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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
WEDNESDAY. NJ AY p,
Getting Their Eyes Open.


The fact that the very disasters which
the tariff shriekers predicted as certain to
follow CLEvELAND's reelection are COM
ing thick and fast, although HARRISON is
in the white house, is opening the eyes of
thousands of people to the fact that the
present protective tariff is, for the most
part, humbug and swindle. Ydde's
Fiber and Fabric, an able trade journal,
which supported HARRISON vigorously on
the tariff issue, no doubt voices the curl
osity of a great multitude of deluded
victims Of monopoly sophistry, when it
wants to know "where are the good
times" that HARRTsoS'S election was to
bring
Il saws: eve were led to believe that
il the party of high protection secured
control of the government,we would then,
very soon, have good times. We are a
firm believer in protecting American in
dustries if it could be done under the
guidance Of honest statesmen, but IN the
hands OF quack politicians terrible work is
made of protection" 1t Is indignant at
the folly of the manufacturers and growers
of wool in combining TO continue the
tariff on wool, when any one can see. il
he will, that free wool would be great
move toward honest protection" This
was the kind Of protection that the Mills
bill proposed to give the wooden industries
Of the country by giving them untaxed
raw materials, honest, scientific, legitimate
protection.
The Ndtional Labor Tribune of Pittsburg,
which preached HaRRTsoN and a high
tariff to the workingmen in the last cam
paign, has also discovered that protection
does not protect anybody but capitalists.
II calls the attention OF its readers to the
fact that al the present price OF steel rails
IN London, with freight from London to
Pittsburg added, the cost laid down in
Pittsburg would be 1921 a ton, without
the tariff of ST. The Allegheny Bessemer
company of Pittsburg has Just taken a con-
tract for rails at S26 ton, or less than the
English price withoutincluding duty. The
National LGbor Tribune wants to know why
the Allegheny Bessemer company cut so
much under American prices and there
fore compelled a reduction OF wages in
stead OF maintaining rates and giving part
of the 81 ton protection in wages to
American workmen. 1t very naturally
concludes that the ST. duty is "a bowling
sarcasm and an outrageous fraud.
All over the country trade and labor
Journals are talking in the same strain as
IVadss Fiber and Fabric and the National
Labor Tribune. The logic OF events is
opening their eyes-and we hope the eyes
of the readers-to the folly and wicked
ness of our Chinese system of taxation.
The lies and sophistries of the protection
ist demagogues viii not "go down" IN
1892 with tens of thousands OF voters who
eagerly swallowed them last year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22

ing order. 1t would mean, not defeat
alone, but overwhelming disaster-dis-
aster which would not admit even of the
consolatory reflection that "all was lost
save honor" Several million of voters
have been educated on the tariff question
during the last two or three years. They
believe that the present tariff system is
vicious and hurtful thatitis building up a
small class of citizens at the expense OF
the masses of the people, and that its
complete reform is demanded by every
consideration of patriotism and public
justice. Unless the democratic party
stands for such reform as boldly and
firmly in 1892 as it did in 1888, this great
army of voters viii raise their own stand
ard, choose their own leaders and make
an open. manly fight for principle. What
such action would import to the demo-
cratic party, it needs no special acumen
20 discover
We have no fears that the democratic
party will retreat a single step from the
position it has assumed on this tariff ques-
ton. Nor do we believe that Mr.. BAR
NUNS successor as chairman of the ma
tiOnal committee will be any but an out
spoken tariff reformer. The democratic
party has its face to the future.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
Gov. Hovey's absurd bubbles.


When the constitution was adopted there was
but one insane asylum in the state and the
board of trustees of this asylum, the supreme
court having decided that they were legally
and constitutionally chosen, have been sup
piled with their commissions. But there are
three new insane asYlums in the state one OF
them in this county, yet Gov. HOvey re-
fuses TO issue commissions TO the three several
boards of trustees that were appointed for
their management at the same time and under
the same conditions that the members OF the
board of trustees for the Indianapolis asylum
were appointed, on the miserable technically
that these offices did not exist at the time OF
the adoption OF the constitution. Accord
ing TO this logic, If state grows in popula-
ton so as to require four insane asy
lums instead of one, and in wealth so as to be
able to supply them, the trustees Of the asylum
that was in operation when the constitution
was adopted is the only one that has any con-
sttutonal rights 10 exist, or, at least, the only
one that the constitution recognizes. All
others are in the nature OF interlOping asylUms
whose boards OF trustees can not be appointed
by the legislature. as the board of the Indian
apolis asylum is, but must be appointed by the
governor himself.
Was there ever anything more ridiculous
than such distinctions as these? Who can
wonder at the widespread contempt for law
and courts that is being expressed everywhere
when the governor of a state calmly resorts
TO such quibbling as this for the sake OF the
power to distribute a few paltry offices:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
Napoleon Defeated.

The supreme court. or a majority of its
members, is to be congratulated upon hay-
ing risen above partisanship and decided
the Riley case upon its merits. Nothing but
mulisb obstinacY or an adherence TO "Na-
poleonic tactics" could have inspired Gov.
HovEY to the course which he pursued in
refusing commissions to the trustees OF
the minor benevolent institutions. Pre-
vious to the decision of the supreme court
in the insane hospital case the governor
might possibly have been credited with
an honest doubt as to the election by the
legislature doubt of the constitu-
tionality of that body's course in
the selection of officers for the
public institutions. 1t didn't reflect
much credit upon the governors ability
IS constitutional lawyer, on which ne
prides himself, but nevertheless, up to
the handing down OF that opinion, there
was an opportunity for the belief that he
acted conscientiously in refusing to issue
the commissions.
After that decision, however, the gov
errors further refusal to recognize the
became merely manifestation of mex
cusable obstinacy and an endeavor to
carry out his partisan purposes regardless
Of the law or the proprieties.
The court, in its decision, administers a
sly dig to the Napoleonic governor by say
ing: eve cannot believe that the general
assembly NAV rightfully appoint the trus-
tees OF the hospital for the insane, and yet
have no authority to appoint those OF the
institution for the education of the blind. "
Whether the gentleman who rattles
around in the chair once filed by MORTON
and HEsDRIcKs is capable of approaching
this notification that his further resistance
20 the law is untimely and useless re-
mains to be seen, but the notification is
certainly explicit enough for any man
who does not set himself up as a dictator.
The supreme court has done its duty.
VIII Gov. HovEY longer kick against the
r,rfcEa9
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
The schooI-Rook Law.

VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG d Co. are spend
ing great deal of money in Indiana these
days. They are occupying some of the
highest-priced space in the Journal and
Neirs with cunningly-worded articles, in
tended to prejudice the public mind
against the new law and arouse
sympathy for themselves as the
victims of unjust legislation. They are
loading down the mails with documents
of all kinds, designed to create false i'm
preSsioDs as to the new law and to put
the trust in favorable light. These doc
uments are sent to everybody connected
in any capacity with our public schools,
as well az to cleTgymen, editors, lawyers,
physicians and others who are supposed
to have influence in their respective COM
munities. The state is filled with the
agents of this firm, who are working night
and dav to further its interests
All OF this work costs vast amount of
money. Does anybody suppose that these
gentlemen would make such lavish ex-
penditures and such desperate efforts to
nullifv the new law if the profits Of their
present monopoly in Indiana were not
enormous? They have spent several large
fortunes in Indiana since Jan. trying to
save this monopoly, they are evil
IDENTIFY prepared to spend several
more. And vet they ask the
people OF this state to believe that they
are selling their publications very close !;
that there is only a narrow margin OF
profit in their business as it is now con-
Quoted, and that nobody can furnish first
class school books any cheaper than they
have been charging!
We warn the people now that there is
great danger that the Vaccinations of the
school-book ring will succeed. Some of
the men charged with the execution of
the new law are acting in bad faith. Every
effort is making to prevent bidding Every
possible obstacle is being thrown in the
way of would-be competitors for the con-
tract. The whole state house is fighting
the law. Supt LAFoLLErTE is reported as
predicting that no bids will be received
on May 2S. This prediction may be veri-
fed, but, if so, il viii be the fault OF the
state board OF education. We do not
believe all the members OF that body are
acting in bad faith, but we are very sure
some Of them are, and we insist that the
others shall call halt. and demand upon
the law having fair show. The SENTINEL
proposes to see that il has fair show, or
let the people of Indiana know the reason
Whv.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
Mr. Rarnum,s SUCCESSOR.

The New Haven (Ct) Register, one of
the ablest and most influential democratic
journals in the East, says:
The fight in the last campaign was made
upon the tariff issue. The man who made il
was renOminated by reclamation in the national
convention. democratic house of represen-
tatives had passed bill substantially embody
ing his ideas. A national platform con-
structed in harmony with these ideas. From
she opening to the close OF the campaign the
tariff was the one issue debated in the press
and on the stump. The party could not COM
NIT itself more thoroughly to the principle OF a
low tariff than il did last year, and though it
came out of the struggle defeated, no evidence
has been produced 70 show that the people
were not with the democracy in the fight The
tariff did not defeat the party. IL increased
iis vote wherever il was aggressively cham
pioued, except where local dissensions pre-
vailed. in spite of every argument. IL would
be suicidal for the party 70 take one step, how
ever short to the rear. The selection of a
bigh-tarif democrat for chairman of the
national committee would be construed, and
properly so, as q backward step.
The worst possible politics" for the
democratic party would be a change Of
front on the tariff question. On grounds
of expediency alone such a move stands
condemned in the mind of every demo-
crst whose thinking apparatus is In work
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
The REIGN octbe saints

Under President CLEVELAND, the two
leading parties were represented in the
boards OF pension examiners throughout
the country. The boards usually con-
sisted oil two democrats and one repub-
lican. Thus fair treatment to all appli-
cants for pensions was assured, and the
boards were raised above the level of mere
partisan machines, which they had been
under former administrations.
The president of many prayers has
changed all this. He refuses to appoint
anybody but republicans on these boards.
Every new board consists of three
"red-hot" republicans. The object
is. OF course, to make these
boards active adiuncts to the local
republican machines. Applicants for
pensions whose votes can be controlled
viii have no difficulty in obtaining favora-
Bile reports from these examining boards.
Democratic soldiers as a rule, will, no
doubt, have 10 choose between sacrificing
their principles or sacrificing their pen
sions.
The whole pension bureau, as at present
organized, is nothing but vast party
machine. TANNER, the head OF the
bureau, is scurvy blackguard without
the least fitness Tor the place His chief
assistants are survivals of the infamous
Dudley regime. DUDLEY himself is the
controlling spirit in the bureau This
great department of the government,
which was so ably, efficiently and
honestly conducted under CLEVELAND. has
already become, under HARRISON, an en-
CINE of political corruption. 1t is con-
Quoted solely in the interest of the pen
sion rings and the republican organiza-
ton, and without regard to the interests
of the people, or the protection of those
for whose benefit it is supposed to exist.
The pension bureau is no exception to
the other bureaus and departments of
the government. Decentralization already
prevails everywhere. The general tone
of the public service has fallen 80 per
cent. since March 1. The good old days"
OF Grantism have come again. Public
office is no longer public trust, but a
private snap. a new era of jobbery and
corruption has been ushered in. "The
old flag and an appropriation" is the
watchword at Washington. Christian
statesmen" of the credit mobilier type
are swarming in the public places at the
capital. The atmosphere is charged with
cant and chicanery. Prayers and plumber
are the order of the hour. The saints are
in possession. and it will be "every man
for himself, and the devil take the hind
most, for the next four years.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY. MAY o. 1889

by the Indiana democratic legislature last
February. Similar measures have been
enacted by half dozen democratic legis-
latures. The democratic party through
out the country is in favor Of election re-
form. Gov. HILL may reflect the wishes
of few corrupt politicians in New York
in his opposition to this reform, but he
does not represent the democratic masses
of the United States, and his veto will
only increase the distrust with which he
has been quite generally regarded since
the presidential election.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
The Indian Lands.
IGlobe pemocrat.l

We may as well face the issue promptly and
squarely. The logic OF the situation points to
the necessary absorption of all the lands in the
Indian territory which are now withheld from
settlement on any account. The time has come
for practical adjustment of the Indian prob
lem. 1t is evident that the Indians will never
cultivate the lands included in their vast
reservations; and popular sentiment Is op-
posed to the theory of denying homes TO
white men in order 10 prolong this condi-
ton of profitless occupancy. The Indians have
certain rights IN the case which ought to be re-
spected and enforced; but white citizens also
have rights and the government cannot afford
TO disregard them. Let the Indians be paid a
fair price for their title, whatever it may
amount to. Nobody objects 20 that. But the
lands in question are required for the uses of
civilization and in the interest Of national pros
perity and progress; and il is useless to deny
or resist such a demand.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
why Not Say what You Mean, Judge?

Why Judge Woods should use so much space
and consume time 10 say little is pulling to
all sensible men, even republicans who are IN
compromising partisans The Judge could say
what he means in fewer words and be just
well understood. His recent charge TO the
jury means simply: Gentlemen of the jury,
there are no United States laws prescribing
punishment for election frauds that shall be re-
spected when a republican is on trial, charged
with a violation of these laws; they are not in
tended to be applied against republicans But,
gentlemen of the jury, if a democrat shall be
put on trial, charged with a breach of these
laws, then spare no pains or costs TO obtain all
the evidence you want The democrat is a mas
10 punish with as severe penalty as possible;
he has no business TO be democrat: do all
you can to convict him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
Some Marriage and Divorce statistics

The marriage and divorce statistics of
Minnesota, recently published, show a
steady increase in the number of mar
riages annually during the last seven
years, except in 1856, when 500 fewer
marriages were contrated than in 1855.
Statistics have been held, by BUCKLE and
other authorities, as establishing an init
mate relation between the marriage rate
and the price of wheat Wheat was not
exceptionally high in 1855, however, and
the matrimonial depression in Minnesota
in that year must be attributed to some
other cause.
The divorce statistics show considerable
fluctuations. The proportion of divorces
10 marriages during each of the last seven
years was as follows, fractions omitted
1882, IS; 1888, 80; 1884, Is; 1885,
l 20; 1886, 20; 1857, 81; 1855, 1:19.
The average for the whole period is 81.
1t would be interesting and profitable il
the causes of these variations could be
discovered, but the statistics do not go
sufficiently into detail to permit an intel
ligent analysis.
Statistical information, carefully col
letcted, affords the best and indeed the
only basis for intelligent consideration of
the marriage and divorce problem, and as
the Minneapolis Journal remarks: "Min-
nesota, with her heterogeneous popula-
ton, representing various nationalities
and different social customs and religious
creeds, is a most excellent field for its
profitable study" That state should
make special effort to collect statistics
on a scientific plan touching these most
important subjects.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
nrade HnrrIson Fe.l small.


We suspect that the sting Of Bishop Potter's
words lay in the involuntary contrast which
every one who heard them was forced 90 draw
between the man who sat there as the president
of the republic and the man whose memory
was that day honored as the founder OF the re-
public. That was a comparison which was
anything but iattering to Mr.. Harrison. He
had doubtless expected the good bishop to
stoop to flattery When he heard him tell tho
plain. unvarnished truth 1t probably made him
feel small, and il certainly made him feet
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
The National Chnirmnnship.

" asU- IoT. y. = IIIltt-T
II anybody from Indiana~is named in Mr.
Barnum's place the probability would be thst
Mr.. s. p Sheerin Of Indianapolis would be the
man. He Is the secretary of the committee, =
vigorous man in the prime Of life, very thor
ough democrat and a politician OF no mean
skill. To his efforts principally were the DEM
ocrats indebted for the organization effected m
the last election in Indiana, and il his party
had not been confronted with Col. Dudley's
''blocks-of-6ve" puzzle, Mr.. Sheerin would prob
ably be enjoying opportunities at the white
house that his puzzler seems 10 have forfeited
Tor heating him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22

tinuous drought threatened the southern
sections of the state until recently relieved
by copious draughts notwithstanding
the annual appearance OF the fruit and
grain-killing terror, Indiana seems to have
always enough, and to spare. Praise the
Lord, and may it ever be so.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
4 shameful Record.

St Louis FOst-Dispatch
Never before has the spoils system been more
openly recognized or more ruthlessly carried
out. Never before has the campaign Doodle
raiser been so shamelessly dragged from OBJ
security 10 be honOred as a public benefactor
and be reimbursed with high Office and rich
places of pa ,ronage. Never before has a
party's plat. lrm or a presidents letter OF ac-
ceptance been violated from the very beginning
with cooler contempt for everything that is
sacred in public pledge.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22

Gov. FITzHUGH LEE of Virginia, in a re-
cent interview in New York, denied that
protection was gaining ground in the
South. He said:
have been elected the president of new
iron company aud will engage fully in the
business at the close OF my present term OF
Office next January. We can make iron for
$l0.25, and when Mayor Hewitt visited us some
few months ago he figured that we could pro-
duce it as low as SO. They think they are do
ing very well in Pennsylvania, where they
make iron for S13. So, you see, we can COM
pete with the country. and we do not want
protection. In point of fact do not know
that there is any benefit in a high tariff. We
will be able TO manufacture iron so cheaply
that / am not sure that our new furnaces would
be more surely profitable ii the duty on pig
iron were entirely removed.
The fact is that protection is a detriment
to the South, because it retards the de-
velopment OF her iron and coal interests.
Men of sagacity, like Gov. LEE, under
stand this. The South can produce pig
iron more cheaply than Pennsylvania,
and if the latter was not bolstered up by
protection the iron industry would very
soon he concentrated in the South, where
il really belongs.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
He il Growing Every Day.
fD1-E4,,, n-..or

President Cieveland's service to his country
as its chief magistrate for the past four years
up TO March 4, 1889, is just beginning to be APP
precated by the people. He is growing in the
hearts of the people as his pure, unselhsh and
patriotic de- votion to them is being contrasted
with the selfish shortcomings and delinquencies
of Harrison as they are being unfolded.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22

II the democratic committee does not
come 10 Indiana for its chairman, it can
probably do no better than to take Mr..
BR1CE-proYided, always, that Mr.. BRIcE
will accept. He is wide-awake. intelli-
gent, active man, entirely sound on the
tariff, and in complete accord with the
democratic party on all public questions.
He is a good representative of the pro-
gressive spirit which is now IN control of
the party, and has all the qualifications OF
a successful organizer. Mr.. BRIcE's man
agement of the campaign last year was
sagacious and efficient, and Mr.. CLEvE-
LANDS defeat was in no wise attributable
to lack of zeal or intelligence on his
part
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22

AT Springfield, Mass, at the end OF four
years OF democratic rule, there were fif-
teen republican railway mail clerks.
After six weeks of HARRISON there were
but four democratic clerks lett. Which
moves the Republican of that city to re-
mark that "the new administration is
making a record Of more shameless greed
than ever the wicked democrats dis
played
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TERMS PER YEAR.

Single copy Invariably in Advance 90
wezsk democrats to bear in mind and select their
own state paper when they come to take subscrip-
tions and make up clubs
Agents making up clubs send for any information
desired. Adde'S THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL
Indianapolis, ind
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IN. Farmer,. "Good Time..r


Has the farmer realized the good times prom
ised him in case Harrison was electedg Wheat
is 20 cents lower per bushel. wool il cents less
per pound, while salt sugar and, in fact, nearly
everything the farmer consumes has advanced
in rariep