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rcpoiisib! fur ths j.ir
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r.ejpapv"s from tho pi.-,t-iSc r removtna
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eVillellfJ i:..7viional. I'llAt'H.
THE OLD HEARTHSTONE.
H houv 1' shabby, and gaunt aari brown;
Weather beaten una grim indeed;
Its twisted chimneys are tumbling down,
' Its fretted gablrs hare gone to seed:
Its floors are sunken, its doors are shrunken.
Bat thro' its windows, bleared and old.
Sweet faoes looked in the days gone by;
And morning's glory, and sunset's gold.
On its worn thieshoMs used to lie.
Wild grasses creep round the mighty stone
That once was the altar of home and hearth;
And the winds, with a shrill, disconsolate
moan.
Sweep thro the chambers of death and b!r:h;
And the shuddering floors, the creaking doors,
' Tjrill to the passing of things unseen.
When the ghostly curtains or ere are drawn.
Or the moon, with a white face, stands be
tween The gloom of night and the gray of dawn.
But under its hearthstone rude and old
The roots of my heart strike deep and strong!
Its walls arc hung with the purple and gold
Of dreams, and wreathed with the glory of
song!
Rough brambles clamber in hall and chamber;
But light feet echo along the floors.
And garments gleam when the twilights fall.
Fair faces smile from the ruined doors.
And white hands beckon, and voices call!
Ihey are the dear lost loves I knew:
Gene from the valley and shadow of tears.
Still, by memory's golden clew.
They follow me through the mist of. rears t
Their soit hands lighten my load, and brighten
The rugd way of my life I tread.
Through an alien land to a land unknown.
For the hope and promise of youth he dead
Andtouriel under yon gray hearthstone!
Emma Alire HroicM. in S. 1" Isdger.
THI-BEIT WANG T'SUE:
Or tho
"Dwellers on the Roof of
tho "World."
something About ThU Extraordinary Peo
ple Tlirlr IVruliar MMnnert. Cus
tom anil Religion Kites
The Octal Lama.
This extraordinary people, the Thi
beit Wanfr T"sue, owe their nationality
to a princely Chinese rebel, who on ac
count of pome court intrigue took
refuse with his family among those
mountainous regions now called Thibet.
Eiitablinhiiig himr-elf on the Yarling
river, he gathered to his standard the
wild, hairy, mountain-cave dwellers of
this lofty plateau. With the Khucnlun
Mountains on the north and the mighty
Himalayas on th outh. ong Chou
felt himself invincibleand impregnable;
and so it proved, for this settlement of
savagea ilourihcd. and in course of
time developed one of the strangest
sivilizations in the world.
In order to understand this people.
thk" manners, customs and religious
rites, we must glance at their country.
It Ls the lofti-'.-t plateau on the globe.
:rirt with stef p barriers and with ex
tremes of temperature, in some parts
freezing every night, even in summer,
while in others the noon sun is more
fierce and corching than in the hot
tost regions of Hindostan. From its
ioity table-land descend some of the
rreatest rivers of Asia, the Indus, the
Brahmapootra, the Irrawndy. the Gau
ges, the Hohang-ho. At their sources
mountains pile upon mountains, some
bare and volcanic, others covered with
primeval forests, frightfully tangled
together with huge creepers, as yet
unnamed by the botanist. The highest
Ieaks Mar in awful grandeur, vapor
crowned and snow-clad, assuming in
the rising and setting sun forms of un
speakable splendor. The annual trans
formations of this land of mountain
r,nd valley are magical; evergreens,
ferns, lichens, mosses, thousands of
mountain rills, ami myriads of flowers
till it with music, fragrance and dewy
beauty: in winter storms, darkness,
heavy mists and a terrifying silence en
wrap theland now and then this awful
silence is broken by avalanches of ice
and snow, thundering and booming
down the mountains as with the roar
ing of distant cannon. And above all
when night comes on. there is nowhere
a. land so weird: it is full of milky
vapors of serpentine form, of shades
and phantoms, inspiring in the minds
of its inhabitants a sense of awe.
mystery and sublimity. It is not
strange that the dwellers on the "Hoof
of the World" should be what they are
the most superstitions, reverential,
religious and credulous people on tho
face of the earth.
Nowhere, as in Thibet, does Buddh
ism and its mysterious doctrine of the
transmigration of souls hold sway so
absolute. The mountain caves are
filled with male and female ascetics,
who practice the most austere forms of
penance, abstinence and self-torture,
in order to work out their deification;
in what was once the lair of wild
beasts, live Thibetian maidens, who for
j ears scourge themselves with bruises,
nanetify themselves by continual fasts,
prayers and pious meditations in the
hop'j that they may become mothers to
future Dolai Lamas: here are convonts
and monasteries without end, temples,
shrines and pagodas without number,
filled with pilgrims, saints, sages, ma
gicians, rahats (saints in the various
stages of deification), arahats, both
m:aud female. Here is enshrined
the great 1 Mai Lama himself, tho latest
living incarnation of the Buddha, be
lieved in as a veritable man-god. pure,
infallible, omnipresent and omniscient,
who is worshiped with the most
sumptuous of pagan rituals morning,
noon and night as a heavenly doity:
while on every conspicuous rock and
towering pear: is cut in huge Thibetian
characters the mystical and symbolic
prayer offered to this st range man-deity:
"On: Manni Paduuh Horn."
Amid this grand scenery and these
strange ideas of human deification, a
Thibetian village makes-but a mean
appearance. The houses ,aro alike.
and each resembles a brick kiln in sizo
and shape, built of rough stones,
heaped without mortar of any kind,
and on account of the strong winds and
terrific storms each has only one or two
apertures to admit light and air: on the
flat roof are placed piles of stones to
support a small flag-staff, from which
Ls suspended a strong ropo strung with
scraps of religious paper and colored
cloths stamped or inwrought with sa
cred texts from the Buddhist scriptures
for all the world like the tail of a kite
stretching to a neighboring roof, and
supposed to act as a charm against mi
asma, walking ghosts and evil spirits.
The Thibetians are pure Mongolians:
they have the oblique small black eye.
the cone-shaped head, tho high cheek
bones, the -flat nose, wide mouth, and
tawny skin of the Turanian family. But
unlike the Chinese, their figures are
light, elastic and symmetrical; their
young men and women have much more
attractive expressions, owing no doubt
to their open and generous dispositions.
They love music, and everywhere they
are heard sinrin?, chanting or hum
ming tho wild, plaintive Thibetian airs,
which are more rhythmic than those of
the Chinese.
Xot only is there in Thibet a Delai
Lama, but there are several Teshu
Lamas or semi-incarnations of Buddha.
These act as vice-gerents of the Delai
Lama, or Pure Incarnation, in the
provinces of Thibet, and receive the
homage and offerings suitable to a
semi-deity.
The great question of questions in
Thibet is to And in what babe or child
the pure spirit of Buddha has become
re-incarnate. The first condition is
that the mother of this extraordinary
infant should be one who before mar
riage has practiced the most austere
forms of penance, fasting and prayer,
and that the father should be a man
of equal piety and faith. The babe
itself musjt show the five supernatural
marks on its body: a crescent mark on
its forehead, a dimple in its chin,
bright glistening eyes, a red spot on
its stomach and a similar mark on its
right foot. Every male infant born in
in tfiis strange country is subjected to
the strictest scrutiny.
When several such babes have been
heard of, they with their parents are
escorted to the city of Lhassa and con
ducted to the monastery of Lha-Brang,
or Sanctified House. This building is
regarded as the center and heart of
Thibet, from which all the religious
life, as well as the main roads, radiate.
It is not merely a religious center, for
here are the seats of the civil, political
and judicial officials of Thibet. Here
the chief Lamas of all the monasteries
meet, and after a week of fasting,
prayer and meditation, each in his ap
pointed cell, they come together in the
temple, open to the sky in the middle,
towering in many-storied roofs all
around, and on its huge gates, standing
out in strong relief, colossi of the
spirit guardians of the fonr corners of
earth. Here they wait in profound
silence the hour appointed for the
ceremony of divining in which of the
bales the pure spirit of Buddha has
deigned to become incarnate.
At sunset these baby-candidates for
divinity are ushered with great pomp
into the temple; here they are prayed
over, then examined as to the accuracy
of the supernatural marks. This done
their names are written on the backs
of artificial golden fishes, which are
then cast into a golden urn of water,
which stands on the right of the altar
throne of Buddha. Then the chief of
the Lamas puts his hand into the urn,
and with his eyes lifted up to the blue
sky, he draws out a fish and reads
with a loud voice the name of the babe.
Loud trumpet blasts repeat the name
through and through the ancient tem
ple. The parents, overcome with joy.
fall on their knees before the wonderful
babe and worship it, not doubting its
divinity. The other babes are looked
upon as semi-incarnations and reserved
to become Teshu Lamas.
The next day the sacred babe is car
ried through the city at the head of a
vast concourse of priests and people,
with music, shoutings and hymns of
joy, and placed in the Potala until he
shall have become of age and his mind
illuminated with the indwelling spirit
of the Buddha. Strange to say this ripen
ing of the spirit of the Delai Lama va
ries; in some incarnations it takes
place at the age of fifteen, in others
not until eighteen or twenty. Tho evi
dence of this maturity is to bo per
ceived by a certain rare fragrance
emitted by the body of the Delai Lama,
and an almost profound expression in
the eyes.
After his inauguration, the Delai
Lama appears at stated times on his
various thrones or altars openly to re
ceive the adoration of his fellow-men.
But of his private life the public knows
nothing. Those whose business it is
to wait in private on this strange fiction
are vowed to tho strictest silence and
secrecy. His death, which often hap
pens early in life, owing to the un
natural life forced upon him, is pre
served as a secret until a new baby
candidate to divinity has been heard
of. His remains are privately burned
in the great Lha-Bhrang temple. His
ashes are preserved in a golden urn,
and his clothes as holy relics of great
marketable value, are cut up and sold
to the highest bidders.
For nearly a thousand years the king
dom planted by the Chinese rebel,
Wong Chou, in 'Thibet, had remained,
it is said, steeped in the grossest super
stitions of spirit and devil-worship. It
was in the seventh century of our era,
the Indian King, Srongdsam-Gampo.
for some political cause of offense, in
vaded the country, took possession of
the throne, stamped out shamanisenor
spirit-worship, and introduced iu its I
place his own religion Buddhism; his
wife introduced the arts of reading and
writing, and caused all tho new team
ing and literature of Thibet to bo wrii
teu iu the Sanskrit or, as it is called,
the Dewanagri alphabet. Ever since
the Thibetian language, though of the
Mongolian family, has preserved the
Aryan characters.
The Chinese Government has always
regarded Thibet with an anxious and
jealous eye. They havo an ambassador
with a strong force resident at Lhassa
who are literally spies on the Delai
Lama, on the regent, and on the Sema
Delai Lamas, and all report their doings
at headquarters. But in the spiritual
sense even the Emperor of China is
forced to render homage and adoration
to the great Delai Lama, that dwells in
Thibet. V.'ide Awake.
MODERN BRIGANDAGE.
A Timely and Emphatic Protest Against
tho Tipping System.
The growth of the "tip" system in
this country within the past.few years
has been very remarkable. Not many
years ago an American was expected
to perform the service for which he
was employed without extra compen
sation, and it was only the lower
grade of servants and porters that
one ventured to reward with a tip.
All this has changed very rapidly,
and the traveler now finds that
nobody will refuse a proffered coin,
while very many will do nothing
without it. The man who comes
for your trunk, the man who handles
it at the station, even the man who
checks it; the man who receives it
at your hotel, and of course, the man
who brings it to your room each one
of these experts his tip. And so it
goes through the whole round of the
summer tourist's experience.
The worst feature of all this is that
the system is not only tolerated but
encouraged and even shared in by
those who profess to offer "hospitality"
to travelers of course for a consider
ation. When a man goes to a hotel
and pays an abundant price he expects
to be taken care of and served and de
fended from extortion: instead, he is,
in many cases, systematically robbed.
The hotel "stands in" with the porter,
tho barber, the newsdealer and the
other brigands, exacting a high pay
ment from them, and sometimes a per
centage of their perquisities. so that
the guest is regularly "swindled by the
consent and co-operation of the land
lord. This is a gross abuse that ought to
be stopped. It is not too much to ask
that hotels, railroad companies, ex
press companies and other concerns
that deal with the traveling publio
should pay their own servants and not
leave them to be paid by their cus
tomers. Every one is glad to re
ward attentive service and to pay
for any special trouble taben in
his behalf, but no one likes to be
made to pay twice for that to which
he is entitled of right and to feel when
hit goes to a hotel as though he were
onterihg a robber's cave. Philadelphia
Time.
SHERIDAN'S REVENGE.
Why He Had Fort Leavenworth Reduced
to Department Headquarters.
"Some of the stories published about
General Sheridan are not exactly ac
curate,'' said an old army officer,
"though that is not at all unnatural.
These tales travel from one maH to
another and get mixed in transit. The
story about his being fined at Leaven
worth while he was in command of the
fort has variously been told, but the
truth appears to be that he was fined for
contempt of court. He was subpoenaed
before Justice Tholen to appear to an
swer the charge of assault and battery
upon a fellow who had been ordered
off the reservation, and who. not obey
ing the mandate, was knocked off. He
lodged complaint against General
Sheridan, who paid no attention to the
summons to appear before Tholen.
That was before the Legislature of
Kansas had ceded jurisdiction over tho
reservation to the General Government.
One day when Sheridan was down
town he w;is caught unawares by a
constable, who read tho warrant to
him and there was nothing to do but
obey. The justice, as can be imagined,
was full of importance, and his breast
swelled when he thought of what a
great man he was in havingbroughtono
of the big Generals of the war to book.
Sheridan was furious and did not deign
to set up any defense, the consequence
being that he was fined one hundred
dollars.
He was so mad at this that he shortly
afterwards had the headquarters of
the division removed to Chicago, re
ducing Fort Leavenworth to a depart
ment headquarters. Had it not been
for this Fort Leavenworth would yet
havo been the headquarters of the
division, and even a more important
post than it now is. Detroit Xtws.
A Yankee Doctor's Wit.
It is told that while the late Emperor
Frederick was in London for the
Queen's jubilee. Sir Morell Mackenzie
introduced a noted American doctor to
him. After a c:ireful examination of
his throat, the imperial patient, in his
usual cheerful manner, inquired: "I
suppose un imperial throat is very
much like that of other mortals?"
"Well, sir,'' came the quick reply, "wo
will try and make it so, at an' rate."
The then Crown Prince thoroughly ap
preciated the quick Yankee wit, and,
striking his broad chest, said: "But
this is all right, is it not?'' The Yan
kee gravely looked the splendid pro
portions of the illustrious patient up
and down.andth.cn deliberately drawled
out: "As for the rest, sir, you would
make a good American." Fritz's mer
riment was great, but the German doc
tors present were aghast at such levity
v. r. rost.
FOKlf ALLY ACCEPTED.
Letter of General Harrison Form
ally Accepting the Republican
Nomination.
The Paper Taken Up Largely With
the Tariff Question The Issue
Defined.
Trusts Denounced Also tbe Foreign and
Domestic Pol icias of tbe Cleveland
Administration.
IxDiANAPOLisJnd., 8ept.l2. The follow
tag is General Harrison's letter aeceptmg
tbe Republican Presidcntal nomination:
Hon. St. M. Kttee ami Olkert, Committte, etc.:
Isiuasapous. Ind, Sept. 11. Gentlemen:
When your committee visited me on the Fourth
of July last and presented the official announce
ment of my nomination for the Presidency of
the United States by tbe llcpublican conven
tion, I premised as soon ns practicJbJe to com
municate to you a more formal acceptance of
the nomination. Since that time the work of
receiving and addressing, almost dally. Urge
delegations of my fellow citizens has not only
occupied all of my time, but has in some meas
ure rendered it unnecessary for me to use this
lettcrasamedium of communicating to the pub
lic my views upon the questions Involved in the
Gtntral lliirrUon.
campaign. I appreciate very highly the confl
uence and respect manifested by the conven
tion :md accept the nomination with a feeling
of gratitude and a full sense of the respocslbill
Nes which accompany it.
It is a matter of congratulation that the
declarations of tbe Chicago convention upon
the questions that now attract the attention of
our people arc so dear and emphatic. There
is further cause of congratulation in the fact
that the convention utterances of the Demo
cratic party, if in any decree uncertain or con
tradictory, can now be judged and interpreted
by executive acts and messages and by definite
propositions in legislation. This is especially
true of what is popularly known as the tariff
question. The -'-sue can not now be obscured.
It is cot a contest between schedules, but be
tween wide apart principles. The foreign com
petitors for our market have with quick instinct
eon bow one issue cf this contest nviy bring
them advantage and our own peeplo are not so
dull as to miss or nepiect tbe great interests
that arc involved lor then.
The assault upon our protective system U
open and fit-riant. Protection is asaiied as un
constitutional in law or as vicious in principle,
and those who hold surh views sincerely can
not stop short of n ,-?soute elimination from
?ur tariff laws of the principle of protection.
The Mills bill is only a step, but it itowards an
object that tbe leaders of Democratic thought
and legislation have clearly in mind. The im
portant question is not so much the length of
the step a tho direction of M. Judged by the
executive mesao of December last, by the
Mills bill, by the debate in Congress and bv
the St. Louis platform, the Democratic party
will, if supported by the country, place the
tariff laws upon apuroly revenue basis. This is
practical free trade free trade in the English
sense. The legend upon the banner ;may not
be "free trade." W may be the most obscure
motto, "tariff reform," but neitnerthe banner
nor the Inscription is conclusive, or, indeed,
very important. The assault itself is the im
portant fact.
Those who teach that the import dutf upon
foreign goofc soM in our market ls paid by the
consumer and that the pnae wf the domestic
competing article is enhanced to the amount of
the duty on the imported vrticlo that every
million of dollars collected for customs duties
represents many millions more which do not
reach the treasury, but are paid by our citizens
as the increased coat of domestic productions
resulting from the tariff hiws may not intend
to discredit in the minds of others our system
of levying duties on competing foreign pro
ducts, but it is clearly already discredited in
their own. We can not doubt, without impugn
ing their Integrity, that, if tree to act upon
their convictions, they would so revise our laws
as to lay the burden of the customs revenue
upon articles that are not produced in this
country and to place upon tbe free list all
competing foreign products.
' do not stop la refute this theory as to tbe
eflect of our tariff duties. Those who advance
it arc students of maxims and net of the mar
kets. They may re safely allowed to call their
project tariff reform, if tho people understand
that in the end the argument compels free
trade in all competing products. This end may
not be reached abruptly and its approach may
be accompanied with some expressions of sym
pathy for our protected industries and our
worsting people, but it will certainly come, if
these early steps do not arouse the people to
iff ect iv resistance.
The Republican party holds that a protective
tariff is constitutional, wholesome and neces
Bary. We &o not offer a fixed schedule, but a
principle. We wiH revise the schedule, modify
rates, but always with an intelligent provikion
as to the effect upon domestic production and
the wages or our working people. We believe
It to be one .f the worthy objects of tarifT legis
lation to preserve tbe American market for
American producers and to maintain the Amer
ican scale of wages by adequate discriminating
duties uyon foreign competing products. The
effect of lower rates and larger importa
tions upon the public revenue is
contipgent and doubtful, but not so the
effect upon American pcoduction and
American wages. Less work and lower
wages must be accepted as the inevit
able result of the increased oBetwg of foreign
goods in our market. By way of recompense
for this reduction In his wages and the loss of
the American market it is suggested that the
diminished wages of the workingmanwill have
an undiminished purchasing power and that he
will be able to make up for the loss of the
home market by an enlarged foreign market.
Our workingmen hare the settlement of the
question in their own hands. They now ob
tain higher wages and live more comfortably
than those of any other country. They will
make choice between the substantial advan
tages they .'. ve in hand and the deceptive
promises and foree-.uts of those theoriz
ing reformers. They will decide for them
selves and for the country whether the pro
tectee system shall be continued or destroyed.
The fact of a treasury surplus, the amount of
which is variously stated, has directed
public attention to a consideration of the
methods by which the National income may best
be reduced to tbe level of a wise and necessary
expenditure. This condition has been seized
upon by those who are hosttle to protective
custom duties as an advantageous base of
attack upon our tariff laws. They have magni
fied and nursed the surplus, which they af
fect to deprecate, .seemingly for the purpose
of exaggerating the evil in order to recon
cile tfio people to the extreme remedy
they propose. A proper reduction of the rev
enues does not necessitate and should not sug
gest the abandonment or impairment of tbe
SrotectiTe system Tbeinetinda aaggejted by I
Cm
yS9f : Jf
I tJw My
oar convention will bot neea to be exhausted
order to effect the necessary reduction. We
are not likely to be calloc upon. I think, to
make a present ohoico between the surrender
of the protective sytem and the entir.- repeal
of tbe internal taxes. Such a contingency, in
view of the present relation of expenditures to
revenues is remote. The inspection aifd regu
lation of the manufacture and sate of oleomar
garine is important and the revenue derived
from it Id cot to great that the repeal of the
l'w need eater into any plaa of revenue reduc
tion. The surplus now in the treasury should be
used in the purchase of bonds. The law author
izes this use of it and it is not needed for cur
rent or deficiency appropriations, tbe people
and not the banks in which it has been depos
itedshould have the advantage of its use by
stopping intern upon the public debt. At
least those who needlessly hoard it should not
be allowed to use the fear of a money string
ency, thus produced, to coerce public sentiment
upon other questions.
Closely connected with the subject or the
tariff is that of tbe importation of foreign labor
ers under contracts of service to be performed
here. The law now in force prohibiting such
contracts received my cordial support in tbe
Senate and such amendments as may be fo'ua
necessary effectively to deliver our working
men and women from this most inequitable
form of competition will have my sincere ad
vocacy. Legislation prohibiting the importa
tion of laborers under contracts to serve here
will, however, afford very inadequate aelief
to our working people if the system of
protective duties is broken down. If the prod
ucts of American shops must compete In the
American market without favoring duties with
tbe products of cheap foreign labor the effect
will be different, if at alLonly in degree, whether
the cheap laborer is across the street or over
the sea. Such competition will soon reduce
wages here to tbe level of those abroad, and
when that rondition is reached we will not need
any laws forbidding the Importation of laborers
under contract they wilt have no inducement
to come, and the employer no inducement to
send for them.
In the earlier years of our history public
agencies to promote Immigration were com
mon. The pioneer wanted a neighbor with
more fiiemtlv instincts than the Indian. La
bor was scarce and fully employed. Uut the
day of the immigration bureau has gone by.
While ur doors will continue open to proper
immigration, we do not need to issue invi
tations to the inhabitants of other countries
to come to our shores or to share our citizen
ship. Indeed, the necossity ot some inspec
tion and limitation is obvious. We should
resolutely refuse to permit foreign Governments
to send their paupers and their criminals to
our ports. We are also clearly under a Cuty to
defend our civilization by excluding alien races
whose ultimate assimilation with our people is
neither possible nor desirable. The family has
been the nucleus ot our best immigration and
the home the most potent assimilating force in
our civilization.
The objections to Chinese immigration are
distinctive and conclusive, and arc now 6o gen
erally accepted as such that the question has
passed entirely beyond the stage of argument.
The laws relating to this subject would, if I
should be charged with their enforcement, be
faithfully executed. Suci amendments or
further legislation as may be necessary and
proper to pretent evasions ot the laws and to
stop further Chinese immigration would also
meet my approval. The expression of the con
vention upon tht srtjeel is in entire harmony
with my views.
Our civil compact is a government by majori
ties; and the law loses its sanction and tbe
magistrate our respect wher this compact is
broken. The evil results of election frauds do
not expend themselves upon tbe voters who
are robbed of their rightful influence in pub
lic affairs. The individual, or community, or
party that practices or connives at election
frauds has suffered irreparable injury, and
will sooner or later realize that to exchange
the American system of majority rule for mi
nority control is not only unlawful and unpat
riotic, but very unsafe for those who promote
it. Tho disfranchisement of a single legal
elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too
grave to be regarded lightly. The right of
every qualified elector to cast one free ballbt
and to have it honestly counted must not be
questioned. Every constitutional power
should be used to make this right secure and
punish frauds upon tbe ballot. Our colored
people do not ask special legislation m their in
terest, but only to be made secure in the com
mon rights of American citizenship. They will,
however, natural? mistrust the sincerity of
those party leaders who appeal to their race
for support only in tho-e localities where the
suffrage is free and election results doubtful.
and compass their disfranchisfaent where
their votes would te controlling and ihtr choice
can not be coerced.
Tbe Nation, not less than tbe States, Is de
pendent for prosperity and security upon the
intelligence and morality of the people. This
common interest very early suggested National
aid in the endowment and establishment ot L
schools and colleges in the new States. There
is. I believe, a present exigency that calls for
still more liberal and direct appropriations in
aid of common school education in the States.
Tbe territorial form of government is a tem
porary expedient, not a permanent civil condi
tion. It is adapted to tbe exigency that sug
gested it, but becomes inadequate and even op
pressive, when applied to fixed and populous
communities. Several Territories are well
able to bear the burdens nd discharge the du
ties of free commonwealths in the American
Union.
To exclude them is to deny the just rights of
their people and may well excite their indig
nant protest. No question of the political pref
erence of the people of a Territory should close
against them the hospitable door which has
opened to two-thirds of the existing States, but
admission should be resolutely refused to any
Territory, a majority of whose people cherish
institutions that are repugnant to our civiliza
tion or inconsistent with a republican form of
government.
The declaration of the convention against
"All combinations of capital organized in trusts
or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition
of trade among our citizens," i? in harmony
with the views entertained and publicly ex
pressed by me long before the assembling or
the convention. Ordinarilv capital shares the
losses of idleness with labor: but under tbe
operation of the tr- st. in some of its
forms, the wage worker alone suffers
loss, while idle capital receives its dividends
frm a trust fund. Producers who refuse to
join the combination are destroyed and com
petition as an element of prices is eliminated.
It can not be doubted that the legislative au
thority should and will find a method or dealing
fairly and effectively with these and other
abuses connected with this subject.
It din hardly be necessary for me to say that
I am heartily in sympathy with tbe declaration
of the convention upon the subject of pensions
to our soldiers and sailors. What they gave
and what they suffered I bad some oppor
tunity to observe, and in a small measure,
to experience. They gave ungrudgingly. It
was not a trade, but an offering. The meas
ure was heaped up, running over. What
they achieved only a distant generation can
adequately tell. Without attempting to dis
cuss particular propositions, I may 'add that
incisures in behalf of the surviving veterans
of tbe war and of the families of their dead
comrades should be conceived and executed in
a spirit of justice and of the most grateful l.V
erality and Unit, in the competition for civi.
appointments, honorablu military service
should have appropriate recognition.
The law regulating appointments to the
classified civil servico received my support in
the Scr.-ate. in the belief that it opened the
way to a much-needed reform. I still think
so and theucfoie officially approve the clear
and forcible expression of the convention upon
this subject. The law should 'are the aid
of a friendly interpretation and be faithfully
and vigorously enforced. All appointments
under it should be absolutely free from par
tisan considerations and influence. Some ex
tensions of ihe classified list are practicable
and desirable and further legislation extend
ing the reronn to other branches of the service
to which it isiipplicable, would receive my ap
proval. In appointments to every grade and
department, fitness and not party service,
should be the essential and discriminating test,
and fidelity and efficiency the only sure tenure
ot offios. Only the telsrai o! the public service
m'thouid suggest xtmonOt from office. I know
fi'f practical difficulties attending the attempt
tojipply tho spirit of the Civil-Service rules to
all pointm-.-nts and removals. It will, how
ever, be my sincere purpose, if elected, to a-1-vancclhe
reform.
I notice with pleasure that the conver.tloa
did not omit to express it solicitude forthe pro
motion of virtue and temperance anion; our
people. The Republican party has always been
friendly to every thing that tended to make tbe
hose life, or our people free, pore and prosper
ous and wiU in the future bo trae to its history
in this respect.
Our relations with foreign powers should be
characterized by friendliness aad respect. The
right of our people and ot our ahi9 to hospita
ble treatment should be insisted upon with dig
nity and firmness. Our Nation H toe great,
both in material strength and in msral power,
to indulge in bluster or to be- suspected
of timorousness. Vacillation an incon
sistency are as incompatible with uc
cessful diplomacy as tbev are nth tbe
National dignity. We should especially
cultivate and extend our diplomas ar.it
commercial relations with the Central anJ
South American States. Our fisheries should
be fostered and protected. The hardships
and risks that are the necessary inci
dents of the business should not be in
creased by an inhespitab le exclusion from
the near lying ports. The resources or a Una,
dignified and consistent diplomacy at? un
doubtedly equal to the prompt and peacefsl
solution ot the difficulties that now exist. Our
neighbors will surely not expect m our port a
commercial hospitality they deny to us- m
theirs.
I can not extend thi letter by a snocial ref
erence to other subjects upon which the coe
ventlon gave an expression In respict t
them, as well as to those I ha.e noticed. I am
in entire agreement with the declarations of
the convention. The resolutions rotating
to tho coinage, to the rebuilding el the navy, to
ceast defenses and to public lands, expro-n con
clusions to M or which I gave tr.y support in
the Senate. Inviting a calm and thoughtful
consideration of these public questions, we
submit them to the people. Their intelli
gent patriotism and the good providence that
made and has kept us a Nation will lead them
to wise and safe conclusions. Very respect
fully, your obedient servant.
Uknmami Harrison.
BELOIT VETERANS.
General Harrison Visltod By Veteran
From Northwentera Kansas.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 11. Last even
ing a special train of ten coaches, band:
somely decorated, brought 000 veterans
and their wives from Northwestern Kan
sas, in the vicinity of Beloit. Shortly
before eight o'clock tbey assembled in tbe
rotunda of tbe New Denison Hotel, with
their banners, and as General Harrisor
appeared on tbe landing of tbe stairway;
tbe veterans gave one great cheer, or
"Kansas yell," as one of tbem said. Gen
eral W. H. Caldwell, of Beloit, corps com
mander, niadto a brief address on behalf of
bis comrades and was followed by Colonel
Will Whitney, commander of tbe first
division, wbo assured his audience that
Kansas grew more corn and more ba
bies than any other State in tbe Union and
promised General Harrison a majority of
60,000. Colonel Whitney )t j peech aroused
groat enthusiasm. General Harrison in
response said: I have choice to make
and yon have one. I can occupy tbe few
moments I have to sparo either in public
address or in private ;ersonal greeting. X
think you would prefc, as I shall prefer,
to omit the public speech that I may be
presented to each of you. Cries of "Good,
good." I beg you, therefore, to permit
me only to say that I very heartily appre
ciate this greeting from my comrades of
Kansas. Tbe bond that binds us together
as soldiers of the late war is one that is en
during and close. No party considerations
can break it; it is stronger than political
ties; and we are able thus in our Grand
Army associations to come together upon
that broad and high plane of fraternity,
loyalty and charity. Applause and cries
of "Good, good." Let me now, if it be
your pleasure, extend a comrade's band to
each of you. Applause.
The Utah Peculiarity.
Salt Lake Citv, Utah, Sept. 11. as re
sponse to tbe resolution recently intro
duced in the lower house pf CTgrs,calI
ng?r. rtilvney-General Garland for in
formation as to the number of convictions
made for tbe offenses of polygamy, adul
tery and unlawful cohabitation in Utah
under the various laws passed by Con
gress, United States District Attorney
Peers has just forwarded to Washington a
transcript of tbe records of bis office show
ing tbe following: Total convictions for
polygamy under tbe laws of 1802 and 188
16; total convictions for unlawful cohabi
tation under tbe laws of 18.S2, 497; total
convictions for adultery under tbe laws of
lt$7, 8; total convictions for fornication
under tbe laws of 1S.VT, S; total fines and
costs collected to date for violations of
these laws, 42,000.
A Hitch In Grain Rate.
Chicago, Sept. 11. There is a hitch In
the proposed arrangement in grain rates
from Chicago to intorior" points in tbe
territory of tbe Central Traffic Associa
tion. It was proposed to put tbe advanced
rates into effect September 15, but this can
not now be done, owing to the refusal of
tbe Baltimore & Ohio and tbe Nickel Plate
to become parties to tbe agreement. These
roads object to the restrictions in the mill
ing in transit privilege, it having been de
cided by tbe Chicago freight committee
that no road should apply the milling in
transit rates to points not actually on its
own tracks. A meeting of the committee
has been called to farther consider the
question.
No Republican Ticket Wanted For Texas.
Galvkston, Tex., Sept. 11. The Repub
licans of Galveston County in mass meet
ing last night elected delegates to the
State Republican convention, which meets
at Fort Worth September 20, and adopted
this resolution: "That the mob violence
of Fort Bend County and the assassina
tion of Joseph Hoffman, of Washington
County, admonish us that similar scenes
may be expected to follow tha vigorous
efforts of our party in counties in which
tbe Republican vote predominates; there
fore it is tbe'sense of this convention that
tbe interests of tbe Republican party will
be best served by not nominating a State
ticket."
lie Meant Stahlaecker.
Washington, Sept. 12. Before ths
special committee on the new library
building Judge Kelley yesterday an
nounced that his resolution concerning
improper means used to influence the
architect was directed at Representative
Stahlnecker, of New York, and tho com
mittee then adjourned till Thursday.
Robbers Ont of Lack.
Prescott, A. T., Sept. 11. The west
bound express train was stopped by three
men at Parker's Mill last night. They did
not get any thing. A reward of $1,.W
has been offered for their capture and
Wells, Fargo & Co. will increase tha
amount.
The Dark Secret Abandoned.
New Yonic, Sept. 12. The dory Dark
Secret which started on its voyage from
Boston to Queenstown -me weeks ago wai
abandoned at sea by Captain Anderson,
who arrived here this morsing in the Nor
wegian banc Nora i
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