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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-24
PERSONALS.

The empress OF Germany rises at and
makes her husbands coffee with her own
hands.
President Perier's late tour of France was
made in a carriage so high that no hand
could reach him with dagger thrust.
The youngest son of President Garfield
who was graduated from Williams college
in 1898, is now coaching the foot ball team
Of that college.
Mrs. Wayne MacVeagh, wife of the Ital-
ian minister, it is reported in Washington,
is in such delicate health that her condi-
ton is causing serious alarm.
The Rev. DR.. George Dana Boardman of
Philadelphia is an indefatigab.e worker
He often spends the entire day in his study
paying little attention to meals.
Ambassador Bayard, recalling the fact
that the English have placed the busts Of
Lowell and LOngfellow in Westminster alb
hey, is quite they will place that of
Holmes there also.
a descendant of the famous Hans Hol-
bein, the painter, was sent to the poor
house in Ausslg, Austria, a few days ago
a vagrant. He is a member of the no.
bility and learned photography as a liveli-
hood.
Emperor Williams new opera-on a Ger
man SUBJECTS to be given its first pro-
uutlAOl next nlOnJn btIoFe n select court
circle II IL is then adjudged a success it
Will be tried on his other German sub
jects.
Senator Mcpherson, there is reason to
believe. did not really mean his letter of
withdrawal, but his cook found it his
desk and mailed it in the same way that
she sent his sugar kilograms, while he
slumbered-
John Jacob Astor recently purchased two
pieces of property adjoining his home in
New York for $4,000 The houses on
them, said to be very handsome brown
stone ones, are to be torn down to make a
tennis court.
The latest pretender to the throne" of
France is Northumberland Bourbon. He
claims descent from one of the Bourbon
princes. who went to Algiers at the time
of Louis XIV. He is a cattle dealer at
Bougie, in Algeria.
The late Warden Durston OF Sing Sing
prison began public life in 1876 as warden
of the prison at Auburn, N. Y, and during
his career acquired a high reputation for
establishing profitable industries in the
state penitentiaries.
Miss Helen Could does not go in for
many society fads but when her brother
George bought a fine billiard table Miss
Gould employed teacher and it Is re-
corded of her that she has made as high
as three points all in one run.
NJ. Dupuy. as minister of the interior.
has just forbidden bull fights in France at
which either bulls or horses may be killed.
At Mines, where preparations had been
made for a series of fights on a large scale,
the prohibition caused great excitement.
Crowds paraded the streets demanding the
fights. and a public meeting was called to
protest. The court of cessation will be
called upon to decide on the validity of
the prohibition.
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Mr., HARRISON, PLEASE EXPLAIN.
Your own Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Speaks.


Mr.. Harrison. the ex-president of the
United States. on his tour to TT.
Wayne will advocate the election of W.
D. Owen to the high and responsible posi-
ton Of secretary of state of Indiana.
How can he reconcile it to his own con-
science to make such an appeal to his fell
low-republican when Mr.. A B. Nettle-
ton, his own appointment to the assistant
secretaryship of the treasury, had this to
say of Mr.. Owen:
81. Mr.. w. D. Owen, superintendent of
immigration. is unfit and incompetent to
perform the duties of the office which he
holds
''2. He is thoroughly untrustworthy in
the performance of his official duties.
'S. He has been guilty of circulating
malicious ISLANDERS against his superior
officer in the department.
~. His ideas of official regularity and
integrity are slipshod, reckless and a
source of serious risks to the public funds
partially within his CONTROL
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OWEN AND woRKINGMEN.

The Sentinel this morning gives its
readers an opportunity to see what kind
of man is the Rev. William ID. owen
who leads the republican state ticket.
both in the way of general capability and
morality, and in relation to the labor in
terests Of the country. 1t Is well known
to every one that Immediately after the
passage of the Mckinley law the tin-plate
schemers who secured the adoption of the
tin schedules began importing contract
labor from abroad outstanding the
provisions Of the law, and when protests
were made against it they applied TO
Owen to help them out. There can al
ways be some excuse made for importing
contract labor. Levi Morton says he inn
ported his coachman as a domestic
servant. and the tin-plate men said that
their import was for a new industry. Mr..
Owen assumed that this was true with
out even the formallty of an examination.
AS matter of fact there was no reason
to say that there were no men III the
country who could make tin plate, for
tin plate had been made in the country
since 1878, at least. The works at Wells
vile, o.. were started in that year. The
Rogers & Burchfeld works at Leechburg.
Pa. were opened soon after. The United
States tin plate company built it's works
at Demmler, Pa, in 1873. In his testi-
mony before the Mckinley committee in
1890, Mr.. Cronemeyer stated that this plant
run till 1876. when the company went into
the sheet-irOn business, but in 1879, when
tin plate went up in England, they "im-
mediately started again" How could this
have been done If there were not skilled
men In this country to do It? And
further in response TO a question from
Mr.. Burrows, Mr.. Cronemeyer stated that
his company had since been manufactur-
ing the article Gin a small way" From
1876 to 1891 the duty on tin plate was $1.1O
per cwt., and it was proven before this
Cronemeyer had issued a circular stating
that tin plate could be made at a profit
"at the present selling prices" The prices
were lower then than they had been in
seven of the past eleven years. and only
% cents per cwt. higher than they had
been at the lowest point in those eieven
years. There was therefore no reason
why his company should not have been
making them all the time.
But Mr.. Owen cared nothing for facts
so long as he could accommodate his tn
plate and silk-velvet friends in violating
the purpose of the labor law. Al the
same time he was pursuing a course in his
official duties which showed that he had
little regard for law of any kind. f we
may believe the statements of his SUI
perior officers. The statement of Assist
ant Secretary Nettleton presents picture
Of Mr.. owens official life which shows
that he is unfit to hold any official posi-
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+. RAILROAD PRESIDENTS VIEW.

No interview on the recent panic has
attracted mora attention in the East than
one recently held with George b. Roberts,
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
system. 1t IS conceded in financial and
business circles that Mr.. Roberts is one
of the most conservative and safest of
men. and this. coupled with the fact that
the vast railroad system over which he
prssides has attained extraordinary
strength and prosperity, has caused his
statements to be received with special
consid Grafton. And they deserve some
consideration, for they are a singular
mixture of truth and absurdlty that may
easily lead to error. Mr.. Roberts says:
The recent panic, which began in 1898.
and the natural result an industrial de-
preston, which still continues, was large
~ the natural outgrOwth of speculation
in all kinds of securities representing no
real value A large mass of railroad Sc
curiies and Of 'industrials" equally
worthless, had been put upon the market.
and the financial panic was the legitimate
result Of the discovery of their worthless
ness; it was at first a bankers panic.
rather than a commercial or industrial
one.
Unquestionably it was bankers panic,
and not commercial or industrial one,
for the simple reason that it appeared in
the banks and continued there for some
days before trade began to be affected.
But on the same evidence it was not due
to any discovery Of the worthlessness of
stocks. because the fall in stocks followed
the panic in the banks. There is no rea-
son why Mr.. Roberts should assign a
collapse of stocks as the cause except
has a horror for watered stocks and 90
gus values 1t runs on his mind and he
naturally blames everything to it. But
he seems to forget that the financial strin-
gency Of 1893 was not spent on inflated
stocks. The very best of securities were
taken off their footing and United States
bonds themselves were sold at a serious
reduction.
No one need seek for any explanation
of the panic of 1898. Its cause stands out
plainly before every one. 1t had been pre-
dicted and anticipated in financial quar-
ters. One bank in this city had accumu-
lated a store of nearly a million dollars
of gold in anticipation that the govern
ment would be compelled to suspend spe-
Gle payments and gold would go to a
premium. Another had issued and used
for months, notes payable in gold coin.
expressive of it's opinion that the Sher-
man purchase law was certain to drive
from a gold basis. Henry Clews and
other New York bankers insisted that the
government must sell bonds and replen-
ish its gold or suspend. 1t was conceded
on all hands in financial circles, until the
Sherman law was repealed, that the Sher-
man law was the cause of the panic and
that it's repeal was essential to the ending
Of the panic. Unquestlonably the panic
was bank panic, and unquestionably it
was occasioned by a real or professed
fear that the government would be forced
to suspend specie payments.
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An Indication of Prosperity.

The extent to which money finds use in
legitimate business operations is the one
sure measure Of prosperous industry.
This is shown, in the only trustworthy
way, in the reports which the national
banks make of their condition at the call
of the comptroller of the currency. A
comparison of the reports under the
last call with those made in July shows a
great and gratifying increase in the COM
mercial employment Of money. In Boston
the increase in loans and discounts is
seen to be more than $4,000, 900. In New
York the increase is nearly 10000 O0O
Philadelphia shows a gain equal to that
of Boston There is an increase also in
Chicago, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and in
fact, in all the large cities, with the ex-
ception of Brooklyn. These facts show
that business is moving, that money is
finding its proper use in trade, that COM
merce and industry are reviving. The
barometer of trade is rising. Clear wealth
er and bright skies are NATURALIZATION
Post (dem.).
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PAYMENTS OF STATE DEBT.

1t is surprising that the Journal persists
in misrepresenting the facts as to the pay
ment of the state debt under the new tax
law, after the truth has been specially
called to its attention. Commenting edi-
torially in it's local columns on the state
ment of State Auditor Henderson. which
was published in The Sentinel yesterday,
it says:
The above is so worded and contains so
much vain glory that il is almost cruel to
recall that w to the present promised pay
ment, there mad been no progress In stop
ping tha borrowing to pay interest until
the Fifty-hrst congress refunded over
$725.O00 of direct tax to the state. Then
S710. 900 of the debt was paid and the demo-
cratic spsliblnders, from Governor Mat
thews down, have been doing a vast deal
Of Growing about the success Of the pres
emit state administration in reducing debts
and taxes. The 100000 TO be paid Nov.
l. il Mr. Henderson keeps his word is the
first payment that the administration has
made from the taxes collected from the
people. As the state expenditures have not
been reduced in any measure it is plain
the only way the money was secured to
pay the debt was by raising the tax rate
and the valuations Of property. Ii Is ap-
parent that. Notwithstanding the increase
OF revenues from increased taxation, the
administration has not, on its own state
ment. paid a dollar Of the debt with money
collected in this way, and will not until
Nov /.
These statements are wholly inexcusable,
because their falsity is shown by the Of
fetal records of the state and any one can
easily ascertain the facts. The refunding
of the direct tax by the national govern
ment occurred before any taxes were paid
under the new law, and it was not used
in the payment Of state debt.
The receipt Of the direct tax refund will
be found entered in the report of the audi
tor for the fiscal year ending Get. 81.
1891. at page &c. By the same
report the state debt Is shown to be 49,
$50, 145.13 The new tax law was approved
March 6, 1891. and took effect at once, but
Of necessity no taxes could be paid or
were paid under it until 1892. No reduc-
ton OF the state debt appears until the
report for the year ending Oct. 81, 1898,
when the total debt is shown to be S.
400, 61512-or in other words $34O.OOO had
been PAID. 1nlS WIS the nfSI payment
made on the state debt. and it was made
out of the moneys collected under the new
tax law.
1t is known to all intelligent people in
the state that under the old republican tax
law the state was running behind every
year, and that 1t was necessary to borrow
every years 500 900 to pay the interest on
the bonded debt The direct tax refund.
received In 1891. sufIiced to prevent Dor
rowing for one years payments of interest,
and thereby bridged over the time from
the passage Of the Jaw until the taxes un-
der it began to be paid into the treasury.
But for 1t the state debt would have had
to be increased 100000 before the new
law brought In the necessary revenue. The
new law brought, and is now bringing in.
sufficient revenue not only to meet these
annual interest payments. but also TO re-
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mand of the department Of the Missouri,
with headquarters In Chicago He is now
located at San Francisco in charge of the
California division. Gen. Kruger is about
fifty-eight years of age and IS a very
genial and accomplished man. He entered
upon his cadetship at West Point, July l,
1850, and graduated in 1854. taking rank
as lieutenant. Till 1855 he served as as
sistant in charge of constructing the de-
lenses on the approaches to New Or
leans. He then resigned and began prac-
icing law, but at the outbreak of the
war promptly enlisted and did excellent
service for the union throughout the war.
He was brevetted brigadier- general for
gallant services. Since the war he has
been in almost constant service.
The democratic nominee for governor
of Tennessee is Peter Turney, the pres
ent incumbent. He was born in Jasper,
Marion county, Tennessee. When
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duce the debt. The debt has been reduced
100000 and the two payments announced
by Mr.. Henderson VIII make the total re-
duction to Jan. 1. 1895, s1.2lO.OOO.
But the great benefit OF the new tax
.aw is that this additional tax is paid by
the corporations. which had been escaping
their just snare OF taxation formerly. and
not by the peop.e. The total increase of
state taxes in the first year under the new
Jaw was $1,000 772.2S. The increase of rail-
road taxes in the same year was $685., 2Oa-2S.,
In addition to this there were large in
creases in the taxes OF telegraph. telephone
and other companies and on banks. which
would bring the aggregate increase of cor
poration taxes above the total increase Of
state taxes. -
If any individual in the state is paying
more than his inst share Of taxas It is due
entirely TO his local tax officials. AS The
Sentinel demonstrated in 1892, the republic
an local tax officials increased local taxes
$1,62S,O1S5O for the purpose of bringing
odium on the new tax law. They were
fully exposed. and the people administered
a well deserved rebuke to them at the
polls. But the evils of unnecessary local
taxation have not been stopped. They
are very apparent in this county. The In
dianapohs school board increased taxes
S145.OOO in 1891. and 1t is still collecting
about that amount moro than is necessary.
The present city government has this year
adopted appropriations which will call for
levy Of 60 cents, and viii raise over
$4,000 more than was used by the Sui
Ivan administration. Such things as these
are what make taxes high. With decent
management in local affairs the tax levy
in Indianapolis could be reduced between
80 and 40 cents. But it will not be done
until the people learn to pay more atten-
ton to local affairs than they have been
doing
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ticket is a direct attack on David B. FILL.
Everett p. Wheeler is a prominent law
yer of New York. He has seldom worked
in harmony with the regular democ-
racy of the state, and has always been
an active opponent Of Senator Hill. Mr..
Wheeler is fifty-four years of age. He
received his education in New York,
studied law at the Harvard law school
from 1857 to 80, and was admitted to the
bar in 1861, and has practiced law in New
York City ever since. He was one of the
founders of the Bar association of New
York; a member of the board of educa-
ton from 1877 to 1882. and for five years
president of the New York free trade
club.
No parsonage has been more to the
front since the attempt of the French
to establish a protectorate over Madagas-
car than NJ. lie Myre de Vilers, French
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-24
BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL co.
TERMS PER YEAR.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1894.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

Judge of Supreme Court, First Dis
trict-GeOr=e L. Reinhard.
Judge of Supreme Court, Fourth
DIstrIct-Joseph 8. DALEY.
Secretary of State - William X.
Myers.
Auditor of state-JOscph t. Fam
ming.
Treasurer of state-Morgan Chand-
Ter.
Attoraey-General-F NJ. Crit
nth.
Clerk of the Supreme Court-CharIes
w. weIman.
superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion-ChnrIcs w. Thomas.
State Statistician-AIix Fulton.
Sfnte GeoIogist-EH II. j. Jordan.
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envoy to the island. He has demanded
that the entire northeast coast. including
the best harbor, be ceded to France; that
she control all the northern peninsula,
and that concessions of any kind be in
valid unless approved by her. In short.
France is TO dominate 10 the island. The
strained relations existing between
France and England were caused by this
action of the French. NJ lie Myre de
vilers is at present the bearer of an III
timatum to Madagascar.
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Few workingmen will have difficulty in
making up their minds on Mr. Henry's
labor record. The first men whom he dis
charged swear that they were discharged
because they were about to form union.
Henry denies this. but says they were
discharged because he did not want
them" They were discharged. That is
now conceded by every one. though Hen
rvs superintendent, Cox, first denied it
under OATH They were discharged i'm
mediately after issuing a call for a meet
ing to form union. That is not dis
puted. They were subsequently given
certificates Of RECOMMENDATION TO other
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1t appears that the lynching Of "promI-
nent citizen Morton in Kentucky was
the most orderly one that has occurred
for some time. Before the citizens sub
sided into order Col. John Drummond
mounted a barrel and said that 'the muir
derer must be hanged. but that the work
must be done quietly and with perfect
order" That this Injunction was obeyed
appears settled by the testimony of the
sheriff Of Wolfe county. who happened to
see the affair. He says: II have wit
messed a good many lynchings. but this
one was the most orderly and business
like Of any I ever saw. Every man was
duly sober. and not an oath or loud word
Eas spoken" It would have been awful
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young man he selected the
study of law as profess
sion and was educated to that end. When
the war broke out he was one Of the first
in the field as colonel of the First Ten
nessee volunteers. At the battle Of Fred
ericksburg he was severely wounded,
ball passing under the left side of his
nose, and as the doctors refused TO remove
the ball, thinking he would not survive
the operation, his noble and courageous
wife did SO herself with small penknife
and pair of tweezers, and he recovered
in a few months. After the war Mr.
Turney was elected judge OF the supreme
court in Tennessee, and held the office for
over twenty-five years. He became gov
ernor in 1892.
AS the democratic candidate for gov
ernor of California, James II. Budd is
much talked of person. Mr.. Budd was
born in Wisconsin in 1851, but for thirty
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-24

Mr.. W. ID. owen, superintendent of
Immigration, Is unfit and incOmpe-
tent to perform the duties of the Of
fee which he holds. He is thorough
ly Internationally i'm the performance
of his official duties.-A. ID. NettIeton,
assistant secretary of the treasury
under Harrison.
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"They used to call prize fighters by
such names as tn, Bantam and The
Chicken in bygone days. Do they have
any such names now?"
mot of that kind. But they still have
distinguishing titles, such as The Cy-
clone The Tornado" etc.
''Why such names as these?''
"They signify wind power you know"
N y. Press
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The death OF James Anthony Froude re-
moves another OF the worlds great literary
character. Aggressive and original he
drew a large amount Of hostile criticism.
and especially so in his publications con-
corning Carlyle. His replies were quite as
vigorous as the criticisms. Whether his
work will live Is doubtful. but it viii GER
tainly be popular for some years.
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employers. That Is conceded. These cir
clmstances alone. aside from the great
weight of direct evidence as to the state
ments of Henry and his employees, dem
onstrate that the men were discharged
for attempting to form a union.
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the serenity of the occasion by an oath
or loud word. He would have shown
himself wholly wanting in the sense of
propriety. The place to learn order and
etiquette in Kentucky is at Iynching
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Mr.. W. ID. owen, superintendent of
Immigration, il unfit and incompe-
tent to perform the duties of the Of
fee which he holds. He is thorough
~ untrustworthy In the performance
of his official duties.-A. ID. NettIetOn.
assistant secretary of the treasury
under Harrison.
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MIR. w. ID. owen, superintendent of
immigration, is unfit and incOnpe-
tent to perform the duties of the Of
fee which he holds. He is thorough
ly ENTHUSIASTICALLY I'm the performance
of his Official dnties.-A. ID. NettIetOn,
assistant secretary of the treasury
under Harrison.
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Mr.. Harrison must have known that no
country could avoid a panic that had
over 5000. 900 900 of paper money in circu-
iation. with nothing but a gold reserve
of 800 O00 900 and a few trust funds in
the treasury. especially when it was
forced to buy 100000 ounces of silver
every year. Why did he empty the treas
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Mr.. w. ID. owen, superintendent of
Immigration, is unfit and incompe-
tent to perform the duties of the Of
fee which he holds. He is thorough
Iy untrusfworth I'm the performance
of his official duties.-A. ID. NettIeton,
assistant secretary of the treasury
under Harrison.