Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 March 1887 — Page 4

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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IF preparations for war are indicative of peace the powers of Europe are going to have an uncommonly quiet time this summer.

NEW HAMPSHIRE has had about ten feet of snow this winter. As a winter resort there are other spots in the conn try which have superior attractions.

THE Suez canal is now lighted throughout by electricity and vessels go through at night as easily as in daytime. The electric lightis fast making its journey round the world.

IT is reported that the President contemplates making a tour in the South with his wife. Has he forgotten that Winnie Davis, "the daughter of the Confederacy," is still in those parts?

THE Governor of West Virginia has called an extra session of the Legislature. Now if tho people of that State want to have a real jolly good time, let them borrow Green Smith for the occasion.

BUSINESS men representing $40,000,000 of property, have petitioned the Rhode Island Legislature to repeal the prohibition law. 'Tis ever thus. Whenever a moral reform interferes with business it has to go.

CHICAGO people were so busy they forgot all about the semi-centennial of the city, which occurred the other day, until it was over. Now they are trying to make up for it by getting up a celebration for next October.

ANARCHY without beer and a brass band is no go. It was tried in New York last Sunday, and when a rigorous enforcement of tho law prevented the redmouthed orators from having beer and a band "the meeting was postponed."

RATLKOADH are still in demand and stocks remain firm notwithstanding the ominous predictions that were made if Congress should enact a railroad law. It is evident that while passes will cease the railroad trains will go on forever.

GUKAT BRITAIN is exercised over tho rumor that the United States has come illegitimately into possession of a plan for one of her war ships. No need to worry. When Americans want anything new they invent it themselves and don't go to England for it.

CONSTDKIUNO how many avenues of enjoyment are commonly supposed to be open to the rich the number of suicides among that class is remarkable and suggestive. After all ua sound mind in a sound body" is a good deal better guaranty of happiness than tho possession of a big bank account.

IT was quite a stroke of enterprise on the part of Indianapolis to get into the base ball league. The sum paid the St Louis franchise was $12,000. This arrangement will insure some fine

llgatnos at Indianapolis and may also give ."a handsome dividend to the stockholders if a strong ulub is obtained. if

CONGRESSMAN GLASS, of Tennessee, reJjcently declared that he had closed out ^Jgthe last Republican postmaster in his /vldlatriet*and now would bo glad to repeal »tho Olvil sefrVico law if he could. When

Mr. Glass gets tired of Tennessee he will ^'^meet with a warm welcome at the hands of Indiana Democrats if he chooses to come north.

TUB present generation of the Beecher family contained Ave preachers: Henry Ward, Edward, Charles, Thomas K. and William. Their father was a noted minister and undoubtedly his sons inherited much of his ability. But, singularly enough, none of Henry Ward's three sons is a clergyman. The great preacher'.« niantlo has not fallen on any of his children,

THK Missouri Legislature has refused to pass the bill providing for the expenses of the State militia which will now disband. This is a singular course for any State ti pursue. In this country a citisen soldiery is supposed to tako the place of the standing armies of Europe and our policy should be to increase and improve the militia system rather than to cripple and destroy it.

THR Congregational ministers of Chi cago have been severely but justly scored for their conduct touching the fatal illness of Mr. Beecher. They refused to •end a message of condolence to the stricken family because they did not think Mr. Beecher was orthodox in his religious views. When these proachers come to enter the golden gates they may find that whole-souled Christian love counts for more than hide-bound theology. ,.

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"Two years from to-day," said the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of last Saturday, "the newspapers of the country will, we hope and believe, contain the Inaugural Address of President John Sherman." The Sherman boom is on and it promises to be one of wide extent and "staying qualities." Sherman Is not a "magnetic roan*" but he has a strong hold in the good opinion of the country, especially in luudness and commercial circles and! claimed for it, the graphophone there I* a general belief that he would certainly one of the marvels of modern I able to oarrv New York, the pivotal invention *nd *drent

State In the next contest. with decided interest.

ALL the gas companies of Chicago have been bought up by a syndicate of millionaires and consolidated into one and the price of gas will be pat np twentyfive per cent. This is what syndicates are for, to make the prices of fuel, food, light and other necessaries of life higher than they would need to be. It would seem that some repressive legislation against monopolistic syndicates might be a healthy thing.

A WIST VIRGINIAN has set apart 60,000 acres in Randolph county, that State, as a hunting and fishing preserve for the use of a sportsman's association which includes members in various parts of the country. It will be the biggest hunting park east of the Yellowstone and persons can become members of the association and hunt in it by paying a fee of $1,000. It would no doubt be lots of fun to hunt in the big park, but it costs like smoke.

THE new Senator from West Virginia, Lucas, is an avowed and ardent opponent of the Standard Oil monopoly, and tho Republican Senators who declined to investigate old coal oil Payne's title to his seat, will hear something about oil in politics before the next Congress adjourns. Let us be thankful that there will be one member in that august body who will not be afraid to express the people's opinion of the methods employed by the Standard Oil company and similar monopolies.

ALTHOUGH the Indianapolis election crooks have thus far escaped conviction and punishment by means of legal technicalities, the good people of that city intend to bring them up with a round turn yet. The Committee of One Hundred which consists of men from both political parties, is moving in the matter. It is to hoped the effort will be an earnest and not a mere make-believe one. It would be an ignominious shame for the city of Indianapolis to allow such an outrage on the ballot to go unpunished.

THE press of the country has vigorously pilloried those Chicago ministers who declined to send an expression of sympathy to Mr. Beecher's family, because they did not feel sure of the soundness of his theology. They deserve all they got and more. A hundred Bob Ingersolls could not do the cause of religion as much harm as such unchristian conduct on the part of its professed teachers. In striking contrast was the action of the Congregational church of this city in forwarding resolutions of condolence and sympathy to the stricken family. So far as we know, but one man in Terre Haute endorses the action of those Chicago ministers.

THE mayor of Columbus, O., was in small business when he prohibited the wife of anarchist Parsons from holding a meeting in that city the other night. Mrs. Parsons is without doubt a hairbrained, obstreperous person whose views are vicious and silly. But that is not a sufficient reason for prohibiting her from expressing them. This is a land oi' free speech and it is a great deal less harmful to let such a woman have her say than to shut her up in jail and prevent her from speaking. And this is especially the case when her husband is already In prison under sentence of death and the wife is trying to raise money to assist in getting him a new trial. Such actions as that of the Columbus mayor savor of harshness and oppression and are well calculated to increase the prejudice in the minds of the poor against the rich and powerful classes of society. i|

A STORY comes from Washington to the effect that Speaker Carlisle is going to settle in Wichita, Kan., at the expiration of his term in Congress that he sent his two boys there in 1885 with $500 each, who claim now to be worth $25,000, and that they write that the real estate transactions recently aggregated #2,250,000 in a single week. Of course this cannot be anywhere near the truth. Wichita has a population not exceeding 25,000. Chicago has a population of 7ti0,000 and New York more than a million. Yet the real estate sales for last week in the former city were but a million and a half and the latter but a little more than a million. If in these great cities, with tholr enormous values, only that amount of real estate business is transacted, it is of course absurd to talk about Wichita, with its small population and low values doing nearly as much as both of them together. But there is plenty of such wild talk in the "booming" towns of the wild west.

THE COMING WONDER. I It Is not the phonograph any more but the graphophone. The words have been reversed, to the distress of euphony, but to the advantage of the people, if reports be true. The new machine was tested in Washington recently and with^entire satisfaction, it is said

What the graphophone proposes to do is to report accurately and so as to be distinctly heard by the listener, any sound which goes into it, whether of laughter, singing or conversation. This is done by means of a delicate tracing by an artificial diaphragm on a wax plate. Once recorded, the conversation can be reproduced many times without injury to the plat?.

Prof. Bell, of telephone fame, is connected with the new invention, which, he believes, will prove only second in importance to the telephone, as it will practically do away with stenographers and introduce a mueh cheaper system of taking verbatim reports. It la said the machine will soon be put on the market and will not differ materially in price or sin from the type-writer. If it will do

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

HENRY WARD BEECHER, The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher died at his home in Brooklyn last Tuesday morning from a stroke of paralysis received on the Saturday previous. He was seventy-three years of age and had been pastor of the Plymouth church for forty years. No man in this century has filled so large a portion of public attention. He was the head and front of a large family of brothers and sisters dis tinguished for brains. His influence in the domain of Protestant theology was almost immeasurable. He was not only a power in the church, but he was a power in the state, a power in society, a power in journalism. His greatness ex tended far beyond his pulpit. His platform work, his contributions to books, pamphlets and newspapers have given him a solid fame among all classes and on both sides of the ocean. He has made mistakes—who has not?—but the world is vastly better that Henry Ward Beecher has lived.

He has been charged with heterodoxy in his religious views and it is true that he did not suffer himself to be bound by strict requirements of a church creed. His religion was cheerful, liberal and humane. He preached a gospel of hope and love, not of despair and fear. That the people delighted in his pulpit utterances is shown by the fact that Sunday after Sunday for many years Plymouth church was crowded to its fullest capacity. He was sincere and honest in his liberal views. He could not believe in eternal punishment and he would not preach it. He was no cynic, no pessimist. His big heart wa^ always overflowing with mirth and jollity. He loved the beautiful in all things and he dressed religious worship in a beauty that made it gracious and attractive. He was as frank and open hearted as a child. Whatever he thought he uttered without fear of any ..consequences that might follow.

But he was more than a mere preacher. He did not stop at the work within his church. He was concerned with every great movement for the betterment of men, whether moral, religious or political. He took a hand in politics and wrote and spoke in advocacy of the principles which he believed were right. His services in England during the civil war in behalf of the Union c&nnot be over estimated and can never be forgotten. He was the author of several volumes and was engaged in finishing his life of Christ when death overtook him. His contributions to the newspapers were large, extending through many years of his life. Only a few months ago he began writing a series of weekly letters for a syndicate of newspapers and The Mail was fortunate enough to be able to give these letters to its read ore. They, too, were cut short, never to be finished.

Such men as Beecher are not appreciated to the full while they live. When we lose them, when the great light has gone out, then we begin/ to realize how great they were and how impossible it will be to fill their places. The plac^ef Henry Ward Beecher can never be filled. It will remain always vacant. He had an original genius unlike that of any man who proceeded or is likely to follow him. He was Beecher "the only."

This is not to say that the world cannot get along without him. Even the greatest of men fall without disturbing society. The busy tide of life flows on and the dead are soon forgotten or remembered only at intervals. But for all that the world has lost something of surprising value when a man like Beecher dies.

THE FORTY-NINTH CONORESS. A great deal of complaint was made of the Congress which adjourned on the fourth of this month, but a great deal of complaint is made of every Congress. After all that has been said it is evident now, in looking over the whole field, that more than an average amount of important work was accomplished.

Among the important laws enacted may be mentioned the electoral-count bill, the Presidential succession bill, the act to prevent alien ownership of land in the Territories, several land-grant forfeiture bills by which millions of acres of public land have been taken from delinquent railroads and restored to the public domain, the bill for redeeming the trade dollars, the law taxing oleomargerine and regulating its sale, the Inter-State commerce bill, the antipolygamy bill, and the Canadian retaliation bill. The bill establishing agricultural experiment stations is also worthy of mention. Besides these many other laws of greater or less importance were enacted.

The provisions for increasing the naval establishment, while not all that the Senate desired, are of quite liberal extent. -\total of(#18,000,000 will be expended in this direction, of which $1,100,000 is for two steel gunboats, #6,000,000 for two heavily armored cruisers, $2,000,000 for floating batteries, $4,000,000 for armor and gun steel, $2,000,000 for monitors and $2,500,000 for work on vessels now under way.

Some of the most important bills originated in the Senate, which body demonstrated a capacity for useful legislation quite superior to that of the House. The efficiency of the latter was greatly Impaired by the continued wrangle between the free trade and protection branches of the Democracy. The destinctive failure of the Forty-ninth Congress was the inability of these two factions to agree upon any policy of tariff reform that would reduce the superfluous revenues of the country. The Democratic party was particularly pledged to reduce taxation and notoriously failed to keep its promise to the people. How the people will respond to this failure the next national election will disclose.

ALIEN LAND OWNERSHIP. One of the most important bills passed by the late Congress was the Alien Land bill, which was introduced by Sen ator Plumb, of Kansas, in 1S84, and should have been made a law long before it was. The law provides that it shall be unlawful for.any person or persons not citizens of the United States, or who have not lawfully declared their intention of becoming citizens, or for any corporation not created by or under the laws of the United States, or of some State or Territory to hereafter acquire, hold or own real estate of any interest therein in any of the Territories or in the District of Columbia, except such as may be acquired by inheritance or in the ordinary course of justice in the collection of debts heretofore created. It further forbids such acquiring or ownership on the part of any corporation when more than 20 per cent of its stock is held by persons, corporations or associations not citizens, and also forbids the holdipg by any corporation other than those organized for the construction of railways, canals or turnpikes, of more than 5000 acres in any one of the Territories.

The theory of the law, and it is the correct one, is that American lands should be held for and owned by American citizens, and it strikes at what has already become a great evil, the holding of large tracts of land by foreign monopolists. This has been a growing one and was calculated, If not checked, to do irreparable Injury to the country by tho introduction into 'the United States of foreign landlordism and other objectionable tKfcigs. The passage of this bill was timely and its effects w|ll be most excellent.

The incident seized on by the poet is the following: On the Fourth of July, when the stars and stripes were flying at the top of every flag.staff all over the country, the Mormons, at Salt Lake City, Utah, displayed it at half-mast. In that city at that time there were many persons who had served in the Confederate ranks. Seeing the old flag at half-mast on the national holiday, they went to the oity hall and demanded that the flag be run up to the top of the flag-staff. The authorities taking council of their fears, run it up. The incident is made immortal in this beautiful peem, which will bear more than one reading. Indeed it improves on a second reading. It is entitled

THE REBEL YELL.

The thirsty rays of the July sun Drank the breath of the summer morning Over Utah fitfully blown From ponderous mountain lips of stone That seemed In grim prophetic warning Curled in a vast and massive scorning As If the roar of the morning gun, The faint far crackle of distant rifles, Were part of a sum of mortal trifles.

Then woke Deseret's mountain men At sound of an old familiar thunder, ., Woke with a quick heart-leap, again, Drew their brows in listening wonder, With eyes of warriors gleaming under For these were the soldiers of the South Drifted away on the wreck of battle To this far mountain Isle of drouthListening now to the pulsing rattle Of rifle volleys, while memory taxing In half-awaKening explanation,— "Ha!" they said, their brows relaxing, "This Is the birthday of our Nation I The common day of American glory I How will the Mormon render the story

Then some from Stonewall's old brigade, And some from the noted Hampton Legion, And some from the Black Horse cavalcade, And more from afar less famous region,— The men that followed Old Pap Price From early trials of Cow Skin Prairie In and out of Missouri, twice,— Followed their leader bold and wary On to final and sure disaster. As men have never followed a masjer, As men go anywhere, hand and glove, Even to death, with the leader they love:— These men questioning thus, and replying, Looked from their cityward windows all, Beheld the dome of the city hall And the Stars and Stripes at half-matt flying! As with one impulse, down to the street

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From many windows disappearing, Every obstacle leaned and clearing With old-time rush of the charging feet, Toward the town-hall, they thundering hurrlM Where Mormon chiefs sat flushed and flurried. "Run up the flag!" the foremost cried With voice like the roar of a joining battle. "Up to the top!" And those at his side Echoed his cry as the pattering rattle Of a full brigade when It "orders arms"

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Or a regiment firing a single volley. The Mormons answered: "What wild folly, Men of the South—and after the harms That came to you from this striped rag, Tainting you still with the smell of treason! This Is never your blue-crossed flag! How flies your courage! How falls your reason And then the soldier spokesman rose As if he rose in a ringing stirrup, Over the cowering heads of foes The wh 1 le hIs strong steed sprang at a chirrup: "Not yet was it treason when flew To arms for a question vexed and nettled From times of the Colonies and on through 11 wia nntled." glance tnat seemed sever The hearts of the men at the lowered bunting Whilst he for the strongest phrases hunting Shouted: "To u# it is treason NOW! From Appomattox on and forever! Bun up our flag! We give you one minute, Not to consider it, but to begin it!"

Then, when a dosen of shaking hands Hwiftly drew on the rising pulley. Till, soaring up on Its sea-grassi strands The bright silk flag unfolding fully Foetlng high in a sun-flood gleaming, There sprang from hundreds of soldier throats A shrill fierce cry like eagles screaming. Out on the morning breere it floats,

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n, to the cabined sides of the mountains, the murmurs of winds and fountains: lien leaped np wherever it fell. Catching it up like a song forgotten, Filled the air with the rebe] yell. The rosl war-cry of the land of the cotton, Till all the resonant libers ofpines Every power of «oand enlarging Rang with the thrill of ajihput that never Sprang

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Of the dauntless Omy-men flercely charglng, Echoed it back from the mountain's brow From the tallest pines and stunted sages, A shout that Khali echo through future ages— "To lower the flag is treason now, From Appomattox on and forever t,

TxxaS HAtmc. I5D. H. W. TAYLOR.

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With some pride we transfer to the columns of The Mail from this month's Century the following beautiful and patriotic poem. The author is our townsman Dr. H. W. Taylor, who fought on the Confederate side during the war. His brother, H. S. Taylor, of Englewood, 111., was a Union soldier, and wrote "The Man with the Musket," published in the Century for July, 1886.

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