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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
THE GOVERNMENTS CREDIT.

70 the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
What amount of money was borrowed by
the government, and what rate of interest
was paid for same during the administration
of James Buchanan T. NJ. STEVENS.
SUMNER, Ill.
The public debt in 1856, when Buchanan
was elected, was $31. 972, 537; in 1860 it had
increased to $64. s42, 2s7, and on the LIST of
January, 1861. four months before he went
out of office. it was 800, $50, S73. In the last
three years of Buchanan's administration the
expenditures of the government exceeded the
revenue as follows: In 1858 by $27. 529, 904,
in 1859 by SIS, 5s4, 511, in 1850 by 81, 065, 900.
Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury was
Howell Cobb, of Georgia, who undoubtedly
worked in the interest of secession. In June,
1860, owing to the depleted condition of the
treasury and an accumulated deficit during
four years of peace, Congress had authorized
a loan of $40, COO, 600. Of this amount the
government succeeded in borrowing 81, 000,-
600 at 5 per cent. In December, 1860,
Congress authorized the issue of &c..
900, 900 treasury notes, payable in one year
at the lowest rate of interest obtainable. Cobb
resigned as Secretary of the Treasury Dec.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

The Home Market as Against the Foreign
Market for Our Producers.
Letter from Robert Mitchell, Furniture Manufact-
urer. OF Cincinnati. U.
The proposed changes in the tariff on furni-
ture do not effect our business directly, but the
indirect effects would be very bad. In this
country all the manufactures are bound to-
eether, and when one IS affected the effect il
felt by oil.
son Of the principle articles used in the
manufacture of furniture is plate glass. In
three cities OF this country plate glass is manu-
featured with success. If foreign plate glass is
introduced into this country IN quantities. the
manufacturer in those places will either have
to stop manufacturing or else cheaper their
labor. That is what all this change OF tariff
amounts TO, ultimately the cheapening of labor.
at is singular how the fluctuations of the iron
market affect the entire circle Of manufactures.
There is no other one factor that can be COM
pared to it in this way. Whenever there is a
strike IN Pittsbure. or any other disturbance 10 q
great iron center, the effect on the iron market
is communicated to all the other industries.
And they are just as quick 10 respond to the
rise in the iron market.
Those who are continually talking obout the
advantages of q foreign market do not appre-
ciate the value OF the home market. The very
fact that We have not had q foreign market has
made this country what it is. To this alone can
be attributed the marvellous developement of
the West, which twenty-five years ago was al
most a wilderness. Our capital has not been
interested IN foreign trade. but has been turned
to the advantage OF our own country. building
railroads. laying out cities and producing i'm
mense crops.
Free trade may be we'll enough for q coun-
try like England, which has no place at home
for the exchange OF commodities and relies en-.
tirely on foreign markets. But in this country
we have every variety Of soil aud climate. We
could live very comfortable If not a dollars
worth OF foreign trade existed. The vegetables
aud fruits OF the South are exchanged for the
bresds,uffs of the North, while Dakota ex-
changes grain for the iron OF Pennsylvania
Different circumstances exist here from those
which obtain in any other country in the
word. We do not need foreign trade. And il
It is to be purchased. as can clearly be shown,
at the expense OF low wages and pauper labor,
why / think We should get along without it
There is much nonsense talked about this i'm
mense surplus also. Much of that money is
deposited in banks and is not Withdrawn from
the trade. Besides. what docs 500. 000, 900
amount &c when you think OF the size and re-
sources of the countryl Only q person taking
narrow and contracted views could see anything
menacing in this surplus.
THE furniture trade would be seriously dam
aged ty a change of tariff, because the various
interests that are wrapped mp in it would be in
iured or destroyed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

FRANK A. BURR, a newspaper correspond
emit of considerable experience and shrewd-
ness, draws a very discouraging picture for
the Boston Herald Of President Cleveland's
prospects. He declares that he is personally
disIiked by at least three-fourths of the Dem
oeratic Senators and Representatives, and
that, whatever these men may say in public,
in private they berate him. Naturally, this
feeling has communicated itself to minor pol
iticians and to the rank and file. and hence
the lack of enthusiastic support which is
patent to all. After reviewing the situation
in New York, Mr.. Burr concludes that the
temper Of the people, the attitude of local
organizations, the liquor question, aud several
other incidental matters, combine to furnish
the scheming politicians a remarkably good
chance to trade on the State and national
tickets, and that Mr.. Cleveland is in danger
of being sold out in his own State. All this
is not new, the situation having been clearly
set forth much as Burr describes it, but it is
rather surprising to find it in a paper which
advocates Cleveland's reelection, and which,
with all its independence, " is not accustomed
to give prominence to matters unfavorable to
;ta candidate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
A SIGNIFICANT VISITATION.

OF the many visits made to General Harri-
son since his nomination there has been none
of greater interest or significance than that of
the manufacturers of and dealers in a~gricult-
ural implements, on Thursday evening. The
significance of the event is in its entire free
dom from ordinary political management and
motives. The State fair has drawn here, dur
ing the present week, a large number of men
of the class referred to, including manufact-
urers, proprietors, agents, travelling men. etc.
They come from all parts of the country, and
represent a large number of manufacturing
cities and towns. Their firms and houses
represent an enormous amount Of active
capital, employ an immense number of
workmen and pay out vast sums annually in
wages. In 1880 there were l, 943 agricultural
implement manufacturers reported, with an
aggregate capital of $50. 600, 900. employing
80, $50 hands. paying out $15, 300, 600 a year
in wages. and turning out $6S, 600, coo worth
of goods. These figures emily approximately
represent the extent of the business at pres
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

AMONG the numerous tricks of the Demo-
cratic plan of campaign is the circulation of
fraudulent copies of the MILLS bill. The noto-
riety of the measure has caused a general de
mand for it. To meet this the Democrats are
sending out garbled copies to suit particular
localities or interests In one respect, how
ever, the copies are all agreed, and that is in
emitting the sections which repeal the inter-
nal-reyenue tax on saloons and impose ~restric-
tons on small distilleries. The Mills bill, as
passed by the House, explicitly repeats 'all
clauses Of Section 32H of the Revised Stat
utss, and all laws amendatory thereof, and all
other laws which impose any special taxes
upon manufacturers of stills. retail dealers in
liquors and retail dealers in malt liquors 1t
also makes material changes in the provisions
of the present law regulating small distiller-
les. All copies of the bill circulated by the
Democratic committee omit these provisions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
Distinguished Drummers.

New York Graphic.
general Frank Hatton has
drifted into business. and everyone who knows
the genial. bright and talented gentleman will
wish him a full measure OF success. He mas be-
come the general Western agent of a new patent
heating stove, in the sale of which there is said
TO be o prospective fortune for him. He is the
third example in the last quarter OF q century
of ex-Cabinet ministers VINO have gone into the
drumming line for q living. Ex-Secretary Bel
KNAPP was the first one who developed into q
travelling commercial man, and, curious enorgh.
was somewhat in the stove line also. He sold
mica for the doors and sides of parlor heaters.
That happened almost Immediately after he
left Grants Cabinet. but it was only q temper
airy expedient. and he pulled himself together
again and opened q law Office in Washington,
where he is now making plenty of money and is
as popular as he always was. The other was
Lot II. Morrill,, whe succeeded Ben Bristow in
the Treasury. and who, after his term was enc
ed, sold dry goods in Maine for a New York
firm. until he was made comfortable in life BY
being appointed custom collector at Portland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR.

H.. j. Pettefer. Of London, electroplate-
worker, and secretary of the "W~orkingmen's
Association for the Defense of British Indus
tries, has arrived in Boston, and, at the re-
quest of the Home Market Club, will make
some speeches to American workmen. showing
the evil effects Of cheap foreign competition
upon the laboring classes of England. What
British workingmen have suffered, Mr.. Pet
tefer declares, their brethren in the United
States will suffer if the tariff barriers are
removed and the country is open to the COM
petition of European labor. 'HThe average
workingman in the United States" he says,
sis in about the same position as the foreman
of a shop in England, and the average English
laborer is, of course, on a much lower level.
The assertion made by Democratic speakers,
that the superior skill of American workmen
would enable them to secure high wages un-
der any circumstances Mr.. Pettefer denies,
and says he has discovered no signs of such
superiority, although he has had experience
with both classes.
This testimony from a representative Brit
ish workman will go much further with his
hearers than the theories advanced by speak
ers who have been neither laborers nor the
employers of labor. Blr. Pettefer, whose
name has been made familiar through an
essay entitled, How Free Trade Works"
which is circulated as a Republican campaign
document, will address several public meet
ings in New England.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

"Mary, my folks lie there. Would you like to
lie therelD 1t was a grim way of proposing, but
Mary was q sensible Scotch lassie aud she &C
copied him.
THE silent Won Moltke" isn't at all silent at
home. He is, on the contrary, a charming,
lively and amiable companion. He is very fond
OF the wife of his nephew, who presides over his
household. and of her children. He loves whist
and roses; and Of these flowers cultivates a great
variety.
The widow of President Polk 10 in her eighty
seventh year. She is feeble and rather forget
full, but she maintains her cheerfulness and her
interest in the world about her. OF late she has
been taking her meals In her own room, and
leaves 1t once q day, to take an airing on the
porch. Here she sits and receives her visitors.
MRS. RUTH HALL, . seventy four ysar-old
widow Of New Haven, has directed by will that
she shall be buried in tho cradle in which she
was rocked as a baby. The undertaken has
made the necessary alterations In the cradle,
and it 10 now awaiting the death of Mrs. Hall,
which is but q matter Of q few weeks. The
cradle is of cherry and il beautifully decorated.
PRESIDENT CARNoT and Nine. Carnos live at
Fontainebleau this season in the suite of rooms
that were fitted MP by the Empress Eugene for
her son against his coming Of age. They have
the use of all the private and state apartments
u Il tu6 pdi4kt, al VI WnlCn u6f0O ccu IL
kept in order for the past eighteen years, al
though the palace has been practically deserted.
The state rooms are said to be the finest In
Europe.
MAJOR BARTTELoT, the leader Of the Stanley
search expedition, who is reported to have been
murdered in Africa, was q member Of the Royal
Fusiliers, which regiment he Joined in 1859. He
served in the Afghan war of 1880. took part
in the defense of Candahar and was present IN
the battle before that place. he was also in tho
Egyptian campaign of 1882, and took part in the
Nile campaign OF 1S84-85.
LEONARD WooLsEY BACON, in The fndspend-
ent. gives . most charmin sketch of the CEN
tenarian, the late Col. George l.. Perkins, of
Norwich, Conn. AZ met the old man one day
in a back street where a haud-organ had been
playing to a group of children says DIR. Bacon.
" suppose you would like to see me dance q
hornpipeP said Colonel Perkins to the children.
They said they would. and the centensrian lift
ed up his coat tails and danced it for them"
THE Prince Of Wales has purchased a new
uniform, his eiehtieth. Each new costume OF
military character that he buys costs him about
$3.50. He therefore owns about s36, 600 worth
Of uniforms. His latest investment il the eor-
geous costume of an officer Of Austrian hussers.
A gold tunic, red brooches, Hessian boots and
white shake make him look like a clumsily-cut
toy soldier. Bot the Prince never shirks the
duties that pertain to his exalted station. He
may hate 10 spend the money of English tax
payers in buving military clothes that he wears
once and casts aside, but ne is obliged to make
the sacrifice.
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emf, and they do not embrace dealers or middle

ent, and they do not embrace dealers or middle
men at all. 1t needs no argument, however, to
prove that the agricultural implement business
is a very large and important one.
The men engaged in it and in hand
ling its products are among the
most enterprising and progressive bust
ness men in the country. Dealing with farm
ers, and with the great agricultural interest,
they come as near ITO knowing and repre-
senting the average sentiment of the country
as any other class. They came here in the
line of business, and without any partisan or
political motive, but being here, they deter
mined to call on the Republican candidate for
President. and express their sympathy with
his candidacy, and the cause he represents.
There were several hundred Of them, and
their spokesman said they were unanimous in
support Of the party and policy represented by
General Harrison. His response was very
happy, and the occasion was altogether an ex-
ceedingly pleasant one. 1t shows that the
great representative business industries of the
country are in sympathy with the candidate
who represents the idea of protection to Amer
lean industries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

THE Toronto Mail, which wants Cleveland
elected evidently ~foresees defeat to its hopes.
It explains that not enough time has elapsed
since the issuing of his "tariff reform" mes
sage for the education of the people, and says
it took the people of England ten years after
Cobden's appearance to bring in a verdict
against protection. Ten years from this Mr..
Cleveland's message and Mr.. Mills bill will be
forgotten by Americans. Their education
will proceed in a different direction, and the
first object lesson will be the election in No.
vember of a protection President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. THURMAN has never had a photograph
taken.
ELLEN TERRY writes with a goose quill. as do
most Enclishwomen who affect to be swell.
Miss NELLIE BAYARD, the fifth daughter Of
the Secretary, is to enter society formally this
season.
A MAN died in Baltimore last week from the
effects of falling asleep with his chin hanging
over the rim of a celluloid collar.
JANE GLIDER, the editor of the Critic, began
her journalistic career on a Newark IN. j. pa
per as a proof reader, and was q phenomenally
bad one.
HAPPINESS depends upon comparisons. M.
Chevreul, the French savant, who has reached
his one hundred and third year. says: "What
would 1 not give to be eighty AGAIN.
JOHN TYLER, jr, son Of President Tyler, re-
marked dryly the other day that before the war
the letters F. F. v. meant first families of Vir-
ginia. but since the war left SO many of them
impoverished they signify Fight For VictuAls.
A SCOTCH beadle took his sweetheart to q
graveyard, and. showing her q dark corner. said:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

THERE is a large number Of old soldiers in
Indiana not entitled to a pension under pres
ent laws who still feel, and rightly 80, that
they have a claim on the government for
more generous recognition than they have yet
received. Of course they will never get it
from the Democratic party. As an indication
Of how their claims and services are regarded
by the supporters of the Cleveland admins
t~ration, we call attention to an article which
we reprint from the Chicago Times. 1t
breathes the true spirit of Democratic hostili-
ty to old soldiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
THE Albany. n. Y, Times, a Democratic

THE Albany. n. Y, Times, a Democratic
organ, has this:
"a correspondent says he has carefully can
vassed his district, and finds that where there
are only GA votes for Cleveland there will be
475 for Hill. This is an extraordinary state
ment, aud we shall examine the election re-
turns with some curiosity to see whether it is
verified. If il is, it will not be the fault of
Governor Hill, who appeals to Ell his friends
to vote for Cleveland and Thurman"
If it is, it viii also appear that Governor
Hills followers either cannot be made to love
Cleveland. or that they detect the wink which
accompanies the Governors appeal to vote for
the President as well as himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
Dry Goods Meu for Harrison.

New York Special.
The Dry goods Republican Club tas hung the
largest banner in the United States over Broad
way, near Worth street In 1884 the majority
Of the dry goods mon were for Cleveland, but
this year they are for Harrison and Morton.
Mir. Morton is well known among the leading
mercantile houses and he will get votes for the
tickle. in large number from the business men
and merchants. Another reason why the dry
goods men and the other merchants are turning
against Cleveland, though they were formally
friends to him. is they way in which the New
York m house has been run under a Demo
cratic administration. The business men have
been harassed aud delayed by the frequent
shifting of officials, the changes of the heads of
departments aud the introduction Of new men
who do not know the customs and necessities of
mercantile life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
Political Changes.

Last week the Chicago Times, a Cleveland
newspaper. sent word to all its correspondents
throughout Indiana and Illinois TO send in a list
of oil the political changes that were positively
known and the reason assigned for them. In
quiry at Democratic headquarters revealed the
fact that three Republicans in the county were
known to have gone over TO Cleveland: John
Bernard, of this city, John Overman, of Amboy.
and one other. On the other hand, the names
of thirty-four Democrats were sent in who have
Joined Republican clubs and are outspoken for
Harrison and Morton. Many others, more than
twice this number, are in the same boat who
for personal reasons do not make it known pub
liely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
The Situation In Indiana.

Few fork SpeclaI-
The Indiana canvassers here reported to the
national committee that within the last year
over 20, 900 voters have come into the new nat
ural gas region, enough to make twice the norm
al majority which has been cast for either party
in the last ten years. They are Almost all Re-
publicans. The industries in which they are
engaged rely on a protective tariff to build them
mp and to turn what was years ago cornields in
to busy manufacturing towns. Besides this, a
change of loo polls in the city of Indianapolis
alone has been reported by the district canvass
ers. due to the personal popularity of General
Harrison with his friends and neighbors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

Mr. MILLS says in his campaign speeches
that the Mills bill does not propose free trade,
but only an average reduction of 4 6-10 per
cent. Mr.. Mills said to the Philadelphia
wool merchants last spring:
The more confusion the tariff works to
business the better l like it, because it will the
sooner be done away with. / desire free trade,
and l will not help to perfect any law that
atands in the way of free trade"
As General Harrison remarks, it is not so
nuch the length Of the step that is taken as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

MInneapoIls Journal.
Now that Judge Gresham is at homo again
the facts Of the Paris Herald interview. in
which Judge Gresham was represented as saw
ing that Harrison was but q fgurehead while
Blaine controlled the policy of the party, and
that such a state of affairs was absurd and RI
diculous, have come TO light. 1t was Mr.. Doane,
Judge Greshamls Demccratic friend and fellow
traveller, who said it. This moral is that Judge
Gresham was in bad company and met the fate
of old dog Tray.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

WHETHER few or many commercial travel
ers come down from Chicago to-day to visit
the next President, there will be no denying
that all are Republicans. The executive
committee Of the club decided that the train
had been chartered for Republicans only, and
that tickets were to be sold to no one unless
he were known to he . true blue supporter of
Harrison and protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

ANNA DIcKINsoN's speech at Tomlinson
Hall will be the event of the campaign, on the
Republican side. The hall should be and
will be crowded. Miss Dickinson is among
the foremost orators of the country. Her
words will be worth hearing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD is quoted as
saying, in substance, that nearly all Of the
political articles in the public press are ia
spired by whisky. For incorporate state
ments and outrageous ISLANDERS, the third
party orators Guido their Democratic allies in
this campaipn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
One Man Who Koows Him.

Chicago Nail.
Voorhees,. they cay. is mad because he went
into the Indianapolis Democratic headquarters
and nobody recognized i'm. Be calm. Daniel
There is one place where you will be recognized
the Senate. John Ingalls,, Of Kansas, will
recognize you a mile away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
Harrison's Little Talks.
Troy Times.

~ fIHTcSs
Gen. Harrison's pointed and pertinent little
talks TO visiting delegations are among the best
electioneeriug utterances of this campaign.
His statesmaulike grasp Of the situation grows
more pronounced every day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22
Public Letter.

Sc. LOUIS Post-D1spatch-
And it now appears that the Burchard letter
of Senator Vest was not q hasty private note TO
a personal friend, but a public open letter to his
acknowledgements" The little Senator will
have to search around for another explanation
TO prove his entire freedom from the char &c OF
idiocy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

Miss DIcKINsoN's reception, tonight,
should be made worthy the lady's name and
well-remembered great services in other years
to the cause represented by the Republican
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-22

: At Richmond, her first appointment, hun
dreds of people were unable to get into the
hall to hear Anna Dickinson.