The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-31
OUTSIDE OPINION

gldnd, not IN casual but IN an organized
and serious way. Our furniture has for
years been going to South America, Aus
tralia and Asia, where it had little diff
Guilty in competing with the productions
Of European shops. and it has not been
unknown in England and on the CONT
nent, but It's shipment TO Europe has
been a matter of individual enterprise
and has been in restricted quantity. Now
a syndicate Of Grand Rapids furniture
manufacturers has opened an agency and
warehouse in Manchester, and several
large contracts from English whole
sa.ers have been secured in spite of the
competition Of English manufacturers.
The pieces I'm which the Americans have
the greatest superiority are desks and
sidsbOards. The American makers have
great advantage IN the abundance Of the
materials and the development Of ma
chinery In wood working. and English
orders VIII keep a good many citizens of
Michigan at work.-JOurnal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin (Jrade)
The feature OF the real estate market
last week was the unusual activity in the
sac OF and suitable for Improvement. In
the business sections of the city numer-
Gus valuable parcels were purchased by
builders of means. who viii tear down the
present anuGuated structures now occu-
pying the ground, and erect in their stead
great business buildings of nreproOf con-
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prOvements. This building movement i'm
the commercial districts is due to the eN-
Jr1ordinarily large number Of applications
for offs in structures just competed or
upon which the finishing touches are now
being put. In that part Of the city lying
west Of Central park and north Of Fifty
nin,h-st. there We're also several large
sales " land. which is 10 be Immediately
improved. Fats, apartment houses and
dwellings are t. be crested on these plots.
The most significant Of these improve
ments ara the two fine mansions planned
to occupy big corner plots in Riverside
drive. II may BE- that this fine avenue
VIII Yet fulfil its cary promise OF be-
coming one Of tho most beautiful resi-
dence streets in New York.-N. Y. Herald
(dem).
The facts speak for themselves. They
have become part Of the history Of lii
nois. Correlated with them are a multi
tude Of other facts proving what the re-
publican party failed to do for labor in
twenty years Of uninterrupted control OF
the Illinois state government. and what
the democratic party forced into lesisla-
ton when IL secured control Of but one
house. The labor laws adopted by the
Thirty-seventh Illinois assembly w-re
urged by .ab1r leaders twenty years ago,
but the republicans, then in control of
both branches Of the legislative depart
ment OF the state, failed to adopt any of
lilElll NlAu lne tNtHDLlDu Oh the AIuch-
store law, and there is no doubt that this
WAS adopted with the understanding
among the leaders that it would be vetoed
by CuEOm. This conclusion is warranted
by the fact that when the democrats in
1891 proposed 10 re-enact the law they
were told that tbs supreme court would
declare iii uncOnst ituiiOnal. I'VE have our
responsibilities said Joe Gil. then a
member OF the house. and now lieutenant
governor Of the state, "and the judges
of the supreme courc have theirs. Let us
meet ours like men."-St. Louis Republic
(1eml.
As matter Of fact, the employer does
not divide with the emp.Oye unless he
must. He is an ardent free trader so far
as labor IS concerned. and he takes the
utmost advantage Of free trade in labor.
He knows how 10 eVade the contract
foreign labor law. and he does it. The
result Is that the employer is protected
while the man who works for him is
wholly unprotected. He gets higher
wages than men in other countries be-
cause he produces more. and for no other
reason. The republican assumption that
wages in genera are higher because OF the
tariff is utterly false, and the real bene-
ficiaries Of the tariff know II to be Ease
For years they have been working a gi-
ganuc confidence game on their working
men and the rest Of their victims. They
are stil trying TO work it. They are try
ing 20 work it through the republican
party, large part of which they are, and
OF which they ara the mainstay because
they supply the campaign fat" which
pays the giib-tongued fal<irs who spin
fine sOphismS and manufacture statistics
and reel off lies for them To order. The
question for w1rkingmen to answer two
weeks from now is whether the old game
has been successful again.-Chicago
Herald (dem0.
8 ~
ism was confined to a few Pennsylvan-
ians like the late Congressman Kelley.
The Chicago Tribune and the St Paul
PiOneer-Press, the leading republican or
gans of the northwest were vigorously
demanding tariff reform in the interest of
the agricultural section. All Minnesota
was for tariff reform. All Kansas. all
Nebraska and all Iowa were for tariff re-
form. There was not a voice to defend
the principle o. protection for the sake Of
protection. Il was assumed as an axiom
that the West suffered intolerable dis
elimination in the tariff taxation Of that
day; that consumers paid the tax and that
the beneficiaries were a minority and sell
fish class. When Knute Nelson OF Min
nesOta voted for the Mills bill he was
applauded by his constituents and his
argument in defense Of his position was
never attacked from a western stand
point. Western republican leaders Of this
and must write themselves rascals or
ignOramuses. They ignorantly or inten-
tionally betrayed the interests Of the
West between 1870 and 1880, or they do it
now. Which is it? Were they fools in the
'70s or are they fools now? Were they
traitOrous rascals at that time or are they
rascaliy traitors now?-St Louis Republic
(dem).
The principle Of inheritance taxes Is
gaining ground in this country. The de-
cision by the Massachusetts supreme couE4
asst week. already reported, sustains the
constituuonality Of a law passed by a re-
cent legislature which imposes a tax OF
per cent upon collateral legacies ard
SUGGESTIONS in al cases where the estate,
after the payment Of debts. reaches $10-
900. Two questions were raised in the
discussion--one. whether the privilege Of
transmitting and receiving property by
VIII ia a Commodity within the mean
Ing OF the state constitution, which au-
dhorizes the legislature TO levy an excise
in such cases, and the other. whether the
proposed tax is reasonable" AL seven
Of the justices sat upon the case, and six
OF them decided both points in the affirma-
tive holding emphatically that the tax
is within the power Of the legislature, that
it is not oppressive in amount. and that
the exemption OF estates below $40, 900 in
value is not unreasonable. New York,
Pennsylvania and several other states