Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1. 1894-TWELYE PAGES.'

..INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

S. E. MORSS, - Präsident, BEN A. EATON, Vic Präsident. b. McCarthy, Secretary and Treasurer. CEntered at the Pontofflc at Intllanapolia as tecood claaa matter.) TER3IS TER YEAR t Single ropr tin Advance) fl OO We äaU democrats to tear la mind and select their own atate paper rhen they come to take aubacrlptlona and make op club a. Agenta making up cluba send for an information deal red. Addreaa THE INDIANAPOLIS JEXTINEL, Indin napolia, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, AlGl'ST 1, 1804. In time of crisis there is always one safe curse stick to principle. One William McKinley, said to be from Onto, appears to have been lost in the shuttle. Indiana agiin stands up to be counted for O rover Cleveland and tariff reform, as she did in M2. Indiana democrats do not believe it is logical t pit vol ai'd lumter on the free list and "protzt" iron, coal, whisky an J n. fined sugar. If Iavid Bennett Hill will continue the ficht against the truts and combines he will find himself almost as popular as Grover Cleveland on" of these days. The most noticeable thing In connection with the Chinese and Jaiwmese Imbroglio is the gorgeous lylnjr Indulged in to deceive the gentle newspaper correspondent. The announcement that Mr. Shrman Intends to retire to private life would be received with demonstrations of Joy If anyone believed It. John will have to be pried off with a crowbar. It is reported that Senator Sherman will publish a volume of reminiscences of his congressional career. If he does so, and discloses all the facts, the volume cannot fail to be of the greatest Interest. If the Chinese and Japanese In this country return home to take part in the International pleasantry between the two rations the solution of our race problem will be hastened. This is the time to preach patriotism to the heathen. There is no possibility of mistaking the democratic sentiment of Indiana on th tariff question. ;It is emphatically In favor of the Wilion bill and is opposed to the senate amendments, and especially to those which were adopted at the behest of the sugar trust and the iron and coal rinsr. A pn fane and blasphemous blatherskite broke loose In the Iowa republican convention Wednesday and requested the Almisrhty to take vengeance on the democratic party, "the enemy of the country." Tins sort of thing: is what they call, in Buckeye republican circles, "leJdir.s i:i prayer." With the largest wheat crop on record, 3ne corn prospects, mills and factories resuiidr.g operations everywhere, trade reviving and G rover Cleveland and David P.enr.ett Hill trotting1 at a two-minute gait In double harness toward the free-trile running post, democratic prospects are certainly looking up. We had an Idea that there was not a person in Indiana, white, black, or of any condition In life, that could be swindled with the sold brick fake, but we were mistaken. A sharper strayed down into "the pocket" recently and In Posey county found a farmer who bit greedily at the glittering bait. It cost him " a course of thou." Senator Gorman never told a clearer truth than when he sail that it was the Intention of Senator Hill to defeat the senate bid at all events. Senator Hill Is a democrat and not a populist. X. Y. Sun. If Senator Hill's organ Imagines that It Is doing him a favor by parading hi3 willingness to defeat tariff reform In order to defeat the income tax, it is laboring under a great delusion. From the interviews which appear elsewhere In th;s issue of The Sentinel it is plain to be seen that the democracy of Indiana. 1. just as solid for tariff reform as It ever was. Tariff reform is a cardinal principle In thi Indiana democratic faith, and anything that looks like a surrender of that principle will never be tolerated even for a moment. It Is a startling but almost amusing fact that most republican manufacturers are secretly anxious to see the Wilson bill pass. They are gradually letting out the fact that they are awfully afraid of another reaction from what their political servitors have been pleased to call "high protection wages." Turn Reed says "protection makes high wagis," but he says nothing about its effect on the prices of the necessaries of life. The evening mouthpiece of plutocracy end corporation jobbery is sad at heart because the democratic party of Indiana has no "metropolitan organ." The Kaleidoscope's idea of a political organ Is evidently a sheet which takes its orders from one-horse, would-be political bosses and sneezes regularly when they take snuff. Happily, there are few organs .of this kind left in the United States, and the democratic party of Indiana is to be congratulated upon the fact that it Is not afflicted with one. It Is aläo to be congratulated upon the fact that there is uch a newspaper as The Indianapolis Sentinel, which stands every day in the year for truth and righteousness, for purity and good faith in politics, for clean tfvernment and honest legislation, which Ls iut rua In tha inter as t of asy cliaue or

faction, of any ring of corruptionists or gang of political boodlers, which has a

profound contempt for peanut politics and peanut politicians, and which does not toady to the rich and powerful or crook the pregnant hinges of the knee before corporation magnates and trust plutocrats that thrift may follow fawn ing, and which, by tire way, is more widely known and more freely quoted than any other newspaper published west of Xew York City. ' All of which is respectfully submitted. INDIANA SPEAKS. If any doubt has existed as to the attitude of the Indiana democracy with reference to the controversy between the trusts and the people now in progress at Washington, it will be removed by the publication in The Sentinel this week of interviews with many hundred representative democrats in nearly all the counties of the state. The Sentinel, with no other desire than to obtain a full, fair and free expression of the democratic sentiment of Indiana upon the overshadowing question of the moment, instructed Its reporters and correspondents to make a canvass among democrats of every walk in life not only office-holders and office-seekers, but merchants, manufacturers, lawyers, doctors, railroad men, farmers, mechanics and laborers and to report exactly what they said upon the pending Issue, without any coloring whatsoever. The results are before our readers. They show that the democrats of Indiana are practically unanimous In support of the Wilson bill, and In condemnation of the amendments made to that measure by the senate in the interest of the sugar trust, the whisky trust and the coal and Iron combines. Scarcely a voice is raised In behalf of the senate bill, and not one man was found who indorsed the course pursued by Senators Gorman, Brice and Smith. The sentiments of the president's bold and patriotic letter to Chairman Wilson are universally indorsed, and but few ventured to question its expediency or timeliness, although a number expressed the opinion that It ought to have been written sooner. As to the duty of the house, a large majority agree with Governor Matthews that it should stand firm, and that a failure of any tariff legislation at this session ls preferable to the acceptance of the trust schedules. There is no doubt that the gentlemen whose views are expressed In our columns this morning reflect accurately the prevailing democratic sentiment in their respective communities. The democrats of Indiana are thoroughly educated on the tariff question. They believe in the Chicago platform of and they be lieve that such a radical departure from its letter and spirit as that which Senators Gorman. Brice and Smith are trying to force upon congress involves a gross breaeffi of faith, which will not only invite party disaster, but which i3 likely to entail the gravest consequences upon the country. We believe that the great masses of the democracy In other states share these views, and that however great an Improvement the senate tariff bill ir.ay be over the McKinley abomination, it yet falls so far short of the pledges made to the oountry by the democratic party in 182. and its preparation has been attended by so much of scandal and disgrace, that its acceptance by the house, under te circumstances, would prove a greater misfortune to the democratic party and a more serious evil to the country than a failure to pass any bill. The party and the country will know where to place the responsibility for such a failure. The senatorial tools of the trusts have been fully Identified. The people know that the president of the United States and the house of representatives have kept faith with them, and that the democratic senators, with three or four dishonorable exceptions, would have done their duty had tfiey been free agents. The people are for tariff reform today, a.? they were in 192. and if the highwaymen of the senate block the road now they will sweep them aside in the near future and march forward to the ultimate goal of absolute commercial liberty. As for Indiana, her message to the house is: No surrender. THE SIGAIl QIESTIOY. The announcement that the republicans have not pushed their amendment for free sugar, because they feared that It might be adopted and tho bill passed with free sugar as a feature, is an interesting commentary on republican, statesmanship. With all their talk about wanting the tariff question settled on account of the business interests of the country, and all their talk about opposition to the sugar trust, they are more devoted to email politics than . to tha adoption of the views which they profess to hold. They would fight for free sugar at once if they thought that free sugar would defeat the tariff bill, but if the bill is to pass they prefer that it should be loaded with the odium of a concession to the sugar trust rather than to embody the republican doctrine of free sugar. They have had the opportunity to get what they claim they want, and have declined to take iL Now they think they can, make a fight for it without winning, and therefore they are about to howl for free sugar. We sincerely trust that enough democratic senators will be found to vote with them to carry tha amendment. It would be a great disappointment to the republicans but it would be a great victory for tha people. As tha situation

stands now, the responsibility for the concessions to the sugar trust rests with Gorman, Brice nd Smith. They avow that they will not vote for the bill unless these concessions are made. The remaining democratic senators fhow a disposition to yield to them, but there is still hope that the house will remain true to principle, to the platform, to the party. We say to the congressmen that they will find, when they go before the people, that the concessions to the trusts, if permitted to remain In the bill, will obscure everything of goid that is inj the bill. The people will not look at free wool, free lumber, reduced duties on woolen goods and other praiseworthy features. They will look only at the concessions to the trmts. This party Is pledged to the extermination of trusts by Its platform. How can it consistently, under any circumstances, confer on these lawless organizations the right to rob the people? How can it abet the lawless purposes which have made these trusts obnoxious? Moreover, we again call the attention of democratic congressmen to tho fact that the tariff question Is no longer a mere question of schedules. It has lost that character during the protracted fight of the present session and the exposures that have been made of the methods of the trusts. The tariff question now Is whether this country shall be ruled by money or by manhood. Manhood has spoken. The people have demanded tariff reform and the extirpation of trusts in tones that no man can misunderstand. Money is now making its fight. II Is reduced to three representatives who stand in the senate and defiantly declare that concentrated capital shall rule and that the will of manhood shall be set at naught. No not merely three senators. Back of them stands a solid republican delegation still holding to the policy of favoring concentrated capital In every form. Open, bold, defiant, championing McKinleyism In every' form, they make the real support of government by money in this cris'.s. The fight against oligarchy must bo made. If it is ever to be made by the democratis party, 1t must be made now. Will the house redeem the party? Will it save it from dishonor and disgrace? The people are praying that It will.

THE TYRANNICAL I'ltOfJU M. Our erratic contemporary, the New York Sun. becomes violent in its objection to compulsory arbitration, and its argumenta grow weaker as Its violence Increases. Indeed, its attempt at argument are not worthy of notice except so far as they are personal. It says: The Indianapolis Sentinel, which did its cunning best to prevent the repression of violence ?v 1 tha restoration of law durIr.z the Debs Insurrection, seems to rang' between the loosest sort of anarchism and the tightest and mo--t tyrannical socialism. This is a glaring departure from the truthfulness that usually characterizes the Sun's statements rf fact, though it is what might reasonably le anticipated from a paper that calls a strike an insurrcctin. Tho Sentinel has at all times demanded the suppression of lawlessness and violence, but it has objected, and still objects, to confounding the legal rikht to strike with the lawlessness of destroying property and encroaching on the personal liberty of others. Corporation papers err if they imagine that anything is to be gained by misrepresenting the facts. Th'T labor situation in America is too open and boo well understood for any permanent advantage to be gained in that way. The Sentinel has objected to the theory that a nation or community could achieve military glory by the mere suppression of lawlessness. It has opposed everything that tended to the glorification of military power, the centralization of government, the creation of a standing army. It has objected to, the abuse of judicial power under the plea of necessity. It has adhered to the Jeffersonian doctrine of rigid adherence to the law by those who enforce the law. The Sentinel has not the slightest tendency toward either anarchism or socialism. It believes absolutely in individualism, and it believes that the only way to save the country from: socialism is by the extension of protection in the making of contracts which is now- exercised in all cases of guardianship and receivership, or, in, othv-r words, in compulsory arbitration. The present condition cannot possibly continue. Thero is certain to result either government ownership of transportation facilities or a measure of government control anil regulation which will involve the settlement of labor controversies by an impartial tribunal. Our present treatment of labor questions is purely anarchistic. Government ownership is purely socialistic. The individualist must steer betweenj the two, and, adhering to the democratic doctrine of the greatest possible personal liberty consistent with the general welfare, he may easily rest satisfied with compulsory arbitration as th most available remedy for the general public. The Sun further says: We won,ler how The Indianapolis Sentinel would lik M have this tyrannical program applied to Itself. Suppose its employes should strike for an advance in wages wheit business is bad and It was making no money, perhaps losing money. How would it like to be forced to arbitrate and forced to accept the result? When the present management of The Sentinel came Into control it voluntarily applied "this tyrannical program" to itself. It entered into contract, not with Its men, but with the typographical union, and It referred not only questions of advance or decrease of wages, but all other questions to arbitration, as follows: Any and all disputes or disagreements that cannot be settled by the parties directly concerned shall be referred to an arbitration committee made- up as

rouows: one memoer to be chosen by The Sentinel company, one by the Indianapolis typographical union No. 1. If these two, thus chosen, agree, their decision shall be final; If thy are unable to agree, then they shall select a third person to act with them in hearing and determining the matter at issue. The decision of a majority of the committee thus constituted shall be final and binding -upon all the parties hereto. Pending the deliberations of thj committee In the settlement of differences as herein provided there shall be no strike or lock-out in The Sentinel office. The Sentinel bears witness that this provision was in- every respect satisfactory. The Sent'nel has never asked any.

thing of Its employes that it would not be willing to submit to the arbitration of fair-minded men. and it has no expectation of doing so in the future. Its employes have been equally fair. It concedes, to ita employes and their union every principle contended for by the advanced labor leaders. Including the right to regulate the conditions of labor, and it bears testimony that the system is the most satisfactory form of employment That has ever been devised. No corporation need fear to try it or to try arbitration. No body of employes ne-d fear arbitration. The. only opposition to arbitration on either side comes from the anarchistic element the element that has "nothing to arbitrate" the element that ls determined to impoe its own terms without regard to Justice. WHAT WILL HE THE REM LTf What will be the result of the large and reckless immigration that is certainly pouring into the United 'States from the East and from the West? Do our political economists study the matter closely? What influence ls this mass of indiscriminate foreign elements having upon our people? Is it swallowing us up, or are we gulping It down easily and readily, or perhaps It I gradually neutralizing all of the best results that we have obtained from the various sif tings of the centurle?. The larger portion of this nasty horde knows nothing of our language and ls an utter stranger to the genius of American Institutions. It ls not without the range of probabilities that we may deg?nerate under this forbidding influx from other lands. Prof. Richmond Mayo-Smith has recently made a valuable contribution to this subject entitled, "Statistical Data for the Study of the Assimilation of Races and Nationalities in the United States." Prof. Mayo-Smith gives comparisons that are instructive. For example, to each1 hundred of male3 of twenty-one years and over there are foreign-bom males of that age to tho number of thirty-seven in .Massachusetts, forty In Rhode Island, thirty-six in Illinois, forty in Michigan, fifty-three in Wisconsin." fifty-nine in Minnesota and sixty-five in North Dakota. Contrariwise, the proportion in Maine is fifteen, In Vermont nineteen, in Indiana twelve, in Missouri seventeen and in Kansas nineteen. The Boston Herald, in discussing the professor' article, together with the foregoing statistics, says: "But is there anything in the governments of these State or in the general tendency of their Institutions, such as schools, courts, etc., that would indicate that the foreign population was injuriously affecting the welfare cf the country? Is there, for example, any higher grade of intelligence, public spirit or material prosperity in Indiana and Missouri, two states in the group showing a strong anti-foreign comlexian, than In. Wisconsin and Minnesota? The process of assimilation has gone on, good government under the constitution has prevailed, and It Is satisfactory to believe that the same process wiil be continued in the years that are to come, and that the force of the political and social institutions first established by the early settlers will be more than equal to the task of molding into acquiescence those, who seek our shores from other parts of the world." This is an encouraging and cheerful vieflvof the subject, but

the allusion to Minnesota makes apropos tha following extract from the Minneapolis Tribune: At the meeting of Minneapolis citizens at the rooms of the Commercial club on Saturday evening, the remark of one of the speakers to the effect that laws should be paseU for the more effective restriction of immigration was greeted with general applause. The hordes of Huns, Bohemians. Polaeks and other scum and offscourings of European countries, who make up the bulk of the riotous mobs at Chicago, have emphasized the danger of admitting immigrants without regard to their quality or qualification for becoming American citizens. In the aSsence of sufficiently stringent laws, something may be done by the courts by exercising due discrimination in the issue of naturalization papers. The intelligent and law-abiding foreigners who come here to make this country their home are all right. There is no objection to them. They constitute some of our best citizens. But the ignorant, the degraded, the vile and the criminal are not wanted, and should be kept out. We feel that Indiana has been fortunate with tha foreigners who have settled among us. With few exceptions they are all right and readily assimilate with our people. ' . fixing it i:m'o si n i lit v. One of the best features of the fight in the senate is the manner in which it is narrowing the field of responsibility for the atrocities of the Gorman bill, and as yet nothing more significant has occurred than the statement of Caffery of Louisiana. Mr. Caffery was smarting under the criticism that had been made on Louisiana senators, and he proposed that the country should understand the extent of their responsibility. The Louisiana senators wanted incidental protection on sugar, but they did not want the earth. It ls a matter of notoriety that cane sugar cannot be raised In this country without some protection, and the removal of all protection means the destruction of Louisiana's industry, which has been fostered by both democratic and republican tariffs, and by none more so than by the McKinley bounty of 2 cents per pound- The Louisiana senators were satisfied with a specific duty of 1 cent per pound and were willing to give the sugar trust a differential duty of one-eighth of a cent per pound. The senate finance committee agreed to this schedule. But now comes Mr. Gorman and says that this schedule is not satisfactory to the sugar trust, and that no bill can pass the senate that Is not satisfactory to that trust. The trust demands an ad valorem duty because an ad valorem duty is of Itself equivalent to a differential duty on refined sugar. The Louisiana people did not want an ad valorem duty because they feared that the sugar trust would undervalue Imported unrefined sugars, and they certalfdy had every reason to believe that this lawless organization would not hesitate at anything that would ba a source uf aroflt

to them. But they were cornered. To get the concession they wanted they were obliged to make concessions to others. That is the history of all tariff legislation. The protection that might with some reason be asked that is not really objected to by the mass of the people is forced into league with the shameless steals that make so-called protection a mockery, a disgrace an4 a scandal. We have no doubt that if these senatorial confessions continue the ultimate responsibility will be found to rest with the champions of the sugar trust, the whisky trust and the coal and iron combines.

NO SI' It HEMD Ell. If congressmen are, in fact, talking of compromise on the terms suggested in the press dispatches, they must have little conception of the temper of the country. The firm stand of the house and the courageous intervention of the president have received universal commendation from the democratic and Independent press, and the people are as unanimous and emphatic as the press. The senate conspirators are denounced on all sides, and it is unquestionably the strong sentiment on all sides that it would be better to pass no bill at all than to let the senate traitors run the party and make it the servant of the impudent trusts that are attempting to dictate legisla tlon. A stand must be made somewhere against the government by money that has grown up during thirty years of re publican rule, and that stand ought to be made before the democratic party has submitted to the dishonor of accepting such rule. If it submits now it will not soon be trusted again to defend the peo ple from such government. The establishment of a duty of 45 per cent, ad valorem on all sugars Is more than equivalent to the amount of bounty granted the sugar trust by the McKinley bill. The duty alone ls a full equivalent. and, added to this, the trust will have the opportunity to undervalue imported raw sugar, which it could not profit by under the McKinley bill. The only possir ble duty that can put a stop to the pirat ical plunder of this lawless organization is an uniform specific duty on all sugars. In the light of the damaging dis.losures that have been made concerning the sugar trust and its methods, any concession to it will be regarded by the country as a fruit of corruption and will leave an indelible smirch on the party. The concessions to the whisky trust and the whisky pool are almost equally obnoxious to a very large c lass of people. They are not called for by any industry and are purely for the benefit of speculators. The duties on coal and Iron are a tax on all manufacturing and industrial occupations that will ultimately be paid by the whole people. It would be an awful blunder to retain such duties in a bi.il passed by a democratic congress, and the only safe course Is to force a vote for their removal in the senate. If the senate persists in adhering to them let the house appeal to the country on the isue so made. The party will support the house and the people will support the party in such a glorious revolt against the money power. A TYPICAL FEAST OF HEASOX." A country club recently discussed the momentous question: "Why Do Intellectual Men Not Attend Church?" A variety of opinions were brought out, among the most Impressive of which was the idea that "theology ls played out." One philosopher held that it was because the preachers, as a rule, are "not up to the standard of modern enlightenment in science, art, politics and aesthetics." Another argued that "intellectual people in these days care little for religion, which ls a sentiment, and therefore more properly the concern of women and poets." Still another said: "The church is a place to display fashionable hats and dresses." One youthful solon remarked that "religion Is a passion of the flesh, born of Indigestion and superstition." Some time ago the writer picked up a professional infidel paper and, glancing at the heads of articles, noted the following: "Do Spirits Have Teeth?" "Will the Coming Man Pray?" "Sixteen Crucified Saviors," "Another Parson Caught Nesting," "Col. Bob Ingersoll on Ministerial Mountebanks," and more of the like. The club of agrarian agnostics referred to probably find rich substitution in the columns of such periodicals for what they miss by "abstaining" from church. The Sentinel, without wishing to appear Intrusive or obtrusive, would like to suggest to this coterie of metaphysiconoclasts that they next take up the query: "Is It True That Intellectual Men Do Not Attend Church?" Then let them take two weeks and investigate before discussing the question per se, as they evidently did before. By the voluntary confessions of those in attendance it appeared that none of them had been inside of a church for many months some of them not for years. No statistics or other testimony was submitted in proof of the allegation implied by the title of the question discussed. The spectator had to infer who were meant by 'intellectual men." The adduced evidence pointed to the small group of doctrinaires, but the spectator was Inclined to give the local church congregations the benefit of the doubt. The Sentinel's advice to these young men ls to go slow. God's processes are all slow and patient and painstaking. Nature is slow and sometimes fortuitous, but sure as the decrees of destiny. Wise and prudent men do not speak until they have strained all the impulsiveness and passion out of the thought seeking utterance. The hare is a "rapid critter,"- but the tortoise always gets there. Wait, boys, till you have reasoned round the cycle of the ages before you sit on the corpse of religion. Go to church occasionally and size up the congregations, then compare their average intellectuality wiU Lha of the IngarsoHa, the Bennetts,

the Mösts and the Santos. Perhaps, llkev

Col. Bob's forlorn hope, you may "hear the rustle of a wing." A DAXGEROIS DOCTRINE. The courts of the country have repeatedly declared that employes had the right to strike. In the absence of a time contract such a right is absolutely essential to human liberty. If a man, under no contract obligations, is not free to quit work when he likes he ls in a condition of slavery. The courts have recognized this truth fully and have declared it clearly. Nevertheless in the telegraphic report of the court proceedings at Chicago occurs ,this startling passage: During the discussion Edwin Walker, special counsel for the government, made the suggestion that it was within the power of the defendants to end the trouble by declaring the strike off. They are still In contempt, he said, and the government 13 In possession of information that the injunction ls still being violated. Judge Woods said that if there are further violations of the injunction a supplemental Information can be filed and the guilty parties will find themselves in a much worse position than they would otherwise be in. Attorney Gregory denied that it was within the power of his client to declare the strike off .or that any trouble which may exist on the railroads is within their control. With that the subject was dropped. This apparently means that ire the opinion of Mr. Walker. Debs ls under some obligation to the court to declare the strike off; that he ls in greater contempt if he does not do so, and that this should be considered in fixing his punishment for past charged contempt. This doctrine is a point in advance of Judge Woods's theory that It is a serious question whether advising to strike is not a punishable offense, and that was bad enough doctrine for anyone. If it be lawful to strike it cannot well be unlawful to advise to strike. There cannot, consistently or logically, be anything unlawful in advising one to do a lawful thing, although when the act results in Injury to a third party he may have an action for damages. But Walker's doctrine Is worse. His position ls that where a lawful movement has been entered upon, and it is within the power of one or more persons to stop it, it may be a violation of law for them to fall to stop it a violation of law to fall to prevent others from doing a lawful act. The position is preposterous. If the courts hold to it they will be obliged to abandon their former holdings that striking is lawful, and add it to the list of penal offenses. LET THE HOUSE ST AMD FIIISI. The democratic party of the country has been fully heard from in response to the president's brave, patriotic and statesmanly letter to Chairman Wilson. It has rallied to his support with an en thusiasm and unanimity even greater than were called forth by the epochmaking tariff reform message of 1SS7. It stands squarely by President Cleveland in his earnest efforts to compel a fulfillment of the solemn pledges made by the democratic party in the presidential campaign of 1S92. There has never been a time. In the history of American politics, in which the democratic press was so unanimous upon any mooted question of put lie policy as it is today in support of President Cleveland and the house of representatives In their splendid resistance to the little gang of corrupt politicians in the senate, who can not, truthfully, make even the poor excuse for their perfidy yes, "perfidy" is the word that It is demanded by the interests of their states. Democratic sentiment in Maryland. New Jersey and West Virginia ls overwhelmingly against the senators from those states In their fight for the sugar trusts and the coal and iron barons. The democratic party of the country is practically a unit for free raw matrials. Its message to the house of representatives is: Stand firm for free coal and Iron, and against the sugar trust tariff schedule. Better no tariff bill at all, and a square appeal to the country on the issue of honest tariff reform, than the passage of the senate abomination. The country can stand a couple of years more of McKinleyism better than It can 6tand such an illogical and disreputable makeshift as the Gorman bill. The new labor union, which It is proposed to organize, seems to have for Its principal object the retirement of ail the old labor leaders and the installation cf new ones in their places. In some particulars the success of this movement might be regarded as a public calamity. Organized labor would undoubtedly receive a setback by the retirement of Arthur as head of the locomotive engineers or Sargent as head of the locomotive firemen J Sovereign, the new chief of the Knights of Labor, has not yet been tested. But the 'other two whose names have been mentioned have established themselves in the confidence of the American people, any any movement looking to the restriction of their authority would be regarded with h greatest suspicion. The main plan of the new American labor union is unquestionably a good one. It is highly desirable that some plan of organization be adopted which will unite all the tolling masses. But to make that movement successful It should have the support and the active co-operation of men of the Arthur-Sar-gent-Gompers stripe, Who have !n the past given the labor movement a standing by their wisdom, their conservatism and their firmness. ; Any labor movement which seeks to eliminate these men has an uphill road to travel in establishing Itself in public favor. No public man in our history ever grew more rapidly 1n public favor than baa Senator . David . B. Hill in the past five - days. Whatever mistakes he has made in the past, and however frequently he has given the country occasion ta doubt his sincerity and wisdom, he Is on solid ground now In his splendid defense of President Cleveland and of the vital principles of democracy against the senatorial tools of monopoly. Senator Hill is a man of great abilities audi splendid sossibllities.

and if he will continue the fight he is now making for party, good faith and honeat legislation, all "his past errors will ba forgiven, even his opposition to the in coma tax. which is a question abxit which democrats, after all, may honestly differ. . The bicycle in the hands of many is a very merciless machine. One is run into and knocked down In a twinkling just as the danger seems- far away, post or impossible. In England the law is very strict. A fine of 510 is assessed against the person who rides by night without a lamp, or who falls to constantly ring a bell of warning as he speeds along th streets. The law also looks severely after those who indulge in furioua riding. t ET CETERA.

A five-cent restaurant fjp womea. opened some time ago in Boston, has proved quit as great a success as those for man usuaJly are. Miss Hamilton of India, who has Jurt been appointed the phys'dan of the harem of the amer of Afghanistan, win be accompanied wherever she goes by a personal guard of six na'ive soldiers. OKv Echrelner" new hom to. Soath Afrlcji is called Krantz Plaats. It la on tha banks of a llttl stream fringed with thoaa busies and named the Great Fish river. John Crossley & Son of London, whos carpets are kn.-n all over ths world, have bought for Jl.OOO.jO the Brussels carpet manufactory of Horner Bros. Philadelphia. The Philadelphia, house employs fr rucsi. Prince Roland Bonaparte, who ls now thl hope of the BonapHrticis, Prince Victor be lng a poor exile. Is baliding a palace on tht Avenue d'iena in Iiris of so spier did a kind that it will be one of the show places of the capital. Commenting on the lavish, exp-.-nditure. the Paris correr.p indent cf a London j Kirn il says: "I was told what was pail for ;!..' ground per yard, but the sum is so enormous that I dire not mention It." A new Canaiian law rtfu"s to al ow fre fisrtiing to American summer visitors. It roquir:s f tr-in lishermen to take out a license. The license costs ST., iermlts rh visitor to fish for thre months, but prohibits his catching more than twelv bass la any one day. The visitors at the Thoa sand Islands ar ha!J1ng In-i'.gnatlon meetings over Ulis penurious and 5tuplJ policy Canada would be wiser to offer ail the inducements it can command t American summer visitors. They are usially profitable guts. Cardinal Gibbons celebrated last Monday his 8:x:ieth birthday. He has been at Capt Mjy, N". J., where he has lcn recreat-ini for two weeks. Th cardinal was bonj in Baltimore July 23. 1S34. Af:er spending some time in Ireland wi'h his father he re turned to Maryl.tnd. and in 1V7 wa gradu atel from St. Charles's college. The lati Archbishop Her.T-iv.-k ordained him a prlesl at St. Mary's seminary June 11. Aug. 16. 13. he was consecrate! b.shop and vk-ui" apostolic of North Carolina. He was transferrel to PJchmond Oct. 2. 1?T2. May CO, 1S77. he was apjoir.ted coadjutor, with th ripht of succession to Archbishop Bailey. Oct. 3. 1ST77, he succeeded to the sei of Baltimore. June 7, 1;, l.e was created a cardinal. THE SEX ITH AM) THE TARIFF. Why should the house of representative yield to the senate? The members of tha house were elected by the people ani know what the people's wishes are. Nashville American (dein.). The whisky trusj. is a conspiracy in restraint uf trade, one f whose principal ooicers was detected in an attempt to blow up an anti-trust distillery with dynamite. I s Attorney-Gnral Olney tli'nk that Was constitutional? N. Y. World (dem.). Th postp r.ement of tarit? rform is a grievous thing, especially at this time, but the people will forgive the postponement a goo.i deal m -re n-a lily than they will a cowardly surrender of principle for the sake of securing a present pe.tcu and the rrere shadow of reform. Detroit Free Press, (dein.). Seruator Gorman exaggerates th tasie accomplish-d by the framers of the senate C" mprnmise bill. What th-y did was really a very simple matter. It was only neeci-sary to ak Senators Gorman, Brice, Smith. Murphy. White and Caffery what they wanted and put it in the bill. Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.). "I hope. I say, thay whatever the fate of the present tariti bill may be, this house will not consent to adjourn until it has passed a si:.gl3 bill putting re tinea sugar on the free list." The wer the words of Chairman Wilson In his speech announcing the failure of the conference committee to agree. If the suiar trust wants to force the fighting, why n.'S give it all it wants, and more? X. Y. Times (dem.). It is not to be believed for r.a instant that the house will yield its ground. Thrt senate bill has nothing in its favor except that it is acceptable to the interests represented by senators Gorman, Brice and Smith, and will command the votes of those senators. That, however, is ita strongest condemnation in the minds cf honest democrats and of the people gen eraliy, and it is condemned accordingly. Charleston News and Courier (dem.). The defect is vital. It reaches to tha origin of the Senate. Th jeople are ripe for the reform. They have wai:-:;d long to be sure of themselves, but tiie barriers of forbearance have broken down befori resentment of the intolerable attitule assum;d by the senate in the present emergency. As soon as the; people g-t 4 chance to vote tne necessary amendment to the constitution, the senate will ba elected by the popular vote. Louisviila Courier-Journal (dem.). The country has voted time anl agaia for an enlargement' of tho free list, anj will not be satisfied with the limited nura b?r of arti-l -s placed cp n it by the sen ate bill. Such a tree 1 1 t is wanted as will cheapen the c-"st to c nsu:n ai d ceasa to unduly increase' the profits of tha monop.-.lists. This wa mut have from tha present congress, or the pvple will replace it wi:h one that will give them) what they so much net-,1. Georgetown (I)el.) Democrat (dem.). From ocean to ocean and from thfl Canadian b -rder to the gulf there is na democratic state in which the honest anl Influential democratic newspapers are n-l following the chosen leader of the tariCB reform host, and in.--is.ing that there shaii be no surrender to the forbidden force that have dictated the schedules of tha Gorman bill. Those schedules are recog. nized by the people as the product of secret and suspicious negotiations. They are felt to be saturated with MeKinleyisrn and the mn who have undertaken tcj make merchandise of th-ir pirty and ital principles are repudiated with unqualified indignation. So tar as the voice of the democratic masses and the demx-ratlo presses can do it, these treacherous leaders are already ordered to the Tarpeiau rock reserved for traitors to a great cause. Baltimore Sun (dem.). The present and prospective untedd sufferings of the unemployed masses, the distress of the whole nation, the pitiable condition of all our industries, cry ta heaven for real and ample relief from the intolerable burdens of protection." But, passing strange as it 'I, hedged Irt by the money-powers, which have for thirty years been draining the nation of its life blood and are still drawing thousands of millions of dollars from it every year by means of the monstrous McKinley act. the apologists in, the senate for its kindred bill, which passed that body on July 3, are openly defying, not the president only, but the whole country. But they will find very soon that this ls a perilous piece of bravado. "Protection" is doomed by the people, and all the "compromisers" and their secret allies inj and out of the senate cannot save it N. Y. Herald (Ind.). " j Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powdcf World's Fair Hifchest Award.