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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1889.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1680.
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As a champion of Sim Coy, the Even
ing News appears in a picturesque and
highly entertaining role.
It is the same old story. One "race
war" in the South is like all others. The
negroes are represented as being blood
thirsty, desperate and aggressive, but it
is invariably the negroes who are killed.
The Evening News has suddenly
dropped the subject of city finances and
city debt, which it was bo furiously dis
cussing the other day, and seems to have
lost all interest in the matter. Why is
this thus!
A New York free-trade paper says
"the union and harmony of the Demo
cratic party on the tariff question is an
accomplished fact." Of course it is. For
example, look at the nomination for Gov
ernor of a protectionist on a free-trade
platform over in Ohio. Such harmony
as this is what makes Republicans laugh.
Barring the interference with Labor
day celebration, yesterday's rain w&a
very welcome. It came none too soon
to save field and garden crops, and will
be worth agreat deal of money here
about. If general throughout tho State,
it will be of the greatest benefit to corn,
which in many localities was beginning
to suffer from the drought.
Even the opponents of Gov. David B.
Hill in his own party are accustomed to
speak of him as a "true Democrat."
They can hardly do otherwise. His
friendly call to the New York saloon
keepers' organization, and all who are
opposed to restrictions on the liquor
tratfic, to send delegates to the Demo
cratic State convention, proves his status
beyond question.
Isn't it something of an insult to the
party of the sainted Hendricks to sug
gest that Sim Coy was pardoned in order
that he might become a Democratic can
didate for office? Are there no Demo
crats 60 popular in their party as those
who have served a terra in the peniten
tiary! The champion of whisky-ring
candidates should pause in its hysterical
career and think of this.
The News'announces that this is not
a Coy campaign, nor a party campaign,
1 but a campaign of the people against
corporations. This information is es
pecially interesting, in view of the cir
cumstance that one of its pet candidates
is generally believed to be seeking
election as a city official solely for tho
purpose of securing certain personal
favors from sundry corporations.
Governor Lowry is bound to keep
peaco in Mississippi if ho has to order
th.T troops to shoot every negro who
shows his head. He loses no time in or
dering out militia to protect white
people who have not been hurt, nor, so
: far as appears, even threatened; but it
is not on record that ho has ever detailed
a company to guard black citizens who
have been wantonly and brutally at
tacked. Labor day celebration at this point
was unfortunately interfered with by tho
lain, but in its main features it was en
tirely successful. The street parade
was large, well organized, and ,well
handled. A better looking or more or
derly procession has never been seen in
our streets. The American flag was con
spicuous at various point?, and the dem
onstration was in all respects thor
oughly representative of a law and order
people.
The action of Messrs. Bynum and
Taylor in declining to speak at one of
the labor picnics, lest they might offend
the other one, savors a little too much of
line politics. It is unfortunate if work
ingmen aro so much divided among
themselves that they cannot celebrate
Labor day harmoniously, but if either
or both of the gentlemen named had
anything to say of real interest to tho
cause of labor, they should have gone
and said it.
The Washington Post is urging tho
removal of General Giant's body from
Riverside to Arlington, and has ad
dressed letters to the Governors of all
the States, and other distinguished men,
asking their opinion on the subject. Six
teen Governors have signified their ap
proval of tho plan, and all communica
tions, from whatever source, favor the
removal. Such formal expressions aro
hardly worth while, since there can be
little doubt that the general sentiment
of the country is now, as it was at tho
time of Grant's death, in favor of his
burial at the national capital. Tho re
moval, however, will not bo mado
againfet tho wishes of Mrs. Grant, and
aixould not bo made, in any event, until
definite arrangements havo been de
cided en for building the monument at
Washington. The Post has little to say
of this phase of tho matter, other than
to suggest that Congress appropriate a
sum for the purpose; but if an appropri
ation is to bo mado New York has an
equal right to claim it. The monument
should bo built by tho people, and con
tributions would bo easy to obtain wero
the location one to please them.
The "race war," in Louisiana, seems,
according to all accounts, to bo nothing
more nor less ?han an unprovoked and
premeditated assault by white ruffians
upon a peaceable and unoffending picnic
party of men, women and children,
whose only offense was their color. Not
content with killing and wounding sev
eral of the number, and terrorizing tho
rest, the New Orleans hoodlums carried
their sport still further, and playfully
made a bonfire of a negro church. The
New Orleans Times-Democrat is moved
out of its usual calm by this outrage,
and calls for the punishment of the per
petrators, and of the participants in the
riot, of whatever color. Past ex
perience allows no reason for think
ing that the white men engaged
in tho affair will receive their deserts,
but something of an advance in public
opinion is indicated when such a thing
is boldly suggested. White supremacy
must be maintained, however, if all the
negro pickaninnies get bullet-holes
through them, and every negro church
is burned to the .ground in tho opera
tion. The Caucasian race is a great
one, no doubt, but it sometimes fails
to distinguish itself in conflicts with
the people it is pleased to call inferior.
All Associated Press dispatches from
the South com from Democratic
sources, and are notoriously untrust
worthy in their accounts of raco
troubles. The one printed yesterday
has amevident attempt to conceal tho
worst features of the massacre, and
throw the responsibility of the affair on
tho negroes. Special dispatches disclose
the utter brutality of the attack and
place the responsibility where Jt belongs.
The picnic, or excursion party, was given
by the colored Baptist churches of three
or four villages, and tho people who took
part in it were mostly church members.
Tho attack was made while they wero
disembarking from the train, and by a
party of white men already armed with
shotguns, revolvers and Winchester
rifles. Tho negroes wero unarmed, and
fled in all . directions. The attacking
party continued to fire on them as long
as they were within range, and then
turned their attention to church-burning
and plundering the houses of the fugitive
negroes. Tho massacre is ono of the
most shocking on record, even in that
country of massacres.
Our free-trade organs have very little
to say about the great labor strike in
London It is a little unfortunate for
them that tho greatest strike of this dec
ade, if not of modern times, should
havo come just as they were having so
much to say about tho universal pros
perity and contentment in England
under free trade. Perhaps after tho
free-traders have got their second wind
they wilj be able to prove by somo
hocus-pocus of argument that even tho
London strike is caused by protection.
It is worth while, by the way, to note
how this strike began and what for. It
began with the dock laborers, or, as tho
wmo class of workmen are called in
New York, tho 'longshoremen. Tho
London dock laborers have been receiv
ing 10 cents an hour, and they struck for
2 cents more, or 12 cents an hour. The
conditions of their occupation are such
that about GO per cent, of them are not
employed more than half the time.
Under no circumstances, therefore, could
their earnings exceed $1 a day, and much
of the time they fell considerably below
that. Now, in New York, the 'longshore
men get 30 cents an hour for regular
work, and 60 cents an hour for night and
Sunday work. Some of the steamer
I lines pay dock hands 815 per week, and
25 cents per hour overwork. Yet the
London dock men struck for 12 cents an
hour, and nearly all the labor unions in
tho great metropolis aro supporting
them. If they get what they are strik
ing for their wages will still be consid
erably less than half what the same
class of workers get in New York. Yet
free trade would reduce the wages of
the New York 'longshoremen to the level
of tho London dock laborer, as it would
tho wages of all other American labor
ers, to those paid abroad. For, as Prof.
Wilson says, "free trade between nations
will, sooner or. later, bring the price of
labor wages to the same level the
world over, and that level will be the
lowest figure to which tyranny and mis
government can reduce tho laborers any
where." The Boston Herald is of tho opinion
that, "aside from au intense partisan
ship, which renders him suspicious of
any good being found in a Democrat,"
President Harrison is favorable to the
civil-service reform principle. It is pre
cisely this suspicion that prevents a
largo number of Republicans from be
coming enthusiastic supporters of the
reform. They would like to believe that
Democrats are competent and honest,
and to be trusted in tho conduct of pub
lic affairs, but the facts are so vio
lently opposed to this belief that
they find practical adherence to
the principle very difficult. If
the officials of the late administration
had made a better showing in the mat
ter of ability it would bo easier to give
them a larger share of responsibility
now; but since all, from President to
fourth-class postmasters, made such a
mess of public business, prejudice is
hard to overcome. The Herald's party
has itself to blame for tho existence of
the suspicion mentioned.
The extensive iron-worka in Berks
county, Pennsylvania, which suspended
a few months ago, yesterday resumed
operations with full quotas of employes
and increased wages. This group of
iron-mills is tho most important in the
country, and their resumption is a grati
fying indication of improving times.
When they shut down a few months ago
it was cited by free-trade organs as
proof of the failure of protection. Their
resumption, with an increase of wages,
ought to be equally good evidence of tho
beneficial results of protection. It is a
poor rule that doe3 not work both ways.
By the way, it is a pleasant coincidence
that theso large establishments should
have resumed operations on Labor day.
There is a strong saving element of
horse sense about General Sherman that
prevents him from losing his head or
temper when he ought not to. An at
tempt has been made to magnify into an
incident of importance the fact that ho
was ejected or excluded from a car at
Milwaukee by members of the G. A. R.
who claimed to control it. The Gen
eral's brother has talked rather freely
about it, but the General himself poo
poohs it. He says:
It amounted to nothing. I got into the
wrong car with Senator Manderson and
another gentleman, having been told that
it was my car. After we nad got settled
the people who had chartered the car camo
along and wo got out. There was some
talk, and my brother resented the way in
11 . i . t i ; t x x
session oi wnat aiuni ueiong 10 me, ana
gave it up when I saw my mistake. There
was nothing to it.
Of course there was not. It is easy to
see how the thing might have happened
in the confusion of the moment, and
how a noisy crowd might havo insisted
on their rights without knowing who
the unintentional trespassers were. "Old
Tecump." knows very well that there is
not an American living who would offer
him a slight knowingly He can have
tho earth, or at least tho United States
part of it, if he wants it.
The Cincinnati pirates did not buy the
decent Republican press of Indiana when it
bought tho Indianapolis Journal. Senti
nel. This refers to tho school-book law.
Wo copy it in order that decent people,
who only know of tho Sentinel by hear
say, may see the style of argument it
uses. Papers and persons who make
such charges can always be set down as
corrupt. They attribute to others the
motives by which they are governed
themselves. Tho person who wrote
this paragraph is probably a rascal. The
paper that printed it is notoriously venal.
As for the Republican press of In
diana, tho Journal is not troubling
itself about their course. They can do
as they please. As a plain matter of
fact a majority of the Republican
papers of the State are in entire
harmony with tho Journal in its op
position to the Becktold- Williams
gouge. Tirde will fully justify
, the position of this paper in regard to
the 6chool-book law, which, take it for
all in all, is one of the most ill-consid-e'red,
vicious, meddlesome and injurious
measures ever enacted in the State.
From beginning to end it is a fraud on
the people and the schools, a violation
of contracts, of popular rights, of local
self-government, of correct constitu
tional , principles, of tho established
laws of trade, and of tho educational in
terests of the State. . V
The Democratic plan of campaign in
tho city election is plainly foreshad-
owed. It is to consist of Coyism and
Reform. Tho idea evidently is that
these two elements will sweep the fieldf
"Jack Sprat he ate. no fat, his wife shd
ate no lean, and so betwixt them both
they licked the platter clean." Tho.
verse is not very elegant, but it fits.
Coyism is depended upon to catch the
toughs, and Reform to catch the respect
able element. Thus the campaign will
bo run on distinct but parallel lines.
Publicly Reform will frown upon Coy
ism, but priv ately the ex-convict 'will
be patted on the back and encouraged
to do his utmost. Reform will figure
most conspicuously, but Coyism will be
most active. One will apjfcar on dress
parade while the other is working in the
trenches. After tho election, if the
grand old party succeeds, Reform will
drop out of sight and Coyism will as
sume entire control. It is a very sym
metrical plan.
It is sheer idiocy for tho latest and
most vehement apologist for Coyism,
the News, to intimate that tho little
boss was "pardoned" out of the peni
tentiary by tho Republican administra
tion in order that he might be enabled
to eflect his re-entrance into local poli
tics. Had not his fine been remitted, ho
would have been released from prison
only thirty days later than he was other
wise, and as for his "re-entrance into
politics," a very careful inquiry will fail
to discover at just what particular
period Mr. Coy mado his exit from the
field. He was a Democratic member ol
the City Council during the entire period
of his incarceration, and was as much a
director ofDemocratic movements from
his cell at Michigan City as he was when
chairman of the county committee.
D. L. Moody is preparing to open an
evangelistic training school, in Chicago, to
continue throughout the year. The plan,
as outlined in the prospectus, is similar in
character to that of the snmmer school,
which he has so successfully conducted at
Northh'eld, Mass., for several successive
seasons. The main purpose is to give tbo
best practical instruction in tho English
Bible, and in all that has to do with mission
work of every kind. Colleges and theologi
cal schools already established do not
wholly meet the want. Chicago is chosen
for tho location of the school because
it is central, and easily reached
by evangelists, lay preachers, Sun
day-school teachers and others
desiring instruction, and for the further
reason, as Mr. Moody sagaciously observes.
that the city and neighborhood offer a
gTand field for actual work among the
masses of the people. Both women and
men are admitted, and the prospects are
that the school will open with a large, at
tendance. Students may join the classes
without charge, except for board, and the
best instructors who can be had m this
country or over the sea are promised. Ap
plication for entrance to the men's depart
ment must be made to Mr. F. G. Ensign, 151
Madison street, Chicago. Those for the
women's department should go to Mrs. 8.
B.Capron, same number.
At the Milwaukee Grand Army encamp
ment Governor Hovey was a member of the
committee on resolution's. Onthesubject
of pensions the committee's report requests
Congress to give to every soldier who has
served sixty days, and has an honorable
discharge, a pension of $$ a month daring
life, and, in addition, one cent a day for
every day over 800 days service. Iu addi
tion to this, tho resolutions request Con
gress, to grant every soldier's widow 12 a
month during life. In I860 General Hovey,
wmcn tne people wno naa a rigni to mo
car put forward their claim. I took pos-
in accepting the Republican nomination for
Congress in the First district, declared
strongly for a service pension. For this ho
was abased without reserve- by the entire
Democratic press, but, although the dis
trict was 2,500 Democratic, he was elected
by f,S76 majority. His position at that
time, and subsequently while in Congress,
has now been indorsed by the organized
soldiery of the country, including both
Democrats and Republicans.
TnRcoal palace at the Springfield, 111.,
fair will be something new in the way of
exhibits. The originator, will, however,
not be likely to rival Clans Spreckels and
his augar-house by offering to build an
addition to the White House. Coal is too
black for that
The rain of yesterday should not lead to
the impression that the Weather Bureau
man is unfriendly to labor. The rain: was
good for the farmer, and what is good for
the farmer is good for all other laboring
men, e en though it incidentally involve
a wet picnic.
In the base-ball game between the "Doc
tors" arid the "Undertakers" at Chicago,
yesterday, the umpire should have been in
a peaceful frame of mind. He was sure to
be taken care of whatever happened.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Sir Edwin Arnold, it is said, will suc
ceed Lord Tennvson as noct laureate of
England.
A professional traveler advises folks to
observe the number of their baggage checks
ana avoia mucn trouble.
A Western paper gallantly remarks that
the lady prisoners in our jail are about
the most desperate lot we have seen in a
longtime."
Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, has been
selected by Cardinal Gibbons to preach the
sermon at the dedication of the new Roman
Catholio University of Washington on Nov.
13.
Ex-Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana,
who has been in New York lately has
aged very much in the last year or two.
Ilis once raven hair is now white and he
looks feeble.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale says the
flaw in Edward Bellamy's "Looking Back
ward" is the Assumption that method is to
correct all social evils. It makes no pro
vision for sin, hence will fail.
The women of Berlin use daily 202 kilos
of face powder, 117 kilos of rouge, 613 of
made, 2934 of glycerine, 15 of cold cream.
A Kilo or Kilogram is equal to 2 1-5 pounds.
. Ex-President Cleveland is still unde
cided as to his European trip next winter.
His wife is anxious ,to cross and spend a
few months in the south of France. Mr.
Cleveland's intimate friends assert that his
disinclination for the trip lies in his fear
that he would be woefully seasick.
Prince Henry of Prussia, the Kaisers
brother, is the idol of the German naval
service. Ho is the "Unser Heinrich" of the
navy, just as his father used to be the
,Unseri,ntz"of the army, and many stones
are told to illustrate his 'good nature, his
devotion to his profession, and his physical
prowess.
' The cigarette has advanced to the dig
nity of being an element of debate in the
British Parliament. Mr. Goschen said in
his last budsret that, in his opinion, the in-
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. creaseu toying wun iue cigarette alter am
ncrwas partially accountable for the de
creased consumption of wine. Men smoked
more and drank less.
Tns Rev. J. Q. Corlishtraveling repre
sentative of the Seventh-day Adventists, is
in Atlanta, endeavoring to secure a change
in the law which will allow people of his
sect to do certain kinds of work on Sunday,
as, keeping Saturday holy, tney cannot af
ford to keep Sunday also. Georgia-and
Tennessee are the Southern States in which
the sect have most trouble with the Sunday
laws.
A CLEVER Buffalo woman has been to
England, traveled all around London,
seen everything worth seeing in a two
months' trip, and all it cost her was $200.
A more skillful piece of peripatetic econ
omy, remarks the Boston Herald, is not on
record, and it clearly shows that the old
adage "Where there's a will there's a way,"
must have been written by some one with
Europe on the brain.
The features of the poetess Sappho have.
.perhaps, been discovered in a mosaio re
cently unearthed at Sparta. The greater part
of a mosaio floor in a private house, in fair
preservation, contains a square with a
. J-m mm m
woman's oust labeled sappno. lhe head
is crowned with a wreath, and the face is
handsome. Other portraits were in the
6ame mosaic, bnt. unfortunately, that
which was labeled Alkeiades lacks the por
trait itseiL .
The "greatest hymnologist of the day"
died lately, in the person of Dr. Bonar. He
was indefatigable in his work in connection
with books, tracts and hymns. He was con
sulted from all quarters about questions of
"experimental religion and prophetical in
terpretation." and his correspondence was
immense. The circulation of his "God's
Ways of Peace" amounts to 285,000 copies.
of "The aight of Weeping" to 5U,ooo, and ol
"Hymns of Faith and Hope" to 140.729.
. The Baltimore flag controversy, which has
been going on for some days between Eben
Appleton and the city of Baltimore for the
possession of tho original Star-spangled
Banner, has assumed another phase by the
statement of Mrs. McPherson, widow of the
old defender. Captain McPherson, that tho
original flag which floated over Fort Mc
Henrv. and inspired the "Star-spangled
Banner," is not in the possession of Apple-
tcUi. She states that it is wrapped around
her husband's body, and is buried with
him in Greenmount Cemetery.
AIks. Harriet heeciier stowf. lives a
peculiar existence at present. She eats
very little, confining her diet almost alto
gether to bread and butter, and fruit. Sho
sleens well in daytime, but is ant to be
wakeful at night. At times she seems to
havo a momentary return to her old brill
iancy, but as a general tmng is mentally
apathetic. She is fond of being in the open
nir. and can walkabout a little with a cane.
Her tenure of life is considered remarkable
bv her physicians, who sav she has tho
strongest vitality of any woman they have
ever known.
. Swamee Phaskara Nand Saraswatee
is the name of an East Indian from Lahore
who is now living in Philadelphia. He is
in this country to acquire a practical
knowledge of certain mechanical indus
tries preparatory to introducing them in
India. lie is a prominent member of the
Arya Samaj, or Aryan Society, which was
founded about twelve years ago and now
has over nine million adherents. The or
ganization is opposed to idolatry, and
would restore the ancient Aryan religion as
formulated in the Vedas.
You may talk of Christian science, with Its power
of heal in great.
But there's one thing Christian science cannot
nrn or TiAlH.it a.
It may Rtop the hyp instanten It may knock hys-
. t - .
lerics uui.
Base hiccough, banish freckles, cure a tendency
Christian science, taken daily, may obesity re
duce, Or may fatten up a lean man till he waddles like
a goose;
It may raise a growth of whiskers on tho downy
cheeks of boys.
Or remove a sprouting mustache which a pretty
mil id nnoric
Christian science may do wonders, but Its power
is pnt to scorn
When the healer tries to work It for the curing of
a cum.
Warren Tribune.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
There is reason for every American to bo
thankful that he doesn't live in a Iree-trade
country that is "all plastered over with
trusts." Iowa State Register.
v f!bina. sbniild nav. n it 4 now renorted
wilt be done, no favors to missionaries
from a Christian country which does not
love its neighbor as itself, no public em
ployment to Americans, however skilled,
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no concessions ux any juuu w Auvricau au
venturers, no purchase of American goods,
China will but pay us ott in our own coin.
Chicago Times.
TlIE m I sr.hipf-m Altera who hfivn hpn trv.
im? to create a unlit in the G. A. f? hirn re
ceived their reward in the shape of a solid-
jy-ceinented fraternal organization which
nothinir bnt rte.it h can dissolve. Detroit
Tribune.
T'lriT will rf n wi?rtftr r tfiA nonnln r 9
thft Natinn erTwtiiafl v i nnllifipri litr Kanrl
of lawless Democrats in certain States in
tne fcouthcrn tier. It is a condition which
should be brought to an end. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Monopolies in trade and manufacture,
have been more numerous and have at
tained greater success in Lngland than in
any country where government makes it a
duty to care for the rights and industries
of the people. New York Tribune.
If the postal telegraph plan is ever to bo
adopted, let it only De doue in conjunction
with iron-clad provisions in the law govern
ing its adoption, which shall not make it
irnnlr tViM u 1 1 rr anrl f rrl nf t lift nrnfpQi nnl
politician for revenue only. Philadelphia
Tiie Ohio Bourbons say that trusts are a
direct outgrowth of the protective policy.
If this doctrine be true, then England,
which has at least three trusts to every one
which is in the United States, must have a
tariff which is prohibitory. St. Louis
uiooe-uemocrat.
VISIONARY REFORMERS.
A Little Review of Third-Party Work and
the Situation To-Day.
PMlsdelphia Telegraph.
The Prohibition party, since 1872, has
simply been beating the air. Its achieve
ments, so far as practical work in the cause
of temperance and sobriety, is concerned,
are not visible to the naked eye. it may
be claimed that, through the existence of
such an organization, an indirect influence
has been brought to bear in behalf of ad
vanced temperance legislation: but even if
this be true, it is certainly also true that
very much more in the same direction
might have been accomplished by a differ
ent method. And. in fact, tnere is every
reason to believe that . the Prohibi
tion party has been a stumbling
block in the pathway of temperance
reform. As an organization, it has been ag
gressive, bitter and intolerant, and has
thus drawn the tire of both the great polit-
icai parties, according to ine measure oi us
stenirth and its character as a factor in the
polical world, and has aroused, at critical
times, antagonisms that otherwise would
have been unknown. ;
vv hat is the situation to-day with reeard
to this groat question? The policy of the
two great parties is well detinedt and no
where more clearly than in this State.
The Democracy has learned nothing from
tne lessons of the past, and is in no way
inspired by the humanitarian spirit of the
hour. Concerning the regulation and re
striction of the liquor traffic, it
stands to-day just where it stood a
quarter of a century ago. stubbornly op
posed to what it ignorantly denounces as
sumptuary legislation. The Republican
party, awake to the evils of the time, real
izing its responsibility to all the people, iu
town and country, in city and hamlet, has
carefully surveyed the situation, and
earnestly songht to find and apphy, as far
as practicable, an euective remedy ior tne
admitted evils connected with the
indiscriminate manufacture, sale and
abuse of intoxicating liquors. This
policy it has formulated and adopted a
policy of restriction and regulation, fully
up to all the possibilities of enforcement.
and it is to-day, in sober earnest, as a great
organization, prepared to carry it out. As
overvbodv knows, the election in this State
this fall has nothing whatever to do with
this question, ihe fctate irea surer has
nothing more to do with the laws govern
ing the liquor tralhc than the man in the
moon; therefore, the action of the Prohibi
tion party, in putting up a candidate and
going into such a contest, is worse than
moonshine; it can have no possible good ef
fect, and there may arise contingencies in
which it may result in infinite harm.
"Who'll kill that snake?" The Prohibition
party, as it is organized? Never! "Who'll
kill that snake." Tho people of this
country are to-day giving this great ques
tion more serious and intelligent attention
than ever before. Public opinion is ad
vancing every day in the direction of the
curtailment of the power of the liquor
trattic, and it will continue to do so in spite
of all the misguided conduct of such futile
organizations as the Prohibition party.
Let the men belonging to that body, who
sincerely desire to 4,kill that snake," be
persuaded to turn aside irom their pecuuar
course and join hands with those who are
able and more than willing indeed, as
earnestly desirous as they can possibly bo
to promote tho welfare of humanity.
MET AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
An Incldentofth War Recalled at the Second
Wisconsin Cavalry Reunion.
Milwaukee Sentinel. .
A romantic episode of the closing scenes
of the war was revived at a reunion of the
Second Wisconsin Cavalry. The Second
Cavalry was attached to Custer's command
in July, 18C5, and was then at Alexandria,
on Red river. The Second Had a Colonel
whom thev warmly hated, and a reauest to
resign addressed to him was prepared and
generally 6igued. Ihe only man who nad
the nerve to present it was Len Lancaster,
of Company L, who marched boldly to the
Colonel's quarters and gave him the docu
ment. The result was a court-martial, and
Lancaster was sentenced by General Cus
ter to be shot. Lancaster and an Illinois
deserter, one Wilson, also under sentence,
were hauled to the place of execution,
where a "three-hollow" square -of 15,000
cavalry had been formed, ihe two vic
tims were seated on their coffins with arms
pinioned and the caps were drawn over
their eyes. The officer in charge of tho fir
ing party gave the commands, "Ready!"
"Aim!" and "Fire!" The carbines came up.
the hammers clicked, the squad aimed.
and, a second before the volley was dis
charged, the officer in command seized Lan
caster and jerked him out of range, whilo
Wilson, the deserter, fell pierced with three
balls. Custer had reprieved Lancaster at
the last moment and sentenced himtothreo
years at the Dry Tortugas. Lancaster was
handed over to Lieutenant "Peck, by hiin
taken to New Orleans and sent to the Dry
Tortugas, where he was kept four months
and then pardoned. Lancaster is now a bt.
Paul contractor. Peck is a Nebraskan.
The two men met at the reunion for tho
first time since the incident in 1865. and
their mutual greeting was such as only old
soldiers know.
Women and Their Real Rights.
Bono Terry Cook, In North American Review.
When men are ready to allcAv women
their true and just rights, to remember the
m . 11T!i till i
admonitions oi noiy vru -nusoanas.
love your wives and bo not bitter against
them." "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with
them according to knowledge, giving honor
unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.
and as being heirs together of the graco of
life, that your prayers be not hindered"
(significant latter clause!); "Husbands, love
your wives, even as Christ also Jovcd the
church and gave himsen ior it;" "jtatners,
provoke not your children to wrath;"
"Fathers, provoke not your children to an
ger, lest they be discouraged," then the
true rights of women win be achieved.
e have much irom pulpit or
press to impress upon us the dnties of
wives and children: for it is men who
Dreach and edit: but all duty is of its own
nature reciprocal, and the other side of
these family obligations is just as stringent
as that commoulv preached and written
about. Looking over the social, tho con
jugal, the parental status of the sexes in
this age of progress, it is sad to see that tho
true rights of women are so frequently ig
nored and set aside. It is true we owe the
delay of our restoration to these God-given
privileges CTeatlv to those "frcedora-shriek-
ers" who forget their position and their
womanhood, who leave their, families
neglected and their homes forsaken to rant
on platforms and usurp pulpits; the women
who demand suflrage lor themselves when
as yet they are too weak and ignorant to
ii so so miehtv a weapon, and try to reverse
the creative ordinance that did not make
the race all men. These idle and reasonless
demands react on the more sensible and
faithful part of their own sex. and give
men. who are so api 10 d aeiuued by
"glittering eeneralities," the idea that all
woinen are ioois.
.rjr .1.
A Waste of Study.
Dr. Felix Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly.
Not one of a hundred non-philological
students (graduates devoting themselves to
the special study and the teaching of
ancient language) would ever dream of
continuing his antiquarian pursuits, or bo
able to look upon a Greek or Latin text
book without a shudder of disgust. It has
been conclusively proved that all the ety
mological benefit dcr: from linguistic
grave-yards conld bo re.inrd in a sinirlo
year bv the study of root-words (most of
them familiarized by their French and
English derivatives.) It has been demon
strated to the satisfaction of every impartial
thinker that grammar drill is not the
superlative intellectual exercise vaunted
in the arguments of its advocates, but, on
the contrary, almost the worst of all possi
ble systems of Lental tra!ning-a dead-lifC
of memory, exercising the lower at the ex
pense of the higher mental faculties. Nor
IS there a Shadow of a doubt that in natural
history, astronomy, geography, physiology
uuu ixjauiriiKkiiis me acuievements ol
Greece and Korao havo been distanced.
far rs their own writers eclipsed the wise
acres of Scythia and Abyssinia. Yet tho
new world continues to emulate the old in
wooiag the specters of the past, and thou
sandj of American parents encumber th
memory of their children with a mass of
antiquarian ruooisn xnac leaves no room
for the culture of procresiive science, too
often not even for tho adequate study of
their own mother tongue.
Corporal Tanner and the G. A. R.
Boston Advertiser.
Tho Grand Armv acted vcrv wisely in
this course, beranse, while it is evident t hafi
a great hue and cry is being made about the
Pension Bureau for political purposes, yet
Commissioner Tanner is certainly not dis
creet, although personally he is doubtless
honest and means to do rich t, Hisunwiso
utterances have given rise to the belief that
unwarranted things may be done by him,
and tho Grand Army cannot atl'ord to put
it-self in the position of approving any
ettorts to grant pensions or increase those,
already granted where there is the slight
est belief that it is beinc done contrary to
justice and equity.
ihe examination that is being made into
Commissioner Tanner's office will do that
gentleman a deal of good, while it will also
correct the misapprehension that be ha.
been guilty of conniving at a robbery of the
treasury. The root of the whole trouble isf
that the Commissioner of Pensions is not a
man of judicial temperament, and it is nec
essary that tho department should be con
ducted on a judicial basis. With a man at
the head of it who is controlled bv strona'
sympathies and whose tongue is apt to ruu
far ahead of his sympathies, indiscretion.
may become so offensive as to do the whole
pension system a great injury in the publio
mind.
Sim Coy's Grip on Ills Party.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Democratic partv of Indiana has a
bad record, in keeping with which is the'
rewarding of an Indianapolis boodler and
forger, who was sent to tho penitentiary
for his crime, by returning him to an office,
which he vacated when be went to prison.
Ihe Democratic party of Indiaua is as cor
rupt as the Democratic party of Ohio,
which is giving it a bad name, indeed.
What makes the case worse in Indiana is
that the party has a stronger erin there:
the honest class of citizensis not so able to
cope with it and keep it down as is tho
same class in the Ikicktye State.
Resenting: the Invidious Comparison.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The lone hiahwavman of Wisconsin is
df scribed as worse than Black Bart. Thero
seems to bo no comparison betweenthe two.
Bart never shot into a loaded coach, nor
did he stand over a wounded roan with a
gun, as this Wisconsin bruto did. In fact,
Bart had reduced highway robbery as near
ly to fine art as it has ever been brought in
tins world,. and it is an outrage on his repu
tation as an accomplished artist to couple,
him with a conmon butcher, who takes life
for a watch and a few dollars.
Don Dickinson Contradicted. ,
Philadelphia North American.
Mr. Cleveland is no martyr. He is a
suicide. Any attempt to cover his want of
judgment with the robes of a martyr will
only excite the derision oi intelligent men.
The fact is that tho first timeMr.Clevelaud
came to the, parting of the ways and was
compelled to choose, he chose the wrong
road. And he chose it because his politi
cal course had, up to .that hour, been as
purely accidental as anything can be in a'
universe of law.
Upholding Barbarous Race Murders.
Memphis Avalanche.
The Mississippi Democrats are not dis
posed to mince matters. They declare that
the race which upholds civilization in tho
South must rule, regardless of abstract
hexcrintr' on census returns, 1 his reso
lution they have arrived at not from choice
but necessity. Ihe only question -with
them is. Shall they surrender their birth
right or defend, it? They choose the latter
alternative.
A Friend of Subsidies.
Boston Journal.
WThen so good a Democrat as Senator
Payne, of Ohio, declares himself in favor of
government aid to American steamships, it j
is calculated to give the free-traders con
siderable uneasiness. And it is well known
that there are not a few who heartily agree ;
with him in tho ranks of the Democratic
Congressmen.
An Opportunity for Free-Trade Organs. ;
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
When the labor strikes in London aro.
over it is to be hoped that the Democratic
papers will explain how it is that sucht.
things can happen in a free-trade country.;
They have been assuring us that strikes aro ,
to be expected only under "the blighting
Jnlluence or a protective tann."
Thought lie Had Heard It Before.
Iowa State "Register.
General Sherman's favorite tune. "March
ing through Georgia," was presented to.
him only four hundred and thirteen times
during the past week, lie was under the
impression that he had heard tho piece be
fore he went to Milwaukee, but many of the
baud-masters didn't think so.
Not So Fatigued as lie Thought. '
Detroit Free Press.
"I'm tired of living with such a homely
woman," exclaimed wiuiam uusn, ox ri
agara Falls, as ho walked away from his
wife six weeks ago. Tho other day she was
left a legacy of 340.000. and William hur
ried home to call her his angel one, but she
would not let him in.
Attesting the Genuineness of Their Faith.
SC Lonls Glot-Lcmocrat.
The destruction of a newspaper office by
a mob at Valley City. Dak., goes to show
that the Democrats do not propose to sub
mit to Kepublican control in the new States
fA a i! AU.! -.ill. . JI.A'
WlLDOUt asserting meir jhuu su uisuucuy
that it8 genuineness will be everywhere
recognized.
Why Tliey IHtllke Ills Speeches.
Chicago Journal.
The sight of President Harrison deliver
ing extemporaneously a speech filled with
wit, humor and thought such as any schol
ar might bo proud of, seems to turn tho
members of that political partv known as
tne encyciopeuia scnooi green wun envy.
Not a Pleasant Prospect.
New York Press.
K5tirr nn ihn h?rV ttira nnr flirtinff
with free trade and oppressive sumptuary
t a ii. i
legislation wm prouauiy oe lue occupation
of the Democratic party for the next quar
ter of a century. Ail the other avenues to
a political career arc cioseu against it.
Breathing Spell In Georgia.
Albanr Journal.
Tho bottom fell out of a well near Home.
Ga,, yesterday, and the well-digers found
a cave of unknown extent. A posse is
ing organized to go gunning for mastodon;
and lynching and race wars will be aband
oned in that section for this week.
A rolltical Issue.
Philadelphia Tress.
As a political issue m the columns of the
Democratic organs. Secretary llalford's soft
: l. l.n. .fit-on TraTT tft Hnhtr f -
Keo's wind colic. The free-trade organs
attribute the poor child's discomfort en
tirely to the odious tariti.
Chunks of Natural Gas.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Mr. Hill, of Indiana, has patented an in
vention to solidify' natural gas; but one
plan has been practiced in Congress for
generations, tho process being what is
known as a motion to give the member
"leave to print."
What May Happen.
LomsYill Commercial.
The Pathfinder has arrived at Victoria,
with another captive prize crew from thftj
Hush. If this thing keeps up much longer
wo will have all the seal skins taken in
Bchriug sea and the Canadians will have
our siaxiacAa