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The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16
GENERAL BROWNE 's BILL.

The bill which General Browne re-
Gently introduced in the House, which
provides for material reduction of the
duty on sugar, and for the government
to pay bounty of cent pound upon
all domestic sugar, is measure which
should receive the serious attention of
Congress. The duty on sugar is nearly
20 per cent. ad ralorem. That duty
has helped the Sugar Trust to control
the importation of raw sugars, because
the combination had the money to con-
troll the market. Consequently, it en-
abled the trust to advance the price.
Sugar is necessary of life; and, aswe
do not produce it at home to any con-
siderable extent, the duty imposed
thereon is so much added to the foreign
price. 1t is a tax, and the heaviest that
the people pay into the federal treasury.
The sugar tax, moreover, is tax for
revenue, as it has been demonstrated that
it has not stimulated the produc-
tion of home sugar. AS sugar yields
the most revenue of anv article in the
first necessaries of life, be the first to be
abolished or reduced.
1t is, however, clearly the duty of
Congress to do something to stimulate
sugar production. With an abundance
of land suited to sugar-beet culture, We
should, like Germany and France. pro-
duce our own sugar. The bounty pro-
posed by General Brownies bill may not
be a sufficient stimulus to build up that
important industry, but it is in the right
direction. The people would be the
gamers, since they would escape the
payment of the tifty-odd millions of
duty collected on sugar, and would pay
out of other revenues four or five mill
ions to stimulate the sugar industry.
There can be no doubt that the plan of
General Browne would be very popular
with the consumers of sugar.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16
A STORY OF OUTRAGE.

The discovery of a conspiracy ON the
part of three hundred officers of the gov
ernment of Galicia, which is q crown
province of Austria Hungary, with GER
tain steamship and railway lines to force
the peasants of that country to emigrate
to the United States, has brought to
light unpleasant and startling develop
ments. 1t is asserted that the conspiracy
has forced no less than $4,000 of these
people to leave their homes and come to
this country to escape punishment for
offenses which they did not commit.
During the past twOyears $4,000 of these
people, poor, ignorant and helpless, have
come to Pittsburg, Pa, where many of
them took the places of striking miners.
1t is probable that the Austrian consul
at Pittsburg will be ordered to take tes-
timony to be used in the trial of the off,
GERS implicated in the crime.
One of these unwilling immigrants has
been telling his story. He was notified
by an officer that he had been speak
ing disrespcctfully of the En-
peror, which had displeased the latter,
but he was willing to overlook the
offensc if he would be ready with his
family to leave the country in week.
The man sold his little property for half
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

THE school children of Charlestown,
Clark county, will attempt to raise a
sum of money sufficient to erect monu-
ment over the grave of Jonathan Jen-
nings, the first Governor of Indiana,
whose burial place is unmarked. In
diana has paid too little honor to the
men who were prominent in the States
early history, and to whom it owes
much of its present prosperity. Jen-
nings served the commonwealth, not
only as Governor, but as the first ter
fitorial Delegate to Congress, and after
his gubernatorial term as a member of
Congress. 1t would be we'll if the move
mentbeguninC Charlestown were taken up
by other schools of the State, and me-
mortal placed over the grave in keeping
with the public services rendered.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Ii Mr.. Cleveland's notions of ballot re-
form had prevailed In 1884, he would have
been the worst beaten man who ever ran
for the presidency.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
THE people of the United States will see
to it. sooner or later. that the voters of the
South are permitted TO exercise their rights
the same as tho voters of the North do.
That's all there is to the Southern question
of tO-day.-New York Press.
THE Hon. Daniel Webster Voorhees,, who
would hang the Carnegies" if he had his
way about it. has not done any hanging as
yet beyond hanging up his tarlff-smashing
bill in the Senate. The Senator's work as
an executioner is both limited and HARM
less.-Philadelphia Press.
THE pension appropriation must continue
to grow until every hOnOrably discharged,
disabled and dependent soldier receives the
pittance the laws provide. There was no
there must be no limit to the necessities of
the soldiers now beyond the limits placed
by law.-lOwa State Register.
THE race problem cannot be solved by
fOrcibly depriving the negro of his consti-
tutional rights. yet this is just what the
and what they are doing. They defy the
Constitution and the laws of the country,
and have the gall to ask, What are you
going to do about its"-Detroit Tribune.
GROVER CLEVELAND is striving, with
every prospect of success, to secure for a
third time the Democratic nomination to
the presidency. He is unalterably deter
mined to make his third campaign, like his
second. chiefly an assault upon the grand
principle of protection to home industry.
We are glad to De forewarned. We are
already forearmed.-Boston Advertiser.
EVERY man who comes here expecting to
make this country his permanent abiding
place ought voluntarily to learn the Ian
guage of the country if he does not know it
already and he ought to see thathis children
learn to speak. read and write that lar
guage. If he will not of his own accord see
that his children are instructed in English,
the law may properly require him to do SO.
Chicago Times.
WHAT could be more just than to provide
that in congressional districts where fraud
is apprehended both parties and both can
didates shall be equally represented at all
stages Of the election. and that the work
shall be done under the sanction of the
United States courts7 This means fair
play to both parties, and only party which
does not propose that, it's opponents shall
have fair play can object to the PROPOSE
tion.-Boston Journal.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

THAT is very thrifty scheme of the men
and women who are Joining the Economic
Community down in Pennsylvania after
having given up their membership years
ago for the purpose of marrying. celibacy
being the rule of the society. Having had
experience of what the world. the flesh and
the devil can offer, and having sucked the
orange dry. they come back in their old age
and poverty to the home where peace and
comfort reign and human interests are few
and undisturbing. 1t involves little self
denial now to renew the vows once so
eagerly broken, and they secure a refuge
for their later years at the cost only of a
practical withdrawal from active life and
participation in the worlds progress. 1t
depends on circumstances and tempera-
mcnt whether or not such refuge would
be satisfactory. Many would prefer, even
with poverty threatening. to remain in the
SWIM while life remained, and not to die
until their time came.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16
A PUzzLING SENTENCE.

A few days since dispatch was pub
lished in the Journal to the effect that
man had been sentenced to two years.
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
killing his wife. No explanation was
added, consequently one was left to the
unpleasant conclusion that such sem
tences for such offenses werein the usual
order of things. 1t is hoped that this is
not the case, and that some one who has
an interest in the fair fame of the cOun-
try will furnish the press with the his
tory of this remarkable case, and ex-
plain the circumstances under which
man who has taken the life of his wife by
violence has escaped with so slight
punishment. A horse thief would be
likely to get sentence twice as long; it
cannot be that a court places so little
value upon awife that the man whO takes
her life is not half SO great an
offender as the one who steals
horse. The man who should
break into store and take q pair of
shoes worth 80 if he paid the currency
of the realm for them, and, possibly, $3.50
if he had them charged, would get
sentence quite as severe as this person
who killed his wife. The person impelled
by base appetite to take from a legally
licensed saloon pint of whisky of such
vile quality that half gill of it in the
stomach of natural man would hOrrify
him with the conviction that a nitro
glycerine bomb had exploded in the
headquarters of his vitals, would, under
the law which recognizes such stuff as
penitentiary. Under what conditions is
it that the life of a wife is put
upon so near an equality with
such questionable property as bot
tie of whisky? Or is it possible
that the sentence was based upon the
assumption that wife is property, and
a man has a right to do with his own
what pleases his sweet will; or, if he has
not that unquestioned right, the penalty
for taking her life is not as severe as it
would have been had he set fire to his own
house, and not nearly SO prOtracted as
if he had fired his barn in order to sell
the building to an insurance company?
If the penalty for taking the life of a
wife is two years imprisonment, what
would the court make the penalty for
taking the life of woman whom he had
not sworn to cherish and protecte This
sentence causes a great many harass-
ing doubts as to the status of men as
well as women, which makes its expla-
nation desirable.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

impression of the reader is that he refers
to the Roman Catholic opposition to the
public school system, but he makes
haste to say that the opposition, is not
confined to one sect. The Senator's argu-
ment has curious illustration in the ac-
count, in Sundays Journal. of the de-
nunciation of the public schools by q
member of a Presbyterian synod in the
South. Such an assault is surprising,
even though it comes from region
where the public school is cOmpara-
lively new institution, and social preju-
dice is against it. A minister of de-
nomination which boasts of SO much in
telligence and liberality should show
more progressive spirit, even though
he belong to the South.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

THE proposal to extend the charter of
the Citizens Street-railroad Company
will be considered tonight by the Coun-
ell. The question is simply one of bust
ness, and should be settled on busi-
ness basis. The city needs improved
and quicker transit, and the car conf
pany processes a willingness to meet the
demand. 1t ought not to be matter of
difficulty to reach an adjustment that
will be fair to both the company and the
city, but this cannot be accomplished
unless both sides approach the question
in spirit of fair dealing; and it is not
overstating the case when it is added
that this spirit in its fullness has not yet
been manifested by either the friends OF
foes of the company.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

its value, an officer took the money, and
he and his wife and child were marched,
with many others. hundred miles to
the nearest railroad, from whence they
were carried to Hamburg. where they
were put on steamship and shipped to
New York.. Their tickets only took
them to New York, but when they ar
rived there they were shipped direct to
Pittsburg, where many of them took
the places of striking miners. If this
mans story is true in its essential feat
ures, the crime which those Austrian of
ficers, the steamship managers and all
others who had anything to do with the
transaction, are guilty of, is an offense
which is no better than the old crime of
kidnapping negroes and bringing them to
this country to be sold as slaves. These
people have been forced to leave their
homes, and, whether OF not they pre-
ferred the employment given them,
whether they were paid wages or not,
their immigration was involuntary, and
they were sold into bondage by the Off
GERS and the managers of the transporta-
tion lines.
Secretary Window has just issued a
circular to customs officers, calling at
tention to the complaints that the immi-
grafton and labor contract laws are not
enforced as they should be. The charge
that $4,000 people have been landed on
our shores in order that foreign railway
and steamship companies may have busi-
ness, goes to show that these laws have
been ignored. In view of these state
ments, it seems that the Secretary of
the Treasury or Congress should inves-
tigate the statements made by the exiled
people at Pittsburg.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16
NOE-SEOTARIAN TEMPERANCE.


Pennsylvania women are getting their
plans in shape to organize a non-sec-
tartan, non-partisan Christian temper
ance union in the near future. The out
look for large attendance is said to be
encouraging. That the people who have
been trying to make men sober by stat
ute are becoming conscious of their mis-
take is indicated by statement in a
Philadelphia paper that movement is
on foot among the third-party people in
that State to revive the temperance re-
form in the shape of moral suasion to
secure pledges of abstinence. They
have discovered that since 1884 temper
ance societies have decreased in number
and membership, and that most of those
that still live,devote comparatively lit
tie time to persuading people to become
abstainers. They. admit that no
law can be permanently enforced
unless the weight of public sentiment is
in its favor, and they have, therefore,
resolved to engage in the work which
they originally set out to do, and by
lnuiN VIII ONOl
sentiment. The curious feature of this
sudden change of policy is the expressed
determination to secure a prohibition
law after the temperance tendency is
more firmly established-as if law would
be needed when men are reformed.
Whatever may be the ultimate purpose
of these PrOhibitionists, however, no
one will quarrel with them over their
new departure. The more temperance
societies that teach and preach temper
ance the better, and indications are that
the number of such is rapidly increasing.
The many women who are in harmony
with the political methods of the w. G.
Il. e. need not remain idle while the
non-partisan organization is in process
of formation. Let them follow the wise
example of the Peru women, who, with
drawing from the W. c. L. T., united
with the Mnrphy League. This league
is doing good work, and, in this State.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CARDINAL BoNAPARTE. one of the oldest
members of the Sacred College. is a nephew
of the great Emperor.
THREE years ago Archibald Clavering
Gunter was unknown as a novelist. Now
his books are read every where. and he is
$4,000 ahead.
HER American tour will net Patti $780,
600. This will go a long way toward her
household expenses in the Welsh castle
with the unpronounceable name.
MODERN poets enjoy longevity. Brown
ing lived to beseyenty seven. Wordsworth.
Bryant. Emerson and LOngfellow were old
men. Whittier. Tennyson and Walt Whit
man still live.
CHARLOTTE NJ. YoNGE, the historical
writer. has written and published exactly
one hundred books. She is now engaged
upon her one e-hundred-and-first work, to be
published shortly.
A DILIGENT deliver has discovered that
the use of "down" as transitive verb did
not originate with writer's on sporting top
les. but has the authority of Sir Philip Sid
ney, who, three hundred years ago. con-
cocted this line: ITO down proud hearts
that would not willing die"
The Rev. Charles Z. Stowe, son of Har
riet Beecher Stowe. has resigned his posi-
tlOn as pastor OF the Wlndsor-avenue Con-
gregatiOnal Church. Hartford. Conn. He
asked for leave of absence for year and il
was refused. Mr.. Stowe is the author of a
recently published biography of Harriet
Beecher Stowe. s,a
LADY BRooKE, who is one of the most
famous leaders of London society. has been
creating sensation in the Essex hunting
field by appearing ina pink" habit She
is beautifully mounted, and rides very
hailed with delight among the Essex peo-
pie, who are devoted toher. Lady Brooke,
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

THE New York Post praises Mr.. Cleve-
land for the uncop,romising support
which he gave to the doctrine of civil
service reform in his Boston speech. Mr..
Cleveland gave the same kind of sup
port to the reform in certain celebrated
letters and speeches in his first cam
paign, but he forgot them after his elec-
ton, just as he would do the second
time. Doesn't the Post get little tired
of lauding its idols utterances on this
subject when it knows how little they
signify?
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

The Delaware Senator Goes Into Court and
Alarms the Democratic Camp.

The Delaware Senator Goes Into Court and
Alarms the Democratic Camp.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Senator Higgins yesterday appeared in
the Superior Court of Delaware and was
granted a rule returnable next Thursday
on john j. Dougherty, collector of taxes IN
the city of Wilmington. to show cause why
writ OF peremptory mandamus should not
be issued by the court. requiring him TO
collect taxes with more speed, 10 grant bet
ter facilities TO taxaDles 10 pay their poll
taxes and 10 accept powers of attorney
from all taxables as sufficient warrant for
receiving the poll-taxes and issuing re-
ceipts to the said attorneys.
Although this seems simple matter, ii is
hkely to play an important part In the poll
tics of Delaware. The present tax collect
ors are actually refusing TO accept taxes
from Republican taxables under every pos
sibIe pretext, and when driven to the wall
consume so much time In issuing the re-
ceipts that not more than twenty persons
can be qualified in day, and then only
after repeated visits and hours of waiting.
They absolutely refuse to accept the pow
ers of attorney given by workmen who
cannot spend three or four days TO get their
receipts themselves. 1t is TO correct these
abuses that the aid of the courts is asked.
A more tiagrant abuse of power has never
been exhibited In this country. Two men
set themselves Up as arbiters as 10 who
shall and who shall not be allowed TO vote.
The county is defrauded of its taxes and
citizens OF their qualifications Tor voting,
solely to perpetuate the power of the Dem
ocratic party. The party has been driven
to desperate measures before. but their
present course out-Herods Herod.
The tax collectors have a seemingly plaus-
ible defense. and pose as very virtuous pub
lie servants. but their actions belle their
words If Delaware is Democratic State.
why go to such revolutionary
measures to prevent Republicans
from voting9. If it is a Republican
State. what defensible pretext is there fer
maintaining Democratic rule by fraudi
The hypocrisy of the dominant party is too
apparent for concealment. Ii is a life-and-
death struggle, and the present commissions
precede a dissolution of the party that has
lost every claim to consideration by its
fragrant misuse of power.
The result of this petition will be awaited
with interest throughout the country. 1t
is not Delaware alone nor the Republican
party alone that is involved in the issue
1t goes to the very root of republican insti-
tutions, and if the present course of the
Wilmington collectors is to be upheld, free
institutions in Delaware are done for
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

who possessed a large fortune in her own
right. is married to the eldest son and heir
of the Earl of Warwick, of Warwick Castle.
THE ten mot twelvel men who organized
the New England Anti-slavery Society. tho
first of its kind in this country, Jan. I. 1882.
were Samuel f. Sewall, David Lee Child,
Ellis Gray Loring. William Lloyd Garrison,
Isaac Knapp. Oliver johnson, Robert B.
Hall, Isaac Child, John Cults Smith, Joshua
Coffin. Mr.. Johnson. whodied last week,
in Brooklyn, was one of those who framed
the constitution of the society, and the
first meeting of all the twelve men who
formed it was held Dec. 10, 1881, so that
yersary of a decisive date in his life.
AN American lady who recently visited
Count Tolstoi, the great Russian novelist,
complains that he is not quite consistent in
practicing what he breaches. He holds that
there is something degrading in the mere
handling of money and property, and ac-
cOrdingly delegates to the Countess the con-
troll of the household and the entire man.
agement of his pecuniary affairs She OBJ
served, however, that he has luxuri0usly
furnished study, and horses. carriages and
servants at his cOmmand-althOugh they
are his wife's. On the whole the great man
would appear to have been rather q dis
appointment.
ONE of the most intellectual heiresses of
IHiidueipnla is MISS Nina Lea, the Uauguter
of Henry c. Lea, the well-known publisher
and writer. AS there is no one to inherit
her fathers fortune except brother. Miss
Lea will certainly be blessed with heavy
purse. Her fathers wealth is placed at
SS.00O.0OO. and consequently his daughter
will step into Sl,500.000. She is devoted TO
intellectual pursuits. While her father
was busily engaged in writing his famous
work on the History of the Spanish Inqui-
sition," Miss Lea became deeply interested
in the subject. and it is said assisted her
father not little in his literary labor.
GARDEN AND FOREST is authority for the
the statement that from 1000 prune trees
tive years old Capt. Guy. L. Crosse, of
Santa Rosa. CAL, has. this season. dried five
tons of fruit. which he is delivering at the
Southern Pacific station for Eastern ship
ment at 4l2 cents pound. The rapid ma
turing of prune orchard. after arriving at
the fourth year, is shown by the increase in
the crop of this year over that of last year,
when the yield was but 1900 pounds Next
year it is expected that the crop will be
trebled- AT 4i2 cents pound the proceeds
| from the 1000 trees. this year, equals $3.50.
| In two years more it tshould be nearly S., 600.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

1t is probable that the prices given for
both the interior of Missouri and Ohio
are correct for the respective localities;
but what makes the difference? Mis-
souri, is one of the richest States of the
Union in natural resources, but. because
of the hide-bound bOurbOnism which
has shaped its policy for twenty years it
has fewer lines of railroad. except those
passing through the State to reach
other States and Territories, than
any of the older States of the
West. 1t has few thrifty manu-
featuring villages. Most of the people
are farmers. Consequently there is no
market for the products of the farm in
the immediate vicinity. In Ohio it is
different. 1t is full of manufacturing
towns, which the protective tariff foster.
These manufactures employ thousands
of people, who are consumers of the
products of the farm, and the result is
that these products are worth nearly
double as much in Ohio as In the interior
of Missouri. Close the manufactures in
Ohio, and the Ohio farmer would be
compelled to take the Missouri prices. if,
indeed, he could get any price whatever
which is more probable, since the dis
charged employe would either leave the
country or work little piece of rented
land ON which to raise his food.
Thus the Hamansville Bee unwittingly
furnishes half of the object lesson which
proves the value of protected industries
to the farmer. The easy lesson is good
one to commit to memory.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-16

PHILADELPHIA school trustees are
considering the best way of Kidding the
public schools of two hundred incapable
teachers. To dismiss them is very
simple matter, In one sense, but the
problem lies in the fact that most of the
incompetents have been teaching from
twenty to fifty years, and by reason of
their small salaries have saved nothing.
Their incompetence arises from their in
ability to keep up with the modern ad-
vanced methods and the demands upon
strength and scholarship which the
earlier and simpler system did not in
volve. Their service has been con-
scientious, and even board of trustees,
which, like a corporation, is supposed to
have no heart, does not see its way clear
to turning them out, and thereby giving
them a start to the poor-house. The
problem is one that school boards else
where have to face now and then, and
the outcome of the Philadelphia case
will be watched with interest.