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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1890.
THE DAILY JOURNAL
WEDNESDAY. JULY 9, 1800. '
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The natural order of the subject leads us to con
sider in thir place that provision of the Constitu
tion tchich authorizes the national legislature to
regulate, in the last resort, the election of its own
members. It is in these words: 'The times, places
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ina Senators. This provision hps not only been
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stitutum in the gross,butit has been censured by
those who hare objected with less latitude and
greater moderation. Iam greatly mistaken, not
withstanding, if there be any other article in the
vhole plan more completely defensible than this.
Its propriety rests upon the evidence of this plain
proposition: that every government ought to
contain within Itself the means or lta own
preservation." Alexander Hamilton, Federal
ist Papers, No. 50.
No right is interfered with by the pro
posed federal election law except the
right to reap political profit from ballot
box stuffing and false counting.
The Sentinel advises the Democratic
candidates for the Legislature to begin
reading up on the dust problem. If
there is any probability of their elec
tion they had better begin to read up on
a grqat many subjects.
An exchange asks: "If New York and
Indiana Democrats should ask for the
nomination of Hill could the demand bo
denied?" But Indiana Democrats are
not yet shouting for Hill. The Sentinel
did not print his speech.
TnE Democratic State committo in
Illinois have carried the election in that
State three times already. ,The people
will not vote until the second Tuesday
in November. When the votes are
counted Illinois will bo Republican as
usual.
TnE Southern Senators are anxious
for the passage of tho river and harbor
bill, in which their section is most gen
erously cared for, but when it is passed,
if it does, appropriating a large sum of
money, they will cite it as a sure evi
dence of Republican profligacy in tho
use of public money.
Mr. Bynuji told tho mass of Tammany
tax-eaters about him, July 4, that "the
founders of our government did not be
lieve in a nation with a big N." If Mr.
Bynum will read Washington's inaugu
ral he will find the word "nation,"
"national," etc. But then George Wash
vington may not have been one of the
founders of this government. Ho cer
tainly was not a Democrat.
The fact that all of tho cities of the
South which are within the radius of
the influences which have led to the
greater prosperity of that section show
a remarkable increase of population
goes to show tho malignity of the charge
made by the Democratic press to tho
effect that tho Superintendent of the
Census had given his agents secret in
structions to understate tho population
of tho South.
Critical Democratic organs are com
plaining that James Whitcomb Riley's
ode to Hendricks, read on the occasion
of the monument unveiling, is nothing
but empty sound. They ought to make
come allowance for the fact that a desiro
to oblige a committee of personal friends
. is not sufficient inspiration to a man who
Totes the Republican ticket for tho
production of a truly great ode to a
leader of the opposite party.
. It has been asserted that since Gov.
Hill was hero ex-Governor Gray has a
presidential beo in his bonnet which is,
metaphorically speaking, as big as an
elephant, and as lively as a cyclone; and
it is furthermore rumored that he will.
by the suggestion of tho Now York Gov
ernor, try and secure the Indiana dele
gation for himself to save it from Cleve
land, and turn it over to Hill later on.
A good scheme, but Governor Gray's
friends query: "Why turn it over?"
The evil results of a boom aronotf
being experienced in Oklahoma. People
rushed thither by thousands. The coun
try produced nothing and all that the
people had they were compelled to buy.
Now there is likely ,to be . a total
failure of tho crops from severe drought.
and tho settlers arc confronted with des
titution. And when tho facts about that
country aro known it will appear no
nearer paradise than other parts of tho
country, since tho natural fertility of its
soil is neutralized by oft-recurring
droughts and hot winds which destroy
all crops.
Those are very dreadful threats that
aro coming up from the South about
what they, the would-bo lords of all
creation, the Southern white folks, will
do in case tho national election law is
passed. By way of retaliation upon the
government for insuring an honest elec
tion of Congressmen they will boycott
all Northern products. It must be the
young fry. that is trying this means of
intimidation. Older Southerners will re
call a time when enforced deprivation
of Northern products caused them great
inconvenience, not to say suffering.
These old fellows are not anxious to de
prive themselves of the comforts and
luxuries of life a second time for the
6ako of keeping the "nigger" in his
place.
TEE AGEEEilEKT ON SILVER,
Tho agreement of the conference com
mittee on tho silver bill is practically
conclusive of the question and deter
mines tho silver legislation of the pres
ent Congress. It also disposes of one of
tho most important questions before the
country in a manner which will be a
finality for many years to come. The
bill as agreed upon provides for the pur
chase by the government at tho market
price, of 4,500,000 ounces of silver
monthly, on which shall bo issued silver
certificates which shall bo full legal
tender, redeemable in coin. The Secre
tary of the Treasury is required to coin
of silver bullion into silver dollars two
million ounces a month until the last
day of July, 1891, and after that as much
as may be necessary to provide for tho
redemption of tho certificates. The
amount of certificates issued and out
standing shall at no time be greater
or less than tho cost of the
silver bullion and tho standard
silver dollars coined thereupon then in
tho treasury. In other words, silver
certificates to tho value of 4,500,000
ounces of silver shall be issued each
month, whether the silver bo all coined
or held as bullion.
The eflect of tho act is to provide a
market for nearly the entire product of
American silver and to insure a monthly
increase of tho currency equal to tho
market value of 4,500,000 ounces of sil
ver. The law makes obligatory the
purchase of this amount of silver per
month "or so much thereof as may be
offered." If tho American product
should fail it would open a market for
foreign silver, but tho American prod
uct will not fail. On the contrary, it is
pretty sure to increase, and the full
amount named by this law will bo
offered each month. Tho law is to tako
effect thirty days from and after its pass
age, and will doubtless pass both houses
and be approved by tho President with
in a f ow days. By the middle of August
no doubt it will be in force and the new
silver policy of the government will be
in active operation. Wo predict that
the law will bo popular with all
classes, and that it will contribute
materially to the impiovement of
business. Senator Jones, the ablest
champion of silver in this country, says
tho bill as agreed upon is certainly
satisfactory to him, and ought to bo to
the friends of silver everywhere. He
says, further, "it is a Republican meas
ure, passed solely by Republican votes
in tho conference committee, tho Demo
crats declining to give it their assent."
Senator Stewart, another silver cham
pion, cordially approves tho measure,
and predicts good results from it, polit
ically and commercial!-.
A OEEAT FINANCIAL BECOSD.
The passage of the silver bill will sus
tain the record of the Republican party
in dealing with financial questions. Its
record in that regard is something to
which it can well point with pride,
scarcely second, indeed, to its record in
preserving and establishing tho Union.
When it came into power in 18C1 it
found an empty treasury and tho gov
ernment borrowing money at 12 per
cent, a year. Tho public credit was
very low, the government revenues
meager and uncertain, and the country
cursed by a fluctuating currency. How
it restored and strengthened tho public
credit, increased tho revenues, created
the greenback and the national bank
system, raising money with one hand
while fighting rebels with tho other, is
matter of history. After tho war it be
came tho duty of the Republican party
to provide for the payment of tho na
tional debt, to strengthen and protect
tho public credit and to restore specie
payments. Step by step it accomplished
all these great works, and, generally, in
spite of tho factious opposition of tho
Democracy. Now it has framed and is
about to pass a silver bill which will
mark a new departure in tho financial
policy of the government and prove an
important factor in promoting national
prosperity. The Republican party is
the only political organization wo have
ever had that has shown anv capacity
whatever for dealing with national
finances.
THE DEMOCRATIC THREAT.
News comes from Washington that
word has been passed from the Demo
cratic side of tho Senate that if there is
any intention of bringing up tho federal
election bill after the tariff bill, Demo
cratic Senators will continue the tariff
debate into September, and that if the
election bill is brought forward first,
similar tactics will bo adopted for the
purpose of defeating one, if not both
measures. That is, being a minority,
they will resort to some revolutionary
methods to defeat action by the majority
upon important legislation. In the judg
ment of the business men of the country
tho Senate has already wasted much
time in discussing a few measures. It
wasted days upon tho Blair bill and
longer time than was necessary upon the
silver bill. There aro a few men in that
body who can talk on forever and say
nothing of any consequence; and talk
on such measures as tho tariff bill can
not change a vote, as it did not on the
6ilver ortho Blair bills. The business
of tho country is impatient for the
passage of the tariff bill. Industry and
enterprise wait upon it, and Senator
Morrill, of tho finance committee, is
right when ho says it is tho duty of tho
Republican party to give tho country a
new tariff law as soon as possible. If it
is the policy of tho Democratic Senators
to defeat legislation by unnecessary dis
cussion by talking against time it
seems as if tho Republicans should
dismiss tho traditional courtesy which
seems so sacred to some of them and
adopt rules which will limit discussion
or rather everlasting talk, to hamper
legislation and weary tho majority.
When tho Democratic minority con-.
spires to prevent the majority from dis-
charging its duties it docs 'seem at this
distance that the time had come to part
company with that thing which is called
senatorial courtesy and treat a con
spiracy as conspiracies deserve to be
treated. Tho tariff bill, the most im
portant measure before Congress, has
been before the Senate weeks; until
there is great impatience in consequence
of tho delay.
AN EXCITED PEES0N.
That "prominent wholesale merchant
of Charleston, S. C," who is reported
from Cincinnati as uttering threats of
boycotting tho North if the federal elec
tion bill becomes a law, has sense enough
"not to wish to have his name used," as
he seems to be awaro that he was mak
ing an ass of himself. It is tho pld
threat of the slave master long before
the war. "Repeal the Missouri Com
promise, or we will destroy the Union;
catch and return our slaves, or wo will
break up the Nation; if the Northern
States do not stop passing personal-liberty
bills, we will mark those that do, so
and withdraw from them our trade; let
your Black Republican party in , the
North declare against the extension of
slavery, and we of the South will ruin
your business" -who that can remember
the decade from 1850 to 1800, or
has read of it, does not recall
these threats? Then they would
have used the word boycott had
it been invented. And yet when they
did attempt to secede there was no
evidence from the large amount of
money owed to Northern merchants that
the people who trade had made good
the threats of tho politicians of '. that
section who threaten. This merchant
who did not want his name made public
says that, first, the people of the South
will organize a boycott against Northern
merchants and manufacturers and will
import their goods, and that tho South
ern people will bo "eager" to buy im
ported goods at an advanced price to
punish the North for electing Senators
and Representatives who may see fit to
pass a law to insure tho suffrage of the
Constitution in congressional elections.
This blusterer imagines that the busi
ness men of tho North will be fright
ened at his threat that Southern con
sumers will be "eager" to pay from 50
to 100 per cent, more for staple cotton
goods, shoes, machinery, etc. Will
they? Not if they have their reputed
sagacity, because the South will buy in
the cheapest markets, having no money
to waste on sentiment.
Equally idiotic is his rant about expell
ing the colored laborer from the South to
make room for thousands of white laborers
for whom arrangements have been made
abroad. What absurdity! Where could
they get whito laborers who could go
into tho cotton-fields and would labor
for the pittance which the colored .man
receives on the farms of the South? It
is preposterous. And then, this, tajk of
driving the negroes into the Xorth" and
West! Does this merchant forget that
North Carolina farmers recently gave
notice to railroad agents that it would
not be safe for them to continue to coax
their negro farm-hands to emigrate, or
the repeated statements of . sttch men
as the late Henry W. Grady that., the
South needs tho labor of tho negro, and
cannot well get along without it. or the
fact that when.two Senators advocated
the idea of the deportation of tho negro,
at the public expense, other leaders took
occasion to declare that they didr- not
represent tho industrial interests of the
South? ' . -
The enumeration of population is only
part of the work of taking the census.
Other special inquiries remain to be
made, of which tho most important is
that relating to manufactures. The
result of this will show tho growth of
manufacturing since the last census, and
tho relativo standing, in this regard, of
different States, cities and towns. It is
important that tho manufacturing cen
sus of this city be made as full and com
plete as possible. That our manufact
ures have greatly increased since tho
last census i3 known to all, but it is im
portant to know the rate of increase and
tho extent of our present industries.
The blanks on which the manufacturing
statistics will be gathered contain- the'
following information for manufact
urers:
Tho period to be covered by this return is
the census year, beginning June 1, 1S89,
and ending May 31, 1S90. If. however, the
fiscal year of the establishment covers a
ditterent period, the return may be for tne
iiscal year which most nearly conforms to
the census year.
Manufacturers aro assured that their ans
wers to the within questions will be held
strictly confidential, and will not be dis
closed to any unauthorized person whom-
soever. Special agents und enumerators
are sworn officers of tho government; and
severe penalties are imposed by law-for a
violation of their obligations.
The data will not be used by this office as
a basis of any system of taxation or license,
or in any way to affect adversely tho inter
ests of manufacturers. No publication
will bo made in the census reports which
will disclose tho names or the operations of
individual establishments.
The inquiry will embrace every kind of
productive industry, and tho smallest
shop as well as the. largest factory. '
The growth of Southern and . border
State cities during the last decade is
evidence of tho rare prosperity which
the introduction of Northern capital and
manufactures has brought to them.
Louisville has increased its population
45 per cent., Memphis 123 per cent., At
lanta has doubled its population, while
tho Texas cities of San Antonio, Hous
ton and Fort Worth show a phenomenal
growth. Chattanooga and Birmingham
have risen from villages to cities of 32,
000 and 27,000, respectively duo to tho
development of their iron resources.
During the next decade their growth
will probably bo greater, aud, it may
bo added in all candor, that no section
is moro gratified with this growth than
the North, and no people in the North
more than tho business men of the Re
publican party.
The attempt of certaiu newspapers
and correspondents to create a sensation
concerning tho Behring sea controversy
was reckless and unpatriotic. It is true
that international relations aro not de
termined by newspaper talk, but thoy
are sometimes complicated thereby, and
reckless statements concerning such
matters are wholly unjustifiable. Those
recently made were plainly intended to
create the impression that they were
based on good authority, and that a
rupture of diplomatic relations between
the governments of tne United States
and Great Bntain was imminent, if not
inevitable. The British minister at
Washington has done both countries a
service by promptly declaring that tho
dispatches were absolutely false and
without any foundation whatever. It is
hardly necessary to say they originated
with Democratic papers. Wro do not
look for" any conscience in the Demo
cratic press, but we have a right to ex
pect a little decency.
TnE festive veto works havoc with
Democratic candidates. The pension
veto had its part in "doing up" the
lamented Cleveland in tho late cam
paign, and now it comes to plague Mr.
Pattison, nominee for Governor of
Pennsylvania. When Pattison held that
office, a few years ago, he made himself
obnoxious to Union veterans by vetoing
what was known as the "soldiers' burial
bill" a measuro providing for respect
able burial by the State of all veterans
who died in poverty. The Governor
thought he was doing a praiseworthy
party act, ut he has had reason since to
regret the friskiness of his pen.
Senator Sherman declares himself in
favor of a congressional election law ap
plicable aliko to all districts and man
datory in its terms. He thinks the gov
ernment ought to take supreme control
of the election of members of Congress,
even to the extent of printing and
furnishing the tickets and defraying the
expenses. Then ho would make the
law of universal application instead of
making it dependent on the petition of
a number of citizens. This suggestion
goes to the root of the matter, as Sen
ator Sherman's suggestions generally do.
Judge Rogers, a prominent Georgia
Democrat, now. in Washington, says "if
the national election bill was really in
tended to promote honest elections in
the South or elsewhere, it was a great
mistake on the part of the Republicans
to have made it a party measure." This
recalls the fable of the wolf that ac
cused the lamb of muddying the water
by crossing the stream away below. Of
course it is Republican support that
makes the election bill a party measure,
and not Democratic opposition.
And now Mr. Pickett, editor of the
Memphis Avalanche, comes to the front
to declare that tho greatest outrage ever
perpetrated in this country was giving
tho negro the ballot, and that the only
way to settle the question is to disfran
chise him. He also declares that tho
Democrats of tho South will find so mo
way to evade the federal election law as
they have other laws to insure fair vot
ing and counting. The candor of Mr.
Pickett will embarrass his friends."
A correspondent writes as follows:
A Louisville Sunday uaner prints an article on
Mroe. Blavatski, in which Edison is made to say
we are to have a vital telephone (a mental tele
phone?) and can talk to India without wires aud,
presumably, without instruments; also.'.that this
is not a new thing, but had been done by the
ancients of long ago and old times. Now tele
phone is not a proper term lor tnls, because
thought messages being necessarily anhonous.
they are not really any kind of phone or Bound.
The term thought, aphone (thought words with-
out sound), 1 better than telephone, swift sound.
Let us correct the terminology.
This is an interesting question in philol
ogy, but will be more interesting when the
mental telephone, or "aphone,'1 is actually
in use. Indeed, the terminology will prob
ably not be settled until the invention is a
fixed fact
If the policemen, postmon and" telegra
phers of London should all go ou strike at
once there would be a right merry time in
the world's metropolis. To the resident of
an American city, where there are anywhere
from a dozen to fifty applications for every
position held by a policeman or mail-car
rier, the possibility of such strikes seems
the height of absurdity. But that's what
comes of that funny English civil-service
idea of requiring public employes to work
just the same as other people.
Speaking of .the qualifications and the
recommendations of a Democratic aspirant
for Governor in Tennessee, the Nashville
Herald (Dem.) says:
Jere Baxter was rooked In tho cradlo of De
mocracy, lie nad lour brothers to shoulder tho
musket In defense or the Southern Confederacy.
and had he been old enough would have been
found In the ranks. Ills father has been twice
elected judge in this circuit on the Democratic
ticket, ana is now homing a rosmon ny appoint
ment of the Supreme Court of this fctate, com
posed entirely of Democrats.
It will certainly bo a, pity if the Indiana
Base-ball League cannot be held together
during the rest of the7 season. Harvest is
about over and corn-husking does not be
gin for several months. It would be a
shame to throw all those bright boys upon
a hot and cruel world just at this time of
year.
Yesterday's wind-storm came from the
northeast. It is purely a coincidence, of
no particular significance, of course, that
the Western Association of Writers "blew
in" at Warsaw about the samo time.
To tho Editor-it the Indianapolis Journal:
Does the ncrf pension bill debar persons who
have other means of support than their daily
labor! keauer.
Eugene, Ind.
It gives a pension to (1) honorably dis
charged soldiers "who are now or who may
hereafter be suffering from a mental or
physical disability of a permanent, charac
ter, not the result of their own vicious hab
its, which incapacitates them from tho per
formance of manual labor in such a degree
as to render them unable to earn s support;
(2) to the widow, or if no widow, to the
father or mother of a soldier who has died
since the war, provided such person is de
pendent on his or her daily labor for sup
port." Tho law does not pension any person
who is capable of earning a support.
To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journa
ls there is any coal shipped from England to
the United States! lx so, wnat is the sum annu
ally! A Header.
Kmgiitsville, Ind. -
During the year 1SS9 we imported $3,929.-
245 worth of coal, some coming from Nova
Scotia and some from England.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Gen. Albert Pike, who is at the head of
the Masons in the South, is seventy-four
years of age.
The King of Sweden is said to have a
first cousin living at Lynn, Mass., and if so
he is probably a shoemaker.
The Duchess of Fife is a fine butter-
maker, and it has become the fashion of
young English ladies whose fathers own
farms to learn butter-making, and, if pos
sible, obtain a prize at a county fair aud
sell the butter at ft very high prico. Tho
fashion in America differs from this in the
important particular that the butter is sold
for the highest possible price, regardless of
any prize in the matter.
The girls at Newnham College, where
Miss Fawcett took the high honors in math
ematics, have been debating the question,
"Resolved, that the study of current litera
ture is unimportant compared with that of
standard works of the past." The motion
was lost, and the girls will go on reading
novels as before.
Miss Anna Brewster, a society girl of
Now York, who went out to visit her
brother-in-law. Secretary Keamy, in Japan,
has gone on a pleasure trip to Siberia, go
ing from Nagasaki to Vladivostock. It is
the first case known of a young American
lady go?ng to tho Siberian frontier, except
for missionary work.
A newly-married Hindoo girl is inter
dicted by custom, when living under her
husband's roof, from talking to any but
her younger sisters-in-law or brothers-in-law.
A snicide has been committed by a
little Hindu wife in a village in Uurdwan
for tho pathetic reason that she could find
'no one to talk to or play with.7
Mrs. William G. Cuo vTE. of New York,
established tho first Woman's exchange
twelve years ago. During the first, year
the exchange paid out 2,000 as remunera
tions to women for their handiwork sold by
it. One hundred exchanges are now in ex
istence in different cities, and not less than
61,000,000 has been paid for work in these
twelve years.
Mrs. Thomas A. Scott's residence in
Philadelphia is one of the largest private
dwellings in the United States. It con
tains as many rooms as a cood-sized hotel.
These are all under the supervision of a
young man, who goes about with so many
keys to a broad girdle around his waist
that the tradesmen who visit the house call
him "St. Peter." There are seventeen bath
rooms in the house.
William H. Wiley, president of St.
John's Guild, New York, reports that last
summer it took CO, 157 sick children and
mothers on its lloating hospital, and gave
treatment to 1.573 patients at its seaside
hospital, New Dorp, S. I. These helpless
sufferers are received from doctors, dispen
saries and wretched tenement-houses, with
out race or creed distinction, and are cared
for without charge.
The bachelors of Baden have made a
novel protest against piano practice. They
have formed an anti-mnsical association.
binding themselves under a solemn oath
not to marry any girl who plays the piano.
The association, which already numbers
several hundred members, will hardly be
as effectual as the law in Carlsrube. which
subjects to a fine any one who plays tho
piano before an open window.
Miss Lillian Blanche Fearing, the
only lady of this year's graduating class
at the Union (Jollego of Law, Chicago, is
entirely blind. During the course her
mother was her constant companion, and
read from the books to her. Mirs Fearing
was one of. four students whose records
were so nearly equal that the committee
appointed to award the scholarship prize
of $50 decided to divide it equally among
tne four, lne blind student lias already
been admitted to the Illinois bar by the
Supreme Court at Springfield, and gives
promise of making a brilliant mark in her
Miss Anna Ehret, daughter of George
Ehrot, the owner of one of New York's
largest breweries, is engaged to be married
to Baron Von Zedlitz, an officer in the
German artillery. The family of Zedlitz is
already allied to America by marriage.
Baron Clemens Zedlitz was married in 1$S0
to Miss Cornelia Carnochan Roosevelt,
danghter of the late Charles Y. Roosevelt
Baron Clemens was lieutenant of the Hoi
stoffe Uhlans, and at the time of his mar
riage a member of the German embassy at
St. Petersburg. Ihe marriage took place
Potter otnciating.
The oldest of Boston's notable women is
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, who must be fully
eighty-seven. Her personal eccentricities
are as marked as tho eccentricities of - her
bonnets, but the milk of hnman kindness is
sweeter in ber character than in that of
most individuals of a type more normal.
&ne nasontnveairs. isatnaniei Hawthorne
and Mrs. Horace Mann, who were her sis
ters, and waits with a quiet patience that
is sometimes pathetic for the end. She
will not leave behind her anv literary
achievement worthy of her gifts, "but it was
she who first brought to this country from
i v" i i m a.
uermany mo Kinuerirarten memo a oi teacu-
ing children, and her influence has been
strong in tne educational world.
A Stunning and decidedly sensational
wedding occurred in Odessa the other day.
Marc Pogorezky led his blushing bride to
the altar. While the Russian priest, or
Pope, as he is called, was preparing to per
form the ceremony, Marc went out to get a
drink, saying that he would return in a
few moments. In his absence, however, a
handsome young stranger approached the
i r i .
Dnue ana onereu niniBeii as a Buosiuuie.
She immediately accepted him, and the
Pope, who was half drunk, never noticed
the change, lne ceremony was performed.
Just then Marc reappeared, refreshed and
readv for matrimony. But when he found
out what had Happened he proceeded at
once to paint the church red. He thrashed
the bridegroom, slapped the bride, knocked
down the father-in-law, and punched the
l'ope. lie was arrested: but. as tne case
iuvolves a question of ecclesiastical law, it
was referred to the Czar, the head of the
church.
EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING.
Senator Blair Tells What the Freedom of
"Women Means to the Country.
Letter in New YorK Mall and Express.
Do vou think these women really want to
vote! l tell you that they do just as mucn
as you do. and 1 think their desire is much
stronger than yours. They comprehend
what a vote is better than you do. They
know more than you do. They have been
deprived of tho right while you have exer
cised it. or have abused it. or have neg
lected it. and have seen the curse you made
of yourself with it, while they, with their
. . .11! A. l
nigner, noner ana more intelligent souis.
were obliged to look on in silence and
crief. with no power to stop you or neutral-
ize the harm you were doing by voting the
other way.
e all nold. of course, that a woman may
talk, and so if things go wrong at the bal
lot-box she roav have the privilege of talk
ing her husband, or son, or some other man
into sobriety and virtue, so that at least
she may make her influence felt, provided
she can do more than the Creator can or
has. and that is. make decent aud sensible
men out of all male voters. But why should
a woman bo obliged to taiK ner me away
in order to get a vote into the form of a
cood law when in live minutes she could
put in the vote herself and then go about
T I ? '
ner worK, wuicn is wna- you iuusv wnm oi
her.
If women could only voto they wouldn't
talksoinncb. 1 here would be more good
laws and less waste of good talk upon men,
and practices, and institutions which need
to be abolished or punished more than they
need lectures from good women, who. until
they can vote, may cry and argue all they
please without doing any gooa.
Whv should a good woman be obliged to
talk her idea through the thick brain of a
man into cood law any more than a good
man is reouired to! It is pretty bard upon
these weaker vessels, as we call them, to
oblice them to see their children ruined.
their homes blasted and lives wasted for
the want of a few votes on the right side.
which they could and would cast in half au
hour if thev had a chance to.
Then there is another thing, and that is
this: Women undoubtedly have soul
Some of them are really very bright. 1 ba
known women who were apparently nearl
as intelligent as myself. Probably thi
was not really so, but still things had that
appearance, and I think that perhaps oth
ers may have been misled by their wise
and witty ways into the same opinion.
Now, the bigger and brighter a soul is the
prouder and more independent, with a
noble sort of elevation, does it become, and
the more intensely does it crave, perhaps
secretly and silently, tho recognition of its
equals, the moro it longs for the liberty,
equality and fraternity which belongs to
others. Now, perhaps incautiously, we
have allowed the girls to go to school in this
country, and they have taken of them
selves to the Christian religion, and from
these two sources, education and religion,
they have become so corrupted and demor
alized that they want to do all the good
they can and be freo to do it.
They have become bo knowing, in conso-
qnence of our carelessness in letting them
use our Bibles aud spelling-books, that they
see and feel, too, that the voting power is
the great deciding power that all the talk
in tho world amounts to but little in a
democracy unless the talker can vote, and
that when he can vote he does not need to
talk much. In fact, a dumb voter is a
greater power than a talking angel, and
when a talking angel can voto also, tha
power is irresistible.
Tneso women nav iookcu into the chem
istry of the ballot also, and they have dis
covered that it is simply an act of the mind
made manifest by an act of tho body. That
the voting proper is done by tho soul, and
the thing which they are denied, is simply
the opportunity of haying their soul-work
counted. They tind that they have life
ana properiy iiko uieu. iucj nava uritans,
dimensions, eenses, passions like men. and
that thev can welch, and consider, and de
cide like men, and then they want to know
why they should not have tho freedom of
their own will power in the form of tho
ballot, which makes laws anaicontrois late,
just as much as men, at least half of whom
do not know as well as the women do
whether they decide aright, and caro much
less.
This matter of being free when you know
that you are capable of liberty and that
you deserve it is, after all, the great thing.
No one who is tit to live can help those un
utterable longings and aspirations of the
spirit toward freedom I don't care if she
is nothing but a woman.
Now W vominc is the first free State that
ever existed on the face of tho earth. Thero
a woman is just as freo as a man is, and
both are free absolutely under the law.
There they will together work out tho
problem of joint destiny, and will settlo
the question whether a free ballot will de
stroy society. The independence . and
equality, of women are achieved and ad
mitted in that snperb State of 1S.000 squaro
miles. 1 he arena is vast, population is not
large, institutions are really free.
1 he future will yield the natural fruit or
those conditions. If woman suffrage is a
failure in Wyoming it will probably fall
anywhere. No one need expect more than
this world affords in Wyoming. Women
are only human after all, and wo ought not
to expect them to overcome the innate con
struction of men at once. Do not expect
perfect men or women in one year, nor in
the first crop, aud do not require them as
tho prico of your approval of free suffrage.
Bo content if things aro as well thero as
elsewhere. Kemember that woman has
won her case if they are no worse, for you
have always prophesied ruin as the result,
and freedom is the better condition when
it does no harm.
CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS.
Why the Ex-President Did Not Visit Indian-
apollfi Dead Politician r.f No Value.
New York ftun.
Mr. Cleveland has been criticised in In-.
diana and elsewhere for not canceling or
postponing the positive engagement on July
1, which he alleged on Juuo Hi as tho reason
for his inability to go to Indianapolis. He
had a full fortnight in which to change his
arrangements for the day of the unveiling,
if he was, as he aflirmed, sincerely desirous
of joining those who gathered to honor the
memory of Mr. Hendricks. There has been
more or less speculation as to tho charac
ter of the appointment which was so posi
tive and important that Mr. Cleveland
could not escape it when his heart yearned
to be in Indianapolis. Coujecture has cov
ered tho whole range of possible obstacles,
from an imperative professional engage
ment in conrt to a projected excursion after
bluetish in Buzzard's bay.
The simple truth is that ho had no posi
tive engagement for July 1. On that day
Mr. Grover Cleveland went neither to court
nor aflhiug. He made no calls and he re
ceive none. Ho remained all dav at his
honi6m Marion, doing nothing with tho
stubborn heroism of utter idleness. Mr.
Cleveland's heart mav have been at Hen
dricks's tomb in Indianapolison Monday
last; there was no reason whatever why his
whole considerable body suould not navo
been there also.
The Democrats of Indiana who are ag-
grieved because of this second conspicuous
manifestation of selfish indifference on Mr.
Cleveland's part would have no just causa
of complaint if he had told them the truth.
If he had said, T care nothingfor the mem
ory of Thomas Andrews Hendricks, liaise
as many monuments to him as you please.
it matters not to me. He is where he can
bo of no further uso to me politically. With
tho friendship of the mugwumps. I think I
have little use for the friends of this dead
Democrat. If I am making a political
blunder I am tho only loser. It Is too hot
to be eternallv vicilant and sagacious 'if
Mr. Cleveland had said that, the Indiana
Democrats could only have shrugged their
shoulders and turned their faces the other
way. But when he assures tneru in a letter
intended for publication that he sincerely
regrets the positive engagement for July i;
which prevents him from testifying in per
son to his respect and affection for the dead
statesman, we think they have a right to
ask him squarely what the word sincerity
means in his vocabulary, and what confi
dence can be placed in any of the hollow
phrases of his busy pen.
They Fear Honest Elections.
Shelby Republican.
It is a great deal gained by the election
bill even if it never becomes a law, that
there has been full and complete admission
of all that Kepublicans have charged con
cerning vote suppression in tho South.
These admissions are especially plentiful
from Southern statesmen. They have shown
conclusively that their opposition to the
bill originates in their fear that under it
the colored man will vote and have his
vote counted. These virtual admissions
extend to the entire Democratic press
South and North, though the press in the
North has persistently denied the voto
suppression. Whenever the statement is
made that the law will produce a race war
there is no other explanation, for how
could there be a race war if the colored
people are now in the enjoyment of the
rights this bill is intended to give all voters
alike? ,
The Hill-Gray Programme.
iluncle Times.
Since the late visit of Governor, Hill to
Indiana the Democratic programme is be
ginning to unfold. Oliver Twist Gray is to
be boomed for the presidency (ostensibly),
and after anti-Cleveland delegates to tho
national convention have been secured
from Indiana they will bo used in the inter
ests of the combination formed by Hill and
Gray. Evidence of this is shown by the
alacrity with which ,our own" Jim Rico
and a tew other leading Democratic poli
ticians have announced that a Western
man must be nominated for President, and
no one is so available as Isaac P. Gray. Tho
machine is to be thoroughly oiled up and
to be set going for all thero is in it
Mr. Cleveland Grieved.
Philadelphia Press.
Hon. Grover Cleveland is pained to learn
that some folks doubt the sincerity of his
letter regretting his inability to attend the
dedication of the Hendricks monument the
other day at Indianapolis. It is cruel for
anybody to entertain such a doubt. Mr.
Cleveland had an engagement with a blue
fish for that day, wnich he made fully a
mouth ago.
The Irrepresftiblo Conflict.
Atlanta Constitution.
It is said that Mrs. Hendricks is for Gov.
llill. of New York, for President, This re
minds us that both Governor Hill and Mr.
Cleveland ought to prevent their friends
from nagging each other. Thero is but
one Democratic party in this country, and
while it is bigger than any one man, it is
not big enough for a faction fight.
"Well to Iletnember.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraplu
It is stated from Washington that ther
is danger of the failure of both the tariff'
and the federal election bills in the Senate.
It is well, however, to take all such state
ments with considerable allowance. Tho
game of legislation is never out until it ii
played out
Threats We've Heard Before.
Chicago Mall (Dem.)
If the federal election law is passed th
insulted South threatens to boycott North
ern products, to import white labor from
Europe, and to absolutely refuse employ
ment to the negro
Hilt and Harmony.
Philadelphia Prcsa.
The Indiana Democracy is for Hill, and
Hill well, hois for HiliaUo. There is har
mony for you, in good, solid chunks.
Governor Hill's Motto.
New York Tribune.
Let me make the stump speeches of a na
tion aud 1 care not who unveil its monu
ments. David B. HilL