Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 December 1879 — Page 4

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THE Maine Republican* art* 6till attempting to apply a prompt remedy to a "great wrong." The Republicans are notable for righting great wrongs promptly—instance '76'7-

BERLIN is taking timely measures, to prevent the introduction of yellow fever into Germany. The exhibition of as much foresight by our own people would have prevented a large part, if not all of the ravages from the plague last summer.

THE ''Record" is a new Saturday evening paper started at Dayton, Otu^ the first number of which appeared last Saturday. In appearance and subject matter it recommends itself highly to the public and will doubtless tcore another success for Saturday evening papers,

GOVERNOR WILLIAMS would doubtless be much happier if the multitude of applicants for the vacant Supreme Judge ship did not include so many of his person cUafc well as political friends. For the gratitude ol his one appointee he will incur the displeasure of ninety and nine just'fnen not made judges.

WE don't mind giving it away now, for as, soon as the news came we disposed of all we had at a fair price, but method has been invented in Lorulon for making actual diamonds so cheap that we expect to buy back those we sold—they were large ones—to decorate the tips of our cows horns, in the spring.

TUB GAZETTE would be pleased to have its morning contemporary stale whether or not when the library question came up before the people, it wa® generally understood that it was not a mere donation of th6 amount asked for, but such subscription for stock as would entail a perpetual annual charge uport the city treasury. Was that point ever stated in print, or is there any rea on to suppose it was understood by the people? Didthe Express itself sc^understan^the proposition?

TH£ decision of the State Board of Charities and Refortu in the matter of the Milwaukee House of Correction investigation has been submitted to the Governor. A large number of witnesses have been examined, a many of them ex-convicts, and ll\e conclusion is that the charges of bad food and cruel punishment are sustained and a change in the institution is recommended. This virtually decides the suit for $50,000 damages against the Milwaukee Sentinel, the paper that brought the outrages to

light'

_________ GRANT S CANDIDACY The Richmond (Va..) Dispatch makes what occurs to the GAZETTE as being a good point against the running qualities of Grant *s a presidential candidate. It argues that if Grant is a necessity in 1S80 to repress the turbulence in the South, which is less now than it has been kince the war and much less than it w*$ during Gram's two administrations, he will be a greater necessity in 1SS4, since his style 01 government

of

will in the future, as it did

in the past, provoke disturbance and arouse dissension. Besides, if his greed for office is so great as to induce him to violate the unwritten tradition which limits the presidential terms of one man to two, nothing can be more certain than that he will insist on a nomination after his tiird term. Once this barrier is broken down he is a standing candidate, for the first

are Sherman, Blaine, Evarts, Wa*hburne and a host other Republican statesmen who have Presidential aspirations likely to be affected by it? Is it probable they will lend their assistance to a scheme which'delays the fulfillment.of their desire eight, twelve, or sixteen years, perhaps forever. Is Mr. Blaine, who really hates Grant, likely to be an active and enthusiasiastic elegiac orator at the funeral of of his own presidential aspirations? Ij he does not oppose him is it not altogether probable he will sulk in his tent, as AchilleJ did before Troy. It does not occur to the GAZETTE that these statesmen will be able to unite their forces against Grant in the convent and so defeat his nomination, but they will stab him in the campaign and really rejoice at his discomfiture in the election. For this, as well as a multitude of other reasons, the GAZETTE, which earnestly desires to see a Democrat move into the White House on the 4th of March, 1881, hopes that Grant may be the Republican candidate.

AND the Republicans of Maine have held an indignation meeting to protest against Gov. Gordon:s course in regard to the recent election. With what a grace this protest comes will be appreciated by everybody who has a memory of the affair of '76—7. How much meaning is there in the following words from one who, four years ago, found no tongue to utter a protest with:

This great crowd has assembled to say that they would not submit to this attempted supervision of their rights. The duty of the citizens of Maine is -to shun every one of these men as you would the pestilence make every one of them an outcast and a wandering Jew point the finger of scorn at them shun them as moral lepers, who are covered with sores from head to foot mate them feel that they are execrated by an enraged and indignant people. If you allow the Governor and Council to usurp the power of determining what they have no right to determine, what is there in the name of repubiic but mockery and fraud. It our people rise up in their majesty and demand their rights, the usurpers will not dare to refuse them. There is a moral power in the State of Main before which rascality will quail."

It makes all the difference in the world whose ox is gored. THERE is no real reason for the present Countfl being very much exercised over the library question. There is legitimate ground for difference of opinion on the question of the popular will in reference to it. For the three candidates for Treasurer—the greatest number of votes was cast for Treasurer—4,886 were cast. In ascertaining a vote the highest number should be taken. Out of this number 2,224

day,

Were for the

library. Thi^ was more than were given against it—but is 119 votes less than half of the whole vote of the city The imposition of a tax, which carries with it an annual charge on the city for keeping it up and making the first and each succeeding appropriation available, is a positive act of legislation. An actual majority of all the votes cast at an election ought to be required before the Council could feel justified in voting money for any purpose not in the line of its regular duty. As a precedent this is a much more important matter than many of the friends of the library imagine. The establishment and maintainance of a library was not one of the purposes for which this municipality was organized, and before the city embarks in such an enterprise, which is not ended with the first appropriation, there ought to be no doubt about the popular will.

MERRY CHRISTMAS. To all to whom these presents may come greeting. Be it known that eighteen hundred and seventy-nine years ago, this very day, making due allowance for any and all errors that may have crept into our chronology, certain wise men in the East, who had been following a star for many hopeful days, had come nearly to their journey'* end. It brightened on their vision this very night nowwhile you are reading this, and gave them assurance sweet and higii, and they began to loosen their packager, and ireight their presents with the blessing of fervent hopes which made the gifts more rich. It was the eve off natal

as this is of its anniversary, and

was then as it is now, sacred to chilhood. Age and, wisdom bowed before and gave gifts to immortal jouth, setting a model for the mighty woild and instituting a custom which time has not withered nor observance staled.

Christmas has come again, and its coming has been heralded and its apptoach made as manifest as it possibly could have been to the eye of faith of the wise men of the East in that distant

past. 3 1 Who that ha* seen age and youth (for the custom bas broadened with the years) vieing

'with

step is the passage

the Rubicon. This reasoning is, so far at least, clear and convincing. Now how

each other in the procure­

ment of presents during these past few weeks but might have known, had he never heard of Christmas, that a star was shining in their souls and leading to the birth-place of loftier aspirations and kindlier instincts? Who that has seen deft fingers weaving the love of tender hearts into the patterns of, intended, gifts but might have said, though, he were a heathen, that the star shone 011 pleasant places and Ht up a bright spot in our soiled and tarnished human natures.

This to-morrow, of which this is the ove, is especially sacred to ^routb. It is

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTB.

in fact, the children's day. But who of u* is not included in that catalogue Certainly he if- embraced whose feelings are youthful and who, in contributing to the happiness of others, can find the highest, as it certainly is the purest enjoyment

It i» a day sacref to memory. The wheels of business stop in their weary grind. Men and women forget the dull, unceasing round of care, and resign themselves to a contemplation of the past and the happy faces of youth are "wonderful.- memory, bells, whose tinkle calls up whole troops of glowing incidents, grave and gay, of time when we were none worse than now, if not much better. One golden link in the chain' of memory difews up another, and that another still, until it almost seems as if this gladsome birthday of the Lord was the birth-time of all we ever loved or sorrowed over, or had lost. It recalls the dear faces of friends and kindred dead an& all their kindlier actions, and gives a blessed assurance of a meeting time to come. It is the one day of all others in the hurried round of the hurrying year when flying feet are stopped, hatreds forgotten and the remembrance comes to a man that he and all the world are fellow passengers to the grave, andnot ene. mies and strangers on different journeys bent. It is the day best of all when we can look back over the golden chain of the past, each separate link riveted at Christmas time, and with the eye of faith forward to the marble slab at the end, which looks more like a safe and pleasant harbor the longer we have been tossed upon the great deep of humanity. It is the day when best of all we can and should echo with heartfelt sincerity the toast of Tiny Tim: "GOD BLESS VS EVERYONE."

NEGRO IMPORTATION TO INDIANA.

One of the serious political and serial questions of to-day is the importation of colored people from the South, and principally from North Carolina in the present instance, to Indiana. It is not a thing which can be belittled and made of small moment. Senator Voorhees, in asking for an investigation into the whys and wherefores of this movement, is altogether right. It is not like anything that ever occurred in Indiana before.

The number imported will no*, be merely a few hundred. It is already over a thousand, and it is r.ot intended to stop it until several thousand have been brought. But though it is intended by the managers of the scheme to bring as many or more than the Democratic plurality over the Republicans at the last general election, and with a hope of reversing the politlcs'-of the State, that is not the cause of Democratic alarm. As a political maneuver it will prove a worse boomerang than the' purchase of

Wolcolt" and the "Weary Olleman," three years

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every North Carolina hegro colonized in the State two Republican laboring men will vote the Democratic ticket, for naother purpose than to rebuke so nefarious a scheme. No, Demacratic alarm does not proceed from fear of political results, I

Viewed from the standpoint of business and prosperity, however, the scheme is anything but a pleasant one to contemplate. There is no denying the fact that up to within the past few months there were a very great many men in 'Indiana with no capital but their labor, who were out of employment. Nor wa6 this enforced id'.ene8s solely among the unskilled laboring class. A multitude of skilled workmen—mechanics of all kinds—icught employment in vain. Designing persons) for political effect, magnified this distress at the time, and were rebuked ior it by the GAZETTI but there is no question that there was more truth in what they said than it was altogether pleasant to acknowledge., Now we are getting out of the woods, but we are not clear out by any means nor are the bruises received then healed or the hunger folly appeased. Nor is there an unsupplied demand for laborers. At the present time there is less work than workers. There are some idle me* still—men who are idle because they can not get work. And these men are for the most part laborers, who only do the hardest kind of work, and have no trade. When, therefore, five or six or- seven thousand negro laborers are brought into the State, ranks already more tharf full are crowded to excess. If these men secure work they drive others out of employment. It tlwy do not get work they must go to the poor houses, and so become a charge on the various communities where they locate.

It was only a short time ago thai Indianapolis was greatly exercised in raising funds to send the idle men that thronged, her streets to the South. Many were sent south and found, we presume, employment there. At any rate they were got out of a State where there was no work for them. Now an agency which has its headquarters in Indianapolis and at Washington, and which has for its object the catrying of the State for the Republicans, is industriously engaged in bringing an ignorant and pauper crowd lof negroes into the State. The South is

not sending tbem«way, because there is work for them there, to which they are accustomed and for which, both as regards the climate and the work they are expected to perform, they are peculiarly adapted. Indiana does not need them, for we have only lately ceased raising funds to send idle men out of our borders. They are not accustomed to our climate. They are not as industriousthey are more shiftless, less, skilled and more ignorant than those we sent away. They are brought here because they can be voted like cattle, and because the vote of every one of them counts as much as that of any white man in the State. This is what alarms Democrats and citizens generally, and will alarm the unscrupulous Republican managers, too, when they wake up the morning after the election to a realization of the fact that the people have rebuked them and buried their scheme of fraud under a mountain of adverse votes.

THE THEORY AND ART OF ADVERTISING. The knack of writing a catchy advertisement, one which everbody will read, is a talent possessed by only a few Man}' years age when the newspapef business was in its infancy, advertisers of any kind were few and far between, and as newspapers were small in size, it wasa only necessary to write a statement or any kind to have it read by the people who did read papers. "J\

Fifty year* ago people who subscribed and paid for newspapers and magazines were few and far between. Nowadays an intelligent man who can read and does ncit take a newspaper is a rarity. If he is unable to pay for it he must take it, even if he visits his neighbors' doorstep.

First-class papers are usually largely composed of advertisements, and many people read the advertisements as regularly as they read the news items.

In order, however, to make an advertisement different from the multiplicity of others, the shrewest advertisers of this age are on the qui vive to find peculiar methods ot attracting the eye of the public.

Ir. newspapers this is often done by some peculiar cat or picture that attracts attention.

Others use large and startling headlines, so that it is impossible ior any one looking over a paper not to see it. A favorite method of many shrewd advertisers is to freely use the local column, and insert some little anecdote or witty saying with the advertisement tacked on at the end. I

In a year or so the style Of advertisements totally change. Any one looking over a file of old papers will see that the style of advertisements change as often as the fashions of ladies' cloaks or hats.

Showmen are particularly enterprising in this respect. Uusually the largest advertising done by amusement managers is by means of beautiful illuminated cuts and posters for the walls and bill boards. Enterprising managers get out new cuts and pictures every year. This is often done at an enormous cost.

It is said that Chas. Duprez, the well known minstrel manager, first originated the idea of picture paper on the walls.

Many managers, besides using handsome paper and bills, place elegant borders all around the large stands to give them a finished and an attractive appearance. One of the prettiest and most novel things in this line we have ever 6een, is a new idea of Prof. Baldwin, the Spiritual Exposer. He took a large and extremely heavy, and costly picture frame to a prominent lithographing firm and wanted it copied in colors and gold bronze. The lithographer said it could be done, but the gold printing would make it very expensive. Prof. Baldwin, however, had it done. and when completed it was a very good imitation of a black walnu* and gold picture frame. When mis is put up on the bill board surrounding the elegant chromo-like cuts, at a very little distance it looks as if each picture was surrounded bv a heavy aud costly picture frame. The general effect is very fine.

To give our readers an idea of the advertising expense necessary to run a first class entertainment, we will state that the cost of a "6tand of bills," ten sheets long! surrounded by this walnut and gold frame would be about ten dollars and fifty cents. Sometinie6 ten or a dozen of these costly stand are" put up in a single town, not to mention other advertisements of various kinds. The general public always know a first class entertainment by the way it is advertised, and His a safe rule to go by, that^ny entertainment poorly advertised and billed with antiquated and time worn wall paper will do to stay away from.

So it is with first-class business houses. Genet ally a man having good and reliable articles for sale, takes advsn of all the means in his power to let the public know it. We would advise our readers always to read the advertisements. Often you can be greatly benefited thereby. It is usually easier to save a dollar than to work hard and earn it, and many a dollar can be saved by cansulting the advertising columns of any first class newspaper. I

Newspaper advertising is usually of far

greater benefit to the business man in a town than any amount of hand-bills or circulars. It will not pay a man, established in a city or town, to get out costly cuts, pictures, etc., and without them, hand-bills, wall-paper, etc., are of not much avail. For these kinds of business the newspapers offer the best facilities for reaching the great eye of the people. ,,

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From Wednesday's Daily.

Silver anklet are to be worn with dress boots and embroidered stockings.—[Cincinnati Times.

General Grant will be invited to make a tour of Texas on his way to or from Mexico.—[Cincinnati Times.

Evangelist Moody has rented a house and settled down in St. Louis. Unhappy city!—[Grand Rapids Democrat.

Col. Jack Haverly, the manager^"has struck a million dollar bonanza, it is said, in the San Juan country.—[Baltimore Herald. ~v

If Fairbanks, the scale man, goes to the Senate from Vermont he will be able to outweigh Dayid. Davis.—[Cincinnati Gazette.

Out of fifty strictly honest men only twenty-two will return a borrowed book, and only three will bring your umbrella home.—("New York World.

Waking Up.—Parson: "Rather drowsy weather this, Farmer Jones."- Farmer I. Aye^ parson, so it be 'minds one o' sermon time, don't it?"—rFun.

The New York Herald says that Edison's electric light is an unequivocal success the Tribune that it is a failure. We shall see.—[Grand Rapids Times.

Dennis Kearney hopes his admirers in the East will contribute money to feed and clothe his destitute family. Better mount the dray-cart again.—[Chicago Times.

The city is full of strangers now who have come to participate in the holidays. They|are chiefly "rural roosters"—turkeys, chickens, ducks and geese and sich. —f Muncie Times.

"George, dear, don't you think it'6 rather extravagant to eat butter with that delicious jam?" "No love economical. Same piece ofbread does for both." —[New* York Times.

A Cleaver English teacher has originated the idea of shopping classes, in which girle might be taught how to buy dress and housekeeping goods.—[Philadelphia Public Ledger.

E. B. McClure, Superintendent of the Indianapolis and St. Louis road, left last evening for Cleveland, in answer to a telegram from H. B. Hurlburt, president of the road.—[Indianapolis Journal

The hardware merchants report that nails have advanced 60 cents per keg since Saturday. One year ago n&ils sold at $2.15 per keg. At the present time they are worth $4.40 per keg.—[Danville News.

Scribner & Co. offered Ruskin $400 for a short article on the Cathedral of St. Mark, at Venice, and $t,ooo to Browning, the poet, and both refused. The Scribners are to be congratulated. —[IndianapolisJournal.

Over 20,000 car loaas of live and dressed poultry are carried into New York city yearly, and 25,000,000 dozen of eges go to the same market. According to the best' estimates, the United States produces 9,000,000,000 egg6 annually. —[New York Gazette.

The Vandalia company, in its weekly settlement this month thus far, has paid in advanced charges to their connections at this point, $31,620, it being the largest amount ever paid out by the company at Indianapolis for advance charges, in the same length of time.—[Indianapolis Journal. "The captain is going to haul down all the sheets immediately, said a passenger on one of the ocean steamers, as he came down below. Ow! the rude thing—he shan't come in here, at any rate," sherieked a shrill feminine voice, followed by the banging of a state-room door. —[Baltimore Sun.' MR. VOORHEES AND HIS COMMITTEE

A News reporter, this morning, called at the Bates House to see Senator Voorhees, now stopping in the city, to interview him a6 to what the committee appointed to investigate the negro exodus, and of which he is chairman and Messrs. Vance, Pendleton, Windom and Blair are the remaining members, propose to do. He 6aid that as an individual member of the committee, though he had his views, it was not for him to forecast what would be the action of the commit tee. As to the negro immigration of the state, if it was a natural one and the negroes came of their own volition, he could not say anything against it, btit if they were brought here through organzed effort or through other than natural methods, the matter was certainly a proper one for inquiry just as the matter of bringing Chinese into California by means of companies organized for that purpose was. Indiana, the fifth state in the union in regard to population certainly, had no call for immigrants of this character, no inducements to pauper labor. This state has no cheap lands, no waste places. There was nogreat demand for labor, and the sooner these immigrants are undeceived if false inducements have-been held out to them, the better for them and for others who meditate coming. North Carolina is the last state in the union, it appeared to him, to suffer such an emigration. It was a staid, old-fashiuned, conservative state. It had never appeared that negroes bad suffered any ill-treatment in that State. Besides these negroes come from a congressional district in which'they are in the majority. Those who have gone to Putnam county, in this State, have gone where there can be no demand for them. It is a wellsettled county, where there is no lack of laborers. He had already met some censure for asking this investigation. This he thought unjust. He did not ihink a public man censurable for developing facts in a case like this. The committee will not do more than give material facts from which the public can draw conclusions.—[Indianapolis New*

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