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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
TREASURY DEFALCATIoNs.

Yesterday We published a special dispatch
to the Chicago Times that seems based on
fair authority, stating that the small item
of SIS, 600 900 had been used TO force a bal
ance on the treasury books. The act was so
bare-faced that one wonders at the cheek of
the officials who executed it, Senator Davis
of West Virginia, has repeatedly stated on
his responsibility as a senator that there is a
deficiency of over $500, 900 in the ac-
counts of the United States treasury. That
corruption of great magnitude has been
rampant in Washington is matter of COM
mon notoriety. These charges come from
sources that entitle them to serious consid-
Grafton. Now what is to be done? The de-
mocracy are in power in the house of repre-
sentatives. What is the use of making the
charges unless they are substantiated? A
business man would not charge defalcation
on one of his employees unless he establish
ed the fact. He certainly would not charge
HIM with crime and continue him IN his en-
ploy. If there be any foundation for these
charges let investigation reveal the founda-
ton OH which they rest. If established, let
swift punishment fall upon the guilty. Cor
rupt the fountain OF a stream and you
muddy it throughout its length. If such
corruption exists at Washington and goes
UNPUBLISHED, 1t but invites TO greater frauds
and must end in disaster to the whole peo-
nile
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
Russia,s Resources.
Pal Mall Gazette.l

The Novoe Vrumya, in an article on the
financial resources of Russia, asserts that,
though they have been greatly strained by
the expenses of the war, they are still suffi-
cient to bear the cost of IAN energetic for
eign policy" An important test of the
prosperity of the masses in Russia is accord
ing to the writer, the produce of the excise
duty on spirituous liquors. This was in
1877, 207, s35 79S roubles, being 199758 rou-
blts more than in 1916. The receipts from
tie excise duties on tobacco and sugar were
ais larger in 1877 than in the previous year.
As 10 the customs duties, the receipts from
the beginning of the present year up TO the
4th of May amounted TO IL, Dos, 922 roubles,
being 1868 SIC roubles more than IN the
same period of 1877, and 2, lilo, 204 roubles
more than in 1876. Further, in January,
1873, Is, 521 versts of railway were open for
traffic, and the number of railway passen-
gers exclusive of soldiers) was 1855, 25S,
against 49, 99 in January, 1877; while
the weight of goods carried by railway was
7s2, 4sl pounds against 45i ,S62 in January,
1870 by express trains. and I35, O96, O51
pounds AGAINST l19, S73, 800 in January, 1917
by luggage trains. The receipts of the Rus
sian railways, too, amounted last January to
Il, All 1913 roubles, being 9K per cent. more
than in the previous year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
IMPORrs AND EXPORTS.

A very large class of business men are in
the habit of consulting tables of imports
and exports for the purpose of arriving at an
approximately just conclusion with regard
to the condition OF business The data is
important and interesting, but not
conclusive as to the activity or
depression of business generally
since there may be large exports with the
balance of trade in our favor. and at the
same time widespread business depression;
or their may be large importations, with the
balance of trade against us, while on every
hand there may be evidences of business
activity, progress and prosperity. While
these facts do not detract from the value of
statistics bearing upon the foreign commerce
of the country, they will be likely to
prompt a careful study of those
forces which depress or vitalize
domestic trade 1t is authoritatively stated
that the port of New York receives about
two-thirds of all the goods landed i'm this
country from foreign countries, and ships
only a little less than half of all the expor S.
With these statements in view, the reader
will be able to intelligently analyze the fol-
lowing tables of imports and exports at the
port of New York for eleven months ending
with May, the first line giving the total for
six months ending January L:
FOREIGN IMPORTS AT NEW YORK FOR ELEVEN
MONTHS ENDING NAY 81.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
STRIKES.

A certain class of journals, chiefly of the
radical stripe, which have been anxious to
employ the army for the purpose of shooting
business of predicting labor strikes all over
the country. They catch at every idle ru-
NOR, which is Immediately inflated to suit
their purposes, and upon which is erected
a huge superstructure of lies and SEN
sational nonsense we'll calculated to
produce the unrest which they so loudly
profess to deplore, for with the prediction of
labor strikes the country is treated to sensa-
tional accounts of communistic riots and
murders, and all the calamities of anarchy.
These vicious organs OF deep seated hate
towards workingmen, instead of advocating
a financial policy calculated to lift the bur
den of depression from business and
the industries of the country, have
pursued the opposite course. They opposed
the reconciliation of silver and the repeal
of the resumption law. and have used what
ever influence they possessed to uphold John
Sherman in his efforts to promote the inter
ests of Shylocks at the expense of every
other class of citizens. When values we're
shrinking they applauded; when failures null
tiplied they offered no word of protest; when
laboring people were deprived of employment
by thousands and tens of thousands, these
Shylock organs had no word of sympathy !;
on the contrary, when destllution and hun
ger pangs forced from their victims protests,
these Shylo organs could suggest no remedy
but bullets. If, AIT is now claimed by these
Shylock organs, these advocateso of the Sher-
man policy, there is probability of labor
disturbances at an early day-then
there is demand for prudent
councils 10 avert the calamity. Congress is
still in session, and should take broad sur
vey of the field, and should remain in ses-
sion until such legislation is bad as shall
impress the people with its wisdom and give
them assurances that the highest law
making power in the land has sought by
every means at its command to relieve the
country Of the blighting curses of radical leg
islstion. The Sentinel does not favor strikes
does not believe that it is the best method
of overcoming business depression. We are
irrevocabiy opposed to mob violence as a
means of redressing any grievance whatever,
and we are equally opposed to shooting men,
women and children who in the frenzy of
starvation plead for food. We do not credit
the wild rumors that day has been fixed in
the near future for general railroad or any
other kind of strike, and we are confident
that the papers which are engaged in making
such predictions are the enemies of order,
so mean and vicious that they would inaug
urate commotion to verify their ravlngs.
There is vast deal of poverty and wretch
edness in the land, brought about by the
radical party. In few months the rigors
of winter will be upon the land, and it well
becomes prudent people to contribute their
influence to set in operation such forces as
shall result in giving the poor labor and food.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

10 truth and compelled to confess
Judgment in the presence of the senate.
So guilty, indeed, was be that he dared not
submit to an examination by the Potter
committee, and Is to-day the most leProus
creature that ever disgraced the senate cham
Der. In tins supreme hour Of triumph, when
all the outer works of the beetle browed,
perjury cursed crew had been beaten down;
when the democrats were pouring into the
citadel of lies erected for the security of
those who had lifted Hayes into power;
when proof of fraud, forgery. and perjury
was being piled up; when Anderson
was scattering documents with the damag-
ing effect of nitro-glycerine, and McLin was
confessing to the theft of Florida-just at
this time the radicals, with the desperation
of fiends, wrung from the democratic hou,e
the confession that Hayes was "duly elect
ed and that his title is secure. The peo-
pie, whose servants the representatives are,
do not believe the utterances of the house of
representatives, and will not indorse them.
The house OF representatives OF the
Forty third congress ''solemnly" de-
clared that Samuel J. Tilden and
Thomas A. Hendricks we're duly elected
president and vice president of the United
States for term of four years, commencing
on the 4th day OF March, 1877. These declar-
atoms the people believe, and no amount of
resolving will change their convictions upon
the subject. 1t is possible-indeed, it is
probable-that Hayes will remain in office
until the expiration of the presidential
term; not because he was duly elected"
but in defiance of constitution and
law, right and justice, and to the eternal
disgrace of the American people. Indiana
democrats take precious little stock in the
resolutions declaring Hayes "duly elected"
Hayes is presidential lie, monument of
the triumph of perjury over truth, aud the
people will see to it that their votes properly
rebuke the monstrous libel which the house
of representatives placed upon its records
when 1t passed the resolutions of the judi
ciary committee.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
THE PEOPLE AND THE FRAUD.

1t will not do mistake the temper OF the
American people at this critical juncture in
political affairs. The Sentinel has at no
time since Hayes was placed in Office admitted
that he was duly elected" and since Sam
uel j. T,den was "duly elected" by the
people the declaration becomes irrefrigable
that Hayes .itle is not valid. 1t was not
constitutionally obtained. On the contrary
it was secured in direct violation
OF the sovereign rights of the American
people, and in defiance of the most
sacred guarantees of that charter of
American liberties. Under such circum-
stances it does not matter particularly what
politicians resolve or what they say. The
people have assumed control of the entire
subject, and propose to investigate the
frauds by virtue of which their rights have
been cloven down, tear away the refuge of
lies behind which such conspirators as
Hayes has rewarded have been skulking
and punish them a their detestaDle crimes
demand The resolutions passed by the
house of representatives on the 14th inst
were in all regards the outgrowth of defiant
impudenee on the part of the friends of rad
zeal conspirators and limp, hes tating, TIM
idity on the par of democrats, ineonsiderate
and inopportune aud damaging 10 the best
interests of the country. The radical con-
spirators, their apologists and defenders, had
been caught in the grasp Of their own
damnable Iniquities. John Sherman had
been Inundated before the whole
people, confronted with q document
which showed his completely with the
Louisiana crimes his knees smote together
like Belshazzar's when the handwriting pro-
nouced his doom. Stanley Matthews, an
awkward combination of knave and fool,
blatherskite and conspirator, ass and assassin,
the friend of Hayes and the boon companion
of the red headed and red handed perjurer,
Anderson. was made to realize the fact
that In all regards be was traitor
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

THERE was a time when a great many peo-
pie in this country regarded William Tecum-
given in our adhesion TO that theory, but we
are willing to declare that he is now open to
the charge Of being fool. His recent sDeech
before the alumni association at West Point,
an extract from which is elsewhere given.
stamps him at once as a distuIber and a man
unfit to WELD the baton Of general. Abiding
to the disability Of an tempt being made to
disturb Mr.. Hayes title, he declared that Mr..
Hayes, although a mild hammered gentleman,
would be found 20 possess the nerve to main
would have the support OF the army. 1t Is
time for this loose-tOngued warrior to be in
formed that the Taxpayers of the country
have hired him to xiii people when they give
him orders. His threats are entirely out of
place. 1t is all well enough for his brother
John to talk about war and revolution, for he
is probably a crimina and his tail is in the
trap. General Shermaus efforts to create the
impression that the Potter investigation is a
ed. He ought to be locked up in the guard
house until he ceases to be a disturber of the
peace.-Baltimore Gazette.
When il is known that one brother OF
William Tecumseh had to step down and
out because he had been guilty of an infa-
nous crime, and now that another brother
has been caught in active and intimate com
plicity with the most gigantic frauds that
ever disgraced the American name, 1t be-
comes easy enough to understand why Will
liam T. puts on war paint and threatens blood.
But the people are not likely to be Intlm-
idated further. The Potter investigation
will proceed, and should the fact be made
to appear that Hayes was knowing to the
frauds that placed him in office, as he doubt
less was, he will be impeached in spite OF
William Tecumseh Sherman.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
Grant and stonewalI Jackson.

Gen. Grant was recently reported by an
occasional correspondent of the Virginian,
writing from Constantinople as speaking
disparsgingly of Stonewall Jackson while in
that city. Colonel Mosby wrote to General
Grant, inquiring If he had used the language
attributed to him. Gen. Grant, writing from
Paris, May 20. in reply, says:
You say am reported as speaking dis
paragingly of Stonewall Jackson by one co.,
respondent l have not seen that. / kne y
Jackson when he was q cadet, served with
him in the Mexican war; and know that he
enjoyed the confidence and respect of all
who knew him. He was regarded as a man
of great ability, great perseverance, and great
piety. Whatever he did he did conscieL-
tiously, no matter whether it was right or
wrong / have compared him in CONVEX a
ton with Cromwell. 1t is probable that l
have said as much to you about Jackson as
/ have to any correspondent"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

Assuming that New York exports one
half of all the merchandise and produce sent
abroad, we have as the sum total of exports
$6ls, 2S9, 44s for the first eleven months of
the current fiscal year, against 1895, 01O, 13S
imports, indicating balance of trade in ia
vor of the United States of 1928, 279, 30. Here
we have figures of remarkable suggestive
ness, well calculated to arrest the attention
OF statesmen, business men aud philanthro-
pists-in fact, all classes OF men, not except
ing those who earn their bread by the sweat
of their face. Ii is shown that dur
ing the past eleven months this country
has exported to foreign countries goods val
ued at $6ls. 2s7 AIS, and these figures repre-
sent scarcely a moiety of the surplus that
could be distributed TO foreign countries IL a
demand should arise. Notwithstanding
these evidences of the vast resources of the
country, what are the surroundings of bust.
ness2 Prostitution in every department.
idleness and poverty on all hands,
confidence detbroned and the government
itself in the hands of thieves and conspira-
tors-blasphe of Jehovah, foot-pads on
the highways of liberty and progress, robbers
of the peoples birth right and the defenders
of crime. 1t Is not surprising therefore,
that while God, in His infinite munificence
bestows wealth and comforts upon the
people, that such a party by its internal
policy has been able to reduce the country
TO q condition of unparalleled misery. The
figures we have given are suggestive, but no
more so than the business ruin that now
confronts the people Oh oil sides.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

If, as we have stated, the port of New
York receives two-thirds of all foreign i'm
ports, then we have as the result of the
eleven months of the current fiscal year, for
all ports, grand sum total of S395,01O, 23S,
showing falling off as compared with a
corresponding period CT 1877 of only 81, 247,-
ia. The exports of produce and merchan-
disc for a period corresponding with the
import tables, from the port of New York,
say eleven months OF the current fiscal year
exclusive of specie, and for corresponding
months for two years previous, are as fol-
lows:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

1T is rather cruel to blame John Sherman, as
some do, for not looming to the rescue of
Stanley Matthews" One sinking ship can
not steam at a rapid rate to the aid of another
craft in the same deplorable condition =
Washington Post.
Very naughty-cal. John Sherman's bow Is
now in order, and even Hayes stern ways
ought to feel its effect.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

All who use them say that DIR. Prices
Special Flavoring Extracts are the strongest
and most natural favors made. Ii makes
all the difference in the world whether our
creams and pastry are favored with DR..
Prices nice, fresh fruit fiayors, or the often
Aye turpentiny extracts
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

[Richmond independents

Really, it begins to look like the whole
world was in danger of a labor uprising.
The trouble has broken out in Canada and
England and is liable to any time in the
United States and. continental Europe es-
pecialiy Germany. A general war between
labor and capital is not improbable, and if
once inaugurated will be terribly destruc-
tive of the interests of both. In this country
where we have the free ballot, there IL not
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

the slightest excuse for such uprisings. The
laborlng men are abundantly able to better
their conditions through the ballot, and as
they have not done so and still do not, they
deserve no encouragement IN unlawful
resistance TO their masters. Those who vote
not should not shoot.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
An UnenvfabIe Reputation.
[st. Louis Republican.l

Mr.. Lamar, of Mississippi, has the unenvi-
able distinction of being the only southern
or western senator on the democratic side
who voted yesterday against the senate SUBJ
stitute for repeal of the resumption act.
The only other senator from the sosth or
west who voted the same way was the no
torous Patterson, of South Carolina
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
Can't See Ii by Those Lamps.
lI,iQonier Banner1

Senator Joe Mcdonald, of this state, is in
favor of the Potter Investigation, and SAYS
there is no doubt that Hayes was put in by
fraud. At the same time he insists that the
title is inviolate. no matter how corruptly
obtained. This may be sound both in law
and logic, but for the life of Us we can't view
the question in that hight.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19
Very correctly STATED.
New Orleans Picayune. |

About all that can be gathered from the
Indiana republican platform is that the re-
publicans of Indiana are going to vote the
republican ticket, because they are opposed
to the democrats for some reason that they
do not see fit to state.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

lSt. Louis Republican,

1t is significant that when Anderson was
lying for the republicans he had no corrob-
Grating documents or witnesses to support
his testimony, but now that he is telling the
truth FOR the democrats there is ample con-
firmation, written and oral, to sustain his
veracity. OF course he is not a man to be
high time the republicans explained why
they permitted the vote of Louisiana to hinge
on his unsupported oath.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

WHAT THE HOUSE OF
lS76-77 DECLARED.
Resolved by the
house of representa-
tives of the United
states of America,
That IL is the duty of
1.-THE house to declare,
and the house does
hereby solemnly de-
clare, that Samuel ].
Tilden, of the state of
New York, received
l96 electoral votes for
the Office of president
of the United States,
all of which votes Were
cast and lists thereof
signed, certified and
transmitted to the seat
OF government, direct
ed to the president of
the senate, in con-
forrnity with the con-
stitution and laws of
the United States, by
ELECTORS legally eligi-
BILE and qualified as
such an elector, each
of whom had been
duly appointed and
elected in a manner
directed by the leglsla-
iture of the state in and
for which he cast his
vote, as aforesaid: and
that said Samuel II.
Tilden, having thus re-
ceived the votes of a
majority of the cleo
tors appointed as afore-
said, he was thereby
duly elected president
of the United States of
America for the term
OF four years, COM
mencing on the 4th
day of March, A. ID.
1877.
And this house fur
Their declares that
Ihomas A. Hendricks,
having received the
same number OF electo-
ralvotes for the office of
vice president of the
UnitedStates that were
east for Samuel ]. Til
zen for president, as
aforesaid, the said
votes having been cast
for him by the same
persons who voted for
the same Tilden for
president, as aforesaid,
and at the same time
and in the same man.
ner, II is the opinion of
this house that the said
Thomas \. Hendricks,
of the state of Indiana,
was duly elected vice
presidento fthe United
states for the term of
TOUR years, commenc-
ing on the 4th day OF
March, A. ID. 1877.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

MORE than a score of fraud, convicted and
perjury cursed scoundrels, including John
Sherman, whe helped to."duly elect Hayes,
have been rewarded with fat Offices
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

WILL Henri Watterson be required to tell
about those lone hundred thousand I'M
armed Kentuckians'' and the bursting of
the brass beOped democratic pIggin"?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

[Dayenport pemocrat.I

The returns are in from Oregon, and the
disguised republican spits upon his slate,
rubs out another row of figures with the tip
end of his dirty forefnger, adds 'em up
again, breathes an audible cuss at the ''revo-
lutionists" and wishes Hayes had never been
born.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

THE Cincinnati Enquirer regards Hayes
title as 'unalterxble," and unhalterable also
we suppose.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

In his next speech General Sherman should
tell the country what he thinks OF John
Sherman and Judge Sherman.