Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1887 — Page 4
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TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 5, 1887.
THE president signed the Inter-State Commerce bill yesterday.
THK New Jersey Legislature should follow the example of Indiana and settle its Senatorial muddle.
COXORKRS has voted a pension to Walt Whitman, but not on account of his poetry. This is encouraging at least.
IF WC are really to have A brush with England over the Canadian business those gun boats and cruisers should be hurried up.
EVERY other day the war scare is on in Europe and every other day it is off. It seems to be a sort of Wabash ague chill arrangement.
SENATOR HECK'S bill to prohibit railroad attorneys from being members of the Senate, seems to hurt a surprisingly large number of statesmen.
THK Democrats could ask nothing better than a war. It would be sure to give them tho Government for another term. A foreign war never fails to do that with the party thut is in power.
IT appears that Mr. Orth Harper Stein has not killed another man, as was reported. At last accounts he was in the body of a Texas jail and is disposed to be peaceful until ho gets out.
AT Cincinnati, at twelve o'clock last night, the Ohio river gauge marked liftysix feet, eight inches, and was rising one inch an hour. A repetition of the disastrous Hood of two years ago is feared.
IN time of peace wo have not boen preparing for war and if wc should happen to get into trouble it would be likely to 1)0 expensive business for us at first, as our coast cities would boat the mercy of England's great war ships.
(5HEAT BRITAIN is not going to scare this country from the assertion of her rights in the Canadian fisheries by evincing a warlike disposition. The United States can fight when occasion requires and she will always fight if need be to obtain her just rights.
No wonder Mr. Manning is willing to jxlvo up tho treasury portfolio for the presidency of a Now York bank with a salary of $20,000, and none of tho drudgery which usually falls to the lot of a bank president. There are not many men who would snap their fingers at such an oiler.
ANOTHER of the Now York boodlo aldermen, O'Neill, has been found guilty by a Jury and will join McQuade and Jnohno in Sing Sing. There is little doubt now but all of the bribe takers will be convicted except those who have escaped into Canada. It speaks well for the New York courts and juries.
THK business of drawing a $2,000 salary under the doorkeeper or clerk of the House at Washington and hiring some other man to do the work for $55 a month, is likely to be interfered with by an order requiring those whose names are on the pay-rolls to show themselves occasionally to the house. Tho business ought to have been interfered with long ago.
THE New Orleans States urges the advantages or that locality as a winter resort, both on account of its mild climate and the medicinal properties of its waters. With 50,000 visitors going to Florida each winter and disbursing more than $1,000,000, it sees no reason why Ijouisiana should not have a share of winter visitors and the money which winter visitors bring.
THE English naval authorities evidently understand the situation of affairs in this country. Of the six vossels ordered recently Into Canadian waters from the West Indies five arc of light enough draught to pass through the Canadian canals into tho great lakes. This would make the situation interesting for Buffalo, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago In the event of war.
SENATOR .TONUS, of Florida, may not be a fool, as some have thought, but as a man possessing singular ideas of his duties as a public ortleer, he is entitled to be ex hi bi tod as a freak in a dime museum. How any man can regularly accept his salary as a Senator and never go near Washington or make the least pre tence of j»er forming any of tho duties of his office, is what ordinary people will never lie aisle to make out. But wait. Perhaps Jones reasons that if all the members of Congress should follow his example the country would be so much the better ofl^
Tin woman suffragists who are opposing the new anti-polygamy bill in \ngwss merely because it abolishes female Milttturw* in Utah, air pursuing a shortsighted policy. The main purpose of the bill Is to rescue the Mormon women from the horrible condition In which polygamy has placed them. The votes* of the Utah women are used to pcrpetunte this vilc state of things and are one of the strontre^t bulwarks of the Mormon church. Under these circumstances no woman ought utter a syllable of proteat against abolishing female suffrage in Utah. 5h&t* tw
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CAPITAL, WAGES AND PROFITS. Nearly a year ago the Nelson Manufacturing Company, of St. Louis, adopted a sinsible and practical method of solving the labor problem. The old wages were continued to the men but the hours of work were reduced from 60 to 55 per week, and it was agreed that after allowing 7 per cent, on the capital invested ,and a fair salary to the manager, the profits of the establishment at the end of the year should be divided on the basis of total wages paid and capital invested.
A relief and insurance fund was also provided for and a surplus fund was also provided for years when business might be bad.
At the end of the year a 5 per cent, dividend was paid and Mr. Nelson re ports the men to be greatly pleased with the arrangement, proposing themselv the restoration of the old hours of labor. The firm is equally well satisfied and believes it has struck the right kind of compromise between employers and employes on the wages trouble,
Profit-sharing would seem to be the nearest approach to absolute justice between the capitalist and the laborer that is possible, in cases wt^re such a system can be applied. It incites the men to greater zeal in their work by the pros pect of something more than mere wages when the business is profitable and the more faithful quality of service rendered would probably more than repay the employer the amount which the men would receive in dividends. Mr. Nelson is one of the employers of labor who do not share the popular idea of his class that the iron rule of supply and demand is the only one to be considered in determining the relations between capital and labor. There area few such men, the Cornegie brothers before the elder died being among them. It would be well for the rich and poor alike if there were more of them.
A BIG STRIKE.
The strike in and around Now York City, which has in the end thrown many thousands of men out of work and their families out of wages in the midst of winter, had an insignificant beginning. A few hundred men employed by the Old Dominion Steamship company as freight-handlers demanded a small increase of wages which was refused and a strike followed. The company filled the places of the strikors from the ranks of idle men. Then the Knights of Labor took up the quarrel and thousands of mon connected with the loading and unloading of vessels or handling freight at the railway depots were called out and the contest swelled to one of large proportions. The loss in wages to tho men has run into tho millions.
It is doubtful if the original strike was well-advised. But in any event it was poor policy for those who had no quarrel with their employers to strike boeause tho Old Dominion men were not successful. It is a dangerous thing for all the Knights in a great city to thus take up every fight that comes along. Public opinion ii not willing to go that tar and many sober-minded workingmen go into such contests under protest and are in silent rebellion against the policy which inaugurates them. The stability of the order is seriously jeopardized by such wholesale proceedings.
WAR TALK.
Of lato there has been quite a quantity of war talk in connection with the Canada matter. Not that there is any serious apprehension that the fishery question will lead Into a conflict with England, for there is little probability of such an issue. But it is only natural to think of how we would be fixed if war should come and what prospect we would have for a successful contest with a great naval power.
The first thought is, of course, that we are about as bad oft as we could be. Our navy is almost nil and we are without coast defences. England could steam her great war ships into the very harbors of our sea coast cities and could put a flotilla of destructive gunboats on the lakes. We have perhaps four or five efficient vessels and a few passable gunboats, but we could not make a stand against tho fleet of England, and in this respect she would have a decided advantage.
But if we could not fight much on the water we could do some "tall fighting" on the land. Canada is easy to get into, as witness our runaway boodlers, and what would be left of the Dominion at the end one can only imagine.
But the war talk is not meant to be serious. England will doubtless modify the couduct of the over-zealous Canadaians, or if that Is refused the application of the embargo to Canadian commerce will curb the ardor of the Canadians themselves,
SENATOR TVRPIEt
Shall we call him so, or is the honor which ho received at the hands of the Legislature on Wednesday only nnd empty one?
That remains to be seen, for the future to determine. Mr. Turpie had 7 votes and Mr. Harrison 74, and the Democrats claim that Mr. Turpie will be Senator after the 4th of next March. But the Republicans do not concede thi* by any means. They charge bribery and that some of the votes east for Turpie were illegal. It is said the tabor members were "ploughed with" and Inquiries will be set on foot to find out If money was corruptly used.V
The upshot of It all will be that the .Senate of the United States will be called on to decide whether Turpie or Harrison is entitled to the scat. But the Indiana Legislature should make a thorough investigation of the matter first. Bribery was charged in the election of Senator Payne, of Ohio, ami the State was severely criticised for not having made a
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searching investigation of the charges. When such charges are made they should be investigated at once, while the matter is fresh, and in the place where the witnesses and the facts are accessible.
THE Van Zandt foolishness has had its way in spite of jails, sheriffs and the opposition of public sentiment. The deluded Nina married Spies by proxy, his brother acting for him in the ceremony, which was performed by an anarchist justice of the peace. As no such marriage is known to our laws it is doubtful if the ceremony has any binding force, but it serves to show the lack of common sense of the parents of the infatuated girL who it appears were willing parties to the performance. If the object of the girl was by this means to gain access to the jail she will probably be disappointed, as the sheriff will not recognize the marriage as a legal one or as conferring upon Miss Van Zandt any rights which she did not have before.
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Mil. BEECHER'S LETTER.
THE WISDOM AND PR A CTICABIL-r-n'Y OF LIFE INSURANCE.
LIFE INSURANCE AN INVESTMENT PAYARI.E AT DEATH—MR. BEECHKR DISCLAIMS THAT IT is BETTING OR GAM
BLING—A NON-FORFEITURE POLICY— A MAN'S DUTY TO INSURE—THE BIBLE DOES NOT FORBID INSURANCE—A CORRESPONDENT ANSWERED. Correspondence of Saturday Evening Mall.
HH JNEW YORK, Feb. 20,1887. DEAR SIR: A question which has troubled my mind for along time I take the liberty to lay before you, and beg you very much not to refuse to answer me, if it is only in the shortest possible way. I am earning a fair living as a carpenter, and support my family of wife and four children well, but cannot save anything. In case of my death my family would bo without a dollar, perhaps, and I have often thought of taking opt a policy in some good life insurance companv. But my church, the Lutheran, objects to life insurance, as well as to secret societies, and our pastor told me that by insuring my life I would lose my membership in the church. I would not like this on account of my children. My pastor says God forbids any one to sell his body, and if anything would happen to me God would take care of my family. My belief is that God don't help those that don't try to help themselves. I would like for you to give me advice in this matter.
This is a good and useful lettor, and interprets what I mean in asking folks to send me questions—not puzzles about who Cain's wife was, nor about the flood and tlit ark, nor about the origin of evil, tfec., !fcc., but questions springing out of real experience in practical life.
Whatis life insurance? It is an investment made when one is in good hoalth, by small annual installments, payable aiy one's death to his heir. It is a fofm of laying up money. It is not in any obnoxious sense gambling or betting. It is investing when you are prosperous a small capital for your wife or children when you are gone.
Of course, thero are different kinds of insurance, policies and insurance companies, and of very different degree of excellence. What a poor man should require is a non-forfeitable policy—i. e., a policy which, if he be not able to continue annual payments, shall not forfeit his premiums paid together with the whole sum insured, but which secures to him a part or proportion of his insurance, determined by the amount of money paid in. To pay $25 a year for ten years, and not only to lose that, but the whole sum for which one is insured, is a great injustice. But our best companies now issue non-forfeitable policies, and only such companies should be chosen by men of moderate means. It is not our purpose to open the theory of life insurance. We say that when a man insures his life in an honest company he is laying up money for his family or heir. If every one was so situated that he could invest beyond the reach of misfortune a small sum every year, he would be laying up just the same, only he would have to take care of it himself and would lie likely to neglect it or invest it at great risks, or be interrupted by bankruptcy, or sickness, or fickleness, whereas an insurance company looks after the investment and, for a small interest takes care of the accumulating deposits of poor men.
Life insurance is founded upon scientific principles. There is a reasonable ejrjwctation, founded upon long observation, that at any given age a man will live to a certain given age, and the length of life to be expected increases with one's age up to a certain point. One's expectation in early life is not so great as at mid-life, i. e., nature says to a man who is healthy and sound at forty: You have obeyed the laws of health and morality for forty years and your Reasonable ex{tectation of life is greatly extended!
There is going on, unobserved by men, a penalty for violating the laws of health, by curtailing the prospects of long life, and on the other hand there is a remunerative layirfg up from year to year, for wise and virtuous living, in the extension of the probability of long life.
A wise life insurance of $5,000 or $10,000, payable at the death of the insurer, does not benefit his wife and children only after his death, but it is of great use to the man himself. It tends to make him economical, methodical and frugal in. his expenditures, cuts off many petty indulgences which would waste bis means, and gives quiet to his mind in business troubles and especially in sickness and in prospect of death. He does not look in anguish at the prospect of his family at his death loaded with the expenses of his sickness, funeral ex
penses, etc., and thrown upon the world without means of livelihood, at the time when grief will go far to paralize their energies.
Life insurance is not only not wrong, but is a duty. No one has any right to leave those who are dependent upon his love and care to the chances of industrial paralysis and poverty.
There is a superstition on the part of many women, who shudder at having their husbands' lives insured, as if that would bring death sooner. This absurd fear belongs to the superstition about Fridays, as if Providence took, care of only six days in the week and left Friday to ill-luck or the devil! God takes care of one day as much as another and to all days alike. And God takes care of wise foresight, for sake of fulfilling the duties of love and humanity to one's heirs.
Our correspondent represents his pastor as saying: "God forbids any one to sell his body." Where does God forbid it? Let him point to his authority. It err tainly cannot be found in the Bible, and even if it could, what has it to do with life insurance? Insurance companies have no use for men's bodies, nor hi it their interest to have men die. On the other hand, it is to their interest that men should live as long as possible and pay their annual dues. Those who are likely to die soon are rejected upon preliminary examination, and only those iusured who are healthy, sound and likely to live out the full average of life. In like manner his pastor tells him "that if anything should happen to him God would take care of his family." Does God, then, take care of the improvident, the indolent and the negligent? This would be a premium on laziness. Should this doctrine be applied to human life at large it would strikeat the very life of enterprise, foresight and industry. All the world knows that upon the existence of these qualities not only general prosperity but morality itself depends. No doubt the good pastor thinks that he is honoring God by such views of Providence and Divine Sovereignty. On the contrary, they dishonor God and would prove a ruinous fatalism among men.
Nay, my friend, you are right. In all industrial affairs "God takes care of those who take care- of themselves." Take out, then, a good policy in a sound life insurance company—a non-forfeita-ble policy—as large as you can afford, and as years roll on thank God that, should you die, your family will not fall into the bitter woes of poverty.
So live that your life shall ever give evidence that you are ruled by reason and in the possession of a sober mind.
Doctrines are of use only as they are practiced men may go to perdition with their hands full of truth.
If students would read less and think more, there would be a larger number of really great men in our community.
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man's heart gets cold if he does not keep it warm by living in it, and a censorious man is one who ordinarily lives out of his own heart.
However well proved a friendship may appear, there are confidences which it should not bear and sacrifices which should not be required of it.
Every life is the better for some adversity. Perpetual sunshine is weakening, and the heart of man hungers under the lassitude it produces.
Virtue consists in making desire subordinate to duty, passion to principle. The pillars of character are modoration, temperance, chastity, simplicity, selfcontrol its method is self-denial.
Happiness is to be got out of smallest victories and treacherous inclinations conquered at the outset and kept well in hand all through life give that inner glow which, if the world does not see, neither does take away.
1HE BARBER AND HIS RAZORS. Pittsburg Dispatch.] "Colored barbers are more artistic and more thorough than white men," said George D. Stinson, who has the fortune of being a colored barber himself. "You see they just throw their hearts into the work and let their imaginations play along the edges of their razors, as it were that's what the colored barber does as a general rule." "Some of 'em stay in a barber shop till they learn to read a Bible, and then they take to preaching they're no good," interjected one of Mr. Stinson*s assistants. "That's so," continued Stinson. "They don't let their sympathies run over into the lather, and the poetry of their art is lost to them. Every good colored artist knows his razors' points and his customers' characteristics equally well. I have been in a barber shop twenty years, and my experience is that a barber needs to know human nature and be able to read it if he is going to succeed. It has been my practice, Uw, to cultivate an intimate acquaintance with my tools. They are all old friends. A good razor will* last twenty years. They used to make better razors ten years ago than thev do now. I have one here—I use it oftener than any other—which has slipped over many a face every week day for ten years. "I give everv razor I possess a nickname. This old piece of steel I call Conjuke: there's another several customers of mine always call for, which I have named Othello. A third, still in active service, went with me when I went up the Missouri years ago into Dakota. All the good razors I ever had tame from Sheffield, England. The best pattern is the half-inch hollow-ground razor. Most barbers have at least three sm razors of their own, often as many as hair a dozen. Razors want gentle treatment. -V- •,
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IIENRY WARD BEECHER.
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Life is passed in desiring what one has not, and regretting what one has no longer.
No man is eVer likely to accomplish any more than he resolutely sots himself to accomplish.
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