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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1890.
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There is less politics in the organiza
tion and management of the fire depart
ment at present than over before.
And now the Maryland State Treas
urer has gone wrong. There are still a
few more Southern States to hear from.
Next!
TriE coroner gets lots of facts before
be renders an opinion, lacts and in
formation aro what give weight to an
oninion. .
TnE Departments of v ar and the
Interior might make an oven trade of
the Signal Service and Pension bureaus.
13oth are misuts.
Wiien Senator Ingalls sets out to talk
at a mark ho never missc3 aim. The
Southern brigadiers caught tho broad
side on Wednesday, and it seemed to
hurt them.
A Washington paper describes Con
gressman Parrett, of Indiana, as a man
who could easily pass for a Presbyterian
elder. This resemblance will do Judge
Parrett no harm, but what the country
really need3 is more genuine and fewer
imitation elders in Congress.
.The New York Times denounces tho
coarse ruffians who hold tho government
of Jersey City "for arresting one of its
reporters on the charge of criminal
libel." Does not tho Times know that
the "coarse ruffians" are Democrats, and
gave the State to Mr. Cloveland in 1884?
It is but natural that Senator Yest,
who, in 1888, challenged the protected
industries to "a war of extermination,"
should oppose any measure designed to
kill trusts. With the trusts disposed of,
tho free-traders would bo robbed of
their most deceptive, and therefore most
valuable, argument against the protect
ive tariff.
What is regarded as a very important
discovery has been made at Pittsburg in
tho demonstration of tho existence of a
lower natural-gas rock than any hereto
fore penetrated. This has been found
at a depth of 2,442 feet, with an enor
mous rock pressure and supply of gas.
It is thought the discovery will give
Pittsburg a new lease of life in the nat-nral-gas
business.
-In their alleged discussion - of the
causes of agricultural depression Demo
crats studiously ignore the cause which
has more to do with it than all others
combined, viz., over-production of wheat
and corn and a glutting of tho market.
Farmers should form a trust to restrict
production, or, if Providence would
kindly order half a crop this j-ear,' they
would realize good prices.
..Representative Catching, of Mis
sissippi, who.se seat is contested, re
cently wrote a letter to a Democratic
editor in his district, in which ho sug
gested that it would be well if cne or
two of tho witnesses against him should
"disappear."' The local editor, never
dreaming that a suggestion involving
the murder of a witness is not as popu
lar everywhere as in Mississippi, printed
tho letter. :v
- Senator Yookhkes's demagogy seem9
to havo overreached itself. The most
conspicuous effect of his reckless asser
tions about tho alleged hopeless financial
condition of the Western fanners and
the worthlessness of Western farms will
be to make it a difficult matter for the
farmers of the West to borrow Eastern
money when occasion requires. . From a
legal stand-point tho tillers of tho soil
seem to havo a pretty good case against
Voorhees of malicious libel with intent
to ruin their credit.
, The Cleveland movement still lives.
At least Mr. Cleveland does, and has
written a letter to somo college boys in
Ohio, expressing the hore that they "will
see their full measure rI political duty
in laboring to enforco tho doctrines of
truo Democracy, and in retrieving the
people from the delusions which have
beset them to their undoing." Careless
readers aro requested to peruse that a
second time and try and absorb its full
import. Tho peoplo ought to bo very
graieiui to mt. lcveiana lor saving
them so much.
Jersey City furnishes another char-
acteristic illustration of Democratic re
form in tho fact that tho Board of
Aldermen has decided that the same
election officers who served in tho pro-
rjnets where such outrageous frauds
wero committed, last fall, shall servo
again at Iho coming election. At tho
meeting of the board, on Tuesday night,
the Mayor sent them a communication
.
on tne subject, in . wuicu lie recom
mended that tho greatest care 6hould bo
exercised in the appointment of election
oflicer8. Ho said: "There should be no
cause for anxiety on the part of any
voter that his vote will not bo counted
as he casta it. Anything else is a crime
against the government and against the
whole people, and . the perpetrators
should bo punished as thoy deserve."
Notwithstanding this and the protest of
the Kepublican city committee against
the continuance of the old election otli-
cerg jn tjl0 precincts where frauds were
.
uiscovereu, tney were an reappoinieu.
Jersey City Democracy is of the regula
tion type.
AN ANTIQUATED HERESY.
When tho rebellion collapsed there
was a general assumption that the here
sy of which Jefferson planted the seed
in tho nullifying "Resolutions of W
.which Calhoun nourished, and which
came to full fruitage in the war for
secession, was abandoned forever. Such,
however, does not seem to be the case,
for no sooner does a question come up
in Congress, and particularly in tho Sen
ate, than ex-secessionists like Eustis,
Morgan, George and Butler rise to re
affirm the old heresy of State suprem
acy and tho strict construction of tho
Constitution of the United States. A
measure is proposed to check trusts, but
theso strict constructionists interpose
the Constitution as a bar. A bill is pro
posed to insure fair congressional elec
tions, and practically to restore the de
stroyed suffrage of tho Constitution, and
again theso mossbacks rush into the
arena with the Constitution as a warn
ing. When it is proposed to have tho
federal government assist in tho support
of public schools, tho champi
ons of State supremacy open
their tomb and bring forth their
ghost of a strictly-construed Constitu
tion to terrify legislators. "When a
proposition i3 made to inquire if the
government of tho United States cannot
in some manner interpose its authority
to protect citizens of the United States
in the enjoyment of "life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness" while residing
in some State which criminally fails to
do this, theso party leaders triumph
antly bring forward the Constitution to
prove that the federal government can
not interpose to prevent tho outrage of
the citizen when it is committed under
the shield of the State. In their view
the Constitution of tho United States
was specially devised by Washington,
Hamilton, Franklin, and the other au
thors of that instrument, to prevent the
colonies from becoming a nation that
when the fathers prefaced the Constitu
tion with tho words " we, the people of
the United States, in order to . form a
more perfect union, establish justice,
insuro domestic tranquillity, provide for
the common defense, promoto tho gen
eral welfare and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity,"
either did not know what they meant or
did not mean what they said that,
whether tho framers so designed it or
not, the Constitution is a strait-jacket
to prevent tho growth and progress of
the country and the highest welfare of
the people.
Tho masses of the people are weary of
the constant reiteration of tho antiquated
views of the exisecessiouists. They do
not belong to tho present. They be-
m
longed to tho period of Calhoun and
Jeff' Davis, and their lingering on tho
political stage to-day in as much a
ridiculous impertinence as it would be
for the Rev. Jasper to appear in a con
gress of astronomers and assert that
bill! DUU UU lliUtU. AUG UilllCU OIUICS
is a progressive nation, and has no pos
sible use for these disciple3 of Calhoun,
and would not be troubled with them if
the suffrage of the Constitution had not
been trampled under foot in tho States
which they claim to represent. The
people of this country will never bo
made to believe that the Constitution of
the United States was designed or can
be used to block the wheels of progress,
or that it can bo made tho defense of
the lawless or of wrongs and monopolies
with which the State cannot grapple.
The intelligent and progressive people
of the country believe that "We, tho
people of the United States," did "or
dain and establish" tho Constitution "to
promote the general walfarc."
THE VICTIMS OF THE WHEREAS.
Among the thousands of bills with
which members of Congress have filled
the dockets of committees is one in tho
Ma TV . .
possessiou ot tne House committee on
banking which proposes to issue $300,-
000,000 of United States bonds, bearing 2
per cent, interest, for the basis of na
tional-bank circulation. Tho Washing
ton correspondent of tho Journal yester
day gave a "whereas" relative to this
measure, in wnicn it is asserted tnat tho
bill is in the Senate and the amount of
tho bonds provided for is $2,300,000,000,
and that "whereas," with a resolution
based upon its assumption, was adopted
by the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial
Union of Atchison county; Kansas. It
does not seem possible that any number
of men who have read the average news
paper and have listened even to the
usual infliction known as a Democratic
stump speech can be so ignorant regard
ing federal finances and the amounts of
money as to belicvo that such a bill
could have been presented in Congress.
Tho highest figure that tho interest-
bearing debt of tho United States ever
reached Aug. 31, 1SG5 was $2,381,530,-
2'J4. Hut nere is a oouy oi men
ii. .
assuming upon mo say-so ot a
resolution-maker that a proposition
is pending to issue nearly that
amount of bonds as a basis of tho
circulation of national banks an amount
of bonds equal to more than two-and-a-
half times tho amount of tho present
interest-bearing debt of tho government!
Tho largest amount of national-bank
paper in circulation was $3o2,000,000, in
1SS3; but this issue of bonds would as
sume an issue of $1,970,000,000 of bank
notes, or nearly three times tho volume
of the legal-tendera and bank notes at
tuo nignest perioii. ivna yet, there is
no doubt that tho man who made that
"whereas" is going up and down Kansas
repeating that absurd story for tho pur
pose of inciting tho farmers and work
ingmen to organize to defeat the national
bank "monopoly," and urging then
to demand that Congress loan nioucjr
. . . i i I
and build warehouses for farm products
and advance money thereon. These
would-be teachers have glib tongues
and impossible crotchets. That is,
they are loaded with "lots of
opinions," all worthless, and a quantity
of assumptions, which they give out as
facts. In fact, they have many of tho
qualifications essential in the inde
pendent editor. Still, tho man who keeps
the village grocery will not trust him
for a pound of coffee. Attention is
called to this whereas-raaker, becauso
he is traveling about tho country as
the 'advance agent of the Democratic
machine. Ho is in the business of cre
ating, misery by resolution, and incul
cating misinformation by "where-:
ases.7
TOWNSHIP TBUSTfcE. . ,
Ernest Kitz, tho last Democratic trus
teo who served in this township, ex
pended $193,119.08 in four years. Of
this sum $19,000 was turned over by a
Republican predecessor, . and the bal
ance was raised by taxes. In addition
to this large cash expenditure, the trus
tee left outstanding warrants, when he
went out of office, to the amount of $64.
000, making a total expenditure during
four years of $23G,119.08, or $04,029.77 a
year.
Tho present Democratic candidate for
trustee, Samuel N. Gold, was nominated
and is supported by the same iniluences
that nominated and supported Kitz.
Gold was a member of tho Coy-Bern-hamer
canvassing board, and whilo tho
chairman of tho board, under tho direc
tion of Coy, was making the rulings
which were intended to consummate the
tally-sheet forgeries, Gold cried out,
"Give it to them! Make them take their
own medicine," etc. When Gold ran
for trusteo two years ago he was de
feated by a largo majority, because he
was known to represent the worst ele
ments in his party. He should bo de
feated for tho same reason now. - His
competitor, .Mr. William wiegei. is a
much better man for the place, and with
him for trusteo tho people could rest as
sured of an honest and economical ad
ministration of the office.
The Fanners' Institute now being
held in this cily is tho final one of a
series which have been held in different
counties during the past season. As a
beginning towards a geneial svstem of
county institutes, they have been very
successful, enlisting tho attention and
interest of tho best class of farmers
where they have been held aud giving
rise to profitable discussion. In no other
State are the various branches of agri
culture and live-stock breeding better
organized than in Indiana. Notwith
standing our largo and growing rrian-
ufacturiug interests, this is essentially
an agricultural State, and it is gratify-
ing to Know mac tnis great interest is
prospering. An occasional dull season
A J 1 & 4 . . .
does not argue the decay of an industry,
and any person who thinks that farming
is "playing out" in Indiana is' ypry
much mistaken. ! I
. . .. MMMMVMMM ' f - P I '
A large, sum of money is being raistd
by tho Democrats of this city for use, ih
1 . T i -
xno coming rownsnip election, u is
caneu a campaign iunu, nut inero is no
campaign in tho ordinary sense of'jihe
. ii . i . ii i
term. Tho election will take placet in
ten days. There is no occasion for spend
ing money before then, and no opportu
nity to spend it honestly in tho election
Under the law no money can be paid,
directly or indirectly, for electioneering
purposes, lor challengers, lor wagon-
drivers or any service at or near tho
polls on election day. All these things
are forbidden, and yet tho Democrats
aro raising money. The conclusion is
unavoidable that they intend to uso it
for illegitimate purposes, as they havo
before, in defiance of the law. We warn
them now that they may find this dan
gerous business. ,-t ;',;.
Mr. Carlisle thinks that an estimate
which ho has made that Mr. Lodge's ballot-
reform bill will cost the country SIO.OW.OOO
to 15,000,000 every two years makes it too
much of a luxury." Is it to be understood
that Mr. Canisle regards honest elections
as a luxury for which wo cannot afford to
pay as much as we do for the improvement
of duck ponds and logging creeks? Pitts
burg Dispatch.
Mr. Carlisle and his associates regard
honest elections about tho same kind of
a luxury that a criminal convicted of
murder would a gallows. The luxury
would be death to Mr. Carlisle's party.
It would never again havo members
enough in tho House to break a quorum .
under tho Carlisle-Kandall rules.
The New York Post thinks an undue
amount of attention is being given to tho
Flick divorce case, and that public in
dignation should be directed to the fact
not that a man of Flack's caliber should
seek a divorce by fraudulent means, but
that a man capable of such an act should
have been elected sheriff of the county
and city of New York. The Post is in
consistent, as usual. It is not so very
long since it was arguing that a man
guilty of gross personal immorality was
not thereby disqualified for the highest
ofiicial position.
Tiik latest reports concerning im
migration show that, while there has
been a falling oft in English aiid
German immigrants tho past few
months, compared with last year, there
has been an increase of those coming: to
our shores from Russia, Poland, Italy,
Hunpary which, as a rule, aro not de
sirable, because they are ignorant and
cheap laborers, and the cheap laborcrtho
United States does not want.
The New York Herald has discovered
that it is tho McKinley administrative
bill and not the tariff bill which alarms
French manufacturers and exporters.
It says these people are alarmed because
it will prevent undervaluations and other
frauds, and expresses the opinion that
the alarm of tho exporters is the strong
est argument in, favor of the measure.
It is strange that practical peoplo who
look carefully after their private inter
ests are just tho men who take the least
interest in local elections. The burden
of taxation is that imposed by city,
township and county, and the prospects
of cities and townships are more affected
by local taxation and the administration
or raal-admiulstratiou of local offices
on mortgages ana otner gooa security i
ii t ' a1 : l J T
man uy auy ovuer biuio muueuw. al.
the size of the vote polled was measured
by the importance to tho tax-payer of
the officers elected tbe largest vote
would be given at township and city
elections.
Regarding tho eff ect of the Ohio Leg
islature on Democratic prospects, Mr.
Cleveland is reported by Mr. Lentz, a
Columbus Democrat, as emphatically
saying that "with such records as tho
party promises to make in Ohio this year
and next tho Democratic party can
hardly hope that the people of the coun
try will again intrust to it the control of
national affairs." Mr. Cleveland has
greater penetration, if this is true, than
his mugwump newspapers, which have
half apologized for the infamies of that
body. . '
It will be unfortunate, to say the least, if
the insurance companies holding risks on
the buildiugs adjoining those already de
stroy ed on Washington street should op
pose thoir condemnation and destruction.
Such a position would be plainly in opposi
tion to public interests, and, in the long
run, would hardly inure to tho interest of
the companies taking it. That the build
ings have been weakened to a serious and
probably dangerous extent by the recent
fire is not denied. They can, of course, be
braced and patched up, and when tho pres
ent vacant space is occupied by a cood
building, giving them side support, they
may, with occasional repairs and revamp
ing, last many years. But thoy wouldnever
be regarded as safe, and in the event of an
other fire would be very apt ' to precipitate
another fatal disaster. And they can never
bo made sightly or modern buildings. Tho
recent fire furnishes an opportunity to re
build a considerable portion of the block
in iirst-cla3s style, substituting handsome
modern structures for the antiquated and
unsafe buildings now standing. The ground
is too valuable to be occupied by any but
first-claBs buildings, and the entire com
munity is interested in having such build
ings erected there. In a large sense it is a
question of public welfare, and private in
terests should concede a good deal to that.
Tho insurance companies make money out
of the city and should not stand in tho way
of its improvement. They can afford to
adopt a liberal policy in the matter, and an
intelligent view of self-interest would sug
gest such a course. Certainly it will not
'tend to popularize any insurance company
in this community to have it known that it
preveuted or contributed to preventing so
important and desirable an improvement as
the rebuilding of Washington street A.
present loss may" insure a future gain, and
vice versa.
Washington ladies, remembering the
shock to their delicate sensibilities pro
duced by Mrs. Potter's recitation of "'Ostler
Joo" at a privato entertainment a few years
ago, aro shy. of outside "attractions," and
decline to open their parloxs to "reader"
or elocutionists unless satisfied that the
matter to be read is of the, most orthodox
morality, aud not of a sort to bring ablush
to the cheek of the young person. A Bos
ton woman, who came to the Capital to
read Ibsen to the select circles of society,
found great difficulty in securing patron
age. The ladies did not know much about
Ibsen, had not read him, indeed, but had
heard that his writings needed deodorizing,
and decided that they could not coun
tenance him. The chances are now that the
Norwegian's books will have a great run in
Washington, so many people will want to
know how naughty he really is. And when
they have read them, they will begin to
wonder what the f ass was all about, any
way.
A child died in Pennsylvania, recently,
of a disease which the doctors diagnosed as
yellow fever. Investigation after the
death disclosed tho fact that an undo in
Florida had lately sent two small alligators
North as pets for his nephew, and that tho
child had played with and handled them
day after day. The doctors declare that
the boy must have taken the disease from
these creatures, basing their opinion on the
fact, said to be well established, that alli
gators which inhabit the swamps and
malarial regions in the South, where the
germs of yellow fever and other zymotio
diseases lurk, have frequently conveyed
the disease from place to place. Whether
this theory be correct or not, if the inci
dent shall result in checking the pro
pensity of Florida tourists to distribute
these slimy reptiles among their friends
-with the air of conferring precious gifts,
something will be gained.
TnE perturbation of Democratic Congress
men over the possibility that the admission
of Wyoming as a State might result in send
ing a woman to the Senate is a virtual ac
knowledgment that a woman of sufficient
ability to be given such high honor must
necessarily bo a Kepublican. For once the
conclusions of the Democratic Congress
men are correct.
The friends of Senator Vest should cau
tion him to be more civil to the Farmers'
Alliance else the grangers in the wilds of
Missouri may go to practicing the slang in
junction of pulling down a garment of that
name with a Bourbon Senator in it.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Joornat
At what mint are our silver dollars coined!
Ca-mbuii;e City. b. e. c.
During last year $21,S85,8G0 were struck at
Philadelphia; 12,S00.000 at New Orleans,
and $108,000 at San Francisco.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Dn. Nonvix Green; president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, will
celebrate his golden wedding on April 1.
The table upon which Oliver Cromwell
signed the death warrant of.Charles I was
sold recently to a London antiquary for
$710.
It is alleged that in a back district in
Manitoba there is in tho tax books this en
try, referring to some crown lands: "Owner,
Victoria; occupation, Queen; residence,
England." -
The new German Chancellor, General
Caprivi. is an inveterate smoker and mod
erate drinker. He manifests a marked
preference for wine over beer, which he
touches very rarely and sparingly.
Mir. Gilder, of tho Century, says: "Tho
very best poem, tho very best novel, short
story, essay or descriptive article that can
be written in the English language, and
especially by nn American writer, is in con
stant demand."- '
The insignia of the British order of the
Bath, which has heretofore been made of
gold, in to be of silver-gilt hereafter, and
instead of being made by a jeweler, they
will be turned out on contract at so much
the score by a Birmingham tirm.
It is not generally known that in pro
nouncing tho name of tho -millionaire
Scotch iron-master the accent is on the sec
ond syllable Car-neg-ie. ,This is a Shib
boleth in western Pennsylvania, bv which
the stranger from tho East is readily de
tected. Mr. Andrew Ci rnegie visited Mr. Enoch
Pratt at Baltimore the other day. Mr. Pratt
says: "Andrew Carnegie is the jolliest man
slive." Mr. Carnegie said when he met Mr.
Pratt in Pittsburg recently: "I am astound
ed to see you. 1 thought to see a man over
gix. feet High." To this Mr, Pratt respond-
ed: . "And I am also astounded to see you.
I expected to seo a man over six feet high."
Messrs. Pratt and Carnegio are about the
same height and size, Mr. Carnegie being
somewhat stouter.
TilE most noted lignre at the Putnam
Ilouse, at Palatka, Fla., is Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher, who has spent the past three sea
sons in that city. She is beginning to show
her age. Though her hair is as white as
snow, Mrs. Beecher's activity Is quite re
markable. M. Fouque, the mineralogist, claims 'to
havo discovered, in a mixture of copper
and lime, the beautiful color azurrino, tho
composition of which has so long been a
puzzlo to artists. His tint is said to be per
fectly unchangeable, and is identical with
the famous Alexandrine blue.
The Almanach de Gothaisover a century
and a quarter old. When it was first issued,
among its collection of sovereignties written
up, there were only three republics, Switz
erland, San Marino and Andorra, while to
day, out of its total of hfty-eicht states
mentioned, twenty-six are republics.
Empekor 'William II sent to-be placed
on the grave of his grandfather, on the re
cent anniversary of the latter death, a
wreath of violets. Several hundred other
persons in Germany had the same idea, and
by evening the grave was covered with
violets, which had come, some of them,
from distant parts of the empiro.
Tin: German Emperor rises early, takes a
very light breakfast, and goes for a little
exercise, after which ho takes a second
breakfast, this time an omelette, ham and
eggs, a mutton chop or a chicken. He
dines at 1:S0 on bouillon or. broth, boiled
meat with vegetables, followed by roast
meat and pudding, and if there is company
present an entree and an ice. , His supper
is of meat or tish and pudding. His favor
ite dishes are poulets sautees, with pota
toes or baked tisb, especially perch, pike,
sole oriuruot. .
Path's voice of song was captured out
in San Francisco against her will by an
enterprising agent of Edison, who now ex
plains the way ho attached the wires of
his phouograph to the prompter's box. It
is well for him aud for the advancement ot
his science that the breadth of the conti
nent Is now between him and the pepper
box of the diva's righteous wrath. If she
is seen in future stopping in thomiddloof
'Tho Last Kose of Summer" to peep into
the prompter's box her audience will know
that she wishes to mako suro that her voico
is left blooming alone with no electric at
tachments. Prince Albert Victor, during his visit
to the Maharajah of Jeypore, was enter
tained by a performance, some of the feat
ures of which aro thus described: The
two elephants, on entering the opeu space,
chased away, it is said, the thirty or forty
spearmen who incited them to the combat,
and thereupon they charged each other.
After lighting with equal success for some
time, they were separated with charges of
gunpowder smoke directed toward them.
The royal party then went to another open
court, where the tights wero carried on in
succession between pairs of quail, part
ridges, cocks, black bucks, hogs, deer.
rams, sambhur, boars and bullaloes. -The
animals were all in excellent coudition and
fought with great fury, especially tho rams,
sambhur and boars.'"'
An amusing story concerning Prince Bis
marck and tho late Field-marshal Von
Wrangel is now current at Berlin. In 1SC4,
during the war with Denmark, old Wrangel
was in command of the allied Prussian and
Austrian forces. There was at one moment
some fear at Berlin that the Western powers
might object to tho allied troops entering
Jutland, in consequence of which a tele
gram was sent to the Field-marshal bidding
him advance no further. Wr ran gel there
upon wired back to The lmperor William
that "these diplomatists, .who . spoil the
most successful operations, deserve the gal
lows." lsismarck took care to ignore
WrangePs presence whenever he met him
on later occasions, which could not fail to
annoy him. One day, however, they met
at umner, naving Dotn oeen invueu to tne
King's table, ft was a peculiarity of
Wrangel that he always called everybody
"du." or "thou." aud, turning to Uisuiarck,
who was seated next to him, he said: 'My
son, canst thou not forgetr' fco," was the
curt reply. After a short pause, Wrangel
becan attain: "My son, canst thou not f or
eivel" "With all my heart,'' answered
Bismarck, and the two remained friends
till Wran gel's death.
INDIANA FARM MORTGAGES.
The
Effort of Office-Holding Democrats
to
Show that the State Is Insolvent.
Cleveland Leader.
The Chicago Herald, on Saturday, de
voted several columns to . the farm niort
traces" of Indiaua. It presents figures, in
large part estimated, showing that in tho
past seventeen years the mortgage indebt
edness of tho iStato has increasea $154,000,
000, and now aggregates $lGO,tX)0,000. The
increase in!8S9, says the Herald, was $22,-
000.000: therefore, "the. ninety-two coun
ties of Indiana are falling into debt at
the rate of $22,000,000 annually.' Theso
liffnros are verv modest, cohmared withtbo
statements made in f rea-trade newspapers
and campaign documents two years ago,
which placed tho "farm mortgages1' of
Indiana at $550,000,000, and wo will assume
that they are substantially correct.. But
the Herald, with characteristic free-trade
lack of candor, makes no distinction be
tween mortgages and farm mortgages. It
calls all the mortgages in Indiana "farm
mortgages. We have no means of making
the division between mortgages on lands
and mortgages on lots in Indiana, but it is
fair to assume that the division would be
about the same as in the adjoining State of
Illinois, for which we havo complete sta
tistics. According to the fifth annual re
port of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for
Illinois, issued a fow mouths ago, CO per
cent, of all the mortgages, in number and !
amount, are on lots in the towns and cities,
and only 40 per cent, on lands by the acre,
the latter including many millions'
loaned on suburban lands that
are not farming lands. Applying
this to Indiana, and we find thai
the total amount of farm mortgages is only
SG4.O00.000, and on town and city lots $90 -000,000,
in that State. There is no possibil
ity, allowing for the greater proportion of
urban population in Illinois, that the
farm mortgages of Indiana exceed $80,000,
000. and this according to tho Herald's own
totals.
The total value of the real estato in In
diana is not less than $1,200,000,000, true
valuation. It is mortgaged for only 13 per
cent, of its value. The value of the farm
lands in Indiana is not less than $700,000.
000. They are mortgaged for only per
cent, of their value. The corn and wheat
alone raised in Indiana in a singlo year
would clear otf every farm mortgage in the
State!
The Herald says there was an increase in
the amount of larm mortgages" to the ex
tent of $22,000,000 in 1889, in Indiana. This
is manifestlyiuntruo, as all these new mort
gages were not on farms. Sixty per cent.,
at least, of the amount was on town and
city lots, representing new buildings and
transfers of title. About $D,000,000 was the
increased amount on farming lands. The
greater part of this undoubtedly represents
transfers of title. Some of it stands for
new buildings and other improvements.
The proportion that represents losses and
failures in tho business of farming would
be too small to be worthy of a place beside
the grand totals'of the wealth and products
of Indiana farmers. That proportion, rei
resenting loss and failure, is less than in
any other great industry or business in the
country. J
Ileneflts of Two Houses In Congreii.
KaU FMd'i Washington.
, If anv incident in the history of our T?a-
public ever showed the wiso foresight of
the fathers of tho Constitution in provid
ing Congress with two chambers aud a
somewhat slow-moving machinery.it was
this: boppose the first vote taken on he
Blair bill in the Senate had been final, how
uncomfortable tho people would have been
when they finally waked up to the fact
that the bill was a bad one and deserved
killinu! Again and again the one house ap
proved the bill and it died tho death in the
other, simply because we had a system un
der which neither house could perfect leg
islation alone, and time was always gained
for calm deliberation. The story is told
of one of the patriot fathers that when
bo was drinking tea at the house
of a friend, somo one at table
demanded to know the reason why. Con
gress had been split by the Constitution
into two parts. He responded with a
simple object-lesson, lifting his cup, in
w hich the tea was so hot that it would
have scolded hiiu, uud pouring its contents
slowly into his saucer: "Xow." - naid he.
,"1 can drink it without injury." The cup
was the Senate, the Aaucer the House of
Kepresentatives, or vico vera. This ex
ample always recurs to my mind when I
hear people complain of tho tedious pro
cesses of legislation. It is true that we
have thanks to that tcdiousnens left
undone nany things which wo ought to
have done; but wo havo aUo been saved
by it from doing n lot of thinrs which we
ought not to havo done, and there is a good
deal more health in us. after all. in the
Ion run.
The Apology Is Accepted.
Indianapolis Newtu
The Xews owes the Journal an anoloirv.
and hereby oilers it. The News reprinted
from the Journal this extract:
He fPouchcrtvl is a riractic.il flre-flchtcr. but
In many other reiects is not well fitted for the
responsibilities of his place.
This is not a forgery, as the Journal sav?
it is a verbatim reproduction. But our
bracketed insertion of tho name' "Dough
erty" is not true. It ghonld havo been
"Webster." The Journal said this of
Webster, and not of Dougherty. It is
needless to Fay that this was an error on
the part of the Xews which no one can re
gret so much as it. It is needless, also, to
sav how it occurred. It was simnlr an in
cident of that haste with which newspaper
work, is sometimes done that cannot bo
helped. The News is doubly; fcorry that it
made tho mistake, and that it did not itself
discover it, so that it could have corrected
it instead of repeating it again, which it did
the next day, in tho same good faith and sin
cerity. It thought the Journal said this of
Dougherty and not of Webster.
Women at Auctions.
Philadelphia Tress.
The recklessn - of women who bid at
auctions for no r purpose than having
the pleasure o ;ng has often been com
mented upon, jome sharp auctioneers
are taking a .atage of this weekness
which turns a treat many dollars into their
own pockets. A young woman in the city
enter d an auction-room not long ago with
$1.17 in her purse. A piece of curiens Ja
panese armor, possibly worth from $o to $$,
was Dut up. f he young lady entered iuto
competition wit h another woman for its pos
session, and did not emerge from her state
of excitement until sho had bid $44.- and
then sho began to realize that he could not
pay for the armor if she bought it. and that
she had no use for it any way. The -other
woman took the prize for $43. and looked
around her with an air of triumph. Her
pleasure at her victory was somewhat
dulled, however, when another piec of
armor almost identical with her. prize was
otlered and sold for 87.SO. -
Facts for Tapers with "Lots of Opinions.
Iowa State Register.
The tin-nosed Leader always jumps Into
trouble whenever it quotes prices , with a
view of inducing Iowa farmers to vote the
Democratic ticket. In Tuesday's lssno, on
the editorial page, it quoted hogs selling at
$3.85 at Chicago, when the lowest price
quoted in the Chicago market in its own
columns on same day, was 64, and . highest
$4.27 2, and tho Chicago Herald, meanly
Democratic, quotes ?4.o0on same date. It
was careful not to quoto prices on cattle.
which aro now over fcl per 100 lbs. higher
than when Cleveland left tho presidential
chair! Even a three thousand-pound bull
sold at Chicago Monday to a Boston ex
porter at $4.25 per 100 lbs., which is to be
shipped to England to be eaten by the
Leader's free-trado friends! One hundred
ana thirty-fiv dollars is at least a fair
price for a bull, considering that Democ
racy has only been out of power for a year!
. lias Had Enough of Cleveland.
Josiali Gain's New Albany TrutU-TelU-r.
The Washington Sentinel calls attention
to the persistent pressing on tho public no
tice of Mr. Cleveland as a candidate for re
election by his sympathizers. It styles it
and very correctly -a practical conspiracy
to continue the Republicans in povvr. It
predicts that their success in renominating
Cleveland would cause tho authors of that
policv to pay dearly for their experience.
There is littlo danger that tho plot will
succeed. The Democratic party was never
so poorly oft' for presidential material as to
bo compelled to run any one man three
times for the presidency. In fact, siuco
Martin Van Buren, it never nominated the
same man a second time, till it tried that
unfortunate experiment with Cleveland in
1SSS. It may be safely predicted that it
will never try it again. The party will
fight for success, and not for defeat, inl92.
A Senatorial Perquisite.
rhUaddphla Times.
It is a glorious thing to be a Senator not
one of your half-and-half State Senators,
but a right down, regular United States
Senator. Among other advantages you get
your quinine gratis. This is one of the per
quisites not generally known, but it ap
pears that during the last fiscal year 3.S00
quinine pills, of two and three grains, wero
furnished for the use of the seventy-six
Senators, and this was before the appear
ance of the grip. The consumption during
tho current year must be something terrific.
In Sympathy with the Minister.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
It is ill-advised, for tho most part, for
secular journals to interfere in ecclesiastical
troubles. But we must say that when the
Kev. John Bolton, of Westchester, Pa., ob
jects to seeing a quiet game of cards going
on in tho back pews, while he is reading
the litany, and his vestry rises in arms
against him, our sympathies aro with the
clergyman. We cannot see any justification
in such a use of even tho back pews of a
church. Mr. Bolton may rely upon our Un
faltering support in this controversy. '
The Newspaper in the Schools. .
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Whatever knowledge the child had previa
ously acquired would bo brought into play
by a daily free-and-easy talk on the con
tents of the newspaper. Such a talk would
have all tho advantages of an examination
without an examination's drawbacks. It
would add .directly to the store of school
knowledgo and be the means of keeping the
school in touch with the world. .Let mora
echools read the daily newspaper.
Hie Uneducated Foreigners.
Peoria Transcript.
Prince Hatzfeldt, who married tho daugh
ter of American millionaire Huntington, re
cently lost 28.000 at poker at one sitting.
This will be a terrible blow to the Prince's
papa-in-law, not on account of the money,
because that would not be a flea-bite to Mr.
Huntington; but the mere fact that he has
a son-in-law who canTt play poker will be a
crusher. -
The Laugh Turned.
Washington Tost.
It has not been long since the Democratic
papers of Xow York were having consider
able fun at the expense of Mr. Thomas C.
Piatt. At the present time, however, all
the laugh is not in the vicinity of Piatt.
Mr. Piatt has been lifting tho covers from
some of the man-holes leading to tho Tarn
many subways.
Gave film Needed Information.
MInneapoUs Tribune.
Gil Pierce ii a'now man in the Senate,
and from a now Slate; but tradition, repu
tation, and a foghorn voice have no terrors
for him. When Voorhees attacked the
Scandinavian Gil got right up and showed
the Senate thr.t the eminent Hoosier did not
know what he was talking about.
Ilurke Made the Same Request.
Kansas City Journal.
Ex-Treasurer Hemingway, of Mississippi,
wishes suspension of judgment on the part
of the public until he has time to explain
his shortage. The public waited some days
for a similar explanation from ex-Treasurer
Roland, of this Statebut it didn't come and
hasn't como yet.
In Good Time.
Philadelphia rresa.
The decision of the Now York Snpreme
Court that tho law providing for the elec
trical execution of murderers is constitu
tional comes in good lime. Some of the men
sentenced under the law were in danger of
dying of old age.
Hill Fightluc In the Xntt Ditch.
Brooklyn 'Ealc
The Governor to-day tells the Legislature
that he believes tho ballot bill now betore
him to bo unconstitutional: to believing,
ho cannot sign it in its present shape, un
less advised that it is eon&titutionaL
lll-ltalanced.
providence Journal. . .
The trouble with the Hon. Daniel W.
Vooibecs, of Indiana, is that the wings oi
his eloquence are not balauccd by tho tai'
ictttlicra of his judgment. -