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The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
Anderson, Ind, April Il.
ANOTHER ATTACK ON STANLEY.
Col. williams s,riHes at Him From tn,
ConcO Region.

Col. williams strIHes at Him From the
ConsO Region.
Still another attack is made on Henry
VI. Stanley. 1t comes from Col. George
W. Williams, author OF The Colored
Troops IN the Rebellion" who has been
for some time in the employ of the Congo
Free State. Last year he wrote from hls
station what he has since published IN
pamphlet form under the title of "An
Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leo
p0ld III, King of the Belgians and Sover-
egn of the Independent State OF Congo,
bv Col. the Hon. George w. Williams of
the United States of America" The letter
is an attack on the government OF the
Congo. Concerning MIR. Stanley Col. VIII
hams says:
THE agents of your majesty's govern
ment have misrepresented the Congo
country and the Congo railway. Mr.. II.
NJ. Stanley, the man who was your chief
agent in setting up your authority in this
country, has grossly misrepresented the
character of the country. Instead OF it
being fertile and productive. il is sterile
and unproductive. The natives can
scarcely subsst upon the vegetable life
produced in some parts of the country
Nor will this condition of affairs change
until the native shall have been taught by
the European the dignity, utility and
blessing of labor. There is no improve
ment among the natives, because there Is
an impossible gulf between them and
your majestys government, a gulf which
cannot be bridged. Henry NJ. Stanley's
name produces shudder among the sim
pie folk when mentioned; they remember
his broken promises, his copious prolan-
ity. his hot temper, his heavy blows, his
severe and rigorous measures by which
they were mulcted of their lands. His
last appearance in the Congo produced
profound sensation among them when he
led 800 Zanzibar soldiers with 300 camp
70 lowers on his way TO relieve Emin
Pacha. They thought it meant complete
subiugation and they fled in confusion.
But the only thing they found in the wake
of his march was misery. No white man
commanded his rear column, and his
troops were allowed to straggle, sicken and
die, and their bones were scattered over
more than POO miles of territory"
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

DEMOCRAT, Noblesvile: Daniel Web
ster died before the republican party was
bosn. He was a whig.
CHARLES HINKLE, Perkinsville: The dog
law was approved March and the tex
law March Z. Both had emergency
clauses and are now in force.
A READER, Ladoga: Benson ]. Losing
holds very respectable rank as his
torian. His "Cyclopedia of United States
History" is recognized as a standard au-
thority, although it is not, of course, infal-
lible
A. c. STEPHEN, Solsberry. Ind: The
old dog law and the act of 1891 requiring
dogs to be registered are both in force.
The owner of dog can take his choice of
the two laws; he can have him registered
by the township trustee or assessed by the
assessor. 1t is the duty OF the assessor to
list all dogs not registered. (2) For gar
den seeds apply to your congressman. (3)
Write to the commissioner of internal
revenues, treasury department, Washing
ton, ID. c., for copy of the rules and
regulations prescribed for the payment of
sugar bOunties
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
\ Postal Curiosity.
Manchester Times.J

A curiously addressed letter passed late
ly through the postofiice of Madrid, which
was deciphered and correctly delivered,
notwithstanding all difficulties. The ad-
dress was a perfect rebus. At the left
hand side was the figure of lady; II was
clear, therefore, to which sex the recipient
should belong. Over the lady's head the
sun was rising; hence her name was in
ferred to be Aurora. For her surname
stood hill, with cast e at It's foot. which
gives us "Montes Castillo" Next comes
the town. for which the plan of a city was
drawn, on which the name Alaambra
was legible. This indicated Granada, but
in order to leave no doubt possible
pomegranate was drawn bes de the plan.
To complet the address, a number was in
dicated in one of the streets of the city
plan. The postal authorities took three
days to study this curiosity. and then tri-
umphantly delivered the letter TO "Senor-
ito Aurora Monies Castillo, Azacayas
No. 20, Granada" and, so far from censur-
ing the sender, they had the envelope
photographed, and copy printed in the
Madrid papers as proof of the intelli-
gence of the department
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
B. Harrison Writes a Letter.

The commercial congress which assem-
bled at Kansas City Tuesday was regaled
with a letter from BENJAMIN HARRIsoN, in
which that eminent 'uninstructed polit-
ical economist" discussed the tariff and
currency questions. Mr.. HARRISON, it ap-
pears, has discovered since he became
president "the necessity and even the
value OF larger markets" of which, if we
remember Alright, he was blissfully uncon-
scious during the campaign of 1888. But
he observes, with laughable assumption
of wisdom, that "a home market is neces-
sarily the best for the producer, as it
measureably emancipates him, in proper
ton to its nearness, from the exactions of
the transportation companies"
From which it would appear that Mr.
HARRISON has not yet become student,
either OF markets or of maxims. He seems
to be laboring under the impression that
the Indiana farmer who sells wheat to be
consumed in Indianapolis gets higher
price than does the Indiana farmer who
sells wheat to be consumed in Liverpool
The veriest tyro in these matters can tell
him better. Mr.. HARRIsoN evidently does
not know it, but the fact is that the price
of all the wheat marketed by our farmers,
whether for domestic or foreign consump-
ton, is fixed by the price which their
surplus wheat fetches abroad Not a
fraction OF penny more is paid for a
bushel OF wheat for home consumption
than for bushel for export. As general
rule the farmer does not even know the
destination of his wheat. and it often hap
pens that his product is divided, a part
going abroad and part remaining at
home, but all bringing the Liverpool
price less transportation charges and ex-
penses.
Mr.. HARRISON also seems to be laboring
under the impression that home market
and foreign market cannot both be as
sured to our farmers; that il they
find larger outlets abroad for their wheat
the home demand will fall off, Apparently
he supposes that if the tariff taxes on man.
ufactured goods were to be reduced the
American people would largely stop eat
ing, or would emigrate, or die of, or 60 TO
buying wheat from countries which do
not raise enough to supply their own pop
ulation. This, of course, is very droll
notion, but il seems to have found a firm
lodgment in Mr.. HARRIsoN's mind The
fact is, OF course, that a reduction of taxes
would not destroy or impair the eating ca
pacity of the American people; that it
would not diminish. but would rather
increase, their purchasing ability; that il
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22

would not kill them of, or cause them IS
emigrate. or stop them from replenishing
the earth with their kind; and of course
that it twould not cause them to buy wheat
or other agricultural products from abroad
when they could buy to so much better ad-
vantage at home. If Mr.. HARRISON doesn't
know these things the western farmers do,
as they demonstrated last November
when they repudiated the Mckinley bill
so emphatically.
Mr.. HARRISON tells the farmers that "a
coat may be too cheap as well as corn" J"
Precisely what he means by this, we can
not even guess; but it is certainly dis
cordant note in the chorus of protection
ist rejoicing over the cheapness of sugar,
caused by the reduction OF the duty.
We think we are safe in saying that Mr..
HARRIsoN's letter will not add to his repu-
tation-such as it is-as an authority on
economic questions.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22

THE outrageous lies told by the repub-
lican slang.whangers of Indiana during the
last campaign are still on their travels
The Globe Democrat of st. Louis said the
other day:
In Indiana democratic extravaganza
has bankrupted the treasury and so re-
duced the credit of the state that it can
not borrow money at any price.
These stories are doing the state infinite
damage. Indiana is suffering greatly in
reputation because of the malignity aud
mendacity OF the indianapolis Journal and
its gang of s'ick-sixers. The credit of the
state is as good as that OF any other state
in the union in the money market. Her
securities are in demand at premium.
But hundreds of thousands of people
throughout the country believe that she
is bankrupt, thanks to the reckless In
diana partisaus who have slandered their
state so grossly.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
The Duty of Assessors.

According to the Elkhart ReUie,C the
assessors in that county are appraising
residence property at what it is actually
worth "as an investment" As invest
ments, it is claimed, expensive residences
are generally worth good deal less than
they cost, while cheap and moderate
priced residences are worth as a rule all
they cost. and are assessed accordingly.
The argument in favor OF the proposition
to tax poor mems homes at what they
cost. and rich mems homes at good deal
less than they cost, runs like this:
ten-thousaud-dolla house is worth.
perhaps, $1,000 as an investment. If it
were taxed at its real value wealthy men
would cease to build fine houses and the
city would suffer- fine house benefits
the whole city, and every citizen can af-
ford to pay a dollar extra taxes for this
benefit.
The RevietC disposes of this argument
very effectively in the following:
What we object to is the theory that the
fine house should escape its proportion OF
the burden of taxes on the plea that it is
80 precious 10 the city Rich men DO
>
fit but their own. They are not actuated
by philanthropic motives. but build tn EN-
because they want them and can afford to
have them. Is the ten-thousand-dollar
house any more benefit 70 a city than ten
one-thousand-dollar cottages, or twenty
five-hundred-dollar cottages to some sub
urb? Has the rich man done any moro
for the city, according TO his means. than
the laborer who has built thOusand-dol-
lar house? We take exactly the opposite
view. We can not see that the ten or
twenty-thousand-dolla residence, occu-
pied by one family, has done as much for
the city as the ten or twenty one-thou-
sand-dollar dwellings, occupied by their
ten or twenty families.
The assessors OF Eikhart county and
of every other county should understand
that their private views as to the correct
theorysof taxation have nothing what
ever to do with their duty under
the law. The law is plain and its
intent is clear. 1t contemplates the
appraisement of all property, whether
owned by rich men or poor men,
at its fair cash value. All the assessors
have to do in their official capacity is to
carry out the law. lneTe nave Dten III
the past marked ddiscriminationsin in favor of
wealthy men and corporations in the ap-
praisement of property for taxation. The
last legislature decided that these discrim-
nations must cease.
A good deal is to be said, of course, in
favor of exempting all improvements from
taxation. This would stimulate the erec-
ton of buildings, both great and small. 1t
would discourage the holding OF vacant
land in our cities and towns out
of the market for speculative
purposes. This would be a very dii-
ferent thing from assessing cheap and
medium priced residences at what they
cost and handsome residences at a third or
q fourth OF what they cost.
But the question for the assessors is not
what system of taxation they prefer but
what the law requires them TO do. Itis
their duty to follow the law implicitly
and assess all property of whatever nature
at its fair cash value.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22

REPUBLICAN methods and republican al
hances are about the same the country
over. 1t has developed that the Illinois
steel company DISCHARGED those of its fore
men who would not support HEMPsTEAD
WAsHBURNE for mayor of Chicago. The
company wants TO close a number OF
streets inhabited by poor people-a grab
which the democratic administration
would not tolerate. The steel company,
therefore, sought to secure the success of
the republican party, which is always for
the corporations as against the people.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22

ACCORDING to ELDER, the farmers alii-
ance speaker of the last Kansas house Of
representatives, reciprocityis agood thing,
and the Kansas farmers want all they can
get of it. That is to say, they want rec
fprocity that reciprocates. Reciprocity
with countries which do not want and
cannot use our agricultural products is
all right enough as far as it goes but it
doesn't 90 far enough to be Of any mate
rial benefit to the western farmers. What
they want and must have, before they can
begin to pay off their mortgages, Is rec
iprocity with countries which are willing
20 double their purchases OF American
grain, meat, etc, and pay for the same in
commodities which we need. This sort OF
reciprocity is sometimes called free trade.
AMONG the resolutions proposed in the
commercial congress at Kansas City was
one by w. ]. BRYAN of Nebraska declar-
ing in favor of a graded income tax for
federal purposes; also setting forth that
mo advantage was to be gained by the
people from the system of reciprocity as
now proposed" but that ''freer COM
mercial intercourse with those nations
4ohich b1ty the products Of our farms" is
essential to our welfare. The resolution
further calls for the placing OF coal, iron
ore, wool, salt, lumber. binding twine
and cotton ties upon the free list; for a
liberal reduction OF the tariff on the neces-
saries of life, and for the imposing of the
heaviest burdens OF taxation upon luxu-
ries There is more good, sound sense in
!hls resolution than in anything else
which has been submitted to the congress.
If the policy it indicates were to be car
ried out, the West and South would soon
find relief from some of the greatest diff
culties with which they now have to con-
tend.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
Snnni.h Americn.

Our total exports to Europe in 1890 were
S617, ,2S4, ,365 TO Spanish America, SIS. .047.-
$40. Our trade with Europe, immense as
it is, is capable of almost indefinite ex-
pansion by the adoption of a liberal com
mercial policy that with South America,
small as it is, cannot be greatly enlarged
until we give American manufacturers an
opportunity to compete for it on some
thing like equal terms with their European
rivals. In 1887. the last year for which
we have the figures at hand, all OF Latin
America, embracing the vast territory ex-
tending from the Rio Grande to Cape
Horn, imported from the United King
dom, France and the United States, all
told, only S275. .699 ,5S7 worth of goods, or
only about 81 per cent. OF the amount we
sold last year to the United Kingdom
alone So that if the Latin countries of
America were TO transfer every dollar of
their trade from Europe to the United
States the addition to the volume of our
exports would be but little more than half
of our annual exports to the United King
dom alone.
The truth is that there is a very small
demand for our agricultural products in
Latin America The Latin Americans
produce their own food. They can buy
most manufactured articles cheaper OF
Europe than OF us, and will always be
able to do so as long as we lay heavy taxes
on raw materials. Besides this there are
many articles which. because of our lack
Of technical or artistic skill, or our natural
disadvantages, we can never produce as
well as Europe and can never sell as
against Europe.
The truth about Mr.. BLAINE's much
trumpeted reciprocity scheme is that it is
a political dodge, intended to humbug the
farmers and working people of the coun-
try. The republican party won Its last
victory on the protection issue in 1888,
and Mr.. BLAINE was smart enough to know
it. So he cudgeled his wits to
devise some scheme by which the
curse OF McKinleyism could be taken off
the party without taking any of their
special privileges from the mill bosses and
the other protected monopolists who fur
nish the republican campaign funds. He
hit upon the reciprocity dodge. He has
undertaken to bamboozle the people with
the notion that they are to be benefited
by free trade with half dozen sparsely
populated countries Of low civilization and
correspondingly few wants to be sup
piled, while commercial intercourse with
the great nations Of the world is to be re-
stricted, so far as possible, by excessive
duties. Under Mr.. BLAINE's precious
reciprocity scheme the combines, trusts
and monopolies, created by protection,
will have the same license to extort
tribute from the American people
that they have today The people
will get their manufactured articles
no cheaper than they do today. Wages
will continue to decline, as they have
been declining ever since the Mckinley
law took effect. The farmers will, as
heretofore, have to sell their surplus prod
ucts in open competition with the prod
ucis of the pauper labor OF Europe and
Asia. They will continue TO buy in q
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22

value" Under the new law. if properly
carried out, the assessments OF these farms
will be materially reduced and the taxes
of the owners correspondingly reduced.
The deficiency will be made up by raising
the assessments of other property which
has htherto been appraised too low and
by putting property on the duplicate
which has hitherto escaped taxation alto
gether. As we have repeatedly said. the
new law will not hurt anybody who has
been carrying his fair share of the public
burdens, and it will benefit many farmers
and others who have been carrying more
than their share.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
WEDNESDAY. APRIL %, 1891.
TWELVE PAGES.

PRESIDENT HARRISON has made a good
many scandalous appointments. But
from all accounts that of NEBEKER, the
Fountain county boodler, to be treasurer
of the United States beats the record.
NEBEKER is one of the rottenest politicians
in Indiana and has been known TO BENJA-
MIN HARRIsoN as such for many years. In
fact, he has done a great deal of very
dirty work in politics under direct COM
mission from the man of many prayers.
He couldn't be elected constable in his
own county, and those who have inno-
Gently supposed that character and fitness
had some little weight with this ad-
ministration, and who are familiar with
NEBEKER's record, are utterly amazed at
his appointment.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22

THE Rockville Tribune, in a sensible ar
ticle on the new revenue law, says:
In the listing of real estate there is no
rule that can befOllowed. 1t is arecognized
fact that there has been n steady deprecia-
tion of farm values in Park county, but
even TO this there are exceptions. Some
land is still valuable or desirable and can
be justly appraised at something like its
cost but to thus assess the average farm
of Park county would be a great injustice
We know of farm that has been offered
for sale after the most complete adver-
tisin0 and could not be sold at one-third
of the SUM % which il is assessed, the rea-
son being that il would not pay the re-
quired per cent. as an investment. So it
will require the utmost good judgment to
arrive at an equitable assessment of real
estate.
The farm referred TO, which "could not
be sold at one-third of the sum at which it
is assessed" ought to be assessed under
the new law at something less than one
third of what it has been assessed at here
tofore. The new law contemplates the
assessment of all property at its "fair cash
value" The fair cash value Of property
is what it will sell for in open market
after due notice. not under the hammer" /"
but in the manner that property is ordi-
narily sold. There are hundreds
of farms in Indiana which are now,
and have been for years. assessed for a
rood deal more than their fair cash
The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22

To THE EDIToR-Sjr: In an article In
the Princeton Democrat the writer cites
the valuation OF Gibson county. Admit
ting that increased valuation decreases the
ratio, what do we gain? Ii L pay 81 per
500 on 81 900, or 8 per 500 on $500 what
Is the differences? Increase Gibson county
valuation, as he SAYS, TO so, 100000, how viii
be figure that, at a state rate OF is cents,
and which the county cannot alter. taxes
are less? We have 100 per cent. increase
on valuation and 30 per cent. increase on
the state rate. and vet taxes are less.
Please explain. W. III. BOYD.
indianapolis, April Is.
The author of the Princeton Democrat
article, it seems to US, made this very
clear The local township, city (or
town and county-in every county are
very much greater than the state taxes.
In Gibson county, for instance, it is said
that for every dollar paid in state taxes
last year Sl4 was paid in local taxes. Ii,
under the new law, the total valuation OF
the county is doubled, the total tax for
state purposes Will be more than doubled.
But this does not mean that the state tax
of every citizen will be increased corre-
zens will not be increased at all the state
tax of some will be decreased. The local
taxes OF all who have heretofore been
fairly assessed Gin proportion to others)
will be decreased. We viii suppose that
a man paid $50 taxes last year, OF which
say, s. went to the state and SO for local
purposes. II his assessment is increased
80 per cent. this year, his state tax will
amount to SLIPS next year, an increase
of 1928. But his local tax ought to be de-
decreased at least $40, in view of the great
increase of the total valuation, which
would be net reduction of S3.75 in his
total tax bill. This is the way the law will
affect honest men. The tax dodgers, how
ever-mostly wealthy men or corpora
tions-will suffer, and it is in their inter-
est and for the sake of making political
capital that the howl which is now heard
has been raised.