The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-07


in favor of protecting American industry
and of the taxation of the liquor traffic.
There is no juggling of words on either
proposition. With a good ticket from head
to foot, and with q sound platform of prin-
ciples, the Ohio Republicans enter into the
fight in good shape, and not burdened with
any unnecessarily absurd relations to the
national contest of 1884. 1t is a State fight,
on State issues, for State offices.
MR.. LEWIS Fl. BoGERT of New jersey, is an
aggravated case of the clerk who owns not only
the whole establishment where he is employed,
but has a mortgage upon his employers also.
Lewis was book-keeper for a mining company,
the office of which was located on Broadway,
New York. Whether the officers of the company
had watered their stock so freely that IT would
not keep through warm weather, or whether
suckers do not bite at mining Investments In
the summer months, is not stated; but at all
events 1t was found convenient to CLOSE the office
temporarily. This conclusion was mentioned to
Mr.. Bogert, together with the information that
his services would not be needed until fall. The
young man offered no objection, but departed to
his New Jersey fastness, taking the key of the
safe with him. The officers, ON becoming aware
of this supposed. oversight on the part OF their
late book-keeper, sent for the key, but he re-
fused to give it up. Then they hired an expert
who opened the safe, only to disclose
the absence of every ledger, stock
book, check-book and valuable document.
Negotiations were again opened with the dis
charged clerk, who blandly informed the anxious
inquirers that tho missing books were in his
DOaapaaiOn He Kindly avmnathiza1 with his
former employers in their distress, but refused
to give up the property until certain prelimi-
naries were arranged. He owed $500, which he
had no means of paying. If the company would
liquidate this debt he would joyfully relieve
them of embarrassment by returning the books
and papers. Mr.. BOgert thought he had the
d~eadwOod, or what, in cultured New York
phrase, would be called the drop" on the mining
company. The possibility that harsh measures
would be used with 80 important and dis
tinguished a person as himself had not entered
into his calculations, but such, alas, was the
case. The mining company, no longer cowed
by the commanding presence, and perhaps being
short of ready money, as mining companies
sometimes are, boldly resolved to break loose
from the tyranny OF their former dictator. The
facts were laid before the grand jury, an indict-
ment charging Mr.. Bogert with grand larceny
w EobuEuouJ anu DtIOT0 JudLf young md ndu
learned of the outrage, minions of the law
swooped down and lodged him in the Tombs.
He has not yet recovered from his astonlsh-
ment, but firmly expects that when the officers
realize the atrocity OF their conduct he will be
set at liberty and his debts paid.
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THE journal reproduced a New York special
with respect to the approaching seventeen an
niversary of Henry Ward Beeoher's birthday, in
which Mrs. Beeoher is made TO speak OF the
early days Of their married life, when Henry
was a pastor in indianapolis and Lawrence
burg, Ind, at a salary of $500 a year." The
good lady proceeds to say that during those
years they lived on less than one dollar a day,
the inference being that the Second Presbyteri-
an Church, OF this city, OF which Mr.. Beecher
was the pastor, allowed their brilliant minister
to exc out a miserable existence on a paltry
pittance. Now the facts are that Mr. Beecher
never was "a pastor in indianapolis at a
salary of $500 a year" His salary ranged
from 500 to 81, 900, the latter amount
being paid him In 1847, when he
left the church here to go to Brooklyn. In a let
ter to Mr.. G. f. GARRISON, then OF Brookville,
now of the Des Moines Register, written in 1847,
aud reproduced in the Journal of June 16, 1877,
Mr.. Beecher says 81, 900 in indianapolis would
be more than $1,000 in Brooklyn, but that he
was to get only 81, 800 there, and the change
was made solely on account of Mrs. Beecher's
health. He says it would be financially better
for him to remain here, and he hoped. after a
few years. absence, to be able to return to the
West. Ih'his letter of resignation to the elders
of the church, Mr.. Beecher bases his desire for a
change entirely upon the condition of his wife's
health. The idea of inadequate support never
came into the case until lately, when it seems
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and slur the Second Church here to, in some
measure, magnify the subsequent career of Mr..
Beecher, which needs no magnIfying. In the
Second Church, when Mr.. Beecher was the
pastor, were such men as Gen. Thomas A. Norris,
VIM. s.. Hubbard. Vim. n. Jackson and John
S. SPAIN, aud of those dead, such as Daniel
Yaades, d. V. Culley, Samuel Merrill, John l..
Ketcham, Oliver III. Smith. Henry D. Coburn,
Horace Bsssett, and others. These men would
not allow their pastor to be ill paid or to be put
to straits to live respectfully. In 1S43 circuit
judges were paid o salary Of $500 a year, and in
1881 the salary of a Supreme judge was 500,
and in 1852 only $1,000; SO that ST, 900 to a
minister In 1847, as was paid Mr.. Beecher, was
up to the figure paid in the other learned profess
sions. Mr.. Beeoher's career has been sufficiently
wonderful and creditable to both himself and
mis- wife, not to need the side-liehts of falsehood
to increase the marvel. Certainly Mr.. Beecher
himself would not like to have something very
like a libel upon the Christian character of the
church with which his name is so closely identi-
fled to pass without denial.
RIGHT REV. BISHOP ELDER has issued a strong
letter with respect to dances at Catholic picnics
and entertainments. He says "'there must be no
round dancing at any time, and no dancing of
any kind after dark" If the managers of any
park or hall or garden keep 1t open after dark
for dancing purposes when 1t may be leased by
any Catholic order or association, the temptation
will be strong for Catholics to join in the amuse-
ment, and, therefore,, the Bishop says: ''NO such