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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

has been observed in this country for
years, and every student of politics is
familiar with it. certain percentage
of the people do not stop to think, or are
not capable of carrying thought to a
proper conclusion. They know that
something is hurting them and they
strike viciously at the first thing in
sight. which is the party in power.
And yet you will find scarcely one of
them who has changed his views as to
the tariff. We had a somewhat start
ling election at this point, but we have
yet TO hear of man who changed on
this ground. There is no reason why
anyone should change, for there has
been no change in the tariff. and no one
has had any experience to induce a
change. So far as the tariff has affected
the situation at all. there has been a
complaint of delay in the action of con-
gress. Any business man. whether
protectionist or free-trader, will agree
that a delay in proposed change of
tariff is bad for business, simply be-
cause men want to know the basis on
which they are doing business, and they
cannot know it in the face of a pro-
posed but indefinite change
If congress had passed a tariff bill
two months ago there would have been
no trouble in the country now, and the
more quickly it passes one hereafter the
more quickly will the situation improve.
because a genuine reform of the tariff
would be an immense stimulant to bust
ness. Business has been depressed on
account of a money panic brought on
by an absurd piece of republican legis-
laion. 1t needs a stimulant Congress
should give it one. and it should do so
quickly Mr. German is reported to
have promised in a speech few days
ago that the country would have tariff
reform within two years" 1t ought to
have 1t within two months. If congress
needs the true lesson Of these elections
it will do little talking and act quickly.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
VALUE OF THE MINT MARK.

In answer to an anxious inquirer the
Philadelphia Press gives some informa-
ton as to the nature of money that will
not stand the test of reason. 1t says n
the first place:
Fiat money is that which is made to
do the office of money by virtue of the
command of the government making it
a legal tender for debts, and which
would be OF no value without that COM
mand. Paper money which is redeem
able in coin on presentation is not fiat
for il is worth the money it is payable
in independent of it's legal tender quail
~. The silver dollar would be fiat
money to the extent of the difference be-
tween it's bullion and legal tender value.
but for the fact that it is exchangeabIe
for gold, so that which would otherwise
be its fiat portion is like the greenback,
the governments promise to pay.
This is well enough so far as 1t goes,
but the Press does not carry to its legiti-
mate conclusion its point that silver is
maintained at the gold standard by be-
ing exchangeable for gold. This is now
true of course, as TO silver coins alone.
but there is no reason why it should not
apply to all silver equally if there were
governments ready to exchange gold for
it at a fixed ratio as each country now
does with it's own coins. The Press, for
getful of this fact, says:
If all the important minis were closed
to the coinage of gold it would undoubt-
eddy fall in value. In the same way if
the leading markets of the world were
for any reason closed to wheat that
staple would fall in value and it's pro
duction fall off greatly Demand and
supply together go to make up the mar
ket value OF any product The mint
mark no more gives gold its value than
the peck measure gives value to wheat
Both mint stamps and peck measures
are convenient Instruments for ascertain
In and proving value and that is ALL 1t
is a long way between this and fiat
money. which one instant IS a blank
piece of paper and in another reads this
is a dollar and a legal tender for all
debts"
The mint mark does not give value to
the coin becaue it is an agreement of
the government to maintain it on ex-
changeable relations with gold, which is
now the sole standard in this country as
tions. AS a matter of fact three-fourths
of all the silver in the world is main
tanned at standard varying from IA to
to Is to 1 because it is in the shape of
coin. If all these nations should give
free coinage to the remaining silver II
would at once come to the same ratio,
because il would then be exchangeable
also. The establishment of a bimetallic
coinage ratio is in fact a bid for the
money metals at a fixed rate. and if
all countries make the same bid there
would be no fiuctuation in the value of
either as measured i'm the other. This
would not be fiat" but it would be
giving an arbitrary fixed value to the
metals by the mint mark One country
alone could not maintain such a system
without losing its stock of one or the
other Of the money metals but all the
nations acting in conjunction could do
it without inconvenience.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
CARNEGIE's son QUITE GAY.
Arraigned I'm n New York Police Court
Charged with Drunkenness.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1O-Thomas NJ.
Carnegie. who says he is a son of An
drew Carnegie, the Pittsburg iron king,
was a prisoner in Jefferson market
police court this morning Charged with
intoxication and with him was ar
raigned David T. Jones, a cab driver
and Henry Small, a cOlOred man. Car
negie was anxious to press a charge Of
larceny against the two others. but ne
had not sufficient proof All three We're
discharged by Justice Koch. 1t seems
that Carnegie hired Jones's cab at the
Imperial hotel at midnight and started
out TO visit as many saloons as posi-
BILE in the tendeTlOin district. He had
visited a number of these when Car
negie AYERS the driver stopped the cab
while a strange man entered and took
away his gold watch and chain. When
he left the cab to chase the thief Carne-
Then the driver drove Carnegie TO a few
hotel at 4 o'clock this morning Jones
had Carnegie arrested for refusing to
pay his fare. The cab driver says that
Carnegie was so drunk that he suddenly
rushed from the cab on ". Thirty
seventh-st. Thinking he was trying to
avoid paying his fare, Jones held his
passenger. On the advice of a police
man the colored man, Small, agreed to
ride on the drivers seat TO see that Car
negie did not try to run away again.
Policeman Mccormack at the Imperial
hotel decided to arrest all three men.
Carnegie is a blonde with a refined
face and has been leading a rather gay
life in New York for several weeks.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
MRS. READE NEE MANSFIELD.
Her Husband Will Try for n Legal
Separation.

NEW YORK, Nov s. Robert
L. Reade, the New York law
yer who has been living at Paris for
several years. has returned TO this cOun-
try, and is making arrangements for a
legal separation from his wife, who
will remain abroad. She is Josephine
Mansfield, who twenty years ago was
the subject of so much gossip in con-
nection with the shooting Of James
Fisk jr., by Edward S Stokes. Miss
Mansfield went abroad soon after the
tragedy and has lived in Paris ever
since. Though somewhat mature she
is said to be still beautiful and fas-
cinating. She met Mr.. Reade at Paris
in the summer of 1891 and they were
married in October of the same year.
At that time the lady was known in
Paris society as Mrs. Lawler. which was
the name of her first husband, an actor
Of some note. 1t appears the married
life of the couple was not harmonious
and that they have resolved to sepa-
rate Ii is understood that Mr.. Reade,
who is quite wealthy, will make hand
some provision for his wife. Reade
is the son of the late Robert Reade,
who was once of the largest property
owners in Minneapolis. He is the
brother-in-law of Lord Falkland. a
prominent English peer, who married
Reade's sister.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
IN THE KARA SEA.
Explorer Nansen May Yet Reach the
North Pole.

LONDON, Nov. 10-The Pail Mall
Gazette says that DIR. Nansen's pros
poets of reaching the pole are greatly
improved. 1t appears that some Of the
Norwegian seal hunters, who have just
returned from Hammerfest, in extreme
northern part of Norway, report that
at the time they were there Nansen's
expedition was entering the Kara sea
This was in August last and the seal
hunters were then able to cruise freely
in northern parts around Novai Zemla
islands, north, east and west. The seal
ers add that over an area of twenty to
thirty miles there was no ice what
ever and moreover they could judge
from the water that the sea was quite
clear further north They add that
there was every probability that the
Fran had gone through the otherwise
generally ice-ohoked Kara sea in a few
days after leaving Jugor strait. The
seal hunters report also that in the
memory of all these experienced Arctic
hunters, numbering quite one hundred
men, the sea was never so free of ice
as it was last autumn and that no
Polar expedition ever had such fine
chances of success as the hansen ex-
petition has.
Another seal hunter on Sept. 80 was in
latitude Ills north and from there
sailed thirty miles direct east and en-
countered no ice during the trip. An
other skipper sailed close to the north
east land of Spitzenbergen where there
was but little ice. DIR. hansen himself
in a letter to a friend, dated Aug. 8,
says:
Tomorrow we start eastward. 1t
really seems that the winds favor us
as We find wide open gates, for here
IL iS blOvyiDo a capital south wind which
must push the ice far northward into
the Kara sea"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

Diphtheria has been unusually severe
fingers in many towns and counties.
We published the other day a long-tried
remedy of liquid tar and turpentine. to
be burned and the fumes inhaled under
certain conditions. Another remedy
which has reached US from France we
give also to the readers of The Senti-
nell The French doctor was at first very
unsuccessful. but he treated the cases
in the usual way. Remembering. as he
says, that the English use petroleum
as an anti-spasmodic and antiseptic he
determined TO try 1t as an experiment.
His first trial was in the case of a
little girl seven years old. He had al
ready given her up and proposed to
the parents to make the experiment,
with common petroleum. He had little
hope Of success of his new method but
to his establishment he noticed an inn
provenlent after the first application.
lie continued the treatment ana the
child recovered. Then he tried it sue
cessfully with his other patients. This
year he had forty cases OF diphtheria
to treat. and he was successful in every
one. The treatment presents little
difficulty or danger. The swabbing is
done every hour or every two hours,
according to the thickness of the MEM
branes. which become, as it were.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

Burglars and tramps continue to ter
rify. maltreat and rob the farmers and
their families throughout the state. Last
week all of the household of a farmer
in Lake county were tied and the house
robbed. The rascals did not stop then,
but made away with the farmers buggy
and a fine team of horses. In another
part of the state a defenseless family
was chloroformed and the home raided
and robbed. 1t is quite as necessary
for people living upon Indiana farms
to supply themselves with powder, shot
and guns their forefathers did when
savages roamed through the state kill
ing defenseless women and children.
Farmers, be prepared when the ras-
Gals appear to give them, not only a
warm reception, but a decidedly hot
ono
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

debt against man who had
made no contract to that eff
feet, and had not injured the
plaintiff; that it violated the constitu-
tional provision against Imprisonment
for debt; and that it gave a man
right to recover damages for his own
wrong. The supreme court answered
these objections and placed the law on
the broad and firm basis of a remedial
measure for the prevention of a great
public wrong. 1t took judicial notice of
the corruption under the old elective
system and of the strong public senti-
ment in favor of more effective law
for the protection of the ballot AS TO
the injury to the plaintiff the court
says:
1t will not do to say that a person
who is induced to vote for any candi-
date is not injured. He has sold his
birthright. Under temptation to which
he was subjected he has bartered his
honor. his manhood. his political free
dom, his sovereignty. We cannot say
Judicially he has not been injured. While
the body polite has suffered greatly,
the loss he has sustained is infinitely
more.
Judge McCabe took no part In the de-
cision of the case. as he prepared the
law. The people Of Indiana are under
great obligations to him for devising
this system for the Encouragement of
bribery. So far as we have been able
to ascertain it is entirely unique. but
1t is evidently better calculated to put
an end to the nefarious business of vote
buying than anything that has yet been
produced by ballot reformers excepting
alone the Australian ballot system.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

any system of imprisonment. If NJ de
Grinevsky wants to carry his argument
to. logical conclusion he should insist
on vigorous punishment of everyoe
who can possibly become a criminal.
That would be the only way of prevent
ing crime. AS a method of intimidating
others the Russian system does not seem
&c be any more successful than our own.
and it certainly is less in keeping with
the civilization and enlightenment of the
nineteenth century
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

Senator Teller has been interviewed,
and on being asked whether a silver
party would be organized, he replied:
There will not. At the conference in
Washington Wednesday night we de-
cided it was best to fight inside the party
lines, and we rely on an overwhelming
return of silver men as a result of the
last three months debate. Senator Sher-
man said the other day there was never
a question discussed in congress where
the arguments of both sides were so full
and so exhaustive as this, and the result
was a mine of knowledge to the people
of the United States. We need no party
machinery. The work of education is
going on in each party, and, while silver
may be the dominating issue in the next
campaign. it will be inside all parties.
This is cold comfort for the populists,
but the senator's idea Of the result is
pretty thoroughly sustained by Tues
days elections. The populist organiza-
ton has seen it's best days.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
SHOT A BARTENDER.
Sensational Killing of j. 1. Collins ut
East st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9-James I. Collins.
head bartender at the East st. Louis
jockey club track, was shot and killed
last night at the east approach to the
Eads bridge. The killing was done by
Charles McCafferty. a horse owner from
Chicago, who has a number of horses at
the East Side track. The killing was a
very sensational one. The general testi-
mony indicates that Collins was partially
intoxicated, and on the car from the
track used language that was not becom-
ing in the presence of several ladies who
were with McCafferty. The latter re-
monstrated and Collins attacked him
with a knife whereupon the shooting oc-
Cured. .....
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

Information from the counties Of
northern Indiana indicates that the
Farmers alliance is rapidly going to
pieces Many of the lodges have sur
rendered their charters, and it is said
that in some localities the organization.
which was formerly large and vigorous,
has now dwindled to that point where
single figures will denote the member
ship. The alliance. which was founded
on the idea that trusts and monopolies
We're becoming dangerous and should
be resisted. may now easily find well
come in the democratic party. It's mem
bers will never find a congenial home in
the republican party. which has Toasted
and fattened upon trusts. monopolies
and high protective tariff fruits for 10
these many years.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

The Russian imperial commissioner TO
the worlds fair. NJ. de Grinevsky, seems
TO think the Harrison assassination a
valuable object lesson to those Ameri-
cans who protest against Russian Sc
verify He says:
What Is the consequence Of humanely
treating criminals2 The assassination of
the mayor of Chicago Is a sad answer
10 such a question. In Europe idle men
and dangerous elements. socialists and
communists sley monarchs. Here they
raise their hands against the leaders
chosen by the people. Is not this n
shocking sign of the times that leaves
no room for sentimentality?
We do not see where the question Of
humane treatment of criminals comes In.
Prendergast was not a prisoner;
he had not been subjected to
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

The election OF democratic congress
man To the seat made vacant by the
death OF the late Judge Chapman Is sig
nifcant. II that district, of all the ter
ritory in which elections were held Tues
day. was there any chance Of influencing
congressional action on the tariff. In
that district the democratic majority
the tariff reform majority-was LOO.
The people Of the United States are still
for torif reform.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

The characterization school, which is
quite formidable in England and which
also has quite a following in this coun-
try, would not find much that
is encouraging in the results reached
during the recent Muncie small
pox epidemic Out of AT cases of the
foul disease eighty-seven of them were
never vaccinated and sixty-one Of the
severest cases were never vaccinated,
and OF ali the cases that were classified
as severe three were vaccinated. OF
twenty deaths seventeen of them were
not successfully vaccinated, and OF all
the deaths that occurred only one was
Of recent vaccination.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

According TO n published interview
Congressman Conn is inclined to
'-hedge" on the tariff question. Con-
gresham Conn and all other Indiana
congressman might as well understand
now as later that the democracy of In
diana viii not tolerate any hesitation in
this matter. \ revenue tariff. pure and
undehl5d, is the demand of the Indiana
democracy. and it will have no patience
with ANYTHING short If that
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

Now listen for a patriotic 90 outburst
of indignation from republican sources
anent Secretary Greshams report on
the Hawaiian matter They Will ignore
the fact that Minister Stevens was vio-
lating the laws of honesty. decency and
international comfy to aid a ring of
conspirators in an attempt to overthrow
a friendly power. Their whole insistence
will be that the rebels are again in
the saddle" There will be neither
rhyme nor reason in their remarks. but
that seldom makes any difference to
republican.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
WOMAN STEALS A TRUNK.
Arrest of a Handsome and StyIfshIy
Dressed Individual at Chicago.

CHICAGO. Nov. S.-A handsome and
stylishly dressed woman, giving the
name of Mrs. Allen II. Clark and claim
ing to be the wife of a Philadelphia
physician, has been arrested here
charged with stealing a trunk The
trunk belonged to Mrs. Henrietta ST.
dons, a wealthy Denver woman, and
was turned over to the Clark woman
at the depot upon her representation
that she had been robbed of her check.
The receptacle was recovered. but its
owner claims that a one-thOusand-dol-
lar insurance bond, a pension certificate
and deeds TO valuable property are
missing. Mrs. Clark is thought to have
a confederate, who has escaped with
the valuableS
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

II, as the republican press Is claim
ing. Mckinley is TO be the republican
candidate for president in 1896, demo-
Gratis may rest easy. Mckinley will
never be president of the United States.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
TWELVE PAGES.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER is, 1899.

There seems to be a general demand
that Mckinley shall be the Lobengula
to make th= last stand against the ad-
vance OF civilization in America He
quits US. Let him prepare bis impis.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

In his remarks at the recent banquet
at Liverpool Mr.. Bayard made plain to
his English hearers one point to
which they might have been misled by
republican buncombe. He said:
Permit me, as an American, to say
whatever legislation upon the tariff may
be projected at Washington, it will not
be projected in the interests of England,
or France, or Germany. or any other
nation. If the legislation incidentally
benefits other people Americans will be
perfectly contented. but our first senti-
ment in this matter is patriotism. ma
tional patriotism; yes, selfish patriotism,
if you please.
That is the democratic idea in a nut
she'll The tariff should be framed for
the benefit of the American people, the
whole people, not few beneficiaries.
The effect it may have on other coun-
tries is not material so long as we bene-
fit ourselves. 1t is the plan of robbing
the masses under the pretense of spiting
foreign nations that is Objectionable to
democrats, and it has got to go.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
WRECK ON THE ROCKING VALLEY.
Four OF n Train Crew KiIIed-Orders
DisObeyed.

TOLEDO. o.. Nov. 9.-South-bouna
passenger No. SO crashed into north
bound freight No. 81 on the Hooking
Valley railroad. one and one-half miles
north of Rising Sun al about Z o'clock
this evening. The collision was due to
the disobedience Of orders on the part OF
the engineer of the freight. A heavy fog
prevailed at the time and obscured the
vision Of the passenger engineer. Four
were killed outright:
L. II. JONES. engineer Of the passen-
ger.
JAMES E. KERLIN, engineer Of the
freight.
- JONES, fireman Of the passenger.
EXPRESS MESSENGER JAMES z.
BRISCH.
A wrecking train was dispatched from
this city Immediately upon receipt Of
the Information At headquarters. Ris-
ing Sun is a small station about twenty
eight miles south OF ToledSA
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

one unfortunate result Of the Ohio
election is that it puts an end to John
Sherman's presidential aspirations IL
would have been q great satisfaction TO
let the people have an opportunity to
express their opinion of John. Just
nnca
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

The report that the woman's suffrage
amendment has carried in Colorado Is
of special interest, rs this is the first
time that the reform has been adopted
BY vote Of the people. In the terri
tories of Washington and Wyoming it
was done by act of the legislature. The
advocates of the change in Colorado
made a still hunt" and probably sue
ceeded on that account The subject
was hardly mentioned in the Colorado
papers during the campaign.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
WEEKS GETS TEN YEARS.
Enters a Plea of Guilty md Is Sem
fenced to Sing Sing.

NEW YORK, Nov 8.-Francis II.
Weeks was today sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment in Sing Sing pris-
on. He pleaded guilty on arraignment,
and the entire proceeding did not oc-
cupy five minutes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

Our bribery law is still receiving com
pliments from all parts of the country.
The Springfield Republican thinks it is
."the most effective means of stamping
out the evil that has been devised.
The legislature of 1888 made great
deal Of reputation for Indiana.