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, THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.-WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 18S9.
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tJesfred. Addtss THL INDIANAPOLIS 3ENTIXEL
Indianapolis, Ind-
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24.
Bureaus of La tor Statistics.
Bureaus of labor statistics aro created
by law. The fact that legislatures create
them and a??i them certain duties is
sufficient proof of their importance with
out seeking to adduce other testimony.
Statistics is not sentiment, nor opinions,
but "a collection of facts, arranged and
classified, respecting tho condition of the
people in a state, or respecting
nny particular clas or interest, especially
thom subjects which can be stated innura
lirrs, or in tables of numbers, or in any
tabular and classified arrangement." So
pays Mr. Werlte and a better definition
cannot be found.
Labor statistics deal exclusively with
labor, laboring people, their work, their
vage.", cost of livinir, their surplus earn
ing anl hours of labor, including women
and children.
Hitherto it ha.n been dilliculf, indeed
linopt impossible, to obtain facts relating
to such matters m have leen suested.
3fen refused tu answer questions, or they
answered some and declined to answer
others. As a result, much time and money
has been practically thrown away. Tpon
a limited number of farts superstructures
of conjectures have been reared the best
that could be done, and yet unsatisfactory
to the statistician and to the public.
The subject of lalor within a few years
has grown immensely in importance. It
has com to the front and has demanded
audience. It has asked to bo heard, and
legislatures have exhibited greater willing
rebs to listen and to learn. Especially is
this true of the legislature of Indiana.
The declaration may be trite, but it is
tot the less true, that all wealth is born
cf labor; that ultimately nil revenues are
derived from labor, and all taxes are paid
irorn its surplus earnings. If this is true,
and it is not likely to bo controverted, it
affords an explanation of tho interest now
taken in the subject of labor in all of its
bearing upon the welfare of the state,
and explains alsu why the recent legisla
ture of Indiana increased the appropria
tion to aid the chief of the bureau of sta
tistics in supplying tho jeople with facts,
and furnishes the reason for clothing him
with all necessary power to obtain the
facts.
When tho chief of the bureau of labor
statistics conclude to investigate any
branch of the industries of the elate, such
questions us he may deem wise to ask
must be answered, as appears by the fol
lowing sections of the statute now in
force:
Sec. 3. The chief or I uly authorized deputy
hail haye power to examine witness- under
rath, to comp! the httendince of witnesses
and the production of paper while acting in
any part of thi täte, and witnesses may be
mirnmoncd by aid chief or uuthoried Wmty
thereof by its process in the came manner, a 1
minister oaths and take totiumiiy in all matter
relating to the duties herein required of aid
bureau.
See. 4. Any county, ruiinictjif.l or township
cfVieer, corporation, firm, individual r asso
ciation doing business within thia state who
shall neglect or refuse, for thirty days., to an
wer questions by circular or upon personal
application, or w ho shall refuse to otey the
summons and give testimony according to the
provision of this a-t, shall be liable to a pen
alty of .1"0, to te collected by the order of the
chief of said bureau of statistics in an action
wherein the sts?e of Indiana shall be plaintilf.
There need be no misunderstanding of
the law. It is explicit and to tho point
It evinces, on the part of the legislature,
''an intelligent appreciation of reliable sta
tistics, f facts, as the basis of argument
firo rl con on labor questions, and places
Indiana in the front rank of states in all
matters pertaining to labor statistics. It
is the purpose of the chief of the Indiana
bureau to carry out to the letter the spirit
of the Jaw enacted by the legislature. The
investigation ot such subjects as he selects
fr his next biennial report, will be thor
ough and exhaustive. Mr. Peeli.e fully
recognizes the responsibilities the law im
fes and when his next report appears
the faets will enable those who construct
arguments based upon statistics to arrive
at satisfactory conclusions.
We wait our old uberilers to remain with
til even more than we want new friend. Keep
Up your subscription to THE Sknti.nel.
Efiertlv Work For Tariff Ilcfbriii.
Tho tsriiF reformers of JKssachusetts
and Connecticut are hard at work, and
protection ideas in both states are rapidly
losing ground. The influence of the great
institutions of learning is making itself
very strongly felt in favor of tariff reform.
Associations of college graduates and
workingmen have been formed and given
th name of "Question Clubs." Every
representative and senator in congress,
every statesman and political economist,
every editor and publicist in New En
gland will b asked to respond to short
printed questions, exceedingly "sarching"
in their nature, and millions of copies of
questions and answers will be scattered
over the country. When no response is
made, a blank space will be left on the
leaflet, indicating tho fact and attention
called to it.
Among those to whom certain questions
have been propounded are the Hon. John
E. RrssEi.L, ex-member of congress from
the Tenth district. He was asked about
the effects of the tarilT on wool, and the
advisability of retaining or increasing.
His reply is direct and to the point. He
has not the least hesitation in expressing
hli opinion concerning the absurdity of
continuing a tax upon this raw material.
He points out that in 1S0M, the year after
the high wool tariff waa enacted, the num
ber ot eheep east of the Mississippi river
was in round numbers, ."3,000,000. In
ls-87, after twenty years of high protection,
the number has sunk to 18,100,000. In the
meantime there has been an increase in the
number of sheep within the limits of the
country of .'JO per cent, but thia has been
west of the Mississippi riyer, and it has
been due to the extension of railroads and
consequent clearing away of Indians and
wild animals, giving lands for the most
part, free of rent, taxes and all of the ex
penses of older civilization. These great
wandering flocks, be says, belong to absen
tee, and in many cases, alien proprietors,
axe ended by Chinese and Mexican,
herders, who have no more identity with
American citizenship than the Kaffir
shepherds of South Africa. As this no
madic method of wool-growing is com
plaining of loss it can not be said that
protection has been a benefit to any
American wool-growers. In his opinion,
the wool tariff is taxation solely for the
purpose of protection, and is worse than
other similar taxes because it has not even
the excuse of success in its purpose, and
as it now stands, constitutes the chief ob
stacle in the way of a return to honest
taxation to meet tho expenses of a govern
ment economically administered.
Xono of the champions of the monopoly
tariff have yet responded to the questions,
but the blanks under their names and op
posite these questions are more eloquent
than words would be.
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three months, including thirteen complete
stories. If you are not a subscriber, send in
your name at once; it you aro already one, be
careful not to let your subscription run out.
Another Fat I'ryinjr Crusade.
The republican managers sire much ex
ercised ubout the approaching elections in
tho four new states. Thero are eight C S.
senators and five representatives, at stake.
The republicans must win in order to
maintain their present slim majority in
the house, whereas defeat will entail no
Iom upon the democrats so far as the
house is concerned. It npjcars from
Washington telegrams to the republican
Philadelphia .-, that the same meth
ods which were used in New York, Indi
ana and West Virginia are to bo employed
in the four new etatc and under the same
auspices. Qr.vY, "blocks of five ' Pi'Dley,
''Bill" Chamh-lti, Cukksos and other
notorious corrnptionists will manage the
republican campaigns. It is suid that these
fellows have already been in conference
with the president about the matter.
The latter, accordingto the Lfhjrr't Wash
ington correspondent, "feels special inter
est in these elections," and is anxious that
"the republicans of the country should
render what assistance they can" to make
them certain for the g. o. p. This means,
we presume, another fat-frying crusade
against tho manufacturers and corpor
ations. It is so interpreted by the 7'
tjmph of Philadelphia, which supported
Hakkisox and Moijtox, and is a very able
and courageous independent republican
journal. The Tfh'jmph bays:
When the chief magistrate of the country
causes it to be proclaimed that he is anxious
that republicans shall render assistance to
carry elections in new and distant states, he
should not hesitate to take the next step, and
tat what the reward of the cheerful giver
shall be. There is probably no one, not even
Mr. ll PI.I'Y himself, who better than Mr.
IIakhisun knows about the shameless, corrupt
me of money at the lato presidential election;
for nowhere else was the use of it more shame
Ices than in his own täte. No one should
know better thnn lie that, if this corrupt use of
money is not stopped, elections will speedily
cease to represent the will of the people, and
will only represent the most infamous pollu
tion of the ballot. There is no one in the
entire length and breadth of the land who i
tin der such soU-inn obligations as he to Iis
courage and prevent this abuse. II is bound
by every private and public obligation to dis
countenance and condemn it; but he does not
do that when be causes it to be announced that
it is no secret that he wants the whole body of
republicans In the country to contribute to a
campaign fund to carry the new states for his
party. He is by doing that countenancing, en
couraging, inviting, that corruption which was
so signal nnd disgraceful a part of tho last
presidential campaign.
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Hayes Had a .Judicial Policy," Too.
ri:.'.Mjv II.u.-kiov is not tho first
president to adopt a "judicial policy." At
least one of his predecessors lit tiikri oiik
rVKeirr.n IIavks made an experiment
in that line. It was not stucessfal, how
ever. It remains to le seen whether Pi:
ja mix Harrison will fare better in his at
tempts to dictate a "policy" to tho judici
ary. Mr. II ayks' experiment was made
upon Wai.tkh Q. fj rush am. In 1S7S Carev
W. Mii.i.kr of this city was arrested for the
emliezzlement of a large amount of money
from tho First national bank of Indian
a pol is, while paying teller of that in
stitution. President Hayes was induced
by Mr. John C. Nr.w and other friends of
Mit.Lr.R to direct Mr. Holstein-, then U. S.
district attorrey, to susjcnd proceedings
against Miller. On .Nov. in, this action
having been brought to the knowledge ot
the federal grand jury, then in session,
that body came into court nnd asked
Judge (iitf.siiAM for instructions. Ho
promptly directed the grand jurors to
make a thorough investigation into tho
charges against Miller. Judge Ores mam
said :
When you were impaneled at the beginning
of the term you swore that you would dili
gently inquire sind true presentment make of
such matters as should be given you in charge.
You could not, if you would, escape the obli
gation of this oath by heeding the instruction
of the president in this particular case. The
president may, if he feels so inclined, interfere
even i advance of indictment, by exercising
the pardoning power. In no other way has ha
the slightest authority to control jour action,
lie has it in bis power to pardon the alleged
Heilder, and unless he is willing to take this
responsibility he has no more right to control
your action than the ejir of Russia. The mo
ment the e.ieeutive is allowed to control the
action of the courts in the administration of
criminal jusi'io, their independence is gone.
It is due the president to say that the court
does not believe he has a.y desire to encroach
upon the judiciary or that ne contemplates any
unwarranted interference by his instructions
to the district attorney.
The grand jury made the investigation,
and Miller was indicted and nut on trial,
just the same as if the president of the
United States bad not "ordered" the dis
trict attorney not to proceed against him.
We are surprised that the Hayes
Ciresharn episode did not restrain Presi
dent Hariumvn from his attempt to put a
judicial policy in force in Utah. Of course
he has not forgotten it. Mr. II vyes re
members it, we aro sure, and bo docs the
country. And.the recollection of it must
impress the country with the vast differ
ence between the mental and moral qual
ities of IIexjamix Harrison and Walter
Q. Oresiiam, as well as with the propen
sity of republican executives to invade
the independence of the judiciary, al
though it is guaranteed by tho constitu
tion of the United States.
If you like The Sentinel, renew your sub
scription for six months or a year. . Do not let
your name drop from its lists.
The laying of the corner-stono of the
soldiers' monument will be an event of
great interest and importance, not only
to this city but to the state at large, and
in a less degree to the who's country.
The monument will bo one of the moat
notable works of art in the United States,
and as a tribute to the valor and patriot
ism of Indiana's sons who sacrificed their
lives upon the altar of their country will
Lave a beneficent and elevating siaiU-
cance for generations to come. The dem
onstration upon the occasion of the corner
stone laying ought to be commensurate
with the importance of the enterprise,
and the munificence which is rearing
this splendid testimonial to In
diana heroism and manhood. It
is proposed to secure, if possible, the
attendance of the president and his cabi
net, and of Gen. Sherman and other lead
ing survivors of the Union army. We
hope this will bo done, and everything
else that may contribute to make the oc
casion a memorable one in our history.
And we especially hopo that partisan
politics will not be allowed to taint the af
fair. The orator, it is to be hoped, will
have sense and decency enough to address
himself to the patriotism of the people,
and not to the prejudices and passions
which belong to a bygone era. I.et the
political parsons in whom this town
abounds be kept in the background, and
clergymen who may be depended upon to
perform tho task assigned them in a non
partisan and non-sectarian Kpirit be
chosen for the religious duties of the day.
The celebration, properly conducted, will
be a landmark in our annals, and one to
which persons of all shades of religious
and political belief may look back with
gratification.
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Months.
Kome(uetlons About the Tariff.
We print elsewhero a communication sent
us by a republican reader touching the
tariff question. The writer is frank enough
to say that he knows nothing about the
tariff, and he express the opinion that
no one else knows anything about it,
either. Ho asks Mr. Snow of Fort Wayne,
a recent contributor to The Sentinel, to
answer certain questions. The questions
aro not difficult ones, and no doubt Mr.
Sow could answer them readily. Put we
will not wait for him.
1. "How would American manufac
turers be enabled to control the markets
of the world by getting raw materials un
taxed, while labor is cheaper in Europe
than here?"
Because of the superior intelligence, en
terprise and efficiency of American manu
facturers. They have more extensive nat
ural resources at their back ; cheaper and
better processes of production and dis
tribution ; more advantages of every kind,
except in the matter of the cost of raw
materials. Wherever they have been
placed upon an equality in this respect
they have gone to tho front. As to the
relative cost of labor in Europe and in
this country, tho difference is more ap
parent than real. Tho average working
man in Europo receives less than the
average workingman in America because
he earns less; that is, because ho produces
less. Measured by efficiency and product
ive power, lalor in most industries is
cheaper in the United States than in
Europe; that is, it is piid less in pro
portion to what it produces. Mr.
Elaine, in one of his reports while
secretary of state under Garfield,
demonstrated this to be true äs to tho labor
engaged in the cotton manufacture; and
it is true in most other lines. As a gen
eral rule all over the world, tho manufac
turers who employ high-priced labor
(measured in day's wages) outstrip their
competitors who employ low-priced labor.
This is notably tho case in the United
States. It is because high-priced labor is
more intelligent, more skillful and more
productive than low-priced labor.
'2. "Have tho producers of raw material
no rights that manufacturers are bound
to respect?"
Of course they have; but they have no
more rights than those who are neither
producers of raw material nor manufac
turers. These aro not allowed to levy
tribute upon their fellow-citizens; no
more should tho producers of raw ma
terials nor the manufacturers be allowed to
do so. Repealing the taxes on raw ma
terials would stimulate our manu
facturing interests legitimately. It would
enable them to absorb more crude
materials than at present, which would
soon equalize matters with the domestic
producers of such materials. The latter,
too, would be enabled to buy manufact
ure'! articles and other commodities
cheaper than at present. The producers
of raw materials wool, iron, coal, copper,
lumber, etc. aro entitled to just as much
consideration at the hands of the govern
ment as other classes of the people, but to
no more.
0. "How would a reduction of the tariff
enable manufacturers to giva labor staady
employment at remunerative wages?"
A reduction of the tariff would improve
the demand for and compensation of labor
in two ways: Py cheapening tho cost of
production it would enable our manufact
urers to successfully compete with their
European rivals in neutral markets
those of Asia, South America, Africa, Aus
tralia and the West Indies; and, by open
ing up our markets to the people of those
countries, it would cause them to take our
productions in exchange for their own.
Now they buy just as little as possible
from us because wo refuse to buy of them.
We are glad to have our republican
readers ask questions about the tariff. It
shows that they are thinking about this
great eubject. When men begin to think
about the tariff and ask questions about
it, their accession to the grand army of
tariff reformers is only a question of time.
Talmage preaches to 50,'k.iO people every week
through The Sentinel. P.cad his sermon on
tnotber pn?e.
The liaw anrj the White Caps."
To the Editor Ar; Some of our best
people here want to know whether the last
Ie2i.sln.ture of Indiana passed any law for the
suppression or punishment of secret clans,
known aa "White Caps." If so, will you pub
lish the law?
Also, please give your views as to whether
any decent, respectable citizens can or do in
dorse such cowarly clans. ltoBEBT Gale.
Cruwfordsville, Ind., July 16.
Tho legislature at its last session enacted
a law providing "that, if three or more
persons shall unite or combine together
for the purpose of doing an unlawful act
in the night-time, or for the purpose of
doing any unlawful act while wearing
white caps, masks, or being otherwise dis
guised they shall bo deemed guilty of riot
ous conspiracy, and upon conviction there
of shall be imprisoned in the state prison
not rnon than ten years, nor less than two
years, and fined in any sum not exceed
ing 2,000." This law was approved Feb.
28, last, and went into force on that day.
Tite Sentinel's opinion of tb'ose who be
long to or .countenance or tolcrato the
White Caps or any other association
for the practice of crime, under whatever
pretense, is, or ought to be by this time,
pretty well known throughout Indiana,
Tue Sentinel has repeatedly said that no
good citizen no decent man will have
anything to do with this or any other law
less organization; and that all who belong
to it, or give it sympathy or support, are
public enemies, and ought to be treated as
euch.
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tending jonr subscription six months.
All the accounts given of the readers to be
furnished under the new law by the Iudiana
school-book ring, show that they are twenty or
thirty years behind the times. Rooks prepared
for the crude civilization of Missouri thirty
years ago cannot be revamped to meet the re
quirements of the high and progressive edu
cational system long established in Indiana.
The enforced use of books of an inferior char
acter, such as these unquestionably are, w ill be
an immeasurable injury to the schools and
the educational standing of the state.
Tho abovo is a portion of one of the
advertisements inserted by tho school
book trust in the editorial columns of the
Journal. These statements as to the ago
of the new text books have been made so
often by tho trust that it is possible somo
persons may bo misled by them. As a
matter of fact all of the text books
recentl)' adopted by the stato board is a
new publication. Not one of them is as
old as the newest of the trust books. The
state board of education, after a thorough
and careful examination, pronounced
them equal, in every respect, literary and
mechanical, to the books already in use.
The new books speak for themselves, and
the trust will not succeed in convincing
the people that they are obsolete, or in
ferior in any way to the books it has been
so long selling at two prices.
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have not a dollar at hand, send us a quarter,
and your subscription will be extended three
months, or sis months for 50 cents.
The Journal is a good deal excited be
cause The Sentinel bluntly stated that
its school book articles were advertise
ments, paid for by the rotton old school
look ring at so much per line. The
Journal calls The Sentinel some very
ugly names, and lies about it savagely,
just as if its reputation had been seriously
injured by The Sentinel's statements.
But the JonrvaF outburst does not injure
The Sentinel, and docs not deceive
anybody. Everybody understands that
the Journal sold out to the school book
ring months ago. It has done a great
deal of dirty work for tho ring, euch as
slandering some of the best men of In
diana of both political parties, and has
been well paid for it. This was only to
bo expected from the newspaper which
has found profit in lying for tho Standard
oil company, the Indianapolis gas ring,
the Clay county coal operators, the ras
cally paving ring, and every other com
bination or person engaged in swindling
the people that has needed its columns.
Always a loodlo organ, the Journal will
be cheek by jowl with tho school book
ring so long as the latter has money to
f pend with it.
Examine a copy of The Sentinel carefully
and remember that it cokU less than 2 cents
per week.
When Mr. Clevela.ni became presi
dent Vineland, N. J., had, of course, a
republican postmaster. His term had
two years to run, and he was allowed to
servo it out. Then Mr. Cleveland ap
pointed a democrat, Pr. Charles P.rf.v kr,
as postmaster. Dr. EuEWEKhas just been
removed in the middle of his term, by
President Harrison. The Vineland oi
117 Journal (rep.) says:
We regret to note the undue haste of the
administration in making a change in the
Vineland postoflice, as announced in this morn
ing's dispatches. Dr. Brewer has been a
faithful, conscientious and accommodating
rtottniastcr, and it was the wich of the Vine
and people, irrespective of party, that ho
should be allowed to remain in the office until
the expiration of his term in fWl. Should a
vote be taken here to-day on the question of
his removal, we believe the verdict would be
almost unanimous in favor of retention. The
appointment of Mr. Parsons would have
leen entirely satisfactory at the proper time,
but, coming as it has, will rather tend to rouse
unpleasant partisan feeling. The office will
probably never be administered more satisfac
torily than during the past two years.
Talmage preaches to 50,000 people every week
throngh Thk Skntinel. Head his sermon on
another page.
The Clay county miners have again re
jected a proposition to return to work at
the starvation wages offered by the oper
ators. They are still ready to submit to
an arbitration, and the continued refusal
of the operators to agree to this ought to
make public sentiment more unanimous
and emphatic in support of the miners
than ever before. They have conducted
themselves ever since theso difficulties
began in a manner that entitles them to
popular respect and sympathy. Their
condition is deplorablo in the extreme,
and it is to be regretted that contributions
to tho relief fund have fallen off so greatly
during the last few days. A generous
hearted gentleman yesterday sent The
Sentinel $23 for their benefit, and wo
hope this action will inspire others to
liberal offerings. Any eum, large or
small, will be acceptable. The Sentinel
will promptly acknowledge and forward all
amounts received for this purpose.
Cleveland rejoices in sixty-three mil
lionairesif they aro things to be rejoiced
over. A number of them are multi-millionaires.
Standard oil Rockefeller
heads the list with an income of ST,000,000
a year or about $2.000 a day. This means,
on a six per cent, basis, that Mr. Eockefel
i.eb is worth $150,000,000. Col. Oliver
Payne, another Standard oil man, is put
down at $22,000,000. A score or moro are
rated at between $2,000,000 and $10,000,000
each. Cleveland is certainly a very rich
town, although, besides her sixty-threo
millionaires, she has good many times
eixty-three tramps and paupers. Her im
mense fortunes, however, do not represent
the fruits of honest industry. They are
very largely the producta of knavery. As
Abraham S. Hewitt says: "Superfluous
riches will not stand the test of human
justice."
The Indiana school book company maybe a
non-partisan organization, but we hardly be
lieve it. Edward Hawkins, K. C Bell,
William Fleming and Warden Mcrdock
may be non-partisan in their position on the
school book question, bnt they nave something
of a reputation as political manipulators, just
the same. AVm'a Journal.
TLe president of the company is Jose
phis Collett of Terre Haute, a promi
nent republican. The vice-president is
E. P. Huston, of Evansville, also a promi
nent republican. Other members of the
company are cx-Congressraan William
Heilman of Evansville, who has been for
years cue of the leaderä of the republican
party in Indiana, and D. J. Mackey, also
of Evansville, and a pronounced and in
fluential republican. When republican
papers attack the Indiana school book
company they attack some of the leading
men in their own party.
Five hundred protected silk workers at
Paterson, N. J., have struck against a 10
per cent, reduction in wages. Last fall
these highly protected workingmen got
their pay in envelopes bearing printed
statements to the effect that Harrison's
election would bring higher wages, while
Cleveland's re-election would cause a
reduction of wages. If they have pre
served these envelopes they must enjoy
reading them now.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Pru Mary Walke announces that she is
willing to accept the consulate at Valparaiso so
haughtily spurned by Koswell (i. Ilorr.
A NEW marvel at the Paris exposition is the
champion female wrestler, Jeanne du Itosay.
She performed in the amateur circus of M. Mol
ler, and lately it took a noted wrestler eight
een minutes to throw her.
Secretary Norle's house in Washington,
the old Tiffany mansion, is one of the most
luxuriously furnished houses in the city. It
contains, among other interesting thinjs, &
valuable collection of ancient armor.
GEN. Neai. Pow has an invalid daughter
who has been confined to her chair for years.
She has devoted herself to the study of lan
guages, and is now pcrtectly conversant with
J .a tin, (ireek, Germau, pauitih, Trench and
Kussian.
George Francis Train is an occasional
exhibit in the Hoffman house art gallery these
warm evenings, says the New York Sun. He
dresses all in white, with his usual boutonnicrs
slightly exasperated in sie and brilliancy, and
wears a light straw hau
IT is now said that Mr. Blaine is superstitious.
He was about to start July 2 for Woodstock,
Conn., to attend the celebration there, when he
suddenly remembered that the day was the ad
versary of the shooting of Garfield, w hereupon
he decided not to go, and sent his regrets.
Cmavncey M. Pet-ew dined with Mr. Glad
stone in London Tuesday and attended the
opera with him. He spent six hours with him,
and says he has never seen Mr. Gladstone so
full of vigor and spirits. They discussed many
subjects and each seemed to be Mr. Gladstone's
specialty.
PlNAll SAlIFOr, the king of Seneeal, who is
an object of interest to visitors at the Paris ex
position, is a handsome man, tall of stature and
fifty-two years old. He wears a w hite mantle,
wiih a velvet head covering somewhat like a
Greek fez. He is an intelligent man and speaks
French fairly well.
The simple but imposing monument to Bos
coe Conkling in Forest Hill cemetery, I'tica, is
finished. It is of Quincy grauite in the form of
a sarcophagus, about nine feet hk;h. On the
east side of the base is the iiiMTiption, "Roscoo
Conkling;" on the west, "Born October .10,
ls:'H. pied April 1, 1$7" It was selected by
Mrs. Conkling.
Col. Sam Scott of Kansas City Is tho most
daring and prosperous real estate dealer and
speculator west of the Mississippi, and possibly
in the country. II has made himself several
times over a millionaire by fortunate invest
ments in Kansas City, St, I-ouis and other
western points. It is said he is now getting
ready for a bit; deal in Mexico.
John IU'TLF.r, a negro messenger of the state
department, who weut to Perlin with the
Snmoan commission, has returned to Washing
ton, lie says: 'Tount Herbert llismarck is
one of the finest-looking men I ever saw. He
is a big man, with an excellent figure and a
very handsome face. I cannot say as much for
the emperor. He is a small, ordinarydookin?
individual and would never attract attention by
bib personal appearance. I saw Prince His
marck and Von Moltke during a review at Pots
dam and was surprised to see how strong and
active they are."
FOUR AND A-FIFTH PER CENT.
What a Well Fqutppvct I'nnn in Central In
1 Ii 11 it ltiiiiKS Its On-ner.
1-"OH TtF.NT Mr fsrni of 1V acres, well watered
1 and no wasic laud. For terms spply to .
To THR l-PITOR Sir: The above advertise,
mcnt appeared in a county journal of central
Indiana, and with the idea of learning the prof
its of such an investment the writer iubütuted
an investigation.
The farm had been rented, in answer to the
advertisement, and was, as Mated, a well
equipped piece ot property. It had cost the
owner $"" an acre ,2.r0 being the investment
The farm had been rented for $.'."i0 per year, or
4 1-5 per cent, on the money invested.
To the casual observer thesa figures tell a
wonderful tale: that in this country the gar
den spot of farm industry, the land of 8 per
cent, tuortgnges and 7 per cent, and better,
manufacturing investments the country where
agriculture should flourish like a green bay
tree in the teeth of its vaunted prosperity,
farms go begging at 4 l-. percent, seems almost
incredible. Tho man who owned the farm
voted for a continuation of the supposed high
tarifl prosperity, lie was told by I'.laine, Car
negie, Jarrett. et al., that a 47 per cent, tax hud
created for him a home market unexcelled.
He believed them when they declared that the
democratic party was in league with the brit
ish powers, seeking to destroy w hat blessings
they did enjoy by opening the
flood-gates and exposing them to the competi
tion of the world. "What fools these mortals
be." that they cannot reason for themselves.
Ix t the farmer take any reliable paper nnd
he will see that his market is based upon Liver
pool quotations, and is in no way atected by a
10 or a 1UO per cent, tariff. Ix t him reason
that, no matter how many manufactories there
are on American shores, he sells his wheat to
them for the same price that others pay for it,
yet in turn pays 47 per cent, profit to the
"barons" on almost everything that he con
sumes, bet him note the rapid increase of
mortgaged farms in this garden land of the
Mississippi valley, how the farm industry
which should be our staff and sustenance as a
ration crumbles and disintegrates under the
baneful influence of a 47 per cent, tariif.
Man's reasoning powers must indeed fall
short if he cannot see that our millionaires
have been created from the very effort of our
toiling masses. And "how long will it be, oh
Israel! till thine eyes are open to theso iniqui
ties?" How long will it be before tlx American
farmer analyzes for himself these fallacies
tau?ht by the emissaries of bosses and opera
tors? The Sentinel, I am glad to see, has faith in
the American people, and believes that if the
taritt is made a question of the hour until some
thing is done to relieve the stress, high taritf
fallacies will soon be reckoned at a "false philos
ophy", in the nineteenth century. 11.
Ladoga, Ind., July 17.
TARIFF INQUIRIES.
An Old Pioneer Can't See How Reducing;
Taxes Would Improve Matters.
To the Editor .Sic- In the first place I
want to acknowledge that I know nothing
about the vexed question of the tariff, and in
the next place I want to say that I don't believe
anyone else knows any more than I do; but it
seems that one Mr. Snow of l ort Wayne thinks
be knows about it, by an article of his I saw in
The Sentinel some days ago, in w hich he
thinks he proves beyond question that "the
best way to protect American interests is to re
duce taxes." He says "the democratic jarty is
the only party that is or ever has been in favor
of a tarifl for protection to American inetrests."
Then he irives his ideas thus: "Protect Amer
ican manufacturers by putting all raw material
on the free list to enable them to control the
markets of the world." Now that looks well on
paper, if he would show us how it would en
able them to control those markets while labor
is so much cheaper in Kurope than here: for I
can't see it, I confefs. Besides, what would the
producers of raw material have to say to such
an arrangement; or have they no rights that
manufacturers are bound to respect?
Again, he says: "Protect American labor by
reducing the tariff so ax to enable manufac
turers to give to labor constant employment at
remunerative wages." Hut he does not tell us
how such reduction would produce such happy
results.
Next: "Protect American homes by reducing
tbe tariff so as to enable Americans to have
homes."
Last: "Protect the home market by reducing
the tariff so that capital and labor may be con
stantly employed."
Nowallth&t ii vtry tice and ku portent, if
trne; but all this milk-nlnm of business is given
as a result of a reduction of our tariff, but not
one single reason is given why such reduction
should or could produce such a desirable re
sult. I acknowledge this may all be true, but the
how is beyond my comprehension, and as Mr.
Snow seems to know all about it, I write this
purely for information. For, as 1 said at tho
beginuing, I know nothing about tbe tariff
question. TnE Old Pioneer.
Indiauapolis, July 20.
BEAUTIES OF PROTECTION.
Do Not Pnt Yonr Nriiii on the Packages or
I Will He Discharged."
To THE Epitor Sir: Inclosed yon will
find an advertisement taken from an eastern
paper. In view of the struggle now going on in
Clay county it may be interesting to the public
generally to know what these men and others
have had to coutend with for years. That the
advertisement is no fnle one thousands of us
can atttst It speaks for itself; therefore,
comment is needless. As The Sentinel has
shown that it desires nothing bnt justice to
thess strus:i;ling miners, I ask, in the name of
common humanity, that you give spnee to the
above and trust that you will call the attention
ofthat friend of liberty nnd th workingman
the Journal to the hidden beauties of protec
tion, as evidenced by the coal barons of Penn
sylvania, who are so sohci'ous for the welfare
of their employes, ns to "protect" them from
being robbed by other merchants. Thanking
The Sentinel lor its grand work; I remain,
yours, etc.. Miner.
Hugger, Ind., July 1".
The advertisement inclosed is from an Alle
gheny (Pa.) paper and is addressed to the mill
hands w ho nro compelled to trade in the rob
bing plutk-mc fctore. It is as follows:
M A1MIK1.I,
1 1I K A'll .Ium I K,
WILL JSAVH YOI MONTY!
IK VOC ASK A KKE MAN.
"ro not rrr toi r nami: v tu i: r vsors on i
w n L nr. WM-HAB'.r.n."
I snj constantly in receipt if orders for poM .i
hlpiird to ditter.-nt pnru f nr ti.tte and rwceire
thfl nhoTB ivti run ion,.
I am not itri)iti! in rounterfeit m-i'r, nor m I
enjr.ieed in the Ihimo'-m of dn-ky t prn-
fof'Si,n:il prnhibittoiilM. I am utilr a rror-er, und
sell nothing any one need te asli.inn .l to hnv.
The nin lio write t!pn nnii-i ara ritifcsof
Pennsylvania and arc popularly aupp'.n.! to lc fr
nK'n. Tl'fy are not free, hut ari a tr:i!y ulaf av
was any nccro of thr Smth. tcfre the war. Tliey
toll hard in tii nmn-s of our t;it-. 'I !u ir wat-s arc
surnly low enouph. yet tluir nieinyfi claui I ho
right to control itn ir .it;os ift r ilc y hate, earned
tliclll.
The constitution of the I'nitcit States ! larr
that all men are horn free and coital. l'ut ly no
stretch of Imagination ran tlu-e nidi he ;tid to
hare riehts e)iiHl to the nu'ti vhn employ them.
Our mini iters portray the co:ir-" "t ititi'tupt-rance
from tho pulpit. Our edit .rs produce Ion art.i;.
of fit u re anlinst it. Our ladies pray on the Mre t
corners for t h cumins of prohibition, hut no
can bn found who w ill protest at'SinM iio 1 1 m.
Nay, more, tho very mm who ura the 1 a ! rs of
the corporations, who by a word can iimke or nn
luale this system of slavery, are honored in our
nd lt and poe as tho lesdors of public charities.
Misnie on such eharitr, hirh will deprlre s frllow
mno of his freedom wlih the, one hind and with the
other dipene ai eharity some of the money wrung
from his su,!eiitiK.
MAKIIF1.L,
73 AMD HI OlltO-ST.,
Corner Sandusky, Allegheny.
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
The Past Week Wanner Than final and
Fatorsble to Oops.
"Washington, July 21. The week endinir
July 20 has been slightly warmer than usual
in the states west of the Mississippi river and in
Mississippi, Maryland, Delaware and portionsof
Penn.-ylvauia, Virgin in and Alabama. About
the normal temperature has prevailed in the
south Atlantic states, the Ohio and the upper
Mississippi valleys, while the daily temperature
in New r.nulaud nnd the upper lake region, hi
eluding the northern portion of Indinna, Illinois
and Ohio has averaged about three decrees be.
low the mean for the week. The thermal con
ditions for the season have changed but slightly
since the last report.
There has been more than the avcrneo
amount of rainfall during the week, generally
throughout the northern states, the only excep
tions bei nrr in Minnesota, northern Wisconsin
and cast Dakota, where only local showers oc
curred. The heavy rainialls during the pint
week have reduced the seasonal dclieh-ncy of
rainfall previously reported in t lie upper Ohio
valley, includite portions of hio, Indiana and
Kentucky, where ubout 7o per cent, of the
usual rainfall is reported.
In Minnesota rnd 1'r.kota the weither was
favorable for growing crops and for harvesting,
which is in progress as far north as central
Minnesota. Throughout the principal corn
states, from Ohio westward to Nebraska, the
weather was generally fairly favorable to that
crop, which is reported in excellent condition,
but excessive rains enticed some damage to
wheat and oats and interrupted harvesting in
some localities. Kentucky reports tobacco
crop improving under the lavorable weather of
the past week, that the harvesting of a good
crop ir. in progress, and that corn was never in
better condition. Harvesting is well advanced
in the middle Atlautio mutes, but somewhat
delayed by rains in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. In New Kngland the weather condi
tions were favorable or all except the potato
crop, and the larger portion of the hay crop
has been secured with but slight damage.
THE DEBAUCHED MAIL SERVICE.
Matters Going From Itl t Worse De
moralization on the tVabnsh.
To THE Editor. Sir: I,oud and long was
the clamor when Cleveland removed a few re
publicans from tbe mail service and replaced
thera with democrats. Every republican paper
in tho country remarked the deplorable con
dition ot the service, but now since Harrison
lias removed the democrats, very little is beard
from that source. Once in a while, however,
rm expression uill eseape some member of the
party that is not complimentary. The people
of this vicinity certainly have just cause for
complaint Hardly a week passes but what
some matter is negligently delayed. On several
occasions the clerks on the Wabash line through
here have carried letter matter to .St, Louis and
returned it twenty-four hours afterward. Fre
quently sacks of daily papers are car
ried to the terminal points. and
fail to arrive in a reasonable time,
r ouches are thrown oil here that belong to
.nfayctteor Logansport, and Peru pouches are
carried past tlieir destination. The frequency
of these mistakes is causing wide complaint,
and unless mutters change for the better the
"civil service reform party" will lose adherents
in this locality. On the Wabash line, under
Cleveland's administration, nine republicans
continued throughout tho four year.. Now,
after five months, seven democrats remain,
and these expec t to be released at any moment.
The total number on this line from Toledo to
St, Louis is forty. Your correspondent has in
tervied several stock men who receive daily
papers from the Last, and five out of six inter
viewed my that never to their recollection was
the delivery of their mail so irregular, fo no
torious has the delay of mails become that even
Y. V. Lockwood, editor of tbe Peru Ilepul.
Lean, said privately a few weeks ago in the
postoflice. "I sec no reaon why some of this
matter does not arrive sooner." Under Cleve
land's administration it had been arriving on
time. El) CüX.
Feru, July 2
Strictly Trtvate.
To the Editor Sir: The following lines
are copied from the back of an envelope which
passed through this ofiiee to-day and illustrates
the sarcasm of tbe writer and points to some
of the crimes prevalent in the land of the
White Caps:
Lckerty. Ind., July 15. I. McDer.MOTT
PRIVATE.
These confounded envelopes are so very small
That a per-n can put nothing in them at all,
And hence I've concluded, tho' critics deriite.
To mark my note "private" and writ It outide;
And what is the use that ray letters be sealed,
W hen all of their contents are shortly revealed
Hy dihnnet neiffhliors, who lift" them for you.
Hut "hold" them themselves till they hold a review?
Oh! woe to ray country here honor s so losM
W here, on billows of crime It poor children are
tossed ;
Where floirging nnd niureVr and thieving prevail.
And neighbor are rifling their own neighbor's
mall ;
"And Jurors their lips on '.he bible have laid.
To render a verdict they've already made,"
1 ut 1 trust, my dear friend, that none ahall review
Thee lines, which are private and meant but for
you ;
For I'd pawn tha lat drop of my blood for a dime,
Kre I'd have them to think I'm aware of their crime.
Too IMaln l or ArKumrot.
Botton Herald.!
That protection does not protect the laborer
is ns palpttble as hard facta can make anything
to be.
ABOUT SCHOOL BOOKS.
Tbe Silly Assertions of Bins Organs. Effect
Ively Jlnawtred.
Lafayette Journal.!
The school book publishers of this conntry
have formed a trust and will take all their
amenta off the road. The people mtst havw
books for their children. The trust will di
vide profits and sell at its own extravagant
price meanwhile saving all the expense of
?ents. Indiana, under the operation of her
new law, will escape from this octopus, and,
after September next, school books will cost
not much over half the present price.
It is amusing to note the objections tbe subsi
dized newspapers of Indiana are mskiu? to the
forthcoming new school books. The bend of
this coterie of "objectors" is the Indianapolis
Joiirital.
It says the new books are of an inferior order
and lor this reason abuses the company that is
to furnish them. It overlooks the fact that this
I company wa a competitive bidder and sub
j mitted its books to the ta!e board of educa
l tion, in which is vested the sole jvower
i of determining thj quality of these
book. That hoard is composed of tbe
j superintend! nt of public instruction, the gov
, ernor, the President of Purdue, the etate uni
j verity imu state normal school and the superin
tendents of tli,- In tianiipoiis, Evansville, Terre
! Haute nnd Pert Wayne city schools. Cer
tainly this board is competent to select cood
school bonki and will do ro. '1 he responsi
bility is with the board and not with the com
pany. After the books are selected, con
tract made and bond filed by thecoropany.it
will be the duty of the board to see that the
company complies wi:h its contract.
Put, says the Journal, "this new law creates
a monopoly."
l'oesit? It five a low, minimum pri--c and
opens competition to the worll fat oring only
the lowest and best hi. i h r under the terras of
the law. The best bidder is the one Itaving the
lcst book.
Again, the .h.untt says "such n law will
j force t.u uniformity in t-xt books." That's
so. Hut what is the o,j,-, tlon? That is just
vhrU the people want. Van Atittvcrp, Hrarj
V- Co., that now furni-h Indiana " per cent, of
its school books, sccired tlu-ir Jarre sals by
this very arnmcnt-and it is a sound and
loienl one.
Mete uniformity means that a family can
move from county to county all over the state
nnd use th -a me school-books. 1,irk of uni
lortnity neons that a move from one county to
tli- next in.ij encounter a diirent make of
school-book, and, ns a result, a purchase of a
new set of school book.
Indiana has been tryin? for years to srsfrr-s-tize-her
public sehyol and secure nt.iformity
in correMioiplini; irr.v'rs. so tiiat the a.'t num
ber of children, w bo change their resideuce
every year may not only continue their school
work without interruption, but without having
to buy new books every time their parents
move.
"There are as good fih in the scs. as were
e ver cauzht out of it," and as pood school
looksca'i be written as have been written.
Nu b will be the case under Indiana's nen law,
and. best of all. there will be a saving of . p
per cent, in the cost to purchasers. It is not
the peopie, but the school book rings, that
are objecting to the new law. When some
newspaper jrets tip on its haunches in defense
of the present system of robbing the people,
it is safe to ssv that the cloven hoof of soro
school book ring has made a trark in that office
and its editor "has been seen."
GRAY IN CALIFORNIA.
He Talks About Our New KlecUon Uw and
Other Matters.
lios Aneele fCabi Herald.
F.x-Gov. Iaac P. (rayof Indiana i at th
Nudcau. lie is a ccntleman past the meridian
of life, but bale, robtit and in the possession cf
all bin physi'-al faculties to the lull measure of
middle He. He has till the appearance of the
astute and able man be is reputed t tie. He
stands, perhaps, over live feet ten inches, and
we iidis nearly L'iil pounds. He wears a bricht
smile that (jiiickly puts a stranger en rapport
with binrin conversation.
Lack of space prevents the Jlrrn'J giving at
full lentrth our interview with the statcsmsn.
.oiiip points of his conversation are too import
ant to pa-s over. It is in r lation to the new
voting I iw passed in Indiana. Hetails of the
system will be given at a future date. Hereto
fore the voting laws of the Hoosier state sem
to have been made for the purpose of sncteat
ing and inviting fraud al the ballot-boxes.
Hen after "b!o: ks of five" will be a hard game
to play. It will be impossible under this fys
ton for vote-buyers to learn by any means
whether their men staved bought. That
is dicourtiLing to the handlers of boodle,
ns it iroes without saying that the fellow
who m-Us his vote is "a mlchty onsarlin cus."
I'.y virtue of the change, dov. Cray let Is con
b lent that the state nt Indiana is democratic
from thi- time on. It is an important matter,
for the reason that thff term of the "Tali
Sycauioro of the V.'aba-h" in the 1. S. senate
will expire in ls;u, ami the legislature elected
next year will choose his successor.
Cov. Cray has one over all Washington ter
ritory, and it is his opinion that a small
modicum of work done there would set the
new statx afl nit with a democratic banner at
the mast head.
ndiP'rial Comment
Our city is just now honored with the pres
ence of ex-Cov. Gray of Indiana, one of the
most distinguished political leaders in the
I'nited Stab s. Mr. Cray has tnade an extended
trip over the Pacific coast, including Washing
ton territory and Oregon. Asitis his first trip
to this part of the republic, he finds that the
country surpa-ses in reality anything he had
imagined it to be before he aa-v it. He cees in
the undeveloped nnd divendficd resources of
this coast the elements of a future greatness far
beyond anything he could have acriled to it
before his view had been clarified by
a personal inspection. The name of Gov. Gray
tins been conspicuously prominent in the demo
cratic party for a number of years, and since
the death of Mr. Hen Iticks he has been looked
upon by the people of his own state as that
trent lenian's natural and legitimate political
successor. Had it not been for the emitily
worked-up hurrah for Mr. Thurnian in the last
national democratio convention, he wculd
have bad the second place on the ticket.
That would have secured the electoral Tote
of Indiana to the party, for Mr. Gray has
never been defeated in his own etute. He is a
man of pronounced political sagacity, and his
advice as a party leader is always wise and
instinct with success. Amongst the possible
inen in the party for the highest office in the
nation, none stands more conspicuous before
the people of the country than Isaac P. Gray.
We hope his visit here will be an agreeable
one, and that he will return home w it h pleas
ant memories of the part of the republic w hich
we would be glad to see all our leading men
become familiar with by per.-onal inspection.
The Coal Ilarnn' Oefens.
Ch!ea;;o tilobe.
The pretext upon which the coal-mine owners
are holding thousands of miners and their
families in a starving condition is that they
mut secure a lower scale of wnges in order t-
j mi ke mining remunerative. It is a raanifcftly
absurd and false pretense. Consumers are
forced to pay any price for coal the mine
owners may unite in demanding. There eaa
be no dispute about that. The (Inference of 10
J or 20 cents a ton for mining a diterence which
l to the hard-working miner marks the line
between decent mbMstence and partial starva
tion need not take a cent from the pocket of
the mine-owner. Miners' wages are added to the
selling price of coal and p.vid by consumers.
The people of the country prefer cheap coal,
and will buy at the lowest price. That is en
tirely natural. P.ut they do r.ot expect or ask
that miners or their families shall go hungry in
order that the coal-buyer may save ?10 on the
price of a hundred tons of fuel. M;ne-owners
and coal-dealer find no ditliculty !n etJectinr;
combinations to raise or maintain prices to or at
the roint that insures laree profits. They will
Lave to find a better reason than any necessity
in the matter of remuneration for the. inhuman
ity that dictated the lockout, if they expect the
public to retard that proceeding as anything
eltte than barbarous tyranny.
lie YYna an Old Friend.
Dorllnston Free Press.
Miss S?weetlip "Algy, dear, I've got a dis
tressing piece of news for you. Pa has gone
aud bought a large doc."
Algernon Tightlit" Where did he get himT"
Mit-s .Sweetlip "Of Mr. Itrown."
Algernon Tightfit "Oh, I'm not afraid.
(Sotto voce: "I made friends with that dog
when I was courling Amanda Brown!")
A Good Kxrnse.
Ivtroit Free Press.
'"Have yon any particular object in loabng
here?" asked the contractor of a new building
of an idler who was in the way.
"Yes. sir." was the prompt reply.
"Well, what is it?"
"I want to dodge my creditors, and they wHll
Lever think of looking for me where ther U
any work going on." .