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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14
We cali special attention to ar 49,;
terms of six weekly Sentinels for s5; twelve
for $50,
DoDGING A GREAT ISSUE

The Unlimited Coinage bill will not be-
come law this session, at least, and the sit
uation is likely to be left exactly where it
has been, that is, notification of pi-met-
talism. IntrinScaliy it was a bill for the
benefit of the middle classes who constitute
the great majority of the American people.
The great capitalist who realizes from his
money investment, and the poor working
man who has nothing but his labor, perhaps
is interested in having his money in the
highest-priced metal. But the holders of
property of whatever kind, and the debtors
on our farms and in our cities, upon whose
prosperity is dependent the prosperity OF
labor, AID eventually the prosperity of cap
itsl. can only view the present relation of
money value to property value future of
distress. And how can it be otherwise? The
following opinion of prominent railroad
attorney puts the ultimate status of the
question in its true light:
With the exception of New York and the
New England States, 90 per cent, of the rail
road mileage in the country must necessarily
pass through bankruptcy sooner or latter, so
heavy are their bonded depts. Under the
most favorable conditions these roads could
not continue to run and pay the interest on
so heavy a bonded Indebtedness. The ten
dency was to lower passenger and to lower
freight rates, and the business of the railroads
did not increase in proportion to the reduc-
tons in rates from year to year, consequent
ly the revenue each year shows steady fall
ing of. In years past this decrease in reve-
nue. had been partially met by reducing the
wages of the employees, and the last year or
two by expanding as little money in improv-
ing road-beds and equipments as the case
would admit, but the bottom has been reach
ed in these directions, and deficits would
needs be met from other sources, either
through refunding schemes or some charac-
ter of reorganization through which bonded
debts could be cut down nearer to the real
valuation of the property. This means, in
most cases, bankruptcy.
This is exactly the status of every species
of property that was created upon the higher
plane of value than the present value of
money gold represents. Without relief,
without currency expansion that will be
tantamount to the difference, universal bank
ruptcy is as certain in the case of a mortgag-
ed farm, mortgaged house, or mortgaged
plant or mortgaged stock of goods, as it is
with mortgaged railroads. There are some
sins of omission that involve enormous con-
sequences, and the forcible reduction of the
values of such great quantities of property is
one of them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14
THE GREAT CORRUPTION.

The financial results Of the war showed to
the men whom the American people had
placed in charge of its destiny what a mine
of wealth lay hidden in its strength. These
men Immediately began to devise means of
working it, and for twenty-five years the ma
tional official powers have been constrained
in the single direction of turning the Amer
lean people into gigantic machine for turn
ing out dollars in a steady stream into few
great reservoirs. The machine thus devised
is known as indirect taxation, and the reser-
voirs are known as monopoly; and manop-
oily is well defined by the word tariff, its
great progenitor. At this moment there
does not appear the slightest sign Of relief.
A species of little, unclean partisanship
rules supreme; and politicians fiddle while
the country slowly drags into the ways of
suffering or dry rot, or burns in
riot and lawlessness. Personal aggrandize-
ment has usurped statesmanship, and brib-
cry and corruption seem to have taken the
place of patriotism. Legislation, from being
directed with the idea OF the greatest good to
the greatest number, has reversed into pro-
cess that makes the many hewers OF wood
and drawers OF water. When the honest ele-
ment of Congress attempts legislation for
relief or OF retreat back upon the cardinal
principles of Democratic institutions of
equitable taxation, some miserable pretext
is raised, some trivial thing is interposed,
before which all the country must wait while
the National Legislation higgles over the
price for which it will undertake TO sell its
influence, like Judas selling the life of the
Master.
There are honest men there, vainly try
ing to stem the tide of disgrace and
ruin, but their voices are eclipsed
in the din of the shambles to
which our national temple has been con-
verified. Measures of finance must be laid
aside because they are counter to the wishes
OF Wall street. Measures OF relief from an
enormous load of taxation must be deferred
to the wishes Of sugar planters, coal syndi-
Gates. iron manufacturers, and down through
the host of special privileges that have over
grown our institutions like poisonousxeeds,
till they have stihed all natural, healthful
growths, and poisoned the air with corrup-
taon, and greed, and feYerish haste in money
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14

Russia. it would be localized war, and il
would only affect the Russian supply. Only
a general war, lasting for considerable pc
Rod. would cut Oh Europe from Russia and
India and cause her to depend upon our
selves. But in such case we might be drawn
into it ourselves, in which case ships from
our ports would be subjected to the same
surveillance as they would from the ports of
our competitors.
Altogether the speculative chances are de.
cidedly opposed to the wheat industry. based
upon nominal supplies and conditions. The
chances in favor of betterment are so alb
normal as only to be viewed as sort of
drowning mans hope, for we will have 2ie,-
100000 OF bushels to sell. or nearly three
times as mach as we have sold in year past,
and it will have to be very curious com
bination of adverse circumstances for Europe
ard the West midas to require so much in
the face of the rapidly increasing wheat
acreage in South America, Australia. India
North Africa and in Russia, especially as the
continent of Europe, with an average crop,
nearly produces its own wants.
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getting at the cost of human sentimen OF
human happiness of that great mass to whom
nature has denied the possibility of getting
rich. and to whom these noisome laws have
proven vesita5le harpies.
We condemn strikers for going beyond the
right and the law, and the safety OF society
demands that we condemn. But they are
not the sole examples of lawIessneas that We
must condemn. They are admoritions that
there must be an end Of political jobbery,
political juggiery and political degradation
Of our democratic institutions. They are adj
monitions from patient people, that seem
to have been forgotten in ths strife for
power, for privilege and for money, by those
in high places, that an end must come to it,
and that those entrusted with the response
biiity of leading this people, and the whole
people on its natural path of life, prosperity,
and the pursuit of happiness, must not
longer postpone their mission, and which re-
quires but honesty to make successful
On ali these great questions our Congress
is in hopeless anarchy. Office office, Office
is the alpha and omega that inspires our
politicians from the time they graduate
from the saloons till they enter the portals of
the House aud Senate chambers. Whether
the bride be whisky that steals the sense OF
arm from some poor wretch, or whether it
be some valuable franchise. stealing away
the goods and household gods of defence
less people, it is all one and the same, Office
upon office, builded up on a foundation of
bride upon bribe.
But whence the cure? 1t can only come
from a virtuous public. that is really at heart
sound, concentrating it's Indignation upon
monopoly that is builded upon brides, upon
politicians that are builded with brides, and
upon a system of brides, and bribery that
could not exist because the motive would
be wanting, if that great growth of special
privilege, favoritism. monopoly, that pro-
genitor of bribery-the tariff-were de-
stroyed. Its root is injustice, its trunk
bribery, its branches corruption. and its
fruit, ruin. 1t is the modern hydra. requir-
ing another Hercules.
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The Weekly Sentinel and the American Ag-
riculturist for Sc, only 50 cents more than
the price OF the Aericulturist.
THE WHEAT PROSPECT.

The condition of winter wheat now fore
shadows, with an average OF spring wheat the
same as last year, a crop of 5O0,Ooo,OOO BUSH
els, Last year our total crop was $50, 600 900,
yet we will have left over, leaving out an i'm
mediate contingency of great foreign war,
somewhere near to 40, 900, 900, or a total of
$40, 900 600. Our total exports of wheat and
-four reduced to wheat for nine months end
ing March 81 were 81, 600 900, and the same
ratio till June 81 will raise the figure to ST.
100000 bushels as the years total export in
-four and wheat. We will need for home
consumption during the next crop year 49,
100000. III to this is added the same rate of
export for the coming year we will require
for all purposes Ali, 600, 900 bushels, and have
a surplus of 129, 900 600 bushels.
1t may readily be seen that scarcely any
probable circumstances will occur to raise
the wheat industry from its lethargy. The
Indian crop harvested in January was
up to average, while that country has
large stocks OF last years held over.
The crop in Europe was good last year, and
so far promises well for this Russia also has
large stock of last year to offer, when navi-
CATION of her Northern ports opens. The
speculative quantities in this estimate are
the acreage of spring wheat, possible damage
before harvest, and war prospects. OF the
first there is little likelihood that the acreage
will be reduced, owing to the dependence of
the spring wheat state upon wheat produc-
ton. The second, of course, is altogether
undeterminable, while the third is an even
chance. But even II war did occur, 1t would
not affect the American market, unless it
Enlarged the Russian ports and the Suez
Canal; and even then the Russian supply
would reach Europe through Germany and
Austria; or, II those powers were opposed IA
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14

SENATOR VOORHEES, struck the keynote in
the debate on the EdmUnds resolution when
hesaid
The resolutions now before the Senate con-
stituted a trivial and inconsequential meas-
ure compared TO the sturdy and straightfOr.
wsrd remedy provided by the Constitution
for the punishment OF public official will
fully recfeant and disobedient 10 the law.
These resolutions were simply intended to
keep Republicans in Office. There was moth
ing more certain. however, than that the
people understood the object. majority
of the Senate had turned aside from the le-
gitimate business of legislation. Labor all
over the country was overtaxed aud scantily
paid by reason of long standing vicious leg
islstion- Human suffering was wringing its
hands aud weeping in many parts of the
country IN restitution from went OF employ
ment and proper remuneration. Great cor
porations were overshadowing the land aud
absorbing the powers of the State and the
Nation, grinding the flesh aud blood of men
and women into their huge and massive
hoppers. American commerce no longer
had a ship on the high seas. The great
questions of taxation and finance were press
ing for attention. But from all these great
and pressing subjects we must turn aside to
discuss this question raised by the Senator
from Vermont. 1t was thrustTinto oc1 coun-
ellis to obstruct tne business OF the country
in favor of lot of Republican otfce-hold-
ers. The President, Senator Voorhees, said.
was holding his great Office in trust for the
people. and was not warranted in abandon
ing the rights of the Presidential Office in
favor of any other branch of the Govern
ment.
Our esteemed Senator might have gone
further and added that Congress, As a whole
has turned aside from its Legitimate business
for years to engage in unseemly party quar-
rels to the neglect of any wholesome leglsla-
ton, until great measures for the public
good are almost unknown to the balls Of
Congress, and narrow. little, mean partisan
ship and personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT has
usurped the high place OF broad enlght-
ened craftsmanship, and of ali the small
Unclean schemes that have been dragged
into either branch of Congress, the late Que
Of Senator Edmunds is the smallest. 1t has
been well said that it does not embedy
solitary principle of government worthy Of
attention, but is simply an attempt to hold
few paltry offices. A species of little,
mean, unclean partisanship rules supreme,
while the vast labor and commercial inter-
ests of the country are suffering as never
known before to this generation
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GOOD IN ALL.

There is probably no better proof OF the
benefcence of the Creator than the fact that
He has made nothing that has not good SER
vice in it at some time or in some conditions.
Flies clean away feculent matter that would
breed disease. Fishing worms plough up
sterile subsoil into fertility. Darwin says
toads are the best of guardians of gardens
when worms are about. The venom of
rattlesnake is said to be an effective Tedi-
cine in some cases, and its oil remedy for
rheumatism. Even mugwump has his use
as a warning against political emasculation.
But as fully as these and other instances OF
on.niscient goodness proved the rule of the
Creators indisposition to make anything
wholly useless, the dude has been a
standing paradox in the way of abb
solute faith. What earthly or any other
good can there be in these animated tailors'
signs? Well, there is sometimes something
that excuses their general uselessness and
iustifies their existence. In the recent sink
ing of the Oregon there were two dudes on
board conspicuous for variety OF breeches
and neckties and painful frequency of
change, who are said To hare helped the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14
THOUGHT OF THE HOUR.

RIGHTS are valuable, but order is as valu-
Memphis Avalanche.
Ex-MINIsTER GEORGE F. SEWARD: The
Chinaman deserves to be treated well because
he is fellow human being.
"wEAErH," says Dr. Holmes, sis a steep
hill which the father climbs slowly and
which the son often tumbles down preeipi-
lately
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: L have livedSloag
enough to know that there is vast deal Of
commonplace in the world of no particular
Use to anybody.
IT was made apparent in the recent local
elections throughout the country that the
people are becoming more and more disposed
to make such elections turn upon local
issues. This is a strong symptom of pOliti-
cal healtb.-Chicago Current.
liz any one asks why have given 50 much
money 10 the Wesleyan Female Coisege Of
Georgia, tell them it was to honor my moth
err, to whom, under God, owe more than
to all the world besides.-George l.. Seney
who gave $4,000 to that Institution
A GOOD place to begin on a reduction of
the hours of labor would De in the rum
shops. The poor saloon-keepers, who have
to keep at work from early morn till IL
o'clock at night, are overworked and need
rest. Their plodesty has prevented their
making any protest.-Springfield Union.
1 KNOW of nothing that has-been taught
the youth of our time except that their
fathers were apes and their mothers wrinkles;
that the world began in accident and will
end in darkness; that honor is a folly, am
bition a virtue, charity aviee, poverty a
crime and rascality the means of all wealth
and the sum of ali wisdom.-Euskin.
DONATION parties for The pastor, as gen.
eral thing, are almost an insult to that
worthy citizen. 1t will be found that in
nine cases out o. ten the pastor, who is sup
posed to be overweighea with gratitude be-
cause he is presented with bushel of tur-
nips and loaf of brown bread, has not been
paid more than half ais salary, and is in ar
rears for rent. Pay the pastor live-and-let-
live salary, and let him purchase his own
turnips.-Elgin (Ill.) Saturday Evening.
LABOR reform agitators spend much breath
and ink in trying to convince workingmen
that fortunes are generally obtained through
fraud, chicanery, or "sharp practices That
some fortunes have been obtained in this
way is altogether likely. A much larger
number, however, have been obtained by
taking great risks by approaching the value
ofinventions and discoveries that most per-
sons decided were not worth anything by
accident, or by the exercise of superior abil-
ity in conducting old lines of business
Chicago Times.
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A Mad Republican.

CHARLEsTowN, April 6.-The generally
very quiet town of CharlestOwn was the
scene of a wild hubbub last even ing, after
the result of the election Became known.
John Long, the defeated Republican can
didate for Trustee, go$ very mad at his
brethren in the faith and called
them very Objectionable names and
nally Jumped onto Isaac Gil
oert, a brother Republican of the mugwump
order Long was armed with a knife, it 20
said, and Gilbert drew pistol. Marshal
Boyer attempted to separate the belligerents
and Gilbert popped his pistol in his face:
Sheriff Hay had to interfere finally. and
Long was taken away by his friends.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14

has lived IN EosIaod. working continuously
for the Harpefs, who, IL IS said, pay MIN a
salary of $4,000 annually.
EMPERos WfEsIAn. at eighty-nine, ra,es
every morning at 7:30 aud dresses at once
for The day. disdsiring to use either dressing
gown or slippers His face is shrunken and
he daily becomes weaker, but he sticks to
his work with something like his youthful
vigoT.
AMONG the members Ct the United States
Senate Ingalls, tsiksloudeot. Eimunds most,
Malone least, while Evarts sits aud muses.
uietly. Hoar looks most like grandmoth-
er, aud German receives most callers and is
a favorite of the pages. as he vas once page
himself.
T. DEWITT TALNAGE does most of his work
on railway trains. and the entire series of
sermons on The Marriage Ring were com
posed on the cars on q weeks trip lsst Sep
TENDER When he loses sleep,he keeps an
account of it, aud balances the account in
summer time by sleeping right straight
ahead.
RUBiYsTEtY, who has made large sans OF
money from his historical concerts in R,rs-
STA, intends devoting %, 01e roubies to found
a quinquennial international competition
among pianists and composers OF instru-
mental music. Prizes of ) .006 france will be
given to the successful candidates in each.
or to those pre-eminent in both. Personsof
all nationalities, between twenty and twenty
SIX, will be admitted to compete.
Mr. JOSEPH PULITZER, editor OF the New
York World, has sent TO the Governors of
the New York Hospital check foE 5000,
the amount of his first years salary as a Rep
reseHtative in Congress from the Ninth Dis
trict. This donation is to be used in the en-
dowment of permanent bed in the hospi' al
for the benefit OF sick and disabled news
paper workers OF every kind The control
of the hospital bed thus permanently as
sured will be vested in the Trustees of the
New York Press Club.
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women and children from the wreck wi III
GOODNESS and courage wholly unexpected.
So, 100, it happened, years ago, that the
dandy officers of the English Guards. who
seemed TO be fit for nothing but tassels for
ladies' apron strings, were among the daring
and reckless of the fighters at Waterloo. and
SO changed the contemptuous feelings of their
comrades. that the latter swore they would
never sneer at dandy sgain. 1t is a con-
elusive proof. to our thinking, of the mantle
goodness Of the Creator. that He has made
even dude capable OF good service OCCASION
ally. 1t Is much less difficult to make the
wrath of man praise him" than to make
the faulty and feebleness OF an imitation of
a man to praise him by developing under
suitable conditions into real man.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14
CONCERNING WOMEN.

NILSSON will positively appear ia New
YoiL City October IL.
ONE of Helen Hunt Jackson's monuments
is to be the "Ramona" Indian School for
Girls, at Santa Fe.
MEs. AGAssIz's Life and Correspondence Of
Louis Agassiz is translated into German and
issued by Berlin publishers
MISS MARY CECIL HAY, author OF ''Old
MIDDLETON 5 Money" and a score of other
novels. Is hopelessly Ill in England.
MRS. CLARISSA DAVENPORT RAYMOND, Of
Wilton, the oldest lady in Connecticut, will
celebrate he 1O4th birthday on April Is.
Two daughters of the late Secretary Folger
have been living for year in the pine forest
region of the Adirondscks hoping for re-
lief from throat complaints.
Mrs. BELyA LOCKWOOD says that trained
skirts are undoubtedly, in their origin, a
badge OF servility," and therefore she argues
that women should cease to wear them.
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT is said to be
hard at work upon her husbands memoirs.
In that event it is safe to say the book will
be great deal better than the public has
been led to expect
Mrs. S. TAINToR, of East Avon, New York,
has twice held the office OF School Trustee.
Through the influence of her husband. s.
Taintor, NJ. D., 1t has become the custom in
that district to pay the same wages to teach
ers, irrespective of sex.
A RIDGwAY Mich. woman has kept track
of her baking for year and finds the score
TO stand thus for family of six: Cookies,
1905 pies, 592; cakes 263 fried cakes, 9S7;
loayes of bread, Cos; besides numberless
johnnycakes, shortcakes, pancakes and pud-
dines.
BARBARA ROBINSON, an uneducated nine
year-old negro girl of West Point, Ga, bids
fair to rival Blind Tom as q pianist She
plays with wonderful correctness any COM
position she has once heard. Like Tom, she
seems obliviOus to everything else when lis
tening to music or playing the piano.
The death of Mrs. Julia E. Smith Parker,
the last of the Smith sisters OF Glastonbury,
so prominent in the interests OF woman
suffrage, has brought to light one of the first
petitions ever presented to Congress for the
abolition of slavery, from the ladies OF Glas-
tonbury, and presented through John
Quincy Adams in 1888. Six of the Smith
sisters headed the list. with some 400 other
Glastonbury ladies following. The names OF
their des cendants are prominent in the anti
slavery movement all over the country.