputies in which he discouraged the idea of disarmament is chiefly significant as showing what a hold this "idea of peace" has taken. The statesmen of Europe seem to have reached the conclusion that some radical change must soon take place in the governmental systems of Europe. The peoples of all countries are restive under the immense burden of expense necessary to sustain the great military establishments on their present basis. Wise rulers have foreseen that they must lessen this burden or give up their thrones. But not one dares to tempt the cupidity of his neighbor by making the first movement toward placing his country on a peace footing. But war Is nevertheless the last thing, that any one of them desires. War is too dangerous. Implements of murder have become too terrible to be played with Each maintains them as a menace to his neighbor to inspire respect. The tendency, though, is toward an international agreement to disarm. The German emperor has been steadfastly looking In that direction since he ascended the throne and there are fome Indications that he may yet accomplish his purpose. Harold Frederic, the correspondent of the New York Times, is one of the closest students of European politics and his conclusions are much more often right than wrong. Mr. Frederic thinks he sees in the betrothal of the czarowitch to a German princess of the house of Coburg an approach to the millennial condition so much desired. He says that "there are those who believe that during the year France will find herself confronted by a practically unanimous suggestion of the European powers that the time has come for a general disarmament. This has been often alluded to in these dispatches as the thing William is dreaming cf. It is clear enough that recent events have cut down some of the obstacles previously in the way; but it is not so evident that the path is even yet anywhere near open. The published story that the heads of the triple alliance have afked the tzar to join such a movement and met with a refusal has no evidence of genuineness behind it; but undoubtedly it reflects the general situation. This week's new tie between the Russian, German and English dynasties may be a sign that the czar Is yielding. At lf-ast it affords fresh ground for hope that eventually he will yield. What apparantly sticks most stubbornly in his crop is the continued presence of that obnoxious catholic Coburger on the Bulgarian throne. This he will not condone, although such strong pressure has been put on him to do so that poor Ferdinand, with his Bourbon bride, lingered all the w eek close to German territory, waiting for a chance of the czar's relenting and allowing them to attend the Coburg wedding. They waited in vain. But the mere fact that they thought there was a chance seemed to indicate that the czar had been showing signs of at least regarding Bulgaria as a debatable subject. With so preternaturally slow and dogged a mind as his, even that is a great deal. "If Bulgaria should be eliminated theie would remain nothing solid for the czar to balk at but French susceptibility about Alsace-Lorraine. I am told that this will be met by a German offer to submit the question of the German or the Fr?nch nationality to the suffrages of the two provinces in 1901 that is, thirty years after the annexation and abide by the result But this will really be no offer at all, since even today it is fairly certain that the Germans have a majority and each year increases this to an absolutely sure thing. All the same, disarmament is going to be the engrossing topic of the year." Premier Crispi's remarks in the deputies would seem to bear out the idea that he is merely playing for time; simply waiting till the others interested with him are ready to act. ELECTR ICT Y" AS A STIDV. If the world's fair had had no other good result the foundation of the school of electricity, as chronicled In yesterday's dispatches, would have been justification enough for Its existence. No one realizes so well as the electricians themselves that the development of electricity Is j'et only just begun; that the science is still In its infancy. The projected school is but an answer to the demand of the times. Electricity today offers the most promising field of effort for the youth of the world. In electrical work is to come the opportunity for rapid advancement and great profit for the next generation or two. The application of electricity to heating purposes and motive power and Its manifold other useful adaptations, discovered and undiscovered, opens an illimitable field to the Inventor and offers the promise of fame and fortune to the practical student. Every epoch seems to have its special field of effort for the employment of man's talents, each offering special rewards to those who cultivate it with intelligence and persistence. At one time It Is war, at another statecraft, and at etiil another the development of nature'!

resources. The canal business made one set of men rich; coal mining another; oil filled the country with millionaires; the gold discoveries in California built up states and created immense fortune?. Railroading. In construction and operation, gave employment to the best brains of the land for years, and the stories of the sudden rise of mn from poverty and obscurity to fame and fortune and power read like Oriental fartry tales. But these fields have been worked out or are already supporting all they can. Take railroading, for instance. Only a few years ago a young man could enter the ranks of railroaders at the bottom with a reasonable assurance that by application and industry he could in time land well up toward the top. The railroad presidents and general managers of today are the brakemen and train dispatchers and under clerks of a few years ago. But the ranks are full. The "brass collars" of the railroad system Of the country are today still young men, with many years of activity and usefulness before them. Under them are scores and hundreds and thousands of others qualified to take their places when they step down and out. The railroad business is not extending rapidly enough to make high places for'all those who are competent to fill them. Men get to the front now only by the slow process of promotion through the opportunities of resignation and death. Thousands of men now in the business, who are In every way qualified to become general managers, are destined to wear out their lives as subordinate clerks. There is no longer "plenty of room at the top." But, as before stated, the development of electricity has but just begun. Electrical engineers are everywhere in demand. The adaptation of electricity to new uses offers unlimited play for the inventive genius of all. There Is a crying demand for men with brains and ability and energy to take hold of new enterprises. There is plenty of room at the top still and the humblest , in the ranks will be welcome if he can place himself there. The establishment of the school of electricity cannot fall to be of incalculable service to the youth of the land in fitting them to deal with the problems of electrical phenomena. The study afford? greater possibilities, more alluring prospects than that of medicine or law. And it is probably as closely and Intimately associated with the welfare of mankind. The new school has a great field of usefulness before it and one yet wholly unoccupied.

KEEP- JCHN OIT. The most discouraging thing connected with the rapid movement toward universal bimetallism Ms the fact that John Sherman announces that he favors it. This Is prima facie evidence that there must be some, awful financial fallacy involved In the matter, for John Sherman never voluntarily got on the right side of any currency question in his life. He is a remarkable Instance of a man who by self-assertion and by doing the bidding of Wall-st. ', has acquired ' the reputation of being a financier, and yet no person can point to a solitary act accomplished by him., or through his influence, that has not been based on fallacious principles, or that has not been injurious to the country. In silver legislation he has been the evil genius of this country and one of "the scourges of God" to the world. In 1S73 he aceom pllshed the demonetization of silver and struck the silver dollar from Our list of coins by following a course that will forever fasten on him the reputation of a legislative trickstet. In 1S76 he was clamoring for the free coinage of the silver dollar and its use in the redemption of our legal tender currency. In 1S78 he vehemently opposed free coinage and succeeded in foisting on this country the absurd purchase policy which had been dictated to us by Mr. Goschen, chancellor of the exchequer of England. In 1S90 he prepared the bill which extended this policy -until it brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy. We should therefore feel certain that universal bimetallism was a mistake if it were not for the fact that in announcing his adherence to it this foremost republican financier shows his cloven foot by stating the condition on which he adheres to It, and that condition would prevent the accomplishment of universal bimetallism. He says: My own opinion is that it is better to recognize at once as a fact that is apparent that 'on account of the vast increase of the production of sliver the ratio should be based upon the present relative market value of silver and gold. No real blmetallist accepts any such idea, and no country on the face of the earth would consent to it. Every bimetallist knows that there is not, and has not been for several centuries, any such thing as a "market value" of either gold or silver that was not made by the combined legislation, of the world. Sir William Henry Hpuldsworth stated the commonly accepted doctrine of bimetallists on this subject at the Manchester meeting of Feb. 6, 1S94, as follows: Mr. Glffen says that blmetallists consider a ratio of 152 to 1 to be an ordinance of Providence. I never heard any bimetallist suggest that.. If anybody suggests It, it is some monometallists who. have maintained that the reason why 15Vi to 1 was for many years a stable ratio was that the relative production of silver and gold was in the ratio of 15V4 to 1. We have said the very opposite. So far from any ratio being an ordinance of nature, we have always maintained ltfls an ordinance of legislation. It was through legislation that lLVt to 1 was maintained for a period, and it is only through legislation that that ratio, or any other ratio, can be established or maintained. By common consent blmetallists have refrained from discussing the ratio for universal bimetallism, for the simple reason that it Is a stumbling-block to those who have been stuffed with the common balderdash about "market value." the "cost of production," "increased production," and other monometlist ideas. ' But as a matter of fact there Is not the slightest room for doubt that Universal bimetallism will be accomplished at the ratio of lS'fc to 1, and the reason Is so plain that anyone can understand -It. When- people are really converted to bimetallism' and un

derstand It they are convinced that any ratio may be established and maintained by combined legislation. The ratio to be established, therefore, is merely a question of convenience. Of the countries which use silver for full legal tender, France, Belgium. Italy. ; Switzerland. Greece, Spain, the Netherlands. Russia Central America, South America, Cuba and Hayti have all their existing coinage has long since disappeared from cirStates has a ratio of 15.98 to 1. Mexico has a ratio of I6V2 to L Japan has a ratio of 16.18 to 1. India had originally a ratio of 15 to 1, but India's gold coinage has long since disapepared from circulation, as has that of Mexico and Japan, so that to them the ratio is immaterial so far as the cost of recoinage Is concerned. The only question Is whether the United States will adopt the ratio of the remainder of the world or not. and of course it will. Its representatives have repeatedly said so at the International conferences. But what does John Sherman want in his demand for remonetlzatloo at present "market value?" Simply this: Suppose the "market value" is 31 to 1. If the world remonetlzes at that ratio there will be just one-half as much silver money in existence as If it remonetized at 15Vi to 1. Tnere will be just one-half as much silver money, on which to replace the burden of credit. There will be Just one-half as much removal of the appreciation of gold. There will be just one-half as much restoration of the prices of commodities to their standard In 1S72. Sherman 'sees bimetallism coming and he wants it to leave money with just as much of the fictitious value it has received from the demonetization of silver as possible. He is as much the tool of the money kings as ever. But he will get left this time. NO SMALL-POX WASTED. The state board of health has acted wisely in requiring all Coxeyites entering Indiana from Chicago and that vicinity to be vaccinated, and also in ordering that all clothing manufactured in the sweating shops of that city be thoroughly fumigated and disinfected before being shirred into Indiana. The Chicago Herald of Monday says: Although Health Commissioner Reynolds has at last openly acknowledged that the disease is rife In this city to an appalling degree although not more so than In other parts of the country there Is not yet hospital accommodation for more than a fraction of those suffering with it. Many victims of the plague are secluded In private quarters throughout the city because there is no proper shelter to which to take them. While there is no reason for panic over this situation, it must be obvious that the disease, which is practically unchecked at present, is certain to inflict grievous Injury upon Chicago. It Is evident from this guarded statement that there would be very serious danger from Immigration from Chicago of the classes from which these Industrials are recruited. And what is more, the city authorities of Chicago seem to have no intelligent ideas as to the control of the danger. The Herald says: The health commissioner, driven to do something by way of providing for the excess of suffering, selected a public building, a school house, for a temporary small-pox hospital. In a portion of the city in which the pestilence has reached Its greatest activity. Instead of being authorized to take the building at once and use it for hospital purposes. Dr. Reynolds made a red tape report about it to the mayor, and the mayor red taped the matter to the board of education. The board of education thereupon made Inquiry of a few stupid obstructionists in the vicinity of the building, and finding that they were not in favor of its use as a hospital they concluded that nothing could be done. Because there is objection on the part of a few ignorant and selfish individuals in the Tenth ward, a ward that needs purifying from end to end. the municipal arm is palsied. Nothing can be done but play with red tape. The situation is so scandalous and so dangerous that temperate language is wholly inadequate to the proper characterization of the cffiolal weakness and folly which have brought it about. The people of Indiana have as large a fund of toleration as any body of people In the country, but while they can stand a great deal of cranklsm, in any form, they do not desire any importation, of this dangerous disease, and they will not submit to It. It was bad enough for Chicago to load ner criminal classes upon us at Roby, but when it comes to making Indiana a dumping place for disease also, forbearance ceases to be virtue. Let the Chicago Commonwealers form themselves Into a "reserve army" ur.til the small-pox is rooted out at Chicago, at any rate.

THE ELECTIONS. There Is not a great deal of encouragement for democrats in Tuesday's elections, on the surface, and yet there may be if the lesson they teach is understood and heeded. Perhaps it may be sen from a brief comparison of Minnesota and Ohio.' Both are republican states. The position of the Minnesota democrats on the question of tariff reform is well known. They have made no concealment of it. They spoke out in tones so clear and unmistakable that no one could mistake their intention to stand for principle notwithstanding the treason of a part of their party leaders. The democratic candidate for mayor of St. Paul was elected by 1,000 majority, although his opponent 'had the indorsement of "the citizens' committee." Two years ago Mayor Wright, republican, was elected by 3,300 majority. Ohio Is in a most unfortunate condition. Among her leading democrats are' some of the most earnest and honest tariff-reformers in the country, but her democratic senator stands before the country today so besmirched, so discredited, and so utterly despised that the mere mention of him is sickening to an honest democrat. That is bad enough, but back of him are the Cincinnati Enquirer and several other more or less influential newspapers, defending his course and disavowing the principles for which the democratlo party has been fighting for years. In the ejection In the Third congressional district of Ohio Paul J. Sorg, democrat, was elected by 2,000 majority, there belfjg but two candidates in the field. In 1892 Houk (dem.) carried the same district by 4,316 plurality, and Cleveland carried in by 3,810 plurality. In 1891 Campbell's majority in the. sama

district was 3,459. In 1SS9 Campbell's majority in the same district was 4.SS1. The only break in this average record was McKinley's plurality of 60 In the same district In 1S33. but McKinley's plurality in 1S93 in Ohio was 80,993, which is somewhat abnormal. Mr. Sorg was a strong candidate personally. - His gain of 500 in his own home shows that. His loss of majority was partially due to a defection of the soldier vote, but it is certain that the disgust of the people with the Ohio senator's position on the tariff question was also an Important factor. In Indiana It Is also certain that dissatisfaction with the action and inaction of the senate on the tariff bill exercised a very large Influence, though the most startling democratic defeats were due to local disaffection. The democrats of Indiana are earnestly and enthusiastically for tariff reform. So are the populists, the prohibitionists, and a large percentage of the republicans. The people are educated on that question. They cannot be stampeded by any cry that tariff-reform makes hard times. They know better. But they can be driven from support of the democratic party by failure to fulfill its pledges.

TRUTH VS. SENATORIAL COURTESY. "Senatorial courtesy" went glimmering in the senate on Monday and It went most righteously. Mr. Aldrlch and Mr. Hill started a discussion on the right to introduce certain amendments, which were not offered, and which members of the finance committee said did not exist. The discussion was plainly improper, but the vice-president said he had no authority to stop it. Senator Allen then stopped it by a call for the regular order. This was a violation of senatorial courtesy, but it was right. It was common sense. It was Justice to the country- When a senator abuses his privileges and delays the business of the country, for plain and palpable claptrap, he ought to be called down, and the senatorial courtesy that would prevent It ought to be relegated to oblivion. Mr. Aldrlch was not satisfied with one rebuff. He proceeded to read an alleged newspaper interview with Secretary 1 Carlisle. In the course of his remarks he was Informed by Senator Vest that he "had been falsely Informed concerning the proposed amendments to the tariff bill, and If these statements were repeated it must be on his own responsibility." Mr. Aldrich took the responsibility. He declared that the amendments had been prepared, and were In print, and would shortly be submitted to the senate. We do not know whether senatorial courtesy admits of this practical denunciation of the senators in charge of a bill as liars, or not, but Mr. Aldrlch did it, and invited a plain ans-ver. Mr. Mills, Mr. Palmer and Mr. Voorhees, following, denied knowledge of any such amendments, but Mr. Aldrich's remarks were allowed to remain. Then Mr. Turpie announced his opinion on the question of veracity that had been raised by Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Aldrlch will not probably forget it soon. Mr. Turpie's remarks were doubtless a violation of senatorial courtesy, but they -were absolutely right, as we believe. The Sentinel expressed its opinion several days ago that all this talk about further concessions to the sugar trust and other tariff beneficiaries is a scheme of republican senators and democratic traitors, for two objects to give further opportunity for stock speculation, and to build up an excuse for traitors voting against the bill on the ground that there had been an agreement with them for further concessions, and It had been violated. There is more back of this renewal of conflicting rumors about favors to trusts than appears on the surface, and we again warn the democrats of Indiana and of the country to prepare for an effort on the part of the McKinley senators and their democratic allies to prevent any tariff legislation whatever. The other event of the day was Mr. Voorhees's exposure of the falsehoods of John Sherman, who had asserted that the republican members of the finance committee had not had the usual opportunity to offer amendments to the tariff bill in committee, and that "this bil has never been considered by the finance committee." There was one complete answer to the falsehoods, and that was the jninutes of the committee, which showed, that the bill had been before the whole committee for twelve days, and that the republican members had offered such amendments as they desired. It was a breach of senatorial courtesy to read those, minutes, but it was right. If Mr. Sherman was telling the truth the country was entitled to know it. If he was not, the country was entitled to know It. What. is needed in the senate is the turning on of the electric light. The country is tired of a senatorial courtesy that is a mere ?over for deceit, and hypocrisy, and false pretense. Let the country know who is responsible for favors to the sugar trust, and whisky trust, and other trusts. To Halifax with senatorial courtesy. ' About one thousand pretty Irish girls have landed in New York from the ever green Isle within the past few days. Th first lot of 500 have already been sent West In the hope of finding good homes, and the remainder will come shortly. Father Callahan of New York City says that they arc the prettiest immigrant girls who have ever, crossed the Atlantic. There were less than 100 Irishmen on the Lucania and Teutonic which vessels brought the girls. With the Italians it was .Just the reverse. Out of "-the 4.000 that arrived in New York within the past week, 90 per cent, of them were men, and the balance women and children. Senator Vest has reported . the additional senate amendments to the tariff bill and it appears that they are chiefly changes in the Income tax law, the most

important being the limitation of the tax to corporations exclusive of building associations. The country has reached a frame of mind in which it cares very little what the senate does. If it will pass the bill and give the house a chance to knock as much McKinleyism as possible out of It, the country will be grateful for the present, and will then take, up with much enthusiasm the task of punishing traitorous senators, reforming the senate and passing further tariff reform bills hereafter.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Subscriber. Sabina. O. With Trgard to the Australian election law: 1. Is there any political device at the head of the ticket? 2. Can the voter call for htfp how to mark the ballot? 3. How many election judges? 1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. Two Judges and one Inspector. A., city. All of the government bonds now outstanding were Issued since the war. except about K".,Ov.fnV) ef the Paciüc railroad bonds. The remaining bonds. Issued prior to the present administration, aggregating about $0S5.000.OfO. were Issued und?r the laws of J870. Most of these are held In this country, about S1S3.000.000 being hell by national banks and $154.0iX).000 being held by other banks, besides what are held by other corporations and individuals. The bond Issues under the laws of 1S70 wert called refunding bonds. ET CETERA. There are fifteen ex-governors now occupying seats in the United States senate, and three in the house. Father "Do you really desire to make my daughter hapry?" The suitor "Certainly." Father "Then don't marry her." Hallo. Judge "Ignorance of the law excuses no one.". Prisoner "Humph! Den de jury's dead sure to find my lawyer guilty." Buffalo Courier. "Don't you thing that Spudkins is a very stingy man?" "He Is. He doesn't even enjoy a Joke at his own expense." Pittsburg Chronicle. Senator White calls It "dignified dlHtorlnes3." This Is more graphic than "senatorial courtesy," but there aren't quit enough words beginning with "d" in it. X. Y. WorlJ. . Prof. Charles E. Hite of the University of Pennsylvania, who will start for Labrador on June 23, with a party of seven, declares that region to be the largest unexplored area of the western continent. Walter Besant, though he writes a great deal about love and talks even more on that interesting topic, des not look like a man of sentimental inclinations. His high forehead and his full beard sugcrest a scientist, and he is sedate and middle-aged. He enjoys great personal popularity in London because of his genial nature andt sunny disposition. In the opinion of many Sei.ator Vance was the greatest wit the senate has known since the war. He enlivened the cloakrooms with enough good stories to make a book of. Geniality characterized his private life, and he had almost no enemies. There are colonies of Carolina children who bear his name in token of the esteem in which their fathers held hitn. Mrs. Fouldin, who is engaged in one of the departments at Washington, has soli for 0(0 the mahogany dining table formerly used by John Randolph of Roanoke. In accordance with Mr. Randolph's direction, no monument has been erected over his grave. Two pine trees and a couple of rude stones alone mark the last resting place of the eccentric statesman. The young women employed in two of th big ÖTy goods stores in Chicago, which show most of their stocks on the sidewalk and are popularly known as "rag shops," recently had their wages cut Jl all around. As most of the girls were not getting mor than $ a week and many not more than ft. and as many of them are bread winners for families, it was a great hardship. They therefore waited on the labor organizations and asked for help. It Is thought that organized labor will boycott the stores and bring them to time. Princess Ixjulse of England, wife of tha marquis of Lome, Is fond of occasionally throwing off the restraints imposed upon her by her rank, and of visitinsr Incognito those friends to whom she Is strongly attached. Not lor.g ago she thus favored a friend who has a castle on the Isle of Wight, and a merry, deliphtful guest che proved- to be. She took an active part in all amusements, and was as thoroughly at home in kitchen chat as in that of the drawing-room. Her practical suggestions of domestic economy proved what is sail of her to be true-that she is a most accomplished housewife. THE STATE PRESS. The long bony fingers of defeat point toward the national congress. El wood Press. The democrats of Indiana got a good lampooning Tuesday, which may or may not be of benefit to it. owing altogether to how it is taken. Lebanon Pioneer. The unsettled condition of business, for which the democrats are not responsibly but for which they are by many held accountable, Is the chief reason for the changes In the voting Tuesday. Attica Democrat. Democrats are not unused to defeat The tried and true have passed through many of them. The great principle ol Jeffersonian democracy equal and exact Justice to all men; Fpecial privileges to none must in the end prevail. Tha democracy is the party to which the people must turn to maintain the principles of religious freedom. Logansport Pharos. After all. the election of Sorg to conpress has more political significance than all of the municipal elections that were held in Indiana on Tuesday put together. As the fight between Sorg and Rathborne was made entirely upon the tariff question the result proves that the Ohio democracy are still willing to fight and able to win a victory on that issue. Evansville Courier. Considerable has been said in the state press about the democratic state geologist, who is a drunkard. If these charge are true, and they appear to be well .founded, it is bad. but not so disgrace- . . . 1 1 i . . , . w a . : , 1 -. , IUI as it wouia nave ut-eii imu urc w rr on which he was elected been defeated. We would then have for governor a man who has been Indicted for embezzlement, Rockville Tribune. It cannot be denied that for a great deal of the reverses which democrats have sustained in recent elections the senate of the United States is responsible. Democratic senators ought to understand the warning. Choke the life out of republican obstruction; put an end to evil republican legislation; pass the tariff bill. One does not need to be a prophet in order to forecast the result of next November's election if this sensible policy is not pursued, and that quickly. Lafayette Journal. The democratic party here and elsewhere was beaten Tuesday on national issues and beaten because it deserved ta be beaten. What is more, the defeats it has met are as nothing compared to tha defeats that await it if the solemn promises made to a confiding people two years ago, and on the strength of which th splendid victory of November, 1S!'2, was won, are not redeemed. Moreover, tha party, so far as a democratic senate can do it by doing little and doing that littl wrong. Is sinning away lis day of grace. Death bod repentances are theologically acceptable but do not pass current in polities. All the people can be fooled sometimes and some fooled all the time, but all the people cannot be fooled all the time. Terre Haute Gazette. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder A Pur Qrp Cream of Tartar Powder.