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The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20

at full speed the bird had tried to fly in
front Of il and was struck by the pilot.
which. instead OF killing IL, only forced II
between the slabs.-Vincennes Commercial.
For years we have been publishing reports
of progressive euchre parties, giving The
names OF prize winners whenever the items
have been furnished, little thinking that any
of the participants in such games had the
least objection to having the matter made
public. Last Thursday an irate individual
pesented his grievance because we had seen
fit to publish that his wife had won first
prize. Most people who play cards are nat
urally little proud of winning prize. and
that this citizen would object TO having II
known had not occurred to us.-Ligonier
Leader.
Posey county's sons have distinguished
themselves In the fields Of literatue of art,
OF science in peace and i'm war. Her states
men have taken rank with the foremost
men of their day. There is not a richer ag-
ricultural county anywhere, and there Is
not more enlightened people inhabitfng
any other county. In every calling you will
find FoSey county people we'll up In the pro-
cession. At the worlds fair Posey county
lady took the medal the best amateur
performer on the piano. Posey county does
not take back seat in any undertaking,
and cheap wit at her expense makes us very
Jack Ryan, a man of general utility at the
Prison North, has taken a position with
the gas company at Lafayette, at the head
of which is eX-Warden Murdoch. Mr.. Ryan
will be located in town near Lafayette,
and will move there tomorrow morning.
Ryan finished his term three or four years
ago at the prison. and besides being civil
engineer he is skillful in many lines of en-
ployment He has been Warden Frenchs
trusted assistant in all the big improvements
that have been in progress at the prison
within the past two or three years. He Is
an example of a man who has made some
thing of himself after tasting some of the
bitter experiences of life.-Michigan City
DiSDatch
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STATE PRESS OPINIONS.

Mr.. Bynum now says he never said it.
The people will say it for him.-Rchmond
Telegram.
The factories remain idle and respectable
workingmen are becoming tramps simply
because Democrats insist that we must
have q tar1m for revenue only.-GreenSburg
Review.
Every line of President Harrison's last
Thanksgiving proclamation breathed pros
perity and .contentment of the people. How
different after few months Of Democratic
misrule!-New Carlisle Gazette.
The people are not in favor of monarches
and will stand foolishness. The best
thing for the President and his Secretary
to do Is to recall their letters and act upon
the advice of some one who is capable of
handling the subject.-Muncie News.
President Cleveland's Hawaiian policy
has caused another large detachment Cf
Democratic papers to roast him. If mat
ters go on in this way be very soon will
not have a hair on his head that Demo-
Mail.
The Republican party was never so wise
as when it set aside Judge Gresham. He
has shown himself cold, selfish mortal,
with a desire for place only to crafty per-
stripe, a stab-you-in-the- back kind of
friend.-South Bend Tribune.
Tariff-smashing and queen-making are not
likely to become very popular with the
American people. If the elections of next
year turn upon these issues there will be
landslide % OF Of this this year will appear insignifi-
cant.-Richmond Palladium.
The office of President is a continuous
one and one holder of that office has no
right to make illegal the acts of his
predecessors so far as they may affect
events already established. This is a legal
n 20 a n Ia f.l q N trI1
be considered by the Senate.-Evansvilie
Standard.
In the event that Minister Willis succeeds
in his mission the coronation of Queen Lii
should be postponed until President Cleve-
land can be present. 1t would be an inspir-
grand march and whirl about in the mys-
teries of the may waltz at the inaugural
ball.-Logansport Journal
1t is quite appropriate that President
Cleveland should rely upon the report of
my commissioner Blount in his determi-
nation 70 use his authority to aid in the re-
establishment Of a monarchy in Hawaii
Mr.. BOunts record on the question of pull
ing down the United States flag is well
known.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
1t has been left to a woman, half Kanaka,
half negro, who from a retrogressive ten
dency to barbarism wishes to escape from
high moral and civilizing influences, and to
Secretary Gresham to use the term "alien,"
as meaning ingratitude, trea cherry, cow
ardice, oppression and dishonor to the men
who represent all that is honorable and en-
lightened in Hawaii.-Terre Haute Gazette
The recent triumphant elections have
demonstrated that the people are sick and
tired of last November's change, and that
they are disposed. and, in fact, determined,
to undo that great wrong. In Indiana next
year the election is of great imports tance.
All that is required to assure success is a
n nd he iC ha
main purpose of this meeting.-Evansville
Journal.
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WHAT Is AN ALIEN:
An Explanation Asked of Mr.. Gresh-
nm's Use of the Term.
va achinUfou POST lind

M Gresham refers to the leading spirits
in the effort for political regeneration il
Hawaii as aliens" OF course the wore
has an unwelcome Significance and sound.
1t is not pleasant TO freenen'S ears, and II
builds UP prejudice TO talk of "aliens" med
ding in the domestic affairs Of people any
where.
But is Mr. Gresham right herein? Has
he warrant for that whitening and harmful
epithet? Who is the alien in the present
Hawaiian government-the one which Mr.
Gresham proposes TO Destroy Mr.. Dole.
the President, is native OF the country
He is neither actually nor conStructlVeIy
an alien. Mr.. Hatch, the Vice President,
is a naturalized citizen. Mr. Damon; the
Minister of Finance. is a native Ar. hlns.
Minister of the Interior, Is a naturalized
citizen, and Mr.. Smith, the Attorney gen
eral. is q native. OF the commission sent
here last winter 20 submit the overture OF
annexation Mr.. Thurston, Mr.. Castle and
Mr. Carter were natives. and the other
two NIessrs Marsden and Wilder, were
naturalized citizens. As NE understand the
term in this country there was not an
allen in the list.
What is the administration definition OF
"alien" anyhow? Is the American citizen,
born in the United States, whose parents
emgrated from Europe fifty years ago, an
'alien?" We should like 10 have some fur
ther light upon this question-upon this
new Interpretation. according 10 which a
majority of the prophets and pioneers OF
American liberty are 10 be grouped under
a disparaging and disqualifying head. II
becomes almost painfully interesting.
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The conference of the Republican State
central committee and prominent Repub-
licans throughout the State should be made
the beginning OF a movement which will
break the rule of Bourbonism in Indiana
and give the people a progressive, econom-
agement of their affairs. The people of In
diana are weary of Democratic extrava-
gances and stupid and selfish, not to say
corrupt rule They are as ripe for a
change as were the people of New Jersey
ard Kings county, New York, and will re-
spend to any party which can convince
will keep their pledges to bring about much
needed reforms. The decent people of In
diana are weary of the prominence of the
Green Smiths, the McHughs of Tippecanoe,
and the Fippens of Upton. They are dis
gusted with legislatures which for years
have been sinking deeper and deeper in
infamy. until it would seem that the depths
were sounded by that of 1893. The tax
payers are anxious for a change which will
drive out of the penitentiaries officials who
sell labor to the lowest bidder, and out of
little boards of managers made UP Of in
efficients whose chief object is to secure
every perquisite for themselves and super
intendents who place their whole families
upon the pay rolls of the State. Tax
payers would have these institutions cease
to be houses OF refuge for incompetent rel
put under business management. They
would have such legislation in regard to
the salaries and fees of State and county
officers as will put end to present and
growing abuses. They would not have
legislatures which, at the behest of an as
sociation of county officers, refuse to
amend fee and salary law in the interests
of the people, but let it stand in the expec-
tation that the Supreme Court, to which
that association has carried the matter
will declare it unconstitutional to the end
lHe1I AlS IieiHDeIS may tdhe eXOrDltanC IeeS
from the people. Most intelligent people of
Indiana who visited the worlds fair came
back with sense of shame because of it's
inadequate exhibit, compared with States
less favorably situated. Those of them who
have sought the cause find it In the failure
Of Democratic Legislature to rise to the
occasion, and TO a management which was
agement which, weak in itself because none
but Democrat could be put at it's head,
political harpies who regard every appro-
priation a spoil for them to seize upon
There is as much State and industrial pride
in Indiana in any State in the Union,
but both had not the heart to contend with
a weak management, beset with the hum
cry bummers which crippled Indiana In the
exhibition before the appropriation passed
the Legislature. 1t is a well-known citizen
who declared that double the last approprl-
alton could have been secured earlier in the
session If he had had hundred season
tickets to give the members.
VIII the Republicans who meet in this
city on Tuesday for counsel realize the op-
portunity which is offered them and take
steps which will convince the people that
they are equal to the emergency?
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THE FREE TRADERS, PERpLExITY.

The tariff reformers in Washington are
in great perplexity. One set of reformers
from the East put coal, ores, wool. lumber.
and almost everything the East does not
produce on the free list Then a cry comes
from West Virginia Alabama and Georgia
reduction of the duties on the common nee
essaries of life. like cotton and woolen
goods, and a protest against putting coal
and ores upon the free list. Put coal and
ores upon the free list and you ruin the
growing industries of the South" the
Southern Democrats declare. ITO leave
disregard the first principles of tariff re-
FORM" reply the tariff reformers of New
England and New York "If you put lum-
ber upon the free list you will strike our
interests deadly blow comes the warn
ing voice of the tariff reformers in Michi-
gan. Wisconsin and Minnesota 'If you re-
duce the duties on woolens without putting
wool on the free list you will stop every
wooden mill In the country urges the tar
If reformer from the districts in which the
manufacture of woolens is the leading in
dustry. "Put wool on the free list" shouts
Culberson, of Texas, Bland. of Missouri,
and the Democratic remnant in Ohio, land
we will fight your bill" Between these con-
tentions is there any wonder that there are
only three men on the ways and means
committee who have the courage to stand
out for a revenue tariff-Wilson, of West
Virginia; Bynum, of Indiana, and Breckin-
ridge of Arkansas? The first two adhere
to the tariff for revenue only formula be-
cause they are doctrinaires, and the latter
because he has no industry to protect.
Again is the fact enforced that most free
traders desire 1t for everybody but them
selves, but are fervent in their protesta-
tions against applying that theory to them-
selves.
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ALL AROUND THE STATE.

W. W. Warnes says that when he closes
out his crop of celery he will have made
abut 5000 off of two acres and half of low
muck land 1t is well manured and culti-
waited. and crop of onions is taken off be-
fore the late celery goes in.-Plymouth Re-
publican.
About one more month will see the con-
tract finished at Momence and the rock all
out. The water was recently let on to try
the flow, and the river at the State line fell
one foot in twentyfour hours. When the
job is complete it will work wonders with
more than was expected-Porter County
Vidette.
In the show window of L. D. Brown &
Son Is displayed mammoth doube-yolk
hen egg. 1t is eight inches and quarter in
circumference, and it is the seventy-fourth
egg of the kind that the hen has laid since
last July. She is a matronly Plymouth
Rock, and has never lowered her dignity by
laying single-yolk OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Journal.
Somehow the notion has become prevalent
in neighboring towns that there is an extra
demand here for working people-that our
factories use more than are at their dis
posal For the information and benefit Of
all such the Times begs to state that there
are to-day, and have been for months at
least one thousand workmen out of employ
ment in this city.-South Bend Times.
Hon. NJ. NJ Kilgore. president of the Mi
ami County Farmers Institute, is in re-
ceipt of a letter from the secretary of the
United States Sugar Syndicate, of New
York The Sugar Syndicate has in contem-
plation a beet-sugar refinery somewhere in
Indiana, and is desirouS of interesting the
farmers OF Indiana in the cultivation of the
sugar beet, to the growth of which soil
and climate are very manufacturers
Journal.
On Saturday. Nov. o. 1893. the patrons
and stockholders in the Rensselaer, Sepa-
rated Butter Company. and all that are in
terested and friendly to building up dairy
interests. are invited to attend a picnic at
the courthouse at sharp IL o'clock. The sig
ters are cordially invited and requested to
be present, also to bring one or more chick
ems. Turkeys or roast pig not rejected.
VIII have plenty OF hot coffee. buttermilk
and creamery butter, also roast beef and
mhtton.-Rensselaer Republican.
Thursday afternoon, as the B. & o. ac-
commodation from the west pulled up to the
depot a peculiar f1uttering OF some object
was noticed on the pilot Of the engine.
When the train stopped one of the little
bootblacks at the depot went up TO the pilot,
and there he found fastened between the
slabs a pretty much frightened red bird. II
is suppose. that while the train was going
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otal .. .s29. .467. .O47 17O s34. $50, 715, ,152

1t will be seen that there is large falling
off in every month but one During the
first month after Mr.. Clevelands inaugura-
ton the falling off was s14S,O0OOOO. During
May there was gain but in each follow
ing month till October, inclusive, there was
a large falling off. The largest shrnkage
was in October. when it reached the enor-
nous aggregate of sl,4S7.OOO,OOo The grand
total of shrinkage during the entire period
was nearly five billion dollars. These start
ling figures represent the total falling off
in the volume OF business in clearing house
cities alone during the seven months named
as compared with the corresponding months
last year. But it must be remembered that
they do not show the shrinkage in the
smaller cities and towns that do not have
clearing houses. nor any shrinkage outside
of bank transactions. In the light of these
figures he must be a bold man who will
deny that the present administration. with
its laundering financial policy and threat of
free trade has cost the country more than
1t is worth.
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archy in Hawaii. The selection OF Robert
Irwin's brother, Admiral Irwin, to relieve
Admiral Skerrett shows that the admins
tration was not taking step in the dark.
By the change it got rid of an officer who
had no sympathy with the movement for
in his place one whose brother enjoys the
confidence of the dethroned Queen and is
indebted to her for a fortune. Thus every
movements of the administration shows a
fixed purpose, by underhand means. to set
things up for the restoration of the mon
archy.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20

The American reader of the English novel
which deals with correct society cannot
have failed to notice the regularity and fire.
quency of tea drinking. Other courtesies
and customs can be dropped. but the pass
ing around of tea and the drinking of two
cups, small ones doubtless, is never omitted
by the novel maker. at least. The statis-
tics of trade sustain the impression which
the novel writer gives. the average con-
sumption being about seven pounds per
capita. And now London physicians have
discovered that the effects of so much tea
drinking are something alarming. There
has been marked increase of nervous dis
orders and a tendency to dementia has been
discovered in tea sots. AS correct society
is patterning after the British custom OF
drinking tea, and as the consumption of the
article is growing in this country, it is well
to have attention called to its effect where
it may be said to be drunk every five min
utes if the society novelist is not at fault.
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ministration desires the Endorsement Of the
people it should take them into its con-
fidence. Meanwhile the people are justified
in passing judgment on the facts in their
possession. They know that the statements
in Secretary Greshams letter are contro-
verted by large number of reputable ard
credible witnesses, and they find nothirg
in the case to justify the Secretary's dec
laration that nothing short of the restora-
ton Of the monarchy and the Queen will
satisfy the demands of justice.
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DiscreditfnE Cleveland.
Harper's Weekly.

If the Democratic party wishes to remain
a strong factor in American politics, il
treatment of the financial problems still TO
be solved and by the fulfilment of the
promises with regard TO the tariff policy
pie in the national elections Of 1890 and 1892.
1t can no longer stake its fortunes upon
the esteem in which Mr. Cleveland is he'd,
for he will not remain it's leader much long
er; and, besides. the prestige of his name.
too, has been impaired by his deplorable
action I'm the Van Allen case. and by the
spoiIs politics which his admins tration has
been carrying on. These things have played
a subordinate, although by no means unm-
portant, part in the recent election, but
they will show their effect when public at
tention is no longer diverted from them by
questions OF immediate urgency.
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The Richmond Item asks If the establish
ment of the provisional government in Ha-
waii was the result of a rising OF the peo-
pie in their might, how comes it that it
was compelled to ask armed protection?"
We might answer this question by asking
another. If the provisional government does
not represent the people. how comes it that
during nine months the Queen made no at
tempt to assert her rights and had to await
the action of the United States 10 restore
the monarchy? AS a matter of fact the
provisional government never asked for
nor had armed protection from the United
States. The most that could be said is that
1t had moral support and recognition from
the United States, as it did from every
other power represented in the islands. On
the point OF armed protection Minister
Stevens says: 1.-The troops from the Boston
never lifted a finger in aid of the fallen
monarchy or the rising provisional govern
ment. The former sought their aid. but
neither party had the least assistance Of
force from Captain Wiltse and those under
his command. All assertions to the con-
trary, by whomsoever uttered. are auda-
cious falsehoods. without a semblance Of
truth
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20

Representative Bourke Cochran, of New
York, warns his Democratic associates on
the ways and means committee that their
scheme OF an income tax, instead of cap
turing the Populists, as some one has sug-
gested. would make New York city Re
publican center for years. If Mr.. Cochran
could make certain such a result one might
look at the proposed income tax with less
disfavor than he otherwise might.
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The New York Evening Post thinks that
the most plausible explanation Of the re-
cent Republican victory "is that the people
were angry with the Democrats, not be-
ing to reform the tariff, but because they
had not done it already" In other words,
the people were so mad because they had
pell NELL for projection. This is a brilliant
theory
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20

The monthly clearing house returns as re-
to the volume of trade. Indicating they
do the bank transactions of the month in
every clearing house city, they present, as
of the credit transactions in these cities.
1t is therefore interesting to compare these
returns during the seven months since MIR.
Cleveland was inaugurated with the corre-
spending months Of last year. Following
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20

Columbia, the gem of the ocean," has a
new meaning since the extraordinary per-
formance of Uncle Sans new war ship.
The rate of speed which she achieved In her
trial trip, an average of thirty miles an
hour part Of the time, has never been
equalled by any water craft. 1t would be
a very high rate for merchant vessel or
an ocean passenger steamer. but for huge
man-of-war it was simply wonderful. 1t
shows that our ship-building facilities and
engineering skill are fully equal to those of
any other country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20

The President and Secretary Gresham are
reported as saying that when the Ameri-
can people come to thoroughly understand
the position Of the administration toward
Hawaii they viii indorse 1t as entirely
patriotic and just. Then why does not the
administration define its position fully and
definitely? Why does 1t pursue policy OF
concealment and indirection? The State De
instructions; why are they not made pub
lie? He is at his post. and no public in
terest could suffer by letting the people
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20

The Brazilian cruiser Ell Cid, or to call
her by her new name and the one by
which she viii hereafter be known, Mich
leroy, probably set sail from New York
for Rio Janeiro yesterday. 1t has taken
about three weeks to transform FL Cid into
the Nichteroy, the change being from an
ocean liner into war vessel. The work
has been done very rapidly, but from all
accounts very thoroughly. The ships of
ficers and crew have been shipped in New
York, and most of them are Americans
To avoid an infringement of the foreign
enlistment act and violation OF neutrality
law the shipping articles expressly stipu-
late that they do not constitute either an
enlistment or an agreement to enlist in the
Brazilian navy. When the vessel gets on
the high seas. however these articles will
be changed and the men will be regularly
enlisted in the Brazilian service. Then
also the ships company will be organized.
discipline established. and the marines and
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sailors drilled for the work that Is before
them. This, Of course is fighting and it
may be that they will have an early op-
portunity of measuring strength with the
insurgent navy. The Nichteroy viii be fol-
by two or three other vessels which are
now fitting out for the same service.
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Violating the Constitution.

If a single marine Is landed in Honolulu
to overthrow this government IL will be an
act OF war-war made by the President in
defiance of his oath and in violation OF the
Constitution. This no one can doubt. The
only possible reason for the presence OF ma
rines In Honolulu is the protection or the
life and property of American citizens.
With the form of the Hawaiian government
our naval forces have ncjaing to do. and
can have nothing. They did not in January.
no authority TO make war and landing
troops 10 overturn government de facto
and de jure at Honolulu will be making
war.