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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

destroying this war money 1T should have
been permitted to aid in lifting the country
out of the ruin the war entailed. If the
war power could create the money, then
the war power or some other power could
well afford to keep it in circulation until the
destructive effectsof the war had disappeared
and contraction commenced without entail
ing financial calamities in the aggregate
amounting to vastly more than the cost of
the war. 1t is therefore a sensible conclu-
sion that the war power, as applied to fiat
money" may be exercised when war is con-
templated, and under certain circumstances
regarded as inevitable, and may also be
exercised after peace is declared by keeping
the fiat money in circulation to aid in over
coming the rayages of war. The disastrous
effects of the war are still felt. The country
has not recovered from the wastes it en-
tailed, and the infamous financial policy of
the radical party has made peace ten times
more disastrous to business men thar war.
I. Its eternal plea of the war power was
designed to mislead the public mind, and to
encourage the belief that it Yves opposed to
the exercise of the "war power in time of
peace, when in fact its purpose was to play
into the hands of Shylocks and rob the peo-
pie. Results are conclusive upon this point.
As the result of contraction thousands have
been bankrupted, and an army of idlers ere
ated larger than the combined armies north
and south during the war.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04
THE ISSUES OF rHE CAnpAreN.

There need be no hesitancy in declaring
the fact that the financial question is one of
the important issues of the campaign. So far
as Indiana is concerned, the state conven.
ton, held on the Goth of February last gave
the issue special prominence, and up to this
day no radical organ in the state or out of it,
no radical candidate or stump speaker, has
dared to attack the financial planks in the
democratic platform. II must be conceded
democracy upon the financial question is in
Vulnerable. 1t challenges attack, il defes
the entire force OF the radical party. 1t is
proof against hes and sophisms, and as a
consequence the RAIDS, little and big,
old and young, black and white, let it alone;
steer clear of it. To attack it would exalt
its wisdom aud craftsmanship, and prove the
ruin of the radical galoots who would dare
to utter word against it, from Ben Harrl-
son to the nincompoops of the Journal.
But while avoiding the impregnable posi-
ton of the democratic party on the fnan-
cial issues of the campaign, the radical
organs seek to mislead the public mind by
sense relating to the financial status of the
country before the war and at various
periods since, by publishing a mass of fig
ures which they compel to lie in the inter
est of the radical party, and like John Sher-
man in New Orleans, they hope by
persistent lying to win success. The
Indianapolis Journal, recognized organ of
of Shylocks, the apologist of thieves and
perjurers, the advocate of fraud and forger-
les to elect president, is always ready to
follow in the wake of John Sherman in
bolstering up his policy, no matter to what
extent or how seriously the country may
suffer thereby. In its tissue of yesterday the
Journal says:
There is more than three times as much pa
per money in the country now as there ever
was at any time before the war began, and
more than twice as much per capita as there
together there is more Governments money in
circulation in the United States now than
there was In 1873 before the panic. The paper
money circulation OF the United States at pre-
sent is largely more per capita to the popula-
ton than in any other country in the world.
The paper money circulation of the country
In 1870 500 900 600, in 1873 it 900,
and 1874 ii $751; 900 900. 1t is, therefore,
impossible and untrue that the panic of 1873
was caused by contraction Of the currency or
by lack o; sufficient circulation.
Now, then, giving these statements of the
Journal all the force claimed for them, what
do they amount to? Absolutely nothing at
all when considered in the light of events
that have transpired from 1860 to the present
time. 1t is matter of precious little conse-
quence to the people now what amount of
currency was in circulation in 1860 in the
aggregate per capita The war created
demands for money, and the government
supplied the demand. As result we have
the following carefully prepared statement
made by the Chicago Inter Ocean, a radical
paper, with the one redeeming quality that
it dares to tell the truth the question Of
finance:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04
DIR. DE La MArYR NOMINATED

The congressional campaign in the Sew
enth congressional, the capital district of
Indiana, is now fairly opened. From this
time till the sun goes down on election day
the battle cries that should ring along the
democratic ranks should be compactness,
close quarters, hot shot and victory. Let
the fight be aggressive, persistent and def
ant. The issues are fairly and squarely
made; the standard bearers are in the field;
the clans are gathering; banners are waving,
aud there is no mistaking the fact that the
outlook means work. Victory demands
harmony and harmony insures victory.
The democracy in council have spoken,
henceforth loyalty to the ticket and
loyalty to the right. DIR. De La Matyr is
more than the peer of John Hanna.
Every inch gentleman, he enters upon the
campaign under auspices that could scarcely
be improved. An honest, conscientious
man, ripe scholar, profound thinker,
with a character unsullied, he brings to the
work of reforming the policy of the govern
ment as administered by the radical party
every element of success. DIR. De La Matyr
will enter upon the campaign keeniy alive
to its duties. and in his own peculiarly in
cissive and analytical style will show the
treachery and mendacity of radicalism, its
cruel apostacy to every profession OF fealty
to the people, its depressing effect upon
business, its infamous treason to laws AID
constitutions, the numberless curses it has
forced upon the people, its completely with
frauds and unparalleled forgeries and final
ly its browning inIquities, by which its
conspirators challenged the anathemas of
heaven by utilizing perjury to place
Hayes in power. He will meet John
Hanna on all the stumps in the dis
trict and demolish the shaggy haired repre-
sentative of John Sherman and his cocoon
spirators by arguments as massive as the
pyramids and logic as severe as truth. The
radical organs will park their artillery and
commence at once their bombardment of
mud. They will seek, by the cunning OF the
fox, to obscure the pathway to the holes and
dens where conspirators and Shylocks have
plotted their deviltry. But it will not
avail them in this hour of the peoples in
dignahon. The campaign begins with the
most iattering assurances of success. The
convention which nominated Mr. De La
Metyr was large, harmonious and enthu-
siastic-factors and forces which add inn
mensely to the cheerfulness of the outlook.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

description, and there being many crooks
and turns In its course, the thick mass in its
narrow limits becomes stagnant, and emits
the most sickening odor. Animals frequent.
ly stray into it and die, their carcasses being
left to rot in the open air. The first case,
Mrs Fields, lived very close to
this sewer, and died while the work
men had it torn open, throwing
the accumulated drainage out upon the
banks. The second case, young man, also
lived very near, and tracing the course of
the fever. its greatest ravages have been
along the course of this ditch The mayor
believing 1t to be breeder of the disease, at
tempted to have it cleaned out, but he died
with the fever before his orders could be
obeyed The closer to the sewer the
patients lived, the shorter was their sick
ness and the more hopeless the cases, none
having recovered. The physicians who
have Investigated the matter all concur in
the belief that but for this open and filthy
drain Grenada would have escaped the yell
low fever, as never before had 1t visited the
place.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

Ex-GovERNoR PEAsE, of Texas, says that in
1885 the population of that state was 20, 900.
1t is now 100000, million having been
added SINCE 1870. At present the great tide
of emigration is from the northwestern
states. whereas Immediately after the war
almost every enigrant came from the south
ern states, where property hao been lost or
was so deprecated in value by the result of
the war as to be practically valueIess.
The men who now become residents are
those who bring with them enough ready
money to purchase some property or start
them in some business. Mechanics and la
borers are OF the better class, and contribute
not only to the gfbwth of the cities and
towns by their presence, but by their in
terest in the educational and church ad-
ysntages- They contribute to these to the
limit of their means, and are prudent, eco
nOmical citizens, the very life of a state.
The farmers are more scientific and skilled
than those of former years, and are develop
ing rapidly the almost unlimited resources
of the state
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

A CHINESE Sunday school is to be organ
lied in st. Louis on the plan that has been so
successful in St Louis. A Welsh mission
airy is attending to the work, and the secret
of his great success lies in the fact that he
gives his time entirely to the conversion of
the people with whom he labors. He asso-
ciates with them, eats with them,
and becomes practically acquainted with
them and their mode of life
and peculiar ideas. In Chin
ese Sunday-school each scholar re-
quires an individual teacher, nothing be-
ing attempted in class instruction, but as
progress is very rapid and thorough the ex-
ira labor meets with ample reward. In
Chicago there are over a hundred Chinese in
one school, and as st. Louis has much
greater number the mission work is sufficient
to elicit interest and workers. Christians
who sigh for heather to convert can find
them at no great distance, and as simon
pure specimens of unbelief and idolatry as
in any land under the sun. The gods of the
Chinese come to America with them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

Ii is s. id that the Rev. Tom Goodwin, a
leading Methodist of the city," can lay
away a business corpse as neatly as any
dealer in mortgages in this or any other city.
The mortgages are all in perfect order, and
the huge rates Of interest displayed so as to
produce the best possible effect, and Tom is
supposed to look on the serene countenance
of the victim Of Shylockism and soliloquize
thusly: "You came into the world without
"a nickel and you go out pauper, and since
there is no resurrection it will be all the
same to you thousand years hence. Fare
well"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

suspicion on his character as husband and
father. When he asked the hand of the
young girl in marriage her parents de-
INJURED, butwith the courage and boldness so
characteristic of the man in after years,
he folded her in his arms, and said to
the sstonished relatives, What God
has united. no man shall put asunder,p and
from that day On their union has been close
and affectionate. Speaking OF his wife to
an intimate friend he said, "She it is who
has made me what am" And she is as
solicitous of his comfort, his rest. bis health,
as if he were adelicate invalid. No intrusion
is allowed when he desires seclusion, no one
ever awakens him from sleep when he needs
rest. She it is who watches at his bed side
thing, and her advice is liberal and cautions
She understands his plans and aids HIM in
their development. Fearless and undaunted
she, by her prudence, shields him from
harm and cautions him him when he would
go boldly into danger, and his regard for her
advice is such that word of warning from
her is sufficient.
But years are telling sadly on the pair,
though his gigantic frame is yet upright
snd his strength wonderful. He walks
proudly upright, his tall figure towering
even above those of his own height. But
his health is failing. Disease, age and work
combined have slowly wrought the change,
and he has become restless and nervous.
Though but sixty three, he has grown old in
experience gained by unceasing activity,
and now his great desire is for rest and free
dom. While IN the country on his estate
he lives simply, engaging himself in the
quiet pursuits of those about him. He does
not unduly absent himself from the busy
world, but as far as possible he remains In
the seclusion of his own home. Already he
has won the name of the Hermit of Var
'zin," and he says it brings before him far
more pleasant future than could be reached
by any of his other titles. He has always
professed to be a religious man, though
without ostention, his belief being well
exemplified in these words of his brother-in-
law: 81 do not understand how man who
reflects on his own condition can endure
the sorrows and troubles of this life If he
has not firm belief in Cod"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

SCARLET fever and diphtheria have SO ter
ribly scourged Brooklyn in past years that
this season the attempt was made to more
fully investigate the cause and prevention of
its spread. 1t was noted as a primary fact
that during the school year it was much
more prevalent than during vacation, and
the sanitary superintendent of the city based
a theory upon this that these two diseases
were due largely to association among school
children. Measures were taken at once to
put a stop to further increase in the number
of cases. An ordinance was passed to COM
pei physicians to report promptly any cases
of contagious diseases as soon as they were
informed of their existence. School princi-
pals were to do the same. especially when
the persons afflicted were members of their
schools, and parents were ordered to allow
no child to go to school if there were any
cases of either diphtheria or scarlet fever in
the family, even If the pupil had shown no
symptoms of the diseases themselves, the
clothing carrying in it the germs OF CON
taglon. 1t is believed that a compliance
with these regulations will Danish these
sc0urgeS from city ana Will insure 10 the
parents immunity from danger in allowing
their children to attend the regular sessions
OF the school. Hitherto careful parents have
taken pupils from school, fearing disastrous
results from association with children who
come from infected homes To show the
great decrease of cases, both of scarlet fever
and diphtheria, during vacation. the follow
ing figures are given from the Brooklyn
statement: For the week ending August II
there were no deaths by scarlet fever, an
unparalleled circumstance in the records of
the board of health. Only nine cases of
dIphtheria and eight of scarlet fever were
reported, three of the former ending fatally.
For the week ending May IL, during the
session of the schools, thirty-three cases of
'diphtheria and twenty seven of scarlet fever
were reported, with eleven deaths from
leach -
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Tell us not in mournful numbers
That this life is but dream;
When girl that weighs one hundred
Gets outside quart of cream
And then wants more
We sat, one night, upon the stoop,
Until the clock struck one:
We heard the o. m. getting up
And then we scOOted home
-Elmira Gazette.
After passing somewhat agitated night,
the barometer rose this morning" etc.
Meteorological paragraph of Paris paper.
The man who is not afraid of war or yell
low fever is generally afraid to take out
paper of tobacco in the presence of a crowd.
Puck.
How pleasant it is to see millionaire's
children dwell together in unity and permit
the lawyers to clutch two-thirds of the es-
tate.-Free Press.
Ben Butler is worth 81, 600, 900. He could
divide up with 500 lsbonng men and
make them all comfortable, but he won't do
it.-Norristown Herald.
A woman of Steele county, Mimi. had her
husband and son killed by lightning five
years ago. She married again, and her Sec
ond lord was killed by lightning a day or
two ago.
The sharks have evidently heard Of Coney
Island as prosperous bathing place. They
are congregating near Manhattan beach in
great numbers, and will undoubtedly find
some choice and tender meat there.
On the Nantasket Beach house bill of fare
Is printed: Baked CLAIMS, old style, heated
rocks with melted butter dressing" 1t
makes ones mouth ice-water to read of de-
licious heated rocks with melted butter.
Charles Dwight. of Wheeling, took down
his rife Thursday morning and made 3Scon-
secutive bulls-eyes at 500 yards, and Friday
morning the associated press telegraped him
all over the country as Professor" Dwight.
This is glory.
Mrs. Barry, Of New York, who is staying
at the Water Gap, swan across the Delaware
at that place, where it is 500 feet wide, the
other night. She drew a boat in which were
two men after her, and then swan back be-
hind the boat without resting.
NOW. villain, come with me before the
judgment seat of Heaven" cries the hero of
play by NJ. Dugue, of Paris. as he hurls the
heavy villain into the car of balloon, cuts
the rope and begins a duel with him with
bowie knives as they shoot upward to the
skies.
The coachman of Mr.. William Kennedy, of
4ACSA4OAce-6e&f
Kennedy's monkey for killing a chicken
but Mr.. Kennedy's monkey got Mr.. Ken
nedy's monkeys monkey up, and flying at
the coachman. tore his arm to pieces so that
the coachman narrowly escaped bleeding to
death.
Little maidens of six exist in Georgetown,
d. c., and one of them expressed herself in
this fashion: After leaning for some time
far ont over the window ledge she drew
herself in and exclaimed, placing her hand
on her stomach, ooh, that hurt me right in
the place where God forgot to put any
bonesl"
Up to the present writing, says the Norris
town Herald, only % of our exchanges have
referred to the embezzling treasurer of the
Pullman car company as fallen ANGEL"
Is American humor on its last legs2 The
parsgraphers don't seem to grasp a capital
subject when one is presented. They must
do better.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

No BETTER evidence Of democratic disinte-
grafton has appeared than their Endorsement
OF greenback candidates. 1t shows the dem
ocracy are losing their grip.-Journal-
Well, let the disintegration business 60
forward; we like it amazingly. The demo-
cratic party is growing larger and stronger,
and mora aggressive every day. 1t is cap
turing honest republicans who will vote the
democratic ticket in October. As for the
grip it is so good that the organs squeal like
rats with their tails in steel traps.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

The currency included in the above amounts
comprises demand and one and two year
treasury notes authorized by the acts OF De-
cember "a 1857, December IL, 1850, and March
2, 1851; temporary ten days loans and one year
certificates of Indebtedness; treasury notes
payable in two yea and in sixty days; $50
three year notes; compound interest notes;
three per cent. certificates; non interest bear
ing demand and legal tender notes; fractional
currency; state bank notes, and national bank
notes.
The bulk of these issues were made legal ten
der by the government, but that character
istic was not Indispensable to constitute them
parts of the money volume; for, was that nee
e ssary, then state bank and national bank is
sues could not be counted as part of the cur
rency, these never having been made Lei gal
tenders.
We are prepared to prove, however. that all
the above issues were employed as currency,
and went TO make up the volume of circulat-
ing medium. The $50 three year notes whose
outstanding on the LIST of September, 1855, to
the amount of $3.50 600 600, every dollar of which
was legal tender for its face value under the
terms of the law ito the same extentas United
States notes."
We have not the space or time TO dwell upon
this part OF the question, but we again state
that these notes were employed as currency,
as can be proved by the very highest author
ity.
According to official statements, the paper
money of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
national bank bills-outstandIng Jaly l.,
1878, amounted to s6SS, 597, 275. Tabulating
these statements, we have the following:
Currency in circulation 1856. 65l ,253 .373
Paper outstanding July lS7S..-.... 6sS,597 40
Total contraction. $685., $50 ,09S
But this statement does not fairly show
the present financial condition OF the coun-
try, for there is not $6ss, 597, 275 in circula.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

If the Rev. Tom Goodwin's theory of the
resurrection of the body is correct there will
be no Shylocks tearing up the streets of the
new Jerusalem to sell them as bullion to the
enterprising firm of Sherman & Dives, who
doubtless will be operating a hot blast fur
mace short distance down the road.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

The Journal says that ''it is impossible and
untrue that the panic of 1873 was caused nv
the contraction of the currency or by lack
of sufficient circulation" This statement
of the Journals is entirely gratuitous, and is
in keeping with its policy throughout, to
suppress the facts and publish downright
falsehoods instead The following table
gives an exhibit ofcontraction and failures
from 1886 to the LIST of July, 1878, and is
valuable for reference:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

We are told that Tom Goodwin, "a leading
Methodist of the city," denies the resurrec-
ton of the body. If the doctrine simply
applies to Tom, we know of no one who viii
complain. Ii he prefers mud hole through
all eternity he is quite welcome to his
choice, ana may start in as soon as he
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

THE French government has prohibited
the sale of Marshal Bazaine's book, Escape
from Fort st. Marguerite" in France.
Smugglers are eluding the authorities, how
ever. and are charging double prices for each
copy they can get over the frontier. Quite
the detectives and officers.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

A CORRESPONDENT writing from Grenada,
Mississippi. to the New York Times, gives a
de tailed account of the beginning and spread
of the yellow fever in that town. Running
thro ugh the place from the hill at the west
to the Yalabusha river on the northeast is
the town sewer or drain, simple ditch, in
some places covered, in others exposed to
the sun. This is filed with filth Of every
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

The failures for the last half of the cur
rent year viii swell the Losses to more than
$2,0O0000O0O A more haggard picture was
never presented. Radical Shylockism, 1t is
to be hoped. has done its worst, and that the
people will rebake it for its numberless sins
by their votes is certain beyond peradven-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

THE democratic party in this state is going
30 pfeces.-Journal.
And the pieces are knocking the life out
of the radical party. 1t is astonishing with
what tremendous force the pieces fly. The
CONSERVATION they create in the radical
ranks is significant. You had better look
out for the pieces or you will be killed as
certain as that you are combination Of ass
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

THE dollars of the dsddies were jingling
pretty lively in indianapolis yesterday, and
nobody objected to them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

The campaign is growing warm, and dem
ocrats are taking off their coats and rolling
up their sieeves.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-04

ALI honorable men declare that the radl
cal districting infamy must and shall be
wiped out