Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — Page 2

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Ma. Hogg 1b the Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas. Is this the ••Great American Hog” we read about? Thx Panama canal company is asking for six years more time and other concessions. ‘AU fight, we grant this Ge ahead, .

Japan has established a woollen mill. The Japs are very good people and we congratulate them on this evidence of advancement. Martin Ikons, who led the great strike on the Iron Mountain road is now selling peanuts in the depot at St. Louie.— Probably he is in his sphere now. He certainly was. not during the great strike.,

The death of Kemmler was an easy one compared with the slow torture to which the public is now being subjected, by the long winded discussions—not to call them quarrels—of the physicians who. were present at the execution. The controversy is only fairly on, and bids fair to last until the snow flies. A doctor for a fight, every time,

It is the fashion to joke ••Little Rhody” upon its size, but when we consider that the City of Providence eomes within about 85,000 of haying as great a population as the entire State of Delaware, and that, in addition to this, Ward McAllister and nearly all the 400 are at Newport, these jibes should cease.

Or the 18,000 physicians assembled at the recent Congress in Berlin, 8,000 were from the United States. It is said that in spite of the extremely hot weather, this has been one of the healthiest summers in the history of this country, Can there be any connection between the absence of the doctors and the low death rate!

The total assessed valuation of Illinois lotsandlands issl,4lo,9Bl.osareduction from the last years’ assessment of $10,000,000. There has been a decline in valuation of farm and vacant lands of about $3,000,000, and of personal property of aboat $1,000,000, while towns and city lots have increased in value to the amount of $19,300,000.

New York gives us a curiosity in the form of a statute. On and after the first day of the, coming September, severe penalties will be prescribed for the use of tobacco by any child, "actually or apparently” under the age of 16 years. The prediction may be safely ventured thats if this law is ever tested, it will be knocked higher than the famous kite of Mr. Gilderoy.

The Board of Education of Columbus, 0., have determined that hereafter women should receive the same salary as that paid men for the same work. But will they increase the salary of the women or reduce the salary of the men? Asa matter of fact good teachers are not paid as much as they deserve for the service rendered.

For several years the District of Columbia has been a basis of operations against the Northern States for the Louisiana lottery company. Washington City was filled with agents, the press was subsidized and all went well. At last the authorities have Instituted A crusade against the tiger of the Louisiana lagoons, and the indications are that he will be forced across the Potomac or climb a tree.

□ The failure of the potato crop in Ireland is creating grave apprehen sions. A famine is imminent, but in a land where starvation faces thousands even in the best of seasons, the slightest failure of a crop upon which all depend means deprivation and suffering of the most acute character. M ichael Davitt is turning his attention to the matter and is making some timely suggestions, which, if acted upon may aid in averting much threatened distress.

The pension agents are so fond of the old soldiers that few green things grow in the paths between them and the surplus. Since the disability act of June 27, became a law there have been 206,000 applications for pensions. The activity of pension agents at Washington in drumming up custom has increased the receipts of the city pcstpffice there 33 per cent since June. One pension agent bought $5,000 *n 2-eent stamps, at once, and another agent, who publishes a weekly paper, sent out 1,000,000 copies of one issue containing urgent, appeals for applications. It i- oaid that the income of agent from fee*, ranges ’ m $1,200 to $2, /CO a d»- «

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ohio is short on corn and potatoes. Ex-Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, fell dead at Cincinnati on the 4th. Fire did *150,000 damage at Hiawatha, Kansas, On the 3d. ’A bank was among the properties destroyed. The 1 wife of Judge A. W. Tourgee, the novelist, was committed to jail at Buffalo on the 3d for contempt of court. Peter Peterson was killed by lightning from an almost clear sky while on a straw stack near Doland, S. D„ on the 3d. The Illinois State Board of Equalization decided that' all property should be assessed at 25 per cent, of its fair ciash value. A large number of counterfeit ten dollar bills of the Germania National Bank of New Orleans are in circulation in Kansas City. * While hunting horses near Derango, Tex., George Bott was attacked by a bear. His face was so badly chewed that he can not live. The ladies of Wakeman, 0., have organized a crusade against “hop tea,” which is steamed beer of about half the usual strength. ...... - . The firm of Sawyer, Wallace & Codexporters of cotton and dealers ih leaf tobacco, New York, failed op. the 4th for *1,500,000. Russel Harrison said in New York Friday that all reports about his selling his Montana newspaper property are without foundation. It comes out in the investigation that the employes of the New York Central were discharged because they were Knights of Labor. , Almont, the ten thousand dollar stallion, was killed at the Urichsville (O.) fair grounds, by a shaft of a sulky running into his breast, penetrating the heart. By the explosion of a coal oil lamp on the 3d, at 1504 Germantown avenue, Philadelphia, the house was set on fire and Mrs. Sarah Mclntyre, sixty years; Mamie Mclntyre, ten years old, and Annie Logue, seventeen years old, were burned to death. The population of the following places in Nebraska is given: Beatrice, 13,921, an increase of 11,474; Lincoln, 55,491, an in crease of 42,488; Nebraska City, 11,472, an increase of 7,289; Oiflaha, 139,526, an increase of 109,008: Plattsmouth, 8,403, an increase of 4,228. Various reformers met at St. Louis on the sth and promulgated the principles o f the National Reform party. The platform demands abolition of national banks, prohibition, government control of railroads, uniform marriage and divorce laws, a protest against the alien ownership of lands tariff reform, the regulation of corporations, the restriction of pauper immigration. I Single-tax theorists met in convention 'at New York. The platform declares that iall men were created alike, with certain I inalienable rights. No one shall be permitted to hold property without a fair re- ’ turn. There shall he no tax on products of labor, and all revenues for national State . and municipal purposes shall be raised by a single-tax upon land values, irrespective of implauded. Geologist S. S. Gorby has just returned from a visit to several counties of the State. He says the rains have improved the Condition of the corn crop materially, and the farmers now estimate the yield at a third more than they did a few weeks ago. It was thought the drought had continued so long that the corn was beyond any possibility of improvement, but the experience of the last two or three weeks has proven otherwise 1 Four men were out in a small boat on Lake Fields, La;, last Saturday, hunting ialligators, when a storm arose. Before the men could reach the shore a black cloud hanging low in the sky passed di rectly over their boat and a blinding flash of lightning darted eastward. Raymond Knight, who was in the vicinity watching the efforts of the men to reachthe shore, saw the lightning strike the boat and the men disappeared. All four of the men were struck by lightning. Three of them, the Bion brothers, from Pointe au Cliene, were dead when Mr. Knight reached them. A. M. V. Verdain, the Other man, was severely shocked.

A meeting of members of the New York Produce Exchange was held Monday afternoon and about fifteen hundred members and merchants were present. The ques tion of reciprocity was the matter brought before the meeting. Consul-general Williams, of Havana, addressed the meeting on the advantages of reciprocity. At the close of his remarks a resolution was adopted that the New York Produce Exchange as a body solicit Congress to urge such acts of legislation or diplomatic negotiations as would insure the enlargement of these foreign markets to American products. It was resolved to telegraph the resolutions to Senators Evarts and Hiscock, at Washington, at once, so that they might receive the same while the reciprocity amendment was being diss cussed by the Senate. The farmers in the southern part of Carroll county are greatly wrought up over the appearance of a man named Newkirk, living in Cleveland, 0., who claims a patent on the straight rail and wire fence which has become so popular among farm ers. Newkirk claims to,have purchased the patent from the original patentee, who lives in Texas, and he is demanding a royalty from every farmer using this kind of ja fence. An indignation meeting, composed of farmers interested, was held at Owasco. Resolutions were passed dec'ar* ing Newkirk’s demands an outrage, and a sum raised to fight him in the courts in case he attempts to collect the royalty by law. It is said Newkirk has visited other parts of the State and enforced the collection of this alleged royalty, the farmers paying rather than go to law about the matter.

, Twobf the largest natural gas wells ever developed in the Pittsburg district struck the land on the sth. One of the wells is located near Bellevernon, and is owned by the Philadelphia Company. The other is the property of the Bridgewater Gas Company, and is in the Wildwood field. When the wells were brought in they blew out ,the casings. It is estimated that both are good for 800 pounds rock pressure. The gas from these wells would be sufficient to ! run half the mills in* the city, and pretty

thoroughly explodes the stories that the gas was giving out. — : — V, ’ FOREIGN. It is reported that Boulanger is going to Italy. ' Fire destroyed 12,000 houses in Salonica on the sth, including most of the public buildings. A great flood has visited Austria. It was feared for the safety of Prague on the 3d. Great damage was done. The returning Salvadorian army was given a grand reception on their return to the capital on the sth. Michael Davitt gives a gloomy picture of the Situation in Ireland. Famine and cold stare the people in the face, owing to the potato blight and rainy weather, which prevented the drying of peat for winter fuel. Advices from China report the Yellow river again on the rampage. The river has burst its dikes in the Shantung district and flooded a vast area-of country. Thousands of persons have been drowned, and wide-spread famine has resulted. An attempt has been made on the life of American Minister Mizner, in Guatemala. The attempt was made by the daughter of General Barrundia, who was killed in the recent disturbances. Minister Mizner has been advised to flee the country, but refuses to do so. A span of the Charles bridge over the Moldan, in Brague, on which were a number of persons watching the flood in that stream, collapsed Thursday,and thirty j)f the sight-seers were drowned. Two more arches collapsed later. The raonu< ments on the bridge were destroyed. The inhabitants of the town are taking refuge on the house-tops. It recently came to the knowledge of Major E. G. Rathbone, chief postoffice inspector, that one J. J. S. Nicholson, of Lewiston, Md.y 'was in correspondence with “green-goods” men in New Jersey, and he ordered an investigation, which resulted in the arrest of Nicholson, who was, on Thursday, arraigned before United States Commissioner Rogers at Baltimore and held in *1,500 bail. Thisis the first arrest of any one who has merely written for the so-called “green goods,” ~ and the result is awaited with interest . Under the law passed by Congress March 2, 1889 it was made a penal offense for any one to. mail a letter ordering “green goods,” and this arrest of Nicholson is the first in pur suance Of the act.

POLITICAL.

1 The Farmers’ Alliance of North Dakota will hold a State convention Sept. 25. Texas Republicans met at San Antonio on the sth and nominated “What-are-we-here-for?” Webb Flanagan for Governor. The administration and the acts of Congress were endorsed. Mr. John W. Foster; of Indiana, former ly United States Minister to Spain, says that the report that he had been again tendered th£ Spanish Mission, and that he would accept provided a reciprocity amendment to. the tariff bill were passed, was not true in any respect. He considered himself permanently out of public life. Rev. Sampson Cox, whom the Farmers’ Alliance has nominated to represent tne Third Congressional District, has chai lenged Hon. John L. Bretz, the Democratic nominee, to a joint discussion. Mr. Cox is a United Brethren minister and a Democrat, but he takes every opportunity to criticise Senator Voorhees. Bretz will hardly accept the challenge.

The Critic on the 9th said: “Senator Quay and his friends who control the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, made an effort to secure as editor ex-First Assistant Postmaster-general Clarkson. It failed because Mr. Clarkson has hopes of being editor of the Chicago Tribune- It is understood a syndicate of wealthy Republicana has been formed for the purchase of that paper from Joseph Medill, its owner. Two million dollars have been put in the pool for that purpose. The Tribune has been shockingly heterodox on the question of the tariff and protection. It is intended, should the purchase be made, to make the Tribune an orthodox high tariff and protection organ. Postmaster General Wana maker is said to be a heavy subscriber to the pool.” Nearly 3,000 persons listened to the tariff debate at the fair grounds at Oswego, N. Y., on the 4th, between Representatives W. D. Bynum of Indiana and C. H. Gros • venor of Ohio. Mr. Grosvenor spoke for I an hour and was folio wed by Mr. “Bynum in | an hour’s speech, Mr. Grosvenor replying in an address of fifteen minutes. Many of the best business men of the city listened to the debate. The barley clause of the McKinley bill especially has made the tariff a subject of great importance to the business men of Oswego, and each was listened to with close attention. Mr. Grosvenor insisted that while the adjustment of a high tariff to the whole country might be damaging to some particular locality, a general prosperity had been built up on the protective tariff. Mr. Bynum attacked the general principle of a high tariff, and claimed that labor bore the burden of the tax.

VILLAINOUS WRECKERS.

A desperate attempt was made Monday night to wreck the fast St. Louis and Chicago express, which leaves New York on the New York Central at 6p. m. The train was stopped for a danger signal south of Old Troy, which is five hundred yards south of the New Hamburg drawbridge. Two minutes previous the flagman had discovered several ties standing endways in the curve near Old Troy, and when he took hold of one of them to remove it he was fired upon from the bushes on the east side of the track. Knowing that the fast express was nearly due, he ran southward and set the danger signal, which stopped the train. The flagman said the ties stuck up above the rails, and would certainly havethrown the train from the track. The fast train was composed of seven or eight sleeping-cars, all full; two ordinary coaches and a baggage car. There were eight ties on the up main track. There were also (wo ties placed alongside of the rail towards the south, so as to ditch the trsin. The flagman was wounded by the shot fired at him.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Seymour will build an opera house. New cranberries are in the South Bend market. ' 7.- . The humane society is doing good work at Goshen. Wheat thieves are reported from several points in the State. Angolo is undergoing a temperance revival of large proportions. Robert Walker’s country home near Evansville was destroyed by fire on the 4th; loss, *7,000. 1 Charles Roberts, of Muncie, accused of being an army deserter, swallowed a fatal dose of poison. The Lebanon natural gas line has been completed. It is fourteen miles long, and cost *IIO,OOO. Forty visionary gentlemen of Chicago have undertaken the formation of a boarding house trust. Profanity has become so pestilential in Anderson that anti-profane societies are being organized. - > The State Assembly of the Farmers’ Alliance will be held at Washington during the second week in October. Fourteen stables on the Vigo County Fair-Grounds- were destroyed by fire last evening, causing *5,000 loss. Thieves stole seventy-five bushels of peaches from the orchard of Jacob Ream, near Yountsvill’e, on the 3d. A portion of the city of Richmond is infested with snails, fouror five inches long, and nasty and slimy to touch. —One hundred miners, white and colored, have come from Kentucky to work in the Coxville mines, in Parke county. Hervey Pickerill, a farmer near New Goshen, sheltered from a storm under a tree. Lightning struck the tree and he was killed. Tuesday night Mrs. Harmon Schulte, of Seymour, gave birth to three large and hearty children, all daughters. The entire family is doing well. The Catholic Knights of America, of Indiana, in session at South Bend, on the 3d, completed the organization of a new uniform rank for the society. Silver ore has been discovered on the (William Barber farm, near Art, and a company has been organized to sink a shaft and put in a smelting furnace.

j A son of J. F. Scott, near Warsaw, undertook to drive a colt to a stable, and was (kicked in the forehead, destroying his eyesight and mashing his face into pulp. I Wesley Warren, brakeman, of Terre ■Haute, caught his arm Monday while makiinga coupling, and the flesh burst open (from the wrist nearly to the shoulder. While section men on the J., M. & I. railroad were working near the bridge over Genius creek, they killed forty-four icopperhead snakes found hibernating in the warm sand. The Michigan Sand Brick Company has succeeded in making good brick fremsand taken from the great hill in Michigan City, and when mixed with cement and certain chemicals it makes very desirable curbing, ornaments, etc. Sherman Hubbard, an ex-convict, and ffatie Cheek, aged twelve, of Terre Haute, were married, and the next day the bride prosecuted her husband for striking her and he was fined $lO and costs. The old American starch works, at Columbus, will be started up .by a company including James E. Bradley, of Indianapolis, James E. Mooney, of Cincinnati, and Ed Mooney, of Columbus, it not being in* eluded in the stare hjpqtfl. -L—_ John Kapple, one of the wealthiest German residents of Ft. Wayne, was fatally injured in a runaway accident on the 3d. His back was broken afid ten of his ribs were fractured,the bones being driven into his lungs and internal organs. W. H. Davis, telegraph. operator at Crawfordsville Junction, carelessly pointed a pistol at Miss Mary Roach, employed in the Junction Hotel, and it was discharged. The bullet struck Miss Roach in the back, eausjng fatal injury. Argtis Dean, aged eighty, of Otto, Clarke-county, died Sunday. He was proprietor of the celebrated Dean peach orchard, one of the largest in the country, and he was also greatly interested in navigation of the Ohio River, on which he was considered authority. Another case of Christian science malpractice is engaging the attention of the people of Elkhart, and excitement is at fever heat over the matter. The two year-old son of William Sanders, a prominent citizen of that city, died Tuesday night, attended only by Mrs. John Lesher, a supposed “healer.” The trouble in the trusteeship in Clinton township, Decatur county, in which the Republican and Democratic candidates each received the same number of votes and the Election Board adjourned without casting lot,will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Attempts to satisfactorily adjudicate the matter have failed. I

Eli Pitman, of Harrison county, reports that he killed twenty-fcur snakes a day or two ago. He unearthed a nest of the reptiles while plowing, and seized a club and went to war with them. They ranged from eight inches to four feet in length, and were of different varieties,there being a few copperheads among the number. Mrs. Charles Graham was frightened to death Thursday night, at her home, a short distance from New Albany, by the violent c actions of a drunken neighbor, George Blust, who threatened her life. Medical aid was summoned, but the woman came out of convulsions only a few minutes before death came. The last words she uttered were: “He has frightened me to death I" Blust killed an unoffending German nearly seven years ago, on Main street, while drunk, and was sent to State prison for two years for the crime* tie shouldered a gun, shortly after the death of the woman, and fled to the woods west of the city, where he is in hiding to escape the vengeance of the neighbors. The mail clerk on the Big Four train on the night ot the 4th, after leaving Anderson, was robbed of a mail pouch at the muzzle of a revolver in the hands of a negro. The negro pulled the rope and he got off when the train stopped at Pendleton. The mail clerk then reported the robbery. A search was made and the pouch, with a robber’s outfit, was found on the side oi

the track in Pendleton, the pouch being Intact. » The population of cities and towns of the first supervisor’s district of Indiana are given by the Census Bureau as follows: Bedford. 3.373, an increase of 1,175: Evansville, 50,674, an increase of 21,394; Mount Vernon, r 4,710, an increase of 98; Princeton. 6,493, an increase of 3,928; 2,222, an increase of 61; Tell City, 2,074, a decrease of 38; Vincennes, 8,815, an increase of 1,135; Washington, 6,052, an increase of 1,729. When the case of Mrs. Elma C. Whitehead. an accessory to the murder of Mrs. W. F. Pettit, was called at Lafayette, the prosecuting attorney entered a nolle prosse ana the case was dismissed. The reasons given were that the evidence of witnesses out of the State was not obtainable now. The real object of the prosecutor’s action, however, in dismissing the case was not to disclose the evidence against W. F. Pettit, charged as the principal in the murder, and whose case is set for trial October 8. Quite a number of representative farmers met at Greensburg Thursday and organized a “Farmers 1 League.” L. L. Donnell presided and Woodson Hamilton was secretary. Editor Kingsbury, of the In* diana Farmer, delivered the principal address. A set of resolutions was adopted, in which almost everything connected with the management of public affairs met with more or less condemnation. Among a number of the interested spectators was Hon. Will Cumback. He was persistently called upon for a speech, and finally re-, sponded briefly, taking the ground that the farmers generally did too much grumbling, while they were better off than many others in other callings. This aroused a spirited discussion for a time. ■» . A Greensburg Methodist minister startled his congregation Sunday by advancing a new theery of prayer. He embraced the fallowing propositions as his view of what the Bible teaches on the subject under consideration: 1. That the commands to pray were (with two exceptions) prayer for those in the kingdom-and the saints, and that the two places Where prayer was recommended for others it was not to be for their conversion, but that they might live in peace, etc. 2. That Christ did not pray for the conversion of sinners. 3. That the apostles and disciples of Bible times did not thus pray. 4. That Christians generailv are not commanded to pray for the conversion of the individual sinner. 5. That it is the duty of Christians to pray for one another and for backsliders, and them only. A daring band of wheat thieves are plundering the farmers of St. Joe county in the vicinity of South Bend. Afew days ago on one of the sidewalks, early in the morning, thirteen sacks of wheat were found piled up, which proved to belong to a dairyman living a short distance outside the corporation line. On Monday night thieves visited the farm of a man named Carpenter,, and stole a team of fine horses, with a wagon and forty-five bushels of wheat, and, the grain was afterwards recovered by the Sheriff outside the city limits. The wagon and team were followed into Michigan, where the trail was lost Soon after this theft a suspicious looking character was found lurking about the Carpenter place and he was arrested, but nothing definite could be learned rom him.

REED RE-ELECTED.

The Speaker Carries His District by a Large Majority. The election in Maine was held on the Bth and resulted in a Republican victory. The majority may reach 18,00$ or 19,000. Speaker Reed was re-elected by the largest majority he ever received—l,soo. A telegram from Chairman Manley to President Harrison reads as follows: “Maine gives the largest Republican ma jority given in an off year since 1866, and a larger majority than given in a presidential contest since 1868, with the single exceptions of 1884 and 1888. Governor Burleigh isre-elected by a majority exceeding 15,000. Speeker Reed is re-elected by the largest majority he ever received—exceeding 4,500. Representatives Dingley, Bou* telle and Milliken are re-elected by ma* jorities ranging from 3,000 to 5,000. The Pine-Tree State indorses your adminis* tion and remains firm in its advocacy of protection to American industries and American labor.”

WASHINGTON.

The House, by a vote of 105 to 62, unseated Breckinridge of Arkansas. This contest was the one inaugurated by Mr. Clayton, who, while taking evidence, was murdered. Mr. Breckinridge made a speech in his own behalf, declaring that he had no connection with or knowledge ofths murder, and that the contest had been unfairly conducted by the committee. The Senate has decided to accept the House lottery bill in lieu of its own, and the measure will undoubtedly pass and beome a law. The House did nothing. The Senate spent all day and night of the Bth on the tariff bill. An amendment placing a duty on all sugars over 13 Dutch standard was agreed to by ayes 39, nays 13; also an amendment increasing the duty on sugar above 16 6-10 Dutch standard 1 cent per pound. An amendment was adopted to include maple sugar among those for which a bounty is granted.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 3d talked tariff. The House continued debate on the Clayton-Breckenridge contested election case. The Senate on the sth voted to place binding twine on the free list. This result was reached by several Western Republicans voting with the An attempt to again tax quinine failed? The Spaulding Iron and Nall Works, at Brilliant, 0., were sold at sheriff’s sale to George K. Wheat, of Wheeling, for 160,000 The Republican majority in Vermont is only 14,744. ' ’ ' |

SPEAKER REED SPEAKS.

■ His Views On the Questions that Have Been Considered in the House. Speaker Reed delivered a speech to 5/00 of his constituents al Me., on the4th. We make extracts: “Parties have their years of depression and their years of exaltation just as individuals have their moments of depression and of good cheer. Parties have periods when they dp great work and periods when they seem to have no other hope than the mere preservation of existence. Since 1874, when the Republican party first halted in its great duty of preserving the liberty and equality before the law for all citizens of the United States, a Republican House of Representatives has been rare. This has not been because there is not a Republican majority, but because by frauds too apparw ent to be denied, by ballot-box stuffing too notorious to be disputed, twenty-five seats in the House have been wrested from us under the open, defiant declaration that the Southern Democratic white man shall not only rule the black man of the South, but the white man of the North.” Then he charged that for years the Democrats had been-preparing for the time when they should be beaten by making . rules under which a minority could control legislation. He justified the rules' adopted under his supervision. On the tariff bill he said: “We promised the people that the tariff should have fair and exhaustive treatment}; that the principle of protection should have lull recognition, and in three important bills we have kept the promise to the hope. By the administrative bill a wise and dis* criminating effort has been made to secure to our manufacturers and merchants . the complete benefit of the rates ’ of duty imposed by law. By virtue of that bill we hope we have made valuations and duties alike in all ports. Two years ago the Democracy in the House admitted 1 that owing to the change on the methods of manufacturers the whole woolen industry was tottering to a fall unless woolens’ and worsteds were put upon a footing of j equality. Nevertheless, for the purpose of adding to the votes of the Mills bill, 1 which could never pass, they sacrificed the 1 j woolen industry, which needed immediate* attention. Without delay and withouti waiting to strengthen their own tariff bill by the support of the worsted men, Major! McKinley and Governor Dingley pushed! through the measure of justice which has' rescued so many of our woolen mills from !

disaster and ruin. “But these bills, useful as they are, were: , but the' forerunners of that tariff bill over: which the Senate is now pouring the multitudinous waves of oratory. The McKins ley bill was not made in the closet, was not the product of one man who tried to know 1 everything. If a tariff bill was ever the results of the beliefs of the whole people! of the United States, the McKinley bil-l Was that bill.” On the force bill the Speaker said:

“There was also another promise to be kept, made long ago and often renewed. I For years the Republican party has de-J dared most righteously that there could 1 not be in a Republic a duty more sacred; than the duty of upholding the right of every citizen to participate in government. ■ Who has forgotten the ringing words of thatgreat soldier so soon to lie among the; unforgotten brave oh the heights of Ar-' lington: ‘The people have made up their i minds that they will have a loyal govern-I ment and an honest ballot and a fair, count.” The House of Representatives,, true to Its duty, has passed a bill which, when it becomes a law, will give to the' people Of the United States the suffragesof millions. It will enable votes to be cast, and to be counted as cast: When an enormous hubbub has been raised about that simple bill. There has been nothing like' it since Walter Scott described the upris* ing of the virtuous people of Alsatia on theJ approach of a sheriff. What is this bill on which so many interesting epithets have ! been raised? It is a simple proposition to have United States Supervisors to see that United States elections of United States officers shall be honestly conducted; that all honest votes shall be cast and honestly counted as cast. IlFthere be any man in; this country who opposes this bill, there will not be many years before he will look like those who proclaimed the divine origin of slavery. That the Democratsnow denounce with violent epithets a Republic can measure is no new fact in their history. So persecuted they the saints. When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that this land could not be permanently half free and half slave, the democracy of my younger days all declared that he said so because he wanted his sister to marry a negro. So when the Republicans of our day proclaim that in a republic one million of voters can never be permanently disfranchised, the Democrat of our day shouts, “Negro domination” and “Bayonets.” Mr. Reed deprecated the waste of tim in eulogies on dead members, in roll calls and contested elections, but suggested no remedy. He had nothing to say on pen* sions. In conclusion, he said: “But in closing what I have had to say,it would not be just to rest the claims of the House upon even the catalogue of its great deeds. What the House has shown the country that any House can do is worth* prince’s ransom. Henceforth promises can not be executed except by performance. Henceforth great measures can be lost and nobody know what has become of them. Party responsibility has begun and with it also the responsibility of the people, for they can no longer elect a Dem ocratio House and hope that the minority will neutralize its action, or a Republican Hoijpe without eng sure that it will keep its pledges. If we have broken the precedents of a hundred years, we have sot the precedent of another hundred years nobler than the last, where the responsibility will wa < i power and wherein thapeople who, w >rfuli knowledge that their serr ants can apt, will choose those who will worthily carry out their will.” Author—“ You return everything I offer.] What can I send you rtlat will be nc-eptaJ ble?" Editor—“A year s subscription.”—’ Epoch. v J