Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1894 — Page 4

THE INDI'AKA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1891.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. (Entered t the Pontofflce at Indianapolis a second class matter.)

TERMS rEIl TEAR. Binde copy (In Advance) ft OO W'm ask democrats to bear In mind and select their own state paper when they come to take subscriptions and make up clubs. Anritt mnkluK np clubs send tatr an jr Information desired. Address THE IMIA.ArOMS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY, OCTOIICU 3, 1801. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. Jndxe of Supreme Court, First Dlstrlt George I Reinhard. Judge of Supreme Court, Fourth District Joseph S. Dal ley. Secretary ( State Willlara P, Myers. Auditor of State Joseph T. FanBin sr. Treasurer of State Morgan Chandler. Attorney-General Francis M. Grlfflth. Clerk of the Supreme Court C. W. ,NVelman. Superintendent of rubllc Instruction Charles XV. Thomas. Stat Statistician Alexander Fulton. State Geolog;it E. T. J. Jordan. MR. IIAIUUSOVS TREASURY. The Sentinel has hid several Inquiries concerning the amount of cash in the treasury at the close of Mr. Harrison's term. most of which refer to an article of the Journal commenting on Mr. BrookFh ire's recent speech, which has been copied by a number of the state papers. The amount depends entirely on the system of bookkeeping. The amount reported on hind on March 1. ISM, was J21.12S.CK7.:. but this was Foster's sysrtem of bookkeeping. If the accounts had Joeen kept as they were on March 1, 1SSH. there would have appeared a deficit of available funds" of over $30.000,000. The total amount of money in all funds turned over to Harrison by Cleveland In excluding the gold and silver held agairrst certificates, was 5330,343,916.12. The amount of funds of all kinds turned over by Harrison, to Cleveland in 1S03. with the same exclusion, was $162,493,920.7S. On whatever system, cf bookkeeping you mry choose to use there was JlG7.fC4.M4.34 If in the treasury at the end of Mr. Harrison's term than there was at the beginning. The important differences in the bookkeeping are three in number. The first was the transfer of the seigniorage, or profits on coinage, to the available funds and its use in purchase of bonds at a premium. Startling as it may seem, the Harrison administration appropriated $30,103,013.25 of this "vacuum" and bought bonds with it. The second was . the turning of the fund for the redemption of national bank notes, amounting to $r4,5SS, 473.7."), Into the available funds and it3 use for the ordinary purposes of the government. This had always previously been regarded as a trust fund. The third was the turning of the government's holding of nickels, dimes and other fractional currency into the available funds. This amounted to 511,437,S20.74. Previous to July 1. 1S31, this fractional currency was always classed as not available. If these two funds last mentioned had iteen treated as not available, as they were on (March 1. 1SS9. the net cash balance would have been wiped out, and a heavy deficit would have appeared, and. of course, there is r.o fair way of comparing except to put the accounts on the same basis at the two dates. There is r.o room for question that the object of these transfers was to avoid the appearance of a deficit, for the treasury was bankrupt at the close of Harrison's administration on the system of bookkeeping that was previously in use. Mr. Foster knew it and knew that it would be necessary to issue bends to maintain cash J3yments. lie gave orders to prepare them and the plates were prepared. But Mr. Harrison dramatically announced that his administration was "a bond-paying and not a bond-issuing one," and kindly left his bankrupt treasury to toe straightened out by Mr. Cleveland. And Mr. Cleveland is doing It in excellent style notwithstanding ail the obstacles that have been placed in his way. RKTRintTIOX COMIG. It seems probable that Mr. Pullman will soon begin to reap retribution for his Infamous treatment of his employes. There are two lines In which It is coming. One is Just taxation. Mr. Pullman may have wanted some laws enforced, fcut the tax law was not one of them. Governor Altgeld noted this fact and appeared before the Illinois state board of equalization to demand a Just assessment of this company, whose entire property in Illinois had been assessed at only 5l.CD3.500. lie showed by the statements of Mr. Pullman before the Investigating committee that the capital stock of th? company was 53. 000,000 and that for years an annual dividend of 8 per cent, had been paid on this stock, while at the Gime time the company bad accumulated $23,000,000 of undivided profits. He also showed that Its stock toad been selling at $1.7 1. The facta were received with some astonishment by the commissioners, and one of them gave notice that he should move to assess the company at 513.000.000, which Is about In proportion to th' average rate of assessing other property of corporations and wealthy men in Illinois. The second movement Is an exodus of people from Pullman and the establishment of a rival concern at Hiawatha, Kas. The contract has been closed for the site and the first Installment of men will be brought on at once to construct temporary buildings for the shops. Arrangements have been made With the dtjr to use surplus power from the city

water works until the shops are completed. The first work of the new establishment will be to put an Improved bicycle on the market, but later on It will be developed into a car-building establishment. Many of the most experienced workmen of Pullman will be employed In the new works, and it will be able to turn out work equal to any on the continent. It is therefore probable that Mr. Pullman has succeeded in raising up a formidable rival which will hereafter cause him trouble, and no one will regret it if that is the result, for he Is as universally despised as any man ever was in this country. If there Is any character that American people despise heartily it is the exposed hypocrite who has be3n masquerading as a public benefactor, or philanthropist.

M'kisliivs srnncii. It cannot be questioned that Mr. McKinley made a most able and eloquent appeil to the ignorance of hi3 hearers. Every one of his points that was received with applause was based on a false assumption or a suppression of the truth. Ills speech is almost without a parallel in this respect. It Is a catchy, superficial, misleading effort. It will not bear analysis. The first part of It Is based on the assumption that the democratic party caused the panic of 1SD3. He does not say so, but he repeatedly mentions that the democratic party was In power when it occurred. "We submit Ithat there was not a man In his audience who will consider this assumption for five minutes who will not be forced to admit that it is absurd. Mr. McKinley says that the country was in a most prosperous condition while Mr. Harrison was in office, and yet in three months afterward It was Involved in tho worst panio the country ever knew. Think of it. "We .all concede that this is the greatest and richest country in the world. Its resources are unrivaled. The industry arid intelligence of its people are unexcelled. And yet the mere fact thit a new president was In office a president whose preceding term was conceded by republicans to be "safe" and wise with no law changed in any respect, with congress not In session and not expedted to be till Iecember, was sufficient to change great prosperity to unprecedented disaster. No man believes that or can believe it. Kvery man knows that the causes which overthrow the commercial prosperity of a great country must be long in action. It is as if a man who has ruined his stomach by excesses, and has been ordered on a diet of oatmeal by his physician, should aver that his trouble was due to the anticipation of oatmeal. The real causes of this country's commercial dyspepsia are plainly apparent. Mr. Harrison's empty treasury, Mr. Sherman's absurd silver purchase law and Mr. McKinley's donation of the earning of the country to the tru?ts and combines afford a full and sufficient explanation of it. Mr. McKinley dilated on the fact that the present tariff law was unsatisfactory to a large part of the democratic party, but he carefully suppressed the reason why. That reason Is that the law contains some remnants of McKinleyism. No genuine democrat has any other objection to it. He rehashes his old story of protection to southern products, but suppresses the fact that the protection in every case was reduced from that given in his own law. He mentions rice, the duty on which was reduced below that of his bill 25 per cent, on cleaned and 20 per cent, on uncleaned. He mentions peanuts, on which the duty was reduced 72 per cent. He mentions sumach, on which the duty was reduced 50 per cent. He mentions mica, on which the duty was reduced 43 per cent. He even has the audacity to mention sugar, although the Louisiana sugar planters have just bolted to the republican party because the McKinley bill was so much more favorable to them than the new law, although Havemeyer himself said under oath that the McKinley bill was more favorable to the trust than the present law, and although the market price of sugar is now lower than it was at this time both one year -ago and two years ago. Mr. McKinley evidently takes the Indiana republicans for a lot of chumps, and he may be justified in doing so. Unquestionably the large majority of them regard him as the Moses of their party, and would vote to put his law on the statute books again. But there certainly must be many republicans who can see through his shallow sophistries and transparent misrepresentations, and 'feel disgust for the Ideas of the man. There must be many who have long understood the folly of protectionism and longed to see their party break the chains that bound it to the tariff beneficiaries. This year they must vote for McKinleyism or tariff reform. There is no middle course. They must vote to support the president and the house, or the senate traitors, the republicans and the trusts. IlKillT AIIOIT FA CR The Sentinel's remarks on Mr. McKintey's speech seem to have had a beneficial effect on that Interesting gentleman. In his speech here ho said: Rut, my fellow citizens, this bill gives some protection. Ilice is carefully protected by a duty of more than 80 per cent., and sugar is not wholly neglected; is has some free trade in it here and some there, but principally lure. There Is a tariff on peanuts, but free trade in hoop Iron that goes to bind the bale of cotton. There is a tariff on sumach, but free trade in wool. There is a tariff on mica, but free trade in lumber. There is a tariff on the grain bags of the northern farmer, but there is no tariff on the cotton bagging of the southern farmer. In every schedule there is the grossest exhibition of sectionalism and unjust discrimination. Tire Sentinel at once called his attention to the fact that on everyone of those articles, which he was pleased to call southern products, the duties levied by the present law were lower than those levied by his own law, and that his remarks as to sugar were especially absurd Inasmuch as the Louisiana sugar planters had Just Joined the republican because they preferred the McKinley law to the present law; Inasmuch as Mr. Havemeyer had aworo th&it the McKin

ley law was more favorable to the sugar trust than the present law, and Inasmuch as refined sugars were selling at lower prices than they were one year ago and two years ago. On considering these facts Mr. McKinley changed his mind. At any rate he came at the sugar question on a new tack in his speech at Findlay, O., recently, as follows: Only a few days ago the sugar-planters of Louisiana, In convention assembled, turned their backs upon the democratic party, with whLeh they had all their lives been associated, and boldly announced their unconditional Indorsement and support of the great doctrines of protection to American industries, and thereby allied themselves permanently with the national republican party. What this may mean in the future of our policy I do not know, but that it must have a wide and beneficent influence cannot for a moment be questioned. Here is a larg- body of the best business men in the state, by adoption and practice democrats, who for years have been trying to make themselves believe that the democratic party was not the enemy of our great Industries, but now have been reluctantly forced to abandon their position and openly declare that they are alone safe In the hands of the republican party. I cannot but commend them for this patriotic movement. They need no assurance of devotion to the material Interests of the South by the republican party. In all Its legislation for one-third of a century it has never overlooked a single southern interest. Without any aid from the South, with its entire representation in both branches of congress for the most part standing in opposition to the republican party in the stormiest years of sectional prejudice?, moved by no other consideration but the public good, the smallest as well as the largest industries of the South have been sacredly guarded and jroteeted. We welcome to fellowship this great body of American citizens who propose henceforth to be- Americans and stand up for American interests, not in one, but in all sections of our beloved country. Was a more complete change of front ever seen. One day he complains of democratic sectionalism. The next he says: "They need no assurance of devotion to the material interests of the South by the republican party." Of course not. That is what The Sentinel said. "In all its legislation for onethird of a century it has never overlooked a single southern industry." That is true, nor any other industry that had the right kind of a lobby at Washington. And this was peculiarly true of Mr. McKinley's law. He simply Invited in the trusts, and combines, and tariff barons, and asked them what they wanted, and gave it to them. And If the republicans come into power again they will do the same thing again. The sugarplaniters, and the sugar trust, and all the other beneficiaries will come trooping forward, and the McKinleyites will fall on their necks, and kill the fatted calf, and take them off their husk diet.

THK MARYLAND DEMOCRATS. The Maryland democrats are more emphatic in their condemnation of Senator Gorman than their Ohio brethren were of Price in their state convention. The Carroll county convention on Monday read the riot act to the senator in plain English. It not only declared in favor of the election of senators by direct vote of the people, but also recorded its disapproval of Maryland's senators as follows: We hereby record our disapproval of the action of the striate in engrafting on the Wilson bill legislation in the interest of trusts and monopolies, and we especi illy repudiate the course of Senators Gorman and Gibson therein, and declare that they are unfit to longer represent the democracy of Maryland or the country Ln the national legislature. And, moreover, the convention did not limit fts disapproval to Gorman's action on the tariff question. It went further and said of him in connection with state politics: And we further repudiate Gorman methods and Gormanism in this state that denies to the public the right to control their own affairs, and are undemocratic, unpatriotic, and if allowed to te continued, will result in disaster to the party. There must be no step backward, and the democrats of Carroll promise hourly co-operation with President Cleveland In redeeming the party pledges, and as guarantee of their fidelity offer to the democracy of this congressional district as a fitting nominee David N. Henning of Westminster, an original Cleveland supporter at the national convention of 1SS4. a firm adherent ever since, and one of the most earnest and advanced of tax reformers, and to cast their votes at Towson for no one who does not indorse these declarations. The fight between the Cleveland democrats and the Gorman democrats is evidently on in Maryland, and on to stay. The Carroll county convention gave tho fullest indorsement to the president in its tariff plank, which is as follows: The democrats of Carroll county in convention assembled a train assert their faith ln the wisdom, prudence and transcendent ability of G rover Cleveland, and stand with him in his efforts to eradicate the last vestige of protection from the ftatute looks. While the new tariff law is a long step away from McKinleyism, and will result ln lower prices for cotton, woolen and silk goods, for iron and steel manufactures, for tin and binder twine and various other articles of prime necessity, still it doc? not fulfill the complete measure of tax reform promised by the democratic party and expected by the people, ami the contest must be waged until taxation shall be levied for revenue only, and be so adjusted that trusts and monopolies shall le no more. It was not to be expected that a policy of thirty years' growth could be absolutely reversed all at once, but, having laid the foundation for constitutional tariff for revenue only, It will be easy in the future to eradicate whatever of protection remains by speclil legislation. This Is sound doctrine and it is the position of the democratic party throughout the country. It is a position that the people will Indorse. McKinleyism is dead in principle. There remains only tho work of cleaning up its remains unless tho people should foolishly give it a new leaso of life by restoring the protection party to jower. The republicans will have to take a new tack on their sugar arguments. Mr. Havemeyer has ordered half cf the trust refineries closed and the remainder will bs shut down next week. In an interview, Havemeyer says: "The oieration of tha new tariff law has already closed half the refineries in this country, throwing the men who worked In them out of employment, and it will probably close all the rest of them next week. This will mean putting at least 10,000 men out of work. The price of sugar is below the cost of production. For some time past tha compiny has been working tho refineries at a considerable loss." Republican newspapers will now prepare to

, treat the sugar trust as "another Industry i ... . . .

ruined by tarlfr reform." Of course Mr. Havemeyer i3 lying. The trust people are evidently preparing to bar the stock and buy It up at a low figure. Then the trust will resume operations and the stock will go up. PERSONALS. Thilo Norton McGiffln. commander of the Chinese warship Chen Yuen, is only th'.rtytwo years of age. He is a native of Washington, Pa., and graduated at Annapolis in 1SSL I"rof. S. Edwin Whlteman. a pupil of Lefebvro and of P.enjam'n Constant, has succeeded Prof. AnJro Castalgne as instructor of the art class of the Charcoal club at Baltimore. Charles R. Pope, one of the old-t'.me American actors, Is organizing a series of musical entertainments for the b!g music hall ln St. IouIm, to be given monthly mil beginning in November. He has secure I the services of Sei-U and his orchestra, Walter Damrosch. who will give a Wagner festival, and other leading talent. Judge Charles A. Gayarre. the venerable historian of Louisiana, v ho has been seriously m during the summer, is now restored to his usual health. Judse Gayarre will be ninety years old on the 1st of next January. His home on Prieurst.. New Orleans, 1 one of the most attractive spots la the lower parts of the Cit3 At the court of Alexander III of Russia the chef is by tradition and position a gentleman and has the right of wearing a sword. The present holder of the office is an Alsatian named Krautz, wno fought in the French army ln the Franco-Prussian war. His pay and perquisites amount to about $.15,000 a year, or half as much again as the salary of the English prime minister. After many repatntlngs and alterations Alma Tadema has finished his magnum opus, a picture of ancient Rome ln festival, which ha already been 'Insight by a daUT ln Berlin for P,00 marks. It Is called 'Spring," and contains more than 100 figures of celebrants and spectators, a procession In honor of the poods of flowers and fertility, moving along toward the temple. Ion Sclplone Borghese, prince of Sulmona, is about to restore the fortunes of his house by marrying the duchess of GalUera, who brings him a fortune of Jrt.O'VjiX). The Borghese family was rulnel a few years a?o by undertaking to put up new buildings in Rome on too large a scale, and was only prevented by the interference of the government from sellirg the art treasures ln the Villa Rorghese and the Porghese gallery. The most famous of these Is Canova's statue of Pauline Iionaparte, Napoleon's sister, who married into the family. Paron Erlanger, whose death was announced In a dispatch from Geneva, was Paron Victor Erlanger, and not Raron Hmile Erlantrer. the head of the wellknown banking house of London and Paris. The gaekwar of Daroda Is on a visit to Scotland and being a "twenty-one gun" feudatory prince, with the largest revenue, $7,&i0,m, of any of the independent rulers in India, is made much of by the "siller" loving Highlanders. A former ollicer of the German army, Herr Waethe, a wealthy man. has gone to California to purchase ground to estaUlsh a vegetarian colony. His disciples, however, are to eat fruit and vegetables only in the raw state, live In unfurnished huts, and wear as little clothing as possible. In the colony are twelve German noblemen. The death of Paron Mundy, the philanthropist of Vienna, has caused great sorrow to Mme. Sarah Pernhardt. who considered him one of her best friends. She never failed to visit Mundy when In or near Vienna, and declares that he was one of the noblest men who ever lived. The baron spent J'jo.fs in caring for wounded Frenchmen la 1S70-71. The shah of Persia has becomo an ardent sportsman and established a Persian derby, in which twenty-seven of his majesty's horses recently ran. The owners of the horses which were defeated received nothing, of course, but the owners of the winners were no more successful. It was considered an insult that they should allow their animals to defeat those of the shah. Further than that, the horses were confiscated and placed ln the stable of his majesty, who thus has a new source of Income. CENTER SHOTS. The people remember that the Sherman bullion purchase law .as the product of republican statesmanship apainst the enactment of which every democrat in congress voted. It should be borne in mind that the fiiKineUl panic was a republican ranic In its inception, continuance and disastrous effects. It was under a national democratic administration that the Sherman and federal election laws were repealed. Within the first year of our administration and at the ensuing congressional elections the spectacle will be witnessed for the first time in twenty-four years of state elections conducted, as they oucht to 1?, without federal interference, dictation or intimidation. Senator Hill at Albany. I speak now directly to the wageworkers of Indiana, and in the light of their own experience, which I call to witness, when I soy that the claim, by whomsoever made, that protection of the McKinley kind protects the lalrers in getting employment, or In keeping it at fair, living wages, without reductions or change of contract on the part of the employers, is a falsehood, gross, palpable, transparent; a falsehood, brazen, impudent, and proven to be such In more than a thousand strikes and struggles between capital and labor under the high protective tariffs, which for the third of a century past have cursed the laboring classes of the United States. Senator Voorhees at Terre Haute. Much is being said by the republican regarding the hard limes that have been inflicted upon the people for the past fifteen months, the responsibility for which they have charged upon the democratic administration. They do thitj notwithstanding' the fact that the financial stringency began and has run its entire course under laws for which the republican party was entirely responsible. That the democratic party is in nowise resionslble I think can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of any fair-minded person. The stringency was due. In my judfrment, entirely to class legislation, excessive taxation, reckle.s speculation and Ln a measure to the Sherman purchasing act. Those causes are the acts of the republican party. Ex-Congressman Ktockslager at New Albany. The sugar trust had been the recipient of preat favoritism under the McKinley law, a tax upon refined sugur nisiklnp It prohibitory of importation of the article, and creating a great monopoly, and that the last congress had taken away from tho republican aWiwance three-fourths, miking tt possible for foreign refined ufrar to oome in competition . with the trust. The speaker could not see the propriety of paying a bounty of 2 cents per pound to Louisiana sugar producers to bold them in the democratic ranks, that their withdrawal from the party and allying with the opposition was a further evidence of tne unsoundness of the system of bounty iroductlon. A tax to support n few sugar producers, at the rate of $11.000,00(1 yearly, wns a flagrant outrage upon, all the people, who ha I it to pay. Senator Turpie at Delphi. Ilia rftrnnK Spell. Francos"Have you heard from that i young man who was so devoted to you u month fliro?" Kitty "Yes. I received a letter from him yesterday, and he seems to 1e un- ! der some strange sidl; a weird sieli, I I might say." j France "Perhaps It Is your fascination that has done it." Kitty "I should hope not. He put two Ts' in 'until' and no 'k ln 'know.' " Detroit Free Press.

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

It. F. Clayton of IndLanola, la., is president of the Fanners' congress which will meet at Parkersburg, W. Va., Oct. 3 to 6. President Clayton is a practical and jU. l CLAYTOK, extensive farmer, has served on the Iowa state board of agriculture, in the legislature, and declined further political honors. His opinions are said to have more weight than those of any other agricu! tural writer. The Farmers' congress is not a political body, as is shown by the fact that delegates h:ve been apiolnted by both democratic and republican governors. President Clayton was being prominently mentioned as the republican nominee for governor of Iowa when he was appointed delegate by Governor Rolse. The congress is a most important one and it owes much of its success to the efforts of its president. Henry O. Kent, democratic nominee for governor of Xew Hampshire, was born and has always lived Ln the town of Lancaster, in that state. He was born in HENRY O. K EXT. 1S.11 and in l.'l was graduated from the Military university at Norwich, Vt. He read law and ci?rht years later was admitted to the bar. About this time he became editor and proprietor of the Coos Republican, which he conducted for twelve years. Since then he has been engaged in various banking, manufacturing and other business enterprises. He served the union throughout the rebellion and In 1SH2 became colonel of the Seventeenth Xew Hampshire regiment, which was raised mainly by his efforts. Col. Kent has held high state ofTIces and lecn a member of the legislature on numerous occasions. He was nominated for governor by acclamation. As secretary of the Farmers' national congress, the Hon. John M. Stahl of Quincy, 111., will be one of the leaders of the annual meeting to be held at ParkJOHN SI. STAUU ersburg, W. Va.. Oct. 3 to 6. Mr. Stahl is a man of prominence and influence in his native state. He has held political office, and when appointed delegate to the Farmers' congress by Governor Altgeld. he was chairman of the republican central committee of Quincy. The Farmers' national congress Is strictly non-partisan, but no other organization of farmers has so much influence with i legislative bodies. It is said to it alone is due the provision made by congress for a test of rural free mall delivery. The congress is composed of one delegate from each congressional district, two at large, appointed from each state by the governor, and one from each state board of agriculture and agricultural college. Its principal object is to make rural life more attractive. John W. Stebbins, recently elected grand sire of the world In odd fellowship by the Sovereign grand lodge, I. o. O. F., at Chattanooga, Tenn., is seventyJOHN W. STEBBIJTS. five years of age. He is a native of Xew York and resides at Rochester. After graduating from Union college he became principal of Macedon academy. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and in was elected to the state legisla ture. He was one of the committee of fifteen, of which Horace Greeley was a member, which, drafted the tirni9 of agreement that led to the uniting of the old whig party with tho republican. Mr. Stebbins became an odd fellow in lS.'O. He was grand master for two terms; seventeen years ago became a member of the grand lodge and was successively grand warden, deputy grand master and grand master. He has risen from chairman of the appeals committee to the office of grand sire. Spnninli I'overtr. Thro are two classes of people to whom life seems one long holiday, the very rich and the very poor; one because they need do nothing, the other because they have nothing to do; but there are none who understand the art of doing nothing and living upon noth4ng better than the por classes of Spain. Climate does one-half and temperament the rest. (Jive a Spaniard the shade In summer, and the sun ln winter, a little bread, garlic, oil and garban7.o3, an old brown cloak ami a guitar, and let the world roll on as It please. Talk of poverty, with him It has no disgrace. It sits upon him with a grandioso style, like his ragged cloak. He is a hidalgo even when In rags. Washington Irving's "Alhambra." Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Medal and Diploma. .

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The people of the First and Third districts of Louisiana should pu,t down such methods, should rebuke such arrog.ince. The sugar plutocrats of Louisiana have not yet got their heels on the necks of the masses of the jeop!e of tiws sta'e. as they will discover In due time. Put. If the impossible should happen, the republican party regain control of the government and restore the sugar bourty. it would not be many years lef're this state would be dominated by the richest, haughtiest and most lr.sl:nt plutocracy that ever oppressed an 1 ln.-uited the ieople. New Orleans States (dem.). A Poston dispatch announces that the big r.f-w mill of the Massachusetts cotton company Is to be built in Georgia; und the further stat- m :u is made that "as the company ha Jit increased its capital stock from Jl.O.n.o 0 to ?2.4-t).-0'h, the plant is lik:'ly to be a large one." The managers of eott'.n nulls f -l'w a sound economic in Kttimj as close a they can to the cotton fields. Th.ir eagerness to do so now is proof positive of their confidence ln the Improving industrial situation, and that both th? home and foreign markets can 1k depended upon. Philadelphi-i ltecord tJem.). There is no more right or reason for giving these planters the llo.wtf.Ot or more annually in bounties (which they had been getting since SW) than there would b in distributing as large an amount of government money among doctors, lawyers. merchants, school teachers and a dozen other classes of citizens. Yet this Is Just what "protection" in all its forms proposes bountylng favored classes at the expense of every other citizen. The Louisiana planters are just as much entitled to liountis as the New England and Pennsylvania wool and cotton nranufcturers, who under the McKinley tariff received an equivalent of thlrtyf old. and under the Gorman tariff now receive an equivalent of twentyfold the boutnles that the planters got. Put the tima has come when the whole alxniinable system of bounties, "protection" and unequal tarirt taxation must go. N. Y. Herald (dem.). There seems to be some Incongruity between the charge so loudly nude by the McKinleyites that the new tariff bill gave millions to the sugar trust and the fact that the sugar refineries 'are shutting down for want of a demand for sugar, when the tariff law is only a short month old. Petween the of t-repe itd assertion that the bill was framed for the special benefit of the trust and the fact that an overstocked market is o.tusing a shutdown, there is room for some explaining. Th? existing glut in the sungar mark' t is easily accounted for, of ours for while congress debated, every wholesale jobber and retail grocer bought sugar, as long as bank accounts and storage capacity would permit. In anticipation of an advance The advance has not come, because the sugr ln stock has not been consumed, and until it is consumed there will be a stagnant market. Put how the trust Is to set thirty or forty millions a year out cf a condition of the trade that keeps its retlntries idle hasn't been explained. Philadelphia Times (dem.). This is no time to agitate or settle factional differences. Those differences in this city, at least, have related solely to questions of state ifnd municipal politics. They have existed in the past. They may arise in the future. There, probably, will always be such differences. The present congressional contest is one in regard to which no differences or divisions of opinion should exist at all. The issue is broadly drawn between republican McKinleyism on the one hand, the "culminating atrocity of class legislation." and the democratic principle rf a tariff for revenue only, of free raw materials for manufacture, and of reduced taxation upon all goods which enter into common necessary consumption. The one vital point is that every democratic constituency shall send to the nxt congress a representative who can be absolutely and fearlessly relied upon to take his stand on the right side, that is, the democratic side of th line a resolute opponent of the republican doctrine of protection, no "compromiser," no trimmer, but an out-and-out supporter of the democratic administration of Grover Cleveland, and the democratic policy of a democratic platform and a democratic house. Baltimore Sun (dem.). It is a fact which may well be regarded as significant thu notwithstanding the numerous reasons which the public has for being tirel of that subject, the tariff question seems to be recovering its former position as a national Issue of prime importance. The events of the recent congress made it for a time a matter of speculation whether or nt the public would again be asked ta declare it3 opinion on t.ho tariff to the practical exclusion of other issues. It is a subject which one of the great parties at least has little enough cause to allude to with pride. X evert helrvs. not only ln I Hindis, where Mr. McVeagh is waging a campaign of "affirmation and aggression" on the subject, but in Iowa, where Mr. Allison Is busily talking protection, and ln each of the other more Important state campaigns the tariff Is being pushed with an energy that threatens to carry it far on the way toward lsotl. Mr. Hill himself, notwithstanding his former bitter denunciations of the Gorman-Brice bill, came promptly to time yesterday In his speech at the Saratoga convention and pounded tha call to a defense of that measure as "a vast improvement of the vicious. un-American and objectionable McKinley law." Chicago Record (dem.). DEMOCRATIC TIMES. Beading. Pa.. Sept. 25. After the remodeling of the Carpenter steel works now in progress, so as to add a building 40 by 2.")0 feet, operations will be recommenced in all departments. Easton, Pa., Sept. 2:. After an idleness of over a year, work has been resumed at the American sheet mill in the puddling department. The resumption is due to a big order received. Phillipsburs. N. J., Sept. 2.". The Warren foundry, which employs over five hundred hands, and turns out 22." tons of iron dally, Is unable to fill orders byrunning ten hours a day, and commencing today the hands will work eleven hours. Spring City, Pa., Sept. 26. There has been much activity at the Spring City glass bottle works this we.k. The firm has more orders than it hid this time last year. Tomorrow fire will be lighted in the furnace and blowing will be begun on Monday, Oct. 8. K'ivinp employment to eijhty or more han ls. Elizabeth. N. J., Sept. 23. The plant of the Williams & Clark fertilizer company, Which was burn?d some months ago at Carteret, is to be rebuilt on a more extensive scale, and an Klizabeth contractor I to do the work. The main bul'.din? will be 4S0 by S'JO feet, and sixty feet high. Two smaller buildings Will also be erected. Wilmington, Del., S.pt. 2G.-The evidence of a bilsk business revival comp apparent daily at the shops of ttv Harlan & Hol lings-worth company. Many worklngmen were added to the already larse forces ln the various departments, and Superintendent Bead of the shipbuilding department talked encouragingly aboii t a busy fall. The keel of the Fteamer which the Harlan &. lliU!nf.worth company is to build for the Merchants and Miners' transportation company will be laid this week. The machinery for tho canal locks In Michigan has been completed and shipped. Harrlshurg. Ta., Sept. 25. Industries are humming again with more than their old-time briskness. In the iron and steel plants the prospects for fall work an very promising, the Lochlel, Pax ton and Central rolling Jnllls btlng on double turn. In the Pennsylvania steel works, at Steelton, thre furnaces are in blast, wlih special activity ln the bridge, construction and frog departments. The American tuba and iron company's Middletown plant was at work on double turn in neirly every department. The last semi-monthly pay-roll of the Steelton works footed up SS1.200. a large Increase over the previous one. The woolen mills at New Cumberland are running day and night, and the wages of its employes have been Increased 10 per cent.

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Whalebone is counterfeited. Paris has S.O00 hair workers, France makes the finest lns. Wyoming contains sodi lakes. Afghanistan has electric lights. Japan ladies drink buffalo milk. A modern lightship costs J".0,00. London gas Is CS cents per 1,00. Germany has 100 evoking schools. Our hiy crop Is worth jroO.OtXi.OOX, Taper horseshoes give sati.-faction." The catholic faith prevail; in Peru. Pussi.i has 600.rx'0 aTes of timber. Mrs. Mackay has a Jill 000 dinne r set. Neirly all the fum arable of commerce come fr'm the great Sahara desert. Th? population of Peru under th? Inca was twelve times greater than it 1 today. Ancient Grecian citi.-s levied tax on bachelors over twenty years eld, to compel them to marry. A chemist his discovered a process for solidifying whisky and other liquors into tablets lik? ch tcolate. The mane of the lion protects the powerful muscles of his shoulders from changes cf temperature. Buckle planned work for half a dozen lifetimes and was miserable because he knew he could not finish it. In Liverpool recently 130 temperance sermons were preached on what was observed as "Temperance Sunday." The Dak Mas and Oklahoma resent their divorce court famo. just as Bhode Island did som? years ago. Some people are bo sensitive! O.-ie-fifth of the girl pupils of the London guildhall of music are studying the violin. There are 2.G00 female pupil ln the school. Stranger "Do you play cards?" Mr. Threecard Monty "I'm er weil, Iiln't play them exactly; I work them." Detroit Free Press. Mozart. In spite of h'.s wonderful genius, was often ln gnat poverty. He literally died of want, and was buried in the potters' field. Call was once a woman's head dress, and the descendants of all manufacturers are the Callmins, CalKn and Kellers of today. Cj'ieen Plizabeth was annoyed by a red nose, an 1 her attendants w. re accustomed to powder it every few minutes to ke- j it presentable. Peer placed ia dishes near fl nver pots will tempt all the snails In the vicinity, a:. 1 th next morning they will be found lying alongside dead. An original certificate of membership in the Order of Cincinnati, issue. 1 to a siprner and signed by George Washington was recently sold at Wilmington, D-.-l., for J32. A Y. M. C. A. exhorter tackled a burly young Swede in Kansas the other day. The young man refused. "First tiling I know you'll be ordering me out on strike." said he. "No. I won't J.. in." Samuel Wood worth, the author of "Old Oaken Bucket" and other poems, was called the American Goiusniith on account of a resemblance m charactr-r to the author of the "Deserted Village." Philadelphia has the finest city cloek in the world. The face, which Is ten jards in diameter, can be seen fro.n every part of the city. The minute hand Is four yards l ng and the hour hand a little over half that length. Only seven out of the seventeen transAtlantic cables are in use, ten naving given out from various causes. litre is an irreclaimable Investment f $"0.im.üöO buried beneath th? waves at a depth ranging from a few fathoms to over live mile-s. A Boston author, who i3 convinced that the printing of books In white and black is unnatural and trying to the eyes, is" about to bring one out with the pages blue, green, yellow, etc.. each purchaser to make choice of his or her color. He hopes It will be read. Scalping Is not original to American aborigines. In Southall's ' Recent Origin of Man" he quotes from Herolotus to show that the Scythians scalped their fallen enemies, and ln modern tlmei tha scalping knife is used by the wild tribes of northwestern Bengal. The teacher asked the class wherein lay the difference in meaning between the word3 "sufficient" and "enough." " 'Sufficient, " answered Tommy. "Is when mother thinks it'sj time tnat I stopped eating pie; 'enough' is whtn I think it is." New Orleans Democrat. One of the most remarkable sights to be seen in Australia is a burning mountain. 1S20 feet in hight. The mountain is supposed to be underlaid with an inexhaustible coal seam, which in some way became ignited. It was burning Jong before the advent of white men to that part of the country. One realizes the Importance of the substitution of electricity f r steam power in auxiliary engines on board our men-of-war when it is reealle 1 that a single ship may have from twenty-live to forty such engines. The c. Juration of an electrical engineer Is becoming more and more necessary to a naval officer. Guy de Maupassant's body is soon to be removed from the Montparnasse cemetery, where it no v. !is, to x pla'e In Pere Laehaise, between the grav -j of Balzac and Gerard de Nerval. At the foot of the grave will rise a block of. rough marble, shaped like a Breton menhir, with no inscription but his name This is a world of many ills. Whatever people say; Our creditors present their bills An I worry us Ly day; And when the day has ceased its hum And phmiher we invite. Mosquitoes round our piliew come With their blamed biiN at nisht. N. V. Press. Taken all together, there are ITS languages and dialects in which as a figure of speech God Ls expressed in words, but in none of them is the word of overgrown proporil 'lis, th longest being "Joaimllon," a word which expressed thtj Ieity Idea according t a. cvriiln seet of Irl-h druids known as "2k,I.stl"tooeater.?." "In looking out of doors d you notlc how bright is the green of gracs and the leaves?" asked an elderly gentleman of a. little plrl wh'i home he was visiting. "Yes, sir." "Why does it apj-ar so much brighter at this time?" h? asked, looking down upon the bricht, sweet fare with tender interest. "Because ma baa cleaned the windows, and you c.n sti out bette-r." she said. Ontario Times. "Beg pardon, sir," said the passenger in the skull cap, tired of the monotony of the journey and desirou? of scraping an acquaintance with the mm In the next seat, "are you travding f r soma house?" "No. sir," replied the other. "I am not in business. 1 am a unlverralltt preacher." "Snake!" rejoined the man m the skull cap. heartilv. "I'm an ngeni for a fire-extingubher." Chicago Tiibune. It has ben made obligatory upon brides by a recent enactment in lkiglum to have their marriage lioencs, or "marriage lin s." as they are cilled there, gorgeously bound in gilt-tdgej mrocco. The binding is done for a consideration by the municipalities, wht throw ln gratis a summary of the Belglum marriage laws, a rough and ready lesson on the treatment of children and a table with twelve spaces for a catalogue of the issue of the marriage. All that ls lacking is a bint or two on thl best means of obtaining a divorce.

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