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VUihh J nil Matin:
The legislature of Ohio on Tuesday rati
Hoi the action of the democratic caucus by
electing Henry IJ. IMyno 1. S. S"rnor, to
succeed the Hon. Geo. H. IN ntll.-fn All
the democrats voted for him and all the
Republicans voic:l Avk.
Mr. Joseph E. Kentiicotr.it well-known
practical anil telcntiflc fanner and horti
culturist, rending tit Arlington Heights,
near Chicago, died on Monday, aged TO.
lie was one ot fi family of remarkable
men who have long been idcntille't with
the history of this region.
There was nn unpleasant rumor alloat
in Chicago on Monday, that the Pull msn's
are 6cnously embarrassed financially, hiv
ing dipped too deeply in Northern Pacific,
North Kiver and West Shore stock", Coo.
M. rullnian, the senior member of the
llrm, i3 in New York, and A. 15. I'ullman
utoutly denies that there is the loa-f round
ation for the reports.
Comicis. A new comet ban been dis
covered In Australia, and a small one is
visible at Key West, Florid . The latter
is probably the same- comet that is now be
coming quite nn object early in the eve
ning in the southwestern sky, but is inov
ing with such rapidity in a nearly southern
dircctiou tint it must soon be out of sight.
The Yuma Indians, in Colorado, bury
watermelons in the dry desert Baud and
thus preserve them all winter fresh and,
crisp. There Is no doubt that watermelons,
buried in dry sand and placed in a cool,
dry cellar, can bo kept hero fresh and crisp
all winter as easily at leas, a, sweet pola -
toes are kept.
Iiainois Cr.A.(iKits.- The Illinois State
(iraDge has been in session at Springfield
thli week, with i!00 delegates in attend
ince. The prcceedings were mostly with
closed doors. Abontall that is made public
ia a report in which fault is found with
th rbuarwp" Vniversity mainly on the
ground that its farm is not made strictly
experimental. Belleville was agreed upon
as the next place of meeting.
Mr. ltobeit Harris, formerly President
ol the Chicago, Burlington and Ojiincy
Bailroad, aud late Vice President of the
T.rle, has been appointed to the Presidency
ol tho Northern Pacific, as the successor of
Mr. VillarJ. Tho position, it seems, was
first offered to Senator John Sherman, of
Ohio, but declined because his vacancy iu
tho Senate would be fTllod by a democrat,
which would give tho democrats a major
ity ol one in tho U. H. Senate.
An earnest appeal has been issued asking
for contributions to the fund for the relief
of Miss Kmnia Boad and her father. The
former, by the outrage of which she was
the victim, has really been rendered help,
less for life, whllo her father, to raise
means to meet the expenses of the late
trial and to f-wt the heavy doctor bills his
daughter's condition compelled him to in
cur, has been obliged to moitgngf all his
property and is in straitened circum
fctances. According to Mr. Tuke, who Is the Su
lcrintendent of emigration in Ireland,
those he has assisted in ttieir eliorts to
roach America have found plenty of work
and happy homes. Not so with those who
preferred tt try their own luck In l 'ana la.
"At Toronto their countrymen are holding
meetings to sye what can I done to alle
viate the sufferings of the pauper Irish
immigrants among them." Mr. Tuke is
certainly very liberal in his estimate ol
American philaulhropy.
The Mississippi Valley Cane Orowtrs'
Atsociation held a meeting this week at
St. Louis. llcporU from all the western
states engaged in cane growing showed
that, with the single exception of Nebras
ka, the last season had been exceedingly
unlavorable, but that preparations were
being made for an increased acreage next
season. Prof. Whitney, chemist of the
Department of Agriculture, waa present
and in a lengthy address advocated the
diffusion process in extracting the sugar
contained in the juices of the cane where
by nearly the t-ntiro amount of sugar can
be saved, instead of from to 40 per cent,
being lost in the bagasse, as Is now the
case under the crushing system.
Otn Merchant Ma junk. While the
country looks for very little gensral legis
lation on the tariff question'at this session
of congress beyond a considerable reduc
tion on raw materia, it does demand ma
terial and important legislation In the
direction of tne revival of ship building
and our merchant marine. At present, it
is si curious and suggestive fact that the
United States statutes actually prohibit the
mportatlon of only two artidra, fordjm
OITAWA
built ships and obscene literature. The
attempt to bring either into this country is
a misdemeanor and Is punishable ns such.
Forty years ago there were twelve great
shipyards in New York city giving em
ployment to 15,000 mechanics; there were
II bhipyards in Maine; employed 00,000
mechanics; besides numerous flourishing
shipyards on the Delaware, at Phil
adelphia, Wilmington, Ac; today there
are Jess than a dozen, and the mcichatit
marine of Sweden and Norway is greater
than our own. This Is the problem which
confronts the Select Committee of the
Hoiiic on American shipping and ship
owning. H 19 intimated that they will
adopt a programme of free ships, fne ma
terial for shipbuilding, repeal the obstruct
ive provisions of tho navigation laws, an 1
no Mibildy, and thus begin the restoration
of our lost commerce.
THE M0HM0N PROBLEM.
Our new Illinois Senator, Ex Gov. Cul
lom, lakes an early start in the race to wiu
fame by tackling about tbc knottier legis
lative problem of tho day bow to ileal
with Mormonism. The method Le pro
poses fi r its solution is, however, not a
new one; It is substantially the same as
that suggested by the President in his mes-
sage, though Mr. Cullom claims priority
:is its inventor, being the same he hud the
honor to propose when a member tf the
other house of congress eight years ago.
It is -imply to take all political power
away from the people of I'tab, and place
tho control of the territory in the hands
or a legislative conned consisting of time
men, citizens of tin- territory, U be ap
pointed by the President and confirmed by
the senate, said council t' have the same
(Kiwers that have hithi rt ) been granted to
the territorial legulitnr.;. li the 1 .ngthy
speech Mr. Cullom wale iu tsuppjrt of
this propositi' he I reported r.s saving, in
substance:
"It is worse than lolly lor the Go am
meut to tinker with this question from
'year to year, and at tho same time leave
I the whole legal pjwer of the territory in
I the hands of the men who are defiantly
violating nation V. 1-uv. 1 -:aI K'g s la
tori are mcii hieh iu tbt; church. The
Judges of tho local couils an Jsliops or
other Uhh officers of the church. The
local ( iovernment of the Territory Is a:i
ecclesiastical despotism such as U';'Jd tiot
be allowed to exist In this country. It'
placing the entire government o: t host
people in the hands of men loyal to the
Constitution, the law?, and the institu'.i ms
of the country, men subject to removal !;y
the President, and wlio-c laws rliall be
subject to tho approval of Congress, will
not result in producing a better condition
of affairs to Utah, I know oi no peccable
solution of the question. If the bill
which I have had tne honor of presenting
feul
little difficulty in brinj-ine about tho
change which would bo necessary in the
Territory. Its sole purpose is to take all
political power ari l control lrorn those
people, because they hold a higher allegi
ance to their church than to the Republic,
and to substitute a l.cgklati7e Council In
the stoail ol the Territorial legislature
now provided by law."
But, Xr. Culloia, if Hiese pe-ip'.i; ' Inld
a higher allegiance to the church than to
tho Republic," and m all things obey the
ecclesiastical m preference to the civil"!
authorities, how will your legislative coun
ell of lime govern tho people any better or
differently Irom Ihe present legislature?
There will continue- to be, as there sre
now, two governments in tho territory, the
grand sanhedrim or council, or whatever
It is callod, of the church, and th'j territo
rial legislature changed by this bill into a
council of nine. In all matters of local
administration, pertaining to the affairs of
daily life, civil and criminal, tho two gov
crnmenU will probably continue, as here
tofore, to bo in perfect accord. But as to
the "highfr matters" pertaining '.. re
ligion, the "sanhedrim" will co on levying
its titli?, regulating the educational mat
ters, the worship, amusements, holiday
and everyday conduct of the pe iple, us
well towards each oilier as their 'ene
mies," as fully as if no Irgnbitive or other
authority in the territory existed. And
what is the government to do about i'.i
With the Mormons this is all a niait. r ot
eligtousduty and faith, and have t!i"y not
the same freedom that is tru tr antet-d i all
other people by the constitution in matv-rs
of religious Ix lirf and practie.;? i n'.y on
the ono paint that of polygamy will t'je
two bodies como iu collision, and or. thai
point they have already been In collision
for years. To say nothing of tbe biriueitt
protUious agauiht polygamy in th.: Ed
munds bill, other laws of congress, as long
as ten years ago, have pretended to treat
polygamy in I'tah as a crime and attempt
ed to punish il in the courts. Il.it has a
single polygamist ever be-n punished?
The answer of course is none, and why
none? Ilavo the courts been dishorn V or
failed in their duty? The courts have
been appointees of the federal executive
and never lacked iu a willingnem or anxi
etyto punish any polygamist to theexttat of
the law that might be brought before them
and convicted. But no such conviction
could ever Le had, because, although the
accust-d might bo openly nnl notoriously
living with and supporting a Uuen of
wives, no evidence of Ins polygamous
marriage coull ever be screwed out of
whatever witnesses might bo brought into
court. And will this council "I nir.eltv,
able to dit any better? lo say nothing of
the very questionable constitutionality ol
tbe measure, for t is hard to sec how a
lawabidlng citizen of a territory can be
Icgelly disfranchised tiecauso Ms, oriest
has a dozen of wives any more than a
Catholic can be punished becausv his
priest hw no wife, it U palpable thi it
can have no more effect in tho way of
eradicating or even touching the crime of
polygamy in Utah than a puff of wind.
In rplte of the Cullom bill, the Mormon
problem remains unsolved.
Thi. OcUjOwi? Tbrce miMi,iji
FREE TRADER;
piatcd their crimes on the gallows in tho
U. S. on last hangman's day. Isiitc An
derson, colored, was hanged at Barnwell
S. C, for the crime of killing Mr. O.vm
Wllliamf, a neighbor, because he cliot his
dog. John .larvia was executed at Prin
ce s Anne Court Houk', in Va., J ? shoot
ing Claudius W. r.oniicy.of whom l-.e bad
bought a piece d la:."!, but by whom lie
was aftenvnMh dispossessed bce.vi.-c he
(Jarvis was finable to pay for it. And
lastly. Jerry Alexander, vlireJ, w;us
hanged at Sp::ra, l.a , lor ihe murder f
Samuel Plea.tij;, a neieldnr r,i a drotikeu
ro.v la.-t w '.ater.
Il vi Henry !5. IVytie. t:-e fa'.hend
Oliver 11. Fayr:e, who "tt tw enatorial
prize iu thn hio Deteoi-ratio l.egi.-lative
caucus ou the tiih inst. Oliver wu.s made
secretary of the Standard Oil fVimpaay
thron- h liie iiii'.uence of the f itlier, who is
a prominent stockholder in the great, mo
nopoly; and it is charged, in Ohio Demo
cm. io circles, that the son used money
rreeiy to make his father's noniuation as
nearly unanimous as possible It. is inti
mated further that the expenses of Oliver's
campaign anions legislators cost him over
fl00,0')o. .Mr. lYyne. is K-.id to be worth
about twenty million dollars, mont of
which is in S;atii!d Oil to'-ks. f,''rc,rt
Co. llcpub'.i-u::.
If tho I!epublivan papers keep on they
will soon have Mr. Payne ihe wealthie.-t
man la '.be world. They started off by
placing his fortune a. ,(R(),000. They
have now got it up to $20,000,000. In ad
dition they have made him proprietor of
the whole SimuUrd Oil Company, when its
b )oks show that he never owned a dollar of
itsftoek. Verily there is tin uwfu! he out
somewhere ! '
TLeu tills story ubout Pujue o.-biss m
Oli ver, purchasinc his election to the U. S.
Senate with 5100,000, is not only hideously
hamtTtil as n falsehood, but is supremely
cheeky as coming from the licpuolicans.
Why. if Payne's election even had been
purctaseJ, r.nd the proof was clear, with
what tort of decency can the republican
parly object to his elect; m on that score?
Tin- worn llenublicaaa coa'd lien say vf
Mr. Payne is tlt he h.;s fuilowcu i'i-j tri
ilttiocs and piacticci ol that party iu Jikcj
cases, .vhot as MftfOltcn tuo ieciiori oi
j-'luion Cimeron by the Pennsylvania leg
islature, when, on the Ural ballot, Keprc
seaUitive Boy.r tr oKein his place and held
up ?t,000 t'j'i! br..Jl tjt..;u paid biw b Cam
eron fjr Lis v A; nn.! ot'acr nem'itrs were
pointed out who had received sliiii'ar and
larger bribes? Yet Camcroa's election
was hailed aa a great Republican triumph
and hr waa welcomed to his ses.t in the
senate by Lh fellow republic&ns with open
arms, and recognized as an honored party
leader. Bo when Jngalla defeated Old
Subsidy Pomeroy for '.be snale oat in
Kansas, the ucc of largo sums of mouey
was shamefully notorious, ytt tho Repub
lican press carefully rrprc3scd the agony.
When Sabin, i:p in Minnesota, bought (he
seat in the Senate that Windom held, there
was uo howl of indignation no, not even
a pep of disapprobation. Nuh rdi 1 the
Republican press lose faith in humanity
when Jones and Sharon purchased a seat
in the Senate; likewise Bowen and Tabor.
The Republican press stilled its sorrow
when the Credit Alobllier rascalities came
out, and it turned its back to ihe wall and
wept ia silence when Belrnr.p tripped and
fell. Racently when Huntington's letters
were published, detailing h gre:-.t Republi
can Money King's methods of dealing with
Congress, tho Republican press saw no
reason to lnno faith in the pipular -ystm
of government.
The sixple truih os a cjtcniporary
ap'.lv remarks, ".Mr. Pendleton lost his
Beat in tne rseiate oe';auao ne wtis m u
iuali!kd f.-.r leadership; solely be
cause be failed to attach men to his poh'.:-
cn f jr'.jnes; befav.si Lis uristocratic sur
roundings were distasteful Ij many demo.
cr:.U; because Le incurred tbe hostility of
a powerful newspaper and because h was
unable to protect h:m-.'if against ih'-or.
gani.e! ellon to lef-at him. The -t -iy
ab iu' corrapil :: ..riitnat.i will. In- '.!.
1 iwer- aIi. 1'v-l! tir-jy wer-.- lor.asl t ex
rii-i.n '.Heir weaancs' of. oai; v.-ira.. ji e:.i o.-.,
a id ' has -in.'H b-'.-r. repeated by
Re-
pubhis,"!
P .yr,.- i-
Ol I -'I-', .-
pr-s-i 1-jr partisan ro'isoi'e
i jr.-.r.- a.i.t Ii'ir-irable mnr.
tHAKEY SIPLOltACY.
By h very shabby piece of "diplomaey"
on the part of the British Minister West,
Mr. Congressman Hewif, of New York,
his been placed, though evidently unjust
ly, in an exceedingly awkward and un
pleasant position. Mr. Hewitt, it will bo
rci-erubered, immediately after tb. organ
ization of the present congress offered the
resolution, which was at once adopted, j
dirwt t-ng the President to ask the British
government 1 1 delay the execution of
()'D)i;neii, t!i; slayor of the informer
Carey, until some inquiry could be made
as to bis U. S. citizenship. ti the same
evening ihu resolution was passed the
British Minister gave a reception which
Mr. Hewitt attended. As he grated his
hott, in the lew words that pased, the lat
ter uule some nllusion to the resolution
which congress had passed, and Mr.
Hewitt, taken by fcurprist and naturally j
averse to discus-iug tne subjei t, pSMfd il
off wilh soruu light r-mirk, that he appre
tieu le''. no rupture bet-en the two gov
eminent would grow out of it, or wrds (o
that tffecf. But Minister West, rilhfr
throuU stupidity or trickuhne, treated
Mr. Hewitt's casual remark m meant In
do'p fftrnel, and at once telegraphed
to his overamnt that No serious con
sideration neeil U: paid to Ui resolution
or the President s req'ust.'" Uncxplaincl
it places Mr. Hewitt 13 the position of pro
W-udlug to 1 the warr-v Iriend of Ireland
in ccngns, bat in prhatn m ajKilogiiog
to the Britinh ovwuniJit. The Imputa
fr. oota.vief! -t tit b'ier.cr cf
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1881.
Mr. Hewitt's public life, which has always
been outspoken and manly, and Is also at
war with his action immediately alter the
resolution was adopted by the House, fir
the clerk, (Jen. John B.Clark, bears wit
ness that Mr. Hewitt waite.l upon iilm at
once, and urgeil upon him the Importance
of getiing the resolution to ibe President
immediately tor his signature, aiding:
"Do not fail, as this is a matter of life md
death." No Mr i.-igcr evidence than this,
surely, can be offered of Mr. Hewitt's good
frith.
The htiainer Celtic, btlwetn New York
aud Liverpool, which left New York JVc.
10 ih and a few days ufierwards was known
to have broke bur shaft and was then not
seen or htrd from for a wet k, arrived
safely at (Jjeeuslown on MonOay, in low
of the llriti.i.intc. She had beer, out about
?t days when overhauled by the llritan
ujc, working alng t'.o-vly with .-ail.-, and
had Man fonm pretiv rough weather, but
ail ou board were we!!, with abundance to
eat and drink, euvpt that the supply ol
whi.Mjy hal unfortunately given out.
The New York St.-n, whwe editor had
his "broughten up" in the oJl'.je of the
New York Tri'mne undei Horace Creeley
and tuibllied till his extravagant high pro
tective tan!!" notions, is inconsolable over
the defeat of Sam Randall for the speaker
ship, itpon which be had set his heart, and
on account o which defeat he is satisfied
the democratic party will immediately go
to ll.e "demnition bo.vows." Not only,
in the view of -Mr. Dana, was the election
of Mr. Carlisle over Randall a blunder,
"but the giving of twenty-nine chairman
ships out of lorty four to the South was
blunder numbertwo; and gi 'ingthe South
a majority of one in tho make up of every
important committee was blunder number
th-ec. There i9 an apparent design in all
of this business that will excite suspicion
in tbe North, and it is very remarkable
that it should happen on tho eve of a Pres
idential election."
I Mr, Dana, though now vovderous in h:s
professions of denocraey, nyt only tliiigs
I to all h:s Creeleyan high tariff vagaries,
but also to his cnti Southern phobia which
he imbibed while assistant Secretary of
War uDder Stanton. Other .vise it must
hava struck him as at least nearly tar
aud reasonable that in a house where the
Jemorrsts are in a large majority, and t wo-
thir-'.ts ol that majority are Southern clem
ocrat?, mere Southern Uian Northern dem-Ibut
ocrals should very naturally nnd jusllyi The remedy for this inequality and in
have chairmanships arid majorities on the justice' must be looked (or either in a radt.
committees than Northern democrats, but cal change of our system of taxation, siwh
one-third their number. The "apparent
design" in the matter seems lo have been
tho simple aud honorable oae of diytding
tbe places upon the committees among iUojcome3 ot corporations as well a itidividit
domocratn fairly without regard to section a'., atrl upon large Inheritances,
allsm.
Dklmomco. Thero are few names bet
ter known in tnis country than that of
Charles Dclmonico, the famous Xew York
restauranteur. To achieve his success and
fame, however, the man had overtaxed b is j
constitution, and for some time past his!
mind has shown signs ot giving way. A
few days alter New Year he If ft home os
tensibly to sec his banker, but not return
ing tho same day, the utmost uneasiness
was felt in regard to him, aud from that
day on a rigid search had been kept up to
ascertain bis whereab uta.' But beyond
Jersey City all Iraee of him seemed to be
lost, until last Mouday, when h's body was
lound in the woods near Orange Moun
tain, sm New Jersey. The facta since re
vealed indicate that he perished there on
tbe Jth. About 2 o'clock that morning
John Dieil'enthal, who works lor a larmcr
on Orange Mountain, while driving from
Mon! Clair to Orange, saw a man leaning
wearily against a lenve at Ihe junction of
the road leading from Orange to Mont
Clair, an 1 is certain the man was Delmou
ico. lie bailed DieiVenthal and begged
shelter. 'Hi--' f.-ti liter !-aid the speech ol
the way I. iter was so tbisk he could soiree-, j
Iv uieier-tarr i bun. De'tnonico's speech
'had fieei: .hc.'t -lu -e his trouble came on.
iTIie uii;!;! wa- biturly cold, but the farmer
Jwa-. afraid of :naip,ar.d instead of taking!
th,. m mt lo, n. drrive,,., after di-l
rev-iini: ii:m lo orange, a mi 10 distant.;
lac wondering 01 tin; un.oriunaie man
from this point ecu only lx; conjectured.
He probably wvnt aimlessly along the road
u the mountain until overcome by cold
and laid down and was frozen to death.
It. icr-.poiiselo our es'eeuieu Correspon
dent, "A Day Labour;-," who is very anx
iiiiis 10 know w!i it possible objection the
Pkki: Tit xoK.n can make to any of the no-
tions advanced by ' Sledgf Hammer" in
his communication in our last week's is
sue, we will tale, briefly, that we differ
with him mainly in his assumption thai
the tendency of tariff protection is enor
ni"Usly to increase the wages of the work
men d the protected ludustiies, while the
wages of Ihe worknv n in ncn-protected
industries are comparatively much lower.
ThU is an error. The glass blowers and
iron puddlerj an- able to keep tip stu b
high wages by cle combination, exactly
as the carpenters, bricklayers, coal miners.
tyH.w;tter. Ac, whotc occupations icotiive
no tariff protection, are able to keep up
wages. Generally the wages ol tho pro
tectod Industrie, such as the silk, woolen
and cotton manufacturer, are squeezed
down to the lowest rae. In a word, tar
iff protection has nothing whatever to do
wlih ), fc-pt in this, that 11 enor
mously IncreawMthe cost t living to the
woikiugmt-n and thus don thcra. as well
a the whole community, a preat Injury .
to the cowpl-int t.f our correspon
dent Ibal Die trlan worker, white refufclng
U. work at their regular ialllna; for wages
tLat sj triple what common laborers re
yHntr ,Lr flup aiul tolnrie
and crowd out laborers who receive $1.50
per day by offering to work for $1.20 a
day, of course if such is the fact thcro can
bo no two opinions as to their conduct. To
call it excessively mean would be to char,
acterize it as mildly as it seems to be ca
pable of.
PERSONAL PB0FEBTY TAXATION.
Now that a num'wr of state legislatures
are In session, tho everlasting subject- of
fair and equal taxation again comes to the
lore. It has been a growing complaint
anion? tbe mrrieultural classic lor jeais
that the tendency is constantly more mid
more to load the burden of taxation upon
real estate and to let personal property and
.. ., ... . i ti ....M..:n,n ,j
" elieciS g UlUUXCii. Iin ui ui':.m if
singularly justified by the tiguras of the
last census, which hhow that in the United
States tho assessment of real estate has in
creased Irom i;,U7:!,0U0,0U0 in 110 to si:J,.
8S7,000,000 in 18W, while, personal proper
ty, which in 1SO0 was assessed at $5,1 II,
100,000, has decreased in 1SS0 to j?:!,Mi1,
000,000. Yet during this same period the
amount of actual money in Ihe country
has quadrupled, and the amount of bonds
ami stocks, to say nothing of merchandise
and all klndi of loose property and effects,
has iucrcuscd at least live-told. What 19
the inlerenco? Why it Is "plain as a nose
on a man's face" that the personal proper
ty of the country is conceal in i; itself and
skulking behind false returns in order to
evade taxation. Who h it that is doing
this? Not the merchants, not the traders,
or breeders or dealers in horse?, cattle,
sheep, hogs, Ac, for their "effects" are too
easily seen to escape the eye of the nsscs.
sor. A close scrutiny, we opine, would
'show that the concealment consists in cash,
stocks, bonds, mortgages, Ac For exam
ple, thousands of millions of stocks, bonds
and mortgages aro held in New York
City, yet the valuation of personal property
fell thero from $:0j,283,:m In 1870 to $197,.
000,400 in lSiW. Will anyone contend that
this is an honest decrease? Wc have not
taken time to look up the figures for any
pivea Dumber of years in this state, but
during the last throo ye i per -hal prop
erty has here also shown, according to the
assessor's reports, a singular tendency to
wards shrinkage.
There is but one explan lion for this
strange decrease in the value of personal
property. Wealth escapes taxation. And
this throws un undue burden upon honest
taxpayers the neb as well as the poor.,
more upon tho poor.
ns adopting the Pennsylvania excise sys
tem, or, what would perhaps be bettor
still, to roaVc our principal levy upon in-
TUK UK A IN GLUT.
Has the bottom of the grain trade fallen
Q T-w. lit 1 it wd-k r Witnrl.it. if lltfi ltinv,.
grain houses of G. W.Coleman & Co. and
Jas. M. Puller A Co., in New York, for the
only assigned reason that wheat and corn
have been steadily going down lor weeks,
wheat having fallen 4 cents in the previous
3 days, while the stock in sight is on the
steady increase, with no export demand,
has naturally created anxiety as to the out
come. The quantity of wheat in sight at
New York is stated at 51,500.000 bushels
and In Chicago at 20,000,000 bushels. This
13 largely in excess of any previous record.
Even tho monster accumulation of the
great Kecne corner at Chicago, amounted
to but IC.000,000 bushels. The only miti
gating; lacts in view of this despondent
outlook arising from this vast accumula
tion are that thero are believed to be 100,.
000,000 bitBhels less wheat in the hands of
farmers than there were a year ago, and
that ihe rapid fall in price at the seaport
must soon lead to heavy exportation. But
against this gleam of hope the Irihune
propounds:
Have the energy and the high trices ol
the last few years produced a glut of wheat
as of manufactures? It is not in the. I'nit
ed States alone that railroads are covering
vast tracts of uew land with men and
mOBey. AUSirailR, una .no .vreniuu: i ou
federati.m, and India are being supplied
with new lines of transportation and are
t .!ti-t,),imn ,r fi
n capability of raising millions
, , r surr-lus wheat. Is their
competition destined to comjud our farm
era to readjust their prices? Our agricul
turists have been making money out !
the harvests oi their new soil as if the
prairies were oceans of gratuitous miik
from which they could take the cream for
die trouble of skimming, if it is possible
to have too many transportation factories
and Uto many shoo factories, may it not be
possible to have too many wheat isctorios ?
Are not the hard times now so prevalent
over tho industrial world greatly lessening
the abilltv of the poor, who ate the vast
majority, to consume food with the appetite
of their prosperous years ?
It is very easy to ask these questions; it
is hart to answer them. We have no cut
and dried responses.
Hkmiv B. Paynk. Tho eastern Demo
cratic pres. including such papers as the
Boston W, New York IVivM, Sun, Ac,
Heartily endorse H. B. Payne, the new
Democratic Senator Irom Ohio, as a most
excellent choice and a- decided improve
ment upon Mr. Pendleton. The N. Y.
Sun says :
The Hon. Henry B. Payne, tuo uew
Democratic Senator from Ohio, 19 a little
over 73 years old. He started out in life
as a lawyer, but left that prolession many
years ago, and got rich in manufactures
and railroads, lie is a sound, conserva
tive practical man, and tho father-in-law
of the Hon. William C. Whitney of this
town. When, years ago, the greenback
mania got hold of a large part of the De
mocracy of Ohio, Mr. Payne remained as
firm as a rock on tbo side of good money
and honest iealing. Generosity flows in
his blood. Only the other day the young.
wSf. Payne, bis son, made a present to
Mrs. Whitner of a bouse in this town
wh mat fftOO.OOO.
A good dl has been said of lata aaainstl 1
Mr. lrrj"M tt aan:pcon
bat be kvl
connected with tbo Standard Oil Company ;
but tho fact is he has nothing to do with
that establishment, and has never bad a
dollar in its stock. Mostot tho Standard
Oil men aro Republicans, though Mr.
Payne's son enjoys the advantage of their
partnership. But even if the new Senator
were a Standard Oil man, wo cannot see In
that fact any reason w hy ho should not as
pire to any office within the gift or the
people, provided the people have confi
dence enough in him to elect him
In the Senate Mr. Payuc will certainly
be an immense improvement upon Mr.
Pendleton, his predecessor. Tho latter
gentleman is a light weight, but preten -tlous.
Mr. Payne is a strong, wise, bteady
goinir man. There is no nonsense aboui
him. We are clad that such a man ha
been chosen. It is a w!inleome and en
couraging event.
Chicago was taken somewhat Py sur
prise a few days ago, by the isue of 101
o.ider by Mayor Harrison, to the directors
of the Bxposition Building Company, to
vacate the premises they occupy on the
lake front. The order results from the re
tusal or neglect of the company to pay an
annunl rental of if-10,(KK, which the city a
year no placed upon the site. I f Cliicsgo
was surprised by the order ol the mayor,
the surprise was still greater when tho di
rectors met and resolved that as paying the
rent demanded was out of the question,
tlie order of the mayor should lie obeyed
and tho building at once taken down!
But Chicago has no notion of losing her
Exposition Building. Not only is it the
only s'ructurc in the city in which the Re
publican National Convention, to meet in
Apnl.can bo held, but it is ono of tho city's
stroiie; arguments 1:1 lavor of holding the
Democratic Xation.il Convention in Chi
cago. Then what will become of tho great
mass conventions to befj held during the
Presidential canvass next summer, of the
annual fat cattle show in the (ail, and so
on, and so on ?
But the building will not Is; removed.
The general protest that has arisen among
tho people has already had the effect to
weaken tho backs of several aldermen, and
tho $10,000 rent levy no doubt will be re
mitted. The Peoria X'tlioiml Jh'iiHirnit urges an
early call of the Democratic State con
vention, not only to elect tho delegates
to the Democratic National Convention,
but to nominate a state ticket. The Dim
:mt thinks the project which some appear
to lavor, of holding two conventions, inad
missible, nnd Mr. Dowdall 13 too skillful a
political engineer to bo mistaken on such
a point, lint now can me iJcmocrauo
' State Committee ca;l the state convention
before the date of the National Convention
has been fixed ? The fact that the Rcpub
lie.an National Convention has been called
for April "iltli, indicates that the Demo,
oratic convention will be livid earlier than
usual probably about the middle of May
but it would be bimd work for our state
convention lo meet before the date of the
National has been determined.
As to holding tho convention ;t Peoria,
of course all this part of the state will
heartily second the 1110 ion, as Peoria is
much more easy of ace v liiau Springfield
and in all respects a plea-anter place to
meet in, for Springfield has come to regard
such gatherings so much as a rotator ot
course, that her people have no further in
terest in them than to sci jw all the money
they can out of the delegates, w hile Peoria
will regard it as another occasion for the
display of her proverbially magniticeDt
hosp 1 1 a lity.
Free trade organs dislike to have leler
encn made to tho present impoverished
condition of Ireland as an example of the
pernicious policy of free trade. Vet it is
a well known fact that England did all in
her power to break down the manufactur
ing industries of Ireland in order that she
might find a market for her own goods,
and she llnally succeeded in doing it.
While it is freely admitted thai non-resident
landlordism has much to do in re
ducing Ireland to her present poverty
stricken condition, yet it would lie impos
sible to keep her inhabitants in a slate ot
chronic vagrancy if their manufacturing
industries could bo oniit np nnd protected
by a tariff, as ours are iu the United States,
nnd her people given the opportunity to
diversify their labor. Now their subbist
ence must come entirely out of the ground,
and it is no wone'er that we behold a na
tion of paupers. f. 7, V".7 Juurru''.
If free trade organs "dislike to have ref
erence made to the present impoverished
condition of Ireland ns an example ot the
pernicious policy ot free trade," it is be
cause such reference involves a hideou
falsehood. It was not free trade, but the
denial of free trade to Ireland that broke
down lur manufactures and impoverished
ner. While Enilish manufacturers were
nursed by ihe government and encouraged
to flood the markets not only of Ihe British
Islands but of Europe and the world with
their iron wares and fabric of linen, wooi
and cotton, a heavy e x port duty was im
posed upon Irish iron, linen, ootton and
woolen fabrics, to relieve England from
Irish competition. It was this export ta
riffthis villainous tariff to "protect"
English manufactures against Irish coin
petition, and not honest free trade, that ha
reduced Ireland to her present impover
isned condition.
To T1IK FllKE TllAUEttl
I see Jack Plane and Sledge. Hamnitr
have been stirring up the annuals with a
hot poker, and I rather like to Bee it. But
vou sav Sledge Hammer's letter is too long
and you don't approve or an ne says. 11
he had got his livinc by writing lor the
papers may be he could have made it
shorter and baid as much. But why nw
tell us what he said that you don't approve
of ? Now tell us that, will you, or are you
alr.id the glass men will blame yon for
someoi kis hard licks
Don't be scared, my good man, they
wont hurt you, -nd if they do lher ar
enoOBth of as to back- jou If you wonN
cringe at the crack of ttat whip the blacfc.
unith tl'js about.
All cf-yeo owf-PH" " ?wl ,