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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
VICTORY FOR THE SUGAR rust
AND THE PRESIDENT.

1t is announced that the tariff conferees
agreement is a surrender to the Sugar
Trust as in the Senate schedules and a
partial surrender to the Presidents demand
for free coal AND free iron ore. The trust
has got all that it demanded, while the
President has got half that he has stood
out a month for. The American sugar con-
sumers are made the victims of the trust
and the American coal and iron miners,
coming In competition with Canada and
Spain, are the victims of the President and
his friends. Now it appears to all, as the
Journal has insisted for three weeks, that
the President has practically been in ac-
cord with the Senate in the sugar schedule,
and was making his fight for free coal and
free iron ore. In the compromise, therefore.
whatever igrominy attaches to any Sem
ators in connection with the surrender to
the demands of the Sugar Trust adheres to
Grover Cleveland. No Democrat can assail
the one without convicting the other. This
point is emphasized because Democratic
and mugTump cuckoos will at once set
themselves to clearing the President of all
participation in this conspiracy to rob the
whole American people in the interest of a
rich trust and monopoly and to bringing
certain Senators under deeper obloquy. 1t
will not do. Cleveland and Wilson are as
much in the conspiracy as are German and
Brice.
VIII the bill pass? The chances are that
it will. 1t will if the trust has the power
to hold forty-three Senators in it's grip and
if the President, Speaker Crisp and Chair
man Wilson can muster 175 of their Demo-
cratic follow ers in the House to vote for
the deal of the conferees. There may be
such a thing as defeat, but the chances are
that the corrupt and infamous deal to take
millions out of the pockets of all the peo-
pie and employment, except at lower
wages, from the Eastern coal and ore in
dustries, will be ratified by Senate and
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
THE CASE OF PINGREE.

The rise and fall of Mayor Pingree, of
Detroit. points a moral that is not particu-
larly new in politics, but is always worth
remembering. AS Mayor of Detroit he
made a fine reputation and won a great deal
of credit by his able and fearless admins
as long as he had no other ambition than
to do his duty as mayor, but in an unlucky
day he allowed the gubernatorial bee to en-
ter his bonnet, and from that hour dates his
decline. After that. instead of discharging
his duty simply as Mayor, he began to see
things as prospective Governor and to shape
his acts accordingly. But it was not writ
ten in the book of fate that Mayor Pingree
should become Governor Pingree, at least
not this year, and he was fairly and hand
somely beaten for the nomination. One de-
fatal to a mans political aspirations if he
knows how to take defeat, but when a man
becomes a victim of big head he does not
know how to take either defeat or victory.
III f1ngree ndu accepted MS deIedI ike a
man he would have stood a good chance for
the nomination two years hence. but in
stead Of that he bolted the nomination and
has declared his intention of running as az.
Independent candidate. In other words, he
has reached that point in his admiration of
Pingree where he thinks he is bigger than
his party, and he proposes to attempt the
oft tried and never successful feat Of but
ting the locomotive off the track. OF course.
he will fail, as other Pingrees have done
and will continue to do. His failure dates
from the time when he exchanged the am
bition to do his duty as Mayor of Detroit
for the ambition to be Governor of Michi-
gan. The lesson of his failure is that the
surest way to win political promotion is to
devote ones self strictly, conscientiously
and exclusively to the discharge of present
duties and let future consequences and pro-
motions take care of themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
MORE EVIDENCE OF SENATORIAL
JOBBERY.

Public attention for several weeks past
phases of the sugar scandal that other
features of senatorial jobbery nave been
measurably lost sight Of. 1t must not be
forgotten, however, that there is a Whisky
Trust as we'll as a Sugar Trust, and that
the former has had its representative and
attorney in the Senate as well as the lat
guard night and day over the interests of
sugar, Senator VOORHEES, has been doing
a like service for whisky. This was very
apparent during the formative stages of
the tariff bill. and recent events have
made it still more so. and have shown that
Senator Voorhees, relation to the Whisky
The House bill raised the whisky tax
from 80 cents, the present rate. to 81 per
gallon. The Senate, through the iniu-
ence of Senator Voorhees,. who was under
stood to be speaking for the Whisky
Trust. increased the tax TO $1.10 per gall
lon. TO be paid before the removal of
whisky from the distillery, or, in the case
of bonded whisky. within eight years.
Under this provision the trust will save
the difference between 80 cents and $1.1O.
or 90 cents a gallon. by paying the tax on
distiIlery whisky before the bill becomes
a law. and as the increased tax viii in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09

crease the price of whisky ii will be big
liquidated at the lower rate. There is no
doubt that members OF the trust have been
kept advised as to the prospects OF the
passage of the bill in order 10 avoid being
caught by the increased tax. A dispatch
from Chicago. Aug. 6. said arrangements.
had been made by the officers of the trust
there to pay the tax on the immense
stock of spirits it had on hand, and that
six gaugers had been sent to the trust
distillery at Pekin to assist in the work
of gauging out the whisky stored there. a
special from Terre Haute in the Journal
of yesterday said:
The Whisky Trust has just made appli-
cation to the collector of internal revenue
to release the spirits now az the distihery:
which means that about SW,OOO tax VIII
be paid at 80 cents a gallon. A few weeks
ago a local syndicate. headed by Craw-
ford Fairbanks. Senator Voorhees, init
mate friend, took from the trust about six
thousand barrels. paid the tax, a half mil
lion dollars, and stored the goods in the
new so-called antitrust distillery.
This shows that members of the Whisky
Trust were in close communication with
their representative in Washington and
had timely notice when to pay the lower
tax so as to escape the higher one.
Washington dispatches state that the
sugar Senators were so angry at Senator
Voorhees, for his latest flop that they
openly threatened to attack the whisky
schedule, thus showing that they knew
The reported agreement of the conference
committee may prevent matters from TAX
ing this turn, but the fact that it was
threatened as a means of furnishing Voor-
bees shows that other Senators knew
where to find him and how to hurt him.
They are a iOh LOT of iObberS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
THE FACT.

1t Is not that there is less money in the
country than two years ago that there are
silent factories and workshops and idle
and half employed men in every city.
There was never more money in the
banks, and. like the would-be wage-earn-
1t has Jared as badly as labor. because
hundreds of millions have not had a days
work since the country became aware
that Mr.. Cleveland's party was really in
tent on destroying the protective features
of the tariff, more than a year ag0. If
the money which the people of all kinds
have put into the banks could be taken
out and invested in material and wages
to set the factories and workshops at work,
there would be no complaint about the
scarcity of money by any except those who
demand that the government shall prac-
tically give them all the money they can
spend. But what prudent man would bor-
row money to set any of the larger
factories or shops in this and other cities
in Indiana at work? Factory owners with
idle plants are only too anxious to start
up, but after searching the country over
they can find no orders and no certainty
of orders. Even if any man Of the party
in power, and which is responsible for
this distressing situation, should have so
much faith in the future wisdom Of his
party as to start up a large industry and
take the risks of selling the product, it is
banker who would discount his notes Of
fered to raise the money which is always
necessary to make goods for the market,
unless he should put up gilt-edge collat-
erals. Democrats as we'll as Republicans,
alleged free-traders as well as protection
lists dare not start the industries which
give employment and put money into cir
culation to pay wages. Half the people
have no money with which to buy, and
they can have none until the varied in
dustries of the country give employment.
When employment shall be full, the great
volume of all wage money will be in cir
culation. If wages are good, the cnanneIS
of trade will be filled with the purchases
of such wages. If wages are so low as to
compete with European competitors on
what Senator Mills has called the same
plane,'' the channels of trade will run
low in the banks because the aggregate
wage is not enough to fill them. Now the
stream of traffic is smitten with the fierce
August drought of the Democratic Con-
gress.
There is nothing new in these observa-
tons. On the contrary, they are old
economic and practical axioms. Still. they
may be forgotten by some who listen to
the chatter of demagogues and cranks to
the effect that Congress can create pros
perity by printing millions or pieces of
paper stamped with dollar marks and fig
ures. They cannot. Miracles are not per-
fo-,oa5 Il, tba realm of values
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
The Democratic Candidate.

(His position as defined by himself.)
/ do believe free trade is right;
A tax on sugar 1 demand;
The Wilson bill contents me quite;
The Senate bill is better planned.
That is, l rather think that way;
But should some not agree with that.
Don't press the point, but simply say,
You know l am a Democrat.
I do believe protection wrong;
l would tax iron, coal and rice;
/ favor income taxes strong;
/ quite agree with Hill and Brice.
That is, i rather think / do,
But when folks ask you where I'm at,
Just kind O. split the thing in two,
And tell them I'm a Democrat.
1 do believe that trusts are bad;
/ hate the horrid whisky rings;
And l would crush them if 1 had
But half a chance-the naughty things.
That is, l sort o. think l would,
But when you pass around the hat,
Say nothing either bad or good;
Just hint that I'm a Democrat.
1 do believe with all my soul
That full free coinage should be had;
/ am convinced, upon the whole,
That too much silver would be bad.
That is. | partly think as much;
But should the voters frown thereat,
Why, just to keep us all in touch,
Declare that I'm a Democrat.
1 do believe we all agree
That wrong is often in the wrong:
That right is right quite frequently,
And lengthy things are rather long.
That is, L think I think them so;
1t may be this or may be that; ,
Rut there's one thing l know I know,
And that is, I'm a Democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
MATRIMONY AND POLITICS..

While Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Diggs and
a few of their kind are going about max
ing noisy political speeches which accom-
plish nothing save TO draw out the COM
ment that women are unfit for politics,
other women here and there are, as Mr..
Sim Coy would remark, going into 'this
politics business in a way to excite awe
North Dakota. for instance. has de-
veloped a talent for making political deals
which entities her to be called a shrewd
politician if not an incipient stateswoman.
Miss Bates was recently nominated by
the Republican convention of North Da-
kota to the office of State Superintendent
Of Schools. Previous to the meeting of
the convention, and after she had made up
her mind that she wanted the office, she
found two formidable opposing candidates.
both men. One Of these she was able TO
side-track by ingratiating herself with
the Young Mems Republican League,
whose support he had expected, but the
other opponent, Mr.. Devine, refused the
ulcOnulIlOnal surrender Wnlcn she per-
emptorily demanded. Then she tried mild
err tactics. and in these negotiations De-
vine took a prominent part. He agreed to
retire from the field on condition that If
elected to the superintendency she would
make him her deputy and marry him into
the bargain. After reflection she con-
sented to do this. providing further that
he would stump the State for her. To
local repute, agreed, and the canvass is
now going merrily on with no reasonable
doubt that Miss Bates VIII be elected. 1T
is assuming too much to suppose that the
J young woman has yet acquired the de-
fective memory and uncertain conscience
which will permit her, when elected,
to ignore all campaign pledges after
the manner of more hardened poll
ticians. but she may surprise the confid-
ing Devine by just this sort of behavior,
and if so. what can he do about it? No
male officeholder was ever yet held amen
able to law for forgetting or ignoring
a political promise. and it is not probable
that Western Justice will be more rigid
with a woman. If she fulfills her promise
it may be held by some that in entering
into the married state so early in her
career Miss Bates has played her best
card and is handicapped for future polit-
ical advancement, but such persons reckon
without the Dakota idea before their
eyes. 1t is as easy in Dakota to unmarry
as to marry. and if the future Mrs. De-
vine discovers matrimony to be an i'm
pediment in her political career she can
/, easily shake off its shackles and leave
the superfluous Devine to go about his
business. 1t isn't every woman who is
enterprising and Advanced enough to
barter her hand and heart for a political
office. but where one such is found it is
as we'll to keep an eye on her, for she
will be heard from again. Mrs. Bates-De-
vine may yet be heard of marrying her
way into the United States Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09

The great hall of the University of Notre
Dame, near South Bend, has just been the
scene of an important, and in some re-
spects, historical event in the ecclesiastical
history of the Roman Catholic Church in
this country, namely, the first convention
in the United States Of the members Of the
Priests Eucharistic League. This organ
ization was formed in France about ff-
teen years ago. Its membership is confined
to prelates of the Catholic Church, and in
cludes cardinals, archbishops, bishops and
priests. Its object is to promote the in
terests of the church through unity of &C
ton among its prelates and also to estab-
lish mutual benefit features among the
clergy themselves. The eighth congress Of
the society was held in the city of Jerusa-
lem in May, 1893, and the meeting of the
American members just held at Notre
Dame was under a special permit from the
Pope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

An autograph letter of General Washing
ton to Colonel Hamilton brought s42 re-
Gently at a sale in London.
Miss Ida Plat is the first colored woman
to be admitted to the bar in Illinois, or,
indeed. any other State. She is a gradu-
ate OF the Chicago Law School.
An English curio hunter who was anx-
ious to secure the carriage in which Carnot
was riding when Cesario stabbed him
offered the Town Council of Lyons 10000
for il, but the offer was refused.
Nine. Carnot has relatives innumerable
throughout France. Her great grand
father went TO Paris a poor young man
and acquired, in addition to a handsome
fortune, a family Of twenty-five children.
Richard B. Reed has been a letter-carrier
in Salem. Mass, for nearly forty years,
having been appointed in 1855. AT the time
Of entering the Salem office he covered a
distance in which seventeen men are row
employed.
Thomas Neville Ward, whose (confea-
erate) brigade had a great reputation dur
ing the war for hard fighting, is now the
in every branch of his specialties in law.
He is eighty-one years old.
DR.. Kuno Fischer, the famous professor
of philosophy at the University of Heidel-
berg. celebrated the SEVENTEEN anniversary
of his birth the other day. The freedom
OF the city was conferred upon MN, ana
the Grand Duke OF Baden gave him the
golden chain with the Grand Cross OF the
order of the Zahringer Lion.
An amusing scene occurred in Stuttgart
the other day. The Kings daughter
Pauline always goes about in very pain
attire. On this occasion she passed a
sentinel who did not recognize her and
neglected TO perform the proper saluta-
tions. \ sergeant across the street made
violent gestures to make him grasp the
situation. whereupon the guard said TO
the princess: say. miss. the sergeant
over there wants 10 see YOU"
That of the sea otter is of all furs the
most valuable. as high as s1.lM having
been paid for a single skin. At the latest
London fur sale $1,000 was paid, the lower
price being due TO a poorer quality. as
the average advance in price this year has
been about 10 per cent. This seems an
extremely large sum TO pay for a skin not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
H QUEBEC RIOTS.
Details of the Wrecking of Protestant
Mission Houses by French Canadians.

NEW YORK. Aug. ga letter from Que
bee gives particulars OF a series OF riots
there Sunday night. 1t says: The city is
in the hands of a mob. Protestant mission
houses have been wrecked in different parts
of the city by a bowling mob OF rioters
variously estimated at from 1900 TO 5000,
and the police here could not. or would not.
make a single arrest. The mob was alto
gether French-Canadian The Irish Catho-
lies held aloof. 1t was a cowardly mob.
1t did rot start out to fight fighting men.
but to attack women and missionarie..
The rioters all belonged TO 81. Roches ana
St. Sauverr. They were doubtless inhamed
by utterances OF a French newspaper here,
which. last night. described a Baptist mis-
sion house in the French-canadian suburbs
OF ST. Rcches as a Salvation Army bar
racks, and. In reference to murderous az
saul-s committed in Qutoec streets some
years ago upon members OF the army, said:
The Salvation Army girls have short mem
cries They viii remain quiet IL they know
what is good for them and not attempt the
conquest of the population OF 81. ROc1es:
the Baptists only opened their mission
house on Sunday. Its services are all IN
French. and its object was believed TO be
the attempted conversion OF French Catho-
lies. in whose stronghold 1t was situat d.
As the main body OF police which had been
signaled for came up the mob moved away.
ascending the hill 10 81 JOINS suDuras.
Tney sacked the Smdit FRENCH miS-loh
house or the Anglican Church. IN George
street. though no service was being held
there a the time. They inisAed their wosk
here and reached the Salva ton Army har-
racks before the police. So many stones
were hurled at the building that the pave
ment ia front OF IL was completely blocked
with them. on the arrival OF the police
here they started back to the scene OF their
first exploits in -. Rocnes TO nash the
work cen menced there. BY this time the
police headed them off. and when they
found that they would have 10 combat the
officers CT the law or dssist they skunk
away.
'"rne damage 10 property IL heavy. and
the terror.Zed citizens know not what 10
do. The i~nadequacy OF tn police force. or
its unwillingness 10 act, creates general I'M
easiness. Not a single person has been
lice force is kept, under arms, and the
leading neutrality-suspicious. papers demand
that military be called out II the pOiics 90
no better"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09

Defiance was to commemorate the estab-
m of Fort Defiance. Aug. s. 1874. by
Gen. Anthony Wayne during his successful
campaign against the Indians that year.
Shortly after the establishment Of this
fort. and after having defeated the Indians
in battle and laid waste their lands, Gen.
Wayne moved up to the junction OF st.
Mary's and st. Jossph's rivers, within the
present limits Of Indiana, and established
Fort Wayne. The people of that city will
therefore soon be entitled to celebrate a
centennial, and they ought not to omit the
opportunity. 1t will be more than a quar-
ter of a century before this city can do so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09

That was a neat tran which Bynum set
for Chairman Wilson when he said he
would withdraw his resolution if Mr.. Will
son would rise and say that an agreement
was in sight. The latter could hardly have
self, which was just what Bynum wanted
him TO do. so with wonderful tact and self
control he sat perfectly still and declined
fective than anything he could have said.
and contributed materially to Bynum's de-
feat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
come a L

Quite a commotion is being caused in
Ohio by the efforts of the State Game
Warden TO enforce an old law making 1T
a penal offense to capture. sell or hold in
captivity any Of some thirty varieties of
birds, among which are red birds. This
bird Cardinals V;rginianus) is found in
all the central Western States. They arc
rather domestic in their habits, and, If
permitted, will nest in the country or
chards and door-yards. They are a stylish
bird, with a snrill whistle. but not fine
singers. Many of them are held as pets.
and their owners protest against the move
ment for their liberation on the ground
that they cannot take care of themselves
and will perish if set free. They need not
have any fear on that score. The red bird
is enterprising, hardy and daring. He
knows how TO make his living, and all he
asks is to be let alone. The Ohio law has
been sustained by the Supreme Court, and
the State Game Warden announces his in
tention of enforcing it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-09
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Tn tariff guessing-match at Washington
Is still on.-New York Mail and Express.
The Democrats have compromised them
selves, anyhow.-Philadelphia North Amer
lean.
A man may now be as good as wheat and
yet fall a few points short OF being as good
as corn.-Chicago Tribune.
A wise man knows the value of silence
when a child cross-examlnes him before his
friendS.-Adam Freeman.
About the only thing left for Queen LII
is to pose as the plaintiff in a breach OF
promise suit--Washington Post.
If some of the Senators would just blow
out the gas and go 10 bed the country
would breathe sier.-Atla Constitution.
The inference, OF course, is that Ii Hung
Chang is now attending to business in his
shirt Observation-Disclosures Democrat and
Chronicle.
Whatever may be said TO her. China will
be careful not to get of the earth now that
Japan's naval superiority is apparent-De-
troit Tribune.
Yes" said the counterfeiter, refectively.
Il cannot but admit that l am in favor OF
free coinage and protection TO home indus
tries. Truth.
There goes one of the greatest writer's
of fiction that We have in this country"
who is -he?" ''The weather clerk."1Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
1t is hoped that the Western politician
esses will hereafter refrain from anything
that could be construed as ungentlemanly.
Washington Star.
1t is boasted that Cleveland has lots of
courage So has Boss Slugger Corbett.
What Cleveland hasn't got is gumptlon.
philadelphia Press.
1t is hard to believe the current report
that Mr.. Cleveland called Mr.. Villas an ass.
Mr. Cleveland often thinks things that he
never says.-New York Tribune.
Perhaps II is not necessarily an indication
of approaching better times. but the mints
are making more money than they we're
egraph-