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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
he Fate of American Shipping Int ersst

The Fate of American Shipping Int erssts.
I'm Reply % Senator Sherman Upon the Presi-
dents Message.l
Mr.. Kenns: Subsidies to ships We
have no ships Your policy OF pretended
protection has driven our com merce II I'm
the high seas. You confine our producers
to the limitation of their home mar ket,
and you deny them the agencies 70 Q try
the fruits of their industry to the m arkets
of the world. Sir, We have no ships. A
line to Brazil, does the Senator say? Per-
haDs. Another straggler here or there? 1t
may be. But like the ancient parrot of the
Attures, which sat croaking the Language
of the people who had taught it after the
last of that tribe had been gathered to his
fathers, they serve but to make more
plaintive the appeal for a recall OF the
cruelties of our commercial fate. We have
no ships. We can not build them to COM
pete with the continent or the Clyde, aud
your obstructive policy will not allow us
to sail them under our flag.
The report of the present Secretary of
the Treasury shows that our carrying trade
has gone down from 10 per cent, in 1856 to
II per cent. in 1887, and this in the face of
the development of a continent, and in
spite of the energies of the most enterpris-
ing people in the world. And so the little
army of American citizens who might be
engeged IN carrying our products-a ser
vice for which last year we paid more than
500, 000. 900 to foreigners-have been left
ashore to enter into competition for live
lihood with those who are expected to join
in the universal hallelujah to Republican
protection to American ships.
The honorable Senator has spoken o.
Schedule < and of Glass d OF our tariff
laws. But, MI. President, there is another
class to which the Senator has failed &C
allude. Where is your class "Ships?" Turn
to that But ships are prohibited, yoT
say. So they are. They have their CLASH
fcation, nevertheless. Ships and obscene
books, they are prohibited Ships anC
counterfeit coin, they are prohibited Ship
and contagious diseases, they are prohib
tied! There, sir, contemplate It'll Ther
is your class ''Ships," grim monster o
national injustice and of commercial sick
ness and sorrow and death.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
PenAionA Granted.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Speeisl.-Pen-
sions were granted yesterday to the fol-
lowing persons:
James Hutchins, Selma; James, Vance,
CrotheTsville; James McAtee, Lo gsnsport;
William Eolmes, Waterman: Daniel Hay.
ford, Rockport; James Stout, NelIs CreeK;
Austin Worland, Shelbyville; John Hayes,
Plainville; Thomas Ivory, Indianapolis;
Samuel Richards, Boehmer; Nathan Rooms,
LogaDsport; John Row, New Haven Stray
der Eads, Holton; John Saunders, Book
port; William Goldsberry, Fredericksburg;
John Mucson, Portland; George Melborn,
Stewartsville; Ralph Jones, In dianspolis;
Luther Johnson, Bourbon; Asa DitamOre,
Darlington; Arlistus Thornburg, Rich
mond; James Williams. Mace;
Henry Foster, Talbot; Francis Early, Rich.
mond; Thomas Howard, Newberrys John
Truax, Dundee; Henry Gee, Anderson;
William Bridonstine, ShelbyVille; Willard
ShigIey, Elkhart; William Gadberry, Odsn;
Oven Stark, Brazil; Theodore Cook; Cox
Mills. Levi Bean, Lagro; William Mills,
Milan; William 0'Nesl, PutnsmVille;
David Krisher, North Manchester; Joseph
Morning, Medara Justus Gunkel, Wind
fall; William Houghton, Lioogootee; Os-
trum Boright, Mt. Sterling; William Stew
art, Nebraska; James Parker, Grand View;
Elias Meller, Bunker HILL; John Biddle,
Valparaiso; Walter Ferrel, Terre Haute;
Eli Michael, Boyleston; Ben lamin Hens
lev, Mooresyille; Robert Poor, Bunker
Hill; Benjamin Pindell, Mauckport;
| Stephen Storey, Seymour; mother of James
Ashbaugh EllettsvIlle; widow OF Daniel
Hay ford, Rockport; Thomas Clark, Mad
ison.
Joseph Linn, Mace; Charles E. Peek
| Washington; Jacob Neese; Poland; John
| Sullivan, Berne; Samuel Scott, Warsaw
Richard Davis, Sullivan; Isaac Hutchin'
| SOD, Bristow: Robert Caldwell, Hebron;
| William Dodson, Columbus; Samuel Sands,
Richmond; William Rose, Shoals; Samuel
| Dudel, Rising Sun; George Kensell, Terre
| Hau;e; Abraham Wilson, Knox; John
Settles, GreensbuFg; Albert Patterson,
Clay City, Christian Brady Meyer, Indian
spolis; Samuel Stone, Millhouseni Robert
New Albany; Henry Burt Newton,
Stewart; Thomas Thompson. Shelbyvilie;
Alfred Medaris, Webster; Henry Austin,
LaPorte; William Tartor, Plainhelc; Nel-
son Hemphill, Franklin; John Stallard,
Rochester; Jesse Obenion, Weaver Stat
ford Carr, Mount Vernon; Shelby HairoG,
LEBANON Mioheal Scanlon, Clark's Hill;
Joseph Lewis, Balbec; Joseph Pogh, Rush
VILE; Alop 20 Sewer, Waterloo; Frederick
Fender, Clay City; Abraham Fry, Arcadia;
John Francis, Howland's Station; Morris
| Agler, Plymouth; Alexander Ray, Lin
colnville; Henry Rankin, Valparaiso
Anthony Coley, Elkhart; Samuel Miller
Cambridge City; Joseph Spence, Indian
apolis; Jesse Barn EFT, Newburg; John Bar
nett. Gsllaudet; James Smith, Stinesville
Ebert Gibener, New Albany Samuel Ar
mold, Elizabethto wn; John Allen, Marion
Abraham 6toner, Campbellsburg; William
Swift Newton Stewart.
Original Deliah. mother OF Jackson
Clayton, Goodwin's Corners; Hannah
widow of John Rcd, Charlottesville.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
TH7 FISHERIES TREATY.
Comment Vt the Canada Press on the
New Agreement.

New Agreement.
OTTAWA, Dat, February The Free
Press (LiberaD which is opposed to the
government under the heading Treaty OF
Capitulatiou,' says: at is announced by
a telegram from Washington that a treaty
was signed'by the Fishe ries Conmissio aers
yesterday evening, and that tn contents
would be made public at once Rr ON the
remarks credited To Secretary BayRrd 1t
LOOKS very much as If the treaty amounted
to q complete surrender TO the Americans.
Sir Charles'Tupper appears to hare held>oH
until the ringing of the second BELL bat
pressure from Chamberlain probably caused
him to cave in at last and to agree 10 anv
terms that Bsyard chose to dictate. OF
course, tbs treaty is subject to ratification
by the government OF Great Britain, the
PsrlismerS of Canada, the Senate of the
UniIed States and the Legislature Of New
foundlAnd, and II is TO be hoped that our
Parliament will have sufficient independ-
ence 10 reject the treaty, If, IS appears to
be The case, Il involves the Surrender of
Cans6a's fisheries without compensation"
The Evening Journal Independent says:
despite tEs long continued c-oaking Of
Anglophobist correspondents ct Washing
ton. the Fishery Commissioners have
reached an agreement. The breakers, hsv
ing been proven false prophets as regards
the commission, will now transfer their
croakings to the treaty.. We shall now, for
a time, be delUged with prophecies that the
treaty will be Objectionable to the United
States or Canada or England, or all three
together. We are satisfied that Sir Charles
TuDper was perfectly competent to main
tain Canadian rights. We are satisfied
that Chamberlain was competent TO guard
the imperial interests. This be lief would
leave on-y the possibility that United
States interests might suffer, but We suppose
the United States representatives, which
had mora concentrated and deEolte later
esis to guard than the double barreled
British Lalf of the commission, were quite
capable OF taking care of their case. Ii six
specially qualified representative men have
reached 4 unanimous conclusion on the
subject OF the fishery differences between
the United States bnd Canada, it is tRIr 20
assume for the present that public opinion
on the continent will followin their wake"
OTTAWA, Ont, February IA draft OF
the fishery treaty arrived from Washington
Yesterday, and was, it Is understood, con-
sidered st the meeting OF the Cabinet in
the afternoon. The nature of the dccu-
ment will be kept secret until it is laid b.
fore Parliament. Politicians here continue
to assert that concessions equally impor-
tant as those yielded by the Canadians
have been granted by the American O1m-
missioners. Sir Charles Topper and Hon.
Mr.. Thompson are expected to retCrn to-
morrow.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
A Striking Contrast.
uuptfnotor, nau,0Qrat

How different were such things done
during Republican administrations. Now
a Democratic administration appoints
special assistants to prosecute men charged
with crime, but when "Babcock," high
up in the Republican party, was indicted
for coDspiring through a whisky ring"
to defraud the United States Treasury, and
il became necessary to use the evidence Of
q co-conspirator to convict, Republican
President interferes, removes the District
Attorney, compels the Secretary of the
Treasury to resign, and the conspirators go
unpunished with the funds of the United
States in their pockets. Such is the con-
trast, Then ballot-boxes were stuffed, con-
spirafors defrauded the Treasury, and the
motto vas, Republicans, though guilty,
must ut be punished.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.

The most important matter handled by
the Senate during the past week was the
Blair educational bill, which passed that
body, yeas SO, nays %. 1t will hardly
pass the House. The Indiana Senators,
Messers. Voorhees, and Turpie, voted in
the negative. The most active opposition
come from the Republican Senator, Haw-
ley, of Connecticut. In concluding his
argument against the bill he sail: I'm
my Judgment this bill, glorious as the
caus Is, fascinating as the arguments in
I, vor of education always are, is bill
CT eping in to control interests which from
Ply mouth Rock up to this date have been
u 4der local control, and wisely so; it is q
bill to promote mendicancy, to cultivate
baggsIs; it is a bill declaring the failure
of local disagreement in one OF the
supreme interests of the people. 1t
falsely declares the bankruptcy of
States, which before our very
g res are rich and growing; it makes an In
9 feciUal, il not false pretense of Temporary
q ,tion. 1t is not for eight years-lt is the
b Iginuing OF a permanent pohcy-ot a
permanent new relation between the Fed
eral Government and the States. 1t never
will 90 back and never will diminish, but
its influence will grow. hope the bill
will be defeated. l wish that every Senator
would vote upon 1t Just exactly as he feels
about it, and not as being bound by reso-
lutions of State Legislatures or previous
committal, or anything of that sort. Tne
longer the bill is thought of and talked OF,
the weaker it grows and the nearer to cOn-
stitutional right and justice the people and
Congress are coming. | am willing to see
the bill defeated by any of the constitu-
tiOnal means, whether by the House, by
the Senate, or by the President"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

TIE telegraph announces that the Sugar
Trust has decided to ship large quantities
of the best refined sugar to London in order
to keep up the prices Of refined sugar in
this country by relieving the market here
OF any surplus. In other words, the Trust
proposes to create corner in sugar in order
to force the price Of this prime necessity
of life to an exorbitant figure. While it is
thus putting the screws on consumers on
the one hand, It will on the other deprive
thou4ands OF workingmen of employment
by closing refneries. The members OF this
trus are engaged in a criminal conspiracy
at C amon law, and ought to be indicted
and mt to the penitentiary. But for the
tar on sugar the conspiracy would be
in, Ossible, and yet this sugar duty is one
of the least Objectionable in the entire
sch dule, because it yields about $40 in
reveu ne to the Government for every dollar
it AZ orts from consumers for the benefit OF
the sugar lords.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

THE Republican favorite sons are coming
to the front in a swarm under the patron
age of the Blaine boomers in the various
States. There are Allison and Miller, of
Iowa; Rusk and Fairchild, OF Wisconsin;
Cullom, of Illinois; Alger, of Michigan;
Evarts and Hiscock, of New York; Haw-
ley, of Connecticut; Hosr, of Massachu-
sets; Edmunds, of Vermo mt; and the
Lord only knows how many more. In
fact, the woods are full Of them; and after
they have killed John Sherman OF, they
will proceed to exterminste each other
whereupon the hurrah for Blaine W Il be
raised, and the magnetic man will be
forced to yield to the unanimous demand
OF his party" As Mr.. William Walter
Philips so neatly puts it, The friends OF
Mr.. Blaine will be held intact for emer'
ooprfoa -
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

THE Cincinnati Enquirer prints an alb
surd story from Washington to the effect
that Mr.. Cleveland will decline rsnomina-
tion IL Congress refuses to heed the recon-
mendstions OF his tariff message. Happily
there is no law to compel any one to
believe this yarn. The failure of Congress
TO reduce the war taxes will in no wise
weaken Mr.. Cleveland's position before the
country. On the contrary, it will
strengthen it, and render his nomination
an imperative necessity if the Democrats
are to retain the Presidency. There will be
no letter of declination from Mr. Cleveland,
because there will be no occasion for one.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
INDIANA AND THE TARIFF.


l. strikes Deacon Smith that Indiana
has done amazingly well under protection.
ItstIikes us that Indiana has not made
anytb ing like the strides under protection
that il did under what Deacon Smith would
call a free trade tariff. Look at some Of
the igures taken from the census reports, to
which Deacon Smith appeals. During the
ten years, from 1850 to 1860, when tariff du-
ties were laid for revenue only, the number
of manufacturing institutions in Indiana
increased from 4, 1872 to 1913; the amount OF
capita invested, from s. $50, 4O2 to ST., 45l,-
121; average number of hands employed,
from Ii 40 TO 81 S5S; average amount of
wages paid annually, from $3,72S.S A to
So, 3IS, 1876; average value of material used
annually, from SIC, 1853, 700 to $27, 142 597;
average annual value of products, from
SIS .725, 423 to S42 s03, 400. 1t will be OBJ
served that during these ten years OF
''free trade" the amount of capital invested
in manufactures in Indiana increased about
$50 per cent; the number OF hands EN-.
ployed In manufacturing increased about
fifty per cent; the average amount of wages
paid. almost one hundred per cent the
value of materials used about 175 per cent
and the value OF the annual product about
1ss per cent This record Of growth csnno!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

SENATOR BLAIR, in his closing speech on
the educational bill, solemnly asserted that
every important public journal in the
country had Jesuit on Its editorial staff,
whose mission it was to tight the free
schools and raise the old Harry generally.
The Jesuit member of The SENTINEL corps
is away on q vacation, bat we take the
liberty of observing that Mr.. Blair, Of New
Hampshire, is the biggest ass that ever
broke into the United States Senate, Rid
dleberger, Of Virgins, not excepted.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

and a host of lawyers politicians sud pub
lie men. Some Of them receive as many
as 200 notices day on subjects in which
they are interested, and the unique bust
ness has attained great popularity. Many
business men become subscribers, and then
send in orders for information on specified
topics very much as they would send
around the corner for cigar.
The suit of Frederick G. Smith to COM
pei the National Benefit Company to pay
q $40, 900 policy of Insurance on the life OF
John Tyler, the famous suicide, to which I
referred in my letter, has been decided in
favor of the defendant, on the ground that
at the time OF applying for insurance Tyler
had entered into conspiracy to take his
own life. In other words, the Jury be-
lieved the remarkable story told By the de.
Tense and outlined in my letter, in regard
to the gang OF money-lenders who had
furnished Tyler with cash, taking his poll.
cies for over $S00e0 as security, in order
to induce him to drink himself to death,
or. failing in that, to commit suicide. The
score or more of naatual benefit companies
interested in the decision claimed to know
already of several instances Of parties loan.
ing money on such policies, calling in their
loans and returning the security. The eff
feet of the decision ia bound to be a bene-
fetal oDe, even though it should not be sus.
tanned OF appeal.
WILLIAM T. SHANKs
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

, Mr.. RANDALL is said to be preparing a
tute for the measure to be reported by the
Mills committee. In this task be has the
valuable assistance Of the iron and steel
rings, the wooden rings and other special
interests for whose especial benefit the ex-
listing tariff is maintained. He is in con-
slant communication with these gentle
men, but it never seems to have occurred
to him that it would be the proper thing
to call in q few representatives of the great
army of consumers who have to foot the
bills. We don't think Mr.. Randal's mo-
1opoly bill will become law.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

aud is made ct the expense of other Sec
tions of the country which do not enjoy the
blessing of cheap fuel. And yet Deacon
Smith actually had the gall to cite these
figures Thursday in his hsrsngue before the
Republican editors as an argument in
favor of the protective policy. As il the
monopoly tariff had anything whatever to
do with the Indiana natural gas boom! Go
to, Deacon Smith! You are giddy trifl or
and gay deceiver.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
The Field Family.
New York Sun, Feb. II


Yesterday was the eighty-third birthday
of David Dudley Field, and it was not for
gotten by his fathers other sons, wac ga
thered in Washington, The longevity ADD
intellectual eminence of the four Field
brothers recall the record of their father,
Who was clergyman and author en- who
was born during the ReYoluti, nary wst
and lived to be sc years of ag'. The 81
dest of his sons has Just entered upon his
,-t.N .....
Stephen j., Is ~ years old; the third, Cy
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

JOHN SHERMAN is talking a good deal
these days about fair ballot and a free
count, This is the same John Sherman
who helped the Louisiana returning board
Years ago.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
He Took Five.
Detroit Free Press.

DtITOII T T66 TT653s
"Psper sirl" he called as dignihed, stitf
backed old gent passed the corner.
No notice.
IAN about the fire, sir"
No notice.
"All about war in Europel" continued
the lad as he followed along.
No notice.
"All about the scandal" shouten the
boy ut the top Of his voice,
"Whst scandal" exclaimed stiff back
as he halted. You may give me I've
copies, my aonp,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

81: &c January 1, 1887. two hundred and
foip Dew joint stock companies have been
org-h zsd IN Indiana for manufacturing
purposes, with an aggregate capital of $685.
90,0OO. There i'm "a school boy in the
State who d. rot know that this phe-
nomenal srOsth IT our manufacturing
interests is dus solely to the discovery and
DEVELOPMENT Of our nstaral gas fields,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

ilTHE Chicago News indulgss in this
salient observation:
In Indiana it may appear all-important
that q Presidential candidate shall have
control of the machinery of the party to
instruct delegates for himself. But on the
outside it seems more important that a
candidate should deserve to have his State
back of him.
THE bearin' of this ere remark" as
Captain Cutie woald say, 1sys in the APP
piication thereof"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

INDIANAPOLIS to-day offers greater ad-
vantages to manufacturing enterprises
than any other city in the United States.
We except none. A! brief investigation
viii verify this statement.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

Mr.. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPs, the New
Jersey dude, who is 80 near and dear to
the magnetic man of Maine, says: THE
friends OF Mr.. Blaine will hold their forces
intact for emergencies" Do you hear
that, Mr.. Harrison?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

AND now the manufacturers Of printing
paper propose to form trust. There is a
protective duty of 20 per cent. on print
paper, Knock it of, and there will be no
danger of paper trust.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
Washinqton Critic.

IT. society: Young MAXWELL, that
girl's 4 sumner. amt she's
OLD man-"What makes you think so?"
about q minute"
o. NJ. (Tuffiy)-"She didn't have to hit
you very hard either, did she2n
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

The tariff reformers in the Republican
party are making good deal of noise these
days, and it looks as if they would have
something to say about the Chicago plat
form. A good many Western Republicans
are beginning to find out that monopoly
taxes are not so popular as they once were.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
Whe genA&uel
TERMS PER YEAR

The Utica Herald urges the Republicans
to nominate Mr.. Conkling for President.
The suggestion is made, we presume, in the
interest OF Harmony.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22

rus W., will be 20 next year, and the
youngest, Henry NJ, is 66. The two ell
dest are natives of Haddam. Germ, and the
two others of Stockbrldge Mass. Three OF
them are graduates OF Williams College.
The whole four of them have won reuown,
and all OF them are yet sctivein their re-
spective spheres of duty. The father of
the Field brothers lived to CSC bis eldest
son pass two years beyond the ssxagena-
ran line.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
PresotioE a Dudes Anger.
INeW York SunI

neW OK SUI
TNiI ilg-"Hov can provoke the anger
" ttEi dude WilKiBE2'
Sn,I "6.Tikes match on bis corrugated
shirt
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-22
OURNEW Y0RKLErTER
III. Blaine L.ttsr Gives an Opportunity d
Boomlst fer Ch,urosy Dspsw.
Lester wallack and His OhiIdren-Eleva.
ted Road Accidents-NonN Newspaper
Readers-A Life Insurance
Case, Etc.
Written for TIE SENTINEL.

WIIlItu TOT IHE phNI INtLs
New YORK, February IS, 1888.
Nearly year ago. on the eve of sailing
for Europe, Mr.. Chauncy M. Depew told
me that his principal purpose in declaring
himself absolutely in favor of Mr.. Blaine
for the next Republican nomination, aslhe
had done in the most positive terms in an
interview published in the Times, was bis
desire to put an END to the suggestions
sfoat that he, Depew, was a candidate.
He said that he had no ambition In that
direction; that the Presidency of the New
York Central Railway was the only Office
he desired to hold, and apparently he
burned all his political bridges behind
him.