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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1890. '
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The muerwunip docs not quit know
which ho detests most, the proposed
federal election law or the enacted disa
bility pension bill.
PAPEKslike the Chattanooga Times,
which devote their columns to stigma
tizing Governor Hill as "this peanut
politician," may be laying by a stock of
raatcrirl for feasta of crow two years
hence.
TnE New York stock market, which
showed unusual activity two weeks ago,
is now featureless. Tho outside peoplo
have kept outside, and the regular deal
ers are not quite certain because of tho
undecided action of railroad companies
about rates.
It appears that General McCook, U. S.
A., and not ex-President Hayes, sang
"The Red, White and Blue" and "Tho
Flag of the Constellation" on the Grand
Army day at tho Chautauqua Associa
tion at Ottawa, Canada. General Mc
Cook will spend the Fourth in that city.
The trouble in the Democratic party
in South Carolina must be pretty deep
when a crowd of Democrats howl at
Gen. Wade Hampton, the long-time
party idol, when he appears to make a
speech, as was tho case at Aiken one
day last week. Captain Tillman seems
to have the crowd as yet.
Race prejudices may bo dead in the
South, but party proscription is not, as
will be noted in the case of a dozen or more
postmasters who have been persecuted
because they are Republicans; the last
and most aggravated case being that of
the Florida postmaster who was arrested
without a warrant, put in chains and
taken to a distant town.
TnE Bank of England has recently ad
vanced the Tates of interest to 4 per
cent, which is always done when foreign
speculation makes a call-on its gold re
serve. If that government would re
store silver to full money power, itf
would not be necessary to interrupt bus
iness for the sole purpose of defending a
store of gold in the Bank of England.
, It is passing strange that tho "his
torical resemblance" between the auc
tioning off of Rome by the Pre'torian
Guard and tho sale of Ohio to Brice by
a Democratic Legislature, and the sale
of Louisiana to the lottery by a Demo
cratic Legislature, did not occur to that
eminent divine, Bishop Henry C. Potter.
Apparently, Democracy covers a multi
tude of sins in mugwump eyes.
Mr. Cleveland, who is a gentleman
of abundant leisure, will not accept an
invitation to bo present at the nnveiling
of the monument of the man who, as
second on tho ticket with him when
elected, did much to reconcile the old
Democracy to voto for him. Mr. Cleve
land detests a crowd, even a Democratic
crowd, preferring tho select company
of wealthy mugwumps, blue-fisliing in
Massachusetts.
It is announced that an English syndi
cate has purchased the Roach ship-building-works
for about 83,000,000 which
would indicate that British capital finds
the United States a better field for ship
building than England. But the syndi
cate must make as good iron-ships as
American builders, which are much bet
ter than the average British ship that
our free-traders have been so anxious
for Americans to purchase these many
years.
If the American people consent to a
continuance of present apportionment
and election methods for Congressmen
they are either hopelessly corrupt or
alarmingly indifferent to the practical
overthrow of republican government.
Asa reading people they cannot plead
ignorance, for tho facts are within the
reach of all. Tho only possible explana
tion that can bo given for allowing the
present state of things to continue is
that the peoplo have become so corrupt
that they are willing to connive at a
great and continuing fraud, or else they
have become so absorbed in the pursuit
of wealth that they do not caro whether
republican government is maintained or
not.
TnE New York Evening Post is a pa
per which will not be accused of par
tiality for the administration or for any
person connected with it, yet the Post
sometimes draws tho line against
charges which cannot bo sustained and
attacks which are utterly groundless.
It does this in regard to the recent
charges against Pension Commissioner
Raum. Its Washington correspondent
has investigated the charges and finds
that they have no foundation. The state
ment that Secretary Noblo had taken
the matter in hand and would investi
gate tho charges is also found to be un
true. Upon inquiry at tho Interior De
partment it was learned that General
Raum has Secretary Noble's entire con
fidence, and that no investigation has
been considered necessary, because, in
the whole period that Raum has held his
present office, not a single comolaint of
his management has been laid before
the Secretary, even in the form of an
anonymous letter a fact which is re
garded as wholly incompatible with the
idea that favoritism has been shown by
the Commissioner in any direction.
General Raum has treated tho charge
with silent contempt, audit is character
istic of the Democratic press that, while
they drove Tanner into talking too
much and then hounded him out of
oflice, they are trying to drive the pres
ent Commissioner out of office because
he will not talk at all. General Raum
is right in preserving silence. His record
and character give the lie to the charges
against him, and his administration of
the Pension Office is eminently satisfac
tory. Ho can 'afford to let tho heathen
rage. .
THE PRESIDENT AND RECIPROCITY
OF TEADE.
There is reason to believe that the
President and Secretaiy Blaine are in
full accord on tho subject of our com
mercial relations with South America,
and that before the close of the present
administration important measures will
bo consummated looking to the exten
sion of our trade in that direction. The
President i3 fully committed to such a
policy, and has shown by public utter
ances, both before and since his election,
that he feels a deep interest in the sub
ject. Next to protecting our domestic
trade and preserving our home market
for American producers, ho regards as
only less important the acquisition of
new markets and tho extension of our
foreign trade. The true idea of protec
tion is, first, the preservation of homo
trade and home markets, and, second,
the acquisition of foreign trade and for
eign markets.
The idea of extending our foreign
trade with tho South American states
was prominent in tho last cumpaign.
General Harrison referred to it more
than once in those wonderful campaign
speeches which so stirred the pulse of
the people, and his expressions on the
subject show that it was occupying much
of his thought. It was also freely dis
cussed in the press", and there is reason
to believo that it entered largely into
tho popular idea of protection to Ameri
can industry, which was a potent. fact
or in President 'Harrison's election.
The protection ' of American industry
was understood to involve also the ex
tension of American trade. .
One of the most natural and efficient
means of doing this is by reciprocity
treaties when favorable opportunity of
fers for the application of that policy.
Reciprocity differs fundamentally from
free trade in that while the latter would
open our markets to all countries the
former opens the desirable markets of
other countries to us. Free trade would
be a surrender while reciprocity is an
acquisition. Reciprocity goes hand-in-hand
with protection to home industries,
while free trade would destroy them.
Restricted trade on the basis of reciproc
ity with South American states would be
a very different thing from free trade on
the basis of commercial slavery to Great
Britain.
That President Harrison is still favor
ably disposed to reciprocity of trade with
tho South American states is apparent
from his recent letter transmitting Mr.
Blaine's letter on the subject. The
President's letter was mutilated by tel
egraph. This is what he said:
It has been so often and so persistently
stated that our tariff laws ottered an in
surmountable barrier to a large exchange
of products with the Latin-American na
tions that I deem it proper to call especial
attention to the fact that more than 87 per
cent, of the products of those nations sent
to our ports are now admitted free. If
sugar is placed upon the free list, practical
ly every important article exported from
those states will be given untaxed access
to our markets, except wool The real
difficulty in the way of negotiating profit
able reciprocity treaties is that we have
given freely so much that would have had
value in the mutual concessions which such
treaties imply. 1 cannot doubt, however,
that the present advantages which tho
products of these near and friendly
states enjoy in our markets though
they are not, by law, exclusive
will, with other considerations, favor
ably dispose them to adopt such measures,
by treaty or otherwise, as will tend to
equalize and greatly enlarge our mutual
exchanges. It will certainly he time
euounh for us to consider whether we must
cheapen the cost of production by cheapen
ing labor, in order to gain access to the
South American markets, when we have
fairly tried the effect of established and
reliable steam communication, and
of convenient methods of money exchange'.
There can bi no doubt, I think, that, with
these facilities well established, and with a
rebate of duties upon raw materials used
in tho manufacture of coods for export,
oar mrchants will be able to compete in
the ports of the Latin-American nations
with those of auy other country. If, after
the Congress shall have acted upon
the ponding tariff legislation, it
shall appear that, under the general
treaty-making power, or under any special
powers given by law, our trade with the
states represented in the conference can be
enlarged, upon a basis of mutual advantage,
it will be promptly done.
A careful reading of this letter will
show that, without attempting to force
or urge any distinct policy on Congress,
it plainly favors discriminating reciproc
ity of trade with certain countries.
Without making any surrender of prin
ciple or yielding an iota as to the im
portance, necessity and benefits of pro
tection, it suggests that valuable results
for American trade may also be obtained
in certain cases by reciprocity. The
President would not tolerate the idea of
cheapening American labor and lower
ing wages in order to gain access to for
eign markets, but ho sees no impropriety
in attempting to do so by special agree
ment with particular countries.. He
would not give something for nothing,
nor allow any eountrj' to have free ac
cess to our markets without exacting a
full equivalent. To this end ho
suggests, what, is plainly right,
that tariff legislation ought not
to close the door against reciproci
ty, nor block tho way against negotiat
ing such treaties. The last sentence of
the President's letter plainly states the
intention of the administration to at
tempt the negotiation of such treaties,
unless Congress shall render it impossi
ble by giving everything away in ad
vance. The- President is opposed to
throwing away ourUump-cards -when
everyone of them is good for a trick. Jt
is to be hoped that Congress will either
give the administration special power
to negotiate reciprocity treaties, or, at"
least, leave the way open for it under
the general treaty-making power? ;;
TEE STAGE OF INCOHERENCE
The Louisville Courier Journal is more
than unhappy over the prospect of , the
passage of the federal election bill, and
appears to have reached that advanced
stage of demoralization to which the
term incoherency best applies. . - Here is
an example: -
The negro is an unqualified voter. He
knows and cares nothing about the nature
of the franchise. All he thinks about is
its current market value. He cannot be
qualiiied by machinery. The only effect of
this attempt to toss him in a hopper and to
manufacture Kepublican votes out of him
'fill he wide-spread disaster. It is a direct
invitation to race war, and a race wat will
surely follow it. ; : ?'
Tho Courier-Journal is edited by that
candid gentleman, Mr. Watterson, who
remarked within two or three years that
no intelligent man in the South would
do himself tho injustice to deny that the '
votes of colored men were not counted
in closo districts in that section, or
words to that effect. His paper now as
serts that all the colored voter . thinks
about "is the current market value" of
his vote. If this assertion is trucycither
he does not vote because the candidates
will not establish a market value, or
the managers of the controlling element
in closo districts rind it a more
satisfactory financial transaction to pre
vent his voting than to change his voto
after he has. deposited it. Or, taking an
other view of this complicated state
ment, ho is not permitted to voto be!
causehe is "an unqualified voter,"and any
attempt to insure him tho right to vote
will end in disaster, because he is un
qualified. But there are other un
qualified voters in the country
Tho large cities have thousands
of men who are allowed to vote, but
who cannot read their ballots and have
not even the remotest idea of our insti
tutions. In half the States a man who
can'neither read nor speak the American
language, nor even read the lan gu a go
which he speaks, can vote if some boss
has taken him to a court and put him,
through the farce of making a declara-r'
tion of a purpose to become a citizen of
the United States. He is certainly an
unqualified voter, and there are so many
of them in New York city that it is a
doubtful State. But no threat of wide
spread disaster is rjjade because theso
men vote; and then, the proposition ;to
pass a law which will restore sutjfrage'to
C.J. here tacitly concedes to have been
taken from, him, "is a direct invitation
to race war, and a race war will surely
follow." If the negro voter is purchas-,
able, why should there be a "race waj-,'1
if his vote can be purchased by Demo-.
cratid .managers! If this is a slander
and the colored voter is not. pur
chasable, is there to bo a "race
war" because Congress undertakes,.
in a constitutional manner, to secure
to him the richt of suffrage conferred
.by the Constitution? Who will instigaa
tho "race wan 7 Not the colored -men,
who obtain tho right of suffrage under a
law which is designed to have their votes
received and honestly counted, but the
Democrats, who, if tho C. J. Is author-
ized to speak for them, threaten vio
lence to defeat the Constitution and the
laws designed to give it force. lu .ita
condition of incoherency, tho C. J. con-"
cedes that the colored voter is denied
his constitutional right of suffrage by
Southern Democrats and proclaims that'
if a law is passed to enforce tho highest
constitutional right of the citizen, South
ern Democrats will inaugurated J aco
war." The C. J. is going too fir when
it threatens to resist the enforcement of
federal laws, and when it recovers from
its attack of incoherency it will 6ee its
error. At the same time, while such
threats may incite the vicious negro
hater to violence and murder, they
frighten no one and will not deter Con
gress from passing a law designed to
iusuro fair congressional elections North
as well as South. - . . . ''
THE ALLIANCE IN THE SOUTH. v
The people of South Carolina and
Georgia have not seen so hot political
times for years as they are now having.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, after call
ing attention to tho fact that it has here
tofore been the custom of the Demo
cratic party in the South to call ex-con.
federate leaders to fill the offices of hon
or and trust within its gift, says:
But all this seems to be changed, and a
new and powerful factor has arisen within
the Democratic party. We did not believe
that we would ever live to hear a South
Carolina audience howling down tho gal
lant General Bratton. bor shame, that
such a thing could have taken place in any
Southern State. In South Carolina the
generals are standing .up squarely for the
customs of the organized Democracy. In
Georgia the generals are running at the
head of the Alliance, with the sub-treasury
scneme as tneir piauorm oi principles.
In the same issue it gives a report of
a meeting in a South Carolina town
where Capt. Ben Tillman, who has been
assailing the present rule in that State,
met two leading Democrats, represent
ing the. old regime. The report shows
that the people were with Tillman, and
listened with impatient jeers to the
speeches of General Bratton and Attor
ney-general Earle, but filled the air with
their hats and their cheers when it came
Tillman's turn to talk. When Tillnian
denounced the present rule as an aris
tocracy and a corrupt coterie, ike crowd
went nearly wild in approval. These
gentlemen are stumping the State for
delegates to the Democratic State con
vention, and a very warm time they aie
having of it. It is the ruling element
against a lot of younger men, who seem
to have the farmers with them. Tho
Charleston News and Courier is devot
ing itself to a bitter warfare upon Till
man, and pursuing a course which will
make it impossible to support him in tho
event of his nomination.- That it is very
much frightened over the situation
there can be no doubt. As inti
mated in tho paragraph quoted, the
Democratic leaders in Georgia are
pursuing a different policy. There are
several candidates for Governor, eacrTof
whom has attached himself to the. Al
liance and indorsed its wild sub-treasr
ury bcheme for farm products. , Several
of . the members of the present House
have declared against this policy, which,
it is predicted, will lead to their defeat.
Tho Atlanta Constitution has been col
lecting statistics to show that the farm
ers of Georgia have been making won
.derfiil progress during the pat five
years, and shows, county by county, what
has been gained, calling attention to the
results in a double-leaded editorial. It
shows that of two thousand farmers of
whom inquiry has been made, two-thirds
have added SO per cent, to their prop
erty, while one-third have lost 1G per
cent., and that the most of them "have
set failure and distress behind them."
In the contests in both States it is evi
dent that the leaders are using the old
sectional issue to repress the risings of
the Alliance, and are appealing to the
Southern people to "stand for principles,
and for men who are willing to offer their
lives in defense of Southern rights,'
to quote tho words of the Augusta Chron
icle. Nevertheless the old leaders are
having a very uncomfortable time of it,
particularly in South Carolina.
A JUSTICE'S CURIOUS TESTIMONY.
That is rather curious testimony of
fered by a justice of the peace in the
Smeltzer-Ladd case at Muncie. Hear
ing that Ladd had been engaged in
riotous proceedings, ho seized his re
volver and ran out, calling upon several
men, Smeltzer among them, to help him
arrest the negro. Theso men were al
ready in pursuit of Ladd, and were
themselves rioters, but by way of makr
ing everything "legal," tho justice dep
utized them as his assistants as he ran
across a field. Then the pursuers shot
at the fugitive until they had used all
their cartridges, when, fearing that tho
victim had a revolver, they went back
to town, having suddenly lost their zeal
for keeping the peace. It is not gener
ally understood that it is one of the
duties of a justice to go out in the
streets and arrest law-breakers, and
there are formalities in regard to dep
utizing citizens to act as officials which
this justice in his haste did not observe.
As Ladd afterward died of a shot from
one of tho revolvers, a rendering of the
law which will make his pursuit and
shooting a lawful proceeding will prove
.highly convenient to the persons con
cerned, but to the outside observer who
is not afraid of tho penitentiary and
who does not thoroughly comprehend
the law '8 mysteries, such ruling will ap
pear a trilie irregular.
Prof. Robert E. Thompson, writing
in the Irish World, says:
i That the whole Democratic party in the
Senate, with the exception of Messrs. Jdc
Pherson. Gray and Wilsou. have gone over
to the advocacy of unlimited silver, must
be cheerful news to Mr. Cleveland, it in
volves nothing less than putting into the
next national platform of the party a dec
laration io which he will not be able to sub
scribe, and it thus diequalitiea him from
being again its candidate lor the presidency.
That does not follow. There is noth
ing in the nature of things to prevent
Democrats from supporting a candidate
who spits upon the party platform, or to
prevent Mr. Cleveland from accepting a
nomination on a free-silvcr-coinage plat
form. When he comes to read up on the
'question he may conveniently discover
that he has been mistaken.
It is very bard for an Englishman to
get an intelligent conception of our Con
stitution and administration. The Leeds
Mercury of recent date says:
If Mr. Blaine were to be so misguided as
to dispatch war vessels, with instructions
to repeat the violations of the British Hag
fierpotrated in the Behring sea within the
ast thrco years, it would be necessary that
a British man-of-war should be dispatched
to protect British sealers from such out
rages. -
The editor eyidently'thinks our Secre
tary of State is a Prime Minister with
very large powers. Under our Consti
tution a Cabinet officer does not dis
patch war vessels or issue orders con
cerning international matters without
'the authority of the President.
Word comes from South Carolina that
if Tillman is defeated for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor a de
mand will be made for him to run as an
independent, one Democratic club hav
ing led in the movement. The Colored
Farmers Alliances have tendered polit
ical assistance to the whito alliances,
and General Stackhouse, ,in accepting
the proffer, says that if tho colored
alliances are honest in this, "the negro
is approaching his second emancipation."
Cliauncey Depew'i Improved Note,
The mystery that surrounded Chauncey
Depew's illness at Chicago when he went
to open the world's fair meeting is at last
cleared up. There was talk about a linger
ing attack of the grip, and editors who are
themselves accustomed to labor sixteen
hours a day for S65 days in the year sol
emnly warned Mr. Depew that he was
reaping the effects of overwork. Bnt it
was neither the grip nor overwork that
was the trouble. Mr. Depew explains the
trouble himself in a letter explaining his
absence from the commencement cere
monies of an Eastern college which he
had promised to attend. Mr Depew
has a powerful voice, but it appears that
he was suddenly seized with a fear that ho
could not make himself heard in the Chi
cago Auditorium. He mentioned this
doubt to a specialist, and that gentleman
promptly assured him that all he needed
to make him the king of orators was to
have his nose reamed out. This, the snr
geon explained, was the making of an
opening in the cartilage of the nose between
tho nostrils, and was a simple and painless
operation. The temptation . was great, Mr.
Depew succumbed, and his nose was reamed
out just twenty-four hours before he left
for Chicago. Ttoe trip to that city was hot
and dusty, the open wound became irri
tated, and before the time came for the Au
ditorium speech to be delivered the orator
had incipient blood poisoning and was
in the hands of half a dozen doctors. The
symptoms were alarming, and radical
measures were resorted to to counteract
the poison. The crisis was reached only an
hour or two before the time for the meet
ing, but, to the horror of his physicians.
Mr. Depew arose and insisted upon carry
ing out his part of the programme. This
he did, and returned to his bed, where he
remained until danger was over. He then)
returned to New York, where tho trouble
broke out afresh, and he has been under
medical treatment ever since. That he is
in a fair way to complete recovery is proved
by the fact that he has reached a point
where he can joke about the matter, but it
is 6afe to say-that he will have no more
"reaming", done, whatever the size of the
LaII ha.wUhej toiilL, It mast bav. added
that such a proceeding by anyone than th
great and genial Chauncey would savor
strongly of personal vanity.
After Graduation What?
For tho benefit of this year's crop of col
lege graduates the Philadelphia Press re
cently asked the opinion of a number of
distinguished and successful men as to tho
best course for a young man to pursue after
graduation. . As a matter of course, most of
the replies were rather non-committal as to
the actual business or profession offering
the best openings, the bulk of the advice
being of a general character and adapted
to all cases. Gen. Ben Butler, however,
was explicit. Law, he says, is overstocked,
though there is plenty of room at the top.
The inclinations of the graduate must de
termine as to the ministry. If a graduate
has a taste for the physical sciences, pa
tience and a good address, let him enter the
medical profession. 'But,1'saj the Gen
eral, "if he has at all a turn for mathe
matics let him study civil engineering, in
cluding hydraulic and mining engineer
ing, as a profession. That is the great field
now open to young men. It requires hard
work, bat everything else that is going to
be successful requires hard work. If I
had a son who had just graduated from
college, and had at all a mathematical
mind, I should put him into that pro
fession as the best hope for his future."
The new old Congressman, Richard Vaux,
advises young men to have faith in God, to
use their brains ana learn to think. Ex
cellent advice but hardly of immediate
value to the youth who must earn his bread
and butter, no matter what the extent of
his faith or brains. Charles n. Taylor
urges them to discard kid gloves and canes
and take the first opening they can get in
the line of their special tastes if possible, if
not, in other directions. He also quotes
Artenius Ward's advice to the man who
wanted to know, what to do in case of
emergency. It was, "Rise up and cave in
the emergency's head." John Wanaroaker
would be governed by circumstances in
determining the business or career of a
young man. Abram S. Hewitt says that
when he was a graduate he took advantage
of the first opportunity for honorablo
employment and did his level
best to perform the work to the
satisfaction of his employer. He knows no
other rule for the guidance of a young man
than to work diligently, tell the truth and
avoid indulgence in dissipation of any
kind, especially in the nse of alcoholic
liquors. Richard Watson Gilder beseeches
the young man not to be a coward, but
whatever may be his work, to maintain
his moral convictions at all hazards. It is
possible that Gilder touches closer upon
the weakness of tho average graduate than
auy other, since it too often happens that
he is possessed of a false pride that forbids
him to engage in work that he fancies is
below his dignity or the level of his abili
ties. 'Education is not wasted, though its
possessor engage in other than intellectual
pursuits, even in manual labor, and it is
not a shame but a credit to tne boy ' who
does bravely and well that which comes to
his hand, even though it be labor not of
the highest grade. That all honest labor
is honorable is a lesson that young people
are often slow to learn. ,
People who are wondering why Messrs.
Gompers and Powderly, the great labor
leaders, should have fallen out, should
bear in mind the similar fact that two
newspapers of the same political faith can
never dwell in harmony in the same city.
It's the old story of ."two bites at "tho same
cherry." , -: ' ' ' ' '
It is noticeable that all "holiness con
ventions" are held in midsummer. This
arrangement is probably made on the
theory that any man or woman who can
maintain a holy frame of mind with the
thermometer at 90 in the shade is sin
proof for the rest of the year.
The papers are talking about Congress
man Vaux's "maiden speech" in the House.
Considering that Vaux is not far short of
eighty years of age the word "maidenw in
this connection seems a misuse of language.
If Chicago's .census enumeration had
fallen short of a million the row and riot
up there would have been of a kind to make
the St. Paul-Minneapolis affair appear like a
gentle summer breeze.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
What is meant by free coinage! and what
privilege does it give the bnllion-owners! 11 ow
much population does a Territory nave to have
heiore 1 1 is entitlea to admission l ' .
Liztck, Iud. A SUBSCRinER.
We answered, the free-coinage question
recently, but as your question raises a new
point we will answer it again. Technical
ly, free coinage means the conversion of
gold or silver bullion into coin without ex
pense to the owner. In old English law the
government charge for coining money was
called seigniorage, and constituted quite a
considerable revenue. It corresponds, in a
general way, to the toll which a miller
takes for converting wheat into flour.
Strictly speaking, therefore, free coinage
would be the conversion of silver bullion
into coin without cost to the owner. But
as now used it means coining tho silver for
nothing and giving the owner silver dollars
for his bullion without reference to the
market price of silver. Last year tho gov
ernment went into the bullion market and
bought $17,210,000 worth of silver, which it
converted into $24,000,000 worth of standard
silver dollars. The government pocketed
the difference of $0,600,000, which stands for
the difference between the market value
and the coin value of silver. Under free
coinage the bullion-owners, instead of the
government, would pocket this difference.
2. There is no specified population requi
site. m
To the TSrtltor of tho Indianapolis Journals
Will you please give me the name of the poem
ana tne autaor or tus loiiowing lines:
The water lapping on the crag.
And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
Indianapolis. e. b. g.
The lines are found in Tennyson's "Pass
ing of Arthur," in the scene where the dy-
ing Arthnr bids Sir Bediyerecast the sword
Excalibur into the lake.
ABOUT PEOPLE A.XD THINGS.
A London firm has notified Stanley that
it has named a brand of sausages in his
honor.
Chakles H. Fairbanks, an Adrian.
Mich., photographer, is able to converse
fluently in twenty languages.
The German Emperor will give no more
jewelry to those whom he wishes to honor.
but photographs of himself, with his auto-.
grapn, iramea in stiver or goiu.
The Pope has authorized, the drawings
for his own sarcophagus lor the Church tf
St. Giovanni, to be erected three years after
his death. It will be of Italian prophyry.
and cost $2.000.
Low Aberdeen created a great deal of
excitement in London recently by driving
up to the 'door of his club in a milk-wagon,
lie had been unable to obtain a carriage,
and rather than wal k he had chartered that
modest vehicle. .
George Westiniiouse does , not put on
the air-brakes in the matter of expenditures
on his new. "cottage at Lenox, Mass. The
cottage is being built entirely .of marble,
and already over t-'500.000has been expended
oa. the property. . A Lu-ge marble building
is now being erected in which tlie electric
light plaut w ill be housed. Eighty men are
kept constantly employed.
GnonGE W. Dr.LAMATKi;, Republican
candidate ;,r Governor of Pennsylvania,
iaa-native of Meadviilc, a graduato of
llstvard Law School, and ferry yeais of
ace; Louis A. Wat res, caLdidate for Lieutenant-governor,
eurted in lite as a coal
picker, buthaHbinco achieved success iu
various business enterprises and at the
law. He is thirty-nine yean old.
Pox's "Haven' haa found a counterpart
at Gainesville. Fla., whero a monster owl
has taken up his abode in tbo residence of
Dr. Phillips, where he called very earlr
one morning and perched himself on top of
tne lrame ot a picture hanging on the wall.
He locked wise aud said nothing except
when poked with a stick. At last ac
counts he still remained a guest of the fam
ily. The trousseau of the Archduchess-Maria
.Valerie of Austria is now on exhibition, and
occupies no less than four so-called "sa
loons'' in the imperial palace, while a fifth
is crowded with weiiing gifU. over, which
sentinels stand constantly on guard. Ihere
is a gorgeous display of jewelrv, including
three magnificcLt diadems, splendid laces.
gold and silver platf and a limitless profu
sion of costly gifts of all kinds.
"It may come to pass.' aid a. British
lecturer lately, "that some African may, in
centuries to come, point out how a race of
Englishmen once dominated the West In
dies, and were improved oli the face of tho
land." Sucn fears are real enough. In
lOfVS there were in those islands 4J&M Euro
peans to 1,500 Africans. In 1SU0 the num
bers were S0.C00 Europeans and S00.O00 Afri
cans. In the last census the ligures were
14,-KaJ Europeans, 10y,146 colored, or mulat-
toes, 444,lbb Africans, aud 12,1240 Asiatics.
An English officer who recently traveled
on the public service scys that he bent in in
bis account of traveling expenses tho en
try, "Porter, 1 shilling." His accounts
were returned, with the remark that porter
could not be allowed, but that if tho entry
were intended for the conveyance ot iug
cage it should be noted as porterage. The
alteration was duly made, aud a query ad
ded as to whether a cab should not be en
tered us 'cabbage." The reply was that
"correspondence on this subject must
cease.71
, THE STATE PRESS.
Its Editors Keep Sharp Watch on Current
Events, and Comment Forcibly on the Same.
Lafayette Courier: Indianapolis is the
proper placo for the holding of all State
conventions, and the periodical agitation
to go somewhere else is frivolous.
Decatur Journal: A federal election law
cannot possibly cause fraudulent voting or
prevent honest voting, and therefore no
valid objection can be made to it.
Marion Chronicle: If you want to throw
the average Democratic politician into
hysterics just threaten to protect tho sanc
tity of his ballot with a federal safeguard.
Rushville Graphic. The State debt in
creasing at the rate ot a hall million dol
lars every year is a senons question that
the voters will have to confront at the next
election.
Madison Courier Workingraen would do
themselves honor everywhere if they would
kick out every walking delegato and An
archist as tho strikers in New York bounced
Horr Most the other night.
Muncie Times: The State debt crows un
der the Democratic financial policy like a
Jonah's gourd, but trie Democratic "re
form' editors aro not burdening their col
umns with this useful information to tax
payers. .
Plainfield Progress: If ever tho time
cornea wnen a service pension win do
proper (as it probably will) it will be when
ail the remaining soldiers are so old that it
can- be fairly presumed that they are all
feeble aud disabled.
South Bend Tribune: The Democratic
papors are greatly worried just now over
wh&t I'resiuent Harrison intends, to do.
In his own language he intends to do bis
duty by the people of the whole .country
regardless of how it may affect his political
future, .
Owen Countv Journal: The agents of
foreign importers still join in the hue and
cry against discrimination in lavorol home
industries, but the sound common sense of
the American people will not allow them to
be misled by the sophistries of free-trade
calamity-dealers.
.Rushville Republican: No honest' com- '
munity nor any honest party men -can
properly complain of a stringent election
law. so Jong as its provisions apply to all
alike and do not deprive any man of his
right to vote, and protect him in the exer
cises of that right,
Anderson Herald: The efforts of the
Democratic politicians and press to have
the public believe that Tension Commis
sioner Raum has been convicted of tume
kind of official malfeasance are not making
headway. In the meantime General Kauni
goe right along attending to his business.
Kokomo Gazette Tribune: The proposed
law only requires that in national elections
Democrats must be honest. This is as
little as the country can afford to. de
mand, and the Kepublican party will
have failed of its duty if it does hot ac
complish the enactment of the federal elec
tion law.
Albion New Era: Local option in regard
to the liquor trailic ii the doctrine of the
Kepublican party of Indiana, ana suouia -be
adhered to steadily in the resolutions
adopted by every convention in the State,
until the party is successful in securing
the State Legislature, and then it should
become a law of the State.
Liberty Herald: We advocated the res
toration of the "dollar of the daddies' and
its liberal coinage; we are in favor of silver
and gold as money, and tho two metals
being coined into the same until the land
overflows with such money; hut we are in
favor of putting more silver, in the silver
dollar if its coinage is made free.
Steuben Republican: President Harrison
has vetoed no pension bills, but he is not
at all backward in tho use of the veto
power to prevent useless or extravagant
expenditure of public money. Every one
of his vetoes so far has been in the interest
of national economy and good government,
and this is admitted ou all hands.
New Albany Tribune: It is so flicient rea
son for the passage of a national election
law that it is needed for the purity of elec
tions and the freedom of , the ballot, and it
is sufficient reply to everything said against
it that it is opposed only by those who
have profited by election frauds and co
ercion and hope still further to profit there
to. Hartford City Times: To tho splendid
memory of the women of Blackford county
will be due the correctness of the present
census. In nine cases out ot ten the enum
erator has to see the woman of the house to
get his "list" answered. Especially is this
true in obtaining family statistics. The
average man is dumber than an oyster)
about such matters.
Muncie Times: Senator Carlisle thinks
the federal election law will pass and that
it can be made odious by its enforcement
in every congressional district in this
couutry. The Senator is wrong. The en
forcement of the law in every part of the
country would meet with the entire ap
proval of the people, who want honest
elections, even at an expense of 82,000,000 &
year.
Shelby Republican: The organs of the
misnamed Democratic party can jabber
about the proposed election bill to their
hearts' content, and denounce it as mneh
as they will, it does not change the
fact that the intent and effect of the law
are to feeenre fair elections and honest
counts something that bus not been known
at tho South at any general election for
years.
Muncie Times: A careful perusal of the
new pe.usion bill will convince anyone
that it is the best measure yet passed, for
the relief of the veterans who are unable
to support themselves by manual labor,
and who have heretofore been unable to
obtain their just rights from the govern
ment. If not all the recognition that was
desired it will afford relief to thousands of
worthy men, in which everybody, will re
joice. ''.,'-
Wabash Plain Dealer: There is grim hu
morin the commentsof the Southern news
papers that many of the colored people are
not being counted by tb enumerators. The
Bourbons want every black man, woman
and child report od in the censut. because it
is on this enumeration the congressional
apportionment is based; but when it comes
to voting, the Africans who approach'th
polls are so etJectually disposed of that the
keent st-sccuted enumerator is unable to nud
them at the next census. , . -. . :