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The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05

temper and terms would the man agement be
spoken That there is no mistake in the
deductions from the Ray tables isdemonstrs-
ted by the Classification. Twenty-three
counties in the first group, with %, ,79O polls
and ,203 legal voters, furnish in one year 1873,
4s7 convicts for trial and imprisonment at
public expense, while twenty three counties,
with s.. $50 polls and no saloons, send up but
81 criminals In year. Taking the ratio OF
polls, the latter group should have had 2s6
criminals, or three and one-half times the
actual number. But five Of this latter group
or counties furnished half of the 81 leaving
Is counties with but Al convictions to answer
for. Six counties had but single convict,
tions within the state exceed in force all
sermons, because they 1sg predict inev-
liable destruction to 81 public pros
perity with mathematical certainty.
The injustice Of unequal burdens Is shown
here also. Take Clark county with 8, AL
polls and no large town, but ffty legal sa-
looms, and she sends sixteen people TO her
convenient penitentiary in 1873, while
Henry county of S,474 polls and
larger wealth has, or had, 81 one
saloon and but three criminals.
yigo county aided by eighty.five liquor re-
tailers. furnished sixty boarders at tine pub
lie expense and she registers but 5,l24 polls.
These comparisons may be carried on, but
they all lead to the same conclusion, that
crime and the cost Of its punish
ment are in direct proportion to
the liquor business. For agriculture the
state has paid out In thirteen years sls, 500,
and for the single expense Of taking prison.
ers to the penitentiaries $97, ,7SS, more than
i've times the amount. To recapitulate all
these startling comparisons is to reproduce
the fun showing Of yesterday. This is look
ing at the subject in the light of public policy
and economy only. 1t is q subject Of equal
interest to every property -holder, wholly
distinct fram his prejudices or principles as
to temperance in its moral aspects, thoughit
Is hardly fair to disregard the fact that most
of the criminals represent great crimes. and
lives destroyed whose value, if it could be
goes into the same bill. Again,
the persons convicted are but a small part
of tine criminal service record which is paid
by the public and chargeable to the same
liquor account. Mr.. Ray has not touched
municipal government and police service
which really has cognizance of most of the
minor crimes and damagaes resulting from
There is force in these
figures which men who pay the money
will soon begin TO consider. The
daily murders and suicides may
be discussed as feature of modern
whisky civilization, the loss of thousands Of
good men made worthless through dissipa-
ton may not be felt, the suffering of help
less wives and innocent children may pass
as beneath the attention of men,
but it is possible the time may come when
both capital and labor will decline to be |
robbed systematically for the support Of a
business which benefits no interest, but |
IS always and everywhere a public calam :
tV.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05

Practically, both Of the old and disabled
parties are making frantic exertions to DO
precisely what the people are doing inde-
pendently-that is, to break down the lines.
In the county proceedings. so far as yet in
augurated in the state, both the demo-
Gratis and republicans have formally In
yfted the "a friends Of reform by which
they mean, specially, grangers-to unite
with them, regardless of past affiliations.
In Tppecanoe county, the republican COM
mittee distinctly ask the patrons who have
always been democrats to come In and
take part in their convention, and
to vote at their primary meetings,
in nominating candidates. In old demo-
cratic Knox, Crawford, Floyd, and other
counties the democrats take pains to ex-
tend earnest invitations to "friends OF re-
FORM" meaning republican grangers, to
join them in full fellowship. The press of
both parties call on the friends OF reform"
to unite, to come in, to make themselves at
home, and all that. Now, these are quite
new times and features. Heretofore, wild
outsiders were carefully watched
till the nominations were made,
and nobody tolerated who could
not give the countersign. The lines were
drawn and guards set. But now both
parties openly and squarely propose to make
themselves the medium of independent
action with the proviso that their old figure
heads and ring politicians be kept in the
ascendant. This is exceedingly transparent
and equally inconsistent. II they propose
to stand up to the party rBck, let them keep
in rank ,grangers on eitherside at their posts,
till the nominations are over and then take
all the votes they can get. That is not the
plan. Both parties propose to stake inn the
people under the trescherous plea of a liberal
policy, and both mean to betray their
pledges. Here comes the Lebanon Patriot,
where farmers and workingmen's conven-
ton has been called for Boone county, and
pleads despairingly that the farmers and
workingmen wait till latter the organized
parties have made their nominations" Then
if their demands are not met by the (our)
party, they will have just cause to make a
separate ticket Can any honest "friend of
reform" be gulled by such stuff as that or
any of the cringing hypocritical overtures
of the party organs? The true course
is obvious. Lead the independent move
ment. Make the ticket and make a good
one. Then, if these liberal spirited, organ
lied parties desire to act with the people for
reform. they have fair chance by accept
ing the work of the convention of June 10.
Nobody will object to the whole people
coming together there as they should do and
working together without the encumbrance
of any name, ring, or corrupt and designing
political shysters. Cannot every one see the
of the organs which in one breath
beg for the sacred preservation of the party.
and in the next let down the bars and try to
inveigle the grangers into their enclosure?
Away with such base deceit.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05

Going down to sea in ships is a paying
thing to do, II you happen to find a neigh
boris vessel afioat. The steamship L'Ameri-
que. which was recently abandoned of the
cost OF France, was saved by two -salvors
the British steamers Spray and Barry. The
value of the ship was estimated at 500, 900
and the cargo at $500. 600, making total
valuation of 1000. 600. The wrecking o,
salvage crews of these vessels now claim q
salvage or compensation of $500, 900 tor the
service performed. This demand and the
consequent decision of the British court OF
Admiralty gives rise to inquiries concerning
the laws of salvage and their customary
Limitations. A vessel abandoned at sea,
either through fear, peril or necessity, and
tion or hope of saving, is said TO
be derelict." and is then in q po-
sition for a just rescue as. salvage. The
maratime laws governing these savings and
the apportionments which follow, are very
peculiar and flexible in their nature. The
code of Great Britain boasts of the prece-
dence in its origin and the variety of its rul-
the Edwards III. and ~. nothing was
deemed abandoned on the sea from which
any live thing escaped, not even the SWIM
ming ashore of cat could substantiate the
claim of being "derelict." But all this has
been changed, and for many years the wreck
was legally and technically divided into
three parts: the ligsn, or the property SO
ma IL a - L..
ship; fiotsam, or the floating cargo thrown
indiscriminately overheard, and jetsam,
the cargo sunk and Afterwards raised.
These distinctions, however, do not find q
general recognition to-day, and the whole
value of the vessel and cargo is made the
basis on which proportionate adjudication
shall depend. The present code and prsc-
tice of the English courts recognize the
maximum limit of salvage which may be
claimed at one half of the value of the vesse
and cargo, and the minimum at one-third of
the same. All Of the connecting and quail.
flying facts connected with the supposed
salvage, constitute the testimony on which
the court is to give judgment for salvage.
Although the salvage laws allow nothing for
the saving of life alone, yet if that saving is
connected directly with the salvage of the
vessel or cargo, larger compensation is al
lowed for the latter, as the laws desire thus
to encourage the saving of human life. 1t
has even been held that if the lives of the
crew be saved by one vessel and the prop
erty by another, the one saving the crew is
entitled to salvage. The laws which govern
the whole subject rest not so much on tech
nicalities and a severe adherence to the let
ter OF the law as on the basis of common
sense and justice, and it is on these princi-
pies that the salvage of L'Amerique will be
finally allowed.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05

monarchismf Newspapers are not called
on 10 svow the precise sect which they pre-
fer in religious denominations, nor are they
generally reviled as false to man and God
for omitting announcements of this sort
from day to day. Why,t then, shall news
paper be more or less independent II 1t de-
clines to discuss topic in which the
majority differs from it. BY and
by there will be no more talk. OF
currency as an issue, inEo9 pot-
tics, than shoe making. Just now there are
probably honest men who fancy that by the
issue OF q great grist OF stamped paper the
country would be richer; but they don't
stop TO think that the same riches might be
brough. to pass by a repeal OF the laws
against co1nterfeitingf, What we need in
the country just now is not, more dollars,
but better dollars, so that when we
pay our debts and receive our wages
we shall really handle the sums that
the contract calls for, not the promises OF
somebody else to pay, minus certsin dis
count. If the farmers are deluded into infia-
ton, the Sentinel will bide and bear with
them. and If itcan not dissuade them from the
error of their way it will, at least, keep the
place of friend, so that 1t may gain thsir
ear when they begin to repent and seek the
right course Ks the Express sstisiedf ~
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05
Chs Sentinst.
TUESDAY, NAY 5.
The facts and figures concerning the cause,

The facts and figures concerning the cause,
effect and final tendency of intempersnce,
prepared by Colonel Ray and presented on
the third page this morning, Will be apt 10
do a signal work in this and other states.
The labor involved in the collection, compi-
lation and revision of these exhibits was
simply herculean, and Colonel Ray is
entitled to the hearty gratitude and
admiration of every upright, God fearing
man in this and every other christian com
munity. You are not going TO appreciate
the Significance OF these closely packed col
umns Of figures without reading. Cut the
tables out and compare day by day with
the things coming under your own obser-
walton and the singular cogency Of the
statistics will be apparent. 1t is a
bomb shell in the camp of the sleeping and
Indifferent. The facts, as collsted. will be
very apt to surprise the friends as well as
foes of unlimited liquor. They present an
argument vivid, appealing and unanswer-
able, and will tend to still more deeply in
tensify the growing aversion to the latitude
following the unrestrained use of liquor.
Vigorous and relentless as has been his
blows at the evil OF intemperance, Colonel
Ray never sttes.ed his zeal and devotion
80 Enthusiastically rs in this perfectly
labor, and who is there that
does not hope for an, exceeding great re-
ward, in a renewal of hope and effort on the
part of the desponding, and an awakening
on the part of the indifferent? I'd ,lDe r
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05
II is the Terre Haute Express which is

It is the Terre Haute Express which Is
good enough TO remark:
The indianapolis Sentinel is an Independent
newspaper, but it has not yet summoned inde-
nendepce enongh to say what IL will do il the
FARMERS or reform, convention adopts a plat
form opposed to contraction, and In favor OF an
increase of the currency.
The Sentinel doesn't like to contemplate
such probability, as the adoption of infia-
ton measures by the forthcoming inde-
pendent convention. But if such course
is carried by the majority, the Sentinel viii
think none the less of the general reform
on that score. The question may be COM
promised, by relegating it to the con-
pressional districts, as Mr.. Greeley did the
protection heresy, and if it is successful
then, of course, the Sentinel, as an exponent
of the popular sentiment, will make no op-
positiOn-as it has not during the discussion
of the last two months, in which the popular
tide seemed in favor of initiating. This an
swers the question of the Express
but the query suggests aword concerning
the willful misconstructions that are put on
newspapers because of fancied cowardice,
or double dealing. 1t is not necessary for
the Sentinel or any other newspaper to de-
clare its faith in the principles of democratic
government from day 10 day,to convince
people that there is no secret leaning toward
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05
THE INDIANA STATE sENTINEI. TU EsDAY NAY s. 1874

alysis of enterprise, for the coming season,
the field is crowded rather than otherwise,
and the less risks people run by removals
the better It viii be for all parties.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05

Careful readers of the Sentinel don't need
to be told that the independent movement
has assumed the proportions of a vast
stampede. The presses which at first doubted
and hesitated are now under the inspiration
of its vigorous growth, pressing the reforms
with alacrity and enthusiasm, and the signs
are that the tenth of June will bring
about a revolution as permanent in
it's results in the politics of this state, as it
cannot but be wholesome. It must be re-
membered that every development of this
astonishing outbreak, has come of it's own
accord. There are no party managers to
give it form and shape. All that's doing
has been done by the unswayed impulse of
the people, longing 10 escape from party
trammels. From all sources of information
Was apparent that the people have gone
to work in their own way and that they
mean to make an earnest attempt to rid
themselves of the corrupting anu degrading
practices of the parties. The evidences pre-
sented from day to day in the Sentinel's news
columns do not, by any means, contain the
entire drift of expression throughout the
state. Conventions and calls are going on
in many of the counties, and others are in
preparation. The tone OF public sentiment
is in hearty unison with the pur-
pose, and everything leads to the
conviction that the farmers have finally
struck the talisman with which to coDjure
reform. The readiness of the public to
seize the chance is best shown in the efforts
of the wards to rid themselves of the tyran-
ny of PARTISAN forms and caucus dictation.
They have not always succeeded, 1t is true,
in obtaining good men, but the very fact
that they have tried and failed will incite
them to renewed exertion in future.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05


On the 18th inst, the new Potter law regu-
latinr the rates of local freights throughout
the state OF Wisconsin went into effect. On
the day previous, however. the Milwaukee q
St. Paul railroad company introduced on
their road new tariff table of freight rates.
These latter, although not in conformity
with the rates established by the Potter law,
yet show quite important reductions in grain
and -four the two leading items of traffic in
that state. The company are supposed to
introduce this change primarily as a test ex'
ample of the validity and constitu-
tionality Of the Potter law; but they also
assert that they cannot go below their rates
without serious losses, that they may as well
carry for nothing as to adopt any lower
figure. The officers say that they know that
if "worst comes to worst" all that can be
done before virtually confscating their
property, will be to make an in, estigation,
which will prove, as they expoct, the Potter
rates to be an impossibility, and that their
new tariff rates are fair and reasonable. The
law officers of the various roads are said to
be fully prepared for any suits. having had
statistics collected and accounts and esti-
mates printed, and they are confident of
successfully establishing their claims. The
best legal talent of the country is engaged,
and what shall be the end of all this it is not
easy to see. Its Development, however, will
be regarded with great interest, as it will,
undoubtedly. be the first case that shall de-
termine the practicsbility of establishing by
law rates of railroad tariff on the business of
each road within certain state limits.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-05
THE SOUTHERN INuNpsTloN
THE WASTE OF WATERS.
HOPE REVIVING

THE WATER FALLING RAPIDLY-MUoH I'm
z ooURAeEhEST PELT-NoT SUCH BAD csop
AFTER Ar
The Jasper weekly courier., 1874-01-30

Mount Very, Surry county, va.-Chang's
death occurring ON the night Of the 18th, and
Eng's on the morning Of the 18th. about two
hours later. They each left a wife and fam
lily, a number Of the children being deaf
mutcs.
The Kentucky House has passed bill max
ing il the duty Of county judges in any town
or city In the state, upon petition of twenty
legal voters, 10 order poll TO be opened at
the next regular election, at which il shall be
decided whether liquor shall be sold or given
away in such town or city. Ii prohibition is
voted, any person violating the law shall be
fined not less than S25 nor more than 500.
The Senate will probably concur.
The Georgia State Grange Of Patrons of
llusbandry met at Atlanta on Jan. q 215
Oranges were represented by over 500 mem
bcrs.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, Jan. 81,
announces that the entire canvass of the late
election had been completed, the majoriiies on
the state offices averaging about the same rs
that Of Governor-J0O00. The new constitu-
tional amendments are also adopted by over
2l 600 majority. The excitement had entirely
quietcd down, and no further difficulty was
apprehended. The State Journal had sus-
pended.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1874-01-30

a dispatch from New Orleans. Jan. 10. SAYS
that the officers sent to Terre Bonne report
the difficulties there more serious than they
anticipated. All plantation-work i'm that sec
ton had ceased.
The Georgia Legislature met on Jan. a..
The Governor in hIs message takes a cheerful
view Of public affairs. The State debt is S.
OO0. 900. and the estimated value Of taxable
property is s25O.OO0OOO. The senate APP
proved the final action Of Congress on the sal
airy question.
A special from Austin, Texas, gives the fol-
lowing a. the official vote in the recent elec-
ton in that state Coke, $3.50; Hubbard.
s6.s2j; Davis, 1868: Taylor, 42,sl2.
The Galveston Ne,rs Of Jan. Is has spe-
cial from Austin, which states that TO the de-
mand Of the Legislative Committee upon
GOV. Davis for the returns Of the late cleo
ton the latter replied that he would not de-
liver them. not believing that body entitled
to receive them. but if the Chairman of the
Committee would 20 TO the secrctarys office
and take them OF his own accord, no resist
ance would be made. Whereupon the
Chairman accompanied the Secretary
Of State. Newcomb, TO his office. and
took the papers from desk, the secre-
tary meantime entering written protest
against their removal. The two Houses sub
sequently met in joint session. when the votes
were counted, Messrs. Coke and Hubbard de-
clared elected respectively as Governor and
Iicutenant-Goyernor for the ensuing four
years, and both duly sworn in.
There was great excitement in Austin,
Texas on January III, owing 10 the arrest OF
Mayor Whccerby some Of the colored guards.
A long roll was beaten and large numbers ol
armed mon soon filled the streets, Fastening
To his relief. lie was soon after released. and
an armisticc Of twcnty-four hours agreed ia
by the contcndng forces. An the bar-roomS
We're closed. and the troops disbanded amid
great rejoicing.
The Cairo Il Fulton Railroad was compile
ted 20 Texarkana on Jan. ~. where il forms
d connection with the Texas & Pacific giving
all-rail connection to Galveston and other
points IN Texas.
The death j. announced Of the Siamese
Twins, which occurred at their home ai
The Jasper weekly courier., 1874-01-30

A train from Boston on the New Bedford
4 Taunton Railroad, Jan. Is. jumped the
track, throwing the locomotive and four ears
down am embankment, and injurng fifteen
persons. four seriously.
James w. Freeman shot his mother in Jcr-
sey City. few nights ago. He coolly alleges
that the shooting was accidental. His sister,
who was present, states that he deliberately
took aim at his mother as She was cleaning
the room and shot her dead.
A convention Of coal miners was held at
Wikesbarrc, Pa. Jan. rs. at which il was re-
solved TO enter into general strike unless AN
advance Of 10 per cent. in prices over last
years basis was agreed 10 by the operators.
The Pottsville (pa.) Daily Standard Of
Jan L, has the following in reference to the
troubles in the anthracite region: There is
no longer any doubt of the fact that there is IA
general suspension of mining operations in
this region, and unless the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company reccdes from
the firm stand il has taken, the cessation of Ia
bor will be protractcd and costly. The sus-
pension has now fairly begun when or how
will end no one can predict. The men are
they are resolved not 10 Weld an inch of what
they consider their rights. The Company, on
the other hand. is determined not TO make a
single concession, and has begun a policy
which looks as though il would protract the
fight indefinitely"
A bill has been passed in the New York
legislature, making il criminal offen>e for
bank To certify a check unless the money is
on deposit. and declaring fraudulent all time
sales in gold unless the seller holds and re-
tains the gold during the time specified by
contract.
An explosion Of gasoline occurred in the
knittingmill of ii. T.. Bradford, at Benning-
ton, VT, on Jan. %. by which nine women
operativ- we're instantly killed or burned TO
death ia inc fire which followed. and a num-
ber Of Others were horribly burned. The ex-
plosion was caused by the leakage Of gaso-
line pipe. the escaping gas being ignited from
the boiler fire.
Gov. William Pinckney Whyte has been
elected u. ;. Senator from Maryland for the
term of six years from March 4, 1876.
A New York dispatch says that the princi-
pal anthracite coal companies have voted TO
conduct business the coming year the same
as last. increasing the price ten cents per
ton monthly. \ schedule prices has been
adopted for March, substantially the same a
for the opening month last year.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1874-01-30

Court. thus restoring the compensation Of
members Of Congress and Others 10 their for
mer rates.
The senate. on the aist, unanimously con-
firmed the nomination of Morrison X. Waite
~ Chicf-Justice Of the United States.
Rumors Of Cabinet changes, involving the
resignation of Mr.. Richardson and the trans
fer Of Mr.. Delano to the Treasury and Mr..
Bristow 20 the Interior. Were current AT the
capital on Jan. 2l.