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imsmmimmmm* •: «• :<j 'sriwo. V- *' ' .sf""^ *, i t THECAMPAIGN IN IOWA. ;,J|be Tariff, Prohibition, Kail way, ud Oilier Questions Ably Discussed--Dem­ ocratic Sympathy fi»n the Soldier Held *'3?p *or ^blieTtewud Exserstiim--The ^orplua and How It* Accumulation Kay ; ; " lb® Avoided. Hon. $. G. Hutchison, Bepublican enhdidate for Governor of Iowa, opened fl&e campaign in a very able speech at Viliisca, on the 30th of September. Fol­ lowing are the main portions of the ad­ dress: "We find the Etat? of Iowa well to the front In the galaxy of sister States an the United States; and, I may justly Bay, far in advance of many of thfgn In some of her institutions. We have grown from a State of 50,ui)0 inhabitants, when admitted into the Union Dec. 28,1846, forty-three years ago, until we are now a State of 2,000,000 Inhabitants. We have a fine territory, three hundred miles •a*t and west, and two hundred and eight miles fiorth and south, situated advantageously for climate benefits, •with the seasons well propor­ tioned, and BO favorably situated commercially, as compared with the great .American Union, that pur position is one than trill for future gen­ erations secure a population and wealth far be­ yond the most sanguine expectation** of those 4ow living. These things are all promoted by the fact that there is leBS poor soil in Iowa than in any State in the Union, compared with its area. We find, too, a healthy growth in agri- - cultural, horticultural, manufacturing, commer­ cial, mining, anu railway wealth and prosperi­ ty, until we have an assessed wealth oi five hundred millions of dollars--wbicb means by the ratio of assessments an actual wealth of otae billion livo hundred million dollars. With all this prosperity iu our State, we have not forgotten those necessary foundations to build up u great civilization. The Republican party's authority goo6 with the history of our State for thirty years, uninterrupted, down to the present time, and, with remarkably few ex- • captions, there .is no scandal connected with the management of the finances and affairs of our State, in which have been involved millions of dollars. There has, too, been demanded iu all this true manhood tow ai d the governmental du­ ties pertaining to our State. The history of our State during all this period is one most credita­ ble to tho true dignity of mankind--the history •f a State loyal to tbe civilizing genius of our government, and exhibiting the highest loyalty and patriotism. Go over the entire list of States in the United States,and you will find three Stat98,Wisconsin, Illinois, and Colorado without any debt, and in West Virginia it is prohibited. You find the debt of all the Southern States running from two millions to twtnty-flve millions respective- • IT, with a levy ranging from four to six mills. All the Northern States to which I have not ajUuded, we find have a Slate indebtednes re­ spectively of from one million to five millions, except five Northern States, which have less than a million dollars of indebtedness ; and all of them have a State levy of from two and one- half to five mills. Few of the in, if you will ex­ amine the statistics, can show the expenditure tor, or have the substantial institutions as a re­ sult, which we have in Iowa. PROHIBITION, On this great question there Is no longer an ••periment in Io«a. It is well known to all of OOr intelligent people ho w prohibition tooK its place among the fixed institutions of our" pro­ gressive State. It camo from the voluntary ex­ pression of the people of the State. Through Uiisnon-par:isau movement, largely encouraged by good men and women from one end of the State to the other for more than a year before the convening of the eighteenth General As­ sembly, the agitation was kept up. The curse and demoralizing effect upon society of the -Saloon had then demonstrated itself. When that General Assembly convened peti­ tions from every town, city, hamlet and the thickly settled portion of the country came forth asking that the so-called constitutional amendment be recommended providing for the prohibition of the manufacture and sala of in­ toxicating liquors, including wine and beer, and that the Legislature heeded those non-partisan petitions. The Nineteenth General Assembly also heeded them, and the so-called proposed Constitutional amendment was submitted to the people of our State at a non-partisan elec­ tion. That amendment carried by a majority Of 30,000 at a non-partisan election. 3Tou know it v. as set aside by the Supreme Court on what seemed to them sufficient •Pounds, on tho position asserted that it bad been irregularly adopted. Notwithstanding this, the people of low a were 60 determined to Sustain the principle of prohibition that they elected the Twentieth General Assembly on the theory that it would pass a prohibitory statute. They again succeeded at the polls, and, in obe­ dience to this popular demand, we have our prohibitory laws. I remember an agitation to defeat this meas­ ure was again brought up in the general elec­ tion of 1885. The Republican platform then aapdidly said to tho people of Iowa that prohi­ bition had been secured through this popular demand, and now the Republican party insisted npefti the law having a fair trial, when, if it didn't prove to be the proper measure, that it would after that trial be proper to consider Some other measure. Very many good and sincere men. who are anxious to see i.rohibition succeed, were never­ theless in close districts timid and in doubt. Again the princix>le was triumphant at the polls, and the Twenty-first General Assembly amended the law in such a way that has proved satisfac­ tory to the great majority of the people of Iowa. We might say that every Legislature which has been elected since, and including the elec­ tion of 1889, has been a test of the popular will of the people of Iowa on this question. What­ ever doubt.men may have had a few years ago about the success of prohibition in Iowa, there can be and should be no doubt now, for I be­ lieve the mass of the people of Iowa, were they voting on that question alone to-day, would give the cause such an overwhelming majority as would cause art opposition hereafter to pale Into insignificance. The people of Iowa have Sustain. .i the yrowih of the cause of prohibition most admirably. I'uhlic opinion has grown up to favor the law by virtue of tho proof of the moral and Chris­ tian as well as the material advantage prohibi­ tion is to our State. Men go beyond the borders of Iowa to-day, and come back proud of our State, proud of our laws, and the high and hon­ orable position we hold among our sister States. It stands largely upon the ground that it has made a struggle for morality, for the reduction Of corruption, debauchery, and crime, for the true elevation of the human race, for self- respect, for decency, for manhood, for the wife and family, for the sacred virtue and honor of the home; a stand which has triumphed against the saloon and its thousand attendant evils. And to-day, by tho goodness of God and the continued virtue of our people, we proclaim to the civilized world that we shall maintain the Stand we havo taken. Prohibition is not a fail­ ure. The whole influence and moral sentiments of the great State of Iowa are behind this ques­ tion, and its universal respect will continue to press forward until it will be recognized and Cherished in every quarter of our State. The prohibitory law needs no amendment. Independent statutes, however, will be made, which will command respect for the law and secure its enforcement in every locality of our State. When a whole people with a wise forethought determine in the right, enter upon their work, they come out triumphant iu the end. National legislation will, ere long, secure laws Which will respect and encourage the laws of the Several States which have adopted prohibition. This has already been urged u;>on Congress, and when Congress shall prop.-rly recognize the request, as it will, much will be gained toward deluding the clandestine salo of intoxicants. And now we are confronted agaiu in Iowa by the same old Bourbon principles of the Dem­ ocratic party on a platform whose cry is for li­ cense in every township in the State. Think of It, citizens of Iowa! Yonder, a few days ago, In the now prosperous municipality of Sioux City, where the saloon at one time battled against the laws of our State and against virtue, manhood and decency until it perpetrated the most villainous outrage that was ever calcu­ lated to call forth the wrath of the moral peo­ ple ; there where the brave soul of Itev. George Haddock went out to the God who gave it, under tne command of the sal.ion assassin, the Demo­ cratic party, nevertheless, met in convention and resolved in favor of this cursed barnacle which modern civilization, as constituted in Iowa, is determined to destroy. Why, it seems to me that this act would rise up before the people of Iowa with such an overwhelming in. flnence that they would at once exclaim: We, the people of Iowa, who stamped the saloon a -- ' e, th fiS we v you i Hftdd - - - city where George idock was murdered by a saloonkeeper, that we will so thoroughly demonstrate to you that will never forget it that the murder of Geo. idock is sacred to us, that we look upon his blood as the seal which pledged us to the ever­ lasting destruction and condemnation of the saloon in Iowa. The Democratic Convention assembled in the interests of the saloon. Oh ! Give us back the saloon 1 We must have whisky, or we perish, xou people of Iowa are bigots, uarro"w-mitided, enemies of your State. You permit sheriffs constables, and police officers to enforce the law. You have taken from the people then- rights. Of this you are accused, Bay the De­ mocracy of Sioux City, upon the ground that you have driven the saloon out of the State. O, ye Democracy! Your platform is the same one upon which you have gone to the peoule of our State in 1882, 83, '84 '85, '86, "87, and 88. Pick it up and read it in all these years, and you will find it simply pleads, give back the saloon. O ye narrow-minded people of Iowa, give us o' give us the saloon. ' ' But let us analyze the Democrats platform briefly. What right bars any set of men to meet in convention and offer to give the people of Iowa a saloon in every township, town and city in Iowa? What ignorance and stupidity; didn't they know that 90 per cent, of the townships and towns in Iowa don't want the saloon? They have abhorred and denounced it; they have spurned and despised it. Thev know very well that such a position is ridiculous in Iowa. Bach a law would simply offer a premium for corrupting tho people. It would result in the progressive increase of crime, cost, litigation, and taxation upon the people. The city shall have the saloon, and the industrious people of the rural districts, shall help to pay the taxes and oovts made by this unneoessa y increase of crime, if tbey -will aooept the bribes offered by the Democratic oommittee. Again. If yon have fifteen, twenty, or forty saloons in a place, according to its size, and each is paying A.3XX1 license, you have legalized, that saloon. It is the place for the wholesale liquor dealer and big brevier to sell his goods from Kentucky, St. Louis, and Chicago. These places are encouraged by them. This wholesale man and big brewer will go far enough to set the saloonkeeper up in business and furnish the collateral on which ho can procure his bonds. h°L9 come to this condition now in Iowa that the saloonkeepers have largely left our State; that is, those of them who could not give t np their unfortunate business, while those who could follow an honest avocation are now do­ ing so. To-day people are seeking Iowa. Pros­ perity is within our borders. New inhabitants are coming to Iowa because of our schools and colleges, our churches, and good laws, our noble people and fine soil, our great opportunities and great advantages. Do you, citizens of Iowa, want to change this slat ' of affairs so as to turn this tide of immigration away from our borders and bring in their Btead the saloon pop­ ulation, with all the attendants which that im­ plies? Do you want to do this to gratify the blatant demagogue, who can cry nothng in the State of Iowa but "O, gi\;e me back the saloon!" No, you will not do it. You will stand by the party which has respected tbe non-partisan movement of the people of Iowa in favor of pro­ hibition. I say that crime is on the decrease in Iowa greater than any State where the saloon is lo­ cated. Litigation, taxes and costs made by crime are decreasing from year to year an amazing extent, and if anyone will compare ilio penileu tiary population of Iowa wnh that oi btatos where saloons are recognized, during the past eight years, he will bo astonished at our advan­ tage iu this respect. To regulate railway companies Is all right, and to provide just revenue law a and election laws is all right, but what are all these things worth to Iowa, compared with the law which makes us famous aa a people for integrity, not corruption; for intelligence, not ignoiance; for virtue, not vice; for morality, not df baucherv. Go where you will to-day, and in many of <ur sister Stales, you can see the blighting curse of the BO.I0011, and sinSll the perfumery of whisky on the breath of the aduU travelers, but you can rarely find this dta'0 of affairs in Iowa. We are proud 0/ Iowa, progressive Iowa. We would not give up one of her grand institutions for the salcou. Prohibition is u.n lo.'.ainsiitution, and I submit to the people of Iowa wheiht-r thev want to substitute the saloon institution of Chicago for the prohibition institution of Iowa. I say that the saloon is essentially corrupt; that it coirupts everything with which it deals. That it becomes the boss aud the leading power in polilics in which it thrives. 1 sav that in any community where the saloon prospers it controls politics ; it controls the School Board ; it controls the City Council; it controls the police force ; it damns and dibgracr s that com­ munity: it overwhelms the city with debt; it breaks down the holv Sabl ach day and drives out tho influence of tfie church and the Chris­ tian religion. 1 appeal to Democrats who believe that pro­ hibition is a success in Iowa and that it is doing good in our State, and who know that the saloon is a curse, to vote for the ticket which w ill stand by our established institutions. 1 appeal to Democrats w ho know by their intelligence that the saloon and liquor traffic is the cause of ninety per cent, of the crime committed, to vote with us. I will ask these same Democrats if they desire to vote for a man for GOVernnor (and bay it frith respect), now 02 years old, who has been a Re­ publican all his life, and who now comes out on the Democratic ticket because he caiinot in­ dorse prohibition. I say to temperance Demo­ crats, will jou vote for one who has always been a Kepublican, and is now, and is in favor of keeping the salorn out of our State; or will you vote for one who is a Democrat this summer to bring the saloon back to Iowa? We trust that Republicans of Iowa will not be deceived by a sensation which the opposite party tries to stir up because prohibition has not yet been established in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. The whisky and beer trad'.' has become, so rock rooted there in past years, and the obstructions to the ballot are so complete, that it is a hundredfold more difficult to subdue this power in those old States than it was in Iowa or Kansas. When vou con­ sider that there is invested in breweries, dis­ tilleries, gilded saloons, and great wholesale houses, outside of Iowa, Kausaa, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, in the United Stales over nine hundred millions of dollars, and that the income therefrom affords a profit twenty- fold greater than any other bu sines 3 in the world, it is then we have some faint idea of the •monster to bo overcome in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. "What could we have done in Iowa had the state of affairs which existed in 1870 gone on in­ creasing in this State fifteen years longer? Where we had one brewery and saloon or dis­ tillery or a w holesale liquor house, at the end of fifteen years from that time we would have had two or three. Where we had one dollar in­ vested then in the nefarious traffic, at the end of fifteen years from that time we would have had three. It is doubtful if we could have so successfully met the monster evil. But we took it in hand not a day too soon, and now Pwould ask the good people of Iowa, where is the whisky capital ill Iowa to-day? There is none worth naming. Let us keep matters in this shape. The same comparison applies to Kansas. I know a city of Iowa where two largo brew­ eries flourished until they v. ere stopped by in­ junctions. To-dav 0110 is running as a canning factory aud the other as an oatmeal mill. The produce of the country is sold to these men, and the price for this produce has gone up to the benefit of the farmer, and what is better still, the luon who were the owners of those breweries are now the owners and proprietors of the oat­ meal mill and the canning factory, and long may they live and prosper is tne wish of every good citizen of Iowa. The evil of high license may be shown by this quotation. The Omaha liee, a paper that is bit­ terly opposed to prohibition, has this to say of high license in the city that is so often held up to Iowa people as *a model for them to imitate: "We do not think high license is a success in Omaha. The whole system of li­ cense has corrupted our police force and lower courts until It is a mockery to call them courts --they are a den of thieves." The Sioux City Journal of August 22 says that in Woodbury County, wherein is situated the great city of Sioux City, there are found only four pensons charged with indictable of­ fenses, one charged with assault,another embez­ zlement, aud two boys likely to be sent to the reform school. Their court is likely to have nothing to do in the way of criminal business ; and this is tho story from almost every other county in tho State where prohibition is en­ forced--consequently keeping down those crimes arising from the drink habit. In Pennsylvania, where they aro crying high license, the recent Democratic convention in session there passed a resolution denouncing it, stating that it was impracticable, unjust, and should be repealed. Vou need not tako my word for it. Get that platform of that party in Pennsylvania and read it. Take up the pub­ lic print from Pittsburgh any day and you will find low doggeries and saloons springing up, and constant complaint is made that even those who had their high license are violating the law un­ der which they hold those licenses. Prohibition is to-day, at a wonderful rate, re­ ducing crime and taxation iu Kansas. Senator John J. Ingalls, in a recent article, USQS this language : "One of the most significant, and ex­ traordinary results is the diminution of crime in this State. At the January term of the dis­ trict court of tba county in which Topeka, the capital, is situated, tfiere was not a single criminal case on the docket. Many State and county prisons are without a tenant. The number and percentage of the convicts in the State Penitentiary have been remarkably dimin­ ished." Good for Kansas 1 This State and the State of Iowa to-day are making more rapid strides in prosperity thanauy t-v/o Stat*s in the Union; the credit of the two States stands high. They are dra ving to-day within their borders the best class of people from many quarters of the Union. Comment is unnecessary to show why this is their present condition. Young men of Iowa, don't permit yourselves to be deceived. This age is wide awake. Sober men will be the coming men to control the des­ tinies of this State and Nation. All the avoca­ tions of this life will be filled by these "men. This is what prohibition Iowa will have. The saloon is your enemy. Be true to your State, to her advancement, and thus you will lio true to yourselves. Let us be united as citizens of Iowa without regard to party on this question, and "with malice towards none and with charity for all go forward to preserve the work we have begun." THE TRANSPOBTATION QUESTION. In looking over tho broad fields of legislation of the Twenty-second General Assembly, with very many measures proposed, out of all the great list of plans to provide for railway con­ trol, the present law was adopted, and I believe wisely adopted. Its features in some respects I know" are claimed by railway officials to be too unyielding, too arbitrary, biit I think it may safely be said it contains" no principle not here­ tofore embodied in previous legislation, or that ^cannot b« found in the laws of surrounding States. I think, too. that some of those laws will prove the fact that ours is less severe than theirs. This is especially true of the laws of Illinois, of many, or some of the Eastern States, aud of the English railway and navigation act, which is to England what our interstate com­ merce law is to us. And even the interstate commerce law is quite as rigid in many of its requirements. This statement I believe railway officials will admit, when they onoe realize that the people of Iowa have every desire to legislate in a spirit of justice. We find in this railway age, to which I have referred before, that the people have found it necessary that these laws should be enacted, that they have come «> stay, that they will stay, and that we believe fair-minded railway mana­ gers, who are willing to credit the intelligent public for honesty and fair dealing recognize It. ThiB matter, too, of obtaining railway statis­ tics must be well done, even if required by law, by all the State railway commissions. It will become the custom throughout the whole nation. It must be expected that the age has come, in the progress of our nation, when the matter of railway knowledge will develop and grow until it shall become a thoroughly developed science, known and understood in the rights and inter­ est of the rail v. ay companies on the one side by its officers and managers, and known and un­ derstood on the other side by the national rail­ way and State commissions, in the right and interests of the public. Wo trust and believe that the greatest part of the friction and bad feeling which has hereto­ fore existed between the people and tne railway companies, by the agitation which has brought about the foregoing legislation, hst> subsided; and that now we can see the established princi­ ple of what railway control by law will be In this country in the future. 1 This reliction in the number of employes in the early months of tliis year was by uo means I confined to this State, as has been claimed. It j was general all over the country, and scarcely a ' paper could be taken that did not mention the ! aischaigp of railway employes in large uum- i bers. The yorthtcrxum Haiiroadrr, a railroad 1 publication of St. Paul, about that time eon- i taincd a report from the Railway Employes' j Association to tho Legislature of that State, 1 showing about 7,400 less men employed on five I railroads iu Minnesota in January, H?88, than in ! January, 188.. You know the causes. Crops j had been light for years. Prices were so low that what was raised did not move. Stock was not being shipped for a like reason. The un- prccented winter was the cause of a decrease of almost one-half of the coal tonnage. All these and other causes combined to reduce railway business. Now, however, the reverse is true and the cry of lack of cars ha* air adv com­ menced from many quarters, and railroads are likelv to have quite all thev are able to do. Summing up this subject then, for Iowa we have a reduction locally iu rates all over Iowa, but. no reduction en the general railway income, considering tho equitable distribution that has I been brought abo^t by breaking down the local discrimination. Wo have then also: 1. The helping of our man­ ufacturing interests in enabUng them to dis­ tribute their products and to get in their fuel aud other material. '2. Our large jobbing interests are encouraged to reach Iowa merchants at reasonable rates and compete with Chicago. 3. Iowa, mechanics aud builders are encour­ aged to reach out for all kinds of buiV.lng mate­ rial by reasonable 1a es. thus facilita:ing mat- i tors and encouraging labor. developing our c-ianies, brick ana lime and other interests. 4. Our farmers are encourage iu their ob- j twining reasonable rates 011 l'.ml>er. material | which may enter into any buiidii g they may desire to construct, such as lime, stone, and all materials which they might need. They have already received benefit by the advantages in shipping grain and stock out of this State to the seaboard and the rivers, aud thus escaping Chi­ cago tolls ami Chicago schemers. 5. The railway companies themselves, and railway employes as well as the people, are benefited by the acquirement of stability of rates, so that business men can buy with cer­ tainty, realizing that there will be "no violent disturbance of rates to give their comp' ti tors an undue advantages or to depreciate their goods. Here is also thoroughly demonstrated the fact that the rate wars of this ago have been the worst of evils the public and the rail­ way companies themselves have hal to contend with. Abetter understanding is being arrived at between the railroads and the people Com­ plains are becoming l"ss frequent. Railway companies consult with the Commissioners, both Siate and National, frequently, and they are accepting suggestions from the railway commissions, and a general bettor feeling be­ tween the commissioners and the railway com­ panies is growing up. NATIONAL TOPICS. This being a campaign involving State issues, it will not be necessary to dwell at great length on National issues, except that in what we shall endeavor to a Ay wo may be impressed with the imiortance of retaining our Republican majority in the United States Sena'e. We con­ gratulate ourselves for many reasons 011 the restoration to control in National affairs of the Republican party and its principles. It is really amusing to notice the platform of the Democratic party wherein it resolves in the interest of the soldiers. It flourishes a lengthy resolution, and goes into great throes of agony for the rights of the soldier in order to be able to say at the conclusion of that resolution, that this administration had disgraced itself, and had made the pension roll a roll of dishonor, because it had decided that the dishonorable discbarge of a soldier was no bar to a pension. This re-iolution was trumped up to deceive somebody, just like the entire platform from beginning to end. Tho administration has never decided that a dishonorably discharged soldier was entitled to a pension without qualification. It lias held, however, that where a man has rendered good servicc to his country as a soldier, and by somo misconduct afterwards has been dishonorably discharged, and the circumstances are mitigat­ ing in their nature, that then he shall not, if disabled when he was honorably serving his country, be deprived of a pension. This is no more than faito the num. The discharge un­ der the strict rules of w#- is a lasting punish­ ment, and that may have been for some dishon­ orable conduct; but a eoiyitry saved from treason and rebellion ought never to refuse to rant a man a pension for disability incurred her service. Of course, we know that the late Democratic administration, and ve may infer any that might follow would never give a soldier a pen­ sion who had been injured 111 his country's ser­ vice if there could l>e any reason trumped up for not doing so. If the mockery of the Democratic convention wants to be fully understood in re­ solving for Union soldiers, let us look at the last national administration. It was fully shown by that administration that it despised the soldier; it was fully shown that the head of that adiuiu- istration and all the advisers had no sympathy for the BOldier. Look at the countless Vetoes to the poor widows'and decrepit soldiers" special cases. Hundreds of as meritorious cases as the oountrv ever knew were deliberately vetoed. The nioBt rigid technicalities were brought up and made grounds why this and that case should be vetoed. Look at the Democratic speeches in regard to the soldiers iu the lower house of Congress in recent years. Consider tho veto of tho pension bill, which, if now a law, would do eminent justice to disabled soldiers--the so- called dependent soldiers' pension bill. Exam­ ine that veto, soldiers of Iowa, and it will arouse all the indignation of your loyal and patriotic hearts. You see in it the sentiments of the ad­ ministration and the national Democrat ic poli­ cy, which are not in sympathy with the men who put down treason and rebellion. That veto insulted you, but that veto receive ! the com­ mendation of the moss of the Democratic party of the United States ; and that party is no more in sympathy with the soldiers to-day than It was in 1801 to 1835. But there is a national administration in authority which is in sympathy with the sol­ dier ; and the only dauger, soldier boys of Iowa, that you will not hove vour jus* claims regard­ ed will be the lack of a large enough Republican majority in the lower house of Congress, The Bourbon spirit of Democratic strength among the greater portion of Democrats in Congress will not give to you what you merit, if they can prevent it. This spirit I do not attribute to all Democrats, but it is attributable to the greater number of those - now in the lower bouse of Congrfss. V/lien I read one of these Democratic conven­ tion resolution Repressing such great sympathy for the soldiers, I am reminded of a few things which took place in Democratic conventions while the boys in blue were at the front fighting rebels. I am reminded of declarations which said that the war was a failure, and the soldiers were Lincoln hirelings, and I am tempted to say, "This people draweth nigh unto us with the mouth, ana honoreth us with the hps, but their hearts are far froih us." The record of the Republican party on the question of destroying tne nefarious combina­ tions and trusts is well established. Iowa has made an attempt a; legislation on that question BO far as State legislation can reach the matter, and we have probably done all that can be done. National legislation must take up and solve this great problem. Some of the leading men of our national Congress have already undertaken to formulate legislation 011 thi§ question. All the people are of one accord that stringent na­ tional legislation must be provided against these combines and trusts, conspiracies de­ signed to limit tho production of the necessa­ ries of life, interfere with individual comitetl- tiou and the natural laws of trade, and do many of those selfish things which would break down and.drive all individuality in commercial, man­ ufacturing, and business transactions from our country. Tho Republican national platform of 1888 pledged the party to legislation on this ques­ tion. Such combinations and conspiracies never shall and never will flourish in this great coun­ try. They have then- birth and origin in the free trade countries of Europe, and especially England. These trusts and combines are in no way related to our so-called Americau system of protective tariff ; and the tariff is in no way re­ sponsible for them. Nothing in our tariff laws in the remotest degree encourages them. Again, let me say that they are notoriously the outgrowth of free trade in free-trade coun­ tries. It is well kuown that they have been bnt very recently introduced into this country, and it is equally well known tnat the famous trusts which we do find in this country are not engaged nor are they connected with what we call protected injuries--the oil trust and the wlusky trust In tho United States we feel the effects of the plate-glass trust, made up of all the plat--glass Manufacturers of Europe; tbe foreign pottery trust of Europe, which has been in existence for years ; the foreign tin and iron trust. The oil trust, the whisky trust and the meat trusts are peculiar in recent years to this country, but they are not protected indus­ tries, excepting the meat trust, as I have said ; while all the other trusts w hich I have men- t'oned have their origin on foreign soil, and one of their objects is to bring their goods to Amer­ ica, goods made by the non-protected labor of Europe, to compete with the labor of Araer- ica; and let me tell you, if the so-called MIIIB bill had become a law in the expiring days of the Cleveland administration, every one of the.foreign trusts I liave named would have been promoted. The proposed Senate revision of our tariff will overcome this imposition. "It has been the stock in trade of the Democratic party to charge that** trusts are created bv the American system of protective tariff, until it has grown old and rusty." Trusts cannot well thrive in this country. The activity and vari­ ety of business which we encourage ill this country are inimical to their thriving. They have started up in many things w ithin a very few things, but soon go to pieces of their own unnatural weight, and by the competition and inevitable assertion of the laws of trade, which we find in this free country of ours. Nevertheless, we should have laws, both Na­ tional and State, to crush t.bgm whenever necessary. Take up tho public prints, and look over the foreign correspondence, and vou will find a gigantic trust being formed weekly in England. They have a paper trust, an iron and tin trust, a salt trust, a copper trust, a coal trust, a coffin trust, a beer ana ale trust; it is a trust here, and a trust there, until the body and soul of the poor wretches of the laboring classes are liter­ ally owned by these syndicates. They do not pav them enough to keep soul and body together. If any man in this eountry de- hires tJ satisfy himself on this question, let hbCgd t<\ England, to Birmingham, and Lon- j and theie in one day he can see enough | "-S.SiS!AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. . _. . hto God that ho is R citizen 1 of the United States. Look a' tho cry for breafl a few flays ago in London, at the great atrik* there where (>0,000 starved people were in one procession, demanding an incr. ase of wages. o» account of the miserable pittance, which could only be afforded to them by free trade England. They had an unprecedented s'rike. Two hun­ dred, and twenty-five thousand i>eopls in that one city affected by it. 3'he piteous complaints and cries from these, paeple, laboring men in America, would have made vour hearts ache. And this is the condition to which the free trad* Democracy of Iowa would bring you if they ha4 their sway. The populous city of London has about 4 225 0f0 inhabitants, and of this population near It 925.001, or over 20per cent., are at this time in receipt of some sort of pau)>er relief. Take Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Bradford,, and many other of tho large cities of EnulaniL* with populations from :?00,txi0 to CUO.OOJ up to the population of London, and you have the same per cent, of people who, in some form, to­ day aro receiving pauper relief. Imagine, if you can, such a condition of th" laboring classes in Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, aud Brook­ lyn, where there would be virtually paupers of IKTBRI8TINO ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Oar Neighbors Are Doin*--Hatters of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents sad Crimes --Personal Pointers. WOBK OF THB BOARD OF EQUAIiIZATIOH. --The State Board of Equalization has completed its work and adjourned sine die. The Springfield correspondent of the Chioago Tribune thin summarizes the result of its labors: The total equalized assessment for the State upon personal projpertv is £14tS,r.»0,91.'>; lands. #331.205,039: lots. 534,919; railroads, per­ sonal, 9761,683; lands, $284,:151; lots, $950,607. The equalized assessment for Cook County is •38,130,693 on personal property, au addition of --Following is the fin»l crop bulletin for the current season issued by the Illi­ nois Weather Service: lief ^ijaur>er8?,'r Si^'p*V'rt' ^5 l*-r cent. ; Slj.^,951 on linds, an addition of exists to lav in thflar JTcities of : 2,) cent, ; $1^,4-^.759 on lots, an addition of exists to-oay m tne iar^e citit s 01 England, the ai «cr Tii» tnt«i of rn.nv.myi the policy of free trade, nation whicli has above"oil othBm^fif.H^'j ̂ 21 per cent. The total assessment of railroad nation.winch Las abo\e au others maintained j property for the State for 18S9 is S71,:K2,l5.'l, lainst f6e.799.061 for 188S. The total mileage ,074 miles, against 9,004 ase of seventy miles, amount- has not been „ ! gremiiy cuangeu, uie assessments of some of the many ctner a | roJlds (iifler ,„aterially from last year. The in-aro guilty. They never stop to thins tnat our judiciously arranged protective system has en­ couraged untold variety of manufacturing es­ tablishments to grow up in this country, which could never have had au existence otherwise in competition with fieiMrade England; they never stop to think that these varieties of industry caused the general competition in the sale of the product, and that thus tho price cf everything has been brought down to the farmer, and to all citizens who necessarily pro­ vide for a livelihood. They didn't stop to think thai .b.ise industries employ three mill­ ion and a half ot people who are the consum­ ers of the farmers' pftxluct, which means a family ot four oa the averaga to each one of these three and a halt millions, thus making a l*opulaiiou of fouiTr!>ou millions of pejple, who if these employes were thrown out of employ­ ment, would become non-consumers, and they* would bo compelled to seek homes ou the farm, and become eoinlw.itors with the fanner, 'lhev diiin t slop to think that manufacturing anil agriculture in this country liavo attaimd so nearly an equilibrium that ninety-two per cent, of every product which is raised on the farm iii this country is consumed in our pwn country, a:.d that ninety-two per cent, of all that "is manufactured in this country is consumed here, while eight per cent, of each goes abroad. Don't the Democracy kuow that there is a tariff on wheat, on corn, anil 011 six or eight other pro. ducts ot the farm, made necessary on aecoun* 01 tho cheap labor of India, Russia, and many other countries? It is well known that in Russia and iu India they have millions of acres of good land, aud that labor on these lands is worth from 5 to 10 cents per day, and that from these countries are being shipped to-day mil­ lions of bushels of grain into the Liverpool and Western Kuroitean markets. Take this tariff ofit the farm product, and what will there be to keep the wheat product of Russia and India out of our home markets? crease in the assessment of tho Chicago aud Eastern Illinois is 8188,745; in the Chicago, Santa Fe aud California. $027,134 ; in the Chica­ go, Burlington and Quiney, ^ .5,79.1; in the Chi­ cago and Western Indiana. 6130.345; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. *35,G29 ; Belt Railway Company of Chicago, S37 3i-'2; Chioago, Madison and Northern, $365,769; Elgin, Joliet and East­ ern, $430,804. The Baltimore and Ohio receives a decrease of Sit),811; the Chicago, Burlington and Northern of $40,04-2 : fet. Ixmis Bridge and Tunnel of 964,413 ; • and Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicajo of 667,373. The following shows the individual assess­ ment ot each road and average assessment per mile: 1 Total Total asst. , asst. per mile. 347,973 $41,930 Company. Baltimore & Ohio & Chicago.9 Belleville and Bfdorado...... r Chicago....... 1 believe in that system in America which will protect our own country against the foreign pau- l>er labor of the whole outside world. We owe it to ourselves as a nation. Why, look at this country. It is notone-tonth developed. We are a world within ourselves. ,!W^are a world unto ourselves, extending l. i'^nilTeS'from the lakes to the Gulf, and 3,0 miles from ocean to ocean, with every variety of soil, climate, and of un. developed mineral wealth and raw material. But Democracy says we must get rid of the Burplus in the "national treasury. Well, why didn't the Democracy, during the four vears they had the chance, develop some prac;:cu"l leg- iblation on this subject? They were notable to do so. They had nei ihor the courags nor the intellectual ability to solve the problem. The United States Senate last year brought forward a measure which, if it hau become a law iaud it will soon), would have taken the w ar tariff off those articles on which there is now a tariff, which wo do not and cannot produce in this country, and which we do not desire to protect, audthus the future accumulation of surplus would be avoided. At the dictation of the free trade and free labor men from Texas and other portions of the South Mr. Cleveland dare not recommend a re­ duction of the tariff on sugar. This would have defeated their free-trade scheme. And if he had been the wise statesman that the Democracy proclaimed htm at Sioux City a few days ago he would have adopted this plan. This will be done, and the encouragement of the growth of sugar-cane in the Northern States w ill be done by vie national Congress and gov­ ernment. Hereafter we Bhall have a revenue from protection sufficient to keep up the exist­ ence of our government, direct taxation will be avoided, and our home industries properly fos­ tered and labor duly rewarded. Failures were referred to by a speaker at Sioux City a few days ago. Of course in a great country like ours, where men go into large un­ dertakings, there will be failures. We will have good times and hard times. Th'eae ups and downs will come in any country. They are as unavoidable aa they are unaccountable. Take one year with another and these matters even themselves. The wise man trims his sails in business, knowing that there can not be a tide of prosperity every year; hence when the hard year comes he is prepared for it. But give us the free trade policy of the Democracy, and then let -jti, - - - -in the competition of the pau]H-r labor of Eu­ rope, and you will see such a sweeping ruination as this country has ne v< r seen, and the laboring classes will be reduced to starvation. Never, never do we want to see such a &tate of affairs in this country. Belt liy. Co. of Calumet River.. Central Iowa Chicago and Alton Chic a,'o and Atlantic Chicago, Bnr. & Northern.... Chicago, Bur. A Quiucy Chicago and Eastern Illinois. Chicago and Grand Trunk.... Chicago and Great Western.. Chicago, Harlem and Batavia Chicago, Havana & Western. Chicago & Illinois Southern. 1 Chicago aud Iowa Chicago. Madison & Northern Chgo., Milwaukee & St. Paul. Chicago and Northwestern... Chicago and Ohio River Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis. Chicago, Rock Island & Pac. Chicago, Santa Fe & C'al Chicago and Springfield Chicago, St.Louis & Paducah Chicago, St. L. & Pittsburg.. Chicago, St. Paul & Kan. City Chicago and Western Indiana Cincinnati. Lafayette & Chi.. De Rue, Ladu and Eastern... East St. Louis tv Carondelet. East St. LouiB Connecting... Elgin, Joliet and Eastern.... Englewood Connecting Fultoli County Narrow Gauge ' Galesburg and Rio. Gardner, Coal (ityA- North.. Grand Tower and Carbondale Grand Trunk June 111. and St. L. liy. <£ Coal Go. Illinois Valley and Northern Indianapolis,'Decatur and W Indiana, lllinbis ar.d Iowa.. Indiana and III. Southern... Indianapolis aud St. I.ouis.. Kankakee and Seneca Kankakee and Southwestern Lake Erie and Western Lake Shore and Mich. South. Litchfield, Cavrollton and W. Louisville. Evansville A St. L Louisville and Nashville Louisville, New Albany <&Cbl Louisville and St. Louis..... Michigan Central Mobile aud Ohio Mound City New York, Chicago and St. £1 Northern Illinois Ohio, Indiana and Western.. Ohio and Mississippi Peoria, De-catur & Evausville. Peoria & Pekin Union Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chi.. Rantoul Rock Island and Peoria...... South Chicago South Chicago and Southern. St. L., Alton and Springfield. St. L., Alton & Terre Haute.. St. Louis and Chicago St. Louis, Roc\c Island & Cbi. St. Louis Southern Sycamore and Cortland....«. Terminal R. R. of E. St. L.,.. Terre Haute & Indianapolis. Torre Haute and l'miria Toledo, Peoria and Western.. Toledo, St. Ixmis and Kansas. Wabash, Chester <£ Western. W\. St. L. & Pacific (C. div.).. Wabash Western Wisconsin Central.....,.,.., Wabash A Girl's Commendable Sh»w of Spirit When an evening train on the nar­ row-gauge railroad stopped at a sta­ tion on Revere Beach, two nights ago, a couple of voung iuen, looking rather flushed, entered the car with an un­ steady gait. One of them plumped himself into the seat occupied by a girl who was quietly and neatly dressed, and who looked to be about sixteen years old. The train had not gone far when the young man tried to scrape an acquaintance with the young lady by addressing some remark to her, the import of which could hardly have been very pleaeant, as she immediately rose, and, touching tho arm of the con­ ductor, who was passing, asked that official if he coulcf not either find her another seat or compel the man to leave the one she had occupied. At this the young man himself interrupt­ ed, apologizing profusely, and dis­ claiming any iat&ition to insult any­ body. The train was about to stop at another station; so the conductor rushed off, merely saying: "I don't think he'll trouble you again." As soon as the official was gone, however, the man again renewed his attentions. For some time the young ladv kept silent, looking straight ahead and attempting to take no notice of her companion's remarks; but at last she stood up and gave him several stinging slaps in the face. The man vacated the seat in­ stantly and hurried to the other end of the car. Two or three passengers learned the facts in the case from a train official, and when that young man finally got home he was in a sadly battered condition.-- Boston Adver­ tiser. Appearances Are Often Deceptive. The amiable, sweet little women pass through life without being per­ ceptibly affected by any internal tem­ pests, but it may be because they have great self-control. There are hidden possibilities that may not always be read in the face nor guessed at" until the hour arrives that brings them forth. The most angelic face I ever saw be­ longed to a girl of 19, and to look at her face one would not believe that she was a mischievous romp. Sweetness of disposition she had, and just one month after I saw her she met her tragic death by fire with wonderful heroism. The women who always say and do just what von feel sure they are going to say and do are not brilliant com­ panions. Novelties and surprises startle and please. I know a woman who said of a certain young girl that she enjoyed her because she never knew what she was going to say next. The girl was neither coarse nor vicious in her conversation. She was original. It is easy enough to cultivate a certain kind of flippant repartee that passes for wit, but originality must be born in one; it cannot be cultivated. Women who are not original know this, and they freely steal the original ideas-of other women, in dress and household decoration, as well as those concerning other matters, and pass them off as their own.--Si. Paul Globe. 168,379 3,206 483,055 21,030 22,189 5,000 899,744 4,509 5,8B8,580 10,168 87,812 788,452 7,811 8,878,413 10,487 1,871,392 10,119 873,616 16,993 454,764 42,460 86,220 5,026 463,223 3.502 12.879 30,910 802,553 6,1*28 677,931 6,159 3,315.364 7,297 4,642,598 9,947 185,437 2,155 401,062 3,406 8,679,850 15,678 a,838,802 8,397 484,139 4,343 845,457 4.570 812.972 29.044 903,635 6,159 1,415,833 51,aW. 833,530 10,113* 7,614 2,284 101,749 11,000 804.822 46,000 477,784 6,147 25,300 10,757 90,ail 1,532 50.603 4,151 »913,319 6,791 116,308 4,398 S81.330 72,160 -*14,988 14,622 198.153 3.41)4 422.1S2 5,572 278,232 4,034 l"Mi,226 2,789 1,673,451 9,010 5108,250 4,952 539,594 4,119 654,693 5,608 652,128 72,518 121.664 2,335 823,897 5,062 1,070,1(11 (1,048 2 1 , 3 6 4 7 . . . 476,513 3,701 #05.004 . 14,477 •75,109 6,073 2.IJX5 912 848,237 84,942 811,334 4,199 842,4.5:} 6,875 2,435,521 6,556 1,023,842 5,235 537, a">8 29,490 1,038,377 74.325 153,819 2.333 762,994 6,784 79,023 10,599 10.),724 10,402 i29;;,8 02 3,528 831,392 9,568 212,28!) 4,193 1,583,782 5,655 811,707 5,141 24,326 5,246 883,387 239,873 1,735,194 10,904 498,372 3,443 1,231,151 5,3B7 47,">,055 2,652 122,828 8,008 1^19,316 5,088 35,838 8,067 ,807,298 6,717 5,2U1,256 7,980 Total $71,852,453 # Tbe total amount of capital stock reported to 1 the l>oard by corporations other than railroads is $89,721,881), as against ?95,888,014 for 1888. | The amount of the total equalled assess­ ments for 1889 is £< 13,431,629, against 813,158,600 ; for 1888, an increase of $272,263. The percentage of the equalized assessment to the reported capital stock for 1889 is 15 per cent., as against 13 per cent, for 1888. As the local assessments this year have been increased the net assessments as reported by the board are necessarily decreased. The greatest increase in the assessment of any one corporation is that of the Pullman Palaee Car Company, of Chioago, which is increased , $89,000. ! --The following Illinois pension^have been granted: Original Invalid--Albert Hammer, Sijae Clark, Oliver H. Perry (deceased), John Clark, Edward Arpin (deceased;,' Warren C. Gilbreath, John T. Buchanan, Mathias Rock, George W. Jones, Willis Easlev, Bopp Romain (dt ceased), Will­ iam Devers, 'Thomas D. Colvin, James C. Blan- ford, Alvis Taylor, Joseph E. Sloore, Robert Guthrie, Gilbert Van Zandt, Joshua Barton, David L. Young. Edwin A. Patterson, George Akers, John Cheek, Robert L, Updegrove, George Son, Adley Brock, George A. Chatham, William Tenmie. Increase--John L. Thorndike. Harlow H. Fen- ton. Jos. Rollings, Berry Reed, John Kope, Har­ rison L. Hart, David A. Martin, Thomas B. Jeff- ers, Alexander Jones, Volney G. Hunt, Robinson Crews, Boyer Campbell, Bernard A. Ball, Fred­ erick A. Smith, John M. Wode, John Nugent, James M. Pulver, Lafavette Montague, Jonas Overholt, Frederick Smalls, alias Bodendorfer, Uriah E. Atwater, William H. Shiffer, John B. Porter, Peter W. Pike, Henry Bong, Peter G. Paul, Silas A. Cuuimings, Edward H. Roberts, Wesley Yarringtou, William D. Patterson, George R. Welsh. Original widows--Loanda, widow of Urial Sher­ man (reissue;; Maria, w idow of Mathias Pock ; Mary, widow of Patrick Quinn ; Sarah .)., widow- Elijah D. Lawley; minora cf Robert L. Upde- grove; Maggie, widow of Edward Fitzgerald, alias Carroll; (reissuei Amy L. Wempner, for widow of Cyrus W'. Jamison. --The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Or­ der of York Masons (colored), in session at Springfield last week, elected the fol­ lowing officers: Grand Master, T. S. Smith of Chicago; Deputy Grand Master, C. A. Kicks of Doquoiu; Senior Grand "Warden,- C. W. McLong of Chicago; Junior Grand Warden, Guilford Hinton of Springfield; Grand Treasurer, W. F. .Cdbsinn of Danville; Grand Seoretazy, B. E. Moore of Chicago; Grand Lecturer, W. H. S. Seals of Quincy. --Gov. Fifer has announced the ap­ pointment of the following as fish war­ dens: William C. Loomis of Richmond, Calvin M. Partlow of Springfield, and John Elder of Carthage. --In an election at Nashville for an Alderman to fill a vacancy, Stanbrook, the license candidate, received a majority of 125. This gives f a majority in the board for license. --Bates for money ant firm in Chicago at 6@7 per cent. --Mrs. James B. . Doolittle, Jr., has been appointed by Mayor Cregier a tene­ ment and factory inspector in the health office at Chicago, at a salary of $50 per month. This is the second female in­ spector appointed in that city under the new ordinance providing for five females to look after workshops and tenements where females are employed, and see that sanitary measures are taken to keep the looms in a healthy condition. --Ctfm^old in the Chicago market last Thursday at the lowest prioe touched since January, 1879, and oats haTe not jWld since Oeftkber, 1878. The temperatuie of the past week ba below the normal throughout the Mate. Bon- shine above the'average has been reported. The rainfall has been below a seasonable average. Coles County--Apples fine in quality and about an average crop. Bpnorn corn nearly all harvested. Maize out of all danger. Rainfall .75 of an inch. Douglas--The last week has been bright Mid dry. Pastures are growing nicely. Corn is late, but drying up nicely. Some late corn touched by frost. Edw ards--Condition generally favorable. Ap­ ple crop large. Franklin--Fall seeding about over and looks fine. Apples plentiful. Fulton--No lain during tbe week. Hwr»a.n grain and potatoes heed it. Com ripening nicely. Logan--Fall seeding completed. Wheat has come Up looking well. Corn drying very fastt Rainfall. .85 of an inch. Lake--Weather favorable to harvesting. Rain­ fall, .05 inch. _,IjaSalle--Potato crop above the average. McHeury--Drought still continues. Pastures short and brown. No fall plowing; ground too hard and dry. Rainfall, .04 inch. Mercer--The rainfall during the week was .15 inch. Wo had frost on Sept. 27, which in­ jured grasses slightly. Ogle--Pastures need rain. Winter wheat in the dust, not grow ing. There will be more than the average amount of soft corn. Perry--Ground in excellent condition for sow­ ing. About one-half sealing done. No frost yet to touch the teuderest vegetation; every­ thing fresh and green. Corn ripe and perfect in every respect. Mora wheat sown than for sev­ eral years. Rainfall, .20 of an Inch. Randolph--Wheat sowing is well adanced in this vicinity. Corn-cutting and shocking is about over; Tho frosts have done but little damage. Rainfall, .09 inch. Richland--Wheat seeding about finished. First seeding np and looking well. Pastures good. Scott--Com, wheat, pastures, and live stock up to an average. Sangamon -- Conditions favorable. Wheat seeding about over. Corn being cut. Rainfall .25 inch. Stephenson--Ground getting very dry. No rain during week. Fall grain about all sown, and threshing mostly done. Clover cleaning _ going on rapidly. --The Chioago Inter Ocean, replying to an inquirer from the country, enumer­ ates the following as among the promi­ nent attractions and places of interest in that city. It will prove of value to strangers visiting Chicago: Academy of Sciences. Monuments--' HIS CUSTOMER HIS EMPLOYES, How » Clerk Kept His Tempo* Thereby Succeeded In Life. One of the most prosperous chants in New York had his entire changed by a simple performance OK, ? ^ duty. He was clerk in a big Boston' dry goods house at a small salary. always tried to effect a sale. One day- a customer appeared who was more than particular about his purchase. IB relating his experience with this ntaaf the merchant said to a reporter: "I have a quick temper, and at time* during the transaction I felt that t could strangle tbe customer; but I quickly curbed my temper and went at him tooth and nail. I felt that my reputation as a sale»«; man was at stake, and it was a question of conquer or to be conquered. At last I made tbe sale, and with it came 9 great satisfaction; bat I was not dona with the man yet. I wanted to sell him more. He said something aboot sending his wife around to look at som* dress goods. I promised to send sara* «i»«r- ples as they arrived thankei me and said:" " 'It has taken yon The cu&tom«r- a long time to 4 sell me a few goods" Are au of ywajr: ^ customers as hard to please as I ?" " 'It takes some customers but a short time to make their selection, wh£b» others wish to be slower; we are boon# . to please them all,' I answered. ! • " 'Does it pay your house to devote much time to* BO small a sale? he in­ quired again. "'Yes,' I replied, *1 have taken pains to give you what you want. I know you will find the goods as I say. You will have confidence and Art Institute. Auditorium. Bridges. Board of Trade. Boulevards-- Ashland. Drexel. Lake Shore. Michigan. Washington. Cable cars. City Hall, Criiidnal Court, Court House. , County Hosp: County Jail. Exposition, Federal Iiuildmg. " Fort Dearborn, site. Foundling's Home. Grain w an houses. Historical Society. Hotels. I. N. G. armories. Lake shipping. • Douglas. Grant. Lincoln. Schiller. Newspaper < Panoramas. Parks-- Lincoln. Garfield. Douglas. .. Humboldt^': - "it j*. Jackson. K, Wnsbingtf||, y: Public Library. Public Schools. Pullman, city of - ^ Railroad depots. Shot Tower. Stock Yards. * Theaters. Tnnnels-- LaSalle street. Washington street. Water Woiks. World's Fair. sJ-' ' --Mrs. Mary O'Brien, 60 years of age, was robled in Chicago of the $3,090 that represented her savings for vears. She enrne from Wnltkaw, Mass., and was on her way to her son's home at Elgin. She had sold her home in Wnltham, and in a long envelvope buttoned inside her dress were the proceeds of the sale. She stopped at the Bock Island fouse, oil Sherman street, where she was given a room. The following morning the odor of coal gas waB noticed coming from the room, tbe door was broken in. and the gray-haired occupant was-found lying on the floor unconscious. Her dress was. torn open, water was dashed in her face, and other assistance was given with such vigor that when Mrs. O'Brien returned to consciousness her money had disappear­ ed. One of the first persons in the room had been Peter De Groff, an employe of the house. He was placed under arrest and lodged in jail. --Nearly a hundred oolered men mat in State convention at Springfield last week, to discuss their status in Illinois and the nation, and devise means to im* prove their political and material con­ dition. John C. Jones of Chicago, who i6 the leader of the movement, called the conference to order, and in an impas­ sioned address recounted the wrongs heaped upon'the colored people North as well as South. He said the interests of the colored people wonld be advanced if they would unite with labor organiza­ tions, and warned them that they need not look to Congress for any additional legislation for thjeir protection. Refer­ ring to what had recently occurred at the town of Lawrence, in this State, when colored men were beaten and shot, he deelared that nothing had been done by either the oounty or State authorities to bring the perpetrators of the outrage to justice. There was not a charitable institution in the State under State or county control, he said, in which the same treatment is accorded to oolored inmates that is bestowed on the whites. The managers of the institutions should be made to understand that discrimina­ tions of this character must cease. A permanent organization was effected by electing £. H. Morris, of Chicago, Chair­ man, and W. A. Joiner, of Springfield, Secretary. An organization was then formed, to be known as the "Colored Man's State League of Illinois." The officers elected are: E. H. Morris, of Chi­ cago, President; John C. Jones, of Chi­ cago, First Vice President; John J. Bird, of Cairo, Second Vice President; E. H, Wright, of Springfield, Secretary; J. Walter, of Oglesby, Assistant Secretary; E. Boey, of Braid wood, Treasurer. An executive committee of nine was alao ap­ pointed. --dov. Fifer has issued a proclamation offering a reward of $200 for the appre­ hension and conviction of the murderer* of John King, who was killed in August at Eldorado. --The death of Michael O'Connor, the seventh victim of the Bock Island acci­ dent at South Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, afforded the Coroner an oppor­ tunity for reopening the investigation, which resulted in the holding of En­ gineer Twombly and Fireman La Cloche* When Twombly's bondsmeiS^ heard of O'Connor's death they surrendered him, and he was taken back to jail. He and La Cloche were taken before Jndge Baker, who held them in bail of $150,000 each. --Bev. S. J. McPherson, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and one of the most prominent ministers in that city, came very near dying from strangulation. While at dinner a piece of partially masticated food stuck in his throat, and had it not been forthe timely appearance of a physician death, it is thought,, would have ensued. As it was the reverend gentleman suffered terrible agony until the foreign substanoe was removed, which was four days afterward. Nervous prostration followed, from the effects of which he will not recover for many da vs. >3 ' m, again, and the next time it will not take so long.' • "After getting his package he walked out of the store. In three days X mailed samples of the new dress goods to his wife, and the circumstance passed entirely out of my mind. I was pro-^ tooted in a few days, much to my aston-' ishment. One morning I was informed that Mr. B. wished to see me. I went to the office wit)i surprise and some fear. I was more surprised when I saw Sitting beside my employer my cn»- .tomer of a few months back, He Jjroved to be the moneyed partner oi the concern, whose other business inter­ ests kept him away from the dry good* Jetore almost entirely, aud he was known to but few of his employes, although he knew that I was a new man as soon as lie saw me, aud thought to see what itnetal I was made of. That he was sat­ isfied is proved by his making me a buyer of the several departments where I sold goods. My prosperity began ; with the tough customer, and now I thank goodness that I got him, and thit I did not $how my disposition tu atraT>- gle him.--New York Star. . The Doomed Savages. ^r ̂ The news that Indians are starving In the Mackenzie river basin, and that they have been driven by hunger to the practice of cannibalism, han come to us regularly after each winter tor several years past. It is now learned that last winter there were many deaths from starvation among the Indians at Forts Simpson, Liard, and Wrigley in the middle Mackenzie basin, west of Great Slave aud Athabasca Lakes. Mr. Black, a missionary who arrived at Winnipeg lost week from Fort Simp* son, says the provisions gave out there early in January this year, and k would have given $200 for a bag of flour. Probably in no part of the world are there now so many deaths from starva­ tion, in proportion to the population, M among the 20,000 Indians of the Mac­ kenzie basin. Years ago, before they and white hunters had recklessly de­ stroyed the greater part of the herds of reindeer, moose, and buffalo of the ^ woods, they had au abundance of fresh meet, Now a large part of them lit* near the Hudson Bay company, and government posts, and those living ftar- :! thest south depend to some extent upon i the meagre rations of bread and floni ' • doled out by the government. "The Indians are doomed," said Dr. Bain be>' for the senate committee at Ottawa last 1 year. "Thev are all deteriorating phy* Bically, and In fifty years there w§l scarcely be any of them left." . •/ These unfortunates are doubtless re- sponsible to some extent f r the suffer* ; ings they endure. Aa loj!" as th« have anything to eat they will not hunt or do any work. The growing scarcity of game and the uncertainty of finding reindeer and moose in one season wheie in previous years they may have been in fair supply, greatly increase the perils of their position. It was asserted before the Ottawa committee that no government interference could obviate the conditions which result in a total or partial failure of the food supply. The missionaries who live among then! are often reduced to extremities thenir , ,;<j selves, and have lived for a month at a . 'h<V time on a diet of fish and a little baiv, *•'" ^ ley soup. Mr. Black says there is rea­ son to fear that the mortality among' the Indians next winter on account <3 the scarcity of food will be very greafc. The Canadian Government is doing nothing whatever for most of the Indi­ ans of the Mackinzio basin. They have suffered much from disease brought among them by the whites, who are dd* ,. ing almost nothing to ameliorate their bitter lot. Probably a more wretched and hopeless lot does not live to-day, ,r, than these Mackenzie River Indiana, who final extinction is rapidly approaekt- ; f ing.--New York Sun. .U •I i ' -i " 7m ' '. :*< w he He Could Fit Lincoln's Feet. 41 *«'- m • & f '.i A shoemaker who died at. Scran ton. Pa., not long ago, started a fortune from making shoes for President Lii)t» coin. The president had large, uifc». gainly feet, and all he wanted was t» have easy shoes, He could not get shoe­ makers to make his shoes large enough Soon after he was elected in 180(1^ Peter Kahler, a Scran ton, Pa., shoo* maker, obtained an outline drawing at one of the president's feet, and sent bi»p a pair of shoes that suited him exactly. "" f Lincoln wrote a letter of thanks to Myr ? ' * . Kahler, wh^oh he was shrewd euougk .•* to have published. It brought him f fame and he removed to New York* * v ' became a "doctor," a chiropodist, and a • - v: specialist. His place was on Broadwav^ ^ ® below Fourteenth street. Carriage people patronized him and he accuinu lated a considerable fortune. Lincoln ^ oontmued to buy shoes of Kahler to the ; T^i time of his death. Kahler had visionary^ schemes for getting great wealth two years or more before he died. He ,, 1- *'} bought about fifty acres of ground on 5 v the border of Harvey's Lake, the lar* fest lake in Pennsylvania, in 1888. The, ndian name of the lake is Lake Scan* dara. Mr. Kahler proposed to build » big village and establish a "Kahlera Sanitarium." He sunk considerably , money in the scheme, but left a large estate nevertheless. A MAN of integrity will never fiaien lift any reason against conscience *