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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-22

The able delegation sent by Mime
sofa to the Prison Congress were elected
to fill conspicuous positions in the AS
ISOLATION the ensuing year. John F.
Norrish, Esq, member of our Board of
Managers. was elected one of the hon
orary vice president. Judge John w.
Willis is on the standing committee on
criminal law reform, and Chief Garvin
on the committee of police force in
cities.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-22

If the usefulness of the London How
ard Association may be measured by
the amount Of its income, says the Sum-
mary, then. outside Of paying Secretary
Tallack's salary, it's efforts must be ex-
tremely limited. The financial support
accorded the association by it's members
last year was less than twenty-five
hundred dollars
Does the Association force Mr.. Tai
lack to pay his own travelling expenses
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-22
Lifts His Hat When He Votes.

General Buffers voting is one of the
chief incidents of election day in ward
six. After making his ballot, the gen.
eral proceeds to the box those who are
present fastening out of courtesy to
make way for him and, gravely lifting
his hat, deposits his ballot with all the
tom Herald.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-22

The affairs of the Boston police force
are operated under State commission,
politics having no voice in it's manage
ment the men being appointed, says,
Mr.. j. G. Thorp, Jr., of that city,
through a system Of civil-service re-
form. The policeman is able to do his
duty "and snap his fingers at the man
with the political pull Great Web
ster, this is refreshing.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-22

THE PRISON MIRROR is one of the few week
lies that We thoroughly peruse. 1t is we'll edited
under serious difficulties. Its clippings are full
of meat and one year on the editors tripod ought
to be repaid with a pardon.-Reauule Star
Farmer.
And the band will now proceed to
play: $50 say we all of u.s.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-22

Der published in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t
was founded in 1887 by the cOnvicts and is edited
and managed by them. Its objects are: to be a
home newspaper to encourage moral and intel
lectual improvement among the prisoners; to
acquaint the public with the true status of the
prisoner; to disseminate pathological infOrma-
ton, and to aid in dispelling that prejudice
which has ever been the bar sinister to a fallen
mans self-redemptiOn. The paper is entirely
dependent on the public for its financial sup
port. If at any time there should accrue a sur
plus of funds the money would be expended in
the interests of the prison library.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-22
Our esteemed contemporary, the Des

Moines Argondut, says:
A philanthrOpist came into the ArgondM office
a few days ago to solicit a few exchanges for the
benefit of the prisoners in the county jail. Ever
the alert for the eternal fitness of things, the
editor handed him several copies of the Judge
and the PRISON MIRROR.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BosToN's Four Hundred mourns the
death of Edward f.. Clark. 1t was he who
originated the Blue Book which annually
tells each of the -Four Hundred where the
other 800 are at. S
EDGAR Liza PoE's manuscript, "A
Tale of the Ragged Mountain" has Just
been sold for only s295 at u New York curio
sale. A manuscripts by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, 1.-The Tea Rose" brought $40.
THE California residence of Mr. Medill.
of the Chicago Tribune, which was burned,
near Pasadena. on rhe 22d instant, cost
him about $685. 600. and was insured for e24.-
Governor Markham place as q temporary
residence until he can rebuild.
THE suicide mania has become so great
in Denmark that the government is consid-
ering measures to check il. One likely TO
be adopted Is the Swedish law which
con. pels the body of every person who CON-
mlts suicide to be sent to the dissecting
room of the nearest university.
THE Salvation Army is about to make a
fresh campaign in France. apparently. At
any rate, General Booth is being extern
slvely advertised IN the Paris newspapers
Interviews, biographical sketches and dis
cussions of the movement at which he Is
the head have abounded IN the French cap
ital OF late.
MRS. ROBERT GARRETT was so anxious
to have the work Of repairing her Balti-
moro residence pushed last week that LABOR
ers were Kept there even on Thanksgiving
day. and Mrs.. Garrett sent to Q %nelghbor-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01

ing hotel for an elaborate dinner for them.
which WAS served on her emise Thirty
carpenters, electric light men, plasterero
and decorators participated.
Tho steamer Teutonic. which arrived a.
Now York on Wednesday last. had the
honor of transporting Marvel. the most re-
nowned ST. Bernard dog that has yet been
produced in England. Marvel Is distin-
guished not only for the innumerable prizes
that he has won. but also as . sire. he 10
a deep. rich orange IN color. about thirty
i've inches ct the shoulder. and finely pro-
portioned. Thomas Shilicock. of Birming-
ham, England. Is the owner. Marvel IS
now on exhibition az the New York sc. Der.
nard kennels.
DIR. SARGESTs training class as the
Harvard Annex now numbers twenty-five
membersL The Sargent prlze has again
been won BY Q woman. Miss Margaret
Herrick. . special student at the annex,
and . young woman from Pennsylvania.
who entered this year. has broken all
previous records IN entrance q examinations
by lifting a weight of nearly five hundred
pounds. At Bryn Mawr. at Vassar and at
Oberiin the gymnasiums are managed by
former pupils In this class One of tho
graduates Is now resident physician 1T the
Chicago University, another has charge OF
the woman's department in Stanford Uni
versity, and two others are &C the head OF
the Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Club.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01
THE SILVER CONFERENCE.

INDIA 10 anxious for . bimetallic stand.
ard. She is evidently tired of having Eng
land take advantage of her silver currency.
Cleveland Leader.
The Brussels monetary conference 10 like
~ TO results only in the discovery Of the
fact that the sentiment in favor of free
silver coinage is confined to the United
States.-St. Louis Giobe-Democrat.
Mr.. RoTHsCHILD would lave the United
States continue sterling silver rs now. I'M.
der the bullion storage act. in consideration
of which all Europe is to boy bullion to the
amount of S25, 900, 900 o year.. MI. Roths-
child evidently loves his joke.-St. Louis
Republic.
WE infer that the RothschIld scheme 10
hardly more han the private suggestion of
o leading banker. And il looks so one
sided, and promises SO little advantage to
the United States. that we shall not be
sorry to have it remain an unaccepted
project.-Boston Herald.
The quantity of silver to be purchased
by European nations does not seem largo
enough to help the silver market material
~, and the maximum value which Is placed
on silver is too low to please them. But If
England Will so no further than this, n
all other nations can be persuaded to adopt
oidn, 10 IL LttluIy oCitcI euoh Nv
agreement at all. 1t Is a step In the right
direction Kansas City Star.
WE should melt the silver dollars and
the gold double eagles. She silver quarters
and halves should be full weight and legal
tender-that is the halves should have
seventy. five cents and the quarters thirty
seven and-a-half cents worth of silver, &C.
cording to the present ratio. These coins
would be beautiful and convenient. The
twenty-dollar gold pieces should be con-
verted into fives. Then the gold and silver
coin wouid be equally adapted for re-
serves and for ENTHUSIASTICALLY Stand
ard. UniOn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01

Figures Showing How Easy II II 60 Cus
Down Foreign Immigration.
New York Press
The report of the Bureau Of Statistics for
October. Just published. shows o tremen-
dous falling OF In our immigration as com.
pared with tho corresponding time Of last
year. The number of immigrants from all
countries during October was only 16. 42S,
as compared With 81, lS2 in October. 1891;
and of these 6,5l4. or nearly 40 per cent.
were from the British isles. There were
nearlyltwice as man from England and
Wales az from Ireland, and more than
twice as many from Ireland a. from Scot
land. The falling of has been manly in
the immigration from the continent OF
Europe. There were only 92S Austro- Hun
garians. as against $3.50 IN October of lase
year; only 1881 Germans. as against l3. 224:
only 504 Italians, rs against AL; only 757
Poles and Russians. as against 9, 741.
The decrease is due. of course, to the
cholera and TO the preventive measures or
dered by President Harrison. It has been
operative for only about four month"; The
figures show that for tho first SIX months
OF this year 353,961 immigrants came
here. while during the first six months
of 1891 there were only S25, 507 an increase
of 2S,654. If this rate Of increase
had kept up the total for the ten months
would have been about $4,000. instead OF
only 493, 276. Ii may be estimated. there
fore, that about $1,000 immigrants have
been kept out who would have come to
this country if there had been no cholera
and no special quarantine orders. As it 10,
tho years immigration will be about
525, 600.
The immigration question is one of those
that should occupy the attention of Con-
gress as soon as 1t meets. 1t is q non-parti.
san question, and need arouse no heat and
lead to no dead-Iocks. 1t is urgent, and
ought to be settled in this Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01
The Democracy and Pensions.

ulidu pnlo fTees.
The Democratic attack all along the line
on the pension g. stem should be contrasted
with the fact that Grover Cleveland APP
proved the act passed by q Democratic
House giving service pensions to every man
who enlisted for the Mexican war, no mat
ter II he was never within a Thousand
miles of q battlefield, and regardless OF
whether he was a millionaire or a pauper.
At the last session of Congress another
service pension bill was passed by the
House. where it originated, giving PEN
SONS TO all survivors of certain Indian
wars. Ninetv-five per cent. of the men who
draw service pensions under these two
laws are ex-eonfederates. No Democratic
paper has the honesty to say a word about
these acts. The pension svstem was car
ried much further for the benefit of these
ex-confederates than IL has been done for
the Union veterans. The latter risked
their lives in lighting for the very
existence of the Nation. The Mexi-
can veterans who fought at ell did
90 in behalf of q slaveholders' war. bun
more than half of the Mexican veterans
drawing pensions never saw Mexico. Tho
ex-confederates. perhaps. are not to be
blamed for a feeling OF hostility to the
pension lat. but the doughfaces in the
North who approve service pensions for ex-
confederates because they fought in the
Mexican war, but attack as robbery pen
sions given to Union veterans TO keep them
ont OF almsh0uses are q desplcable class OF
men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

A few evenings since there was a pub
lie discussion in Montreal involving the
policy of Canada continuing a depend
ency of Great Britain or of annexation
to the United States. There was a large
audience, but when the gentleman who
was to present the argument for annex
alton arose to speak he was Kissed and
hcwled down with cries of traitor ."After
a time, however. he was permitted to go
on, and made an argument in favor of
annexation from q Canadian point of
view which it will trouble his opponents
to refu.e. A secret ballot Of the audi
once, after the argument. showed 1,614
for national independence, 992 for polit-
ical union with the United States, 346
for colonial status, and 80 for imperial
public opinion in Canada, shows that
there is a strong sentiment against the
present condition and relation of Can
ada with Great Britain, all the votes but
an inconsequential fraction being
against the present mixed government.
This expression of popular sentiment
is of interest to citizens of the United
States as showing the Influences at
work in Canada respecting change of
government, and M further; for while
there is evidently a quite general
opinion in Canada that the United States
is very anxious to absorb that country.
there is no evidence of it in the United
States. particularly in the West. No
party has declared for it and no admin
istration has discovered any desire for
annexation which would warrant it in
making an inquiry in that direction. 1t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01
A BLOW AT AMERICAN TRADE AND INTER
ESTS.

1t is a curious illustration of the inter-
dependence of modern life that public
interest in Europe and the United States
should just now be rapidly concentrate
ing on the Isthmus of Darien. Sixty
days ago nothing was heard of isthmus
affairs, and there was no indication that
they were soon to figure in the worlds
politics. Since then there has been
some rapid scene shifting, and now the
eyes of two continents are turning in
the direction Of the narrow and inhos-
pitable strip that connects North and
South America. In France the absorb
ing question of the day is the magnitude
and extent of the Panama-canal swim
die, while in this country public atten-
ton is being turned to the necessity of
protecting American interests in the
Panama railroad. The second question
Indirectly grows out of the first one.
Under a treaty formed many years
ago between the United States and the
Republic of New Granada American
citizens obtained the right to treat the
Isthmus of Panama, so far as transit
privileges are concerned, as American
soil. Under this arrangement the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company. in
connection with the Panama railroad,
has built up a large business
between New York and San Francisco,
the business being, to all intents and
purposes, a domestic coastwise trade.
Both companies were American corpora
tions, working under charters obtained
in the United States, and the trans
shipment of goods across the isthmus
did not involve any question of foreign
customs regulations. Under its con-
tract with the railroad the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company has had almost q
monopoly of the New York and San
Francisco trade, and has handled it in q
name entirely satisfactory to all con-
cerned. Being a purely American trade.
it was proper that it should be kept in
American hands. But NJ. Monchicourt,
the French receiver of the Panama Ca
nal Company, has set about breaking up
this trade and depriving the United
States of the privileges it has heretofore
enjoyed in its transcontinental trade by
way of the isthmus. He has given no.
tice that from and after Feb. 1, 1898. po
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01
TIE PANAMA COMPLICATION.

FRANCE is likely to find out that the Mon
roe doctrine he not q lead letter. Mr.. Har-
rison intends to rave something to say
about IL in bis annual messaR &c. and he will
have the country at his back.-New York
Recorder.
The idea seems to be to convert what
was originally an American enterprise into
q concern thoroughly un-American and
hostile in management and policy. and in
cidentally to leave the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company very much out In the cold.
Hartford COurant.
AMERICAN public opinion Will not teller
ate the growth of a foreign influence on the
Isthmus of Panama inimical to the SUI
premacy of American commercial and
political interests there. France should
not need to learn anew the lesson taught
by the fall of Maximilian.-New York Fri
bune.
THE duty of the hour Is to secure the
neutrality of the Panama railroad, and In
the light of this experience it wonld be
we'll for the United States to consider the
wisdom of identifying itself with the
Nicaragua canal and securing control of
that future water Observation-Disclosures
North American.
Ir is time to call q halt upon French
greed and audacity. Fortunately. the in
terests of the country are still in the CON-
petent hands of President Harrison. and
there need be no doubt that. while he will
not recklessly assume q position of hostility
to France, he will firmly MAINTAIN Ameri-
can honor and restore American rights.
Chicago Tribune.
LII would seem to be the duty Of the De-
partment of State to make careful inquiry
into this affair and see just how far France
has attempted to 60. and if 1t shall appear
thai French sovereignty is aought to be ex-
tended over the Isthmus of Panama to call
the attention of the French republic to the
fact that the Monroe doctrine has lost none
of it's force or vitality since 1s65. Fran
cisco Chronicle.
TIE difficulty between the Panama
Railroad Company and the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company is like q difficulty be-
tween q grizzly bear and q rattlesnake.
There ia neither international nor domestic
interest in the question whether there
shall be one less grizzly or one less RATHER
In the world to disturb its peace and CON-
fort. The Panama business is likely to
prove even more abortive than has the
comet to furnish forth food for the quid-
nuncs and Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01

through bills of lading by way of the
Panama railroad will be issued to the
Pacific Mai Steamship Company. and
that all contracts for the shipment of
goods across the isthmus must be made
with the Compania Sud Americana, q
Gillian corporation owned by British
capitalists, and sailing its vessels under
the CHILEAN flag. M. Monchicourt claims
authority to issue this order by yirtueof
French rights alleged to be acquired
In connection with the Panama canal
concession. The order is plainly op-
posed to American treaty rights and
American interests. If carried out IL
will drive the Pacific Mail steamers out
of business and transfer the American
trade between New York and San Fran
cisco to foreign hands. Goods billed
across the isthmus by foreign steamers
would have to pay customs duties. from
which they are now exempt, and this
would fall on the American shippers.
The effect would be to levy a heavy
tribute OF American trade between New
York and San Francisco and seriously
cripple it. A more important effect, If
M. Monchicourt's right to issue and en-
force this order is recognized, would be
b establishment of q French pro-
tectorate on the isthmus and the recog-
milton of the right of France to prac-
tically control the Panama railroad and
levy tribute on American transconti-
mental trade by the isthmian route. 1t
is entirely safe to Say the United States
will not submit to this. The order
issued by the French receiver is a blow
at American trade and American inter-
ests on the isthmus which cannot be
allowed to pass unchallenRed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01

LAST Sunday Rev. Mr.. Embree, one
of the ablest and most influential Meth
odist preachers in Kansas, and for
year. a leading advocate of prohibition,
astonished his audience with the follow
ing avowal:
1t 10 useless to shut our eyes to the fact
that in the hamlets and villages of Kansas
there is no more practical temperance than
is to be found throughout Missouri. 1t is
a bad thing to keep laws on the statute
book which cannot be enforced; their con-
slant violation without punishment has q
demoralizinR effect on the minds of the
young.
He went on to say that local option
with high license is the only practicable
method Of regulating the liquor traffic.
Mr.. Embree has taken q prominent part
in trying to ecure the enforcement of
the %prohibitory law in Kansas cities,
which makes his open avowal OF the
failure of prohibition more noteworthy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01
A FLIMSY PRETENSE.

The sudden busy pretense in Indian
apolis police circles of closing up the
gambling establishments may excite
hope among anxious parents of way
ward sons, but all who are acquainted
with the devious ways of Democratic
reform" feel only contemptuous
amusement. When Mayor Sullivan was
first a candidate for the Office he
now holds the gambling and saloon
f~raternities were united in his sup
port, their members declaring boldly
that his election meant hat their re-
spective industries would be wide
open." This circumstance of itself dis
poses of the assertion that these ele-
ment we're in control during the pre-
ceding Republican administrations.
When Sullivan was elected there was
general rejoicing among the "toughs"
and professional law-breakers, and. as
subsequent events have proved, their
joy was we'll founded. Saloon-keepers
have neither observed the 11-0'clock
law nor the Sunday law, and if any at
tempt has been made to inter-
terfere with them it has not come
within public knowledge. Certainly
it has not been effectual. Gambling
rooms have operated without conceal
ment and without molestation. When
arrests were compelled by complaints of
indignant citizens the offenders were let,
off with nominal fines. What wonder,
then, that when Sullivan was a candi-
date o second time the same d~isreputa-
BILE gang rallied to his support and CON-
tributed their thousands to aid in his
election? When they had elected a
police judge who declared in his first
public speech after election that he
would temper justice with mercy"
and proceeded to do so by making a
second fine of any rascal brought
before him more than once smaller, in
stead of larger. than the frst-then the
gambling and d~ive-keeping brethren
must have felt that they were getting
their moneys worth. They had secured
the sort of Justice" they had paid for.
though it had come high. ea
No wonder, then, that these gentry
feel themselves deeply injured and out
ragged by the announcement that they
must obey the law. They need not be
alarmed. All this display of virtue on
the part of the authorities is spectacular
and will be of brief continuance. They
may be put to some Inconvenience
for a time, because the authorities
aforesaid must pay some attention. now
and then, to decent and reputable cit
izens. and among these are parents who
have protested for the sake of their
sons against the pitfalls that the wide
open, lawless policy of the Democratic
"reform" administration had placed in
the way. None of the gambling gang
will, however, be forced to leave town.
The so-called raids will presently cease,
the furry will subside, municipal virtue
will again be at a discount, and all will
go on as it has gone for three years, with
no effort to enforce the law. If anyof the
anxious parents are among those who
assisted the lawless element with their
votes at the city elections they can
hardly take comfort in the thought.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-01

THE New York Evening Post says
that the advance of cotton from 2 us to
10 cents, while due chiefly to the short
crop. could not have gone anywhere
near sc high If dealers had been unable
to deal in options. That is. the fact of
q short crop put the betting element on
the "long' side of the market and
pushed up the price beyond the figures
to which the actual condition of the
supply would have carried it. If this is
true. and it cannot be doubted, the fact
of a large crop arrays the betting ele-
ment on the side of lower prices. and
naturally pushes them below the figure
which the condition of the market would
have carried them. The Post seems to
have furnished an argument against OPP
fiOns-