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The Eastern press, tired of assuming to
know all about the Cabinet -whet) it actually
knows nothing, has taken to calling General
Harmon names. Tl.e latest charge is that
he is a "sphynx."
A GOOD many eicliacgea we saying that
editorials in the IndiaLapolis Journal are "in
spired." This is very gratifying. The Jour
nal's editors hare plugged along for a good
many years writing articles -which seemed at
times not to be appreciated at their true
worth, but this tardy recognition of their
merit is none the less pleasing.
Mr. ScLLIVAN, of Boston, has no idea of
lowering the standard of the pugilistic pro
fession by the recognition cf negro equality.
In announcing that he will not fight with a
colored man, nor with anybody who does, he
takes high ground in favor of the superiority
of the white race. We infer that Mr. Sulli
van is a Democrat of the time-honored vari
ety. "
Every city in Indiana and most of the
county towns are interested in a repeal of
the law limiting the saloon tax to $100 a year.
The law is a relio of legislative barbarism.
It operates to protect and encourage saloons,
with all their attendant evils, and to deprive
cities and towns, where they exist, of much
needed revenue. The limitation should be
fixed at not less than $500.
TnE New York . Post, which is notuing if
not malicious, persistently refers to Indiana
as Colonel Dudley's home, and ascribes to
him a variety of improper motives in remain
ing away from the State since election. Col.
Dudley and his family have not lived in In
diana for the past seven or eight years, as the
Post knows perfectly well. By the way, this
partisan sheet is carrying on the war against
the gentleman in question just as if the pros
ecution at this end of the line had not fallen
fiat. Editor Godkin ought to read the news
papers. The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-Journal imparts the follow
ing information as to tha difficulty of getting
a party quorum in the House: ,
"It is & fact that during the Fiftieth Con-
srress, with ICS Democrats, and two independ
ents voting with them, there has never for
one moment been a quorum of that party in
the House, not even on the first day of meit
in? when the organization was - formod.
- When the vote on the Carlisle-Thcebe contest
was to be taken, the Deputy Sergeant-at-arms
tried for four days, with all his author
ity and power, to get a quorum of Democrats
present. He sent out laO dispatches, and did
everything he could do to impress them with
the importance of the occasion, but he failed
utterly, and it wa3 only through Republican
votes that a quorum was had."
As the correspondent is Speaker Carlisle's
private secretary, he was, of course, in the
secrets of the Thabo contest. This little side
revelation shows how . vigorously the party
whip was wielded for Carlisle.
The Sentinel thinks the present City Council
Is not fit to be trusted with the collection or
disbursement of taxes. The present Council
contains some men who were honored citizens
of Indianapolis long before any person now
connected with the Sentinel became a res
ident here. Mr. Thalman, chairman of the
Committee on finance, is one of these, and
here is sot a more caroful or conservative
business man in Indianapolis. The Sentinel's
insinuations against the Council are on a par
with its insinuation that the Journal advo
cates an increased city revenue in order that
It may corruptly or improperly profit by it.
Of course the Sentinel does not embrace Dem
ocratic members of the Council in these in
sinuations. No doubt when Sim Coy, who
still draws his salary as a member, returns
from the northern penitentiary and resumes
sis seat as the representative of a Democratic
ward, and when a fow .nore Democrats of his
stripe are elected, the Sentinel will think the
Council a highly respectable body, and emi
nently safe to be trusted with the handling of
money.
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, who never
was in sympathy with his party's free-trade
policy, was of the opinion, nevertheless, im
mediately after election, that the tariff issue
did not cause Cleveland's defeat. Since then
he has had an access of information and is
quoted as saying recently that the effect of
the issue was very great. "I can cee it all
over," said he, "and it is very plain in Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Maryland where
Republican gv.us are proportionately tho
greatest. In my State a great many Demo
crats voted tho Republican ticket because
ey believed in protection. I know of one
Vtrict where 1,000 Democratic votes went to
or six years ago, exempted from taxation all
manufacturers whose - capital was less than
$10,000 and the result was that a great many
small factories were started. Their owners
and employes voted solidly for protection. In
a county near Baltimore there are a great
many of these small manufactories and the
Republican gains in that county were im
mense. -The Democrats in Maryland all
turned out and voted at least 5,000 more than
at previous elections. But the protection
idea changed many Democratic votes." That
a good many other Democrats hold like views,
although they may not express them so freely.,
is evident from the dissatisfaction with which
the recent utterances of Cleveland, Fairchild
and Carlisle have been received. The shrewdest
party workers see nothing but defeat ahead
under a continuation of the free-trade policy.
TRUSTWORTHY CABINET INFORMATION.
There has been a great deal of speculation
in regard to General Harrison's Cabinet, most
of it wild and wide of the mark. As there
seems to be an unusual degree of interest on
the subject, the Journal will relieve publie
curiosity by stating that General Harrison's
Cabinet'will consist of the following:
Secretary of State A gentleman of national
reputation and large experience in publio
affairs, who will be entirely free from snob
bery and will not attempt to compensate for
his subserviency to strong powers by his
truculence and bravado toward weak ones.
Secretary of the Treasury A practical
statesman and financier, who will not violate
the law to nurse the surplus, doctor the
monthly debt statements to make the reduc
tion appear large, nor carry an enormous gov
ernment deposit in favored national banks
without interest.
Secretary of War A man of military knowl
edge, who will not permit any of his subord
inates to issue orders restoring captured rebel
flags, or discharge women and children.
Secretary of the Navy A real man, and not
one principally known for following the chase
at paper fox hunts, and as an aspiring society
leader.
Secretary of the Interior A well-known
Republican who will not order the department
flag at half-mast when a distinguished con
federate dies, and who does not engage in
private land speculations.
Postmaster-general A prominent Repub
lican, who will begin to reform the postal
service within an hour after he has taken the
oath of office, and who will use his utmost
energy to restore it to its former efficiency.
He will also .assist in the removal cf some
postmasters.
Attorney-general A lawyer of national
reputation, who will not own any Pan -electric
telephone stock.
We can assure our readers that this is the
only trustworthy information on - the subject
obtainable at the hour of writing. We should
not like to say that it comes direct from the
President-elect, but we do not believe he will
repudiate it.
A PRESIDENTIAL SCOLD
Mr. Cleveland's letter to the Boston Free
trade League is an insult to the American
people. They ought to thank God
every night that each sunset shortens his ex
piring term by one day. The presidential
office has never before been so prostituted to
the dissemination of personal whims, and so
dwarfed to the dimensions of a narrow ego tism
as it has been and is by the present incum
bent. A tyro in statesmanship and a novice
in national affairs, ignorant of political history
and political economy, unacquainted with the
resources of the country or the temper of the
people, mistaking himself for the Nation, his
vagaries for principles and his prejudices for
convictions, he is the very type and model of
what a President ought not to be. The peo
ple never gave better proof of their common
sense and capacity for self-government than
they did by refusing to re-elect him.
It was not to be expected that "a man of
destiny' inflated with the chimera of his own
personality and divine right to rule, should
ever forgive the people for thus rejecting his
proffered services for a second term, but he
might at least cease to use the office for the
purpose of insulting them.
The letter to the Massachusetts Free-trade
League is in the spirit of the President's late
message, though, if possible, in worse tem
per. He scolds like a fish-wife, and hardly
keeps within the limits of linguistic decency.
The burden of it is abuse of the people for
repudiating his free-trade notions. Those
who agree with him are referred to
as "patriotic and unselfish7 while the
5,436,627 American citizens who voted
against him are implied to be the
reverse. He congratulates himself and
the free-traders on not being actuated "by
any sordid motives' and assigns this as a rea
son why they can boldly "attack the strong
holds of selfishness and greed." "The strong
holds of 8elflehne63 and greed" are the twenty
States that voted for General Harrison, and
the strongholds of true patriotism are the
eighteen States that voted for Grover Clevo
land. No paraphrase can do justice to the
following passage:
"Our institutions were constructed in
purity of purpose and love for humanity.
Their operation is adjusted to the touch of
national virtue and patriotism, and their re
sults, under such guidance, must be the pros
perity and happiness of our people; and so
long as the advocates of tariff reform appro
ciatetbe sentiments in which our institutions
had their origin; so long as they apprehend
the forces which alone can guide their
operation; so long as they, in a spirit of
true patriotism, are consecrated to the service
of their country, temporary defeat brings no
discouragement. It but proves the stubborn
ness of the forces of combined selfishness.
and discloses how far the people have been led
astray, and how great is the necessity of re
doubled efforts in their behalf. To lose faith
in the intelligence of the people is a surren
der and an abandonment of the struggle. To
arouse their intelligence, and free it from
darkness and delusion, gives assurance of
speedy and complete victory." .
The idea sought to be conveyed in this
muddy mass of verbiage, is, that we have de
parted very far from the original purpose and
spirit of the Constitution; that the idea of the
framers and founders of the government has
been lost sight of, and that the people are de
veloping . an alarming incapacity for
self-government This was the idea
of the late message, also. Here
we aro told, almost in so many words, that
national virtue and patriotism are extinct;
that the government has been diverted and
prostituted from its original purpose; that the
people have been led astray by selfish leaders
and interests, and that their intelligence is en
compassed by "darkness and delusion' All
this because the country repudiated Grover
Cleveland's free-trade whims. He is awful
sorry to see the people thus rushing headlong
to destruction, and he would saye them from
themselves if he could by "redoubled efforts
in their behalf." What a pity his time is
so short. Perhaps he could be induced to act
as assistant eavior on the retired list.
Nothing in the entire range of Cleveland's
ignorance is more remarkable than his
assumption that the Constitution was framed
and the early administration of the govern
ment conducted in the interest of free trade.
He is forever prating about "the sentiments
in which our institutions had their
origin," about our departure from
the "purity of purpose" which char
acterized the fathers, and that sort of,
thing. The poople whose ignorance he la
ments are not yet so besotted but they can
read, and history tells them that Mr. Cleve
land's assumption in this regard is utterly un
true; One of the main objects of the framers
of the Constitution, and one of the strongest
arguments in favor of its adoption, was to se
cure a policy of national protection and de-
velopment The fathers all favored a pro
tective tariff. One of the first acts of the
First Congress was "an act for laying a duty
on goods, wares and merchandise imported
into the United States." All the early history
of the government was identified with the
protection of American industry. The de
parture from the spirit of the Constitution be
gan when the Southern wing of the Demo
cratic party began to agitate and advocate
free trade, and it continued to depart till it
brought on the war. The Republican party,
by re-establishing the protective-tariff policy
on a firm basis, has restored tho Constitution
to its original intent and purpose. These are
facts known to most people, but evidently
not to Mr. Cleveland. When he goes out of
office, if he has time, he should read the his
tory of the United States.
THE MAIL SERVICE.
It is hardly worth while to talk about the
establishment of a parcels-post system in this
country, as some Congressmen seem disposed
to do, until the present postal service is re
stored to a fair degree of efficiency. That it
is now in a shameful condition is a matter
patent to everv person who' makes use of the
mails. Important letters are submitted to its
care with misgivings and a feeling that chance
rather than a vigilant system will preside
over their transmission. With ordinary cor
respondence there is, of course, the same feel
ing of insecurity, and the uncertainty is only
a degree less annoying and the delays a trifle
less troublesome in one case than the other.
As for the newspaper mail, packages of mer
chandise and what is known as third and
fourth-class matter, irregularity is the
rule; they may reach their destina
tion within a reasonable time, or thev
may not, the probabilities being that.
they will not During the late campaign such
charges were said by administrative organs to
be purely political, and their truth was de
nied. There is no doubt that Republicans
had more to complain of than others during
that period, their mail being tampered with
and delayed to an outrageous extent; but
since the election the grumbling has not been
confined to the papers of one party. From
all parts of the country, and from non-partisan
as well as Democratic sources, come com
plaints of defective service. Since Postmaster
general Dickinson recovered from the 6hock
of learning that the "doubtful" State of Mich
igan had given a majority of more than
20,000 for Harrison, he has had time to devote
to the duties of his office, but apparently the
efficiency of the service is a matter in which
he feels no concern. He has induced the
President to place the railway mail depart
ment under civil-service rules, but this is ob
viously for the purpose of retaining Dem
ocratic employes in position, and not for
the benefit of the public. Civil-service re
form that means something, and that the
country needs, is the entire reconstruction of
the Postoffice Department, from the superin
tendents, "chief head clerks' and other man
aging officials down to the fourth-class post
masters. Doubtless some of them are capa
ble and worthy, but they are part of a system
that has become miserably unsatisfactory and
corrupt under the present management, and
unless they can show unquestionable proofs
of their efficiency and merit they must share
the odium with the rest The first reforms
instituted by the coming administration
should be in the Postoffice Department
With the advent of better streets, the ques
tion of keeping them clean is a subject that will
necessarily engage the attention of the city au
thorities. Indianapolis has tho dirtiest and dusti
est streets of any eity in the United States, and for
this the citizens are in a large measure directly
responsible. The gutters are the receptacles of
all kinds of filth, and the advertising dodger has
failed to fill its mission unless the sidewalks are
strewn with them from building to curbstone.
Brooklyn, N. Y., suffered from this nuisance
until it passed this ordinance:
"No person shall place, or cause to be placed,
any dirt, sand or rubbish of any kind in the
gutter of any street, lane or avenue of the city
of Brooklyn, under the penalty of $50, to be
paid by each and every person causing, or allow
ing the same to be done, and a penalty cf $23 to
be paid by the person or persons owning the
premises from which such sand or dirt is taken."
The New York critics are not treating Mrs.
James Brown Potter this season with the ten
der consideration that greeted her first appear
ance on the dramatic stage. Then her short
comings were glossed over, and whatever prom
ise conld be gleaned from her acting wa made
the most of. She was written of as an am
bitious amateur and a lady of hieh social
standing, rather than as a professional actress,
bat now there is no hesitancy in expressing
opinions; but the opinions are far from flatter
ing. The eritio of the Evening Post says, in
what Mrs. Potter doubtless regards as a brotal
way, that "as a matter of fact, she has improved
very little, if any, since her earlier efforts in
this city, and most still be accounted an ama
teur of a very raw quality. The most salient
and most depressing feature of her performance,
indeed, is the utter lack in it of anything like
acquired skill. The one, ''professional attribute
about her is her self-confidence, which in an un
tutored beginner is by no means a cheering
sign. Her mover.. art ungraceful, uncer
tain and unintelligent that is to say, devoid of
intelligent purpose; her elocution is slovenly
to a degree, her gestures are wooden, spasmodic
and insignificant, and her facial expression
bears the faintest relationship to the spoken
text. . There is no fervor in htr love, no fire in
her Indignation, co pathos in her grief, no
majesty in her pride she goes through her .
part, in a word, like a child that has learned its
lesson, with the halting and deadly precision of
a string-inspired marionette." It is admitted,
however, by all that her wardrobe is magnifi
cent, and certainly ' the description of the cos
tumes she is to wear as "Cleopatra" bears out
this statement. If she can't act. she can dress,
and people who like that tort of thing and are
cot particular about artistio talent, will proba
bly get their two dollars worth by merely look
ing at her clothes.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Manv strangers from a distance daily pay
visits to the tomb of Henry Ward Bescher, in
Greenwood, Long Island. '
Robert Bonnek, a New York correspondent
says, takos special pride in the fact that he nev
er gave or indorsed a note, and never borrowed
or owed a dollar.
Mr. Bright is often visited in his sick-room
by two pet Scotch terriers. "You' see that
do el'' he said one day to a friend, pointing to
one of them; "he's as old ai I am he's quite
blind."
John Poorman, at Lima, O., angry at stalled
oxen, made a knot in his whip lash, said he
would knock their eyes out, flourished his whip,
which wrapped itself around his head and
knocked one of his own eyes out
Cluseret, the Communist cut-throat whom
the electors of the Var have chosen to disgrace
them in the French House of Representatives,
is sixty-five years old; tall and well built, in
spite of his notorious gluttony and drunken
ness. Mrs. Kate Richmond, who is at the head
of the Wisconsin Lead and Zinc Company, Is
one of the most successful mining operators in
the country. The company has a paid-up capital
of $500,000, and its entire business is personally
supervised by Mrs. Richmond.
Dr. Giraud, a French physician, who regu
larly used hashish as a stimulant for five years,
speaks enthusiastically of its usefulness. Hash
ish has acquired the bad name which attaches
to it, he delares, from the common mistake of
taking an over-dose of the dreg.
C. M. Raymond has introduced roller-skating
into Australia, and the giddy pastime is jnst as
popular a craze there as it was in this country
four or five years ago. He also tried to inaugu
rate it in Japan, but the Mikado issued a
ukase positively prohibiting the opening of a
rink.
The Belgian courts have decided against the
request of Mile. Popelin to be admitted to
practice at the bar. They take the ground that
woman has other social duties to perform, and
that the laws and customs of the country do
not permit her to enjoy the privileges of a bar
rister. The English government pays $20,000 a year
for dining the officers of the Queen's Guard, on
duty at St James's Palace. The only two
guards which receive a mess allowance from the
government are the guard at St. James's Palace
and the Castle Guard, Dublin, the latter re
ceiving 4,000 per annum from the British tax
payers. "Thomas Tusser," musician, schoolmaster,
servineman, husbandman, glazier, poet, more
skillful in all than thriving in any vocation, born
1515, who died in London 1580, was the author
of the lines: .
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
, The late Laurence Peel was the youngest
and last surviving brother of Sir Robert Peek
Be was married to a daughter of the fourth
Duke of Richmond, and inherited a fortune
worth $10,000 a year. He was in Parliament
only three years, and spent most of his life in
essy, social and benevolent leisure, chiefly at
Brighton.
During Mr. Irving's recent visit to Birming
ham, Miss Terry and Miss Marion Terr? occu
pied a box one evening when they were not in
'the cast But between the acts such an array
'of opera-glasses was leveled at them that they
were foreed to beat a retreat They spent the
rest of the time between the acts sitting on the
stairs outside the box, eating candy, and heap
ing gentle objurgations upon the bad manners
of the town.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has gone back to
Pittston, Pa,, to spend the winter with her
acred mother and only sister. She has improved
in health, but is still under the doctor j care.
She has been urged to eo to England and try
ber fortune as an actress on the London 6tage,
where it is believed ber Anne Boleyn would be
a success. She has lost the larger part of her
bard-earned fortune, and as soon as she is well
again she will take up some money-making pur
suit. Jay Gould has his whims, just like a poor
man. In going upstairs he always puts his left
foot on the step first, even if he has to get
out of step to do it If by accident or through
thoughtlessness he happens to start with the
right foot he is certain to remark it before
reaching the top of the steps, and it he does will
return and start over again. Another reported
peculiarity of Mr. Gould is his antipathy to fair
haired men. There is not a single blonde clerk
in his immediate employ, and it is said
that he dislikes to do business with men who
have fair hair.
According! to Dr. Lucy 31. Hall, the average
farm-house isn't the healthful place that it is
supposed to be by the people who pour out ot
the crowded cities in summer. She - has ex
amine d more than 150 country houses, East and
West, and has found that disease and death
lurked within many a vine-clad and moss
covered cottage because simple hygienic laws
were violated. Some of the evils Dr. Hall dis
covered were improper drainage, uncemented
cellars, failure to ventilate sleeping apartments,
exclusion of light, too much shade about the
house and the improper disposal of kitchen ref
use. "
. Canon Fleming, the popular preacher, is a
remarkable man, and be has a remarkable son.
This young man decided not long ago that he
wished to go into the army. He was too old to
secure a commission in tho ordinary way, so he
enlistsd as a private in the carbineers. His abil
ity and cood conduct soon attracted the atten
tion of his commanding cGcer, who did all he
eould for him, and in an incredibly ehort time
Mr. Fleming got a commission. No sooner an
Seer than another piece of luck befei him. He
met an exceedingly charming young .lady, suc
ceeded in winning her affections, ao was mar-
mi t m a? a
riea to ner. xms young isay was carman,
daughter of Sir Henry Norman, who has just
been appointed Governor of Queensland.
A reporter of the New York San has a win
dow that commands a view of a sewing-rom,
over a gentleman's furnishing store. Every
morning when the reporter gets up he sees a
slender girl sewing by the work-room window.
Often when be comes home at night she is still
there and still sewing. She is making eyelets
in shirt fronts. It is nice and delicate work,
though she does it with the persistency of a
machine. She takes thirty stitches every
minute. That is 1,800 every hour or 18,000
every day. In a week she takes 103,000 stitches.
Herhand moves a yard for every stitch. In a
week she measures off precisely six miles and a
quarter of space with that hand. The pay for
this prodigious amount of labor is $1 a day, and
she is considered a high-priced, skilled work
woman. Kossuth relates in his "Memoirs of Exile"
that the Duchess of Sutherland, whose death
was recently recorded, was at one time very
enthusiastic about the Hungarian cause, and did
a great deal for many of the Magyar refuges in
London after 1849. She even took lessons in
the Hungarian language, and succeeded within
a short time in speaking that idiom remarkably
well. Once in 1859 (while still Marchioness of
Stafford! she was 'at a ball given by Napoleon
III, at Compiegne, and there she met a Hungar
ian noblewoman. Countess II , whom she
addressed in the Magyar tongue. But the
Countess replied that she was educated in
Vienna, and could not speak her own native
laneuage. To which the Marchioness of Stafford
rejoined, "I was educated London, and yet I
speak the language of your brave nation," and
turned ber back to the unpatroitic Countess H.
"I drank," says P. T. Barnum, "more or less
intoxicating liquors from 1837 till 1847. The
last four of these years I was in England, and
there the habit and my appetite for liquor grew
so strong from month to month that I discovered
that If continued it would certainly work my
rein. With a tremendous effort, and a meat de
termined resolution, I broke the habit square
off, and resolved never to practice it again. I
nave religiously kept that resolution for more
than forty years. Had I not done so, 1 should
nave oeen in my grave a quarter of a century
ago, for my health had already neeun to be af
fected by alcohol. I was 60 deliebted with my
own escape, that I traveled thousands of miles
at my own expenae and gave hundreds of free
temperance lectures in every State between
Maine and Wisconsin, besides Missouri, Ken
tucky. Louisiana and California. I have cladly
expended thousands of dollars for temperance.
I havo built numerous houses for. moderate
drinklog workingmen on condition that they
would beeome teetotalers, and they subse
quently paid for the houses with the money and
extra strength gained thereby. With this rec
ord acd the?e principles, Mr.'Barcnm is natur
ally a stanch Republican, and so earnest oppon
ent of the "third-party prohibition" movement
"A vote for a Prohibitionist." he said, just be
fore the late presidential election, "is a vote to
give countenance and strength to the rum
power."
WHAT THEV WOULD DO.
If "Yoolioos Kysar." dad and turned to elay.
To stop a hole and keep the wind away,
r 1 i 1 1
v.uuiu urar uaru&rcan virrmaa tpcas ms name.
His chalky teara would fail as with clenched hands he
cried ,
"Ah, is this famef
If in study there in Limbo-land,
Couid "WirpilV. ehade uplift its powerful hand.
As with thick tongues they give his name a "We,"
He'd quickly strike oS. those who would not use their
Latin with a " e."
Hoston Transcript.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
President Cleveland tells the Tariff Re
form Clab of Massachusetts tnat the tariff is a
tax, and reproaehes an ungrateful republic more
in sorrow than in anger. It is evident that on
the tariff the Ddtnocratio President is a Bour
bon, learning nothing and forgetting nothing.
New York Press. '
The effect of this planting of factories con
tiguous to the farms cannot be otherwise than
beneficial to the character and distribution of
the population in this country. By diversify
ing industries, opening new avenues to enter
prise and buildine up home markets all classes
are benefited. Chicago Inter Ocean.
It will be a long time before the ratio between
actual population and the number of people
who can be well supported here comfortably
has beeh so far equalized as to require any pro
hibition of immigration of this sort. The bee
gars, paupers and criminals should be kept ont
by honest official action. isew lork Graphic.
The beneficial effects of the Nicaragua canal
on the political and commercial interests of the
United States cannot easily be exaggerated. It
is a stupendous undertaking, not so much in its
money cost as in it influences on our trade and
our relations with the countries of this conti
nent It is destined to fill a large place in the
attention of the American people, and its mer
its deserve a very careful study. Boston Jour
nal. Ant oreanization which tends to cause or
to keep alive war between employers and em
ployed is certain to do harm to both. In the
end the organization ceases to commend itself
te the good sense of workers; they see that they
have lost whatever they have spent in support
ing it; and then, too often, they only turn to
some other organization of the same sort, hop
ing that it may be more effective. New York
Tribune.
The right to limit the" eharges of common
carriers is well established and must be firmly
exercised if the great regulative law of competi
tion, whicn is the life of trade and controls all
other Kinds of business, cannot be made to ap
ply to railroad transportation. The question
for railroad officials Is: Which do they prefer
to give the publio the benefits of competition or
submit to schedules of maximum rates? Chi
cago Tribune.
It wonld be difficult indeed to establish the
most liberal form of republican government
without copying something originated by roy
alty. The downfall of the Cleveland adminis
tration and the election cf Harrison and Morton
was certainly an occasion for national rejoicing.
and it is fitting tbt the President-elect should
be inducted into office with joyous ceremonies.
Therefore, we say on with the Inauguration
ball, let music and laughter and the noise of
many tripping feet fill the capital. Cleveland
Leader.
The intelligence, the patriotism and the moral
worth of the country are represented by the Re
publican party. It is the parxv of education and
of true reform. It is tho party of progress.
Every reform under the government from the
emancipation of the slaves, which was the first
grand triumph of labor reform, to the establish
ment of the proieetire eyetem in our tariff,
which is true tariff-reform, has been the work
of the Republican party. So it has been in the
past: so it will be in the future. Chicago
Journal.
The country has not responded formally to
the Butterworth resolution io reeari to the an
nexation of Canada or the establishment of
commercial union with it. The expressions of
the Canadian press are against it, and the
Canadian people, who speak of it at all, profess
to be angry about it The American papers are
largely indifferent. It looks as though Canada
was not ready to annex, nor the United States
ready to have it. As to commercial union,
would it not merely make of Canada a gateway
of European smuggling into the United States?
Iowa State Register. v
Why should the Democracy, with its long free
list and sweeping tariff reductions, wish to keep
out the foreign laborer! If the products of the
foreign workmen are to be permitted to come
into free competition with American goods, why
keep out the laborers themselves! would it
not be better, core profitable, to this country
to admit the alien laborers and let them do their
work and spend their wages here? The attempt
to prevent the importation of foreign labor
under contract is rieht, but we don't see bow
the Democratic party can consistently support
it Kansas City Journal.
If the cost of the Nicaragua canal were ap
plied to finishing the Panama canal, the .Nica
ragua capitalists would be reasonably snro of
half the earnings of one canal, while, if both
canals were built, the Nicaraugua people would
reeeive dividends on a divided traffic. The cost
of maintaining the Nicaragua canal, with its
numerous locks, would, also, be a constant drain.
while the Panama canal would require much
less attention and outlay. Let Congress grant
a charter to the Nicaraugua Company. It would
be good diplomacy, whatever the outcome.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
What a proposition it is the very essence of
partisan gali! To catalogue Dakota, Washing
ton and Montana, rich and. rapidly growing in
wealth, and populated by an intelligent and
enterprising people, with Utah, cursed with vile
polygamy, and New Mexico, inhabited by a
mongrel population that does not speak our
language or teach it in its few schools for this
is what the Illinois statesman proposes, thonch
he would bring Utah in under a separate bill.
Mr. Springer may live to see Utah admitted to
the sisterhood of States, but it will only be
after it has purged itself of its putridity and
fitted itself for association wan decency.
Omaha Kepublican.
THE CLEVELAND POLICY.
A Democratic Journal Points Out the Re
sults So Far Achieved.
New York Ban.
The Forty-elchth Congress organized with a
Democratic majority of 46 over the Kepublicsna
in the House. The tidal wave bad swept the
Republicans out of power. The Hon. John G.
Carlisle was Speaker, and the Hon. William R.
Morrison was chairman of the committee on
wave and meant.
The first Morrison bill, known as the hori
zontal reduction bill, was introduced from the
committee on ways ana means, ice caucus
and every other appliance of party pressure
Were employed to put it through. It was debated
lang and stoutly. On May 0, 18S4, the first
Morrison bill was rejected by a majority of only
tour.
That fall the tariff question went to the coun
try.. The Forty-ninth Congress was elected,
and ?n the House there was still a Democratic
majority, but reduced from seventy-eight to
forty- three, a loss of 43 per cent Mr. Carlisle
.- i t e sir
wafc .veaKer acain, ana again nr. jaorneon was
chairman 01 ways ana means.
The itecond Morrison bill was introduced from
the committee on ways and means, and an at
tempt wis made to force it through the House.
On Jnne .17. 1850, the House refused to consider
the second Morrison bill by a vote of lot to H0.
The tariil question again went to the country
that same falL The Fiftieth Congress was
elected, and the Democratic majority in the
House went down from forty-three to seven
teen, a loss th is' time of CO percent Among
the tariff smashers left at come was .Mr. Mor
rison himself. Mr. Carlisle was still the Speak
er, and Mr. Roger Q. Mills, cf Texas, beeame
the chairman cf the committee on ways and
means.
The first, and P to date the only. Mills bill
was introduced from the committee on ways
and roears. No, only were extraordinary means
within the control cf the tariff smashers in com
mand employed to force and buy a way through
the House for this treasure, nut tne wnose po
litical power of the executive was also turned
in the same direction. The Southern theorists
had convinced the WUHo House that a theory
was a condition. Tre Mills bill uaised the
Hoaseon July 21, ISSoV.by a msjority of thir
teen votes. '
A third time the tariff questioo went to the
eonntrTr. Within sixteen - weeks after the event
just recorded, the countrr elected the F-ftrst
Congress, and the Democratic majority ia the
House wholly disappeared a loss of 100 per
cent
Does the President, dors any sane and loyai
Democrat think that it is for the political ad
vaaiace cf the . Democratic party that Mr.
Cleveland or the remaining architects of Demo
cratic disaster and repulse should still aasert
their leadership in the tack cf tariff revision!
GEN. IIAItKISON'S VERSATILITY.
His Successful Evasion of All Sorts of Traps
Laid by Ingenious Correspondents.
Brooklyn Kacle (Ind.)
The correspondents in IndiansDolis who deem
it their duty to telegraph one column a dsv t
me ew lors newspapers, notwithstanding
their great ingenuity, are hsvine a hard time of
it They have described tha Harriaon home.
have scanned the ornameots on the mantel.
have supplied every cetail of ancestry, and even
speculated on how many drinks a day the Prefi
dentlect is likely to take. But they have been
unable to induce the treat man to commit him
self in any important respect and their L,0SS1P
regarding the probable composition of the Cab
inet has been extremely Tapue. One day we
have been informed that Mr. Blaine would poi.
itively be chosen for the Department of State,
ana me next that be wouut not
ine XrienoS Ot the Elaine etatmnr.- i.av
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urea in a perceiuai Iiniter. nnd lhr am nn
wiser now man tnev were thrA wt rw t
me truth were tola it would probably be found
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mat tne contradictory reports have reflected
only the personal desires of Mr. Harripon's rally
ers. and that iu all likelihood the President!
ioci uj5 eaia not a single wora wnicn could b e
J - ia a t . I
cun&iruua as enner inenaiy or inimical to th e
interests of Mr. Blaine. To be polite uoder ch-
cumstances well calculated to nroroka ill
temper; to be called upon every hour of the dajjv
to say sometnmc which means notbinc. and ve t
give no offense in short, to parry every thrus s
and steer . clear of every trap, requires more
than common skill. In this respect Mr. liar
rison has not been found wanting. He has
shown himself to be eminently a versatile mar,
capable of talking on almost any subject, and
adroit, too, in turning conversation when
it approached delicate or dangerooj
ground. Uow far he has succeeded is shown by
the fact that not one word regarding his inten
tions has teen sent over the wires which ws a
not necessarily speculative, and sometime
wildly speculative at that. It is clear that tt c
correspondents are oecoming weary. They
have done remarkably well, made the mo&t cf
whatever material was at their diDosa' an d
are, doubtless,. heartily glad that their task ia
slowly approaching an end. Of the motivt
which, in our opinion, should covern General
Harrison in makine his appointments we hav a
already spoken at length, and it is unnecessary
now to go over the ground acain. All that need
be said is that the President-elect does not ai-
pear to be asking much advice. He is perfectly
capable of framinc his own course, and he no
doubt believes, so far at least as Cabinet placei
aro concerned, that the office should seek the
man and not the man the office. It would be a
decided relief to the country if the incoming
President were given a rest for a few days. Ha
certainly must need it
That Terrible Tax.
Extract from Address by A. S. ilallidle, cf Fan Frsn-O
ciico.
Daring the year 18S7 the amount collected for
duties under the present law was 12,032.42
being about 47 per cent, of the total value of the
dutiable goods imported into the United States.
The population ot the country is to-day above
05,000,000. Hence, the amouut of tax paid, if it
were paid by our own people, instead of tbe
foreign manufacturer, would be $3.26 per heal
per annum, or C cents per week. Now. sup
posing that you had to pay all of this which
you do not would you object If by so doing
vou can earn in wages one-half more in tho
United States that you can in England twice
as much as you can in France, or thrice as much
as in Germany or Italyf Surely not
But the fact is that of the $212.C00.G00 paid
for duties on !he foreign goods about $140,00O,CC0
are paid on luxuries that you don't use, or don't
want, or can get along without leavinz
$72,000,000 to be paid for necessities. Now, of
those who pay these $72,000,000, those who earn
their living by the sweat of their brow that
engaeed in agricultural, meeu;r?.cal or mining
industries are about 23 per cent, of the whole
population over ten years of ace, and conse
quently pay 23 per cent of $72,000,000, or
$1G,5G0,000, which will be $1.24 per annum to
each of you, or 2.4 cents per week. Now, I say
. . . a e 4 m
to tne most anient rree-traaer, is tnis z.i cents
per week going to make up your wages, for
what you receive over and above what yoa
would receive.supposing yen were in Europe! or.
within the ranee of possibilities, in China? at
competition would put you on the same plane
with your competitor.
Democratic Cheek.
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With such direct proof of intended bribery
on their own part the Whitaker and Ewing let
ters the Democratic charge of Ke publican cor
ruption rises to the height of colossal insolence.
They trust in this matter, however, as in many
other unfounded charges, that the Republicans
will refuse to dignify it by a denial, and that
then the publio will receive it as the truth. The
purpose is to make it appear that Indiana is a
sure Democratic State, unless carried by
bribery, but the facts are against this claim. In
ISSo the Republican plurality on tne State ticket
was 3,324, and on the legislative vote, which
represonted directly the strength ot General
Harrison's candidacy for re-election to the Sen
ate, the Republican clnralitv was There
wasa n r Ha ( sSfiHs.sv msLalsk that truaw
The Republican pluralCJr last month cn Con
gressmen in Indiana was 4,01, as against 2.313
on presidential electors, showing that the Dem
ocrats concentrated all their malice and corrup
tion in the attempt to carry the State aeainst
General Harrison. It is probable that had it
not been for Democratic bribery and false count
ing the Republican plurality in the Ktate wonld
have been four times as largo a the figures'
make it
Whose Authority?
Washington Sp-cial in Pittibur? Chronicle.
It can be said with authority that Senator
Spooney, who has jnst visited Mr. Harrison at
Indianapolis, has been offered the position ot
Attorney-general under the nev,-administration,
and that ho bss the offer under consideration.
He does not want to go into the Cabinet, and
has suggested to General Harrison that some
sterling Republican from the South should have
the place, but so far the search for the sterling
Republican has been in vain. Mr. Harrison and
Senator Spooner are both searching for him
still, but It begins to look now as though,
Spooner would have to take the place.
Make Haste Slowly.
Kew York Graphic.
There is no necessity for haste in bringicg
new States into the Union. The Territories
like the Dakota, Washington and Montana,
which are .est qualified for statehood, are will
ing to wait until the government is Republican
in all its branches, when they are sure to re
ceive the power of admission that has been brut
ally refused for four years. As for New Mex
ico, with its half Mexican-Spanish population,
ana Utah, with its Mormon domination, they
can stay out a while longer till they have better
claims for recognition.
A Good Idea.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
The wool-growers of Texas have held a meet
ing and requested Messrs. Randall and McKln-
ley to represent their interest when a revision
of the tariff comes np in the House. Would it
cot be a good idea for the wool-growers to se
cure the election of men from their own b'tate
to properly represent them in CongressT It
would certainly simplify matters.
Give Him m Ilest.
Philadelphia Times.
Give Harrison a rest. If the spoilsmen won't
give it to him let him take it. and nobody will
complain whose approval is of value. The
elder soldier. Senator acd President Harrison
died in one month from the greed of spoilsmen;
let the younger soldier. Senator and President
Harrison rest and live.
Wealth That Jever Came.
Kansas City Journal.
Indiana nuzht to be the richest State io the
Union, and more thn half the total number of
Hoosiers should be able to live without work for
some years, if all the money which the Demo
cratic papers claim was poured into Icdiam
during the campaign actually went there.
A Good Iiule in a New Ilole.
Atlanta Constitution.
It is announced in the newspapers that Gen.
Harrison's private secretary will be glad to an
swer all communications addressed to the President-elect.
They should be short and written
on one side ot the paper only.
The Unhappy South.
Aurnsta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Now, with the old trust making jute bagging
and the cotton-seed oil trust weaving pine straw,
where are we? The devil axid the deep sea will
explain the situation next fall, perhaps.
Give Them Time,
Tittsburg Chronicle. .
The Cabiuet-makcrs ought to write General
Harrison's inaugural addreii, toa.
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