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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
STATE FAIR MATTERS.
Secretery's 0fica Removed to the Grounds
Prices Of 1ickets-Street- Car Line.

The Office of the secretary of the State
fair was yesterday removed to the new fair
grounds. Secretary Bagley, who has re-
turned from Chicago. much improved in
health, will be In charge. The board has
authorized Sylvester Johnson, treasurer. to
sell the tickets. Tickets for adults will
cost so cents, and for children under twelve
years % cents. The fair will begin next
Monday. and exhibitors are busy arrang-
ing their displays. The grounds exhibits o
busting state of activity. The new build
lngs will all be ready tor occupancy, but
will not be altogether completed. The
crowds will have ample means OF
transportation. The electric strest-rail-
way line will be completed. and will run
cars to and from the grounds, after g A. M.,
every i've minutes. The company has jnst
received ten new motors. and will have
new dynamos at work. The Monon he's
agreed TO run trains every seven minutea.
The board has not yet arranged for tele-
phone communications failure which
causes some annoyance on all sides. There
are several telegraph wires TO the grounds.
and IL has been suggested that one of these
could be used for a telephone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
AN INSULT TO POPULAR INTELLIGENCE.

One of the assumptions of the free
trade or Democratic stumpers in this
State is that the people are so ignorant
that they will accept as fact any state
ment they may make. They count Upon
the ignorance and gullibility of the
masses as the one sure thing, and en-.
deavor to impose upon them. Thus
General" Stevenson, in one of his
speeches in this State, attempted to
prove that the prices of all articles were
largely enhanced by the duty, because
when the duty on sugar was removed
by the Republican Congress the price
fell to about the extent Of the duty.
goods would fall in like n when
the duty is removed. OF course. Mr..
Stevenson knows better, for he
is a man of fair intelligence,
but %presuming upon the ignorance
of his audience, he asserted that
the duties on all manufactured goods
were added to the price, whether pro-
duced in this country or abroad. Let
us show the absurdity of this assump-
ton OF the General" which he assumes
standard calicoesis scents ayard. These
c~alicoes are retailed for from 8 to 6 cents
a yard, and some of them as low as 4
cents. If Mr.. Stevenson's theory was
correct. in England they must bekiving
the c~alicoes away. The duty on n barrel
of salt is SO 13 cents; in New York the
price of a barrel of salt is % cents, ex-
elusive of the barrel. How does the
General" figure ont his theory of add
ing the duty to the pricef The duty on
wire nails is 2 cents a pound, and the
wholesale price less than 3H cent.
Hundreds of articles could be named
the price of which is less than the duty
imposed upon them if imported. 1t is
because they are made in this country
in abundance, and the home cost of pro-
duction and home competition make the
price. This is the case with all articles
made in this country in abundance.
The tariff keeps the foreign producer out
and protects the home market for home
labor and capital. In regard to sugar.
we depend upon other countries for So
per cent. of the mount consumed.
Therefore, the price is made by the pro-
ducers and dealers in the general mar
kets. If we add a duty it is added to
the price; If the duty is taken off it Is SO
much taken off the price. 1t is much
the same in regard to wool. This coun-
try does not produce as much as its peo-
pie consumes; consequently the prices
here must be controlled by the foreign
price. and the duty is added largely to
the foreign price and goes into the pock-
cts of the wool-grower. OF all staple
goods in cotton. all ready made clothing,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

A DISPATCH from Loon Lake says the
President has t~efeRraphed to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury that the latter has
full power, under the Constitution and
laws, to make whatever further r~estric-
tons are necessary to guard against the
introduction of cholera. The fact that
the President should telegraph such in
structions from the bedside of his sick
wife indicates the probability of further
restrictive measures towards foreign
steamers. Such action seems to be
called for by tho circumstances, and will
be fully justified by public opinion in
this country. The conduct Of some of
the foreign steamship companies in con
tinuing to send Storage passengers and
immigrants to this country from infected
ports shows an utter disregard for
human life and the welfare of the Amer
lean people. Under the circumstances
the. government authorities would be
justified in refusing the next vessel that
arrives permission to land any of her
passengers, no matter what the cost may
be to the company. One immigrant
steamer sent back to Europe with her
passengers would be notice to the'world
that this government means business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

REPRESENTATIVE Brown, of the Third
district. charged in a recent speech that
the Mckinley law is all for the manu-
facturer and nothing for the farmer.
The duty on all farm products and AM
mails coming into this country is doubled
by that law, compared with the law it
repealed. and duties were put upon
articles which were free under the law
of 1883. Mr.. Brown knows this, but he
tells the opposite. ButMr. Brown voted
to put wool on the free list. As the
same grades of wool are higher in this
country than elsewhere by the duty i'm
posed. his free-wool vote was a vote to
take about IL cents a pound from the
price of 275. 900. 900 pounds of WOOL,
which means the taking of $50. ESQ, 600
out of the pockets of the wool-growers
of the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
AS TO PARTISAN JUDICIAL DECISIONS.

The suit to test the constitutionality
of the gerrymander has furnished q pre-
text To Democratic papers to deprecate
and denounce partisan judicial decis-
ions. Such talk IN with poor grace
from that quarter. Democratic Supreme
Courts in this State have never been
backward about deciding constitutional
questions on political grounds in ac-
cordance with the wishes of their party.
In 1855 the Legislature passed a stringent
liquor law-the most stringent that had
ever been enacted IN the State. 1t was,
OF course, very offensive to the Delnoc-
racy. The Supreme Court at that time
the law could be got before that trib-
unal that would be the end of it. A
test case was accordingly made and ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court, which
held the law unconstitutional. In this
case there was no p%retense that the
law violated any express provision of
the Constitution. but it was held
unconstitutional on general principles
because it mterfered with every mans
inalienable right to sell liquor. The
court said: "The Legislature cannot
take from the citizen that which the
Constitution says be shall have and en-
joy. If it can, then we think all will
admit that the Constitution itself is
worthless. the liberties of the people a
dream, and our government as despOtic
as any on earth" This strong language
was used by n Democratic Supreme
Court in asserting the inherent right of
every man to sell liquor. How would it
do To apply it to the inherent right of
every citizen to a free participation in
the government Is the right to sell
liquor any more sacred than the right to
voteq Is the Supreme Court constituted
to protect the rights of saloon-keepers
only7
Again, in 1869. the Legislature passed
an act which provided that lit shall be
the duty of the inspector of any election
held in this State, on receiving the bal
lot of any voter. to have. the same num-
bered with figures on the outside or
back thereof, to correspond with the
number placed opposite the name of
such voter ON the poll lists kept by the
clerks of said election" The object of
the law was to provide a safeguard
against election frauds. Like all other
laws of the kind. it was offensive to the
Democracy. AS soon as it could be
brought before the Supreme Court, then
Democratic, it was held unconstitutional
on the ground that it interfered with
the secrecy of the ballot. The Constitu-
ton does not say anything about the
secrecy of the ballot, and the court was
not able to quote any clause of it bear
ing. even remotely, on the subject. 1t
went on to argue, however, in favor of
the principle of a secret ballot, and held
the law unconstitutional because it vio-
lated that principle.
The fact that Democratic Supreme
Courts have always been ready to de-
eide constitutional questions IN political
grounds is proba bly, the reason why the
Democratic managers fear what they
call a partisan decision in the gerry
mander case. Those swho have insti-
tuted that suit do not desire a partisan
but q constitutional decision.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
THE Sentinel affects great alarm lest

THE Sentinel affects great alarm lest
the Supreme Court will infringe on the
rights of the Legislature and the liber-
ties of the people if 1t assumes TO pass
upon the constitutionality of the present
apportionment law. Ii the court should
hold the law constitutional the Sentinel's
alarm would speedily give way to de-
light. Its alarm is only due to fear that
the court may decide the other way. 1t
is of little consequence how the court
maydecide comparedwith the Importance
of having the question settled. The
Journal believes the present law is un-
constitutional and that the court will so
decide, but if it should decide differ
emily its decision will be cheerfully
acquiesced i'm. The people will then
know where they stand and can amend
the Constitution SO as to put a stop to
gerrymandering in the future. What
the people want is to have the question
settled on a constitutional basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
the Editor of the Indianapolis journal:

To the Editor of the INDIANAPOLIS journal:
How are the astronomical observers at such
places as the Lick observatory. in California.
and the one on Mt. Adams, near CINCINNATI,
paidl Does the United States or the State pay sal.
aries. or are the observatories endowed so as to
have q fixed mcconnell! READER.
The general government supports the
naval obser vatory at Washington. but no
other. The Lick observatory is a depart.
ment of the University of California. and
has a permanent endowment of several
hundred thoueand dollars. the gift of Mr..
James Lick, deceased. The observatory ut
Cincinnati is attached to a local universl-
ty and has no State support.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
some Interesting History.

Charlottesville Journal.
On the Sd day of February, 1875. there
was a general meeting of manufacturers at
Indianapolis. General Manson was q MEN,
Der thereof, and introduced the following
preamble and resolution:
Whereas, The plate glass-works at New Al
bany. Ind, are the only works in America that
are successfully making poiikheo plate-giass;
therefore,
this important branch of manufacturing ought
to be encouraged by such tariff duties as Will en-
able American manufacturers 10 successfully
compete with foreign plate-glass-makers.
This resolution was unanimously passed.
Afterwards Governor Hendricks sent it TO
the Legislature and solicited q similar ex-
preston from that body IN favor OF pro-
tecting Mr. VS. glass-works. aud the
Legislature. both branches thereof being
Democratic, passed by an almost unani-
nous vote the following resolution. with
a long preamble setting forth the advan-
tages of protecting Mr.. DePauw's glass
works:
BE it resolved, by the General Assembly of the
State OF Indiana, that our Senators In Congress
be instructed. and our Representatives be re-
spectfully requested to use their. best efforts TO
procure such legislation by Congress as Will
give the necessary protection herein requested.
MIR. DePauw's glass-works were then in
the condition the tin-plate-works are now
In. but Democrats treated them in q very
different way from what they now treat
the tin-plate- works. That was before the
Calhoun nullification-free-trade briRadiers
of the South dictated the policy of the
party in regard to manufactures.
Ii is worthy of note that Mr.. VOORHEES,
and General Harrison stood shoulder to
shoulder in battling for protection for In
diana's plate-glass- works. But Mr.. Voor-
hees has been commanded to take his posi-
tion on the other side. n he has promptly
done go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
THE A E

THE intelligent voters will see that a per-
petual quarantine is established against
free trade, and that the quarantine officials
are men of tried vigilance and bravery.
columbia City Commercial.
EX-GovERNoR GRAY Is conspicuous Just
at present on account of his pernicious po-
litical inactivity. if we may be pardoned
for slightly paraphrasing one of Cleve-
lands pet figures of speech.-LafaYette
Courier.
THE leaders of the Democracy are now as
truly engaged in an effort to overthrow the
American system of government, SO far as
it relates to the encouragement and pro:ec-
tiOn OF labor, as was the Southern De-
nIocracy while 1t was attempting TO de-
stroy American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Patriot
II the enterprIsing people of Madison
county. those who desire TO see this be-
come the largest manufacturing county of
the world, are wise in their day and gener-
alton. they will to q man cast their for
tunes with and hitch their destiries on to
that party which il friendly to labor n
the industries of the county, anu not the
party which would destroy all for the sake
OF Observation-Disclosures Times.
lT is understood that neithor Voorhees,.
Turpie. Bynum. Jason Il. Brown nor any of
the other intellectual giants OF Hoosier
Democracy attended the Mckinley meet
ing at Elwood. They perhaps didn't care
TO see their ironclad lies. that mo tin WAS
manufactured ia this country" stripped
and rolled into sheets. and the falsity and
bsrrsnness of their word shown up as it
was in McKinley's speech.-Seymour Re-
publican.
The thousands of farmers-yes and farm
ers' wives and daughters-who visited
those mills at Elwood saw something that
will be for them an object ~lession, and
they are reviewing il. and will keep on re-
viewing it in their homes. When General
Stevenson or Grover Cleveland asks for a
vote to close the doors of Elwood and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
INVESTIGATING THAT RUMoR OF APIGHT.
Managers of the Park Unable 10 Discover Any
Evidences Of a Proposed Set:To.

The first thing Messrs. Dickson g. Talbot
did when they arose yesterday morning was
to investigate the report that a private
sst-to had been arranged to take place on
tho stage of the Park at midnight the night
before. All the attaches OF the theater
stoutly denied that there had been any
such intention. and the police officers who
bad gone down the night before TO head
the thing of stated that they had found no
evidence that there was TO be Any such an
event. The managers would not roler ate
the use of the stage for such purpose and
say they do do not believe any of their en-
ployes would go 50 directly contrary 10
THAR yiewa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

THE Louisville Courier-JournGl de-
MES the New York Herald story that
Mr.. Cleveland will repudiate the free
trade plank In the Democratic platform.
"We have it from the very highest au-
thority," says the COurier-Journal, mot
only that Mr.. Cleveland did not object
ito the Neal substitute, but that he has
denied all knowledge of the authorship
of the absurd and dishonest projections
list Republican plank originally reported
by the platform committee, which made
the Neal substitute necessary" This
highest authority is either MIR.
Cleveland or Mr.. Whitney, speak,
ing for him. The Courier-Journal
further says it has information
shat Mr.. Cleveland, accepting the tariff
clause in the national platform une-
quivocally and in good faith. will pro-
coed to argue it out on the line of his
message of 1887, qualifying nothing, but
exposing the Republican p~retense that
the Democratic party meditates any
thing revolutionary or precipitate." So.
the free-traders do not mediate any
thing revolutionary or precipitate. They
do not propose to destroy the business
of the country at once, but by degrees.
We do not believe Mr.. Cleveland will be
able to popularize this policy more than
the other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
Practical Results.


LoganspOrt JOurnaL
On Tuesday. ut Elwood. there were for
maIly opened the largest tin-plate-works in
the United States. In a short time at Gas
City will be opened the largest works in
the world. These works will turn ont
American tIn-plate superior to English
make q: less cost. The Elwood plant Is al
ready doing that. Besides this, employ
men is given to Americans at American
wages. and in the manufacture of the
amount required bv the United States
thousands of men will be given employ
ment The price of English In, compared
with the price before the passage of the
Mckinley bill. shows that an Eng
lish trust was robbinR the United
States. English manufacturers paying less
wages than are paid in this country got =
higher price Tor their product than at pres
ent As is apparent, the manufacturer got
an immense profit. And to still further
prove this fact. after the passage of the
Mckinley bill increasing the tariff, the En-
glish manufacturer paid the increased duty
and sold at the same price to prevent. II
possible, the ESTABLISHMENT of the industry
In America. But the industry has been
established Notwithstanding and we have
assurance of better and cheaper tin, the
profits on which shall 90 to American AK
pay ers after the American lsbOrer GAS re-
ceived more than three times the wages
paid to his English cO-laborers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

diana Racing Association will raise it's
flags and open its gates Nov. 1, and So
licit patronage from those who "follow
the turf" as a business or pastime. The
Indiana Racing Association has arisen
from the ruins Of the infamous Garfield
Park Association at Chicago, and will
operate at Roby. Lake county. Indiana,
where it proposes to erect an extensive
plant. 1t is greatly to be regretted that
there is not some way of putting a stop
10 the movement under Indiana laws.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

THE foes of new manufacturing en-
terprises in this State have become SO
reckless that they resort to forgery in
their efforts to discredit them. On
Tuesday a circular was passed about in
the crowd at Elwood, to which the
names of four persons were appended.
offering Elwood il -plate stock for sale
at q discount. Yesterday the same APP
peared as an advertisement in the Sem
tinel, and now n of the men whose
names are appended, Mr.. II. Il. Wilkie.
is out in a statement declaring that
such use of his name is unauthorized.
and repudiating the advertisement as q
forgery. This is q most remarkable at
titude for party managers To place q
great party in-an attitude of deter
mined and malignant hostility to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

INDIANA has one full established tin.
plate factory and the largest in the
world in process of construction, yet
every Indiana Democrat voted to de-
stroy them by putting tin-plates on the
free list, while the black plates pay a
duty of three-fourths of a cent a pound.
This would be giving the British tin
plate monopoly a bonus to kill an Amer
lean industry. Bynum was for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

building MP of new industries and new
markets in Indiana. Time was when
the plate-glass industry was struggling
for life that a Democratic Governor
and Democratic Legislature appealed to
Congress to protect it against foreign
competition. That time has passed.
Now the Democratic leaders are secretly
plotting to destroy an industry which
Fighting home enterprise, think of it!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
For president.
BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Indiana.
For VICE-PREsIDENT,
WHITELAW REID, OF New York
He Il n swindler.

A man who gives his name as c. III. Lewis, and
representing himself as in the employ of the
Journal. is travelling through southern Indiana
obtaining favors FROM Republicans on the
,trength OF his alleged connection with this
paper. The man is a fraud. No person of that
came is or ever has been connected with the
Journal. Its only authorized travelling agent at
present is Mr.. Smith King. The man calling
himself Lewis is described as Of medium size,
with full whiskers of sandy hue. and about forty
Of o1c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16
ANNUAL MANUFACTURING AND CONSUME
TON IN THE UNITED STATES.
100000


Take as a basis the comparative annual
consumption OF leading food products by
wage-workers here and in Europe:
Consumption Per Consumption
Articles Capita Ia United Per Capita ia
Consumed. States Per Year. Europe Pr Yr.
Wheat in f1our.-..-.44 Bushels.-.--2 Bushels
Corn III meal------3 Bushels.----. y Bushel
Meats.---..-.---..175 Pounds. 60 Pounds
Thus. il our manufacturing should. by q
free-trade policy, be transferred 10 Europe,
on the basis of comparative consumption
IL would have on hand. in addition to our
present surplus. $751; 00.0 00 worth of Onr
own farm products. This would not DO
the worst. These Is. 900. 600 of wage-earn-
ers would be driven TO the lands for SUBJ
slstence, ana they would produce add
tional millions of bushels of wheat. corn,
etc., and moro horses, cattle and hogs.
Then. there are several millions
more people engaged in Transports
tion and incident to our
home m anufacturing. II csc also, without
public lands for sn bsistence. And so both
OF these classes would DO taken from the
ranks of consumers and added to those of
producers. further augmentlng the great
farm surplus. Then would ensue q period
like that of 1876. when, under free trade.
wheat sold for S7ls cents q bushel. corn .
cents. and salt cost s. a barrel.
Among merchants and business men the
ledger accounts of the tree-trade barter
period would he covered with credits of so
many bushels of W neat or corn. or poundsof
pork, tor SO many yards of calico, muslin
and jeans, for all our money would be.
abroad to pay the balance of trade against
us.
Tho farm interests, manufacturing inter.
ests, transportation and commercial inter-
ests are all intsrdependent Whatever hurts
or weakens one hurts and weskens all.
Disaster TO one 10 felt in every fibre of the
others. In this day Of reading and think
ing among tho masses of people il Is not to
be wondered at that there is ainaZement at
what is now going on. The report coming
from New York that Mr.. Cleveland il
alarmed. and is getting ready 10 change
FROM, is not to be wondered at; not that he
has changed opinion. but that he Tears de-
feat when election comes. 1t is q most
pitiAbie and disgusting fear and trembling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

iron goods. etc., this country produces
an abundance. and the price is the low
est for which they can be produced here,
and is usually as low, because of the
large quantity made and sold, as the
foreign price. ALI intelligent people
know this, and when Mr.. Stevenson and
his associates assume that they do not
they insult rather than deceive the
DeoDla-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

Several persons in this city have received
letters from q Buffalo. n. Y. house Offering
TO give them free of cost q desk and com-
bination box il they wall remit $40 for one
fifty thousand shares at $40 per share.
The firm claims 10 make the gift as an ad.
vertisement whereby they expect TO secure
other orders. The letter IL deemed .
scheme to swindie the unwary