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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
THE WOOL GATHERERs.

The alleged Indiana wool-growers hive
had their usual session and the wild and
woolly Mount has made his customary
howl about the ruin of the farmer BY
free wool. 1t is the same old thing
that has been repeated from year to
year for the last decade and although
these people have seen the continuous
failure of their policy they still hang to
it for political purposes. Mr.. Mounts
speech was tissue Of misrepresent-
alton and evasion. He says that Mr..
Cleveland admitted in his message of
1887 that a removal of the duty on wool
would reduce it's price. He did nothing
Of the kind. He said that a removal OF
the duty could not possibly reduce the
price more than the amount of the duty,
and that if it did that 1t would amount
to nothing to the ordinary sheep-owner,
who does not raise sheep for wool. He
represents that Australia has developed
a wonderfully prosperous sheep industry
by protective and paternal methods,
whereas. In fact, the sheep industry in
Australia is absolutely PROSTATE today,
and the values of all the investments
have fallen of one-half
In regard to the effects of the tariff
he evades the price of wool entirely,
and he evades entirely the question of
location of docks in this country. He
talks about an increase Of sheep in the
United States. but carefully abstains
from considering the increase of sheep
in Indiana. He talks about sheep-grow-
ing receiving "a new impetus" under
the Mckinley bill, and according to his
own figures the number of sheep was
increasing AZ per cent. annually before
it passed and has been only 215 per cent.
since AS to price we commend to Mr..
Mount and his colleagues the following
proposition of a correspondent Of the
New York Weekly Witness:
An examination of the prices Of wool
at Boston, the controlling market Of the
United States, will show that the best
average prices We're obtained when wool
was practically free of duty. Previous
to 1857 there was a tariff of 80 per cent,
but the tariff act of that year admitted
the fine woods of South America, Aus
tralia and the Cape of Good Hope free.
Virtually the act Of 1857 put wool on the
free list, and il there remained until
after the war. In 1856 wool brought 60
cents a pound in the Boston market, and
after duties were removed the price
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
THE nREss REFORM COSTUME.

At a meeting Of the local council of
women the other day the same old ques-
ton was preached that of suggesting
costume for business women. For
tunately the adoption Of the resolution
was nipped in the bud by the women of
stronger sense in the council. For four
years now prominent women. would-be
leaders Of womens affairs, have been
agitating a costume for business women
upon the plea that the latter disregard
the laws of health and common sense.
Upon rainy days they claim the business
woman gets her skirts drabbled and
catches cold, etc. The very fact that
these women are devoting SO much time
to this subject proves that they have
not an intimate acquaintance with bust
ness women. for the latter, as well as
most other women of today. are dressing
in the most sensible manner possible.
Look at the woman whose business car
ries her out of doors on rainy day and
1t will be found that she wears her
skirts pinned up under her macintosh,
high rubbers and overgaiters If she
goes TO and from work on a rainy day
she takes the car or dresses in such
manner as to protect her from the
weather. The girl capable of supporting
herself and one or two other persons be-
sides does not need 70 have any woman's
club plan a costume for her The bust
ness woman has too much sense to make
the guy of herself that few of her
more fortunate sisters would have her.
When she spplies to any council, local
or national. TO devise a costume for her
then will it be time for the members
to make proper arrangements for dress
ing their unfortunate sisters. Just at
present the poor working girl about
whose head there is such a halo Of SEN
timent does not appear to be seeking
the help of her brainy g? sisters.
If, however. the worthy members OF
the councils OF women are earnest in
their scheme OF dress reform we wish
to make a few suggestions. Why not
reform the dress of the society girl II
some ones dress must be reformed +?
Does not the latter outrage more laws
OF health and sometimes decsncy than
the working girl ever does? Does the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
Coal Gas and the Vanishing Forests

The scientists are devoting much at
tention to the widespread theory that
the earth's atmosphere is becoming seri-
Ouly affected by the enormous quantity
Of coal that is converted into carbOnic
acid gas-the natural enemy Of human
beings.
Along with this poison gas which il
being generated in a thousand smoky
cities and through all sources all over
the world, comes the steady cutting
down of forests, the leaves OF which are
the natural absorbents Of the poisonous
gas.
Gen. Wistar, who is said to be the
highest authority in the matter, is so
deeply interested in the subject that he
is making great efforts TO call the at
tentiOn of the scientific world 10 IL, and
he believes that the growing bronchial
troubles and epidemics like the grip all
over the world have an ultimate connec-
ton with it,
How much the present enormous gen
the whole body of the atmosphere
applies itself to the problem in earnest.
At all events the great efforts now be
ing made TO preserve the forests are
worthy Of every encouragement The
planting )f trees in cities, the develop
ment of extensive and well-woOded park
systems. the planting of large groves OF
timber in the vicinity Of towns and
cities, are all calculated to assist in The
absorption Of the superabundance OF
carbonic acid gas with which. according
to the scientists. our atmosphere is be-
coming dangerously oVercharged.-Aiin
neapOlis Times.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

fact which ought to be before the tri-
bunal which decides the case 1t is a
fact which may be material not only
in convicting the guilty but also pro-
tecting some innocent person who might
be accused of the crime. 1t is a fact
which any sane man would act upon
1t is a fact which would weigh heavily
with any intelligent man in making his
opinion Of the case. and it ought to
weigh heavily. If this is the law in In
diana the legislature should enact that
the narratives of an assassinated man
related prior to his losing consciousness
should go to the jury, with privilege
to the accused to show motive or op-
portunity for Misrepresentation.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
bIufng

The esteemed Journal declares that
Free trade papers are keeping mighty
quiet these times. The thunder all
around the sky seems to have scared
them" Well! If any free trades paper
is maintaining half as much silence as
the Journal is showing on the subject
of export prices of agricultural nipple
ments we would like to know its name.
What in thunder has scared the Jour
nal? Why has it dropped the agricul-
tural implement question so suddenly q?
Why does it not answer our simple and
easy question? All we want to know is,
if. as the Journal claims, manufacture
ers that have to be protected in this
country against foreign competition, sell
their goods in foreign markets at the
same prices they sell them at here. how
do they manage to do it? II the Jour
nal cannot answer this question it ought
to say so. and give its republican con-
temporaries a chance. We cannot wait
on it much longer.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

for it in a dozen political compaigns?
If democracy means anything at this
time it means tariff reform, and it means
tariff reform speedily. There is nothing
hasty in the step. The question has been
thoroughly discussed for ten years, in
every phase that it can present 1t is
more thoroughly understood than any
question that has been acted upon by
congress in that period. To call the
Wilson bill radical is downright false
hood. 1t is a thoroughly conservative
measure. Its fault, if any, is that it Is
too conservative. 1t is needed now TO
stop the business depression produced
by republican legislation. 1t is import
ant beyond all things that the tariff
question be settled and the business Of
the country be given the impetus Of re-
duced burdens. There is an abundance
of money in the country. 1t is a drug
on the market. Business awaits only
the stimulus of reduced taxes TO resume
its former activity.
only an act Of political cowardice, from
which the democratic party could never
recover. but it would be the most seri-
Gus injury that could be inflicted on
the country. The country wants tariff
reform. and the people know 1t. Who
defends the existing system? The re-
publican party alone dares to champion
it. Not only the democratic party, but
also the prohibitionist and peoples
parties have condemned it in the most
unsparing terms, and have demanded
immediate and radical reform. Not only
this, but it is a we'll known fact that
thousands who are held under the re-
publican banner by other considerations
are thoroughly disguised with the tariff
policy Of that party. 1t is notorious
that the great gains Of the democratic
party in recent years have been due to
its advocacy Of tariff reform. 1t is
notorious that the tremendous losses of
the republicans in the West were due TO
the Mckinley outrage. 1t is folly, stu
pidity and treason for paper that calls
itself democratic to oppose tariff reform
when the goal is within reach. and demo-
Gratis who believe in democracy ought to
make that fact understood.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

Mr.. A. II. SaXton, a hardware man,
does not think that industry will be in
jured by the Wilson bill, and challenges
anyone to point out an article that will
be injuriously affected by the provisions
Of the bill. In an article in Hardware,
the trade journal, he says that under
the old tariff law, before the Mckinley
law was passed. 95l2 per cent. Of all
the hardware used in the country was
Of domestic make. He further says: 81
have carefully gone over the hardware
items affected by the Wilson bill, and,
outside of affecting combinations and
trusts to some extent, by which enor-
nous profits are made, challenge any
one to make any satisfactory exhibit
of any class of goods now made in this
country and sold by hardware mer-
chants, the manufacture of which can
not be prosecuted with a fair, legitimate
profit" We trust that some protection
list hardware man will undertake to an
swer the challenge. Facts talk The
American people are tired of protection
bIuffing
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

Our esteemed religious contemporary,
the Rams Horn. INDUCES in a rather
fierce attack upon the charity ball as an
institution. This is a mistake. We will
concede that the charity ball doesn't do
much good; that the money spent in cos
TUNES and music and flowers might bet
ter be devoted to charity than to be thus
frivolously spent and the net proceeds
which are all too often nothing at all
be applied to the relief of distress. But
the esteemed Horn should remember
that if it wasn't for these balls none Of
the money would be given to charity,
for the people who give in this way
would, as a rule, give in no other Then
the money spent on accessories is put
in circulation and much of it gets into
hands which are needy. or will put it
into those which are. So after all, the
charity ball may not be wholly con-
demned. it may not be the most useful
thing in the world, but it does some
good
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10


In 1888. when wool, after fifteen years
of high protection, had reached the low
est price in forty years, congress, at that
time republican in both branches, and
with a republican president, determined
to try a different policy, and reduced
the tariff from l to 2 cents per pound,
according TO fleece. What was the re-
suit? The Boston market showed the
following changes:
1SS3.....25 rents. 1886. cents.
1884. cents. 1SS7...32 cents.
18S5......27 cents.
Under our high Mckinley tariff today,
wool is Is cents per pound.
For twenty years farmers have been
raising sheep to supply the butchers.
Why will the sheep-raiser kick on free
wool? Please explain.
We assure these parties that the re-
suits shown in this article actually oc-
CURED, and that they have always &C
Cured in this country under similar cir
cumstances. Whenever the wool tariff
has been reduced the price OF American
wool has advanced. Whenever the wool
tariff has been advanced the price Of
American wool has been reduced Why
do not some Of these sheep protectors ex-
plain TO the country the advantage of
their system in the price of wool?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
A Liberal Donation.

Sunday School Teacher-"The super
intendent said he wanted all the chill
dren to earn the money they brought
this Sunday. Did you earn all this?"
Boy Is m"
'Au by YOURSELF"
"Yes'm."
That's lovely. How did you do tips
II went around to all the neighbOrs
and told them / wouldn't play any
tricks on 'em next Halloweve if they'd
give me some money for the poor chill
dren. Street < Smiths Good News.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

This is a serious matter, and il must
be correct, because it is calculated to
one-fourth of cent per cloak. Why
should Mr.. Heidelberg and his friends,
who have been selling cloal1s Of imported
English cloth for SO each, or thereabouts,
be subjected to this ruinous competition?
They need not be- Let them call forth
their patriotism and quit making cloaks
of imported cloth. Let them use Ameri-
can cloth. It is degrading to our people to
wear these imported s2.2OA cloaks,
and 1t is equally degrading TO wear three
dollar cIoaks of imported cloth. Let
US be Americans.
We might question the difference in
wages mentioned, but it will be uneces-
sary if the patriotic remedy suggested
is adopted. Certainly American wages
in ready-made clothing cannot be re-
duced below the present sweating-house
level, unless, indeed, the sewing women
should pay for their privilege of making
them. We cut them out by machinery
and make them by machinery very large
ly. And, by the way, it may be men,
toned in this connection, that about the
only manufacture of wool we export is
ready-made clothing. Our exports of
this in 1892 were three times as great as
the exports of carpets. fannels, blankets
and all other wooden manufactures com
bined, and amounted to more than a
quarter of a million of dollars. How did
these victims of high-priced American
labor manage to compete with foreigners
abroad without any protection at all?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
A RUINED INDUSTRY.

We had anticipated that numerous in
dustries would expect to be ruined by
the Wilson bill, but not that the ready
made clothing industry was one Of them.
For years America has led the world in
"hand-me-downs," and the tariff never
seemed to make particle of difference
in our supremacy. In fact the manu-
facturers never appeared before tariff
committee to ask for any protection. un-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

til the Mckinley committee invited the
country to appear and be protected, and
then Mr.. Isaac n. Heidelberg appeared.
at page 2s1. and told the statesmen that
ready-made clothing was suffering. and
the generous committee gave him an ad-
vance, ranging from to 10 cents per
pound and 10 per cent. ad valorem over
the wooden cloth rates. The cruel Will
son bill reduces this advance to a beg
carly 5 per cent. ad valorem Now there
is howl, and the evil effects to the
American workingrnan are thus set
forth:
Take the material for an ordinary
cheap cloak, containing say, just for
example, a dollars worth of foreign
goods at their European price, bring it
here, pay 40 per cent duty and 10 cents
cost of packing, freight custom house
charges, ETC., thus making $3.50 Then
add the cost of doing business of the
New York distributor and his profit,
which together I will estimate at about
10 per cent. on the $3.50, and the dollars
worth Of material will cost the American
manufacturer S165. The cloak itself
will cost the American cloak manufact-
urer S1.65 plus his cost Of cutting and
making up, taking it for granted that
this dollars worth of material covered
all of the cost Of the material used in
the garment.
Now the European manufacturer Of
cloaks or clothing, who comes in contact
with the manufacturer of his material
.direct will pay 81 for his material and
10 per cent. duty and the 10 cents ex-
penses for packing, freight and custom
house charges, and he can bring in the
ready-made garment here for S1.55, plus
the cost of cutting and making up and
As per cent. duty on his cost of making
up and cutting the garment.
You will, therefore, see that the Ameri-
can manufacturer is 10 cents poorer off
per garment, such as described, before
he begins TO cut and make the same,
than his European competitor.
He has then a prOtectiy. duty of 40
per cent. on the cost of cutting and max
ing UP the garment.
The cost of making, after this 10 per
cent. is lost, is figured out as follows if
nnada in the Tinted States
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

Governor Lewelling declares that no
armistic has been arranged between him
and Mrs. Lease. Governor Lewelling is
fast acquiring an enviable reputation
for bravery.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
EroIntion of Foot-nan

Little Dot-"Mamma. US girls is get
tin up a football team"
Mamma-"Horrorsr'
Little DOt-"Oh. we won't play II hike
the boys do. a-tumblin' around like pup
pies in a bOx-no, indeed. Yves only
goin' to kick the BAN. I guess our side
will win, cause most Of US knows the
skirt dance. Street & Smiths Good
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

These were The best years ever known
in the United States, and wool was then
virtually on the free list. In 1867, when
wool commanded 81 cents a pound, con-
gress determined TO protect" the wool
growers, and imposed a duty ranging on
different grades of fleece from so to go
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

Already business is reviving. There is
every reason to believe that 1894 will be
a most prosperous year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

working girl wear the thin-soled shoes
and low corsage that gives many socie-
t. girl pneumonia? Are the sAnitariums
filled with business women or with
women of the social world whose shat
tered nerves are the result Of high hv-
ing, rounds of receptions and injudicious
dressing Let the council women turn
their attention to the dress Of the So
ciety woman. get her to refrain from
the use of cosmetics and opiates, to pro-
tect her chest, shoulders and arms from
atmospheric changes. to eat less sweet
meats and unhealthy food and allow
herself plenty OF breathing space. The
health Of the society woman must be of
as much Importance as that of the OBJ
soure working girl. and it would be a
glorious work to give the nation strong.
healthy, cultured women who can con-
verse on other subjects than their per-
sonal ailments.
Or. if the dress of the society woman
does not commend itself to the council
let it take up the matter which every
mother must have close at heart, the
cigarette habit, which is killing off
scores of boys and is now becoming far
too prevalent among girls. In fact there
are many things which are more worthy
of reform than the costume of the bust
terested in her health to dress sensibly.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-06
Has No Power in the Premises.
FROM LARRY CAN'T.
He Says He Has Not Been Expelled
from the Alliance.

Spareanburc. ;. C., ulE 27.--Editor Con-
stituuon, l see in your paper of today the
information that the state alliance has ex-
pellel Larry Can't. 7 here is not one word
of truth III this. for til. state alliance has
no jun sdiction Whatever over my mem
iershlp. | am 4 memD." Of the Spartan
burg alliance, aId they Will have a nice
time .scttirs ne cut, the farmers of this
cOunty arc at IGy bach to ii man. AS to my
charges against FAIty L Duncan, bust
ness malaga. Of the state exchange, | am
ready to establish eveYt one of them. That
Duncan report was vhitewashing affair,
for | was not even Sill moned to attend,
and my Witnesses We're rot given a chance
to testify.
Mr.. Editor. there is Il crowd of sore-head
politicians il, his state who wanted to call
Il snap March cc'VenuO1 and put a slated
ticket on the people. / frustrated their lit
tie game, and they are angered with me.
They are also against Tiiiman. John Gary
Evans and Sta1yarne Wilson. This crowd
got possession Ci tine state alliance and
urOceede1 &c knife every man whom they
could not control. NCitheI does Governor
Tilman nor myself care the snap of the fin
gar fpr item We have that crowd beat,
apa they know il. 100. just watch the re-
turns FROM ctr reform primaries to be held
on the llth nf august, and you will see
where ! am at. Just rest easy and watch
events Respet fully, L. l.. CAN'T.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-06

had not killed the president in Lyons ne
would have tried TO do so elsewhere-ih
Paris, for instance.
The prisoner answered that IL he had rot
succeeded he should have tried to find work
The iudge-Should you have followed ana
sought to kill him elsewhere.
Caserio-Perhapsi so IL an opportunity
occurred.
A number of witnesses testified to the
details of the crime and the identification OF
thu prisoner Among them Bootmaker 10
mergue. who caught Caserio as ne was
fleeing. after striking the fatal blow. VINO re-
lated the circumstances.
Caserio contradicted Demergue, saying
"You are not the flrst man who seized me-
II was somebody else. You are claiming
glory that you did not earn"
incidentally Caserlo expressed regr-t
that he had thrown his dagger away, as,
had he retained ii, he would have stabbed
Domergue or any one else who att ,mpted
to stop him. At this Domergue, whose face
had been almost crimson, turned white.
During a short recess of the court. De-
breuil, the prisoners counsel expressed as
constituent at his clients GOODNESS and as
serted his intention to set up plea of in
sanity, basing il upon the prisoners ac-
tions and upon hereditary epileptic tenden-
cies.
DIR. Poncet. the physical who attended
Garnet after he was wounded, gave long
ard detailed description of Carnot's inju-
ries While he was doing this. the prisoner
sat with an expression of mute elation,
drinking every word with the avidity of a
student thirsting for known dye.
The trial viii be continued tomorrow.