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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1890.
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The Kepublicans can beat tho ticket
nominated Thursday if they will but go
at work in earnest.
Long as it is, tho Democratic plat
form is quite as remarkable for its
omissions as for what it contains.
The silence of tho Democratic conven
tion on tho debt question is a cowardly
acquiescence with the cowardly imbecil
ity of a series of Democratic Legisla
tures. Speaking of platforms, the one adopt
ed by the Republicans of the Eleventh
Indiana district is built after a most ar
tistic and satisfactory plan, and is strong
enough to hold the entire party.
In their hurry to gerrymander Ohio
the Democrats left out a couple of town
ships altogether, a fact that is likely to
overthrow tho act. McKinley may have
a very easy time of it, after all.
The calamity plank of the late Demo
cratic convention must have slipped out
of the cart on the way to the convention,
and not have been missed in the accumu
lation of rubbish urtil it was too late.
So far as heard from tho third-party
allies of tho Democracy have not built
any bonfires by way uf rejoicing over
the resolution in tho platform. Up to
date they have not found tho resolution.
A careful inspection of tho Demo
cratic platform, up and down, and cross-
"ways, and between tho cracks, fails to
disclose tho presence of "old Sumptu-.
ary.n How did the old stand-by happen
to get left?
It is a significant fact that ex-Gov.
Gray did not mention the name of Cleve
land in his speech, but your Uncle Isaac
lias not been in the Cloveland business
since the visit of David Bennett Hill, of
New York.
After denouncing tho federal and
Stato Supreme courts in the most vio
lent language possible, it was eminently
proper for tho Democratic State conven
tion to nominate a braggart and bully
for Attorney-general.
It would, doubtless, be too serious a
matter for those artists who prepare
caricatures of leading Republicans and
Ilepublican measures to caricature the
act of disfranchisement which is now
going ou in Mississippi. . . ,
Ex-Go yeiinor Gray is wrong. Tiie
surplus is still in tho Treasury and is
not in the possession of pet banks to bo
loaned to business men at from G to 8
per cent, interest, all of which went into
the tills of tho pet banks aforesaid.
The attention of Southern statesmen
who are always splitting hairs about the
Constitution is respectfully called to the
Mississippi convention, which is engaged
in the frankly avowed task of devising
the best method of violating tho fif
teenth amendment. .
.The Republicans in Wisconsin,. Mich
igan, Missouri and South Dakota have
held State conventions, and all of them
passed resolutions unequivocally indors
ing tho Republican administration. The
resolutions of the Wisconsin and Michi
gan conventions were expressed in tho
most emphatic language.
Mr. John K. Cleland, who has been
selected by tho Republican county com
mittee to fill the vacancy on the legis
lative ticket caused by tho declination
of Col. Eli Lilly, is an active business
man, fully identified with tho city's best
interests, and an advocate of progressive
methods. His nomination completes a
legislative ticket of exceptional excel-.
lence and unequaled strength.
More than one newspaper has ex
pressed surprise at the great, though
steady, growth of Indianapolis during
the past decade. There is nothing par
ticularly surprising about it. While pos
sibly it does not offer remarkable oppor
tunities to amass riches by speculation
and other "short-cut" methods, there is
no question of its prosperity, and not a
city on the continent offers a more de
lightful place to live.
The reply of the Secretary of the
Navy to tho inquiry of tho House about
tho employment of extra workmen at
the Kittery navy-yard is commended to
those civil-tervico reformers who have
unwittingly misrepresented the matter.
The Secretary Kays that Juno 1, 1800, .the
force at work in tho yard was 418; that
because of the exhaustion of the appro
priation it was reduced to S47, July 1,
and increased by certificate to 418 Aug.
1, after tho appropriation had been
inado. Ho says that tho replacing of
til buildings destroyed by firo was
ordered by CougTess in a manner en
forcing urgency; that the work on the
Lancaster and Monongahela and the
building of a launch was assigned to
the Kittery yard because that kind of
work has been done there for some time,
and the work on the Lancaster was be
gun nearly a year ago. As any increase
after June 1 could not affect the Maine
election, the attempt to mako it appear
that the increase in August was for that
purpose is too absurd to be noticed.
THE EX-GOVERNOR'S MISTAKE.
When the Republican party came into
control of the national government, a little
less than a year and a half ago, business
throughout the conntry was good, and all
the arteries of tralo were pulsating with
that healthy circulation that always indi
cates tho existence of business confidence.
The above is from ex-Governor Gray's
speech before the Democratic Stato con
vention. The intimation is that the con
dition of the business and industry of
the country is not as prosperous now as
it was when Mr. Cleveland went out of
oflice. The fact3 do not sustain any
such assumption. In effect, the Cleve
land policy ended with the presidential
election. That the agitation of the Mor
rison and Mills tariff bills did not de
moralize the manufacturing interests of
the country was because intelligent men
soon learned that tho Democrats could
not get control of the Senate, and, there
fore, could not give either of these
measures the force of law. The general
business of the country was prosperous
when the Republicans went into power
because the Democrats had not been
able to establish their revenue policy,
and, judged by all the statistics which
measure tho volume of the business of
the country, it has been more prosperous
since that time, in spite of some draw
backs. The clearing-house reports show
an increase of banking business during
the past eighteen months of from
12 to 20 per cent, each month over
the clearings during Mr. Cleveland's
last year. Tho gross earnings of all tho
railroads, month after month, have been
more than 12 per cent, above the returns
during tho last year of the Cleveland
regime. The production of pig-iron
during 1BSG was C,3Go,828 tons. During
the last fiscal year tho output reached
9,579,779 tons, an increase of nearly SO
per cent., and made during a period
when there was less activity in railroad
construction than in 18SG and 1887. Tho
total exports and imports of the country
in 1888 were $1,419,911,021, and tho bal
ance of trade was against us to the
amount of 828,002,007. During the fis
cal year 1890 the total of exports and
imports was $1,047,192,014, and tho bal
ance of trade was in our favor to tho
amount of $08,520,30-1. An increase in
our foreign trade during tho last full
fiscal year of President Harrison, of
$227,000,000 over the last full fiscal year
of Mr. Cleveland does not indicate a
falling off in the general business or in
dustry of the country. Rarely, if ever,
in the history of the country was the
building trade so active in all parts of
the country as it was during the season
of 1889. and continues to be this season.
During the months of tho year that
have passed tho number of busi
ness failures has been considerably
less, considering the increase of
business, than during the corresponding
months of Mr. Cleveland's last year.
Many other.facts might be given to show
that ex-Governor Gray's intimation of a
decline in the business and industry of
the country is utterly groundless, but
these are sufficient to expose his evident
inaccuracy. Because the political busi
ness of tho party to which he has at
tached himself is less prosperous than it
was in 1887 and the earlier portion of
1888, he must not assume that tho de
cline extends to tho great industries of
the country. On tho other hand, tho less
the Democracy of the country has to do
with its political control the more con
fidence there is in business at largo.
THE EFFECT OF A STRIKE.
In the vicinity of New York city the
bricks made by two or three manufact
urers were bojeotted by the members
of a labor union because they employed
non-union men in their j'ards. The boy
cott prevented the marketing of their
bricks. Tho brick manufacturers seem
to have an association of their own, and
when they found that their boycotted as
sociates could not dispose of their bricks
they stopped work, throwing all their
workmen out of employment. The re
sult is that there is a brick famine in Xew
York city, and all building now going on
has been, or will, for the most part, be
suspended in a short time. When tho
boycott and tho lockout first began it
was said that it would not amount to
much; the manufacturers would lose the
sale of their brick for a short time and
three or four hundred men would be
idle two or three weeks that, and
nothing more. But it is amount
ing to very much more. Tho
brick-handlers will not handle the
bricks brought from other States
without demanding an exorbitant price,
and tho haulers will not take them to
tho contractors if the bricks come from
yards where non-union men are em
ployed. Already thousands of masons
and hod-carriers are m enforced idleness,
and carrjenters, plasterers" and other
workmen have come to the. same fate;
and unless a speedy settlement is
reached the evil effects will be felt in
other lines, of manufacture, throwing
other thousands out of ' employment.
Contractors who are under obliga
tions, to have buildings completed
on a given date, and who have
notes maturing given when there was
every reason to believe the' could meet
their obligations, are confronted with
ruin. Men who put up buildings to sell
or rent, and who have " made
arrangements to dispose of them at a
specified date, are also embarrassed by
tho quarrel. Grocers and other retailers
who have been furnishing building me
chanics and laborers find that their cus
tomers now are without tho means of
paying their bills, while truckmen aro
compelled to tio up their teams, which
become an expenso instead of a source
of income. And so it goes, the circle of.
sufferers by a local disagreement widen
ing until thousands and even tens of
thousands suffer indirectly more or less.
Tho lesson of this apparently insignifi
cant boycott and lockout is that all of
tho industries of the country are so
interdependent that stagnation cannot
fall upon ono without affecting many
others. The brick-yard near New York
city seems of little consequence, but
when it and all like it cease to turn out
bricks, mechanics, laborers, retailers,
contractors and even capitalists, hun
dreds of miles distant, are made to feel
its influence.
Realizing tho soreness of some of
tho very badly wounded in Thursday's
convention, the Sentinel, in the same
breath that it sounds the praises of the
victors in double-leads, appears as the
Democratic. Samaritan pouring oil and
wine into the gaping wounds of the mul
titude of the defeated, bat chiefly into
the many and deep cuts and rents on tho
person of the late Mr. Byrnes, which it
does after this fashjou:
Mr. Byrnes has been an active and zeal
ous Democrat all his life, and perhaps no
member of the party in the State has made
greater sacrifices inits behalf. Neitberbas
he failed of recognition at its hands, hav
ing been twice nominated for Treasurer
of State, but, unfortuuately, in years
when fortune did not favor the Democracy
of Indiana. Thousands of Indiana Demo
crats share our hopo and belief that there
are yet in store for Mr. Ityrnes political
honors of the most substantial character.
In other words, Mr. Byrues's "greater
sacrifices" will be rewarded at some
other time, when the Democrats feel
that they have not the slightest chance
of success. Then he can lead the for
lorn hope. It is barely possible . that
Mr. Byrnes may not caro so much for
"the substantial honors in store for him"
so long as they aro kept there. Having
borne the banner of Democracy in two
losing lights, ho will ask himself why,
after making "greater sacrifices" than
most of his party, ho should be ordered
to the rear to make place for a man wlio
has not been conspicuous for his party
service. But Mr. Byrnes should try to
appreciate the poor man's plaster which
the Sentinel has spread over his wounds.
The reciprocity amendment to tho
tariff bill, proposed by the Senate finance
committee, puts sugar on the free -list
with coffee, tea, etc., with the proviso
that tho President, on or after June 1,
1891, shall have power, and it is his duty,
to iinposo a list of duties on all these
articles imported from countries which
neglect or vefuse to enter into recipro
cal arrangements for tho admission of
our agricultural and other" products.
The free sugars are below No. 13 D. S.,
but in conference an effort will be made
to have tho grade raised to No. 10 D. S.
This proposition, except so far as it re
lates to the grade of sugar, will receive
the general support of the Republicans
in both branches of Congress. So tho
predicted break over reciprocity will
not take place. j
If certain Republican members 'of the
Senate will devote a little more time to
reading the resolutions adopted by the
congressional conventions of their party,
meeting daily throughout tho country,
and less to the perusal of the editorial
pages of the mugwump newspapers of
the Eastern cities, they may obtain a
more accurate grasp of public opinion.
Republican conventions that neglect to
urge the passage of the federal election
bill and to indorse tho business-like
change in the House rules are few and
far between.
Almost without exception tho men
who display strength and leadership in
Congress are the men who have ; been
there many years and who have the con
fidence of their districts to such an ex
tent that they can devote their time and
attention to public questions instead of
wasting all their energies in the effort,
to retain their popularity at home. The
theory of "rotation in oflice" is mighty
poor party policy so far as Congressmen
are concerned.
Reihthlicans generally will bo glad to
know that Bepresentative Cannon has
been renominated, because he is one of
the most useful men in tho Ilouse and
always at his post. As chairman of the
committee on appropriations he has cour
ageously fought and defeated many ex
travagant schemes, and has from first to
last been one of tho able and useful
trinity of Reed, McKinley and Cannon.
We are rejoiced at the evidences of an
awakening of the farmers of the country to
the necessity for organized efforts to better
their own condition.
The above is from tho Democratic,
platform, and was written by a man who
knows that, in a recent speech, in.this
State, Senator Voorhees advised. Demo
crats to keep out of the Farmers' Alli
ance if it attempted to engage in poli
tics on its own hook.
A split in what is known as the Gib
raltar district of West Virginia 'De
mocracy promises to result in the elec
tion of a Republican to the State Senate.
This election is important, owing to the
fact that the Senator-elect will be a
member of the Legislature of 189.3, which
will choose a United States Senator. All
things appear to bo working together for
Republican good.
We demand legislation prohibiting aliens
from acquiring lands in America, and for
the forfeiture of titles to the 20,742,000 acres
of public land now held by them. Demo
cratic State Platform.
The sales of these lands to aliens were
all made while the House of Representa
tives was a Democratic body, and many
of them while Mr. Cleveland was Presi
dent. But the Indiana Democracy sat
silent all tho while, making no demand.
Close examination of the resolutions
adopted by Kepublicans in State and dis
trict conventions every where, fails to
disclose any of that disaffection, with the
administration whose existence the
Democratic press professes to have dis
covered. On tho contrary, thorough sat
isfaction is manifested, and no adminis
tration could wish for more earnest com
mendation. We demand tho free and unrestricted
coinage of silver upon the basis existing
prior to 18TJ.
Why did not the Indiana Democratic
convention whoop-it-up for free silver
coinage in 1888! Because it was whoop-
ing-it-up for Mr. Cleveland, who caused
a free-coinage bill to be squelched in a
Democratic Congress.
PiiiLADKLrniA Democrats have no re
spect for ago and no appreciation of the
picturesque. As a matter of convenience
they elected the venerable Vaux to suc
ceed CouKressman Randall, but after he has
served the remnant of a term and has ac
quired a prominence from the fact that he
is the only Democrat strangers in Wash
ington ask to see, his party managers aro
ungratefully preparing to "torn him down."
Not only this, but they flippantly refer to
him as an antique curio. They do not
seem to realize that an antique more ap
propriately and accurately represents the
Democracy than a young, progressive man.
A paragraph, credited to the New York
Independent, is going tho rounds of the
press, crediting the Episcopal Church with
a gain of only 9,500 members during tho past
year. The Journal is informed that tho
gain in New York city alone was 12,000.
The gain from 18S6 to 1SS9 was r bout 04,000,
or more than 31,000 a year. The increase
during the past yearhas probably exceeded
this.
An enterprising Prohibitionist at Greens
burg has launched a newspaper which ho
calls the "Prohibocrat." There is prob
ably more honesty containedin the snggest
iveness of that name than in all the rest of
the paper pat together.
ABOUT PEOPLE AXtf THINGS.
Ira D. Sankey has concluded not . to ac
company. George Y. Pentecost on his evan
gelistic mission to India.
The Khedivo of Egypt has but one wife ,
while Ismail, his father, has as many as 300
at a time in his different palaces.
George Meredith has finished his nov
el, "The Journalist," and is taking a' holi
day, lie has been engaged upon this bock
for several years.
Edward Eggleston has just finished
another story of Western life. His profits
in royalties and returns from serial matter
are about 8,000 a year.
W. D. H dwells, the novelist, has been
giving readings at Saratoga, but it is not
recorded that he succeeded in making his
hearers share his low opinion of Dickens
and Thackera3
Queen Victoria has given the German
Emperor a conditional promise to pay him
a visit at Berlin next spring, when she is
also to be the guest of the Empress Fred
erick at Cronburg, in the Taunus.
On the occasion of her marriage with the
'son of King John of Abyssinia, the daugh
ter of the King of Shoa wore the historic
crown of the Queon of Sheba, which has
been treasured by the Ethiopian kings for
twenty-live centuries
Prince Henry of Batteuberg, who is
Queen Victoria's son-in-law and is obliged
to remain near her all the time, will have,
to stay at Balmoral until November. He
consoles himself on sucli occasions by long
draughts of hot Scotch.
Stumm is tho iron king of Germany. He
owns enormous foundries in Neunkirchen,
whore over two thousand men are employed.
None of his workmen may get married,
change their place of residence or join a
society without his permission.
Count Von Moltke will complete his
ninetieth year on Oct. 20, and the occasion
will be celebrated throughout Germany by
a series of popular fetes. The Kaiser also
intends to confer on the distinguished sol
dier an especial mark of imperial favor.
The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, brother of
the great Brooklyn divine, has been pass
ing an extended vacation in the far West,
where his long gray hair, his white slouch
hat abd his general appearanco made him
pass for a ranchman. He made the trip up
Pike's Peak, and said it was one of the
events of his life.
The Volapnk convention which met last
week in Boston passed the following reso
lution: "That we recognize as the rightful
authority in all linguistic matters the
Academy of Volapnk, constituted by tho
congresses of Munich and Paris, and repre
senting the supporters and users of the
language in all countries."
Probably the most unique strike on.
record is that of the Bombay barbers
against the shaving of widows' heads.
They say tho practice is not enjoined in tho
Hindoo Scriptures, and they will be darned
if they do anything contrary to Scripture.
.At least that is the purport of their decla
ration. Any barber who shaves a widow's
head is fined and boycotted.
The extent of Edison's deafness is said
by a friend of the wizard to depend some
what on circumstances. A bore or a man
with an ax to grind frequently fails, even
with the aid of an ear trumpet, to make
himself understood, but the faintest whis
per of au approaching poker party or a
tunny story nuder the breath excites tho
great electrician's oars to a very keen sense
of hearing.
' Tennyson is seldom tempted from his
retirement, and if he meets any excursion
ists or inquisitive persons staring at him
in his tramps across Blackdown will at
onco make his way back to his favorite
woods. Sometimes a rude admirer will
even no so far as to spy in the windows at
Aldworth; and it is told that on one occa
sion Tennyson caught some Paul Pry in
the act ami Hung the book he was reading
out of tho open window at tho fellow's
head.
Stanley's brother-in-law has made tho
most of his opportunities in the fortnight
be has been in this country. His engage
ment to Miss Clementine Fnrniss. of Lenox,
N. J., is reported. Miss Furniss is a woman
of largo wealth, and is devoted to charita
ble work. She owns, with her sisters, a
handsome town house ou Fifth avenue and
Fortieth street. New York, and a beautiful
country place at Lenox. Mr. Teunant is a
tall, athletic Englishman of about forty
three. ,
Gariraldi's widow is about to contract
a marriage with a Dr. Gabriel Tanfema,
who is engaged at the naval academy in
Leghorn. Signora Garibaldi made his ac
quaintance on the occasion of the illness
of her son Manlio, about two years ago.
Last June, when staying at Maddalena.
she was visited by Admiral Tabraui and
his wife, and in the presence of other visi
tors, otlicers and friends, introduced Dr.
Tanfema as her fntnre husband. The
wedding day is not yet fixed.
Under date of Aug. 11, 1STO, the Comte
De Paris, from his home in Perthshire,
wrote to Col. John P. Nicholson, of Phila
delphia: "I need at times some rest, and
then all my political business is set aside.
Such is . the holiday 1 an; going to take in
America. In Europe I am a party man,
and tho leader of a great party, but to your
country I shall come only as a Frenchman,
as an old friend, and I wish every attention
to French politics to be entirely set aside.
1 wish the American people to know how I
intend to stand before it.
Coy at Work iu the Rural District!.
Huntington IIcraliL
The presence of Sim Coy at the Demo
cratic congressional convention at Peru
was not mentioned by the Democratic press,
nor has it generally been known why ho
waB there. We have good authority for tho
statement that Coy visited Pern for the one
single pnrpose of preventing ihe indorse
ment of James B. Slack, of this city, for
State Treasurer. Coy had an Indianapolis
candidate whom ho was booming, whose
chances would b injured by such an in
dorsement, and he was on deck to prevent
it. It was hardly to be expected that Dem
ocrats of this congressional district would
submit to the dictation of an ox-convict,
but it seems they were compelled to.
Needed Legislation.
Kansas City JournaL
The bill to compel railroad companies en
engaged in interstate commerce to equip
their cars with safety or automatic coup
lers which will not require trail. men to get
between the cars has been reported favor
ably in the Ilouse. The bill also provides
for the use of automatic brakes. This leg
islation has long been needed. It is entire
ly practicable for the railroads to comply,
and tho lives and limbs of some thousands
of trainmen will be saved annually.
Do You Think It Large Enough?
Wcstfleld Newi.
All who think eight millions is n suffi
ciently large debt for the State of Indiana
to pay interest on should cease to vote for
Democrats for the Legislature.
NEW LIFE IN AN OLD LAND
What Consul-General Sweeney Says of
Progress in Turkey and Asia Minor.
Modern Influences Begin to Be Felt and Kail
wajs Are Now Bnildingin Palestine, While
, Damascus Cries for Street-Cars.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Columbus. Ind., Aug. Consul-general
Z. T. Sweeney at Constantinople arrived at
his home in this city at 8 1. m. Thursday.
He was seen by a Journal representative
to-day in his lijirary, where he was found
hale and hearty apd in a good talking,
mood. On being asked regarding the re
cent session of United States consuls, ho
said: .
"I was in attendance during all of the
session of the convention, aud feel that
much good was accomplished in many ways
but especially in bringing about a uniform
administration of our customs laws."
On being asked concerning tho present
political situation of Turkey, he said: "As
to that 1 have nothing to sav. In addition
to the fact of my being credited to tho
country, which, of itself, is sullicient to
forbid my speaking of its politics, my
year's residence in that country has
opened my eyes to tho fact
that there aro many problems in
ethnology that should be carefully studied
by one who would speak advisedly on the
Turkish question. In the main. I think
tho Sultan a wise, well-meaning ruler,
having a sincere desire to boncht the peo
ple over whom he holds sway. If he fails
in any way I attribute it to the difficulty
he experiences in carrying out his plans
rather than any intention on his part to
act oppressively toward any of his sub
jects." Kegarding the financial and commercial
outlook for Turkey, he said: "As
to the commercial . outlook, I am
quite sanguine. Of iato years there has
been a very liberal course pursued towards
capitalists, which is causing money to be
invested in Turkey from almost every
European money center. Only a few weeks .
since the Turkish Minister of Pnblic Works
presided at the inauguration of the rirst
cotton-mill built in Constantinople, and
the second in the empire. It was put up by
English capitalists, and is by this time in
operation, running nine thousand spindles
and giving employment to seven hun
dred operatives. Tho Sultan a short
time ago gave valuable guarantees
to Admiral Sir Joseph Commerell, who is
at the head of the Lidjessey silver and lead
mines, which employ three thousand work
men, and is probably the most important
corporation in the empire. The American
consular agent at Dardanelles is also open
ing the ancient gold mines of King Priam,
from whence the gold was taken to make
the ornaments which are now exhumed
from the tunuels of the Trojan plains. The
vast coal mines of Heraclea are being con
nected with the city of Constantinople
by railway, and will soon supply the steam
ers touching there, which now use coal
freighted from Newcastle and Cardiff.
The railway that has been for somo years
in operation between Constantinople and
Ismid the ancient Niconedia is being rap
idly pushed on to Angora, and will from
thence be ultimately finished to the Euphra
tes river; by slack waternavigation alineof
steamers will be put upon that stream to
market the vast products of that fertile
region, which cannot now find an outlet.
Often the products of this country rot in
warehouses, where they have been stored,
while distress prevails in other parts of the
empire, all of which will be equalized by
the above river service.
"Smyrna is now a live Yankee city of
possibly iJOO.OOO people. The western half
of Asia'Minor is in practical communica
tion with it by railway. It has as
line quays as Liverpool, but they
are not, of course, so extensive.
At Beyrout, tho port of Syria,
extensive harbor improvements have been
begun. It has already changed beyond
recognition by those who knew it twenty
yeard ago. Concessions have been obtained
for a railway to the Hauran country from
Haifa, at tho foot of Mount Carmel. ; Work
is being pushed on the railway line from
Joppa to Jerusalem, while ancient Damas
cus, the oldest citj in the world, is clamor
ing for tho street conveyances and railways
which aienowso familiar with the res
idents of Syria and Constantinople.
Match, cotton, woolen and carpet factories
are springing up everywhere, and soon
Asiatic Turkey, which has been for cent
uries an almost desolation, will witness a
renewal of tho greatness which was its
portion in the days of Alexander the Great.
Turkey is now exporting more than it im
ports, which is also greatly in its' favor."
Kegarding the investment of American
capital in Turkey the Consul-general said:
"While other peoples are glamoring for
privileges, it seems to me Vthat Ameri
can capital might find ready in
vestment in Turkey, and certain
ly would be warmly welcomed,
'inhere are numerous profitable undertak
ings that aro particulary characteristic of
American enterprise, and which the con
servatism of other times will not permit
them to carry out now, offering in Con
stantinople. Since the completion of the Oriental
railway lines that bring Constantinople
into diroct communication with Vienna
the volume of American travel has trebled.
I cannot say detitiatelv, but I think I do
not overestimate it when I say there were
tivo thousand American tourists in Con
stantinople last year."
TIIE PROUD YARDM ASTER.
A Call for Specifications as to the Traits
That Give Most OfTeme.
Chicago Tribune
It appears from the statements of the
striking switchmen in the Alton yards that
they do not object to the employment of
Mr. Welch as yardmaster because he has
been in the service of another road, nor
upon the grounds that tho company has not
the right to employ whom it pleases, but
because Mr. Welch is "too proud." Hence
to tho possible list of grievances which are
sufficient warrant for a strike among work
ingmen we aro to include the personal
pride of their immediate 6'iipcriors. Theso
latter in dress, address -od deportment
must not be specially superior to the former,
else at any time the business public may
expect organized interference with its af
fairs, and railroad corporations, which are
responsible for "proud" bosses, the tie-up
of their departments, 'or of that special de-
Eartment which has a "proud" man at its
ead.
It is to be regretted that the switchmen
in this case have not specified the charac
teristics and manifestations of Mr. Welch's
pride, so that other roads may take warn
ing and not employ proud men to manage
their departments.- What do they consider
as pride? Does he dress better than the
switchmen? Is ho cleaner! Does he carry
himself with a haushty mien and martial
bearing? Does he wear a boiled shirt and
a plug hat and display them in an arrogant
stylo? Does he We his orders in a top
lofty manner? Or is it because he is not
sufficiently familiar with them that the
switchmen object to him? They should
present an itemized statement of the yard
master's pride, so that this corporation
may know how to take him down, and
others may scrutinize their yardtnasters
and local bosses, with the view of correct
ing them and developing that degree of in
timacy and familiarity with these under
them which is so conducive to the main
tenance of discipline and corps d'esprit in
tho service.
Tho causes of Mr. Welch's pride should
be canvassed also, and the switchmen
themselves should have made the investi
gation before they decided to strike.
Perhaps Mr. Welch's prido is justifiable,
and then again perhaps he can't help be
ing proud. It is not every man who can be
a yardmaster. Welch may have been as
meek and lowly as any one of these strikers
Erior to his elevation. If be has found it
ard to keep down his pride since he be
came yardmaster it is his misfortune, not
his fault. How would it be with any ono
of these switchmen if he were promoted to
a yardmastership? Would he nseserve tho
humilitv of the switchman? Would he not
grow a little superior to his comrades ami
expect them to show him some deference?
and would he not raise Cain if they failed
to do it? We fear ho would. How do they
know but that he is proud of them? There
aro numerous causes of pride, even
in tho breast of a yardmaster. He may be
proud of his company, of his yard,
of his trains, of his men. of his wife, of his
office, even of his boots. He may have
striven t keep down his pride and found it
to be impossible, for what temptations to
be superior press upon such a man no one
but a yardmaster can tell. It would havo
been better for the switchmen to havo
borno with Mr. Welch's pride than to quit
work aud run theriskof losing their places.
If Mr. Welch were cross-questioned he
probably could assign satisfactory reasons
tor his pride, or he might show that ho
can't help it. pride being one of the penal
ties or yardmastership. In any event, it is
to bo hoped the executive boards, and su
premo councils, and brotherhood managers
will not indorse pride as sufficient canso
for a strike. It will be a sorry day for cor
porations, for business men, for shop-keepers
and housekeepers when pride goeth be
fore a strike, and there is no way to avert
it except by taking swithmen. bagtrag
smashers, clerks, porters, janitors, steve
dores and servant-girls to the bosom ss a
sigu that tho employer is not proud.
TIIE PREACHER HAD A PISTOL.
He Also Drew It Promptly and with Evident
Intent to Uae It.
New York Press.
The Kev. J. P. McCullougb, pastor of tho
Baytist Church of Nyack, calno to this city
on Monday to transact some busiucss for
his church. Yesterday ho obtained a
glimpse of one phase of the crookedness of
this city, and ho has returned home a much
wiser man. Mr. McCnllongh picked up a
inorniug paper yesterday, and soon his eye
caught tho following advertisement:
At quarter vnlue uiutbe sold pony phaeton,
$?r0: two Motssenger-Duroc colts, Holstoln cow
and bull, thrve years oM; Wilkes stallion. rll
cheap orglve ou shares; three strong, cheap work
horse3, 6cll separately., cheap. Apply ut Iffac
slone Yards. No. 543 West 'Ihirty-mnth street,
near Kleventh avenue.
Now, if there is any one thing which has
been desired by Dominie McCutlough moro
than another, it is tho possession of a lino
Ilolstein cow. So he made np his mind that
if he could really get such a cow cheap he
would astonish the Xyackians by returning
with the animal.
But as he also thought that there might
possibly bo danger beneath the honeyed
words of the advertisement, he placed iu
that pocket of his trousers which is ordi '
narily behind him, a large revolver, "mere
ly as a precaution, you know." At that
time he did not know that the "yards"
were known to tho police as "Hell's Kitch-
When he arrived be was welcomed by a
loudly-attiredyoung man, who told him tho
cow had been sold just a moment before.
The pastor expressed regret, and was abont
to start homeward, rather glad after all
that he did not purchase, as the men who
stood around looked tough and dangerous.
Just then the loud young man asked him
to look at the stallion, which, ne said, he
had just refused to a liveried coachman,
who had come prepared to boy it, for fear
it would not be well treated. Tho minister
disliked the looks of the men, and when a
man shut and locked the door of the shed
he became convinced that he was in a trap.
He sprang back a few feet, drew his revol
ver, and shouted:
"Open the gate, or I'll blow your head
off!"
Tho men jumped aside like cats and tho
dominie rushed to the door, unlocked it
and beat a hasty retreat. He informed a
friend, Dr. Thompson, former pastor of the
Harlem Baptist Church, of his escape, and
together they reported the case, tirst at
police headquarters aud later at the Thirty-ninth-street
police station. The police
said they would break np tho gang at once.
Mr. McCul lough was greatly surprised
when the police told him what might have
happened had he stayed. Either the "coach
man" Would have asked him to purchase
the "stallion" for $200, promising thstho
would himself buy it back an hour later
from the minister at an advanced cost, and
the men afterward would run away with
the $200, leaving him with a sorry nag; or
else he would have been "held up" and re
lieved of bis valuables and severely beaten.
The minister expressed great surprise that
such things could exist in a city like New
York, but the police told him it was quite a
common game, having been worked a short
tiuio ago on a high official of Paterson,N. J.
What Is Left of the Knights.
Chicago Herald (Dem.)
It is about time for the Knights of Labor
to disband. - They started out with a great
flourish of trumpets. They were to take
A l f - I I A. 1 - I . ill
n i . a iiii 11 u n uii mt a a l a. a mj m. i m m
mo piace oi uii iraues-unious, nuu wuu a
mighty effort they were to solve off-hand
every, question that concerned the toiler
and the capitalist. Their history has been
a record of pride, pretense, bluster, failuio
and decay. They may have won a small
strike or two, but they have failed ieno
miniously in all their extensive enterprises.
For a year or more their numbers increased
amazingly. Now they are diminishing
with equal rapidity. They do not command
the respect of labor, nor are they feared by
capital. To all appearance nothing is left
of the Knights of Labor save Terence V.
Powderly. his big salary and his type
writer. He will not resign. He will have
to be bounced.
They Hare Ceased Boasting.
Newcastle Courier.
The Indiana Democratio delegation in
Congress is all at home now. Their fences
need looking after badly and they do not
propose to be frittering away their time in
Washington while the Republicans are
making hay in their meadows during tho
sunshine. Sbively, Martin. Brookshire and
Parrett are all getting very uneasy over tho
condition of affairs in their respective dis
tricts, and well they need be. A few weeks
ago and there was nothing but boasting
among the Democrats as to tho great things
they would do in this Stato this fall, but
there is no boasting going on in their camp
just now.
Living Up to the Platform.
Brazil New Era.
President Harrison is exhibiting the skill
of a master hand and merits the approba
tion of the people in the way he manages
the intricacies that encompass one in his
position. Instead of striving to attract at
tention by holdmc himself aloft from the
people as the intlated exponent of a princi
ple not nndrstood by the uneducated
masses. President Harrison is quietly and.
unassumingly carrying out the principles'
of the platform upon which he was elected
by tbo people.
The Central Strike.
New York Evening Poat.
Powderly says that tho strike is still
"on." In like manner tho strike on tho
Third-avenue railroad is still on, nobody
bavin ir declared it off.' The Heading strike
is still on. The only railroad strike wo
now recall that has been otlicially declared
off is the Southwestern strike, one pecu
liarity of which was that, although Pow
derly declared it oft" very early in the
fray, Martin Irons declared that it was
still on. The Central strike is now wholly
imaginary.
They Are Not the Sufferers.
CLlcaco JournaL
A dispatch from Albany says that Master
Workman Powderly was not downcast on
learning that the Federation would not
support the Knights, but "went to his sup
per in good spirits." This is characteristic
of labor leaders. They invariably go to
three square meals a day "in cood spirits."
because it is the strikers who pay for the
meals.
Time for a Change.
Evsnsvllle JournaL
The time will soon come to elect Repre
sentatives in the Legislature. This county
ousht to elect sharp, shrewd men with
broad viows and worldly experience. Tho
era of drunkards, and gamblers, and "jays"
has passed. Vanderburg county has been
disgraced sufficiently b3 such men. They
have made of us a reproach and by-vord.
Now let us have a change.
The Democratio 3lortgage.
Porter County Vidette.
When the "calamity shriekers" of the
Democratic party say anything about the
mortgaged condition of the farmers, just re
fer them to the Democratic mortgage of
SS2.000 which hangs over every county in
the State of Indiana, placed there by the
incompetency of tho Democratic legisla
tures. A Hint to the Alliance.
Cincinnati ConimerclalOazitte.
The Democrats of Ohio and Indiana have
made an unseemly exhibition of themselves
in crawling on all fours after the farmer
associations for their support. If the farm
ers are caught in the trap it is bojed they
will have somo enjoyment with tho bait bo
fore the squeeze coiiies.
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The Safety in White Supremacy.
Milwsukeo St uttnH.
The Mississippi constitutional convention
declares that "the safety of the State
demands wbito supremacy." Let's see
the defaulting State Treasurer was elected
by tho supreme whites, nnd so wt-re tho
defaulting Treasurers iu six other South
ern States. .