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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

This Is a remarkable contrast with the past.
contributed by Russia was "a per cent. and by
the United States q per cent. OF all. Since
that date our proportion has been constantly
advancing and that of Russia decllning.-New
York Herald.
The papers are filled with such glowing
statements with regard to the wheat crop.
But this is not all; the prospect for abundant
crops of corn. rye, oats and barley are equal
ly flattering. There will be an immense
crop of hogs, and the cattle outlook was
never more fatteriDg. The root crop will
be above the average, and fruit will be
abundant. The cotton crop will be large,
and sugar and rice will meet the expecta-
tions of planters. The mines of iron and
copper and of the precious metals respond to
the largest demand, and streams of wealth,
to all appearances, will never have
rolled their tides deeper over the country.
All of this looks like prosperity. But we
have had all these things for series of years,
and still the country has been not only not
prosperous, but business of every description
has been PROSTATE, bankruptcy has increased
at fearful rate failures have multiplied,
idleness has extended its conquests, poverty
has taken deeper hold every month upon
the people, until the business generalization
bias extended from the center to the circum-
ference of the land. Wherefore all this?
How does it happen that in the midst of
boundless plenty there is growing inability
to purchase the absolute necessities of life?
There is but one answer to these queries.
The country has been in the
hands of the radical party and
legislation has been so shaped that the pro-
ducing class have been sacrificed that few
moneyed Shylocks might increase their gam.
The purchasing power of dollar has been
increased, while the money power of skilled
labor has been thousand fold diminished;
indeed, in millions of instances, it has been
deprived Oh any income whatever, and left
to perish. Thus, while the country has been
blessed with abundant harvests, it has been
cursed with such stagnation in business
that millions of people, notwithstanding the
plentifulness and cheapness of food, have
been. unable to purchase at any price.
The season is advancing, but we
do not hear of returning confidence. We
are not told that industries are reviviDg
There is no increased demand for laborers
Winter will soon be upon the country. Com
mercal reports may show an increased for
eign demand for the surplus food products
of the country, and the balance OF trade in
our favor may be increased and commented
upon as an evidence of national prosperity.
But until labor finds employment at remun-
erative wages, until working people are able
to earn enough to feed and clothe themselves
and their families, statistics of large crops
and increased exports will not evidence a
condition of general prosperity. They will
give false impressions and mislead those who
accept them as conclusive testimony upon
the subject of the improved condition of the
people.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

THERE is ne longer any doubt but that the
radical rascals who have had charge of the
treasury ofthe country have been guilty OF
the most outrageous stealings. and have
sought to cover up their rascality by false
bookkeeping. The unearthing OF one steal
of $40 100000 shows conc, usively that other
steals Of greater magnitude will be shown up
at no distant day. Senator Davis, of West
Virginia, knows of steal of $500, OOO, 600, but
has been unable to persuade a radical senate
to demand an investigation. 1t will come,
however, in due time.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

1t is announced from Washington, as a great
triumph for the "workingmen," that the at
tOrney general has written an opinion upon
the eigb hour law of congress in which lie
holds that "the intent OF the law was to give
IL was. 1t scarcely needs an official opinion
TO assure us of that. But no act OF congress or
of anybody else can compel employers TO payas
much for eight hours work as they would for
ten hours, for the sufficient reason that il is
not worth as much, and there is no reason
why the government departments should be
run upon princi yles which would not hoo in
private business. We may enact eight-hour
laws or six-hOur laws or three hour laws till
we are tired and still IL will be the most pro-
ductiye labor that Will earn the highest wages.
Philadelphia Times.
the fact Is well understood that the en-
ployes in the various departments of the
government at Washington do not work, on
an average, more than three hours day,
and still they draw full pay. This being
true, we see no reason why others should
work more than eight hours for a full days
work. This thing of working man to death
for sufficient wages to keep starvation from
his door, sffording no time for physical or
mental recuperation, is the policy of the
owest order of Shylocks and skinaInts, and
find them where you will, their influence
is always detrimental to the we'll being of
society. This Is by no means the first in
stance when the law has had to regulate the
hours of labor. 1t has been the practice OF
certain industrial institutions to take advan-
tage of the necessities of employees, particu
isriy minors, and work them into premature
graves, and the law has had to step in and
correct the evil We hear much nova days
OF cruelty to animals, and of the punish
ment of heartless owners and drivers who
impose upon brutes excessive burdens, and
he fact that the law seeks ID give some
protection to human animals against the
rapacity of employees ought to be hailed as
an advance movement in our boosted civil
izatlon
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10
WAR WITH MEXICO.
people.

A good many people seem to think that a
war with Mexico is inevitable and if reports
of proceedings along the border between
Texas and Mexico, can be relied upon as
embodying much truth as fiction, war Is
evidently nearer at hand than good many
people suspect 1t is generally believed that
Diaz, since he has been recognized by the
United States as president de jure of the Mex
lean republic, has shown precious little con-
Germ about the troubles along the Rio
Grande; so little indeed that he permits out
laws to keep up their raids upon the Texas
frontier, stealing cattle and horses and muir
dering citizens without making any proper
effort to arrest or punish the outlaws AS q
matter Of course, such state of affairs can not
long exist without producing the most serious
consequences. IL Diaz can not control the
guerrillas who claim Mexican citizenship.
the government of the United States will
take the matter in hand and make short
work of il. Advices from Washington are
of character showing purpose of prompt
action on the part of the government, and
when all the facts are made public the
probabilities are that the popular demand
will be for vigorous measures to
effectually suppress the pillaging out
RACES of the Mexican bandits. The
correspondence between the United States
and Mexico is likely to assume at once the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

Huley-Grant as president was very
much like Muley-Hassan, son of
Sidi- Muley- Mohamed, and late empe
Tor of Morocco. Muley-Hassan while
emperor was an absolute despot and Muley-
Grant while in Office as president played
part of Muley- Hasssn just as much as posi-
BILE. Muley-Hassan didn't care pinch of
snuff for any laws, civil or religious, and
Muley-Grant .didn't care a dern for constitu-
tons or laws. Muley-Hasson took what
money he wanted from his subjects by an
armed force. Muley-Grant replenished bis
exchequer by accepting brides and dividing
with an army of thieves that he kept about
HIM. Muley-Aassan did not keep employed
an army of carpet baggers to plumber
his subjects. In this respect Muley-Grant
got ahead of the emperor of Morocco. When
one of Muley-Hassan's officers was caught IN
appropriating money for his personal benefit
he was killed forthwith and his body given
to the buzzard s; but Muley-Grant, when one
of his high officials was caught stealing. dis
missed ham with a ford Endorsement of
character. Muley-H assan was a very happy
man, but not more so than Muley-Grant.
Muley- Rsssan is dead, while Muley-Grant is
alive and kicking, and quite a number of
thieves who grew fat on plundering reve-
nues while basking in his favor want to give
him third term as president or first term
as emnerOr
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10


your gaze. Seek as you may to drown their
amathemss, they still shrek on and every
day their wall becomes more penetrating.
What subjects for contemplation on the 4th
of July, the Sabbath of liberty? No, no; no
huzas to-day. Let it be day OF deep hui
initiation and of stern resolve to dethrone
rsdicalism. 1t matters not that the republic
is ocean girt-that its soil is fertile, or thai
ats mountains are bursting with precious
metals; millions of the people ore too poor
to buy bread. too poor to buy clothes-too
poor to pay for shelter from the storm, and
too poor to worship God in his sanctuary.
Such curses were unknown in the Gland of
the free and the home of the brave" until
radicslism obtained control. The 4th Of
July is a good day to think upon such
things, and good day to resolve that here
aftec the people will not wear the yoke of
radical despotisu.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

WHJLE the Journal is indulglng in matters
of ancient history we call it's attention to the
following figures, based on official reports of
the past: From the year 1889 to 1861, a
period of ~ years. the entire ordinary ex-
penses of the general government of the
United States amounted to 81 ,561 ,706, 194.00,
while from the year 1861 to 1875, period of
IA years, under republican rule, the net ex-
penses of the general government exclusive
Of the public debt or ,rcr de6t, amounted to
IS, DC, $50, $4,000, nearly four times as much
IS the expenditures for the entire y years
Drior to 1861 o.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10
u OF the cereals above tabulated /:
Total bushels.

Here then we haye an exhibit of the vast
product of cereals for series of years, show
ing a grand aggregate that almost defies
comprehension. With such a showing the
United States of America ought 10 have
been, upon all accepted theories, the most
prosperous country on the face of the earth.
But just the opposite has been its condition.
Under radical rule the benefcence OF
heaven has been to a very large extent
neutralized. In the year 1870 the country
was prosperous, notwithstanding the rad
ical party had even then laid the
foundation for the disasters that
have since transpired. Contraction had even
then commenced ITS devilish work, and with
the dawning of 1873 the radical policy, under
full Roadway, was prostrating business of
every description and in every direction.
Its sweep was continental, and not city,
county or slate escaped its death dealing
force.
Messrs. r. G. Dun e Co. give the failures
from 1872 TO 1877 in the United States as
follows:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

Jennings county for representative. Shade
of Key, Longstreet, Mosby ct al. protect US!
Here in the great state of Indiana, only
fifteen years after the rebellion, great
moral party goes off on reasonable trail
and asks the people to support man who
was known in his secret political lodge
as 'Beauregard'' and who said in a speech to
his fellow members that Gin the hereafter
hell would be so full OF republicans that
their legs would stick out of the windows,
ETC." And yet the loyal republicans are
asked to support him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

HUzzAl This is the glorious Fourth; and
this is the land of tramps, of idleness, of
poverty and starvation. Huzza! Rsdicalism
has been IN power for many years, and has
bankrupted the country. Food is cheap and
abundant, but the people are too poor TO pur-
chase it at any price, and the highways and
byways Of the country are filed with beg
gars. Huzza Radicalism put forth its ac-
cursed hand and hushed the industries Of
the land as If they had been struck by light
ming, and thousands of willing workers be-
came idlers and mendicants. Huzzal
Radicalism clasped hands with Shy
locks and demanded specie payments, and
with the commencement OF contraction
shrinkage followed in the track of desola-
ton. Houses and lands lost their value,
failures followed failures; losses were piled
upon losses; poverty usurped the place of
wealth; bankrupt hearses bearing to bank
ruptgrave yards the remains Of hard earned
fortunes were forever passing along the
streets, and all the mafts of business were
draped in mourning. Poverty, hunger,
starvation, rags and crime are the monu-
ments'of radical rule. Curses with mouths
that speak, curses with eyes that see,
curses with hands that strike-such
are the trophies of radicalism. Look
where you will and they confront
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

The Indian war, now just commenced, and
which is likely to become one of the most
destructive the country has ever had, is at
tributable directly to the curse of radical
ism. ''The Bannock Chiefs" says the New
York Sun, whose outbreak has afforded
General Howard an opportunity to send
more warlike telegraphic dispatches,
and to be in time to be too
late for more skirmishs, complain that
they were driven TO hOstilitIes by the lies,
frauds and outrages of their agent, Rein
hart, who had made them work, promised
them pay, and refused to keep his promises.
He had starved them, abused them and
'lied to them Even the peaceable, root
digging Bannocks could not stand this, and
they have joined the list of formerly friend
sly tribes whom corrupt and fraudulent
Indian policy has made bitterly hostile"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

greatest gravity, and Mexico will be called
upon to act with energy or the United States
will sssume control of the matter, and sta
ton troops in ell the Mexican towns along
the border. If this leads to war then the
United States will move our frontier line a
little further west, and still further in that
direction, as her policy may be opposed by
the Mexicans
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

THE Indianapolis Journal begins the work
of the campaign by publishing a fac smile OF
the letter writes by Senator voorhees, in De-
cemloer, ESQ, introducing southern symps.-
takzer to friends in the sOz th.-Inter Ocean
But the Johrnal is careful not TO begin the
campaign by publishing its editorials favor
ing peaceful dissolution of the union The
journal was not in favor of "0Re coRatry,
zone flag and one destiny"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

THE official report of Hon. &. II. Bristow,
secretary of the treasury, showed that from
1869 to 1876, period of seven years, shows
the defalcation of government officials
to have been S., 500, 1888, or S7S5, zs9.13 per
annum. Phis, however, only includes the
petty thefts. We don't mention the whisky
frauds, by which the government lost nearly
asirty millions of dollars in seven years. This
is ancient history, but it's good.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10
Poor Encouras ement.
ISt. Louis Republican,


The San Francisco Alta complains of the
constant presence of women spectators on
the stock exchange, their countenances
haggard, the cares of home evidently left
behind and all the gentler traits of the sex
destroyed" That's the kind of encourages
ment extended ON the Pacific coast to women
who are trying to support their little hus-
bands and children.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

Com now in the treasury is said to be
$ls7 Az, lSs, but there is no telling as to the
truth of the statement The RAIDS have been
caught in the crime of making figures lie
in one instance to the extent of $19,00o,000
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10
THE CuRsE OLE RApICALIsM.

An important campaign is just now COM
mencing, and it is therefore in order to pre-
sent to the people such facts as serve to IL
lustrate the curse of radicslism upon the
country. Since the year 1855 the radical
party has been in a position to shape the
financial policy of the country and influence
business affairs. What have been the re-
suits? 1t has been held by political econo-
mists and intelligent business men as well as
statesmen that abundant crops insure gen.
eral prosperity; that country overlooking
with food products, the wealth of field and
farm, must necessarily be prosperous and
happy. If a different state of things ex-
list, IL with abundant harves's there
is steady increase of poverty and wider
arrangement of business, then the conclu-
sion is inevitable that there has been set in
operation a combination of vicious forces so
powerful as 10 reverse the natural order of
things, creating innumeraole ills where
peace, prosperity, happiness and general
advancement should have held sway. We
hold, and it is the verdict of the country,
that the radical party has so shaped legisla-
ton that instead of the blessings we have emu
merated, curses widespread and continuous
have fallen with crushing effect upon the
country, and are now holding 1t their
deathhke grasp. Assuming thatabundanth ar-
vests underlie the prosperity of the country,
it becomes an easy matter to demonstrate by
authentic data the fact that radicalism has
been the most colossal curse that ever
blighted any land under heaven. The census
reports of 1870 give the following figures
showing the principal cereal productions of
the United States:
Wheat, bushels 2S7, 745 626
Rye, DushelS....-.. 1929, 80
Indian corn bushels go, $40
Barley, bushels 29,76l ,305
Buckwheat, bushels..........--..-.... 1881 ,72I
Total .-.. ,4S6, IVY l44
Since 1870 there have been no crop fail
ures; on the contrary the harvests have
steadily increased in magnitude. and the
land has absolutely overfowed with food
| The shout of the harvest home has sounded
/ from Maine to California. Foreign coun-
| tries have been urged to purchase, and the
exports of domestic produce have exceeded
| all former years, and the boast now is that
the balance of trade is nearly $500, 0OO, 600 in
our favor. 1t is safe to say that the average
annual increase of the cereal products of the
country since 1870 has been fully fifteen per
cent, and this will be regarded as a low
estimate. Taking this as fair approxima-
ton of the actual increase of products of
field and farm, and we have the following
results for eight years, including 1873, of the
product of the cereals above tabulated:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

JOHN 0vERNEYER, Esquire, another MEM
Der of the knights of the Golden Circle"
has been nominated by the republicans of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

The chief parts OF the estates OF all these,
except the dukes of Richmond, Devonshire
and Northumberland, are in Scotland. But
though the estates of Scotland are much
larger, those of England are usually much
more valuable. The land of the duke of
Sutherland is nearly all in the county of
Sutherland, IN the extreme north of Scot
land, though he has II, 700 acres in Stafford
shire, England, and 800 acres in Shrop-
shire, Wales. j. w.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

1t is limited that Jesse Grant will soon
write book entitled, my Awful Dad"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-03
for Col.Ben.

Washington Letter In the stsuhenvtlle Gasa.te.
Ben. Wilson, Of lat district, W. Va,
Is one OF her good sons; he can always be
found, Il not in his bed, in a committee
during business hours; after that at his
rooms, where he has the latch string out
for all his friends. He is Of that
class that does not put on airs, but glad
TO meet his neighbors and friends no
matter how humble circumstances they
may be In; and the Lat district may feel
proud that they have Representative
that meets the requirements and wants OF
the people. He Is about fity.two years
old, q native of Harrison county, Va, has
occupied several important positions in
political life, and under all circumstances
acquitted himself with credit. II any Of
his constituents across the river wish
their wants attended to in the Counsels or
Departments of the Nation, send or come,
and Ben Wilson will attend to them with
a hearty good will.
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The Story Of a Letter.
Any Latter for me today"

@Any letter for me today"
The old postmaster took down u bunch
Of letters from "Box Ar and looked
them over slowly. He always did when
Maggie asked for letters, although he
knew we'll enough-sympathetic old mar
that be was-that there was none for her,
and that mo" must be the auswef, let
him defer Il as long "a he could. Hadn't
she come regularly every day, rain or
shine, for the last six months, with that
same question upon her lips, that ques.
ton to which, negative reply was al.
ways given. =,
Poor Maggie Austinl Everyone said
two years before, when gay, dashing
Hugh Austin led her to the altar, that
the young scapegrace only courted
the girl's property, and when he
had obtained that would not hesitate to
cast the sweet, trusting wife aside
10 suit his convenience. Hugh Austin
was poor-Maggie was an orphan and
rich. Hugh embarked in an unsuccesa.
ful speculation and lost all--Maggie raid,
aNever mind, Hugh, we can work" And
she smiled just rs sWeetly as when she
said q year previous, . am your. Hugh"
Butpovefty was singing, and the cry
Of agold, gold" came from the tar.off
mines OF California. Hugh Austin went.
Every one said he meant 10 desert his
Young wife and baby; that he had left
them u~nproyided for, and what would
they do? Every one said that handssme
and SHINING and pIeasipp "A Hugh was,
he wss a rascal after ALE every one"
said 60, and every one :" believed it. ex-
cept Msggie, who with noble wornan's
trust, scorned alike the imputation and
is supposed ~fabricators.
aWfiting home, ehs
Hugh Austin yawned, wiped the ink
from the pen upon his black curls, and
then replied:
aYes:s
aTo that dear little wife Of yours, eh,
aYss again, you inquisitiye Charlie"
aInquisitiye, am /? Well, I'll carr. the
ooRnonen then. Pray, how many Letters
have You written the charming little lady
since you've been here
A crimson flush crept over the hand.
some face.
this ID the frst.a
aFirst" Charlie Summers brought his
hand down emphaically, @First why,
you're q wretch . most objectionable
siis wasn't you, I'd strike you for say.
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