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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 189(W
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gan and in the Flattorm of the Party.
t Sentinel Editorial, Jan. 6, 1887.
THE SUPREME COURT.
Damn their cowardly 6onls.
The members of the Supreme Court
of Indiana are afraid of their shadows.
Yesterday Judge Elliott delivered the
opinion of the court in tho Smith-Robertson
lieutenant-governorship case.
There was no dissenting opinion, raore's
the pity. If only one man had
shown honesty enough and courage
enough to have dissented, something of
the august character of tho court would
have been saved; but it stands now a cry
ing shame. The Supreme Court at that
time consisted of Judges Niblack, Zol
lars, .Mitchell and Howk, Democrats,
and Judge Elliott, Republican.
Democratic riatform.
Judges Coffee, Berkshire and Olds,
Republican members of the Supreme
Bench, deserve the contempt of the peo
ple of Indiana for their action in over-
turning the settled construction of the
Constitution, reversing all legal pre
cedents and contradicting their own
rulings for the sake of a few petty of -fees
and at the dictation of unscrupu
lous political tricksters.
Sentinel Editorial, Feb. 9. 1890.
The men who were hanged and the
men now in the Illinois penitentiary for
the Haymarket crime were the victims
of the most flagrant judicial outrage in
the annals of this Republic. It was the
mob spirit that convicted them. It was.l
-1 1 1 A A 1 A a'TI
a jury 01 cowaras ana JicKspuues mat
brought in the verdict. The
time will come when the trials of the
Chicago Anarchists will be regarded by
enlightened people the world over with'
the same feelings of horror and amaze
ment with which we now review the
trials of the Salem "witches."
Sentinel Editorial, Sept. 14, 1890.
The tax on personal property ought to
bo wholly repealed. The
prospect is that the system of private
property in land will remain as it is, for
some generations, at least, but that all
taxes, at least for State and local pur
poses (except such as may be.derived
from the sale of franchises), will, in the
near future, be laid upon land.
All along the line all the manufactur
ing Industries are starting up and ware
houses are being emptied.
Mr. Dunn has given up the defense of
the last Legislature as an impossibility;
and Mr. Dunn is a very versatile man.
Yes, tho Democrats of Indiana nomi
nate veterans for office freely very
freely when there is not a ghost of a
sight for an election.
The Democratic stump orator's speech
relative to the State debt is reported
thus:
State Senator Francis introduced
Green Smith to a Democratic meeting in
LaPorte as "the best Democrat in the
State." If that is true, heaven help the
rest!
The only manufacturers who have
announced an advance of prices are the
brewers of Buffalo. They say that the
increased duty on barley makes it neces
sary. . .
If tho world's fair commission shows
as much skill, energy and enterprise in
getting up a fair as it does in using up
the appropriation m ado by Congress its
ability will be unquestioned.
The Democratic orator in Indiana
never did such lofty lying as he is doing
in this campaign, and he never, had
greater need to beat his own record on
that specially Democratic track.
After all, tho plainest advice to vot
ers, and the very best, is to stamp the
square before tho title "Republican
Ticket" and fold the blanket sheet so as
to show the initials of the clerks.
Knowing that tho average Democrat
stands in terror of "bills," the Demo
cratic press always refers to the new
tariff, not as the "tariff )aw," or "Mc-
Kinley law," but as tho "McKinley
bill."
TncEBE is putting in some good work
against Bynum et al. He is by trade a
wood-carver, but ho has a knack of
modeling out of a Democratic Congress
man a first-class specimen of a dema
gogue. Is it true that Mr. Holman is telling
tho veterans in his district that he did
not voto for Bynum's proposition to
attach an odiouu tax act to every pen
sion bill and asking their votes on that
ground?
The Rov. S. A. Pilley has announced
himself as an independent Allianco can
didate for Congress in tho Second Ala
bama district, in opposition to the regu
lar Democratic nominee, and thereby
hangs a little tale. Mr. Pilley is a su
perannuated Methodist preacher, retired
c Account f ill health. He seems to
have recuperated so far as to be able to
enter politics, but the manner of his en
trance is displeasing to tho church au
thorities, and he is threatened with
suspension from the superannuated list
if he does not withdraw from politics.
Brother Pilley's mistake is in becoming
the candidate of any other than the
Democratic party. He ought to know
that the Methodist Church South does
not recognize any other party as orthodox.
BYHTJM'S ESTIMATE OF LABOR.
In a pamphlet which Mr. Bynum put
before the voters of this district when
he first appeared as a candidate for Con
gress, ho makes the following remarka
ble statement:
Labor is bnt one item in the expense of
carrying on manufacture of any kind, and
is but a small expense.
. That is the opinion of a man who not
only poses as a political economist, but
asks the votes of the mass of men en
gaged in. "manufacturing industries. It
is equivalent to saying that in carrying
on tho vast manufacturing industries of
the country tho men who change worth
less iron-ore, coal in the mine, limestone
in the quarry, into a locomotive or into
the thousand forms of usefulness, are of
very little account in this great process
of giving value to crude material by
skill and brains. He is a fine man to
pose as the champion of labor.
And then ho goes on to prove the
truth of he assertion by giving the
values of materials used and the amount
paid ac wages in a few of the higher in
dustries. Now, the truth is that labor
gives all the value to crude and worth
less material. The ore in the earth is of
no value where it is, but the moment a
laborer quarries it and loads it upon a
car or dumps it into a furnace it has
value, and that value is the value which
labor gives it. Three-fourths of - the
value" of pig-iron is labor. Pig-iron
goes to the rolling-mill. Doubtless such
economists as It, Bynum call pig-iron
raw material when it is taken to the rolling-mill,
and all the labor they see is
that which turns the pig-iron into steel
or iron bars. When the rolled iron or
steel is taken to tho factory or machine
shop, which turns it into machinery and
other forms which civilization requires,
the finished iron becomes raw material.
Take wool, which Mr. Bynum calls a
very raw material. Labor begins in
clearing the farm, in rais'ing the forage
and grain, and caring for the flock all the
year, and continues in shearing, washing,
packing and hauling to the railroad.
.Labor adds value in transportation and
hauling to the factory. In fact, labor,
and some ot it tho skilled labor of ex
perience, represents two-thirds of tho
real value of wool, and the money re
ceived for.it goes to pay very largely for
labor and the products of labor. Mr.
Bynum calls that product of labor raw
material when it reaches the factory,
and in estimating the part which labor
.receives, counts only trie- amount paid
by the factory for wagis, and leaves out
of the account the labor in all the ma
terials used in the manufacture of cloth.
When the cloth gets to the clothing
manufacturer it is simply raw material
by the Bynum theory, and the small
part which labor receives and contributes
to the utilization of tho cloth is tho
wages paid for making the garments.
Thus it comes about, in order to make a
free-trade argument, that Mr. Bynum
underrates the real value which labor
gives to all production. Taking, all in
all, in the large production which civil
ized life demands, the wages paid for
manufacturing, transporting and selling
absorb all of the value of the merchan
dise except a small percentage upon
capital invested in factories, in keeping
up plants, and representing the interest
on money invested in tho business. From
first to last, labor, which represents all
the processes of manufacture and distri
bution at every stage, absorbs tho re
sults or returns of production. . But Mr.
Bynum limits tho contribution of tho
wage-earner, the laborer, the mechanic,
the salesman, tho transporter to not ex
ceeding 35 per cent., when, as a matter
of fact, labor's share, first and last, is
not less than 80 per cent. Mr. Bynum
should cease to pose as the chAmpion of
tho wage-workpr until ho has'feome ade
quate appreciation of tho extent of his
contribution to the world's furnishing.
A LIST OF WANTS.
Wanted: The name of a farmer in
Marion county who would go back to
the free-trade times when they hauled
wheat to Madi6on and sold it for 50
cents a bushel and paid $2 a bushel for
salt to haul home.
Wanted: The name of a farmer in
Indiana who yearns for the good old
times when they used to drive hogs to
Cincinnati and sell them for $2 a hun
dred and then pay 25 cents a yard for a
calico dress to bring home to the wife.
Wanted: The name of a carpenter
who prays for a return of tho times
wheni he could only earn $1 a day and
had to pay 7 cents a pound for nails.
Wanted: Tho name of a farmer's wife
who sighs for the Democratic days when
eggs used to sell for 5 cents a dozen and
woolen blankets cost twice as much as
they do now.
Wanted: The namo of a workingman
who would like a return of the free-trade
times when $1 a day was good wages
and a woolen suit cost $25 that can be
bought now for $12.
Wanted: The name of any working
man who is not earning better wages,
living better and saving moro money
than a man doiug the same or similar
work forty years ago.
Wanted: Tho name of a former who
would exchange the present times, when
all the fruit, eggs, poultry, dairy prod
ucts and vegetables ho can raise are
marketed at his door or called for by
hucksters who pay good prices, for the
Democratic times when there was no
home market for farm products and ev
erything tho farmer had to buy cost
twice as much as it does at present.
Wanted: The name of a farmer who
regrets tho failure of the Mills bill that
put a duty of 21-2 cents a pound on
binding twine, and regrets the passage
of tho McKinley bill that levies a duty
on tho same article of seven-tenths of 1
cent a pound.
Wanted: Tho name of am:m, woman
or child who would not rather have all
the sugar they could cat than air the
pearl buttons they could wear, and who
does not regard a large reduction in tho
price of the former as more than an off
set for a email increase in tho cost of the
latter.
Wanted: An American worthy of the
name who would not rather drink water
out of an American tin cup or have his
dishes washed in r American tin pan,
even at an increased cost of a fraction
of a cent, than to use British tin, espe
cially, when ho knows he is helping to
establish an industry that will cheapen
tin goods and improve their quality.
Wanted: To know how any man who
enjoys the rights of American citizen
ship and the protection of the American
flag can so completely ignore the claims
of nationality and patriotism as to advo
cate a policy devised by foreigners to
promote foreign interests and in direct
antagonism to those of his own country.
BYNUM VS. THCEBE.
Mr. George H. Thcebe; of Covington,
Ky., is making a few speeches in this
congressional district. His modest state
ment in yesterday's Journal did not
show the full enormity of the butrago
that was perpetrated in giviug Mr;
Carlisle tho seat in Congress to which .
Mr. Thcebe was fairly elected. Mr. By
num was a party to tho outrage.
Mr. Thcebe is a wood-carver and has
followed the trade for thirty years. In
1886 he was nominated for Congress by
the United Labor party of the'-Sixth
Kentucky district, against Mr. Carlisle.
The friends of the latter were over-confident
and made little or no effort. Mr.
Thcebe's friends exerted themselves
and ho was elected. He was elected but
counted out, for when it became known
that he was elected the returns in sev
eral counties were "doctored" so as to ,
give Carlisle an apparent majority.
Thcebe contested the election and made
a speech on the floor of the House in
support of his claim. As tho basis of
his contest he asserted:
That gross frauds were perpetrated and
committed by the supporters and partisans
of John G. Carlisle, in his interest and for
his benefit, in the counties of Trimble,
Grant, Gallatin. Campbell, Carroll, Boone,
Pendleton and Kenton.
That the retnrned majority of 325 votes,
Which it was alleged was received by Mr.
Carlisle in said congressional election, is
false and fraudulent.
In many election precincts in the coun
ties the polls were not opened until after
the honr of 0 o'clock, and were closed be
fore 4 o'clock, thu preventing many per
sons from voting for said Thobe. .
In consequence of the outrageous frauds .
perpetrated at tho election, and iu the dis
trict aforesaid, John G.Carlisle was falsely
and wrongfully returned as a member-elect,
from said congressional district.
The committee on elections brought
in two'reports, the Democratic majority
reporting in favor of Carlisle and the
minority in favor of Thaibe. When the
report was made Mr. Thoebe protested :
that the committee had suppressed his
evidence. The minority reported, in
part as follows: " .
A strong ex parte showing was made, by
affidavits and otherwise, which showing, in
tho views of the minority committee, tended
very strongly to establish the following
facts, to wit: i
1. That great and inexcusable frauds
were committed in the conduct of the con
gressional election in the Sixth congres
sional district of Kentucky, whereby the ;
apparent defeat of ' Thajbe was - accom
plished. , , I
2. That when it was discovered that by
the vote of the people of that district
Thcebe was elected.- there was evinced a
determination on the part of the friends of
Carlisle to prevent such a result being an
nounced and the certiiicato of election be
ing given to Thcebe. , i
3. That forgery was actually committed
for the purpose, whereby Thcebe was de
prived of said certificate.
4. That election returns were tampered
with and changed for such purpose and
with snch results. '
5. That telegrams had been sent on the
night of election to have the returns with
held for the purpose of altering them in be
half of Carlisle. . ;
These reports were followed by a long
discussion which fills several pages of
the Congressional Record. The major
ity of the committee reported in favor
of seating Carlisle. On the first ballot
Mr. Bynum dodged. This vote showed
no quorum. Another vote was taken
the next day, and Mr. Bynum voted
against Mr. Thoebe and in favor of Car
lisle. This voto also showed no quo
rum. On the third balfot Mr. Bynum
again voted against Thoebe, giving Car
lisle the seat. Mr. Bynum professes to
bo peculiarly a friend of 'workiugmen.
In this notable instance ho had an op
portunity to prove his friendship for
workingraen and at the same time do an
act of justice. Instead of that he turned
his back on the workingman and did an
act of injustice. His love for the free
trade leader was greater than his love
for workiugmen. Speaker Carliso sub
sequently appointed him a member of
the committee on Ways and means, a
position greatly coveted by Bynum. He
got his reward.
. A 8UBJECT OF INTEREST. ' "
A speaker who has addressed a- large
number of Republican meetings and has
met many voters, says that the subject
in which the people seem to be most in
terested is the State debt. This shows
their good 6ense. It is a home question,
and, as the Democratic policy is to allow
the debt to go on increasing above" the
$8,500,000 to which Democratic incom
petency has raised it, people who . have
farms and homes, upon which this in
creasing debt is an increasing liability,
are naturally very much interested, not
to say anxious, about the matter. They
look at tho debt and see how rapidly it
is increasing. They see an annual In
terest liability of $325,000, which must
be paid either by assessment or borrow
ing. With such facts before them, they
ask when will this thing couio to
an end! They asked a solution
of the Democratic State convention, and
what answer did they receive? Nothing,
except that the property in farms and
homes shall bo valued at a higher figure
for the purpose of taxation. They ask
the Democratic editor, and ho answers
that the besj; way to raise revenue is to
tax land alone. Democrats on the
6tump, instead of discussing this very
near subject, go on to denounce force
bills and McKinley tariff laws. If they
are questioned regarding the State debt
they simply say . that tho matter is all
right. The people naturally turn to the
Ucpublicans and ask them what remedy .
they can devise. They answer in their
platform by declaring in favor of a new
system of taxation which will make all ;
tho franchises granted by tho State and
corporations, which now generally es
cape taxation, pay their share. Repub
licans have dono this in other States, so
that tho farm and tho home arc relieved
of all taxation for State purposes, aud
what Republicans have dono in other
States Republicans in Indiana can do
and will do if they are a majority of tho
Legislature. As for the Democrats, they
have shown that all they can do is
to let the State drift into debt deeper
and deeper. ' The people demand a
change of policy, and therefore they are
anxious to have the State debt issue discussed.
CLEVELAND'S INSPLT8 TO VETERANS.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
,A few days ago two very intelligent Dem
ocrats of this city, in the course of a polit
ical discussion, asked me what I thought
was the cause of the defeat of Mr. Cleve
land. I replied that the principal cause
was his insults to soldiers. They asked me
to particularize, and I cited the incident of
the veto of the private claim of the soldier
who was hurt by being thrown forward on
his saddle, which furnished a text for the
President's remarks about its "being a pe
culiar saddle " or words similar to these.
They insisted, first, that they had "never
heard of the incident before," and desired
me to direct them where to find it, and fur
ther remarked that the President had a
right to-give his reasons for his veto. Will
you inform me where I may find the mes
sage, or will yon publish the message, with
the comments of the President. '
i Muncie, Oct. 21. Republican.
The case referred to was that of Alfred
Denny. The bill granting him a special
pension was passed by tho Senate April
21, 18S6, and by the House later. It was
vetoed by Mr. Cleveland Juno 21, and
tho full text of the veto can be found on
page 950 of the Senate journal, first ses
sion of the Forty-ninth Congress. Mr.
Denny's claim was based upon an injury
received by being thrown forward upon
the pommel of his saddle, add the re
mark in the veto to which reference is
made above reads as follows:
The number of instances in which those
of our soldiers who rode horses during the
war were injured by being thrown forward
on saddles indicates that those saddles were
very dangerous contrivances.
The intimation which Mr. Cleveland
mado in the above sentence is that
claimants who have sworn that their in
jury resulted from being thrown upon
the pommels of saddles committed per
jury. While this subject is up it may be
well to recall one or two more of ex
President CJeveland's official insults to
veterans whose bills he vetoed. For in
stance, ho vetoed a bill increasing the
pension of John W. Farris June 21, 1886,
and in tho course of the message to Con
gress said: ,
- The ingenuity developed by the constant
and persistent attacks upon the publio
treasury by those claiming pensions, and
the increase of those already granted, is
exhibited in bold relief by this attempt to
include sore eyes among tho results of
diarrhea.
This was thought very funny at the
time, but when it was shown by medical
authority that injury or loss of sight
may result from that disease, and that
tho claimant was a well-known Demo
cratic Senator in the Missouri Legisla
ture, the remark was not so irresistibly
droll as it first appeared. Another gem
in this line is the ex-President's face
tious remark in his veto of tho bill in
favor of Andrew I. Wilson, in June,
188G, as follows:
t .Whatever else may be said of this claim
ant's achievements during his short mili
tary career! it must be conceded that he
; accumulated a great deal of disability.
BAD NEWS FOR ANQL0MANIAC8.
United States Consul Henry Gillman, at
Jerusalem, reports to the Department of
State, under date of Sept. 22, that three
American locomotives, made in Philadel
phia and intended for the new railway from
Jerusalem to Jaffa, have arrived at J at la.
The consul says it must interest our citi
zens to know that the first locomotives ever
used in this ancient land were made in the
new world.
The above appeared in the press dis
patches published by the News last even
ing. It knocks the life out of the theory
of the News and other organs of the
angforaaniac school, which insist that
tho cost of an article is the English prico
with the American duty added. If that
wero true no Amerjcan locomotive would
have been tho first ever used on the
Jerusalem railway. If 40 per cent, of
the price of the average locomotive,
worth 88,000 here, is added, because of
the protective tariff, as the anglomaniacs
contend, the price in England of the
same machine would be 84,800. But the
fact that better value is obtained for the
money in this country than in Europe
leads one to conclude that, despite the
tariff, good locomotives, all things con
sidered, arc cheaper here than in Eng
land. And such must be the fcase when
the managers of a Palestine, railway
pass by England across the ocean,
2,800 miles further, to buy in the
United States. But the consul is mis
taken regarding one point, namely, that
"it must interest our citizens to know
that the first locomotives ever used in
this ancient- land were made in tho new
world." There is a large class of alleged
Americans whom the intelligence will
annoy more than it will please. They
have no interest and no pride in Ameri
can manufactures. They 6eem to be
lieve that it is a wrong for America to
manufacture anything which can be
bought in England. They will be much
displeased when they see exploded all of
their moth-eaten heresies to the effect
that the price of goods here is the for
eign price with the duty added, and
would be delighted to send the Ameri
can consul and tho general manager of
the Jaffa & Jerusalem railroad to the
"demnition bow-wowa" for upsetting
the fond belief that England still rules
America. They are American-born, but
their devotion to England's theory for
the maintenance of British supremacy
has sort , of do-Americanized them and
touched them with a disease known as
anglomania.
THE CAMERA DOES NOT LIE.
The Sentinel says "the camera docs
not lie." That is true. We have before
us a photograph of the hall of the House
of Representatives, taken during a ses
sion on Sept. 19, 1890. It shows 164 'Re
publican members in their seats, the
Speaker in his chair, and the various
officers of the House at their posts.
They were there to attend to the busi
ness of the country, and to perform the
duties for which they were elected. On
the Democratic side of the house are 150
vacant chairs, , and only one solitary
member in his seat. He is there as a
sentry to carry out the policy of obstruc
tion. Every one of the 150 vacant
1 chairs bears t witness to the malignant
partisanship of tho Democracy. The
Democratic members who should be in
the chairs have left their placea and the
hall in a body to obstruct public busi
ness and prevent the majority from
voting. Each one of theso inerubers
draws a salary of $5,000 a year, paid by
tho people irrespective of politics, to
attend to the people's business. They
have all taken an oath to obey the Con
stitution and the laws, which provide
that a majority of tho House shall con
trol its proceedings. Yet. in f violation
of their pledgo to the people and of their
oaths, they have deserted tbcdr places
and left the hall to prevent thie wheels
of legislation from, moving. They did
this not once, but many times during
the session. The camera presents a
picture of the hall and of 150 deserted
Democratic chairs as they appeared
during the session of Sept. 19, U500. Tha
Sentinel is right when it says 'the cam
era does not lie."
THE PHILADELPHIA SOBEHHADS.
A few disappointed ofilce-sjeekers in
Philadelphia, in company with as many
"tariff-reformers" and Democratic sym
pathizers, have formed an association to
oppose the election of tho Republican
ticket, which society they hawe had the
insolence to call "Lincoln Independ
ents," on the ground that Abraham Lin
coln, if he were .alive, would bolt that
ticket this year. This action has pro
voked a letter of protest from Minister
Robert T. Lincoln, in which ho claims a
special interest in the meinbry of his
father and earnestly regrets tho uso of
his father's name, as a flounder and
leader of the Republican party, to in
duce adhesion to an effort iot its over
throw in Pennsylvania. He says:
I do not believe in the sincerity of men
claiming to be Republicans who in a cam
paign aid ''the enemy because the majority
of the convention has refused to submit
to their dictation, nor in the soundness of
a position which is based on an. assump
tion of representing the opinions of Kepub
lic in leaders who can n? longer speak: for
themselves.
This rebuke from the son of a man
whose name they misuse should bring
the Philadelphia soreheads and kickers
to a sense of the indecency of their be
havior. Nearly a generation ago the Journal
drew a comparison between the bushy
auburn hair of Hon. D. W. Voorhees
and the tawny bolls that adorn the
branches of a sycamore tree. .From
this he came to be called the "Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash." The nick
name has stuck to him for thirty years.
But times change and men change with
them. Mr. Voorhees is not as tall, com
paratively; as he used to be, and his
hair is not as bushy, nor as red. The old
nickname has ceased to fit, and the ex
igencies of politics require a new one.
Mr. Voorhee8s now role of calamity
shrieker and purveyor of ( universal dis
aster, suggests an appropriate one.
Among trees the recognized emblem of
woe is the "weepingwillow." It stands
for sorrow, and is an object lesson of
melancholy. What more appropriate
designation for a statesman who sees
no ray of light in tho universal gloom
he is so fond of portraying, and who
predicts tho speedy appearance of dis
aster he does not always realize! One
who buries American liberty and pros
perity as often as Mr. Voorhees ought
not to object to standing as a mourner
at their graves. Hereafter let him bo
known among men as the Weeping
Willow of the Wabash.
.The effort to prevent the printing of
the F. M. B. A. congressional candidate's
name as such on the official ballot in tho
First district is a stroke of the Demo
cratic genius for blundering equaled in
the present campaign only by Green
Smith's savage onslaught upon what he
termed "the greasy, dirty niggers" in
his Anderson speech. Of course Col.
Wright's name will be on tho official
ballot, for he is also the Republican
nominee. If anything further had been
needed to assure his election this con
temptiblo trick has supplied the need.
A telegram from Major McKinley's
district to the Now York World says:
The tide set in for McKinley early last
week, and unless the breaches in the oppo
sition are immediately closed he will be
elected.
Republicans in Indiana should be en
couraged to make a desperate effort to
defeat three of the email Democrats who
are running in Indiana. '.
VniLE it may be true that merchants
in various cities have taken advantage
of tho Democratic newspaper scare to
mark up prices in certain lines of goods,
it is also true that many other merchants
have made no advances and have an
nounced that they will make none. Does
this indicate that the people will pay
higher prices? Not a bit of it. It simply
means that the honest dealers who de
clined to enter the conspiracy will get
the trade, while their high-priced com
petitors will get left, aaad servo 'em
right.
Do not tear pr mutilate the large bal
lot which will bo handed to you on elec
tion day. Donoterase any name. Sim
ply mark with the stamp tho ticket or
the candidates you wish to voto for and
leave the rest alone. Nothing counts
except what is stamped.
. The 2 12 or 3 cents a pound on sugar
is a tax, because nearly all of it is im
ported; the duty of 25 per cent, ad
valorem on shoes is not a tax, because
our manufacturers make all tho, shoes
tho people need cheaper than they can
be made elsewhere. ,
The ballots for New York city and
county will cost tho people 852,500, or
83.50 per thousand. A responsible party
wanted to print them fotr 81 per thou
sand, but he was not In with Tammany.
A Democratic machine iaca costly luxury
anyway.
An examination of the petition asking
President Harrison to appoint Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to the vacancy on the Su
preme Court bench, created by the death
of Justice Miller, neglects testate what
legal qualifications Mrs. Stanton possesses,
or to mention tho character of her judicial
experience. This may prove to bo a fatal
omission. ' :
The lot of the county clerk -win not be a nappy
one. nor wiU'hU ol!ice be a iiiecul'O between
now and election, when ho gcta Kia quota of
rlvo or six hundred pounds of ballota.safely homo
without taking hla ero oil ot tbom.he can than
it down aud atllx Ms initial to each am! kfxtiy
ballot, liy that tin: iu will be rrady to VciUIr
Hint it 1 not hi fault if the Auntral!an tratuj is
not a euccrrs. ImliannoUs 'ctti.
Let us be accurate in this matter as wo
go along. It is not th county clerk kLo
places his initials on the ballot but 1 the
poll clerks, and th&i not till the pcllt are
opened and the election board organized.
Theke is something in the Indiana or.cn
that tires the ambition of horf llceh. It is
the great State of the. Union for the break
ing of turf records.
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Completely Ilouteri.
Mrs. Figg You have been righting again, I
know you have.
Tommy No, I haven't; hoseat I ain't. Ho
didn't gimme no chance.
. An Ideal Union.
"Best match I ever heard cf."
!
"The woman who thinks she Is literary has
married tho man who thinks he Is a good cook."
Hlght and Left.
Wlbblo What do you think of thla Idea, that a
man has two brainitl
Wabble Oh, It's tree, I suppose. On o brain
has your Tight mind and tho other hasn't, prob
ably. A Itfore Recent Remembrance.
' That reminds yon of -far times, I bu pposef
queried tho young man of tho old soldier, as a
drum corps passed in full operation.
It reminds me more of that misera ble ten-year-old
boy next door to my bouse 'nras tho
ansvrer.
Slor McKinley Misery
Mr. Wiclnvire My dear, I am afraid tlte new
taruThas shut oft' your prospects for that new
dress. .
Mrs. Wickwire I fall to see how. Tho kind of
goods I want Is Just aa cheap as ever.
Mr. Wlckwiro Yes; but I can't get goodl cigars
for less than 35 cents, now.
Unconsidered Trifles.
. Though Joseph Pulitzer has retired from the
World he has not entered a monastery.
The Arabs have a tradition that Ere vras 200
feettalh Though she never had a grandfather,
she carried her head rretty high.
The MUkman's Motto Where . there's a can
there's a whey. '
Odd, Isn't it, how hot words will produce a
coolness between friends!
If it is really true that an Iowa wojaan has
named her twin daughters Kerosene anil Gaso
line, there Is a prospect of sweetness aud light
In one Ilawkeye household.
Jay Gould's right name is .Jason, It 3s said.
There has long been a suspicion that he'wasno
Jay. .
ABOUT PEOPLE AND TUIXGS.
Joaquin Miller, it is declared; lrrites
the worst hand in the United States.
Bret Harte has forsworn social pleas
ures for the present, while finishing his lit
erary engagements.
Mrs. John A. Logan is delighted with
her work as editor of a magazine. he is
confident that she has made a hit.
Capoul, the tenor, who has been farming
for some years past, has -written the libretto
for an oper entitled the "Black Prince,"
and Duprato has written the music. It is
a Russian story.
Waldemar Aus der Oiie, a young artist,
and a brother of the well-know pdanist.
Miss A dele Aus der Ohe, has received tho
first prize at the Royal Academy of Arts,
Berlin, for his painting, "Pieta."
Edwin Booth is said to be putting the
finishing strokes on a tragedy upon which
he has been working for five years. From
. the same source comes the information that
at the close of the prosent season Mr. Booth
will retire permanently from tho stage.
Among a class of twenty-four admitted
tb the bar by the Iowa Supreme Court the
other day was Miss Lily Kostomlatsky.
who passed a remarkably good examina
tion. She is the second woman admitted
by the Iowa Supreme Court, and will at
once begin practice.
Charles R. Bisnor, general Easter
passenger agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad, who had charge of the presidential
tour through the West recently, has been
.presented with a diamond-set gold locket
for his watch chain, in recognition of bis
vigilance and efficiency.
Bisnop Hargrove, of the Methodist
Church, South, atNaehville, Tenn., finds an
unpardonable incongruity between stump
ing the State as Prohibition candidate for
Governor and preaching the gospel. He has
accordingly suspended Rev. Dr. Ivelleyfrom
the ministry for six months.
Lady Dilke, wife of Sir Charles Dilke,
is taking active interest in labor organiza
tion in England, and has recently ad
dressed crowded meetings of women. She
urged them to form unions, but warned
them against deserting the cause as soon as
their wrongs had been righted.
Prince Meshtsiiersky, editor and pro
prietor of the Grashdanin, the official
journal of Russia, makes a serious proposal
to his government to forbid the publication
of all newspapers in Russia, excepting his
own. Ho would spare his own for the rea
son that it is the official organ. The Czar
is considering the matter.
Governor Francis T. Nichols, of
Louisiana, is a picturesque figure on ac
count of his dismemberment a result of
the fortunes of war. He is blind in one
eye, and has lost an arm and a leg. The
leg was shot aww at Chancellorsville, lust
after Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson was shot,
while the arm was carried away by a cannon-ball
at Winchester.
It was decided in the rfprtng that a sub
scription should be opened among all classes
of Belgian women for a national present to
the Queen, in commemoration of th twenty-fifth
anniversary of her husband's acces
sion. Although each sbbtcriptlon was
strictly limited to five oence, the sum total
h as reached 7,000, and ra-ny of the lists
sent in measure several yards in leegtb.
The movement to ereot a taonument to
the late John Boyle OTteilly in Boston, the
money for which -will be contributed by tho
people of Massachusetts generally, sug
gests the somewhat remarkable fact that
Massachusetts has never built a monu
ment to Miles Standiih. or Cotton Mather,
or John Robinson, or John Wlnthrop. or
Massasoit. or Jonathan Edwards, or John
A. Andrew, or Hawthorne, or Longfellow,
or Sumnen
Jubilee Joggins is going on the stage.
He Is the vacuous person who spent nearly
$2.CO0.000 in two years, who never wore the
aame shirt or the same suit of clothes twice,
who has gone through most of the courts,
been in jail for swindling and forging and
is now rusticating in a gambling-house in
Regent street. It is announced with great
impressiveucss that Lady Dunlo has mado
a vigorous and publio protest against such
persons as Jubilee Joggins being permitted
to go on the stage.
A rORTRAiT of a woman in Eastnor Cas
tle, the seat of Lord Henry Somerset, near
Malvern, has been identitied as that of
Lucrczia Borgia. It is by Genitle Bellini,
signed. Tho portraits of Lucrezia ate so
rare that Gregoroyius, in his history of this
famous womau, says iio does not know of
tho existence of one in Italy, unless it bo
the prohle on a coin. The Eastnor picture
represents her as a fair woman, with red
dish golden bair. The features are long,
especially the nose, exactly as iu the
medallion. The eyes are light hazel and
the mouth small and pretty. On the whole,
it is not tho likeness of a beautiful nor
even of a pretty woman, but is not without
fascination. Tho costume has enormous
width of the alcoves of black velvet on the
shoulders.
"Air. Mr. Harris,
Back from l'ari&r
Ouil"
Ouothe he:
"TlnfUtntHr Pwa"
' "- ' M J ft V W V
And how, tell me,
Is Mrs. liarrver
New Yort 11 era!-