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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23

timore, and Queen Anne attributed the name
to herself by granting the charter of l70s." q
FRANCIS B. LsoNIs, well known in news
paper circles as a reporter and correspondent,
has been appointed State Librarian of Ohio.
THERE was but one opinion regarding Mrs.
Cleveland, and that was she will ornament
the White House as it never was ornameDted
before. The ladies of the Diplomatic Corps
gazed at her long and earnestly, and finally
concluded that she was one of the most beau
tiful women they ever beheld. The Amer
lean ladies looked at her with pride, and de-
clared that she surpassed any foreign beauty
ever introduced into official society at Wash
ington. Old and young men alike were eX-
ceedingly extravagant in their praises of her
beauty. Postmaster General Villas was COM
pletely charmed by the fair hostess Of the
Executive Mansion. He remarked to party
of newspaper men standing just outside OF
the Blue Parlor: II have been abroad, and
on one occasion had the pleasure of seeing
a crowned Queen preside at a state occasion,
but she did not equal in beauty or grace the
Presidents beautiful young wife.
ington Special.
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A DEMAND FOR POLITICAL FUNER-


The Republicans, assisted by thirty-five
C. ngressmen representing Democratic con-
81 uencies, defeated the tariff issue for this
s. sion of Congress, and it will go over until
tie political funerals of q few Republican
Democrats are decreed by their constituents.
OF this thlrty-ive but eleven were from the
Western and Southern States, and if the vote
represented the true sentiment of the people,
it would reduce the question 20 sectional
issue, with the East representing the tariff
monopoly interests. But we do not believe
that democrats of the Eastern and Middle
States countenance the action of their repre-
sCntatives, who were subjected to the per-
suasiye influences of TIE powerful lobby
that fer months has been laboring to under
mine the ISSUE.
The vote indicates that the Republican
party is substantially unit against any re-
dpction of the tariff or any change in the
policy of the Government in the protection
doctrine, as but four out of 122 Republicans
voted in favor of the Morrison bill. We
would not consider this in any way sbnor-
NAL or significant il the Democrats had
taken equally as decided position on the
pledges upon which the party was intrusted
to power, but it postpones a question to
which the party stands committed, and upon
which the popular voice is decided and ur-
gent, and at time when our Frustrated in
dustries require the broadest, most energetic
craftsmanship.
The latter phase of the question embraces
its vitality, and if this vitality does not
cover the recslcitrant Democrats with well
deserved obscurity it will be because the Re-
publican party will lack the perception to
take advantage of it. The great mass of
population are demanding freedom from the
imposition of taxation for the benefit of a
few Eastern manufacturing interests. The
power of this country lies west of the Ale
ghanies, and yet in all financial and econo-
mic measures this majority has been made
subordinate to the Eastern oligarchy now
as during the past twenty years, solely as
tax-paying elements to enrich the few, whose
influence is so deeply rooted as to defy all
popular efforts to overthrow 1t.
Whatever vitality the protection idea ever
had in the development of home industries
has long since gone through interstate COM
petition. and its retention now is only CO.
lossal job through which a few bonded in
terests can enrich themselves from the pro-
ductive classes, who are compelled to restrict
their purchases to this chosen few, who in
return demand the utmost free trade in labor
and raw material.
But there is a glimpse of hope in the
gradually declining strength OF the protec-
ton factionists. The bill was defeated only
on the narrow majority of seventeen. A
change of ten votes will suffice to defeat the
protectionists, and the country may rely
upon the increasing firmness and urgency of
the masses to decisively settle this issue in
the next Congress.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
PRISON REFORM.

Michael Dunn's address before the Prison
Chaplains Association in this city was in
teresting. and met with hearty response
from most who heard him.
He said he was for thirty-6ve years con-
vict, being imprisoned at different times at
"Old Bailey" Manchester, England; at Van
Diemsn's Land, Western Australia; Gibralta
Philadelphia, Montreal, South Boston, Sing
Sing, and other places. He is a native of
Manchester, England, and is now sixty-six
years DID, and was twenty-five before he
knew the alphabet. He was first sent to
prison when eight years old for pilfering and
had led the life of thief until ten years ago,
when, upon being released from Sing Sing,
was induced by ChristioD people to reform,
which he tried and felt that he had accom-
plished. Shortly after the beginning of this
change in himself, by the aid of philan-
thropic people he began the establishment of
Home for Discharged Convicts in New York
City, which has proved very successful, and
is one of the model institutions of the coun-
try. Two more are now in existence-one at
San Francisco and the other at Chicago-Mr.
Dunn being in charge Of the last one. The
object of the institutions is to furnish a
home for ex-convicts who are willing to work.
Mr., Dunn is strongly opposed 10 the contract
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
GLADSTONE GAINING.

1t is astonishing, so soon after q parlia-
mentary decision that destroyed a ministry
and apparently rended the English Liberal
party in twain, how rapidly the tables are
turning against the Tories. Already they
have weakened themselves by attempting a
measure of Irish home rule and stultifed
the position upon which the dissolution was
based. The reason for this is the awakened
sentiment of the British peasant and artisan
classes, with whom land question, similar
in its feature to the underlying cause of the
Irish agitation, has placed in sympathy with
the Gladstone programme. The enthusiasm
with which the Premier has been received
indicates that the Tories did not understand
the drift of public opinion, and their retreat
upon a partial compromise shows the insin-
cerltY of their professions.
The condition of British industry is the
animus of the awakening of the British
masses. That British tenant farmer views
a land question in the same light as an Irish
tenant farmer follows naturally, as the for
mer has been reduced to the same straits
through identical causes that produced the
Irish agitation. British farmers are pros
longer able to pay the rents and taxation
that is as burdensome in England as in Ire
land. Manchester -spinners are
threatened with destruction through India
and American competition, and they, too,
have been led by the force of necessity to
question the methods of taxation required
for the support of the landlord and class
4hak 70 10 DIT aI,
feudsl institutions. The action of these
causes, although produced in different ways,
is visibly productive of q rapid growth of
more democratic ideas, which, as they are
formulated by the Irish leaders, represent
closely the wishes of English classes of SINH
lar social status,
1t has been apparent to American eyes for
years that the Irish had opened aquestion
as vital TO England, to Scotland, as to Ire
land. Indeed, it is questionable if some
phases of the question dc not spread through
out the world But it certainly has affected
the English and Scotch, and seemingly to a
degree that puts new phase to the question
that but two weeks ago looked so dark for
the fortune of Glsdssone's programme and
party. That the Tories in this short time
have seen their unity melt away into various
shades of belief that range from watery re-
duction of Glsdstone's solution to the ex
IRENE of coercion, while Gladstone's policy,
by toning down some asperities in his bill,
approaches, if it does not nullify, the Tory
Liberals and conciliates the Conservative
Wings, has put a new aspect upon the posi-
bllities of the question that is in the highest
sense complimentary to the political sagacity
of this remarkable leader of modern popular
thought and the dexterity by which his very
mistakes are turned to his benefit
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into fund, as Professor Swing suggests, the
mere interest or income of it would provide
for much poverty and arrest much suffering.
And all this vast mischief was done on a
mere ''punctilIo." There was no
grievance, no wrong, no oppression.
The leader of the Knights of Labor said so.
He admitted that there was no adequate
ground for it. The best pretense, and the
only one, was that the knights must be
recognized" Their power must be asserted
and demonstrated. A Knight had been dis
missed from his place and hundred thou
sand other Knights "must know the reason
Why" and that is all of it. 1t beats the old
ballad of "Trelawney Far Away"
The worst of the effects, after all,
are those that strike back, like the tabled
boomerang, and hit the men who did the
mischief. The workingman, the laborer, is
always the first and the worst to suffer when
business is blocked and industry crippled.
We don't argue against the principle of
strikes. 1t often happens that the only way
to force mean or malignant employer to
reason and Just action is by stop
ping his business till he ''squeals"
But there must be distinction
taken between private business that con-
Germs one man, or few only, and such oper-
atoms as affect the thousand individuals
and interests all over the country. These
have no part in the grievance that is made
the basis of the strike. but they have big
part in the mischief it does. They have to
bear ills for which no blame lies at their
door. For cases of this kind there is a law
needed, it seems to US. If the emplyes of q
railway, for instance, are ill-paid or
ill-used, an appeal to some legal tribunal
should be allowed where the power lies to
compel correction of the abuse. 1t is not
in human nature to bear hard usage and
poor pay without resentment or resistance,
whatever may be the effect on innocent
parties of the measures taken to resist. And
that these measures need not be resorted to,
unofending parties escape mischief, and ill
used workingmen be saved from wrong, a
law should provide for a proper tribunal of
correction. Something of that kind will
come sooner or later, for its necessity is
obvious always and urgent often.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

The increase of imports for the nine
months ended April l, Of more than $685.
600, 600, as compared with the same period of
the preceding year, is pretty sure indica-
ton of increasing domestic prosperity. The
closing months of 1884 were the gloomiest
in our history, and since the spring of 1885 a
slow, but certain, improvement has been
noticeable. That the improvement was dis
sppointingly slow has been due to the utter
absence of speculative fever, and what gains
we have made are solid, legitimate and en-
during. The "bucket.shop" has disappeared
from our cities where formerly they thrived.
Real estate with few exceptions, produced
by abnormal local causes, has invited sales
on its intrinsic worth; and never perhaps
have more cottages been built by small pro-
prietors than during the past two years. The
growth Of building and loan associations
among the working and middle classes has
somewhat changed the usual distribution of
money that is now by natural process of
selection seeking profitable channels for
employment upon non-speculative basis and
individual economies, rather than in hasty
investments. 1t is unquestionable that these
have severely disturbed Incomes of large
fiscal corporations who have depended upon
high rental value of their properties, which
again depended upon the much higher cost
which the investments represented when
they were made.
In truth, the abnormal dizziness has been
| due to a wringing out process which has
eliminated the water which the gradual
enhancement of money and of shrinkage of
property values represent, and until this
could reach its level investments upon a
large scale will certainly be postponed.
From various symptoms in various parts of
the world there is apparent reaction in the
artificial methods that have been applied to
enhance money values, and it is clear that
this great reaction means that this great dis
turbing cause has passed its maximum. In
fact, there is increasing evidence that France
and England will reverse, in part at least,
their policy toward silver, in which case we
may expect, with considerable confidence,
that the price of gold will decline somewhat
and q reaction in the values OF products set
in.
The moment such a reaction becomes ap-
parent as q reasonably permanent tendency,
the long inaction will cease. Capital will
invest with confidence that by induction
will impart a constant acceleration OF in.
dustry. With this will come an equal in
crease Of purchasing power and period Of
greater commercial activity among al
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system of convict labor. In the course of an
interview he said:l
1.-THE needed reforms in prisons rests by
no means alone with the chaplains. They
can accomplish nothing of refermatory
nature except through becoming better &C.
quainted with the men than has heretofore
appeared to be their disposition. Very much
of this reform work must be accomplished
by legislation. One of the most important
changes to be made in prison discipline is in
regard to the placing of two men in the
same cell. This should never be done for
any number of reasons. A young convict,
serving his first term, is made far worse by
the constant association with convict who
has become thoroughly deparyed. Instead
of becoming attached to each other cell
mates are apt to become bitter
enemies. The ugly spirit with which they
become possessed grows habitual and re-
mains with them when they are liberated.
Then there are serious reasons why
the system of placing two men in one cell
should be abolished that can hardly be APP
preached. If the public understood, even in
part, how stupendous are the evils of this
plan and the crimes enacted constantly
within prison walls there would arise a
unanimous demand for wider prison accom-
modations The best reformatory method
for the convict is to place him in solitary
confinement until he begs for work. The
hardest punishment in the world for man
to endure is a solitary existence and idle
ness was in Sing Sing nine months with
out work, and it seemed to me l would be
come insane. We know men to actually be-
come 'leony'' through the pressure of prison
idleness. Then, when a man is set to work,
he should not for months see any one but
the instructor who teaches him his occupa-
ton and the Chaplain. By keeping a man
idle for a time he is so anxious to work that
he will try his best to learn whatever is told
him to do, and to do it well.
"Night schools should be established in
every Jail and prison, to give those who have
had no opportunity to obtain the elements
OF education chance to learn, at least, how
to read and write correctly. All men who
can read should be allowed to have a book
once week from the prison library, instead
of once a month. No one can have an idea
how eager men in prison are for reading
matter; but they seldom get the best books
in the Libraries, for all the keepers and other
officers in the institutions take the pick
themselves. I've seen men lying fiat on the
floor of their cells, face downward, reading
by the little crack of light that crept in un.
der the door. No man but the Warden
should have authority to punish the prison.
ers, and flogging or other physical punish
ments should never be employed. Flog
ging never made man better, but always
worse"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
PERSONALS.

GENERAL SIMON BOLIVAR BUcKNER, who
distinguished himself in the Confederate
army, may be the next Governor of Ken
lucky.
The Providence Journal hears that Attor-
ney General Garland will resign before thirty
days have passed. The same thing was heard
by other journals six months ago.
MARTIN Irons hired hall in Kansas City
to lecture on the great strike and fourteen
persons came. Martin did not lecture and
the audience got its money back.
FREDERICK WETMoRE. who talked an hour
with DR.. Oliver Wendall Holmes, writes Of
him: 1.-THE briskest man l ever saw,
think, at seventy-six, and with mind most
alert"
THE table used by Chairman Thomas ].
Settle at the National Republican Conven-
ton which renominated Grant in 1872 in the
Academy of Music was used as the speaker
desk on Tuesday at the centennial of Ham
den, Conn.
OSCAR H. COOPER. the new State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction in Texas, is the
youngest man in the United States holding
a similar position. He is only twenty-three
years of age and graduate of Yale, where
he was formerly tutor.
WINsLow JONES, in letter from England
to the Maryland Historical Society, says:
Annapolis was first so called after Anne
Arundel, the wife Of Cecil, second LQgd Bal
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
Life of Hendricks.

Life and Public Services of Thomas A.
Hendricks" with selected writings and
speeches, by John w. Holcombe and Hubert
w. Skinner, is the title of new book soon
to be ready for the reader. This book will
be sold by subscription, to be delivered after
September 1, Upon the subject chosen a
dull book could not be written, but the rep
utation of the authors and their recognized
literary attainments give assurance of a book
for which there is strong demand at this
time; a comprehensive and well written
study of the career of one of our great men.
The specimen pages which have been sub
mitted to us promise an exceedingly inter
impartial in its treatment OF men and
measures. Externally it is to be made up in
the finest style, and illustrated with steel
portraits and fine wood cuts.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
A REPUBLICAN tissue" GONE.

1t is poor gun that shoots in both direc-
tons. Possibly this will be evident to some
of the Republican contemporaries who have
been straining to prove that the sixteen
months administration of Government by
Democracy had at last failed to mend the
business prostration, if, indeed, it had not
increased it. But the cold logic of fact has
put this poverty-stricken argument into the
category of buncomb that, if it could have
any result, would be to impair confidence in
that nervous class OF business men who pin
their faith in the lies of Republican An
archists. The following comparison of eI-
changes at the larger and the smaller cities,
for five months OF this year and last year,
presents the result:
Boston, Philadelphia
and Chieag0........ So 700, 2S6,lSO S3e92 O2l,273
ST. Louis, Baltimore,
New Orleans and Mil
Twenty other cities. 1,S0l,079176 lies, SoO,el6
This makes gain over the year 1885 for
identical periods of 1912 s97, s5s-the reverse
of bad business. We think force of habit
during these years past has prevented prop
er application of the fact that our business
stagnation has ended and reversed into q
movement OF advance. To this may be ad-
ded an absence of feverish speculation that
adds excitement 10 trade, and perhaps the
lower prices that prevail has ob,cured the
prime fact that for year and half the ten
dency has been steadily upward. The re-
suit is extremely gratifying, and if the great
labor unrest had not operated during this
last interval of five months it would have
been striking
When the increased purchasing power Of
this added SSl2, eco 900 is considered, it ex-
pands the volume of exchanged products to
an equivalent of billion compared with the
preceding year, and when we consider the
enormous increase in agricultural products
foreshadowed for this reason against the
indications of one year ago, and the advance
in the value of labor secured by the unskilled
classes, and the settlement for a couple of
years at least of the question of labor values,
there is indicated for this and for two or
three years following, constantly accellerat-
ing improvement in business.
There is a tendency to dwell upon the re-
duced value OF products as indicating the re-
verse of prosperity. 1t will require time, no
doubt, to accustom capital to smaller re-
turns in investments. They are small only
by comparison with the abnormal interests
and profits that the rapid expansion of this
country during the past twenty years has
made possible. But the capitalist who COM
pares his profits with the profits of capital in
Europe, will see that he is yet far in adj
vance. To the country as a whole the
question of profits VS.. quantity produced is
only comparative, and would not be obscured
except by the confusion of money with
trade. If the profits should decline one
half, it would not indicate distress as a
whole, but advance as whole, for it would
mean by that much an addition to the COM
forts. the Injuries of life, to the people.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23

A Mr.. DELAcY, of Nottingham, England,
has invented a remarkable automatic life
size figure in the semblance of a Turk
Item.
Why could not Mr. DeLacy have shown
originality enough to have adopted some
other figure than that of Turk for his auto
maton? DeKempelen adopted that figure
for his celebrated automaton, "Chess
Player" a hundred years ago or near it.
After travelling all over the civilized world,
mainly with Maelzel, ana beating the great
Napoleon more than once, the 'Chess
Player" sunk out of sight finally in the
attic OF some old warehouse in this country,
probably in Philadelphia.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
TO DUB PATRONS And FRIENDS:

We never weary in trying to attract and
please our subscribers. We now have
the pleasure of presenting a FIRST
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This is an article needed in every
household, and in presenting it, we wish
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Of it.
We would not agree to present this
machine to our friends, until after wepsh
given it full and complete trial and knew
beyond question or doubt, that we could
safely guarantee it as fully equal to
machines that are sold for $50 and 500,
and if when any machine is received and
tried it does not come up to the highest
standard, we will take it back and re-
turn the money.
For Sz2 we will pack and ship the
machine and send copy of the Weekly
Sentinel for one year.
For S2I we will send the machine to any
present subscriber whose name is on our
books.
None OF these machines are for sale by
agents. See advertisement. Send all
orders to SENTINEL CO.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
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SHOULD the paper rail, now on trial on
Russian railroads, prove the success in time
it has so far indicated. it would create a
revolution in disposition of trade as COM
plete as the introduction of the locomotive
over the farm wagon. We imagine that a
great deal of the worlds depression has been
due to the destruction of capital through
changes in the methods o. applied industry.
A successful and durable paper rail would
mean large substitution of this substance
for iron and steel, and turn every farm into
productive mine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23

THE use of the word ''old" in the sense of
the frequent grumbling of the porter in
Macbeth, eff man were porter of hell gate
he should have old turning the key" as
odd as it seems to US now it was not uncom-
mon in this city and county fifty years ago
among the North Carolina settlers. The
writer has heard it often, and it may pos
sibly be used still by some remnant of the
last generation. There are many local idioms
and oddities of England preserved in certain
localities in this country, probably after
they have become obsolete at home