Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — Page 7

STIRS UP THE ANIMALS.

KepMfr ■ of Ohl., la fM ■S.ctian Ml aid Xfalait Senator. Who Oppo». It. Me. Kennedy, a Republican Represents tivafroin Ohio, made a remarkable speech in t£e House Wedhesnay afternoon. He addressed the House as to xheClaytors Breckinridge contest, firstpointingoutthe details of that case, which he thought was argument for the Lodge bill. He said that he was ready to stand by Republican doctrine to the last, and continued: “Speaking for myself, I shall nail the banker of the Republican party to the masthead, with the doctrine which has become inseparable front the history of its existence, and which demands the protection of the humblest citizen in the right to an honest ballot and the protection o life and property, and stand ready to defend that doctane to the last. * * ’ —* That the election bifThas been killed by Republicans, or pretended Republicans, is tfcue- Without fair treatment, the bill, which the House of Representatives said was imperatively demanded for the preservation of its own honor, and for it safety and stability, and for the protection of the whole country against outrage, and intimidation, and violence, is deliberately put aside without hearing and without opportunity of consideration. When before in all the past history of legislation has one House of Congress deliberately put upon the other the mark of derision and contempt! The consideration of this matter was demanded by every sense Of decency and honor. It was demanded by the House of Representatives that its floor might be purged of those who are enabled to enter by reasons of violence and murder. “The Senate of the United States will learn that there is a bar of public opinion, and that at that bar it is now being tried. To have been a Senator in the days of Webster and Clay and Calhoun, was to have been part of a body that won and had the admiration of the people, North and South. To have been a Senator in the days of Wade, and Fessenden, and Crittenden, was to have been associated with men whose sense of honor would have scorned the purchase of a seat, and would have denied companionship to one whose name was tarnished o’er by even a suspicion of infamy or corruption. If the Roman toga had been bedraggled in the filth and the mire of the centuries, surely the clcak of ‘Senatorial courtesy’ has become a stench in the nostrils and a by word in the mouths of all honest citizens of the land. “It makes a cloak behind which ignorant and arrogant wealth can purchase its way to power and then hide its cowardly head behind the shameless protection of ‘Senatorial silence.’ It moans a cloak which shall cover up from the public gaze of an outraged people the infamies which de-> mand investigation and which merit the punishment of broken laws and violated statutes. It means a cloak behind which petty party bickerings may barter away a party’s principles and play the demagogue in the face of the people. It means a cloak under Which not only the timid, but cowm ardly politician can cover up his tracks and be either foul or fair as the necessity demands. The hour for Senatorial courtesy has passed. The ox team of Senatorial progress must give way to the motor of a more enlightened and progressive and determined age. Let the old and threadbare cloak of Senatorial courtesy be hung up with the sickle and the flail of a bysgone day.” Referring to the betrayal of Christ by Judas Mr. Kennedy said: “It was meet and fitting that Judas should be paid the thirty pieces of silver. It was still a part of the eternal fitness of things that, having been guilty of the basest crime of all the centuries, ho should go out and hang himself. History is repeating itself. The great party of the Republic, having lived for thirty-five years, has never yet assisted in riviting the shackles on a human being, and now, when it was to be expected that ifr ful to its history, it is about to prove false and its repeated promises are not to be re>deemed. It comes victorious from every field, and if it fails now it finds in its own party those who are faithless to the trust reposed in them. If it is to be crucified, it is only because its chosen leaders have bartered away its principles for the tricks and petty schemes of politicians. The Judas Iscariot of two thousand years ago is to find a counterpart in the Judas Iscariot of to-day. The Judas who took the thirty pieces of silver and went and hanged himself, has left an example for the Mat Quays that is well worthy their imitation. “Some time since I stood in my place on this floor and denounced a Senator from my native State because, when charged with corruption and branded with infamy, he did notarise in his seat and demand an investigation and inquiry that should establish the purity of his actions and his PQrßonal hgnor, .One _Qther occnnying high place in the counsels of the party to which I belong has suffered himself, month in and month out, to be charged with crimes and misdemeanors, for which, if guilty, he should have been condemned under the laws of his State and have meted out to him the fullest measure of punishment. This man is a Republican. Shall I now remain silent? Is it just and honest to remain in my seat silent bccau e one who is accused of crimesand refuses to seek for vindication is a Republican, and that Republican the recognized leader of my party 1 Neither decency nor honor would permit me tq,do so. I do not know whether the charges m#de against the chairman of the National Republican Committee are tnie or false, but Ido know that they have been made by journals of character,, and standing again and again, and I know that, in the face of these charges, Mat Quay has remained silent and has neither sought nor attempted to seek opportunity to vindicate himself from them. “Ido know, as a great Republican leader he owed it to the great party at whose head he was, either to brand theta as infamies or to prove their falsity, or he owed it to that party to stand aside from its leadership. He has not done either, and for this I denounce him. The Republican party , can not afford to follow the lead of a

branded criminal. He has failed to justify hhnself, and though opportunity and am-’ pie time have been given him he remains silent His silence, under such fcircumstances is the confession of guilt An honorable man does not long dally when his honor is assailed. Ho has delayed too long to justify the belief in his innocence, and he stands a convicted criminal before the bar of public opinion. Under such circumstances he should be driven from the head of a party whose very life his presence im perils. The Republican party has done enough for its pretended leader. It is no longer a question of his vindication: it is now a question of the life of the party itself-" W AND CUMMING ALSO. Mr. Cummings, of New York, rising to a question of privilege on the 4th, protested, against his “blacklisting” by the famous Cannon resolution. The gentleman who had offered the resolution had made unjust imputations, and in making these imputations hg had falsified the record, and blacklisted himself. He then proceeded to make an attack upon Mr. Cannon, comparing him to the noted Linville of the French revolution. In support of his resolution, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Cannon) had appealed to the record. The gentleman from lowa (Mr. Henderson) had seconded the gentleman from Illinois, and had used the word “sneak.”- There had been some sneaking done, as the record indicated. The record showed that the Speaker had refused to the House the list of names of the absentees. Fancy the great Chairman of the Committee on Ap-propriations-the successor of Samuel J. Randall—sneaking to the Clerk’s desk and obtaining surreptitiously, a list of members that had been refused to the House, and upon this list basing a false accusation against his fellow members that had been refused to the House, and upon this list basing a false accusation against his fellow members. Was not that an act worthy of Linnville? He then proceeded to arraign the Speaker and the majority of the Committee on Rules. This majority composed a triumvirate almost as powerful as the one which sprang into life after the assassination of Julius Caesar. When the House met in the morning Mark Anthony recognized Lepidus or Octavius and nobody else. All the legislative meat was cut and dried and distributed according to a prearranged program; Mr. Cummings was frequently inters rupted by Mr. Kerr, of lowa, and Mr. Rowell, of. Illinois, with the point of order that he was not confining himself to a question of personal privilege. Mr. Cummings proceeded with his arraignment of the Speaker, but after frequent interruptions, asked unanimous consent to print the remainder of his remarks in the Record, but this consent was refused by Messrs. Kerr anu Dunnell.

A CHAPTER OF DISASTERS.

Railway, Street Car and Other Fatal Accldente, A railway train running twenty miles an hour struck an electric street train of two cars at Cleveland on the 6th. A terrible scene resulted. The cars were hurled to one side and completely demolished. Of the twenty passengers aboard one was killed and eleven badly injured. The second section of a train on the Denver & Rio Grande dashed into the first section, which had been derailed near Adobe, Col. There were two coaches attached to the first section, which were carrying laborers. These coaches were demolished and five of the laborers killed and thirty-seven of them injured. Thirty persons were hurt in a collision near South Newark, Conn. A passenger train collides with a passenger car at Lexington, Mo. Three lives lost. Thirty-six freight cars and the engine went through a bridge and fell sixty feet near Charlotte, N. C. Though some of the train men went down with the wreck none of them were seriously hurt. A baby in its carriage fell five stories the 6th. The buggy struck on a bale of rags. The baby reboundeAand was caught uninjured in the a gentleman standing near. I <v A premature blast in the Northern Pacific yardsat Spokane Falls, Wash., threw 25,000 cubic feet of rock into a crowd of laborers. Fifteen men were instantly killed and many hurt. Nine persons were injured in a tornado near Parkersburg, W. Va., on the 7th.

WHERE ARE THE INDIANS?

A special from Pierre, S. Dak., says: Considerable interest is manifested here as to the final outcome of the investigation as to the missing 2,000 Indians at Rosebud Agency. There is no denying the fact that the Indian population in South Dakota is fast dying off. Those who visit the agency frequently bring back the in formation that consumption and throa and lung troubles are thinning them, and that iSroriir Them are few who Have riot contracted disease of some kind. There can be no doubt about the demoralized condition of these people in every way, and It will be but. a few years before the Indians as a race will have disappeared from South Dakota. The severe winters and the efforts to have the Indians change their mode of living are responsible for this.

DRIVEN LIKE CATTLE.

The batkentine Catherine Sudden has arrived at Port Townsend from (Siberia. Her commander, Captain John Thomas, has sent to this city a description of the Russian exile system as witnessed by him. He describes the brutal scene which he witnessed on Laghalien Island a famous Riissian exile prison. A large party of exiles of all ages, heavily manacled, were being taken to the island. A few old men whose strength gave out fell from exhaustion. The brutal driver, acting under the orders frbm his superior, shot the unfortunate men and removed their chains. No mercy nor discrimination was shown. Wives saw their husbaads killed before their eyes; mothers saw their daughters outraged and Insulted. The exiles were driven like cattle, a heavy whip being used to urge them on. The prison cells were filthy .and the treatment barbarous.

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

Indianapolis, Sept. ,1890. The gossips have had a high time this week, the action of the Democratic convention giving them a most magnificent grist to chaw over. The platform and the ticket has been an inexhaustible theme for discussion, and the whole city—Republicans, Democrats, Greenbacker s and Prohibitionists, have been convulsed, with laughter ever the platform. It is regarded as the literary curiosity of the age. As one wag expressed it: “It is like a man fearfully arid wonderfully made.” It certainly is refreshing to see with what indignation they denounce election frauds. It is true that is denounc. ing the whole past iTistory of their own party, and a good many people are disposed to look on the denunciation as merely a catch-vote proposition; but for them to denounce such actions is that much gained. What an inspiring sight it was to see Sim Coy shouting himself hoarse over a resolution denunciatory of frauds in elections! One could imagine they could see him waving aloft the tallysheets he forged in 1886 and laughing with ghoulish glee over the farce of the party that had defended him, and whose boss he still is, making such a pretense of virtue. The silver plank must have tickled the ribs of the old moss-backs when they thought how for years they had been doing the very qpposite of what their resolution now declared they had always favored. The resolution in regard to the economy and honesty of the Democratic management of the benevolent institutions was another laughing farce. Magotty butter, cholera hogs—honesty and economy! Before they adopted that sesolution they ought to have sent out and killed the Superintendent of the Central Hospital of the Insane, for he had just proved to the world, beyond any power of Democratic authority to contradict, that the Democratic management had stolen in that one institution alone, or recklessly squandered it, which is the same thing. $250,000 of the people’s money in eight years.. If the Democratic management for eight years was honest and economical, then Dr. Wright, the present Superintendent, is starving his patients to death, and they all say they never were better fed than now. The gossips love to dwell on the resolution about civil service reform arid Cali to mind that the last Democratic General Assembly spent three-fourths of its time in making sinecure piaces for Democrats, and are still running all the State institutions exclusively for that class of citizens. The ticket comes in for agood share of the gossip. Claude Matthews, the farmer. It makes one think of exGov. Wright as an agriculturist, when he toldjthe people that the best breed of sheep, both for wool and mutton, was the hydraulic ram. Tom Byrnes, who had twice sacrificed himself for the party, was thrown over at the demand of the German brewers of Indianapolis. Andrew Sweeney, chosen as a representative Irishman, a man who four years ago ran five thousand votes behind his ticket. Green Smith! By the way, the gossips tell a good story on Smith. One day, in the trial of a lawsuit, he pursued his usual bullying practices until one of the parties turned on him and knocked him down, and was proceeding to give him a sound thrashing when bystanders interfered and saved the bullying lawyer. A few months afterward the same man was a Witness in a case where Smith was one of the attorneys. He testified to having been a soldier. On cross-examination Smith asked, with one of his peculiar grins, if he had ever whipped a rebel. The wit--sees, looking him significantly in the face, quickly replied: “I came pretty near it once, and would hate done it had not some d—d fools interfered and saved him.” Smith had no more questions to ask of that witness. The northern part of the State did not get much in the division. Indianapolis controlled all the nominations, and they had to be given in this neighborhood. Gall and Henderson lay claims to some respectability,’ but being caught on the same ticket with Green Smith gives them dead away.

While the gossips are busy over the late convention and its outcome, they also find time to speculate as to what will be the result of the Republican gathering next week. Candidates are beginning to show themselves and declare not only a willingness to take a place on the ticket, btjban anxiety so to do. They are all gbod meh, and a party could hardly go amiss in nominating any oneof them. -For Secretary of State, are prominently mentioned i.ach men as Marcus R Sulzer, of Madison, and Thomas H. Nelson, of Parke county. Two more worthy mfen.it would be hard to find. Mr. Sulzer is perhaps the youngest man who ever held an office iri this State, he having been appointed a member of the Ohio River Commission when he was but niieteen years old. Mr. Nelson is one of the prominent farmers of the western part of the State For Av liter the convention will be offered its choice between William Hazen, of Wabash, one of the best knoan Republicans of the Wabash valley; Col. I. N. Walker, of this city, a soldier with a splendid record and who has for years been the popular Adjutant. General of the G. A. R. and A. C. Dailey, a farmer and business man of Lebanon, undone whoso Republicanism has never been qpestioned. For Treasurer a liberal supply of most excellent timber will be offered, in such men as James S. Henry, of Gosport, a man without a stain of any kind; N. S. Lyram, for many years a promt*Ant wholesale merchant and leading citizen of Indianapolis; Jarno McClellan,, a one-armed soldier < Bedford; Hugh Barr, a farmer

Daviess county, * man who has built a reputation second to none in that section; George W. Pixley, a leading citizen and business man of Ft. Wayne, and Leonard Wild, a prosperous and’ popular farmer of Hamilton county. W. T. Noble, the present incumbent is the only one offered for Clerk of the Supreme G*urt, and he is entirely worthy a second term. For Supreme Court Judge, thfe names of D. H. , Chase, of Logansport, and R‘ W. McBride, of Elkhart, will be. presented. Capt. Chase has a brilliant army record, and was for twelve years Judge of the Cass Circuit Court. Mr. Mcßried is one of the best known layyers in Nothern Indiana. For Attorney general thfe only name now spoken of is that of John W. Lovett, of Anderson, who came so near capturing that prize four years ago. James H. Henry, of Morgan county,, and John W r . Barnes, of Kokomo, are asking the Superintendency of Public Instruction, both educators of high standing. For Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, and for State the names respectively of Capt. John Wor\ rel and Prof. John Collett will be presented. Surely out of the timber presented a ticket unexceptionable and worthy every way can be nominated.

DEMOCRATIC WASTE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INDIANA FINANCES.

By degrees the people are beginning to find out all the beauties of Democratic financiering in this State. Every day or two the Sentinel has something to say of the magnificent school fund of the State, and to claim that it is all the result of Democratic wisdom and patriotism. Some of the counties are not so well satisfied As to the Democratic wisdom on that score as the Sentinel seems to be. The schools had a magnificent fund of nearly $4,000,000, which had been loaned to the State to aid it in paying off its foreign indebtedness. On that sum the State paid annually six per cent, interest, which was distributed to the various counties to be used for school purposes. The last General Assembly conceived the idea that it would be better for the State to send its interest money to New York and Connecticut, so they provided by law that the State officers should borrow money in the East and cancel its obligation to the school fund, and that the $4,000,000 should then be distributed among the various counties, to be loaned out in small sums. Money is a drug in many of the counties of the State, and a very large part of that $4,000,000 is now lying idle, producing no income, and the school fund is short that amount. In the meantime the county officers who have control of the fund get a very fair per cent, from the banks where it is deposited. In other words, the Democratic General Assembly got up a scheme whereby county officers could be enriched at the expense of the school children of the State. That is what the Sentinel calls Democratic wisdom and patriotism. It is also remembered that once on a time a Democratic Legislature frittered away several million acres of school lands at about a cent an acre.

AN OUTSPOKEN BOURBON.

A recent editorial of the Nashville (Tenn.) American, which appeared the day before the election of sheriff and other county officers, very naturally attracts attention, both because the American is a leading Democratic paper and because it betrays the animus of the Bourbon hostility to the Republican party. After a few general observations the American proceeds to say: TEyery man who supports the Kepublicans is ipso facto an enemy to the South. He who is not for ue is against us, and the man who comes out before the people as a Republican, commended to their . support by a Republican convention, must starid or fall of such. When he dons a Republican uniform and takes’the Republican colors in his hand he must expect to be shqt at as a Republican. The American takes breath after this exhortation to shoot, but soon resumes in the same spirit as follows: Let us not be deceived—whatever is Democratic and whatever is Republican is at issue in this campaign. Jf a man loves the South and hates its enemies, let him not give a vote to any man who carries the block bannner of Rqblicanism. No mattery what office he may seek, if he seeks it as p. Republican, he seeks it as an enemy. No matter what professions may be on his lips, if the Republican flay be in hand shoot him without parley. Let the above be read in connection with the Indiana Democratic platform on the federal election bill.

HOW FARMERS LOOK AT IT.

Farmers' and Labor’s Light. The Democratic State Convention sought to capture the farmer's vote by nominating a farmer for Secretary of State. ~ Against their candidate we have nothing to say, except that he was in mighty bad company for an F. M. B. A. But let us see. The Democratic party • expects the farmers to give them three-fourths of thair (the Democratic party’s) votes, pay fourfifths of 'the taxes, and in return receive one-ninth of the spoils. Magnanimous! “Farmers you help us,” they say, ‘(‘and we’ll taka eight Of the offices and give you one, and our eight will sell out to the money power and your one will be helpless. Secretary Windom’s efforts to ease >e money market are accomplishing their purpose and proving that the affairs of the Treasury Department ard !□ strong and safe hands.

THE TARIFF BILL AND FARMERS.

The cry goes up without ceasing that the tariff bill which the House has passed, and which, with a few amendments proposed by the finance committee, is now being considered in the Senate, imposes higher duties on manufactures and confers no corresponding advantage on farmers. It is well to examine that claim. The duties proposed upon woolens are higher because the duties on wools have been advanced in the interest of the farmers. The average duties on staple cotton goods are lower than in existing tariff. The duties on the grades of crockery most in use are about the same. At least, they do not affect the price except to make it lower. But let us examine the agricultural schedules. The first item in the proposed bill imposes a duty of S3O per head on horses and mules, and 30 per cent, ad valorm oh horses valued at $l5O and over. The present duty is 20 per cent, ad valorem. The values of horses and mules imported into the United States during the fiscal year there was $2,146,514. If the animals had been appraised at their market 'value, and what the dealers received forthem, the $2,000,-, 000 upon which the government collected duty would have been nearer $4,000,000. The large majority of horses shipped to this country from Canada and Mexico are valued at less than SSO each at the customshouses. The duty on such ahorse would beslo. Many are appraised at half that figure, so that the duty is but $5. The pending bill imposes a specific duty of S3O per animal when the value is less than $l5O, raising the duty on an ad valorem basis on the whole"import to 70 per cent Canadian horses are marketed in all the cities of the North by the thousand, crowding such markets as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland etc., to which the farmers of Indiana, Illinois and other Western States have a better right This change in the duty will shut the Canadians out of the markets and restore them to the farmers living in the United States. The duties on cattle, hogs and sheep, which are now 20 per cent, ad valorem, are changed to specific duties and largely advanced. During the fiscal year 1889 the customhouse valuation of sheep imported was $1,189,192, and the duty was 20 per cent, ad valorem. The duty in the pending bill is $1.50 per head, which will give the American farmer more than double the advantage in the market that the present bill does. The present duty on,,.barley is 10 cents a bushel. Under it Canada poured 11,306,925 bushels into our markets, and received therefor $7,678,763. The finance committee of the Senate recommends that the duty be increased to 25 cents a bushel, in the expectation that such protection will lead the American farmer to supply the market. It is proposed to advance the duty on butter and cheese from 4 to 6 cents per pound. In 1880 8,194,813 pounds of cheese, valued at $1,132,143, were imported into the United States. If this cheese is a foreign luxury, chiefly famous for its disagreeable taste and much worse smell, the duty is not too high, and it will keep Canada out of our market with the dairy cheese litre ■that produced at home. A duty of 5 cents a dozen is imposed on eggs, which have been free heretofore, of which $2,419,000 worth were imported in 1889. The duty on hay has been advanced from $2 to $4 per ton. In 1889 Canadian hay to the value of SI,O»MSS was sold in the markets along the northern border in competition with the product of American farmers. Such are a few of the changes whiter the tariff bill under considera.tion makes in. favor of the farmer over the law now in force. They are sufficient to show the falsity of the charge that the farmer is not remembered in the tariff. The entire wool schedule has been changed to favor wool-grow-ing. ■

NICODEMUS.

The Helena (Mont.) Journal presents an argument in a nutshell. It says without comment:

BAR SILVER, 93 CENTS • UNDER DEMOCRATIC RULE. 1,.,,,,~, , ~ , , ~ •• • k BAR SILVER, 1.19 • UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE.

The sneers and gibes of Democratic and liquor organs will not avail to make temperance people throughout the country forget that they owe to a Republican Congress and President the enactment of the * ‘original package” bill, whose affect will be to restore the force of temperance legislation In every State. Whenever any work is done for the cause of temperance in this country by political action Lt is the Republican party that does 1L Senator Windom has promptly provided a remedy for the financial embarrasment In the Eastern trade centers by offering to redeem $20,000,000 of 4} per cent bonds due in 1891, without any rebate of Interest. This should be sufficlent»to ease the marks and avert all danger of a panic. Will some one ‘kindly point to some paragraph 'in any Democrat paper which denounces the effort in Mississippi to disfranchise 150,000 American citizens.

THE FRAUDS IN THE SOUTH.

Chicago Tribune. ' A local Democratic paper is maundering’ still about what it calls the • ‘suppressed vote”' in the Northern Stater arid says that proportionately as many, adult males do not vote there as Iri the Gulf States. To prove this it shows in 1880 there were in the South Caro-; lina 205,000 adult males and that 170,000 votes returned as east, while in Minnesota, with 212.000 adult males, 150,000 votes were cast. Ten yearshave passed since then, in which thei force and fraud system of the Gplfl States has reached its perfection. The! total vote cost in 1884 in South Caro.' lina was 91,5000, and in 1888 79,500,j or less than half what it was in 1880.' The population has risen, however,( so that there are now about 250,000< voters it the State, or 230,000 two' years ago. But less than a third of them went to the polls. Never mind' what happened ten years ago, but explain what happened in 1888. As for Minnesota, nearly two-thirds of whieh population is of foreign birth, it has kept on increasing its vote right along. Never before in so short a time has the Republican party given the Democracy so many opportunities to go on I record as the “against” party as at' this session of Congress. It says “no”’ to every proposition, all the time claiming that it wants something done in the direction of what the Republicans are doing. It wanted more sil-. ver and then voted against an increase! of $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 a year.: It wanted tariff reform and voted' against the only tariff reform bill bywhich the revenue can be reduced that had any chance of becoming' a law in’ the past several Congresses. With Cleveland calling for ballot reform it' opposes the only measure that has' been before Congress since Cleveland' was Buffalo’s hangman by which elections could be made more honest. , In the first district in this State, 442’ professed temperance men threw away! their votes in 1888, on a “Principle,”' rather than vote for Judge Posey, a' man who is opposed to.the saloon, thus' allowing Judge Parrett to be electedl by a plurality of 20. Judge Parrett voted against the original packagebill in the House. Fortunately there were enough anti-saloon Democrats who voted for it, notwithstanding the attitude of the party against it No thanks, however, to the very, very good temperance men of the first dis-, trict And they are preparing to drt the same thing again. Fortunately,! the cause has strength Enough to triumph over such madness on the part, of its pretended friends.—Temperance; Evangelist.

Indiana is trying to null tWt.OOO of, bonds to meet a deficiency if revenue for State expenses, bet can not find a* purchaser. Such is the result of! Democratic rule. When the Republicans had control of the State’s affairs there was money in the treasury to, meet all necessities, and the public! credit was carefully protected.—GlobeDemocrat. ' The Indiana Democrats have adopted the longest platform of the season,, and yet It doesn’t contain a word in explanation of the fact that they bave< increased the State debt from $4,000,.,, 000 to $8,000,000 within the last eight years, and that they are now vainly, trying to sell $600?000 of bonds to meet a deficiency of revenue for State expenses.—Globe Democrat. While the population of the United! States has increased only about 29 per cent, since 1880, its production of pig! iron has expanded 160 per cent. As, market are a fairly trustworthy trade barometer, this immense increase in: output indicates a marked advancement in the volume of general business during the decade. * ing to arbitrate the Behring Sea controversy. She had no proposition oC that kind to make, it will be remembered, when Cleveland was President;' for the very good reason that Mr. Bayard had a habit of conceding everything that she claimed in diplomatic disputes. —Globe-Democrat, The London Financial Times ad* mits that American protection “forces outside competitors to cut down expenses to the bone.” Without protection we should have to cut ours to the bone, and it would have to b& as it is there, to the bone of labor, which represents ninety per cont. of the cost df’pFSduCtton." Bishop Joyce, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, said, in answer to the question, “What should be done with the Southern question?” that ha was in favor of a federal election law, and of living upto the American principles of every man being entitled to his rights, and that he should be protected in them.” Tariff revision and reciprocity are not necessarily antagonistic, as will be shown by the Republicans this session by passing a bill providing, in a limited degree at least, fo’ both.

Well Meant.

It is told of a pious, well-meaning’ <nan here that on one occasion, while >ffering up a prayer in Sunday school, ;e referred to the Superintendent in this manner: “And O God, bless the Superintendent, who has led such a long, tedious Ch. is tian lift*”-—Kings-ton Freeman. This ought to be the time of year i man to turn oveir a now leaf. He ecu. ! stick to almost anything this weather. Yonkers Statesman. *