Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORVIXG, NOVKMBKll 21, 1891.

LNDIANA STATE SENTINEL. BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. (Entered at the I'otoffice nt Indian apolla nn ifcond cLana matter.)

TERMS PCR YEAR. Single copy (In Advance) ft OO AVe ask democrats to lenr In mind and select their own state paper tt lien they come to take ' subscriptions and make np clabs. Agenli muklnjf np clubs send for mny Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolls, Ind. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1N04. Prosperity i3 moving right along under the new tariff law. The most fitting punishment of the Roby law-breakers Is to banish them to Chicago. Send them home. Thers la an epidemic of typhoid fever at Kentucky university from the use of Impure water. Typhoid is quite prevalent in this city. Where does it come from? Gen. Booth has gained another bloodless victory. One thousand of his soldiers marched Into Cleveland a day or two ago and the city capitulated. Talk about Mahomet! The Hon. C. S. Brlee has selected the "logical candidate" for 1S9C. but It may b; doubted that the country has been deeply Impressed with the evidences of Mr. Brice'3 logical ability in the past. The Chicago Tribune, which believes in tariff for revenue only (be careful how you punctuate that phrase), demands that the president in his next message shall correct "the blunders of the McKinley law." This is progress. Several sad experiences have come to notice lately of wealthy women who have been entrapped into irarry ins adventurers through matrimonial agencies. Here is a good work for reformers to warn women against such foolishness. "Why should the legislature not confer corporate existence without contemplating a contract or franchise? What has the legislature to do with the needs of a city? that is to say, with local self government? That is the business of the city council. Napoleon said to Bertrand at St. He- j lena: "Behold, what is soon to become cf me! Behold, near at hand the death and grave of him called Napoleon. What an abyss between my deep misery and toe eternal reign of Christ an empire j loved and adored and extending all over the earth!" j The Sentinel acknowledges receipt of . a letter from Ozark, Ark., giving thirteen j reasons for the result of the recent e'.ec- j tlon, but It cannot om?nt to publishing I any more incomplete returns. It has on j band already 237 reasons, in which these thirteen are fully covered. Besides, thirteen is an unlucky number. The latest report from the celestial em pire is that the Chinese are turning the j tables on the Jap.?. It is stated that the j Chinese masses have just learned that j there is a war and they are getting mad about It. Meantime it may be well to double the watch along the Pacific coast. A million or two pigtails may think thl3 a good time to emigrate. The republican state organ Is ostensibly pleased at the prospect of the "breaking up" of the solid South. Yet this very de sirable end might have been accomplished j i long ago had it not b-en for the rabid utterances of such papers as the Journal. It Is a comment on republican tolerance that a whole section of the country was kept solid for thirty years by the partisan rancor of the "victors." The republicans point significantly to the alleged circumstance of a rooster walking in front of a polling booth oh election day and dropping dead. .. A rooster died in this city the day after election on the Monument circle. A gang of young republican barbarians tore it limb from limb and killed it. About the same time the Delaware-st. eagle was set free from the top of the monument It flew two blocks and lit in a gutter. Was that also typical? It's a poor oracle that won't work both ways. "As long as the greenbacks are outstanding all attempts to replenish the gold In the treasury by selling bonds is like pouring water into a rat hole." So says the esteemed organ of tariff panics. By the way, the Journal has not yet approved or disapproved the Cooper bill for taxing greenbacks. Let us have a committal on that important proposition. There will be time enough to talk about redemption when the question of taxing invisible property is) settled and has the indorsement of the public. The total number of building associations In this country is 3,S3?, of which 6.593 are local arid 210 national. The total number of shareholders is 1,071,723, of which 919.614 are male. The borrowers number 455.411. or 2C1, per cent. The total assets amrnnt. to Si:0. 607,331, of which J413.500.00'). in. routvi numbers, represent the property of thes Inril companies. The number of homes acquired through the building associations Is 290,803 in the; local, and 23,052 in the- national. Thi3 illustrates the thrift and prosperity of our people. It Is a glorious record. A special from Rockford. 111., gives a bit of new3 dated the 10th Inst, that will cause workingmen to rejoice and repub licans to feel sad. The Royal sewing machine company, one of the largest establishments in that thriving city; ha3 resumed operations, giving employment to several hundred hand.a. The industry was forced to the wall list' year, but wa3 ridy for business before the election, starting a few days after. Thl3 13 exactly In line. with the trend of thlng3 during th pas: three months. All the available evidence goes to show that the republican

financial depression was practically over ' long before the recent election. And by the same token democrats should be confirmed in their convictions in favor of tariff reform, and should move not a peg j from the stand they have taken. FACE THE "Ml SIC. " j We arc gratified to see-, that the News has at length, though in. a very mildmannered way, brought forward the only :

real issue in the liquor- question.' It says: " ' The law should als? provide, if' possible, thit a saloon shall . b? xlosed at tha hours when the liquor traffic' is forbidden. : The great weakness of the present law ' is that It does not require a saloon to be closed, nor make the presence of the bartender and of men apparently customers illegal. In short,-rt seems to -afford every facility for purveying drinks at the prohibited times, requiring the law to prove that liquor was furnished and drunk, and not something that -looked j and smelled like liquor. In o:her words,, the present law seems framed for the protection of the saloons which wich to break It. Let us have a law which shall ! mean what it appears .to mean, namely, the restriction of th liquor traffic in certain well-defined ways. When the present virtuou3 city admin istration tfvas seeking election The SentI- j nel stated that- the liquor law could not j be enforced and wu not Intended to be enforced. The present city administration ' has either made an honest effort to ex.- i force the law or It has not made one. ' If the former branch of the dilemma b? accepted the result proves The Sentinel's , statement, for the law has not been en- ! forced, and every on? who knows anything know3 it has not been enforced. No liw can be enforced unless th?r? Is s"me way of getting evidence to convict those who violate It, and there 13 no way to obtain such evidence-aß to the liquorlaw without the use of whit is called ' l "the spy system." Thit system always j meets with popular disfavor, even at ths i hands of those who make the loudest ' protestations of desire "for the enforce-! ment of the law. And there you are. 1 Enforce the law, but carefully avoid the ! only possible means by which it can be I enforced. That Is the demand of ignoranc e or hypocrisy. There cannot b? both intelligenco and honesty bick of such a demand. , . But the News suggests the remedy that j Is easy and practical. If you cannt en- t force the present' law, -makea law that , you can enforce. Everyone knows that J( when a saloon is open at prohibited j hours it ts open for business. People: who go to satoonä at Buch hours go there to drink. It is a waste of time and '. breath to talk about the purpose being anything else. . And the way to stop it is, as the News states, to mike it a penal offence to have a saloon open at prohibited hours, to allow people to ent;-r at such hours, to have a. bartender pres-j ent at such hours. And equally pliin is It that persons who enter a saloon in pro- : hlbited hours should be made violators of ; law. This Is the reasonable way of set- ' tling the whole nutter, -and the only ques- ; tioa now is whether the republican party '. wants to live up to the professions it h3 made and is still making. If the repub- J lican party wants the saloons closed at , 11 o'clock, or 12 o'clock, or at any other hour. It n?eds only to pass a law that can j be enforced. But we venture the prediction that it will not pass euc'n a law. Too many of it3 leaders are interested in the liquor ) business, and too many are interested in ' getting a drink when they want it, and . too many are interested in retaining their ; hold on the saloon vote. The position of the republican party on the liquor ques-j tion Is and always has been pure hypoc- I risy and false pretense, and if the good citizenship league and other organiza-J tions de3lre to pr-ve it all they have to do is to demand the passage of a liquor j law that can be enforced. That is the reasonable thing to do If these orgmlza tion3 mean business. There is neither sense nor justice in using the entire police I force of this city and twenty extra men in an effort to do something thit cannot be done, while life and property are left in danger elsewhere. Highway robbery hH3 reached proportions here never heard of before. Burglary and arson hive become common. It Is high -time to abandon hypocrisy and try common sjnse or at least it will be' high time when the legislature gets tog. ther. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN SWITZKIILAM). Word come3 to thin country from Switzerland that Pastor H. P. Holser, the American representative of the .Seventh Day adventlsts In central Europe and the director of their publishing house in Basel. Is now undergoing a term of sixtyone days' imprisonment in that city for allowing work to be done In the office on Sunday. This seems all the more strange because the "Continental Sunday" Is observed in Basel, as elsewhere in Europe, with noisy revelry. Across the street from the Adventist printing- office Is the Sehutzenplatz. where soldiers parade and practice target shooting on Sunday. But they have a law, ostensibly and designedly favoring workingtncii, which forbids ordinary labor on Sunday. Religious bigotry is able to use this to prevent the exercise of the consciew.It is further stated that petty fines were imposed on the establishment, from time to time, until the persecution culminated im the present sentence. The case was twice appealed, but it does not rest with the supreme court In that country to construe law; and though the Judges expressed their sympathy for the defendant they .had no course' open to them -but to confirm the sentence of. the lower courts. The exasperating feature of thi3 persecution is its brutal Inconsistency. If the Ignorant native rabble In whose interest these intolerant usages are enforced were merely bigoted and otherwise Intelligent, if their punishments were inflicted under a conscientious sense of duty, they might be forgiven with a severe reprimand.- We have In this case, however, an illustration of the Irrational extremes to which religious fanaticism almost invariably leads man. Persecution in any form Is always more or less brutal, according to the degree of Intelligence In the motive. A favorite charge of Infidels against the Christian religion is that t the logic of the system Is to persecute to the death. They say this state of things Is; due to the conditional character of the Christian faith, offering as it does endless happiness to those who accept it and' threatening eternal punishment to those who reject it. The Ignorant and "bigoted' believer, taking

the grosser view of these conditions, thinks it is better to persecute or even kill one Infidel than to let him go on leading hundreds to perdition. The Swiss devotees of Basel have evidently adepted this logic in justification of their treatment of Adventist Holser. They think he is promulgating religious heresies and ought to be suppressed. It Is not so much a question of method with these fanatics as it is a question of ridding the community of a dangerous interloper, whose teachings tend to overthrow the existing faith. They are not willing to discuss the relative merits or claims of the two religions', nor to compare their results. They have already settled that matter with their consciences, and their plain duty leaves them no choice but to "extirpate the heretics." It is stated that the International religious liberty association sent an American representative to Basel last summer to look after the case of Pastor Holser. He writes back that all his efforts in the preacher's behalf were of no avail, and that he was imprisoned Oct. 25 and is likely to serve his term unless the Swiss courts can be coaxed or frightened into an act of clemency through; the combined influence of the international press. If this plan should fail The Sentinel can only advise Pastor Holser to take his medicine with becoming fortitude, and, when he gets out, either make up his mind to take a missionary's chances in a war against Swiss bigotry or come to America.

A FINANCIAL POLICY. The announcement that President Clevelaad is engaged in preparing a message dealing especially with the currency 13 one that will arsusi general Interest. There Is probably more general consideration of the currency question by the people now than of any other subject, and special discussion of it by the president and by congress will probably clear the atmosphere somewhat. It Is very commonly conceded that something should be done to simplify our paper currency system and bring the various forms of paper currency to a more unif orm condition. But after pissing that point there i3 an almost hopele3 conflict of opinion. Broadly, it diverges in two lines. One .'ass favors relieving the general govern o.nt of responsibility for paper currency and throwing the burden on banking institutions to as large an extent as possible. The other favors an increased responsibility of the national government. We imagine the latter to be the more popular with conservative men, though the former certainly ha3 strong support. Of the first division of plans th most prominent has been tha removal of the tax on state bank Issue3. This plan originated in New England, and ha3 the support of many able men. It is very clear that the tax is unconstitutional in spirit, at least, and that Is enough justification for its repeal, but on the other hand Is the fear of wild-cat money, which is very much exaggerated, but which still is sufficient to cause much intelligent opposition to that remedy. The "Baltimore plan" Is also of this class to a large extent. It practically gives to all tha sound state banks the privileges of national banks as to issue of money, and repeals the requirement of United States bonds for security. Each bank is allowed to Issue to the amount of GO per cent, of Its paid-up capital under a" tax of 1 per cent, on the amount outstanding, and an amount equal to 23 per cent, more under a larger tax. The United States i3 to redeem these notes at par on demand, and look to the property of the bank3 for security. This plan his very strong support in the East, but will certainly meet strong opposition. And notwithstanding the backing the scheme has, it seems plain that in time of such a panic as existed last year it would prove very dangerous. Of the second class of systems one of the oldest is the proposition for an uniform greenback currency. This, too, will meet much support and much opposition, as will also the convertible bond proposition, which 13 of the same class. The weakness of the greenback proposition Is thai it adds nothing to the elasticity of the currency, and elasticity Is the prime requisite for the prevention of or relief from panics. Thl3 is the great recommendation of the convertible bond system. Under it the currency can be increased to any desirable extent under pressure, and not only increased but also put h.to circulation by exchange for the bonds. With the pressure removed it will naturally shrink to the normal demands of commerce. What the? president will recommend is not known, but it will be interesting to have a formal statement of his views. There has been much controversy as to his real position on the currency, and the probability Is that ha ha3 been doing a greit deal of thinking without saying much. THE INIH STRIA L ARBITRATION COXGUESS. The conference of conciliation between labor and capital met at Chicago Tuesday ard adjourned Wednesday. Distinguished representatives cf bolh side3 were present. Samuel Gompers, president of the American federation of labor, and P. J. McGuire, secretary of the United brotherhood of carpenters and joiners, were conspicuous among the labor leaders at the opening session. The church was represented by the Rev. John Henry Barrows and the Rev. John R. Gqw. Miss Jane Addanis, one of the leaders of the movement, represented the Hull house. Joseph D. Weeks, editor of the American Manufacturer and Iron World, was there. L. S. Coffin, the noted farmer and sworn friend of the railway j workers, and William M. Springer, who ; Introduced an arbitration bill In congress seve-al year3 ago, were on the platform, i William II. Say-ward, secretary of the j National association of builders; Ada C. I Sweet of the W. C. T. U.; M. J. Carroll, representing the eight-hour element In Chicago; Irof. Graham Taylor, sodologUt; Prof. E. W. Bemis and Prof. A. W. Small, the latter two representing the University of Chicago; Chief Justice Murray F. Tuley of the circuit court; W. C. Grove?. II. S. Boutcll and many other

prominent people attested their interest by attending. Lyman J. Gage opened the conference, and was followed' by Prof. E. R. L. Gould of Johns Hopkins university. The second day's session brought Carroll D. Wright, United States commissioner of labor; Judge John Gibbons, Prof. Henry C. Adams, secretary of the interstate commerce commission, and J. C. McCarthy. Many papers were read, and there was eery manifestation cf profound interest In the opinions and suggestions offered. One thing was noticeable and very significant the uniformily expressed sentiment In favor of arbitration as the best means of settling differences between the employer and employe. There appeared, however, some confusion of Ideas as to the proper method of conducing arbicrations. But this may be expected in the present unsettled and untaught state of the public mind. All the talk was conciliatory, which Is a point gained for harmony of action. Each had his favorite plan and all the conf;rees listened respectfully. This is the first step toward organizing a "parliament of men" and establishing the "federation of the world." Among the striking suggestions presented was the following from Judge Tuley: Force the wsrkingmen to combine in corporations, subject to legislative control; force your capitalists to combine in corpoira:ions, and then provide that they shall appoint their committees of arbitration, and they shall meet in the month of January of each year and they shal se tle these points that give rise to these strikes. The penalty ought :o be forfeiture of the rights of a corporation. Let ft be prompt and swift. You have got to h-ave some stringent measures, and you have got to have courts tike courts of arbitral! on, that come directly from the workinemen and from the capitalists. The capitalist has no faith in the Judiciary; the workingmen are fast losing their fai.h in the judiciary. I am sorry to siy. What they want are judges emanating from themselves; the capkalM warns his the laboring man wants his; and if you cm give them their own courts you have solved the difficulty. This is a radical view of the matter, bi t fie history f th part sh ms that great reforms mast be pushed with earnestness and vigor if we expect beneficial results. . Radicalism is all right if directed by ä sound Judgment and a good conscience.' Arid the best thing on earth to regulate the strong and sometimes rash impulses of A conscientious radical is to make him a party to a representative conference of. his fellows. This is the essence of arbitration philosophy. The unchecked tendency of radicalism is toward tyranny. The typical radical is an autocrat who disdains a conference upon the ground that " It is a compromise with error he being the sole arbiter of what cons:itutes truth and error. All men should proceed upon the principle that right must prevail. And when

one is convinced that he is right he should be all the more willing to submit his case and Iis:en calmly to the argument of his adversary. Coercive Justice may be right l:t spirit and intention, but it is slow in method and operation. Sometimes a slight concession, even to the wrong, may result in a gain to the right. This Is what gives force and meaning to the term forbearance i "To err is human; to forgive, divine." - Arbitration becomes godlike when tempered with forbearance and forgetful of past wrongs and animosities. The courts have for centuries been conducted upon the principle of compulsory axbitration. When men become fair enough to render the compulsory feature of court trials e. dead letter thit will be the golden era of voluntary arb'trati on. Then, and not till then, will we witness the "federation cf the world." e i THE 11 LLMAN REPORT. The report of the commission appointed by President Cleveland to investigate the great strike of last- summer is a very valuable one, and One that ought to be of great service In bringing about some important reforms in our economic system. The first important point in any question is to gat at the facts, and the commission seems to have done this very fairiy. There is only one point at which we think its statement might have been improved, and that is where it deals with the motives of the Pullman company, as follows: In its statements to the public, which are In evidence, the company represents that it3 object In all it did was to continue operations for the benefit of its workmen and tradespeople in and about Pullman and to save the public from the annoyance of Interrupted travel. The commission thinks that the evidence shows that it sought to keep running mainly for Its own benefit as a manufacturer, that its plant might not rust; that its competitors might not invade its territory; that it might keep its cars in repair; that it might be ready for resumption when. business revived with a Irve plant and competent help, and-that its revenue from Its tenements might continue. It would have been perfectly proper to refer at thii, point to the fact that Mr. Pullman paraded, the country proclaiming that he was a philanthropist who had taken work at a los3 in order to keep his men employed, and that it was proven by his own books that the reductions made in the wages of the men who made the cars more than covered the reduction in price of the cars, so that the company actually made more money than in ordinary contracts. Aside from this the general meanness of the Pullman company is very fully and fairly shewn, and It 13 also found; that there was no violence or destruction of property whatever at Pullman from May 11, when the strike began, to July 3, when soldiers were sent there at the reque3t of the company. It is noteworthy also that the commission exonerates the leaders of the sympathetic strike from the violence and destruction of property, as follows: There is no evidence before the commission that the officers of the American railway union at any time participated in or advised intimidation, violence or destruction of property. They knew and fully appreciated that as soon as mobs ruled tha organized forces of society would crush, the mobs and all responsible for them in the remotest degree, and that this meant defeat. The attacks upon corporations and monopolies! by the leaders In their speeches are similar to those to be found in the magazines and Industrial works of the day. From the testimony It is fair to conclude that strikers wtr concerned in the outrages against law and order, although the number was undoubtedly small a compared with the whole number out. , . At tha same tims the commission fully declares the Necessity of sending troops to suppress the mob -violence that aroee, and tha requirement of the national law

that the troops should be sent. And it also recognizes that the condition which made necessary th? sending of the troops was forced by the obstinacy of the Pullman company and the General monagers' association- of tho railroads. It says: The policy of both the Pullman company and the railway managers' association in reference to applications to arbitrate closed the door to ad attempts at conciliation and settlement of difference-s. The commission impressed with the belief, by the evidence and by the attendant circumstances a. disclosed, that a different policy would have prevented the Ioä of life and great loss of property and wages occasioned by the strike. The commission fully exposes the illegality of the General managers' association, an! its usurpation of powers not granted by the charters of the twenty-four railroads represented in It. And it denounces this "combination" of capital" roundly: The association Is an illustration of the persistent and shrewdly devised plans of corporations to overreach ihe-ir limitations and to usurp indirectly powers and rights not contemplate! in their charters and not obtainable- from the people or thenlegislatures. An extension of this association! as above suggested and the proposed legalization of "pooling" would result in an aggregation of power and capital dangerous to the people ar.d thtir l.bt'Vt'.Qs as well as to employes and their rights. The question would then certainly ajise as to which shall control, the government or the railroads, and the end would inevitably be government ownership. Unkss ready for that result and all that it implies, th? government must restrain corporations within the law, and prevent thona from forming unlawful and dangerous combinations. The refusal of the Genera', managers' association to recognize and deal with such a combination of labor as ihe American railway union sjoms anvgint and absurd when we consider its standing before the low. Us assumptions, and its past and obviously contemplated future action. These findings show very clearly where the faull in this controversy was chiefly locatfd. and they show also the hopeless-ne.-4S of the strike on a large seile as a remedy for the wrong -a of labor. It is practically cut of the onestiori to prevent violence and lawlessness following any large strike, and especially a railroad strike. It is equally out of the question to prevent the suppression of tha: vielerlei ani lawiessnes.s by the officials respejisible for the preservation cf the peace. This necessarily involves th? maintenance of the employers in their position, however unreasonable it may be, and the operation of the roads or other industries by "scab" labor. In othr words the strike can be no remedy on a large scale without somo tribunal for the settlement of the controversy, or downright ' revolu. ion. The interest of the workingman, therefore, calls him at once to a consideration cf such other remedies .is may be suggested. Rome years ago the republicans of Ohio declared that they were divinely commissioned to correct the lawlessness of the South. Todiy a most extraordinary rei;n of lawlessness is in force at Washington Court House, O. The mob which recently attempted to lynch a prisoner ther,' is in complete control. Witnesses do not go there to testify in regard to the attempted lynching. The sheriff is in constant danger of assassination. Xo lawyer can be obtained to defend the commander of the militia. Even the Ilev. Dr. Gladden, who preached a sermon against the mob, has been threatened with assassination if he goes to the town for any purpose. Nice, civilized state is Ohio. Persons desirous of avoiding abnormal f4uiet should try it.

The state board of health make3 some go-xl suggestions for legislative action and especially the one for the aDolition of the car-stove. That relic of barbarism ought to go at the earliest opportunity and it would be a blessing if the car-lnmp could gi with it. The recommendation of the removal of cemeteries from near city limits is less commendable. The contamination of water supply by cemeteries is so small as compared with that from other se.urces that it amounts to very little. What every city need3 is a purified water supply. That is easily obtained by the cheap process of sand filtration. There is no reason why Indianapolis should not have such a system. Illinois women held a jollification last evening over the election of Mrs. J. M. Flower as a trustee on the State university board, this being the first time a woman's name hasj appeared on a state ticket in Illinois. Indianapolis women, backed by that august body, the local council of women, proposes to make things lively for Indiana legislators this winter. Tha ladies will fight the selling of cigarettes to minors and several other things, but have learned by their experience last spring that the press is a necessary factor in carrying on any work of reform. Hereafter reporter are to be admitted, with open arms, to the local councils. David Swing, in ona of his matchless sermons, said: Reason cannot demonstrate the existences of a Goi, for if it could have done so. doubt would have b?c-n impossible. Iteascn can demonstrate that lead Is heavier than air. and that steel is harder than wood. Here, then, doubt ends. But it cannot demonstrate the fact cf a God; therefore doubt begins. But reason weaves so good an argument in favor of a Heavenly Father that the heart supplements the argument by its trust and says to reason: "Thou hast led mj si far that the lat few stejks I will take alone." A nation of cr..00n,0X) of intelligent freemen, with $70,000.000,1)00 of surplus assets, cmpelled to borrow to meet ordinary expenditure! What a spectacle! When will our humiliation come to an end? X. Y. Commercial Advertiser (rep.). It need n;ver to have been begun if Mr. Harrison and his treasury secretary. Mr. Foster, had not tried to manage the financial affairs of a great people and made a bungling tangle of the entire matter. The esteemed Journal avers that there ls nothing sacred about the ballot law, or the chirter, or the constitutional provisions as to reapportionment. Having eased Its mind the Journal can now proceed with its work of educating to the repeal of all democratic reforms. To add to the other troubles of the country Mr. Vanderbilt has imported the mongoose for his estate near Asheville, N. C. And Consul Ford writes from Kingston, Jamaica: "In Jamaica the mongoose is now preying upon all small living creatures. All of the ground birds, snakes.

toads, and land crabs are wiped out, and now the newly-dropped calves, young p-s. puppies and turtles fall victims to the mongoose." If the mongoose enters upon a similar career in this country Mr. Yanderbilt will go down to posterity arm in arm with the man that imported the Knglish sparrow.

The Sentinel congratulates Governor : Matthews In his announced intent! n to . allow no lawlessness at Rjby. I: is tho ! evident intention to make Roby the seat of the lawlessness that has been expelled from Chicago, and Indiana cannct afford to permit it. The meanness of the republican pirty Is past all finding out. Just because two democratic candidates for county offices in Kansas City hive been shown to be elected by the official count the re-publicans out th.re are yelling "fraud." The gerrymander must go. Kvar.sville Journal. Do you refer to the one the republican bosses ere formulating to be Indor.-ed by the next legislature? Jerry Simpson threatens to come here and run for governor in 1S35. All right, Jerry, but you cannot run In Indiana without socks. It is a rough road to travel. PERSONALS. The bust of Vice-President Stevenson h" received its finishing touches In Rome anl will soon be in it3 i lace in the senate ! chamber. William Cox of Snaigow, Scotland, died recently, leaving an estate of over tL":,V" and yet he was but little known outside of his immediate neighborhood. George Miller, who migrated to California in 38!;, wants to hear from his long-lot brothers, if any of them survive. All that is necessary is to prove relationship in order to secure a fhare of George's property. The celebrated collection of Australian stamps owne-d by Mr. M. P. Castle, vicepresident of the London philatelic socit-ty. has been sold for 1",'. Th: 1 the largest price ever paid for a collection of sin mps. Mrs. Ormiston Chant tells a je.ke about herself. When before the London music halls' licen.-in committee she overheard a gentleman ask another, pointing to two of the witnesses. "Which of those old cats is Mr.j. Chant? Mrs. Chant leaned over and said, "That particular tabby, sir, is behind you." A good story Is to'd of Mr. Balfour's recent golf-starring tour. He had made an iron shot in which he had sent the soil Klmost half as far as the ball. "What did I hit?" he a-ked his caddie, as he looked around to discover a hidden boulder or a decapitated stump. The reply was about as crushing as could have been compressed Into a single word "Scotland." Dr. Mary Walker delivered a lecture in Faneui". hall. Hosten, the other evening, in favor cf abolishing capital punishment. She appeared on the platform in a full suit of black, with IVince Albert coat, a black four-in-hand tie stuck with several scarf pins, and white gloves. On her bosom rested her Grand Army badge, and where the low-roll collar of her coat met rested a bunch cf red anl white pinks and geranium leaves. A telegram was receive! at the Hot 1 des Ansiais at Nice, lately, purporting to come from Iord Ilosebery, directing that tight rooms be prepared for him, anl announcing his arrival shortly. The hotel not being ready for visitors, workmen were set to work and kt'pt employed all Saturday night getting the rooms in order. But the prime minister did not put in an appearance, much to the disappointment of the mayor and other local dignitaries, who had called to welcome his lordship. The hotel manager had been made the victim of a practical joke. NO GERRYMANDER THIS TIME. Hum Hie I,ella.Hire of lSt)." Power to I'asii it Xew Apportionment Art? To the Editor Sir: The constitution cf Indiana, in my judgment, blocks any valid gerrymander act in lf..". Sees. 100 and 10Ü read thus: "The general assembly shall, at its second ses.-i-m after the adoption of this constitution and every six years thereafter, cause an enumeration to be made of all the male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years. The number of senators and representatives shall, at the session next following each period cf making such enumeration, be fixed by law and apportioned among the several counties eccording to the number of male inhabitants in each, provided that the first and second election of members shall be according to the apportionment last made by the general assembly before the adrption of this constitution. This constitution was adopted in November, 1S.Ö1, and under these two sections the first enumeration which could be legally made was in 1S55 and the first legal apportionment in 1S57. This was done in 1S.17 and was our first .apportionment under the present constitution. I do not find that any enumeration was provided for by any statute until 1S65. If such a statute existed I have overlooked it. The language of these two sections Is peculiar. Ihe words, "At the session next following the period of making each enumeration" fixes the date at which valid apportionment acts can be passed and the words, "The general assemhly thiW at its second session after the adoption of this constitution and every six years thereafter, cause an enumeration to be made," fixes the dates of each enumeration at 1S55. '61, '67, 73, '79. 'S3, '91 and '97. Of course, the date of "t.ie session next following the period of making each enumeration" could be the legislative session of 1S57, C3, '69, '75, 'M, 'S7. '93 and '99. I arn unable to see how any legislature at any other date thin those above sp?cified would be constitutional. Nor would the legislature of 1S95, under existing laws, have any power to pass a valid apportionment acr. Tne first statute providing for an enumeration is the existing statute of 1SC5. This provides for an enumeration In 13CC-1S71 and "at the end of each successive period of six years after the last mentioned year." This enumeration is to be completed by Sept. 1 and reported to the next succeeding legislature by the auditor of state. Under thi3 act tha last enumeration was in 1SS9 and the next one will be due in 1S3G. and must be reported to tlae legislature of 1S97. Of course, the next legislature could change the law and require the enumeration to be made in January and authorize itself to act upon the enumeration in I'V'oruary. Would such legislation be constitutional? It certainly would not be. for the periods fixed both for the enumeration and apportionment by the constitution are unmistakable. And these are the years above pointed out. It is admitted that since 1S37 our legislatures have disregarded these constitutional limitations. This question as to dates has. so far as I am advised, never "been raised in our courts. But the omission cf prior legislatures cannot help the constitutionality of any apportionment bill to be passed In 1893. If such an act should be attempted and passed over the governor's veto it would have to receive the sanction of the supreme court, to which an appeal would certainly be mad", and that court has never allowed partisanship to influence its judgment upon constitutional questions. D. P. BALDWIN. Logansport, Nov. 14.

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The deadly parallel the rai'.road truck. -Puck. The trouble with the build-. g Ls that he sometimes chews more tt.an be can bite off. Galveston News. j Customer "Io you know anything that is go d f..r baldness?" Barber "Did you ever try a wig, sir?" Yonl;?rs Statesman. Teacher "A ni-'Ie eats daily as much : as it weighs." Pupil "But how d es it know how much it weighs?" Fliegend' . Biaetter. j The Nawab of Ramoar. India, raid I S2."iV'0 for occasional visit.s of an F.nJ g'.ish army surgeon during a period cf ! three months. He "Will you be my wife some time ' this year?" She "I will. But I can't answer for any tint" later than that." Iei tr'-it Fne Press. I She "Wonder what makes Hetty Mii .. . . . opp s eyes so gre.nv He "Probably t'ec;;use they were rai.:el ur.d'-r giaj-s." Boston Transcript. The col ssal glo'.e whi?h was on exhibition in the government building at the world's fair, and which cost $13.00', has been s"Id for J 10. Mrs. de Vcre "They say my daughter too!.: her beauty from her m ther." The Count "How shameful zat s-he should hat so deprived you!" Judge. A man may think he adores a woman, but his love 13 put to a terrible strain whfti she asks him to button her shoes with a hairpin. N. Y. llerali. Arctic explorers who have found themselves in the midst cf an aurora describe it as producing a c 'ling, prickly sensation and a very exhilarating effect. A statistician of Moscow has estimated from a study of ;".ie death returns of the states of Karop? that at least 40 per cent. of the i;ih;f'.it ants ..f Jti.u portion of the w. r.d dii of prcvtntao.e infecti u-ta--s. Til-"1 iipp-r t'.iird of th.- face Is altered in expression, soy hysi ign misLs and J-k'-t rs, in afflict I 'lis of th' bra'.a, th mlddl third in dis?tscs of th1 ch?M. and the l'w;r third .n i;s,-i e-s of th- organs con tained in tli abdominal cavity. A tifty-c -nt "shinpl istvr" f the data of ivi.v and eign-cd l-y T. M. Thurl w. rniyr of Aim ili ii'. G .. turne l up at the l.tnk .f Mint: r. in that city, the -dhT (iiy. It was .i r--u!.nlr . -f a br---f p r: d wii -. the city i-.-ue-il its own m -n y. "It is evident." said th judg "that the pr:s..ncr t at his wit "Hardly, y ur h : r." replied the prisoner. "I am but a frail man. ar.d I have always said my Wife a w-'inan whi was hard to beat'." Atlanta C 'iistituti n. Y .img Wife ""Oh. mamma, put my curling irons on he fire, quiek! Charli has been bitten by a mid .log." M 'thr "Are you going to cauterize the wound?" Y ung wife "N : I want to curl my bangs so I can run f r the d -t r. Hurry up." Austin (Tex.) Rolling St 'tie. Mistress "Did any one call while I was out." New Girl "Yes, mum; Mrs. Wayupp called." "Did she seem disappointed wh.-n you said I ww not at hom-?' "Well, "she did 1 k a little queer, but I t dd her sh.' needn't g-.t mad abut it. Vauo it was reallv true this time." N. Y. Weekly. "Suppose, Bobbie, that another b fhuld stilk' your right cheek." r.sk d the Sunday-sh oed teacher, "what would you' da?" "(Jive him the other cheek tJ strike," slid Bobbie. "Tint's r'.cht," said the teacher. "Ye.-sum." sail B bt'i- "and if he struck that I'd paralyze him." Harper's Bazar A mastodon tooth which measures nine inches in length and four in width anl weighs three and three-quarters pounds was recently found in Barber ctunty. This shows that B:irler county W3s the greatest stock C"Unty on the face of the globe at thJ very time that Noah was putting the finishing touches on the window frame for his ar!:. T peka Breeze. Two fellow-students who had both become doctors met af:-;r several years. "How are you get.ing along?" inquired the first. "Very badly; the climate i mild and healthy, so my practice is hardly suiTk-lent to keep me. And what about yourself?" "O.i. I'm contented; I average Jl'V'Xi a year." "Yu must have rich T.atlents?" "Not necessarily. I generally d.-al with the heirs." Stevie and Bobbie were cousins, and, alth-uga very fond of each other, did not always agree. One day K'bbie's mother entered the room when the little b ys were playing, and was immcdiat :!y aj pealed to by her son with. "Mamma, mayn't Stevie tell me my faults?" "What d- you want Sievi? to Ml y:u y .ur ftults for?" asked Hobble's mother, in astonishment. "So that I can tell Stevie his." Harper's Bazar. A recently published bx-k on the Knglitfh railway system contains this new version of the old st.ry of an aged lady's first journey by rail. As the train was pitched down an embankment, and she. crawled from beneath the wreckage, sh asked a passenger. "Is this Stamford?" "No. madam," replied the man, who was pinned down by a piece of timber, "this i not Stamford: it is a caiastrinh?!" "Oh." cried the lady, "then I hadn't oughter got off here." Toothache, henceforth, will be an unknown foe in the Germ in army. After careful consideration of the question, the emperor of Germany and the Berlin war office have now decided that artificial teeth are to be provided free of charge to th? soldiers, u the ground that the troops are better able ;) renner good service with sound grinders than with, teeth which either aehe or are inadequate to the perform mce cf their work of m.isticati on. A seh'Xolboy gave the following paier as his reasons for b-ing a total abtnir.er: "I abstain from alc"h .lie drinks because, if I would excel as a trickster. Grace jays abtain; as a walker. Weston says 'abstain;' as an oarsman. Hanlon says 'abstain; as a swiir.-r-.cr, Webb says 'abstain;' as an orator. Iri.vu says 'abstain;' a a missionary. Bivinston says 'ab.-tain;' as a doctor, Clark says "abr'tain; as a preacher, Farrar says 'abstain.' Asylums, prisons and work houses repeat the cry, "abstain. " The tramp had applied at the kitchen, door of x house in New Kngland and a slim maid had appeared. Maid (curtly) "What do you .want?" Tramp i:i his politest manner) "S miething to eat, pleise." Maid "I'll have to see the landlady." Tramp (Interrupting) "Excus me; but Is this a boarding Ik. use?" Maid "Of course It is." Tramp "Tht-n I desire to withdraw my request. I ain't very strong, and a feed of hashed beef would about kill me. Kxten 1 my compliments and regrets t the landlady" (then he bowed himself out). A physician, in speaking cf the various methods of inducing sleep, said: "I've tried them ail putting cold towel on the head, bathing the feet in hot water, counting up to 1.000. drinking a glass of milk, and so on. and the best thing I ever found was simply this: When I have worked all evening and find myself at bedtime in a state of nervousness or activity. I go to bed and place my right hand directly over the pit of the stomach. Whether it is the animal warmth of the hand acting on the stomach and drawing the circulation from the head, or some nervous action. I can't say. but I know that I fall asleep in a few minutes. I ibelieve that in a large majority of the ordinary cases of sleeplessness this simple remedy will prove tnective. 1 have recommended it to many patients, and they report surprising success." Chicago Iteeord. Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder A Pure Qrae Cream of Tartar Powder.