Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GSußeE.Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

‘‘And the time that Solomon v reigned in Jerusalem over Israel was forty years. The committee on public health of the Massachusetts legislature is investigating several -of the ad vertised cures for inebriety, with a view to adopting one of them for use in institutions supported by the State. Abraham Kerulla, a Syrian missionary now in this country, says that in Syria and also in Egypt, there is no open saloon, and very little intoxicating drink is used, and if it is known that any one has once been drunk in his life, his evidence will not be accepted in court.

Chauncey M. Depew and Lillian Russell sailed for Europe on the American liner Paris, on the 18th. Mr. Depew is a widower, and the famous actress is at present minus a husband. Newspaper correspondents are weaving many romantic webs for the twain who are not as yet one flesh. Ann Small, a winsome widow of seventy hot summers recently sued the celebrated John Smith, aged sixty, at Detroit, for breach of promise. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and thus again was “love’s bright dream” rudely shattered and—budding hopes cast withering to the ground,

The Osgood Journal “rises to explain” a laughable typographical error in a recent issue. The errata, occurred in a dry goods ad., and was written “Dimity cords”. The “intelligent comp.” set it up “Divinity cards,” and the edition proved unexpectedly popular. The dry goods firm “didn’t care a cent.”

The artesian irrigation scheme for western Kansas has failed to extensively materialize as yet, and settlers are reported to be constantly moving out from impending starvation. Drought in that section has been unusually severe, although wet weather and great floods have prevailed in some parts of the State. ■ If you meet a bacillus Consisting of a slender, short, straight ligament, do not seek for an introduction, but avoid it; it is the bacillus of the Chinese plague. Dr. Kitasato, the Japanese physician who dis - covered it, says it will hurt no one who is clean, but the one who is clean will not care to make its acquaintance. nevertheless.

It is now possible to ride from the Battery at New York to Pelhamville for 15 cents, or less than one cent a mile. The rapid introduction of trolley systems has brought about this result. The time required to make this little excursion is three hours each way. One may now travel hundreds of miles in the suburbs of New Afork city by trolleylines and the routes are being constantly extended.

“Bike” bloomers are in vogue with Chicago lady ’cyclists, and it is a finable offense to laugh at their appearance. Emanuel Engstrom “smiled” out loud at Mrs. McCollom at Lincoln Park, as the lady sailed by arrayed different from Solomon in his glory, and Mrs. Me. got even with, him bv causing his arrest. Engstrom paid $25 for his fun, which was certainly an excessive assessment.

The warden of the Kansas penitentiary has two sons and two daughters, and is said to regret that his family is limited to four children because he cannot keep all the salaries at his disposal in the family circle. His own salary is $2,500 a year, one son’s $2,000. the other $600; one daughter’s SI,OOO, the Qther S6OO. Large families as a rule are considered as a drawback to a man’s financial progress, but occasionally children can be worked in to excellent advantage.

Postmaster Hesing, of Chicago, is perfecting plans to utilize the street cars of that city for the local mail service. Miniature mail cars are to be attached to the cable trains arid mail stations will be es tablished on the different routes. The street railway magnates are greatly pleased at the prospect, I e cause in case of strikes and other labor troubles the fact that they are transporting United States mail will prove a great protection to their trains. , , An improbable etory has been telegraphed from St. Paul stating that at the recent municipal elec tiona in that city the Australian

ballot was fraudulently used and that at least 1,000 votes were openly bought and paid for. The scheme, as des er i bed, cannot be worked s uccessfuily without the collusion of election judges with the parties engineering the fraud, and the swindle is clumsy at best. It could not be worked by either party in Indiana one hour without exposure by watchers of the party sought to be defrauded. . Gen. Neal Dow,'the veteran prohibitionists of Maine, in a recent intervie wat Boston, startling revelations made by the Lexow investigating committee of the far reaching bribery and corruption among the New York police and other officials, said that the police of Portland, Me., were, more corrupt, in comparison to the wealth and population, than those of New York. He stated thai the price paid for protecting illegal saloons JSmgedfrom s4(Jto SIOO per month. Even the courts are contaminated, according to Gen. Dow, and some

Judges, if a conviction is secured under the prohibition law in their courts, will have the case placed on file, not to be called up unless on a special order by the court. That usually ends the case. A dangerous crank recently visited President Cleveland, and secured a private interview. As soon as they were alone the man developed violent symptoms. Mr. Cleveland at once summoned assistance and the visitor was removed. The crank’s name was Gooding, and we are sorry to say he hails from Indiana. The possibility of danger from just such individuals was so forcibly impressed on the President’s mind that he was much upset, and it was several days before he recovered his usual equanimity. The danger to which prominent personages are exposed can easily be imagined, and is all the more burdensome and oppressive to high officials because no adequate, .provision can be made to guard against such attacks. Mayor Harrison and Carnot, Garfield and Lincoln, all perished in this wav, and it is to be feared that the world is destined to see a repetition of these horrible crimes.

Minnow buckets are now made in the ’form of an Oblong solid glass irlobe with _ perforated tin ends. They are highly ornamental, and will serve as bric-a-brac when not in use for the purpose for which they are manufaetured. When the dudish fisherman gets fitted out with one of these ornaments, and an aluminum rod, and a six-dollar nick--gold-mountedreel, $2.50 silk line, and S2O fishing suit, and $5 pair of rubber hip boots, and an ornamental fish basket attached to his ornamental person by an ornamental leather sash, he is a sight to behold, and may be an addition to the artistic merits of any landscape he favors with his beautiful presence, but the bare-legged small boy with a four-foot hickory pole and a ten-cent cotton line and penny hook will yank out ten fish to his one. Civilization is a great thing, but it don't count with black bass.

Demanding His Rights.

Chicago Tribune. “Prisoner,” said the judge, “have you any counsel?” “I haven’t, your honor,” answered the man on trial for stealing a ham. “I haven’t got any money.” “Then the court will appoint Mr. Leggy to defend you.” The prisoner looked at the skinny, squint-eyed, stoop-shouldered pettifogger pointed out by the court, and roseAo enter a protest. “Judge,” he said, “I am entitled, accordin’ to law, to a trial by a jury of mv peers, ain’t I?” “You are,” replied the court. “Then, your honor,” rejoined the prisoner, drawing a shiny coat sleeve across his nose, “I think I ought to have a lawyer of the same kind.”

Cost of Our Indian Wars.

New York Times. 1 Beginning with the Fourth of July, 1776, the War and Indian Departments together have expended in the neighborhood of sl T oo<>,ooo,ooo in the settlement of I ndian disputes, and the sacrifice of human life in connection with the various rebellions, massacres and uprisings has been more appalling and even more costly than the vast outlay of funds above quoted. One thousand million dollars is an enormous sum of money. The foreign wars we have been engaged in, bulkeq in a lump, nowhere approach the Indian outlay

The Candidate's Position.

“The man who attempts to stand on his dignity,” said the man with the hay colored waistcoat, “won’t amount to milch when he gets into a political campaign.” 1 “No,” said the man with the new straw hat,’“he will do about as well as the fellow who attempts to run on his merits.” “Correct,” said the man with the yellow shoes. “The only stand a man can take when he Is running for office is to lie on general principles.’ 1 ’

THE CAMPAIGN.

An Obnoxious Feature of the Proposed Tariff Law. Vindictive Legislation, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “ ‘ „ One of the most obnoxious features of the Democratic tariff bill is that which imposes an income tax. Such a tax ,is attractive to those whose wages and profits come within the proposed exemption; and it is also honestly favored by a good many people who say they cannot -see' any fair objection to a form of taxation under which all citizens are to contribute to the support of the Government in proportion to what they make, But the intention in the present case is not to enforce that kind o' equity. Its design is to put a special burden upon a particular class, and the motive is a vindictive one. That is to say, those citizens-having-incomes4n-ex’ cess of $4,000 are to be subjected to this tax as a sort of penalty for succeeding in business over the great majority of their countrymen. The discrimination is manifest, intentional and utterly irreconcilable with ihe idea of equal and uniform taxation which is expressed in the Constitution. It is to be defended onlv on the theory that it is right to punj'sh certain men because they are more prosperous than others, and this is really the principal argument that is presented by its advocates. There is something to be said in favor of a graduated income tax, applying to all classas of citizens, and thus distributing the public burdens with impartial reference to individual ability to pay; but there is nothing whatever to be said in justification of a scheme to levy tribute upon a designated portion of the people without.regard to the relative- earnings and obligations of other and far larger portions. Lt is not contended that the object of the tax in this instance is to secure uniformity. The acknowledged purpose is to strike a revengeful blow at the well-to-do classes of the North and East —to lessen the profits and rebuke the thrift of those who have improved their opportunities to the best advantage. In was the Populists who originated this proposition to raise Revenue by a penal process, and the Democrats have adopted it in order to secure the votes of the Populist ; Senators for their tariff bill, and to i attract the socialistic element to the : standard of their party. The plea ' of necessity can not be urged in be- | half of such a departure from the , ordinary methods of taxation. It is not demanded to meet the exigencies of war, it is not required to protect ' the credit of the Government. The spirit that prompts jt is one of de- ’ liberate malice, and there is no provocation or excuse for vindictive ; legislation under any circumstances.

Senator Sherman’s Expose. Indianapelis Journal. ——P ' No man who is not a sugar manufacturer knows more about sugar and sugar duties than Senator Sherman, who, as Secretary of the Treasury, became familiar with every phase of the question. After reading the sugar schedule before the Senate, Senator Sherman^-in his speech said: One peculiarity of this amendment is that it was not drawn in the ordipary manner. It was drawn by a careful manufacturer who is perfectly familiar with sugar. The Dutch standard of color herein produced supplants all these standards of color which has been fixed by this and other nations, tested by the polariscope, and it subjects all the vast amount of sugar, valued at SIOO,000,000, to an ad valorem valuation, vary rag widely, The purest of this sugar has less than half the purity of the ordinary grade of sugar. They have introduced into this an element of fraud which would defeat not only the revenue of the government, but all the protection which is given in the bill to sugar planters. It gives in addition one-eighth of 1 per cent, to the sugars which come in competition with relined sugars of our country, and here is the cunning of the whole proceeding. Here is a duty levied now for a private interest upon all sugars which come into competition with the sugars of the Sugar Trust that is above No. 16 Dutch standard. The rate is at once changed. The duties become specific, and there is then given to a refiner a protective duty of oneeighth of 1 per cent, a pound on all sugars which are brought into this country’, sufficient to exclude all the high grades of sugar and to compel all the sugar which is brought in for ordinary consumption to go through the relining process. Senator Sherman then proceeds to show that this -one-eighth,, of 1 cent a pound is not all the protection the trust will receive. The sugars the trust will import are worth 2} cents a pound, while those it sells the people are worth 31 cents. Consequently, on the difference of 1 cent a pound the trust will get a duty of 40 per cent.,' of four-tenths of a 1 cent on a pound. —Add to four-tenths of 1 cent oneTeighth of a cent and the protective duty is 21-40 of a cent a pound. But this is not all. The agents of the Sugar Trust know that Germany and other beet sugar countries in Europe are»the only competitors the trust can have in sugars} above 15 Dutch standard, and under the pretext that these countries pay an export duty on su< h sugars a discriminating duty of one-tenth of a cent a pound is placed upon the sugars of such countries, thus practically shutting them out

of the American market and making the monopoly of the trust complete. Add to the duty of 21-40 of 1 cent the one-tenth of 1 cent to protect against German and French sugars, and the protective duty of the trust is 25-40, or five-eights of 1 cent a pounds or one-eighth of a cent a pound more than the McKinley duty on refined sugars. Under the McKinley law, however, German refined sugars have come into this country freely, because the German bounty paid upon exported sugars, equivalent to one-tenth of 1 cent a pound, brought the McKinley duty of five-tenths of a cent a pound down toffour-tunths-of a cent. The Senator made it clear that the Dutch standard of color for sugars was set aside in 1878 because it was shown that it could be fraudulently manipulated, and the polariscope substituted. He also made it clear that as the sugars below No. 16 D. S. cannot be consumed without refining, and that there can be no competition with The trust in selling refined sugars by outsiders, the Senate schedule creates a sharp competition in the markets in which the trust purchases raw sugar' but prevents any competition in the sale of refined

sugars to American consumers. The Pitiable Position of Senator Voorhees. Indi anapolfs Journal; - Until Thursday Senator Voorhees has scarcely been heard in the Sen. ate since he gave his word to the country that he had never heard of the compromise tariff bill which Senator Aldrich declared was being prepared in secret. That was weeks ago. Ten days after, the compromise tariff bill, which contained four hundred amendments to the bill which Mr—Voorhees—had reported from the finance committee to the Senate, was reported by the ex-con-federates, Mr. Voorl.ees passed to the rear and Vest, Harris and Jones came to the front. On Thursday Senator Voorhees reappeared and jumped into the fight. He has been silent while the—wool growing, the lumber and the agricultural implement industries were stricken down, but when the Whisky Trust’s interests were at stake he became their champion. Of all the revenue bill it was the only portion in which he was personally interested. He was not its author but he was the Senator who undertook to carry through the Senate the bill which the Whisky Trust had devised to give it control of the business. No portion of the revenue bill, not even the Sugar Trust schedule, is more infamous. On Thursday he fought it through the Senate with the exception of the clausc postponing its operation two months. It makes the tax sl.lO a gallon, which is equivalent to putting 20 cents a gallon upon the price of the ’millions of gallons the Trust has in its bonded warehouses. It gives the Trust eight years in which to pay its tax upon a system of shrinkage from year to year, which puts a premium upon postponing the pay men t of the tax while the spirits ripen, so that a tax of sl.lO, in the course of four or five years, amounts to not much more than half that figure. It is a proposition which, if the correct title was put over it, would read, “a bill to defraud the treasury of the tax on spirits.” Noone will accuse Senator Voorhees of performing this service for the Whisky Trust for money. He is not venal in that sense. But good fellowship and a sense of favors received from the agents of the Whisky Trust, two of whom are his townsmen, have put him in a position where he has felt that he must do what he can for the Trust, and Mr. Voorhees never does things by halves. It may not be known who are the special Senators of the Sugar Trust, but Mr. Voorhees holds that unenviable relation to the Whisky Trust.

PEOPLE.

An Indian named John Barney died on the Siuslaw Agency in Ore • gm, recently, at the reputed age ot 110 years. Postmaster-General Bissell has shown himself to be strictly temper> ate in discontinuing the office at Gin, W. Va. David K. Peck, age seventy-four, died in Bridgeport, Conn., recently, in the same house in which he was born and lived all his life. John Allen, of Flemington, W. Va., fought with Wellington at Waterloo, and went through our civil war. He is 104 years old and draws a pension. The composer Auber was so greatly afraid of death that in his last years visitors to his house were cautioned not to use the word, so that he might not be reminded of his approaching end. Last year to stimulate student tendencies toward journalism as a profession James Gordon Bennett instituted a special fund at half a dozen of our leading colleges. The subject for the Bennett prize essay at Yale is “The Expediency of the Income Tax.” Jesse Pomeroy, once known as the boy fiend, who was sent to the Massachusetts State prison for life for his atrocities, is now a man of forty. He is not allowed to §ee any one but his keeper; the front of his cell is blocked by a granite wall cutting off all view. He has read and re-read tha prison library, and with the aid of grammars has acquired three languages and has a comprel en ive knowledge of law. He has wuat is known as a wall-eye and looks the monster that he is.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

LESSONS OF THE STRIKE. The lessons to be learned from the incidents of the great Ppllman strike are manifold. About many questions raised by the troubles there will necessarily be a diversity of opinion. But upon leading points all reasonable persons will agree. One as the most important of these is the jbvious moral: “Keep away from Chicago.” There are too many people there now. All of the suburbs are overrun with a surplus population that have been drawn thither .ike moths to a candle,only to perish Jr get badly singed. All thinking people after reading the descriptions of the tenements at Pullman — Disenable little flats of two rooms crowded with families of from eight to ten persons —must be forced to the conclusion that people who are oy force of circumstances compelled to exist under such daily • aggravations are hardly to blame for committing unreasonable and violent lets. Long provocation will sour the sunniest tempers. “Constant Iropping will wear away a stone.” And yet the testimony appears to sustain the claim that these miserible domiciles are superior in every way and cheaper than the same flass of people are able to obtain in che city of Chicago. The terrible congestion of population in Cook county has made life an awful struggle for thousands of people. Pover-. ty in any large city is vastly more repulsive than in the smaller towns md rural districts. The hardships ff the farm laborer have been universally commiserated. Yet, the ’arm laborer is assured of an abundance to eat, and a lavish supply of mesh air, bright sunshine and every ’acility for cleanliness and health— Advantages absolutely unattainable oy the lower classes in Chicago. These common blessings which are accorded by Nature to all who will remain in Nature’s domain are ightly valued until the stress of misfortune brings home to the unfortunates cast by unhappy chance idrift upon the seething caldron of I great industrial revolution their value and untold blessings. Any ible bodied man who is compelled to support himself or a family by manaal labor stand a vastly better chance in anv small town, or even in the country, than in any large city. Keep away from Chicago and Pullman —at least don't settle there till present conditions are vastly improved and wages doubled.

CATHOLIC LIQUOR DEALERS

The spirit of modern temperance reform appears to .. have permeated the higher official circles of the Roman Catholic Church, and has lately resulted in a rather remarkable ■jdict from Mgr. Satolli, the Pepe’s >egate in this country. The decision if this high official sustains a recent iction of Bishop Watterson of Ohio, in excluding from church recognition ill Catholic societies which have sa.oonkeepers or liquor dealers among their officers. The papal delegate says: The liquor traffic, and especially as coniucted here in the United States, is the source of much evil; hence the Bishop was acting within his rights in seeking to, •estrict it. Therefore the apostolic delegate sustains Bishop Watterson’s action, ind approves of his circular and regulations concerning saloons and the exclulion of saloon keepers from membership n Catholic societies. What the result will be cannot with certainty be predicted. The Catholic priesthood have always, or it least as a general rule, viewed the iquor traffic in a very amiable and enient mood, and the business has never been considered a bar to full ffiurch fellowship. Logically this iecision will change this state of affairs. and we may expect good results in the near future from the promulgation of the edict. Papal ?dicts are generally obeyed by the levotees who subscribe to the Catholic creed, and they will be very apt to yield obedience in this case. It is likely to prove to be a great gain for the temperance cause, bringing to its aid a powerful influence hitherto ipparently indifferent to the subject.

CONVICT LABOR.

The question of contract labor in penitentiaries has been a'pdrptexing one for political economists for years, ind the agitation of the subject has continued without any appreciable reform in the disposal of the large amount of surplus energy constantly accumulated at the various penal institutions of the country. What is the really best method of .solving the the problem is as yet an open question. Whether it is better for the State to support the convicts in idleness and thereby avoid the ruinous competition of their products with that otlreemen, or whether it is more profitable and humane to compel the unfortunate men to earn their living by the sweat of their brows, has been an issue that has

aroused the worst, passions on both sides of the question. That it is mere humane to allow, or even force, the average convict to perform a daily task scarcely admits of argument. * Plainly, as all laboring men could well testify from personal experience, an extended period of enforced and entire idleness would be about the worst possible penalty .that could be fixed for any crime. Work is often irksome, but prolonged inactivity is even harder for all properly constituted men to bear. The State of New York is making an expetimenFcwlth thisr class oTTabor that may lead to, important results in many ways. In 1893 the Legislature of that State appropriated $lO.000 to be used in the employment of a certain number of convicts in the Clinton prison in road making within a radius of twenty miles from the prison, which is situated in the village of Dannemora. All the workprovided for has been done on streets of that village in the construction of macadam and dirt roads. The ex periment has been such a gratifying success that a bill has been introduced into the present Legislature providing for a continuance of such employment of convicts upon a more systematic plan than the one used last year. The new bill provides that the Governor shall appoint a highway commission of three members, who are to serve for five years. The commissioners are given large powers over the roads of the State; they may widen or close existing roads, and the State engineer and surveyor shall furnish maps for the same. "Whenever a road has been completed through a county it shah thereafter be a county charge, and each county foiay use the labor of tramps and paupers in its maintenance. This commission is empowered to make requisitions on the superintendents of the various prisons to detail not more than two-thirds of the male persons in their custody to labor on the highways designated by the commissioners at such times and places and in such manner as the commissioners shall direct. Lt is made the duty of the commissioners to provide quarters, guards, tools and clothes for such convicts while employed upon the work. Only the better class of prisoners and those having the shortest terms to serve are to be detailed. The bill also designates several routes for roads, to connect points in remote parts of the State not now having good roads between them. The experiment which New York is making in such use of the convicts in her prisons is of great interest to every State in the Union ha”ing a large number of prisoners, and from the initial trial of the plan it is evident that it comes nearer a solution of the question as to how convict labor can be used to the profit of the State so as not to conflict with the interests of honest labor than any other yet devised and tried.

Mr, Bissell Irate.

Washington-Star. — y" - " The Postmaster-General is irate. He wants to know who wrote it. About a week ago a correspondent of a Western paper sent out a story to the effect that the Postoffice Department had decided to furnish a proof of each of the stamps issued by the department upon application for the same. This item touched a responsive chord in the breast of the great American public. and was widely copied. The applications have begun to come in. Several hundred have come in each mail for the pastfive days and the number is increasing. There is a deluge of this kind of mail matter, and to-save the department from being swamped, Post-master-General Bissell has been compelled to order printed a circular setting forth that the department is not distributing proofs of stamps, and has also been compelled to transfer some of the clerical force of the department from legitimate work to the work of sending these circulars to the stamp applicants. The affair is regarded as a practical joke on the department, but Gen. Bissell didn’t regard it in that way when he said to a Star man: “I’d give a week’s salary to know who wrote it.”

Literary Notes.

Miss Elsie S. Nordhoff, the author of a short story call “Heinweh”. in the August Harper’s, is a daughter of Charles Nordhoff, the well-iinown correspondent. In the stories-collected in a volume entitled The Water Ghost, and Others, soon to be published, by Harper & Brothers, Mr. Bangs treats supernatural apparitions and psychological phenomena from an unusual standpoint. Sparkling dialogue and pervasive humor combine to produce a volume of ghost stories which is decidedly unique. In lieu of tragic, or at least serious, phantoms, we have a later invention—the comic ghost. There is a vein of quaint originality running through all these extravagant and erring sprites and elves, whether they live in sea or fire,earth or air. Violet Hunt has written a clevei; story, entitled, “The Maiden's Progress.” which the Harpers will pubj lish. It is intended to show tty dangers an innocent and unconven! tional girl of the “smart” set maj encounter in despising all the safe guards that society has devised.