Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — Page 2

THE CAMPAIGN.

Tlctory Is in the Air-Democratic Demoralization. Demafjofjy, Cant and Hypocrisy ... Indianapolis Journal. There is just oce class of people who will be delighted with Senator Voorhees’ speech opening the tariff debate, and they are his followers in Indiana .who assume that the great mass of people are so ignorant that •they can always be more easily led by being fooled than taught by the lessons of experience. Mr. Voorhees has not changed. Without the application which insures accurate information, Senator Voorhees has introduced his tariff bill with one of bis old demagogic harangues —harangues which, by arraying his followers in Indiana against capital, manufactures and industrial progress, have cost the State millions. Of course. Mr. Voorhees makes no argument except epithet. He never did. He can not. Therefore, he resorts to appeal, to prejudice to rant. Mr. Voorhees poses as the 'Champion of the people, and yet the leading papers of his own party in bis own State, like the Sentinel, charge him with being responsible for the extension of the bonded period for spirits, which it stigmatized as a “worse concession to one of the worst trusts in the country” than the concession to the sugar trust. It is not the purpose of the Journal to enter into an extended criticism of a speech made up of demagogy, cant and hypocrisy. There is, however, one clause to which attention is called. It reads as follows: “Sir, I challenge the attention of the Senate and the country to the great commanding fact that, by the provisions of this bill, the seeming paradox of a reduction of taxes and at the same time an increase of revenues will be reconciled when it becomes a law." There has been no seeming paradox to reconcile here. A duty, Say, of 50 per cent, on glass would keep out all the foreign made except a few special qualities or an overplus which is better to be sold at cost to be brought to America than kept in warehouses at home. Under that protective duty, laid specifically, assume that $500,000 worth of special binds are imported and upon it duty of $250,000 collected. Under a tariff for that freer trade which Mr. Voorhees declares is a step toward universal freo trade, let us assume that the duty is reduced to 25 per cent, ad valorem. The cheaper labor of Belgium and France enables the

•glass manufacturers in those countries to produce the article enough •cheaper to pay the 25 per cent, duty and be able to undersell the American producer. Instead of $500,000 worth of glass, $5,000,000 worth are imported. The 25 per cent, duty would yield a revenue of $1,250,000 instead of $250,000 under the higher protective duty. The first is for protection and revenue, the second and lower duty is for revenue only. There is no paradox about that, reconciled or angry. But here is the point which Mr. Voorhees ignores: By his lower duty the vaiue of glass made in Europe for American consumption is increased $4,500,000 a year. What does this mean? Simply that $4,500.000 worth of glass made by American workmen at full wages has been transferred to Belgium and France to be made bv low wage ■workmen. What will result? Either that the men who made the $4,500,000 worth of glass under the protective tariff here must become idle under the revenue tariff or consent to have their wages reduced to the level of glass workers in Belgium. One of the other of these alternatives must be taken if the Voorhees policy is adopted. Fortunately, the mass of intelligent wage earners have now come to understand this truth, and while they may have listened to Mr. Voorhees two and four years ago with something of credence itbey now understand his demagogy and are so disgusted and angry that they are impatient for election day to come in order that they may denounce it.

The'Versatile Voorhoes. Indianopolls News. Voorhees’ speech, Monday, is an Illustration of what the News said of him that when it comes to talk he raves against monopoly, but when it comes to action he is its humble servant. His first sentence, yesterday, was about the “great abuses in ■Government embedded in powerful interests of priviliged classes cremated, fostered, encouraged and protected by the laws." “These things,” lie immediately proceeds to say, “can not easily be overturned,” and so, with much more of that kind of talk, as, for example, of “the robberies -committed in protected markets, the ufctold and incalculable millions of blackmail levied by American manufacturers for their own pockets on the cnfored customers," he goes on to sustain every bit of this “blackmail" that has been asked by these interests of the Senate. The soouer the Democrats of Indiana awaken to the fact that Mr. Voorhees is the tool of concentrated capital and monopoly; that ho has for the plain men of fadiana word, words, but for special interests votes and influence, the better it will be for Indiana. Voorbees is a humbug, is dangerous as all ill-balanced, Ignorant men are in places of power. A Wise Statement. Ondtumpolls Journal. Representative Conn, of the Thirteenth district, has had enongh; or,

rather, he fears that he can not b« re-elected, and, therefore, he announces that he will keep his promise made when nominated in 1892 not to be a candidate for re-election. Captain Conn is fortunate to hava made such a promise, since to hava not made it would have put him in a position where he could be compelled to be a candidate this year. Even now, the desperation of the Democratic leaders in the Thirteenth may be such that may compel Representative Conn to present an attested copy of his promise not to again be a candidate, as there is no prospect that another can be obtained who will be so liberal in fur* nishing the sinews of war as thd gallant Captain is alleged to havd been. Besides, it has not been a fortunate season for the Thirteenth district statesman. As a manufacturer employment and the liberal wages he was than paying them. He has not been able to do either. He seems not to -have appreciated the destructive capacity of a Democratic President and Congress when let loose upon the industries of the coun- > try. Since Captain Conn re membered his promise his newspaper has changed its tone. For months it had declared that the Democratic Representative who failed to support the Democratic measure known as the Wilson bill would be false to his party. Since announcing that his promise will hot permit him to be a candidate fpr reelection the Conn organ has faced about in a leading article and deplored the enactment of the Wilson bill. There are other such men in the Democratic party at the present time. In office and in their capacity as statesmen they are for free trade and the Wilson bill, but out of office and manufacturers or business men they at least demand the protection of their own industries. Captain Conn does well to refuse to be a candidate in 1894, to spefid his money to be defeated. If he has not had enough of Congress he knows that he has all there is for him. His successor from the Thirteenth district will sit on the Republican side of the next House, and Captain Conn’s refusal to be a candidate is a tacit admission of such an expectation.

NO BUDDHISTS IN INDIA

Marion Crawford Corrects a Very Common Impression. Marion Crawford is a true cosmopolite, equally at home in Benares or on Broadway, and yet his imagination seems mostly dominated by the things of the Orient. In the April nuniber of The Century he has an interesting article on “Godsof India,” treating the subject iu his own graceful, attractive way. India has served many gods, he savs, and the monuments raised in their honor are countless. It appears to be generally believed at the present day that the religion of India is Buddhism. How this common impression gained ground it is hard to say. When Sir Edwin Arnold published “The Light of Asia,” he did not think it necessary to state that Gautama the Master had no longer any following in the country which witnessed his birth and holy life; but Sir Edwin’s book produced a religious revival, or something very like it, among a certain class of semi-intelli-gent readers who are continually foragingfor some new titbit of religion with which to tickle the dull sense of their immortality into a relish for hpaven. There are no Buddhists in India. There are many in Ceylon, and there is a sect of them in Nepal, an independent territory to the north, on the border of Buddhistic Tibet. The religion vanished from India in the early centuries of the Christian eraThe neo-Brahmans set up anti-Bud-dhas, so to speak, in the figures ol Krishna, Mahadeva, and Rama—demigods and idols of the great neoBrahmanic religions, Vishnu-worship and Siva-worship; and these swepl everything else before them until the Mohammedan conquest; and at the present day, in one shape or another, these forms of belief are adhered tc by five sixths of the population, the remainder being Mussulmans. The Buddhists are gone, though not without leaving behind them a rich legacy of philosophic thought, and many monuments of their artistic genius. Circumstances Alter Cases, Texas Siftings. Man (to frienjd)- -Ycu didn’t see to treat that gentlaraan with politeness. Friend —I spoke rather roughly, I admit. “You have changed toward him. The other day I saw you cordially shaking hands with him.” “Yes; he owed mo theu, but he has paid me, consequently you see 1 am no longer under obligations tc him." Something in It. Texas Sifting*. Mr. Morris Park —What a splendid purse you have got there! Mr. Manhattan Beach—A birthday present from my wife. “But was there anything inside of it?” “Of course. The unpaid bill lot the purse." An Objection Removed. Texas Sifting*. Daughter—No, father, I cannot marry that man. He has red hair. Father* —But, my daughter, that objection does not amount to anything. Don't you notice that he is growing quite bald and in a short time he will not have a single red hair on his head?

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. The great continental railway now in process of construction by the Russian government, of which mention has heretofore been made, is regarded as one of the most important enterprises in this decade. Its effects upon the commerce of Europe is likely to be revolutionary, while its bearing upon the political relations- of Russia and Great Britain is destined to be far reaching and of the greatest possible advantage to the Czar. This road will be nearly 5,000 miles long, with many important branches reaching from ports on the Black and Caspian seas to Vladivostock on the Japanese sea and Okhotsk on the bay of the same name, which is an inlet of the Pacific ocean. Work was commenced upon the route about two years ago. The cost is estimated at $300,000,000, which will be furnished by the imperial treasury. It is not supposed that the road will pay expenses for a long term of years, but ts value to the Russian government from a strategic standpoint can not be overestimated. The road will open an area of 5,000,000 square miles, the the greater portion of which is fertile, covered with forests or affording good pasturage. All the staple products of the temperate zone can be produced without irrigation. It will be the policy of the Russian government to encourage immigration to the Siberian wilderness, easy access to which will soon be had by means of this railway. Mr. Clarence Webster, a Chicago newspaper man,intends sailing for Vladivostock this month, and will follow the line westward for the purpose of making a scientific survey of the country. The result of his explorations will be awaited with interest.

GERMANY’S AFRICAN POSSESSIONS.

The nations of Europe have for many years been engaged in planting colonies and gaining a foothold in various parts of the world, either by a conquest of the aboriginal inhabitants, as the English empire in India was obtained, or by a formal planting of a flag in the name of the reigning sovei’eign, as was done in Australia by the same nation in this century, and in our own country at a more remote period of the world’s history. Latterly the attention of these great powers has been turned toward Africa as affording the only practical and promising field for the establishment of colonial enterprise. Germany, being a comparatively new power, has lagged.behind in this species of aggrandizement, but apparently has made up for lost time by a species of blind luck that has given it an empire in the Dark Continent that the-Kaiser’s emissaries supposed was an entirely unimportant acquisition. A German merchant secured a giant of land from native chiefs aud asked his government to protect him in his possesssions. This was done and the German flag was raised on the little bay of Augra Pequena, in southwest Africa. The British Government, controlling the colony at Cape Town, at once gave notice to . Bismarck that his African venture was an infringement upon the rights of Great Britain. This was in 1884. The Cape colony voted to send troops to take possession of the land. But after a protracted diplomatic controversy it was decided that 900 miles of the coast, from the Cunene to the Orange rivers, together with all the interior tributary country, was German soil. Since that time developments have shown that there are thousands of square miles of fertile soil in this great domain, and that in fact Germany has acquired an empire of great and untold value while contending, as was supposed, for a simple foothold and harbor on the African coast, backed by an unknown waste of arid desert and jungle. Recent transactions in AnPequena, however, show that the German government has been premature in. inviting colonists to this region. Life and property is not yet safe. The savage natives make occasional raids, often aided by white marauders, and there is no established law or order that can give the settler* any assurance of safety. Withbool'an unreconstructed native chief, has recently appropriated the entiro possessions of Mr. Herman, who has for several years been the leading colonist and who had become quite wealthy. The German government has invited colonists to the country but oan not protect those already there.

A REMARKABLE SCHEME.

This is an age of unique and remarkable schemes, Pauaceas for the prevention and cure of the financial troubles that are supposed to afflict the country are almost as uumerous as the nostrums that are

offered to heal the “ills that flesh is heir to.” Reformers organize visionary enterprises bn paper and make long-winded appeals to the country to follow their recipe and be saved from troubles and all future- woes. Emi Kennedy, a few years ago, organized the People’s Railway of the United States, at Indianapolis, that was to build a great double-track air line continental railway from sea to sea. Shares were to be taken by the common people and the success of the enterprise was promised as a sure thing. A gigantic set of subscription books were procured and exhibited in the Indianapolis store windows for some time. Offices were opened. Large subscriptions were daily reported. Later Kennedy went West. He has not returned up to date. The People’s Railway is a tradition and a vision of the past whereat men smile and wag their heads. And yet we have again presented to us a similar scheme by the incorporation of the Gulf & Inter-State Railway Company, articles having been filed with the Secretary of State at Topeka, Kan., recently. Briefly, the articles of incorporation provide foi the building of a road and branches from some Gulf port on the Texas coast across that State, extending northward through Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota, and for another line branching off from the main line in Texas and extending through Arkansas, Missouri, lowa, Minnesota, to some point on Lake Superior. The capital stock is placed at $18,000,000, divided into 180,000 shares of HOC each. If any of our readers have some good hard cash to throw away we would advise them to comrnunicate with the officers of this company, who will doubtless be glad to help them dispose of their “surplus." There are 2,400 miles of railway projected by this great scheme, and the project still exists solely upon paper. The officers doubtless need some funds for present uses and to pay office rent while waiting for the road to materialize. Now is the time to subscribe.

TIPPU TIB.

All well read people know who Tippu Tib is, but for the benefit of those who do not it may be said that he is the great Arabian ivory and slave dealer who has been a power in Central Africa for a generation, and with whom Livingston, Stanley and nearly all the great explorers of the Dark Continent have hadf dealings more or less agreeable or unpleasant as the occasion, or disposition of the wily potentate, has seemed to dictate. The bulk of testimony tends to establish the character of Tippu Tib as that of a man of great ability and imperial will, who, while he was engaged in tho slave trade, was yet not altogether unmindful of humane considerations. Missionaries have always defended him and many instances are known where the great trader has saved the lives of white men in the interior of Africa who bore him no good will, and who had they been endowed with the power would have returned the~favor by taking the wealth of the slave trader and casting it to the winds while visiting upon its owner the most severe penalties. Tippu Tib’s day of power has however passed. Great wealth has come to him, and in his old age he has emerged from the depths of the African jungles into the light of civilization. Recently he came to Zanzibar and was there stricken with paralysis. He has been an invalid for months, but it is now announced that he has nearly recovered and will soon make his long-deferred visit to Europe—an event that he has anticipated for many years. Tippu Tib will bathe guest of the King of Belgium while in that country and his presence in the European capitals will no doubt create a furore.

Fuel.

Detroit Tribune. He sighed and stole away. For several minutes he had been gazing from the window upon the cold and leaden sky. “Not at least for a month—" he ruminated regretfully, “ —will spring be here.” He must have coal. He has been stealing it all winter. There was nothing to do but steal away.

Chicago Snow.

Indlanopolls News. Irate Stage Manager—What in thunder do you mean by making the snow out of brown paper? Assistant—Dis scene's in Chicago, ain’t it? “Yes."“Well, dat’s de color of de snow in dat man’s town. I seen it meself.’

Cleaving to and Cleaving From.

Indianapolis Journal. Miss Back bay—What, a solemn thiug it is for two people to wed; ta cleave to one another till death them do part. Mrs. Jackson - Parke though? I'm mighty glad that folks don't have to marry on any such cast-iron conditions nowadays.

PROGRESS IN INDIANA.

Edward Eggleston' Noticed Many Changes During His Recent Visit. Phiiade.phia Press. , “What is the exact of your present historical works?” “I am looking forward to writing a history of the life of the United States, the work upon which I have been engaged for the greater part of thirteen years—yes, more than thirteen years.” ‘‘Has there not been some talk of a neAv novel from your pen?” “I wrote on my novel when I was in Indiana because I was away from all of my historical material, and I suppose the novel will take shape when I again get into a similar place." “I remember that you spoke of your return from the West —you had made something of an extended visit there?” “I staid two months in Madison, Ind. It was my first long visit to Indiana for thirty-eight years. I was born twenty miles up the river, but I had lived in Madison when a boy.” “Well, I suppose you found a good many changes there?" “Yes, very great changes—not so much in Madison as in the western part of Indiana —the changes there have been very great. The early illiteracy of the country has largely disappeared, and with it the rude pioneer manners that I described as existing there in the forties. Teachers’ institutes are held in the very schoolhouse from which many of the scenes in “The Hoosier Schoolmaster” were derived, and generally, Indiana to-day ranks with the New England States in the matter of literacy, having made the most rapid progress, perhaps, of any State in the Union in that regard. This progress was largely made between 1850 and 1870.” “What has been the principal cause of this progress?” “A large part of the decrease in illiteracy in southern Indiana came from the rapid migration further West of the poor whites after 18*50.” r “Then, instead of these being educated up to a certain standard, other people came in?” “Both processes went on. Education and emigration have raised the standard in southern Indiana.. To illustrate tlie present interest in such matters I will say that in the village where I was born there is a very prosperous literary club called by my own name. I was at first rather unpopular for having satirized the life, there but they have outgrown this. I lectured for the benefit of that club while in Indiana, and they gave me a reception which was attended by about two hundred of the most cultivated people from both sides of the Ohio river.”

WOOD-CUTTING DEVICE.

Its Inventor Calls It His ‘’Hard* Times Hired Man.” Rural New Yorlter. This is the name given to tho device shown in the cut by Mr. C. A. Wells, of Pennsylvania. He says that the “hard times" compelled him to cut his wood alone* Like a good housholdcr he cuts enough wood in the winter to 'last a year. The machine is easily understood. Three poles or rods make a frame for tho saw to swing on. Another rod fastened to a bolt at the top of tho frame plays inside two pieces of

A “IIAUD-TIMES HIRED MAN.” board. The saw is made fast to the lower end of this rod, and then it will swing back and forth as shown in the cut. You can have a horse for the wood, or drive stakes into the ground with the tops crossed, so as to hold the logs. Mr. Wells says he can put up five cords in ten hours .with this machine. Of course, he says, it takes some little time to learn how to run the saw just right. In this machine the stakes are nine feet long for the sides and ten for the other. The pendulum upon which the saw is fastened is eight feet long, and has holes bored in It so that it can be easily raised or lowered. Mr. W. uses the “horse" or stakes for sawing polles from two tqsix iuches in diameter. For sawing large logs he uses a rolling plaV form like that on buzz saws.

In The Interest of Peace.

Toian Siftings. “No, sir, I cannot consent to 3*our marriage with my daughter," 6aid a prominent New York counselor to a young lawyer who had just been admitted to the bar. “And what is your objection, if I may ask?" ‘ I am a lawyer myself, and if I had a lawyer for a sou-in-law there would be no end to the litigation in the fbmilv."

HEALTH REIGNS SUPREME.

The Home of the Sisters of Proiidence, St. Marys, Ind., Seldom Visited by Sickness. Sister Ambrose Explains the Besson to a Reporter—line to the Strictest Boles of Hygiene and to the Medicine Used —lnformation of Value to , Everyone. C From the Terre Haute Express.) Four miles to the northwest of Terre Haute, as the pigeon flies, lies the beautiful and picturesque village of St. Marys. This is a Roman Catuolic institution which has attained something more than national celebrity. Fifty years ago it was established by six Sisters of Providence, who came from the shores of France to lay the foundation for this great charitable order. It now consists of the home of the Sisters of Providence, known as the Providence House, a large female seminary, one of the finest chapels in the United States, and a rectory in which the priests make their home. It is also the Mecca to which hundreds oi Sisters of Charity flock each year to make their annual retreat. During these retreats a prolonged fast is maintained, and the greater portion of the time spent in religious sacrifice. A reporter of the Exnress called at the institution one day this week, and asked of Sister Mary Ambrose if there was any apparent reason for the good health with which they were blessed. The answer was that particular attention is paid by the sisters in charge of the health and happiness of the students. “Bodily ailment,” she said, “cannot help but have its e..ect on the mind. In order to keep the mind bright and active and perfectly clear at all times, the student’s physical conmust be as nearly perfect as possible. Some time ago there was more or less ailment noticeable among the sisters and students, which was probably due to atmospheric causes, though of course I do not know just what its origin really was. Shortly after this became noticeable a friend highly recommended a medicine cvlled i>r. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Poople ar.d so urged upon me to give them a trial that I ordered some of them, and they have be9n used in the institution ever since. A few days ago the manufacturers wrote me for an opinion of .Pink Pills, and my iepiy was as follows: “Eespectcd Sirs: —In answer to your kind request for our opinion of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, we are pleased to say that these Pink Pills were so highly recommended ts us that we were induced to try them, and we think our repeated orders for them are sufficient evidence that we find them all they were represented, a good blood builder and an excellent nerve tonic. Yours very respectfully, Sister M. Ambrose, “Secretary for Sisters of Providence." Medical scientists concede that weak blood and shattered nerves are two fruitful causes of nearly every disease to which human llesh is heir, and if Dr. Williams' medicine is, as Sister Ambrose says they have found it, "a good blood uuilder and an excellent nerve tonic,” the source of good health at St. Mary’s is easily traced. When ail the students assemble in the Academy Building on next commencment day, it, will do cno’s heart good to see that brilliant array of pright faces, bright eyes and happy dispositions, wlijch are due very largely to the extensive u e of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. The Sisters of Providence are nover without them. Their orders are place 1 by the gross direct with the manufacturer. This is certainly a high recommendation for the medicine for there is probably no class of people that gives mora attention to tho physical health and welfare of its members than tho of Providence. The stricter rules of hygiene are ob served at all time 3, and they would not use anything in which they did not have unbounded faith. An analysis of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People shows that they contain, in a condensed form, all tho elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such disea-es as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after offects of la grippe, yalpitation of the heart, pule and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female, and all diseases re-iu'ting from vitiated humors in the blood. Pink Pills are sold by ail dealers, or will bo sent postpaid on receipt cf price (50 conts a box, or 6 boxes,for $2.50) —they are never sold in bulk or by the 100—by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.

Mahomet and the Mountain.

It has always puzzled us to know why Mahomet hesitated about going to the mountain, expecting the mountain to come to him? It wouldn’t have cost him a cent to stay at the mountain as long as he wanted to. The Mountain House would have been glad to deadhead him, giving him the best suit of rooms they had. His arrival would have boen chronicled in the daily papers, people would have flocked to the mountain to see him, and he would have been a big card. He Is sometimes called the “/also Prophet.” but he would have been a real profit to the house where he put up. We are satisfied that in refusing to go to the mountain Mahomet, whose system needed bracing up, anyhow, lost one of the greatest opportunities of hia life. Come to think, though, it doesn’t Mecca bit of difference to Mahomet now.—Texas Siftings.

Sparking in Greece.

When a young Greek determiiM to take a wife to himself he does not go a-courting, but he takes his oldest femalo relative into his confidence and they at once go hunting for a suitable mate for him. Marriageable maidens are visited and silently appraised. They receive the old dames courteously, answer all their questions and never venture to ask the nature oi their errand. As soon os the visitors have mado a choice the wooer disputches them again to the maiden's home with instructions to ask her hand in marriage*