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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
some Interesting Figures.

The New York Commercial Bulletin
makes some interesting comparisons be-
tween the material conditions of the coun-
try to-day and those of hundred years
ago. The population OF New York is
more than half that of the entire
nation in 1889. The monthly commerce
of the metropolis exceeds the aggregate
annual commerce of the whole country
then. For the first year Of constitutional
government the foreign commerce OF the
United States showed imports OF S23,0OO,-
600 aud exports S20,000000. For the past
year the imports of the United States have
been S73S, 500 600, and the exports S725,-
100000. In 1889 flour led the list OF ex-
ports, tobacco, rice, wheat and corn follow
ing in the order named These were the
only items exceeding 81 100000. The ex-
port of cotton amounted to only SIS, 4OS.
The tonnage entering our seaports In
1889 was 76l, 100 tons; in 1889 it was Is,
100000. OF the aggregate for 1889 1872, 900
tons were American and but 226, 600 Brit
ish. Last year 7,lOs,O0O tons were British
and but $4,000 tons American. A COM
parison of the merchant marine of the
United States on Dec. 81, 1859, and on
June 50, 1887, in tons. divided according
to employment, is as follows:
Foreign. Cosstvise. Fisheries. Total.
9s9,4i2 2,929.217 699 41O5, s4j
The shipbuilding OF 1889 was estimated
at 5000 tons, of 1870 at $4,000 tons, and
Of lSSs at 21S,OOO tons. During the first
year of constitutional government the
population was considerably less than
100000, compared to about 630O0,000 at
the expiration of the century. The federal
revenues for the first year were less than
S400000o, and for the last year more than
S3S0OOO,0 900. The public debt at the close
ofthe Revolutionary war approximated
$4,000 900, representing several times the
amount of specie in the country. The
debt is now more than Sl,OO0,OO0,00O,
equaled by the immense stock of gold and
silver in circulation and in treasury
vaults.
In 1889 our banking interests were in
embryo. Some years later the entire in
vestment in banking enterprises was but
100000. Our national banks alone
now have capital of S5OOOOO,OOO, and
our savings banks have resources Of double
that amount.
All of which, perhaps, affords occasion
for congratulation. But there is cause for
serious concern in the fact that our wealth,
though multiplied many fold, is less
equitably distributed now than it was
then. OF what benefit is it to the people
that there should be enormous accumu-
lations of capital, if they are concentrated
in few hands, instead OF being generally
diffused2
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
The Called Jade Winces.

In Bishop PoTTERs centennial address
at st. Paul's church in New York were
some passages which have given great Of
Tense TO President HARRIsoS and some of
his official associates. The good bishop
contrasted the tone Of public life to-day
with what it was a hundred years ago
spoke impressively of the potency of
money in our politics, and warned his au-
ditors that when public offices were
bestowed in consideration OF the wealth
of the recipients and their expenditures
for party purposes the situation was
alarming. Among those who heard the
bishops address were President HARRI-
son, Vice-President MORTON, p. M.-Gen.
WASAMAKER, Secy. PRocToR and other
products of Doodle politics. It goes with
out saying that they were not pleased
DIR. MACARTHUR. republican parson of
New York, expresses the administration
view:
IL is surprising that on such an occasion lam
guage should have been used which must be in-
terpreted as rejecting upon President HARRI-
son and his administration. When spoke Of
what he called practical politics." and COM
pared the existing methods with those which
the first president would have employed it is
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

TEACHER, MorristoWn. Ind: The new law
provides that any person who has taught for
six consecutive years in the common schools
and now holds a two years license, or who,
having previously taught for six consecutive
years in such schools. shall hereafter obtain
two years license, shall be forever atterward
exempt from examination so long as he or she
shall teach in the common schools OF the county
IN which this license was obtained. If such
person allows a year TO pass by without teach
ing one full school year in the county, the ex-
emption ceases; and If such person, during
such exemption, seeks employment to teach
other branches than those included in the ex-
animation upon which the license was issued,
he or she shall undergo examination in such
additional branches.
w. p. S, Siberia, Ind: Township trustees
now in Office hold only for the term for which
they were elected. a trustee will be elected in
every township in the state next April, who
will hold his Office for four years, and be ine-
hglble for reelection until a full term of four
years has interviewed. At the election next
spring trustees who have served but two years
win be eligible for reelection; those who have
held the office for two consecutive terms will
not be eligible
PATRON, city: ID The net surplus in the
U. ). treasury April 1 was S5i, 006, 1861. ~
The status of the deaf and dumb and blind asy-
lum boards is uncertain. Suit has been begun
~ NOiuptl tue SuftIuoI 10 ISSUE CoulhieslpIe 70
the deaf and dumb asylum trustees.
a CONSTANT READER: The decision in the
telephone cases was by the L. S. circuit court
IN Illinois, and not by the L. 5. supreme court
and sustained the Bell patents as against the
claims of the companies manufacturing and
operating the Cushman telephone.
WILLIAM FULTZ. Crothersville, Ind: The
new squirrel law will not be in force until the
governors proclamation is issued announcing
that the laws OF the last session havetaken
effect.
EDWARD BARRETT, Plain6eld, Ind: Law
renee Barrett, the actor, was originally Law
renee Brannigan, but he abandoned the latter
name on the threshold of his stage career.
ENQUIRER, city: The total cash in the treas
ury Including bullionl March /, Just before
the new administration was indicted into
power, was $297, 91S,51S.j9
REGULAR READER, city: The Hon. W. Fl.
English monument in Crown hill is fifty feet
Isoh
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
Cleveland and Harrison.

st, Louis Republic.
In its reverent tone and solemn regard for
the obligations of public Office, Mr.. Cleveland's
speech at the centennial banquet at New York
bore a striking resemblance to the inaugural
address of President Washington delivered in
the same city just 100 years previously. On
the other hand, President Harrison's address
at the same banquet was pitifully unequal TO
the demands of the occasion, being thin, fiat
and commonplace, and with that touch of self
conscious egOtism which has come to be rec
ognized a. the mark of Harrisonian author
ship. The excuse that he did not know be-
fore seating himself at the table the sentiment
he was expected 10 respond TO is probably an
evasion. If it was not notified to him by the
banquet committee, he could easily have
learned it by inquiry and he certainly knew
his presence at the banquet meant speech of
some kind. Ii, under these circumstances, he
went to the banquet entirely unprepared, as he
pretends, it was an aflront 10 his hosts and fell
low guests and the people of the United States
whom he represents. If he went prepared, il
illustrates his folly in allowing even a prepared
speech to go forth to the public as delivered,
without giving Secy. Halford the opportunity
of editing il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
Cleveland And Hill.

The Brooklyn Edqle, an able and very
conservative democratic journal, discuss
ing the democratic presidential possibili-
ties of 1892, reaches the conclusion that
the nominee will be either CLEVELAND or
HILL. 1t recognizes the fact that
there is already a very pronounced
Cleveland sentiment generally diffused
throughout the country, and believes
it is likely to grow as the delin-
quencies of President HARRIsON's admin
istration intensity popular appreciation OF
the excellent administration from 1885 to
1889. The EGgle very wisely saws:
The democratic nominee, whether CLEvE-
LAND or HILL, will have to be a tariff reformer.
lie will have to he an opponent of trusts. He
will have 10 be an enemy of political deals. He
will have to be real friend OF civil service re-
form. He will have to be the exemplar of fru-
gal, industrious, Woodworking administration.
He will have to be a man who will appeal to
questions larger than those defined by
the bounds of a community or state. He will
have to be a man who will not be offensive to
the rising public demand for honest voting for
the extirpatiOn of the Doodle from politics and
of the bOOdlers from office and management.
He will have TO be man, in the independence,
vigor and essential morality of whose intellect
the party will have confidence, even more than
in his shrewdness, adroitness and political
skill. He viii have to be man who will per
sOnify many of the things which the nation
wants earnestly to have done, and who will be,
as far as possible, divorced in the general mind
from time serving and inesse-a man to put
the national democracy on the winning side of
right questions and 10 make il the instrument
of good government among men.
Gov. Hills friends insist that he can, when
properly construed and understood, satisfy and
measure up 70 these requirements. That Mr..
CLEVELAND already measures up 10 many of
them is not to be disputed.
II Gov. HILL measures up to this stand
ard, we fear that he is not properly con-
strued and understood" in this part of the
country. Perhaps il we knew Gov. HILL
better we should rate him higher. There
will doubtless, however, be many oppor-
tunities to get better acquainted with him
during the next three years. Meantime,
Mr.. CLEVELAND will not be lost sight of.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08

THE western farmers who voted for
HARRISON, protection and home-market
will be interested to know that bill is
pending in the Massachusetts, legislature
to prohibit safe deposit, loan and trust
companies from investing their funds in
western farm mortgages. Evidently the
smart Massachusetts Yankees do not con-
slider agriculture in the West to be as pros
porous as it was represented by the re-
publican orators in the recent campaign.
The western farms are carrying about all
the mortgages they can stand, and the
Massachusetts, monev-lenders know it.
In few years, the way matters are drift
ing now, there will be a general foreclo
sure, and the majority of our western
farms will pass into the hands of the Yam
KEGS, while their former owners or their
descendants will till them as tenants
That's what protection to American in
dustry" is bringing us to.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08

BY persons who, attacked by mild form Of rheu
matisu, neglect to seek prompt relief subsequent
torture is prevented by an immediate resort %
Hostetter's stomach Bittors. Slight exposure, an
occasional draucht will beget this painful maady,
where there predispostion 20 il in the blood IL
is not difficult 20 arrest the trouble at The outset,
but we'll nigh impossible 20 eradicate il when ma
tured No evidence in relation 10 this superb blood
depurent is more positive than that which estab-
fishes its efficacy az a preventive and remedy for
rheumatism. Not only is it thorough, but safe.
which the vegetable aud mineral poisons, often
taken as curatives Of the disease are not Besides
expelling the rheumatic virus from the system, Il
overcomes fever and ague, biiousness. constipation
and dyspepsia.
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columbus Herald.

w. A. Bell, of the School Journal, comes to
the aid of Van Antwerp. Bragg q Co, the
schoOl-book monOpolists, by an argument in
tended to diseredit the sehool-b0ok law. As in
the outset of his criticism be makes a mis-
statement as to the law, it may be presumed
that he, like Gov. Hoyey in other cases. has
failed to read the law. He shows a good deal
more zeal in his criticism than knowledge OF
the law. Hence his opinion as to its workings
and effects viii have little weight. 1t is
questionable judgment that has prompted him
to take up the cudgel in favor Of the school
book monopoly. great many people will
charge more weighty reasons for his act than
a questionable judgment.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08

JoHN L. GRIFFITBs delivered the centen-
NAL Grafton at KOkomo. 1t was of course
an eloquent effort, for Mr.. GRIFFITHS is a
professional orator. But we are surprised
to learn, from our brilliant contemporary,
the Kokomo Dispatch, that Mr.. GRIFFITHs,
in enumerating the great men of the con-
stItution-making epoch, failed to mention
either JAMES MADISON or THOMAS JEFFER-
son. Mr.. MADISON was, in a larger sense
than any other person, the father of the
constitution. The impress of his mind is
on nearly every line in that instrument.
To THOMAS JEFFERSON we are indebted for
the fact that the United States is a repub-
lie and not a monarchy. He was not a
member of the constitutional convention,
but his influence was paramount in that
body. MADISON, its leading spirit, was his
pupil in the science of government, and it
was under the inspiration of JEFFERsoN's
teachings that he wrought. And yet Mr.
GRIFFITHs, in an Grafton upon the CEN
tennial of constitutional government in
the United States, tells his hearers about
JAMES OTIs and FISHER AMEs and says
nothing of THOMAS JEFFERSON and JAMES
MADISON 1t seems almost incredible that
partisanism should 90 so far.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
Protection and the Thread-NIakers


We have already called attention to the
recent reduction of wages by the Clark
thread company of Newark, y. J. We
learn from the New York Times that about
two weeks before the presidential election
the company protested TO be greatly
alarmed at the prospect of a democratic
victory, and on Oct 20 posted in its facto-
Ties notice that until further orders the
mills would be closed all day on Saturdays
and at I o'clock on all other working DAYS.
The officers explained that this action was
caused by the Mills bill-which could not
become law so long as the republicans
control the senate. Similar action was
taken at this time by the other thread
manufacturers who were in the combina-
ton or trust with the Clark people.
The manufacturers of spool cotton thread
ere protected by tariff duty of IA cents
per dozen spools of 200 yards each, which
was equivalent in the last fiscal year to an
ad valorem duty of 81 per cent The
Mills bill cut this duty to 40 per cent.
The senate bill left it unchanged.
Ii is said that some of the employees Of
the Clark company were threatened with
a reduction of wages if they voted for
CLEvELAED. But CLEVELAND was not
elected, the tariff was not reduced, and
will not be for years to come, and yet
their wages were reduced-allee samee :"
We wonder what these thread-makers
really think about the beauties of high
tariff in the light of their recent ex-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08

PRESIDENT HARRISON is said to be dis
gruntled because Mr.. CLEVELAND received
more applause in New York City on CEN
tennial day than he did. We do not
quite understand why Mr.. HARRISON
should have expected a very hearty pop
ular reception in New York, He has
done absolutely nothing since he became
president to commend himself TO popular
favor. He has devoted his whole time to
peddling out the patronage, and a sorry
mess he has made of it. He has squarely
repudiated every pledge touching the
public service made by his party and
himself during the last campaign, and has
done everything in his power to degrade
the standard OF efficiency and morality in
every department of the government The
people of New York respect the office Mr.
HARRISON fills, and showed that respect in
all proper ways on centennial day. But
in Mr.. HARRISON personally they see little
to admire or respect, while GROVER CLEvE-
LAND typifies to them ell that is best in
American manhood, and in the political
thought and tendencies of the time.
GROvER CLEVELAND in private life is a
much more commanding figure than BEN
JANIN HARRISON in the white house; and
it is not strange that the latter should be
cast down by discovering the public ap-
probation of this fact
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THE South Rend Tunes saws:

II RANDALL's critics would study his
speeches and his announced views on the tariff
they would find that they differed but little if
any, with the old democratic leaders. He has
expressed himself in favor of basing the
amount of tariff levied at the difference in cost
OF articles manufactured IN this country and
Europe, or rather on the difference in wages.
RANDALL's tariff speeches are very good
1t is his tariff votes that are wrong. He
talks tariff reform and votes against it
every time be gets a chance. He Processes
TO be in favor of tariff only sufficient to
compensate for the difference between the
cost of articles manufactured in this
country and in Europe, but he votes
against a reduction of the tariff which
leave the manufacturers of our most i'm
portant commodities protected TO an
amount greater than the entire labor cost of
those articles either here or abroad. RANDALL
talks democratic on the tariff question, but
he always votes republican, and not only
votes republican but co-operates actively
with the republicans on all tariff matters.
For that reason Mr.. RANDALL has forfeited
the confidence of the great masses OF the
democratic party.
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A Twilight Lullaby.

Hush ably my pretty baby,
You were busy all the day,
Kissing, cooling, smiling, singing
Tired, tired out with play.
Sec the brides and the flowers
Wonder why you are not glad;
Thro' the tender twilight hours
They are sorry when you're sad.
Silvery stars are shyly shining
Mirrored in the dews that fall,
And the honeysuckles twining
Wreathe with love the crumbling wall.
Round the lilies softly cleaning,
Dance the ripping waters bright
And the perfumed zephyrs streaming,
Glad the glory Of the night.
Down the purple bills OF heaven
Angel eyes their vigils keep.
Radiant guardian spirits given
To watch DER you in your sleep.
Slumber, then, my darling baby,
Sweetly on your mothers breast.
Love will shield from harm my baby,
Seraphs guard your infant rest.
In the morning when the sun shines
Birds and flowers viii wake to Joy
Once again 10 sing and blossom
For Eugene, my baby boy.
Chicago. lALIcE MAY oUISS
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difficult to see what he meant If not an en-
phatie condemnation of the supposed practices
of the present administration.
1t is the CALLED jade that winces. Bishop
POTTER made no application of his re-
marks. They were purely impersonal.
Why did HARRISON, MORTON, WANAMAKER
ct al. apply them so promptly? Is not
their displeasure at Bishop PoTrER's emil
nently sound reflections tantamount to a
plea OF guilty to all that has been charged
as to the origin and practices of the adj
ministration OF many PRAYERS?
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CLaporte Areus.1

The odiOus school book trust dies very hard,
and its hired attorneys ana paid newspaper
organs are doing some vigorous lying about the
new law. These organs are making a record
that will return 10 plague them before they
get through with this matter. The trust owns
a few officials and one or two leading news
papers which it has bought and paid for, and
relies upon many others to follow these file
leaders Many of them are doing it, but the
people have been robbed too many years by
the old combination not TO be willing to give a
fair trial TO any law designed to break up that
steal and furnish books at reasonable rates.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
THE scHooL-BooK LAW.
It's Faithful Execution Demanded By the
People.
Peoples Friend.1

The school.book trust is evidently going to
hold on to the monopoly as long as there is the
falntest hope of selling book.
They are sending out circulars 10 all the
dealers throughout the state, telling them there
is no probability that the law will be enforced
for year; also that the bill was not signed by
the governor leaving the inference that the
law illegal. 1t is true that the governor
did not sign the bili but it is a law, all the
same and will be enforced, if those inuusted
with its execution do their duty. Let the state
board do this duty at once, that our children
may have the benefit of the cheap books of the
coming year.
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ILOeansport Pharos. I

If the school-bOok law proves a success it
will rise over opposition that seems well nigh
insumountabe. The hired servants of school
book trusts are many, well paid, and some
of them are serving two masters Nearly every
body connected with the schools of the state is
in some way or another under obligations TO
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. This firm has vari-
Gus WAYS of bribing school officials. IL finds
this the cheapest way 10 strengthen the serpen-
tine coils of the giant trust, and the easiest and
surest way OF preying upon the helpless pur-
chaser of school supplies.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08

The school book law will demonstrate TO the
people of Indiana what curse book mOnop-
oily has been to them. A book that formerly
cost 81 can be had for 80 cents under the new
law. This demonstrates the fact that the peo-
pie have been paying twice as much as the
books were worth and this extra money went
directly into the pockets of the book moDop-
oily.
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Perm Sentinell

II is just a little singular why the school
book law, passed by the last general assembly,
by which the people of this state were saved
more than two million dollars, finds its only
opposition in few republican papers of the
state. There certainly can be nothing political
in it, and it would be very gratifying TO the
general public TO know why they take posi-
ton in opposition to the people and in favor
of the school book monopoly.
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a. PPLIcArIoN FOR LICENSE THE voT..I

A PUBLICATION FOR LICENSE THE voTlRs
n Of Center township hereby notified that the
subscriber will in accordance with the license laws OF
the state Of Indiana apply to the board Of commits
sioner Of Marion county, indiana. at the June term,
1889 license 20 sell intoxicating viDOus malt ard
spirituous liquors in less quantities than quart IT
time with the privilege Of allowing the same TO be
drank premises OF his place Of business and
the premises whcreon said liquors to be sold and
drank located at No. rs s noisst in Sixteenth
ward of the city Of indianapolis, Marion county, In
diana JAMES SMITH.
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words of Good Cheer.

Mr.. w. II. Ashton of Bloomington, ILL.,,
writes THE SENTINEL: "The democrats of
these United States are under obligations to
the democrats of the state of Indiana for the
noble work they are doing in exposing the cor
rupt practices OF the grand old republican
party, and in the noble effort they have made to
reform the methods ofconducting our elections.
/ wish you God-speed, and to the democrats OF
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Delphi Times.

The school-book trust, that has cost the peo-
pie of this state millions of dollars, hates to let
go Of its grip on the purse-strings of the peo-
pie aud is trying in every way, through ITS
purchased newspapers, to convince the people
that the new law is failure, but its efforts are
useless and will not avail, for the people have
monopoly on education, and the new law will
get fair trial in spite of this paid opposition.