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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-21

FRANCE is surrounded with many dangers,
mostly growing out of the hostility of the
three Emperors to Republican France. Bis
marck has made threat to dismember Savoy
and Nice and give ito Italy as the price of her
alliance. France and England are PRACTICAL
ly the only nations of Europe representing
"individualism and democratic institutions,
and it is upon them that will fall the weight
of the three communistic nations OF Central
and Eastern Europe, and in which we will
certainly become involved. England, France
and the United States are the three great
powers representing ideas that the balance OF
Europe will engage. The conflict on the line
of this idea is inevitable, although it may be
somewhat removed in point of time. just
now democratic institutions in England and
America are undergoing considerable strain,
and the question of permanancy of society
ard orderly government will be better known
a couple of years hence The recent ebulition
of popular sentiment in Germany, and the
growth of the democratic idea there will
render a war of repression by the Holy AL
lance somewhat doubtful to the three
Kaizers who, in war with France. would
lock all Europe in a solidarity of communal
despOtism,
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and tortured them with most ingenious and
deYilish malignity; established secret cham
bers of inquisition that passed its secret
judgment, drew their victims from their
BEDS applied the boot, the thumb-screw, the
rack, and consumed with slow fire. We
look upon these things as pertaining to an
age of uncivilized ferocity, and expected bet
ter OF the third quarter Of the nineteenth
century Perhaps the prescription may be
a degree less ferocious, but only
degree But it is the same
spirit OF deviiish intolerance, and practiced
under the shield of labor organizations who
wage their war upon capital by prescription
and persecution of the poorest labor. We
do not say, for we do not believe, that the
common sense of labor organizations either
advocates or extenuates this sort CT proscrip-
ton, and it is this that the common sense in
labor organizations must control, foi the
common sense in labor organizations If it
fails to control will certainly leave them
and the organizations will fall from their
own excuses under the crushing weight of
public opinion, public safety in some in
herent and intuitive perceptions of organic,
real principles of liberty, that is beclouded
by this labor nightmare, for it
is nightmare that is leading
labor into the realms of visionary impossi-
bilities; that in striking strikes blindly at
everything; that is striking as madly at
labor as at capital; that is striking blin6y
at itself; that is committing suicide. We
speak plainly. and We speak 10 labor organ
izations as their friend, as we have the right
to speak, after years of struggle with some
of the things involved in this labor struggle
We say what their best perceptions will bear
US out in, that this mad prescription of
labor upon labor must cease, and we hope it
will cease from the good sense and thought
of the organizations within themselves and
not that the nightmare be broken as other
similar Nightmares have been-by Whit of
grape shot. For what protection society can
not get from the law, what protection labor
fails to afford by its own discipline and Or
ganization, will be exacted by force.
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THE ANTITHEsIs OF LABOR.

We have heard of successful wars of ''la-
Dor" against capital" but we never heard
of successful war where the laborer at
tempted to fight capital and labor both.
The attempt has cost, the organizations
every defeat they have had. The trouble in
the Southwest began at Galveston On accoent
of the presence of some non-union men.
They lost their case with the Mccormick
Reaper Company because Mr.. Mccormick
would not agree to discharge seven non-union
men out of a total of l 400. We noted on
Saturday morning no less than a dozen
strikes for no other allegation than that
'scabs" were employed. We do not know
how much of responsibility the officers of
unions have in forcing these things. and it is
not likely that they favor them, but it indi-
Gates that the unions do not exert the discip-
line they pretend they do, nor exert the con-
servatism they pretend they do, when so
many of these things occur.
1t is in fact mania for striking, like the
smallpox or measles, for so few of the strikes
have alleged any respectable grievance that
it is becoming an open question how to gov
ern organizations that can not govern them
selves. See what they ask They AK tia
every workingman shall be compelled to join
one of their orders. Often they do not even
give him the poor consolation of allowing
him to join their societies, but engage in a
ruthless prescription against innocent men,
against poor men-men who so poor and
friendless that even labor the modern di-
vinity, that presumes to ask the American
people to entrust it with their lives, with
their property, with everything, attempts to
drive them from their poor livings, and send
them as outcasts upon the world, to starve.
Why are men with justice eternally upon
their lips, with a cry of oppression from a
tyrannizing monopoly of capital; men who
place themselves upon the pedestal OF
liberty as the exponent of all the virtues,
and men who proclaim from the housetops
that they and their cause is the last ex-
] position of Christianity that is to carry us to
a new and better vorld-why do these men.
so many of them, proclaim the divine mis-
sion a lie by concentrating their energy upon
the poorest OF the poor, and attempt 10
| snatch the last crust from the oppressed
We can not but recall the time when
the most powerful organization this world
ever saw, and as powerful as ever will be,
took those people who would not worship
God and practice Christianity precisely q
| this organization wished 70 have II Practiced,
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forces; in fact, has not learned to know that
so it zealously reconstructs a world out of
the fimsy fabric of vision. 1t is mental
dyspepsia or delirium. Its effects are Illus
trated in this curious labor phenomena go
ing on about US. Everybody is just now
evolving systems of political economy, in
which the vision of The lion and the lamb
lying down in peace is in the foreground, and
paradise, peace, plenty and idleness are &C
cessory. Everyone reads the political econ
economy of man, of nature. Many CLEAN
from the fields of history. but few investi-
gate. The naturalization Of land is pres
en-. Utopia of man, not, perhaps Utopia as
thing, but Utopia as picture. Few men
who dream of this Utopia know what the
Utopia is in fact. Invert the proposition that
land belongs to the man, and you have as
practical realization man belonging to the
lsnd-serfdom, slavery, as may be according
to the vicissitudes of war or fortune.
Times grow bad; something pinches; in
stsntly comparisons with the visions of en-
prizes begin. and straightway Utopia is
eNOANeO. unu 50 are moral anu PHYSICAL forces
evolved to make Utopia fact. But Utopia,
like other mirages, eludes the grasp and con-
fusion results; man returns to his labors
hungry but more contented, seeing that his
visions depend upon his stomach and his
stomach upon the production of his labors,
and Utopia is never possible to man while
he has a stomach. There be those contented
spirits who with faith are content, leaving
Utopia to the future when there be no longer
environment of mind with stomach, and of
such earthly things as potatoes. 1t would
be well If less Imagination were cultivated.
Studies should be less intensive and more
extensive, or in the plainest English, more
respect should be accorded to old-fashioned
horse.sense, gained from acquaintance of the
material things of the world, and less to the
empiricisms of deep, but intensive and Wis
ionary thinkers, otherwise knewn as politi-
cal economists, of whom Napoleon said,
would tear to pieces State were 1t built Of
adamant.
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Fears of Cholera.

CHICAGO April ia dispatch from Cleve-
land, o., says: Many residents of this city
are much alarmed over the appearance.fo
several months past of thick blueish fog,
which appears to issue iron. the earth Its
presence is regarded by persons conyersant
with its previous appearance here as
OMNIBUS of an approaching epidemic OF
cholera. Ie is a singular fact, cited by those
who went through the cholera plaques OF
1866 and earlier years, that this same blueish
fog has always preceded an outbreak of the
dreaded scourge, and that it has not been
seen in this city until this week since the
last cholera epidemic. Scientists here. whose
attentions have been called to the fact, be-
lieve the conditions favorable to the creation
of this fog are favorable to the spread OF
cholera contagion.
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pale of law; for his poverty precludes him
from bringing a suit aeainat railroad Or
ganization for real or fancied grievance, and
shields him from suit in cases where he
is himself the cause of grievance or injustice.
Neither are equitable
1t may be urged that this is contrary to
the esprit OF American institutions" 1t is
a matter of some doubt just what these IN
situations are. Many will hold that they
sheuld be what our grandfathers intended
them to be. But this is dreaming, Our in
situations are precisely what they are. They
have grown out of conditions we can neither
control nor reverse. They must be taken as
they are and so used and regulated as to re-
suit to the greatest possible general good. 1t
is OF no use to place vision against an ex-
listing and powerful fact The laboring
man voluntarily surrenders his individual
liberty Tor part of it) to his union, whom
he empowers to act as his agent. People
surrender their possessions Cor money! to
corporation whom they empower to
act as their agent. They are alike,
and should be treated alike. Both do this
because they can achieve better results by so
doing, or at least think they can, and when
it is remembered that the labor organiza-
tons have thus grown in spite of proscrip-
ton, backsliding and some degree of social
odium that Uncontrolled acts of lawlessness
have cast upon them, it seems 10 US it were
time to recognize them as living fact, and
recognize them by law and control them by
law, especially as that is exactly what they
wish to have done.
1t is idle, as well as fatal, to refuse to
recognize things SO plain and so strikingly
manifest. We may howl until doomsday
against the horrors of monopoly, of trades
unions, but we will not cure them. Both
are so thoroughly entwined in the ramifca-
tons of our industries that they can only be
destroyed py destroying the food that
nourishes them-industry through great
aggregations of labor and capitalize
only way that industry can proceed at all
in this age of vast enterprises, of steam and
OF mechanical powers Gould and Powderly
are fighting for the same thing
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Dead Bodies Found.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April l9-The people of Lee
mont H., and vicinity were greatly excited
this morning by horrible sensation. 1t
consisted in the finding of the bodies of two
women in a quarry pool near Sag Bridge,
which is about three miles from Lemont.
But meager details were received in the city
this morning concerning the affair. All that
could be learned was that one of the women
was Mrs. Flynn and the other an old wo-
man who had been visiting her. The two
women disappeared from the home of Mrs.
Flynn two weeks ago and nothing more was
heard of them until their bodies were found
as Described
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THE HINGE OF THE CASE.

Mr.. Powderly's appeal 10 the Order, of
which lie is a wise and honest leader, to con-
tribute money for ''the support of the men
in the fight against the Gould system" shows
the hinge upon which the whole contest
turns, and deserves little serious reflection
by both those who approve the strike and
those who don't. mo matter" it says,
whether they 1.-THE strikers) acted wisely or
not, they should now have the sympathy of
the Order, and that which is more sub
stantial than sympathy, - dollars"
No one need deny to the Order the duty of
sympathy and help, to maintain consistently
and Justly that the strikers should end the
contest at once, should have done il long ago,
and, in fact, never should have begun it.
Mr.. Powderly, in the expressive slang of the
day, ''giyes them away in the qualification
of his appeal, mo matter whether they
acted wisely or not" 1t matters great deal
to the country whether large portion of its
business is halted and damaged to indulge
freak or righteous purpose of those who
cause it. In the first place, the obvious duty
of the men is to 60 to work, or let others do
it, and end the mischief they have inflicted
on thousands who have had no more
to do with their provocation, real or fancied,
than the Pilgrims on the Mayffower. The
contest has been unwise, as Mr.. Powderly
virtually admits, and as it started it must
continue. 1t can't change to- wisdom and
righteousness, as it goes on under unchanged
conditions. The clear course for the Order
and its leaders now is, while giving the strik-
ers the help against suffering, to advise them
to give up the unwise struggle, go to work
or make no distinction to those who will,
and fight Gould and his fraud built monop-
oily in the courts, as Mr.. Powderly' proposes.
We don't suppose that any man in America,
who has not an interest in Gould,s specula-
tons and peculations, feels the least sympathy
with him, OF would if the strike ruined
him and sent him back to peddling maps
and mousetraps. His vast fortune is
the work of villainies, but for all
that he has the advantage in this I'M
wisely begun conflict, and the remedy is to
deprive him of it, by ending the conflict, in
the present FORM and renewing it in the
courts, as Mr. Powderly proposes. The
sympathies of the public are with the strik-
ers against Gould and Hoxie and their CO.
terie of ''stock-waterers'' and "road-wreck-
ers," but that does not obscure the general
perception of the fact that the strike began
unwisely and goes on SO.
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The Louisville Postofice Matter.

LOUISVILLE, April 1O.-In response to a
call of Thomas Sherley and Others, who &C
lively interested themselves in the appoint
ment of MIS- Virginia Thompson, and As an
Offset to the mammoth Democratic indigas-
ton meeting. which on Saturday night con-
iemned the action of Congressman Willis In
forcing Republican Postmaster on Louis
vile. there were about l, 500 persons of al
PARTIES about one-half being spectators. who
ca me out of curiosity only about 3o6 or 400
taking an active part. There was an ao-
sence of enthusiasm, which characterized
Saturdays meeting. j. NJ. Anterior pre-
sided. and addresses were made by Messrs-
Thomas Sherley, Harry Weissinger, ]. N.
Anterior. c. E Sears and Andy Burnett
Resolutions approving the action of Mr.
Willis and the appointment of Mrs. ThomP-
son were adopted.
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The Chicago Times well saws

In view OF the early probability OF Chan ses ia
the Cabinet occasioned by the failure OF Sec re-
tary MaDning's health and the scandal affecting
Attorney General Garland, President Cleveland
should. as Captain Ed'ard Cutie would advise
overhaul his map of the United States. and
thereby he might discover that there are Other
States than New York and those commonly des
ignated as Southern. West OF the Allegheny
Mountains there are great states OF which the
President has shown little knowledge hitherto
ana IN some OF these states are men whom the
whole Nation (outside of the White Housed know
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A Farmer Boy Missing.

Frank Wilson, son of A. B. Wilson, re-
siding at London, Shelby County, dissp-
peared from home on Friday last, and his
parents are very uneasy about him. He is
thirteen years OF age, wore dark clothes with
soft black hat, and has blue eyes and light
hair Any information of the missing Lad
will be gladly received by the father at the
address given.
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The cholera epidemic has appeared in
Europe, and will undoubtedly make an ap.
pearance in this country this season unless
every precaution is taken to keep it down.
Cleanliness of house and street are essential
With the virulence it had in Western
Europe last season it is altogether likely
that We shall not go free. 1t macches' as it
always has, steadily westward, partsking
somewhat Of force from curious and IN
known conditions of the atmosphere
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In the eighthour question were kept sep
arate from the wages question It would be
practicable and in most cases easy of success
1t 1t be attempted to solve both at once it
will be physically impossible, and viii GER
tainly fail The necessity for this separation
does not seem to be perceived by many labor
organizations, who seem determined TO at-
tempt beth end zua eveu riak ef losing
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-21

There arrived this morning at New York
City, on the steamer Arizona, an Irish harp.
1t is several hundred years old and was the
last instrument played before the Irish King.
1t is intended tor exhibition at an Irish con-
cert to be soon given in this city for the
benefit of the Parnell fund. The iastru
ment is valued at 81 900.
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both, and breaking themselves to pieces in
the bargain. The subject is one more for dis
cussioR, in order to educate, rather than a
thing to be had for the asking. 1t requires a
law as well as concurrence OF labor and cap
ital to bring it about. This will require
time and much patience, and we would have
more faith in the ability Of labor to solve a
problem and carry out programme if they
had more of this indispensable article and
were not so quick on the trigger
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THERE seems to be some confirmation of
the report that Agnes Herndon is a relative
Of ex-President Arthur. A memorial window
has been put in a Washington church by
that gentleman ITO the glory of God and the
memory OF Ellen Herndon Arthur" his
wife.-EKchange-
-Herndon" is good enough Ex-President
Arshurs father-inlaS, Captain Hsrndou,
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commanded 'eThe Central America" when
she went down in midocean. He saw every
man, woman and child safely in the life
boats, and there not being room for him he
took his stand on the wheel house. removed
his hat, uttered a prayer and went down
with his ship. II Miss Herndon is a relative
of the hero, she is, perhaps, prouder of it
than any honor that might result from being
related to the late President
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a DAKOTA man who was running for the
magistracy announced that if elected he
would charge only 81 for marrying any
couple, and would wait until there was a
christening for his payment. He left the
rival candidate in the shade.
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son were adopted.

The City Council of Montreal yesterday
appointed special committee TO alleviate
the distress caused by the floods The Fi-
nance Committee of the Council win hold
special meeting TO rake steps TO borrow 81
Oc0.OOo TO be used IN raising the level OF the
low-lying districts of the city: and in enlsrg-
ire the present reyetment wall.
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HoN. DAVID S. GooDING was nominated
last Saturday as representative to the next
Legislature by his fellow Democrats of Han
cock County by majority OF GIL. H. was
first elected to the same position thirty weight
years ago.