Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1894 — Page 4

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

B.E.MORSS, President, BEN A. EATON, Vio President. b. McCarthy. Secretary and Treasurer. (Entered at tlte Poatofllce at Indian polls aa second class matter.) TERMS PER YAR i Single copy (In Admncc) fl OO We ask democrats to bear In mind find select their own state paper vrhen they come to take sabscrln lions and make up clubs. Agents inaklns np dabs send for tony Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolls, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, JITLY 4, 1804. I The A. P. A. captured all the republican nominations on the county ticket 'at Chicago. We sympathize with Chicago In this affliction. Indianapolis Is buffering in the same way. The democrats of the Thirteenth district did well to renominate the Hon. C. G. Conn for congress. He has made a splendid representative, has been steadfastly democratic on all questions end has made a magnificent record In every respect. Hb re-c'.ection is practically assured. In maintaining the fUl taken two years ago in the matter of nominating a candidate for United States senator the democrats of Illinois have acted wisely bnd well. The time will come when senators will be elected by the people and to the democrats of Illinois the honor X)! inaugurating the reform will be popularly ascribed. Republican love for the negro finds tnost beautiful exemplicatlon in the action of the league of republican clubs, which decides that separate primaries for whites and blacks shall be held In the South, and howls down a colored t-rother who rises to protest. The republican regards the colored brother about as the small boy does the bag of Bssafoetida which it is necessary for im to wear to keep oft' the itch. The tax-dodgers and usurers and money hoarders, the corporations and the millionaires ought to feel very grateful to Senator Hill for his fight against the income tax. Of course the fight is a losing one; any fight led by Hill is bound to be. But In his zeal to defeat the income tax Hill has lost what few friends he ever had in the South and West. He has not only killed but damned himself politically. And for these sacrifices his owners ought to Unnk him. The new president of France is but comparatively little known outside of his own country, but there he has been v. prominent figure for many year3. He Is in the strictest sense a politician something on the Blaine order, inclined to theatrical plays for popular acclaim. lie is scarcely so firm a man as was Carpot, but he is thoroughly conversant with 11 the affairs of France and will doubtless make an acceptable president. At the present time, probably, no choice could have been made that would have proven tnore popular with a,U classes of the French people. Franklin MacVeagh, the democratic senatorial candidate in Illinois, is one of the best examples of the business man in politics the country has ever produced, lie is one of those men who, rightly conceive it the patriotic duty of every ritizen, no matter what his walk In life, to participate in the affairs of government. He has always been active in every movement to secure better government, municipal, state and national. He Is a tariff reformer of the radical sort, a. straightforward, upright man in all things and his nomination for senator "Will add strength to the ticket. In nominating Mr. Singerly for governor the Pennsylvania democracy has selected a splendid standard-bearer. Mr. Singerly is what may be called an "all 'round" man. He Is a successful business man, an able journalist and a good politician of the best class. His Influence and that of his newspaper have done much toward giving Philadelphia a good city government, and in wiping out the abuses which had long been such a scandal. He enjoys the respect of his political foes as well as the admiration of his political friends, and were Pennsylvania not so overwhelmingly republican he would stand a good chance of election. The Gormans and Brices ought to read the resolutions of the Pennsylvania democrats If they entertain any doubts that the democracy of the whole United ßtates is in favor of tariff reform. If there is a state in the union where the democracy, for local reasons, might reasonably be expected to be weak-kneed on the tariff question it Is Pennsylvania. But the democrats of that state, without a dissenting voice, declare unequivocally and in no uncertain words for radical tariff reform on the lines laid down in the national platform of two years ago. The Gormans and" Brices represent no part of the democratic; party whatever, except themselves. M. Casim-Perier Is the fifth president cf the French republic. First was Thiers, then MacMahon, then Grevy and last the murdered Carnot. Thiers served two years and resigned because of a dispute with the deputies. Marshal - MacMahon served six ''years and resigned rather than change the generals of the army. Grevy served one full term of seven years, was re-elected and a year later his resignation was forced by popular indignation with the sale of decorations by his son-in-law, M. Wilson. Carnot was elected in 1&37 and his term" Of office st-puLl have exi'ixtd. oqü. Takics the.

record of the first thirty-three years of the republic as a criterion it is difficult to determine whether asimir-Perler Is to be congratulated or commiserated on his election to the presidency. HOLD FAST THE GOOD. The people of Indiana will do well to ponder on the following declaration of the republican convention of Allen county: While cordially indorsing the principle of a secret ballot, we demand such a modification of cur election laws as will enable the voter of reasonable intelligence to cast a ballot that shall be counted. We point to the fact that the returns of our spring elections In the cities of the state show that nearly, if not quite, 2 per cent, of the voters were disfranchised by failure to understand the method of voting. Heretofore disfranchisement has been the penalty for criminal conduct; we protest against it as a penalty for those unable to ujderstand the intricacies of our election law. Here is the basis of a new assault on the Australian ballot law, which the republicans have never ceased to hate since It pot an end to Dudley methods in Indiana elections. They have opposed It on the ground that It was cumbersome; that it was expensive; that it promoted fraud. These grounds have all been abandoned from necessity. "The new system found favor with the people from the start, and It was impossible ta make honest men of any political party disbelieve the testimony of their own minds. And not only did the people of Indiana approve of this law. but also people of other states who were desirous of securing purer elections. A number of the ether states have adopted the Indiana system almost verbatim, and in the states that adopted, other variations of the Australian law every movement for change has been in the direction of the Indiana system. As It stands today our law Is as nearly perfect as an election law can be made, with the possible exception of a mode of machine voting. The objection raised by the Allen county republicans Is simply another form of assault on the system. It is another effort to break down the reform and return the state to the old and corrupt system which the ignorant voter could understand thoroughly when the price was paid. No voter In Indiana need make any mistake in votjng if he desires to understand the method, and if for lack of ability to read or from any disability he cannot mark his ballot he can have it marked by the" election clerks. The mistakes in voting are not, as a rule, made by the uneducated. They are made by "smart" people who think they know it all. and who resent any attempt at instruction as an insult. The experience of election officials everywhere verifies this statement. The law is simple enough and plain enough, and the instructions Issued at every election, by the political parties and by the election boards, are so explicit that no one need make any mistake if he will take the trouble' to read them. The evident fact is that the republican leaders are bitterly hostile to every democratic reform that has been adopted in the past six years. They assault the tax law in their present state platform, and the republican press opposes every effort to. enforce that law by securing the fair assessment of the property of corporations. They assault the state board of charities law under the pretense of wanting "non-partisan administration of the benevolent institutions." U.iey assault the school book law in their demand for free school books. They assault the fee and salary law directly on the charge that it is unfair and unjust to officials. Every step of progress that has been made by Indiana in these six years has been fought by the republican party, and is now fought by it. If we have the misfortune to have a republican legislature in this state it may be depended upon to make such "modifications" of all these laws as will destroy their present effect.

HAIL TO ILLINOIS. The democratic masses of Illinois have scored a great victory in retaining the right to nominate their candidate for United States senator in state convention, notwithstanding the opposition of the Chicago politicians. Heretofore other states have not followed the example of the Illinois democrats, but there has been a world of education in the action of the present senate, and it may be reasonably expected that the people will hereafter make themselves felt in their demand for reform In the. senate. Naturally all eyes have been turned on Illinois in this struggle, and her adherence to her former action will be a strong Incentive to advocates of reform In other states, as well as a strong argument for their purpose. If the Illinois democrats had failed to hold their vantage ground the cause would have been set back everywhere, and years would have been lost In the effort to regain the lost position. It is apparent that the only way to secure a constitutional amendment for the popular election of senators Is for each state to adopt the Illinois plan of making their election popular in fact while retaining legislative election in form, and to pledge the nominee to support actively the constitutional reform. Public sentiment can act quickly and effectively on state conventions, and when a party nominates a senator in convention and makes the fight for him in a campaign no legislature will dare to Ignore it. The end, therefore, may be accomplished, temporarily, by the Illinois plan, but It Is also essential that the reform be made permanent by constitutional amendment. That end must be constantly kept In view. The democrats of Indiana declared In their last state platform in favor of the election of senators by direct vote of the people and commended Senator Tdrpie for his able efforts In the advocacy of that reform. The democrats of the state heartily indorse the doctrine, and doubtless they will be found ready at the proper time to adopt the Illinois plan of effecting the reform. At the present time there Is no reform before the people so Important as this. i WJid o farrxeachiäg la iU sHecU. The

present, system has resulted not only in making the senate a ,,mjllIonalres, club" which has practically no respect for public opinion, but also has brought about the greater part of the corruption and demoralization of our state legislatures. Candidates for United States senator select men in advance and get them nominated for the legislature for the sole purpose of voting for senator as desired. It is entirely immaterial to the senatorial aspirant whether the candidate for the legislature Is fitted for the position or not. Elections by the legislature afford the greatest freedom for the use of patronage and other forms of bribery, and they are resorted to whenever needed. Worse than this, the agents of senatorial aspirants are usually professional lobbyists, and their relation to the senatorial aspirants gives them an immense power for harm in the control of legislation. Both the state and the nation would be enormously benefited by the reform,, and the time for the reform Is at hand. No opportunity .should be lost to advance it. PLATFORM AND PRINCIPLE. The relation of a legislator to his party has usually been considered a representative one. This is supposed to be a government of the people, and as Judge Cooley recently said. In discussing the Coxey movement, the only way in which the people can speak is through their representatives. Formerly each candidate for congress used to issue his personal manifesto setting Urth his position on various party qu tions, but in those later daj-3 of party government the party declaration Is supposed to be sufficient. Occasionally a candidate announces his disagreement with the avowed principles of his party, but If he does not do so, he is supposed to indorse the principles of the party whose nomination he has accepted, and on whose support he relies. It was, therefore, somewhat startling when Senator Vest, in defending his vote for a duty on coal, disavowed this principle in the following vigorous expression of sentiment: I remember once In the senate, after a national convention of "the republican party had declared for a service pension (I think It was some eight or ten years ago), when the bill was reported by the then senator from Kansas, Mr. Ingalls, not now a member this body, just before a presidential election, and those of us on this side, who had differed with our brethren on the other side in the late war, felt ourselves coerced into silence by reason of the positions that we had occupied. I remember very well when the proposition from the committee was reported by Mr. Ingalls, I concluded it would immediately pass, bocause the national convention of the republican party h id declared for it, and because. the trend of events and of popular opinion was in that direction. I never r.-.id more respect for any public man in my lifo than for the senator from Ohio now sitting before me (Mr. Sherman), with whom I differ as radically as I d from any man living, when he arose In his seat, and, amidst profound silence opposed the passage of the bill, and he uttered the sentence to be found in the Congressional Record: "Mr. President. I say that no political party can govern my action as a senator of the United States in making laws for the people." I would no more hesitate here today to tenure the decl-tralion of a convention of the democratic party of the United States in regard to a law I considered inimical to the' best interests of the people of this country, than I would to tear into atoms a piece of blank paper. It would be difficult to disagree with this high moral sentiment on purely moral grounds, but there will be many persons who will hesitate to believe that senators vote for concessions to lawless organizations on any such grounds. And more than this, whatever may be the real reasons that impel a senator to vote for such a scandalous imposition as a duty on coal, It must be remembered that one who takes the position of Senator Vest puts himself where he is obliged to defend the tax as right In principle and in practice. Any democratic senator who goes to hb constituents and endeavors to-defend the enormities of the present tariff bill on principle will find a very cool reception. At least he will in Indiana, and we presume the people of the other states are not so deficient in intelligence as to make the situation elsewhere much different. A democratic senator may possibly defend himself on the ground that he was forced into support of the bill to secure any tariff legislation, but the senator who undertakes to defend this legislation as right and proper Is lost.

FKiHT OR LID DOWN. We are surprised to note that a few western newspapers are showing some disposition to accept the senate bill as a fulfillment of democratic pledges, or at least as the nearest approach to a fulfillment that can be obtained from alleged democrats In congress. The sentlment is thus voiced by the St. Louis Republic: This heroism of making a fight to the death for the Wilson bill will be admirable if it is to win and win quickly. It would be admirable anyhow if the men who made it also made the sacrifices. But the expenses are paid by the business interests of the country. Western tariff reformers think that the Gorman senators have been as thoroughly exposed as they ever can be that they have been subjected to all the pressure public opinion can bring to bear. They have nonchalantly pursued their tactics. Hill, Murphy, Gorman, Brice, Smith and their combination can hold up another house bill as they held up the first, and there is nothing to indicate that they will not. Congressmen and senators ought to see that the most unpopular thing in the country Is the practice of delay and wrangle which has been carried to such an extreme in this session. We concede freely that, from a practical standpoint, the choice seems to be a very hard one. In the first place, there Is the danger of losing everything In the way "of reform and subjecting the country to an Indefinite continuation of the McKinley monstrosity. We are confronted with the fact that a half a loaf Is better than no bread. The traitors will not yield, and we must take what they give or nothing. On the other hand, no one knows whether they will yield or not. If they are not put to the test the country will say that no effort was made to make them yield. We shall be taunted with the evident truth that half a dozen men, who were false to their declared principles, false to their party Interests, false to everything hut sarsonal

considerations, were permitted to thwart the expressed will of sixty millions of people, permitted to trample their party platform under foot, permitted to override the desire of the great majority of the representatives of their party Jn congress. It is a hard situation. It is a hard problem to facg. The alternatives are to fight or to lie down and let these traitors walk over us. It is something like what is called a "case of doubt" at cards. The result of action i3 uncertain. In cards, where the doubt is as to leading trumps, the rule Is to lead. In politics, where the question involves adherence to principle, may we not safely say that it is best to stick to principle? It is true you take chances in so doing, but you also take chances by any other line of action. We believe it Is always safe to stick to principle; especially when the majority of the people are educated to the principle. Men are transient., Principles are eternal. They are bound to win sooner or later, and it Is a matter of history that they usually win much sooner than expected. If any one had said In 1850 that within twenty years there would not be a slave In this country people would have laughed at him. Tariff reform is close at hand full, honest, satisfactory tariff reform. The people know the frauds Df protection and are tired of the system. As a political move the democratic party will probably make a blunder if It abates one jot or one tittle of its plattorm demands, or condones the failure of its representatives to enforce those demands.

THE NEW YORK SCANDALS. Perhaps the most surprising thing developed by the Lexow committee Is that the knowledge of the police scandals In New York has been almost universal for years, and yet the people have not rebelled. Reputable business men go before that committee and acknowledge without a blush that they have long been paying the tribute of blackmail to the police and have made no protest. Indeed, most of them seem to have been rather pleased at the opportunity, for by submitting to blackmail they have been permitted to violate the laws themselves. At a recent sitting of the committee there were witnesses ranging from a leading Broadway merchant to a Fulton-st. bootblack, all testify mg that they paid various sums annually for the privilege of using portions of the sidewalk. Most of them testified also to a general understanding that their neighbors did the same thing. This Indicates a very low stage of public morals in the metropolis. Here were business men, honest and upright in other things, jealous of their good names, who thought nothing of committing a crime in order that they might be permitted to commit a misdemeanor. In other words, they shamelessly corrupted publio officials for the privilege of violating the minor city ordinances. The New York Evening Post, in commenting on this phase of the developments, says: The most disheartening aspect of the revelations is the showing which they make of reputable merchants. These seem to have had no misgivings about the propriety of bribing policemen to obtain privileges which were either theirs by right or to which they were not entitled. The common excuse has been that everybody does It, and that it Is the easiest way to get along. It does not seem to have occurred to these merchants that by banding together and exposing the ptlice they could have rid themselves of the extortion. In fact, the moral sense of the whole community has been so deadened by familiarity, with Tammany government that the great majority of our citizens look upon the payment of blackmail as one of the necessary concomitants of popular government. "It's the only way to get along quietly," they say, "and, after all, why shouldn't we tip the police if by so doing we get privileges which might be refined to us if we had a more honest and Intelligent set of rulers?" It all comes back to the point that the people of this city have Tammany rule because they do not elect to have better rule. If they felt half the burden of shame which that rule places upon them it could not exist for a day. The great source of bad government In this country is in the universal desire to take things easy. The experience of New York is the experience of every other city In the country, only in more aggravated form. The "good people," the "better elements," calmly submit to all manner of imposition rather than take the trouble of putting an end to it. Criminal practices become so familiar that the people look upon them as quite a matter of course and accept them as a necessary adjunct of government. In any other country such disclosures as those recently made at New York would lead to a revolution. Here they will be a nine days' wonder, and then the looting will be renewed by the same gang of scoundrels or a new one which may take its place. But it is hardly probable that there Is another country on earth where such a condition could arise. There Is no other city where the attempt of the police to blackmail business men would not be met with prompt resistance and exposure from the Intended victim. An Englishman, for instance, would spend his last farthing and even endure a clubbing by a policeman and the annoyance of an appearance In police court rather than submit to such extortion as the New York merchant has come to regard with perfect equanimity. In some ways we are a queer people. We boast of our freedom, yet we are daily tyrannized in the meanest and most contemptible manner by the men whom we place in office. The rulers chosen by the people make abject slaves' of those whose servants they should be, and the public, like the great ass It so often is, goes calmly on Its way boasting that this is "the land of the free and the hornjg of the brave." There is Just one way In which to prevent such scandals as that now being uncovered at New York. That Is for the decent people to determine to obey all the laws themselves and Insist that everybody else Bhall do the same. Tammany is in a hopeless minority in New York City. It s even a minority in the democratic party. If the so-called "best citizens" would unite It could be overthrown at any moment. But the trouble has .been la the jjast thai every effort toward

j its overthrow has been made in the in- ( terest merely of another clique equal la

rascality. And, as a rule, on the rare occasions when Tammany has been beaten a crowd equally scurvy has been put In control. Even now the movement Is well under way to displace the tools of Boss Croker with the tools of Boss Piatt. If the people of New York want to get rid of ring rule they must throw overboard the bosses of all kinds. They must unite for honest government. They must begin at the foundation and control the primaries. They must cut loose from all the "halls" and all the cliques and come together on' a platform calling for good government. There Is too friendly an understanding between the various organizations to warrant the hope that relief can be secured from any of them. REPIHLICAN MILITARISM. Human greed goes through a progressive development like every other human motive and Instinct. It feeds on itself, and no food oauld be Imagined more productive of growth. In ordinary affairs this fact has become almost proverbial. We all know instances of men who intended to retire from business when worth $23.000 or $50,000 or $100,000, and who on acquiring the sum to which they originally aspired felt that they had only begun to make money. "The more you have the more you want," Is a common form of the commonly Tecognlzed trdth. In this country the manipulation of the national government for the past third of a century has given most extraordinary opportunity for the feeding and development of greed. Colossal fortunes have been made not only In protected industries but also from government grants and speculations in government lands, not to mention the enormous system of plunder that has been afforded by government contracts. The star route contracts, the Indian agency scandals and the armor-plate frauds are well-known instances. Having gained such enormous possessions by such means greed strives the more to increase them and to hold them. Hence the concentration of capital, hence the reduction of labor to the lowest terms. Instead of increasing wages the inevitable tendency of the advantages of protection Is to decrease them. Give a monopolist an opportunity to increase his h,oards by robbing the people In general and you only stimulate him to Increase them by robbing hi3 employes. This is an inevitable result of the laws of human nature. For the resistance that such action necessarily breeds the monopolist has no tolerance. He wants his pound of flesh. The law gives it to him. Ke will have it. If it be refused or if he be hindered in obtaining it, the enforcement of law cannot be swift enough or severe enough for him. Interference with the sacred rights of property! Just heavens! What can atone for such an offense but the most condign punishment? It was a clear view of this tendency that impelled Attorney-General Smith to utter theses words at the recent meeting of the democratic central committee: While the system of protection has been condoned upon the spurious theory that its existence was necessary in order that the wages of the American workmen might be kept above the wages paid to like laborers of -other countries, it, nevertheless, has been the policy of the republican party for more than twenty years to invite to this country. by false signs and tokens the surplus population of all nations, purposely to lessen the (Jemand for and cheapen the price of labor of our own citizens, and when they protested against this method of enforced destitution and refused to be driven from their employment Into the streets to starve, and the cry of hunger was heard in the land, the republican party has always been first to appeal to the strong arm of the military to shoot down those whose condition in life is the direct result of a system which has made millionaires of a favored few at the expense of the laboring and producing classes of the whole country. To this brutal policy of the republican party the democratic party has always been and Is now unalterably opposed. Of the fact that the tendency of the republican party is to centralization of power and to military control there Is no question. It is the avowed purpose of that party. It is almost equally plain that the strength of this policy in repunllcan circles lies In the support of men who have been made multi-millionaires by governmental favors and who are now interested in squeezing still greater profits from all with whom they come in contact. These now feel satisfied that the action of democratic traitors will again put the republican party in power and again open the doors to plunder. The only thing then necessary to maintain them in the gratification of their rapacity Is military government, and toward that they are rushing as rapidly as possible. READY FOR III SIN ESS. The gathering of democracy at the Grand hotel Wednesday, by the numbers in attendance and the enthusiasm manifested, demonstrated beyond a doubt that the party in this state will be in the fight to win next November. There can be no doubt about it. Reports were received from every congressional district and from nearly every county In the state showing the party to be In good fighting trim, alert, aggressive and unterrlfied. In no quarter was there expressed the slightest fear as to the result of the balloting. Nowhere are there any defections or any serious factional differences. The party In all sections of the state is rapidly being organised. County and district conventions are the largest and most enthusiastic ever held, and, all In all, party prospects are most promising. The republicans of Indiana might as well understand first as last that they have a big fight on hand this fall. The democrats, up to the present time, have been permitting them to have pretty much their own way at least so far as talk is concerned. But, now that the time for action has come, the democrats are ready to go to work. They do not Intend to sit Idly by and see the state robbed of the benefits of good legislation which a succession of democratic legislatures have placed on the statute books. They do not intend that the Australian ballot law shall be repealed and the era of Dorseylsm and Dudlavl&m reina.ugnra.tad : thav da not

intend that the railway and other great corporations shall again be relieved of their Just share of the burdens of taxation; they do not Intend that the school book octopus shall again be permitted to fasten Its deadly tentacles upon the purses of parents; they do not Intend, in short, that any backward step whatever shall be taken. From this time on the fighting will be fast and furious. Long before November the democracy of Indiana will be found In the splendid form in which it was in 1892, and when the votes are counted the victorious rooster will crow as he never crowed before.

In connection with the present railroad strike it may be observed that one of the great needs of this country is a system for the legal adjustment of questions between labor and capital. Here is the whole country put to trouble because a hog named Pullman will not treat his employes with common fairness. There may possibly be five hundred or a thousand people directly interested, and the whole country Is put to great annoyance because there is no legal method of settling the controversy. The Chicago Tribune, in criticising Cernuschl's ratio proposition, brings forward once more those stupid misstatements that silver is cheapened because the cost of Its production has been cheapened as compared with gold, and that Its production has been largely Increased as compared with the production of gold. It would be a relief if some of the papers which claim to believe these statements would publish some of the recorded facts on which their faith is based. It is gratifying to observe- that the girls of a New England seminary have adopted a college yell that has some symptoms of reason in it. It is: "Wah, who, wha, who, wha, who, zippe rlroar, hi yl, ki yl, zip pom, love bomyah, bumyah, sip, zip, '94 !" Of course some portions of it may seem intelligible, but taking the words "who," "love," "zip '94" as keys, the yell can be easily understood as an outbreak of the higher aspirations of the female heart. Santo declares that he had no fellows In his attack on President Carnot. And he probably tells the truth. Cranks of his sort never wish to share their notoriety with any one. Guiteau would have bitterly Tesented any insinuation that he had had assistance in planning the foul deed for which he was hanged. We fear that the usually accurate Logansport Pharos errs in declaring that "all the republican papers in the district are against Landis." The Delphi Journal, we are credibly informed, is enthusiastic for Landis. ET CETERA The heart of a Greenland whale Is a yard in cHameter. The coal fields of the United States cover 194,000 square miles. A race horse clears from twenty to twenty-four feet at a bound. The king of Dahomey was educated in France and speaks French fluently. The mean annual temperature of the Arctic regions is below 30 dvgrees Fahrenheit. The value of the steel manufactured In the United States every year is about $50,000,000. It is necessary to meet good luck half way. but bad luck will chase you. Atchison Globe. An elephant is fifty or sixty years In attaining maturity, and will live a century and a half. Doubt others more and yourself less and you will have more backbone to sell. Tammany Times. The wounds of sin may be healed, but their scars will always remain painful to the touch. Chicago Herald. The water that pours over the falls of Niagara is wearing the rock away at the rate of five yards In four years. In 1513 William Burton patented a locomotive that was provide with legs and feet behind to push the machine along the track. It is about thirty miles across town in London and for that entire distance there is said to be an unbroken line of residences and stores. Little Boy "How long have you had that doll?" Little Miss "This is a girl doll, an you oughtn't to ask her age." Good News. Chollie "I've got an awful cold in my head. What'll I do, Dawson?" Dawson "Oh, let It alone. It'll die of ennui." Harper's Bazar. When a man asserts that all men are rascals at heart, you may be certain that there Is at least one man who Is a rascal at heart. Boston Transcript. Foreign Visitor "Is it true that one man often hangs a Jury in this country?" Litigious Native (with evident regret) "Yes, stranger; but not with a rope." Buffalo Courier. Sadirn "You say Tteckliss has sealed his doom?" Cooley "Yes; I just saw him lick an envelope which contained a letter asking Miss Bossall to marry him." Boston Courier. It would be hard to determine whether some of the nation's legislators are more remarkable for what they know ami don't say or for what they say and don't know. Washington Star. Toby (to eccentric man) "What are you doing with that box?" Popperkaq "Going to make a wagon of it." Toby "Where" 11 you get the wheels?" Popperkaq "Out of your head." N. Y. Journal. . Mrs. McPMz "Tell me, doctor, Is there any danger of becoming insane by using complexion bleaches?" Dr. Blunt "None at all. When a woman begins to use them she is about, as crazy as it Is ever possible for her to be." Boston Transcript. Ethel "Oh. Tom, what a pity it Is you are not rich! They say that some of those millionaires don't dure to leave the house for days at a time because they receive threatening letters saying that something dreadful will happen to them if they don't pay the writer sums of money." Tom Hard-up "Pooh! Why, I get plenty of just such lttters'-Harper's Bazar. STREET PICKINGS. The board of health has lately been compelled to visit some very aristocratic neighborhoods and compel the residents to place the alleys: in the rear of their elegant houses and even their back yards. In a cleanly condition. The visit of the employes of the. health office caused considerable embarrassment and even Indignation at this insinuation. This unusual exhibition of "getting busy" upon the part of the health officials was no doubt very commendable, and would receive the hearty approval of every one had it been only made a part of a systematic inspection of the city's sanitary condition. It would seem, however, to a casual observer, that the business center of the city should be the first to be taken care of, as

it is there that the population is congested. The greatest necessity exists for pure a!r, and the sanitary" condition should be the best. On Court-st. between Pennsylvania-st. and Capitol-ave. the most dnsgustlng condition of uncleanllness has existed during the past month. For ten days past, in the very center of this portion cf that paved street, there have been lying the putrifying bodies of two cats and three rats. The five spots of contamination have been the gathering points of swarms of flies and the police have daily tramped over and around these plague spots without making any report of them to the proper authorities. These rotting bodies are there now. Employes of the stores fronting on Washington and Market-sts. are compelled to sit at the windows near by throughout the hot. dry days, breathing Into their lungs the foul, contaminated air that blows from thse dead animals an? yet they wonder why they do not feel better. Here is a condition, not a theory. Some people dr some very queer things. For instance: It is said that there is a lawyer practicing in this city whose home is at Irvlngton, and who has been in the habit for several years past of stopping in a Washington-st. business house twice a day while waiting for a car. He would chat pleasantly with the proprietor and clerks while waiting, and while not upon intimate terms with the people of the establishment, was nevertheless regarded as an acquaintance. It chanced that some two weeks ago while the lawyer was waiting for his car he suddenly made the discovery that he had not a cent of money in his pocket, and laughingly told the prcpriteor of the store. The nickel was promptly handed to him with a joking remark as to how liable persons were to being caught In that embarrassing situation, and nothing more was thought about it. Now. since that time the lawyer waits upon the street corner for his car and has never thought to pay back the nickel. It was raining the other day. and yet he stood on the corner and got soaking wet rather than go Into the store. The employes of the store now watch for him every day, and the attorney Is unconsciously the source of much amusement. The question is now asked as to whether he does not want to pay back the nickel or whether the little Incident has merely left him with a feeling of embarrassment. TIID SENATE AND THE TARIFF.

The senate tariff bill does not make a decent false pretense of reform. It is a surrender to monopoly. It Is a measure of high and discriminating protection. Will democrats accept it? N. Y. World (dem ). It is doubtless illogical to turn the country over to the republicans because a few democratic senators have, for some reason, made themselves the allies of republicans In defeating the popular will, but the people, when roused to indigna tlon, are not always controlled by the rules of logic. Certainly any attempt to condone the treason of the men who have trampled under foot the platform of the party, or to hold up their work as the fulfillment of democratic pledges, must lead the party to disgrace as well as disaster. Undoubtedly .the rank and file of the democratic party are sound to the core, true to their immemorial convictions, honest as the days are long. In this fact lies the hope of he future, the safety of the country. But we need not shut our eyes to the fact that there are traitors in our camp, and that the integrity of the organization, its efficiency in future combats, depend upon their prompt and condign punishment. "We must be brief when traitors brave the field." Louisville Courier-Journal. Each representative who Is a candidate for re-election every candidate for a seat in congress must stand or fall upon his own platform and his own recordnot upon that of representatives from other states, least of all ujon that of any senator. He must answer to his own constituents, and one of the questions which he will be called upon to answer will be. what has he done for the cause of tariff reform; what has ha done to fulfill the pledges cf the democratic party? No representative can hope to excuse any abandonment of those pledges, any surrender of the party faith and principles by pleading in extenuation of his fault that his intentions were good, but he yielded them In deference to somebody else. Every tub upon its own bottom, and every candidate for congress upon his own record. Better by far for the democrat who seeks re-election to the people's house to be able tn show to his constituents, that if the people's cause has been betrayed or defeated, he had no part in the treason and did not contribute by his cowardice or recreancy to the defeat. Better far will it be for him to show that he fell fighting, yielding no Inch of ground f t principle, than that, misled by the dishonest spirit of "compromise." he followed in the trail of senatorial renegades and deserters. The house has a noble opportunity before it If pot to accomplish all that the people wish, at least, to indicate its own loyalty and fidelity to the trust committed by the people to its hands. Baltimore Sun (Ind.). THE STATE TPESS. The McKinley bill never gave the pec pie a pound of free sugar. Huntington Democrat. Populism and anarchy have many points In common as exemplified in Colorado and South Carolina. North Vernon Sun. The Gormanized Wilson tariff bill has the McKinley bunco mark, on neck, shoulder and rump. Seymour Democrat. There is no remedy for anarchist io violence except in the Intelligent exercise of the ballot by the people In selecting their law-makers and executive officials. Evansvllle Courier. If the saddle was made larger the expression to the face of the average bicycle rider, and more especially the lady rider, might be improved. They all seem to carry a banner on their faces bearing the legend "Saddle Reform." New Albany Ledger. Republicans say that the tax law that compels the railroad companies to pay a just share of the taxes is "infamous." From this we inferrfhat if tliy sh 'lid get control of the legislature they would repe-al the law. If the republicans in tha state desire to make the repeal of tht tax law the Issue for the coming campaign the democrats will gladly accommodate them. Muncie Herald. Last year each day's report showed that a falling off in the treasury gold started a frightened depositee to the bank after gold, gold certificates or greenbacks, which were Immediately hoarded. The absence of any financial excitement indi- , cates that the people don't care much about the gold reserve; that they have confidence in the stability of the government and believe its paper money issues of any kind art as good as gold, at least that they are within certain limits. Michigan City Dispatch. A Scale tt Enemy. A story is told by a gentleman In on of whose shops Is a German mechanic who is something of a genius. Lying on , this German's bench . a gentleman connected with ihe works saw a hammer, on the handle of which were figures. "What Is ".hat for?" the man who wai making the round? a?ked. "Vy, don't you know vot dot's fori Ef I got von tollar a tay I takes hold of him like dot;" and suiting the action tc the word, he grasped the handle, neai the head of the h?mmer, handle down over the dollar mark and pounded away about as effectively as would a redheaded woodpecker. "But ef I got tree tollar I takes hold of him like dot," and he grasped the handle at Its extreme end and swung the hammer with a force that would have driven a cold chisel a quarter of an Inch Into steel at every blow. Anybody who has had much experience ir handling men will readily see in the German mechanic's hammer handle a very suggestive object lesson. Railway Record. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Award.