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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

the course of single year. This is the penalty
which the salary and wage-workers will be
obliged to pay by and by if this silver folly Ia
persisted IL. Cleveland Leader
THAT the theories of reformers and their one
sided views will need correction by men like
Voorhees, and Vance, who may stray to the
borders AND sometimes over the borders which
separate delnagogy from Democracy, is doubt
amendments; they will not repeal
Avalanche.
SOME papers tina. profess concurrence in the
opinion that silver coinage should be suspended.
think. nevertheless that the Secretary of the
treasury should make some forced silver pay
ments just to see what the effect would be. If
ne would confine his experiments to members of
Congress, we should be willing to see the plan
| tried.-Alilwaukee Sentinel.
THE reassgnment of Mr.. Bland 20 the chair
manship OF the coinage committee will be crit
cised as slap at the ADMINISTRATORS silver pol
Icy. But 1t is simply a just recognition of Dem
ocratic public opinion 1t is the administration,
not the Speaker, that is off the party track The
President and the Speaker are not responsible to
each other for their official acts or utterances.
Washington Post (Dem.)
If the men who believe with jeff Davis, that
State sovereignty Is the cornerstone of Jeffer-
sonian Democracy should withdraw from the
Democratic party that organization would at
once become Insignificant and unmeaning as
factor in American politics. It's ruling, control
ing power rests Still In the hands OF men who be-
lleve In the State-soveregntv doctrines of the
two Jeffs-Thomas and Davis.--Chicaga Tribune.
ALL the influences which have mads Demo
cratic House dangerous in the past-so danger
Gus that Democrats and Republicans have
Joined in fervent thanksgiving when such
House adjourned-seem to be especially favored
by Speaker Carlisle, and endowed with increased
power for mischief. There will be cause for re-
Jolcing indeed, if this session of Congress ends
without harm to the country.-NewYork Trib-
une.
The Mormon Church is an establishment of
religion only in its spiritual ministrations of a
religious belief. In its character of a temporal
ministry of property, of civil government. of
social relations, of any affair whatsoever of this
wicked world, it is an establishment of politics,
and as such is subject to determination, and
ought to be exterminated for its manifold
transgressions, by the supreme political
thority.-Chicago Times
The owners of the silver mines are rampant.
The inf1ationists, of course, go with them. and,
still worse. many honest minded but deluded
people are found in the same following. Sooner
or later we must try the question by an effort to
pay the national bonded obligation in the silver
dollars. 1t the present administration has the
nerve to make such call it will take just six
months to settle whole question. Mr.. Eustis
ought to be allowed to have his way for it is
only by the saddest of experience that these peo-
pie can be taught the most ordinary common
sense on the financial questions. Cincinnati
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THE QUESTION OF IMMIGRANTS.

Attention has repeatedly been directed to
the character of certain immigrants, some of
whom, it has been alleged, are here because
imported by capitalists on account of their
willingness to work for low wages. That the
experiment has been expensive admits Of no
denial. The Poles, or such, at least, as have
been brought over in lump, are densely ig-
norant, saturated with superstition, and easily
moved to violate law and order. They were
Poles who made the trouble at Cleveland a
few months ago, when a senseless strike was
made against a certain manufacturing firm
there, and resorted to murderous assaults to
render it effective They were Poles who had
the church riot at Toledo. They were Poles
who threatened Detroit because of church
troubles, and it is Poles that are at
the bottom Of the mining troubles in the Mo-
nongahela region. The worst feature of these
outbreaks is that the men who bring them
about are not citizens, having never taken the
trouble to become naturalized. Ignorant and
vicious, they do not amalgamate, do not come
into harmony with American institutions. It
is safe to say that large per cent. Of our La
Dor troubles originates in such men, recent
acquisitions, who set discomfort on foot, or
after it is up, as in the Pittsburg riots, give
it vengeance never contemplated by homes
but dissatisfied men. This is one of the vex-
ing questions of the hour-how to deal with
the great body of immigrants that Europe an
nually sends to our shores. Many who come
are desirable acquisitions; they come to
found homes and to ally themselves for
ever with American institutions. They are
intelligent and patriotic. But there are 9TH
ers and the per cent. is deplorably large, who
have no conception of the advantages and
privileges held out to all who seek honorable
citizenship in this country. Such as have not
been imported, as above fall into the partisan
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
glish2

ENGLAND has a powerful society sfor the
preservation of footpaths.
GEORGE KINGSTON, of Wairoa. New Zealand,
recently died from bee sting.
Mr.. RUsKIN hopes to finish his autobiography
by the 7th of February, his sixty seventh birth
day anniversary.
THE only suitable reservation for the Apache
ia a graveyard" is the Helena Herald's conclu.
sion of an editorial on the subject.
RosCoE CoNKLING sends check for $50 to the
Grant Monument Association of New York in
the furtherance of most worthy cause
r. J. BURDETTE's middle name is Jones.
Robert has been for years trying to conceal this
fact, bat some heartless miscreant has given il
away
NELLIE GOULD, the only daughter of Jay
Gould. joined the West Presbyterian Church in
New York. on Sunday. Mr. Gould was present
at the service.
ONE firm in western Massachusetts last year
made $4,000 drums, using half million feet of
lumber $4,000 sheep skins, 1000 pounds Of cord
and tons of other fittings
ZoLA's new novel, "LEuvre, 'fis out and much
of the interest of the novel is photographs
Edward Manet, the late impressionist painter. is
one of the chief characters of the book.
SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin, was born on
the Vermont side of Lake Champlain, spent his
boyhood at Crown Point. NJ Y, and went West
to grow up with the country He is now worth
So, 00O, 000
A STATUE of Alexander Selkirk, otherwise
Selcraig, the more than doubtful original of De-
foes Immortal hero, Robinson Crusoe. has Just
been erected at Largo the birthplace of that re-
fractory seaman.
LAST year at Buda Pesth, at a banquent in
honor of the French delegation to the exposition,
NJ. De Lesseps promised that his next child
should receive Magyar name; and the Hungari-
ans in Paris are now reminding him of his
words
JAMES B. PACE is the richest man in Rich
mond, Va His wealth is put at 81, 100, 000 Mr.
Pace, who is forty eight years DID, is president
of the Planters National Bank and of the Mem
pills. Birmingham e. Atlantic railroad He owns
large ranch in the Panhandle" of Texas. the
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hard times.

THE wild-eyed Gibson, Democratic Con
gresham from West Virginia, is tired of wait
ing for more generous division of the official
ioaves and. fishes, and does not hesitate to
criticise the President, going so far as to de-
nounce him as traitor to his party, unmind-
full of the fact that such charge must be
construed as compliment of gratifying pro-
portions. In an address before the Virginia
Democratic Association of the District of Co
lumbia he organized himself into smelling
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MRS. IDA GATES, of Chicago. a understanding,
stylishly-dressed young woman, has been ar
rested at New York for introducing Chicago Gus
toms in Knickerbocker society. It appears that
she took too much wine at dinner-this she ad-
mits-and proceeded to smash pretty Jardiniere
and about fifty dollars worth of bric-s brac on
the mantef She pleads trat She .ves trying to
find her purse. 1t must not be inferred that a
person that is guilty of keeping jardiniere,
pretty or otherwise, would steal purse, but all
the same the purse was missing and the tipsy
Mrs. Gates could not find it without smashing
the crockery.
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The Good of Frequent EIections.

Mr.. Blaine's Augusta Speech
/ believe it is a mistake in the republican coy-
eminent to get rid of frequent elections Per-
haps we need not yet fear the beginning Of
tyranny. as Samuel Adams warned rs we should
if we dropped annual elections; but am per-
suaded we would find great advantage in retain
ing the old system. People must govern them
selves or somebody will soon govern them, and
there is no way to keep popular government
fresh, strong and effective like frequent and
we'll contested elections. / venture the predic-
ton that the State of Maine not perhaps in my
own time, but before great many years. will re-
turn to the old system. There are few men OF
the most cultivated nations of Europe who know
.rvthing of popular government Educated in
all things else they know nothing of that order
ly self-government in which Americans are so
well instructed. Lot US see that instruction OF
or frequency.
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A sCoUNDRELLY PROPOSITION,

The proposition made by M. De Lesseps, to
have the French government legalize lot
terry to secure an amount eqal to $12O, OOO 600,
to finish or forward the Panama canal, is
monstrous, and can be tolerated only because
of numerous precedents. These, however in
no wise change the character of the enter
prise. A public lottery may have every ele-
ment Of fairness and the prizes may be
honestly distributed, exactly as advertised.
But even then it is in itself an unmixed
evil To secure the enormous amount of
$12O, 100000 by this means is simply to drag
that much from the scanty hoardings of the
poor but provident people of that country.
Sanctioned by law, the managers Of this scheme
would hold out most tempting inducements,
promises of fortunes to the holders of lucky
numbers costing, perhaps, but a franc each.
Thousands of the poor of that country would
be literally reduced to beggary through the
seductive offers that would be made In the
end, taken together, they would be poorer by
not less than $685. 600, 900. Of course this
draft would not come all at once, but would
probably extend over year or two, or more.
But such tax, even self-imposed, would
prove fearful drain upon the limited re-
sources of the French poor. The influence
of the lobby is probably as potent in France
as elsewhere, and it may be that the measure
may be passed and the work of plucking the
poor begun. Lotteries have been legalized in
that and other countries for many pur-
poses, as varied as public enterprise
could allow, but it is quite certain that none
of them but worked incalculable harm to the
people. Perjury and crime are the legitimate
outcome of these enterprises, and the money
realized is in fact a forced loan.
If the Panama canal scheme is a good one,
and likely to prove paying investment, the
fact could be demonstrated to the capitalists
of France and other countries, or popular
loan might be legalized and bonds in small
denomination issued, so that the people might
puICHaoC oOoCh IL LuoJ SiW III. Even ILLS
might prove disastrous to those of limited
MEANS and it would not possess that peculiar
fascination that induces men to iffar-
poverish themselves in the vain hope
of becoming suddenly rich through
the lucky turn of wheel in a gambling
scheme. In point of fact the Panama canal
enterprise gives little promise of becoming
success. Millions have already been sunk,
and the estimates have been greatly exceeded.
To counteract the inevitable effect of this
fact M. De Lesseps processes to believe that
the canal, when finished, will pay dividends
three times as great as those of the Suez Ca
nal Company. His attempt to secure char
ter for lottery last July was followed by a
call for one hundred and twenty five francs
per share from the shareholders, amounting
to nearly $l5,OOO,0OO This may have the
effect of increasing the strength of the lobby,
the shareholders being anxious to get some
body else to divide the expense with them.
In the interest of the poor Of France it is to
be hoped that the scheme will not succeed.
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swim at New York, and become the tools Of
designing and INSCRIPTIONS tricksters who
manipulate elections, city, State and national,
solely with their own interests in view.
STEPPED in ignorance, and fairly drowned in
prejudice as urreasoning as ignorance is capa-
BILE Of, it is preposterous to expect patriotism
to have any place in their make
up. The Poles, as a mass,
are ever ripe for trouble. Nothing
seems to be able to check them Religion has
no restraint sufficient to hold them back from
the most outrageous assaults and riots. Once
started, murder and destruction take posses
sion of them, and it would be as easy to
reason with a pack of wolves as with them.
These make trouble in mining towns and
wherever employed in numbers In New
York and other large cities the vicious ele-
ment is largely made up from such as have
found refuge on these shores, but who have
no sympathy with our institutions further
than they can be made to serve their pleasure.
1t will take wise management to handle
these incongruous elements. Time and
education will do much; but time
and education are slow 1t needs no argu-
ment, we think, that the murderous should be
held in check, and that those who rush to do
violence should be repressed in manner that
will teach them that they cannot defy law and
ORDER nor do murder, without being held to
the strictest accountability. AS for those
who are herded by election manipulators to do
their dirty work, it is the duty of patriotic cit-
zens everywhere to throw their influence in
favor of better things, and not allow this COM
pact and corrupt mass to hold the balance of
power as was the case in the elections of 1884,
when few thousand ignorant and degraded
men in New York and Brooklyn said who
should be President, and thereby changed the
policy of this mighty Nation of over 5O,OOO,-
600 people. The danger is present, and it
devolves upon every citizen to do his share
toward saving the country from this element
in our national composition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

WITH Zukertort and Steinitz matched to
play chess for $4,000 and the championship
of the world; with Jacob Schaefer and Wig
naux matched to play game of billiards for
$4,000; with Paddy Ryan and John L. Sullivan
matched to fight for $1,000, and with Kansas
City raising fund of $25, 900 to back base
ball club it can hardly be said that the people
of America are greatly distressed because of
hard times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

Six men of the whaling schooner Mary E.
Simmons were rescued, recently, after having
passed two days in all open boat They were
towed to sea by whale which they had
struck. This may explain where civil-service
reform is. 1t struck the Democratic whale
ten months AGO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

Mr.. BLAINE agrees with Senator Hoar in
favoring annual State elections on the ground
that by their frequency the people receive
political education of inestimable value. Elec-
lions in this State are biennial, but SO far no
complaint has been heard from any source
that Hooslers show lack Of acquaintance
with politics
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11
The Weekly journal.

The Weekly Journal comprises twelve pages
of carefully selected reading matter, and has no
superior as paper for the farmer. 1t contains
all the current news up to the date of issue, and
vast quantity of the best literature of the time
The sermons of Dr. Dewitt C. Talmage are reg
Larry printed in the Weekly Journal. The Week
y Journal is furnished at the low price of 81 per
year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

A MISSOURI congressman has devised labor
saving arrangement in the shape of stamp so
worded as to fit the majority of answers required
by his importunate constituents. It is needless
to say that it conveys the intelligence that the
application has been duly filed with the proper
official
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

The new editor Of the Albany Express
charges Governor Hill, in his first editorial
with being guilty of huggermuggery, and
backs up the accusation with proofs Few
people knew the New York Governor was as
bad as that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

In his address before the jackson ban quet,
at Columbus Henry Watterson said: 81 am
afraid the President has been misled by nat
ural and preponderating influences" 1t takes
long time for news to reach Kentucky, but
it gets there eventually.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

The dead are soon forgotten by the world
at large. The miners entombed at Nanti-
coke, how many know whether their bodies
have been recovered, or what is being done
about it9 It appears that the work is slowly
progressing. with imminent danger Of an
other cave upon those doing the digging.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

HoN. DANIEL w. VOORHEES, has gone into
the starch-making business. This is hardly
necessary as preliminary to stiffening up his
spine for the threatened contest with civil
service reform. The Democratic reform coon
is ready to come down at the sight of the first
rrnn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

IT Is said that while 81 ZOO base ball 'stwirl-
ers" are doing duty as bar tenders, during the
winter, the Star-eyed Goddess Of Reform is
acting as cigar store sign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

and the other Is wholly American may nevor
finish either of them One Of nv PLAYS Is an
attempt at the classical while the other Is Of
America during the late war. tell you am
having lots of fun in writing them, even IL they
should prove to be fat failures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

STUART RoBsoN's real name is Henry Stuart,
and William FL. Cranes name is Thomas Dick
erson. The dramatic team, Robson & Crane,
may be spoken of as Tom, Dick and Harry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

SPEAKING of the prevailing blizzard, Chi
cago paper says: "The telegraph indicates
shat it is the genuine article" Indianapolis
aesds no assistance -tss e prove that
1t is all that has been claimed for it.
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M. PAsTEUR is still of the opinion that Ameri-
cans won't trop vite." We've often noticed this
popularity, but dsliked calling attention to it.
A people that won't trop vite" may not suit the
French chemist, but they generally get along
somehow without outside help. There is diff
ference of opinion here, anyhow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

Letter in Cincinnati Uvsnmercial Gazet tie.
II am amusing myself with writing two books
and two plays. write awhile on one until get
tired and then turn to the other 1t would
hardly be right to give you anything of the char
acter of the works. One Of my books is n tale
Of the capture Of Constantinople by the Turks,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

THIS is the kind Of time when a suffering
public wants to realize on the tradition that
gooa, stiff, cold weather makes trade lively.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-11

WHAT is to be gained by the latest politico-
municipo issue2-Indlanapolis News.
What is to be gained by such pick-or po En-
olish2
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Car be found at the following places:
LOEDON-American Exchange in Europe, 40
Strand.
PARIS-American Exchange in Paris 35 Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW Y0RK-St Nicholas and Windsor Hotels.
GHICAGO-Pa House.
CTaoINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co., 154 Vino street
LOUIsvILLE-C. T. bearing northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
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A Months Showing for the Equal suffraeists.

A Months Showing for the Equal Suffracists.
Boston Journal.
The chief items Of the month are the election
to the English Parliament of more than 500
members who expected to favor suffrage for
women; the participation in the canvass OF a
lage number of ladies, known as the primrose
League the re- election of Mr. Woodall, the par
liamentary leader; the appointment of q lady
upon the Norway royal commission to inquire
into the condition of schools" change in the
laws Of Finland which allows women To
deposit in savings banks without permits
sions of their husbands; the admission of
women doctors to the hospitals of France and
the appointment Of woman as medical EXAM
liner in the schools of Paris; in the introdu .tion
in the United States Senate by Senator Blair OF
resolution proposing a sixteenth amendments
extending suffrage to women the admission, for
the first time, of women (4) into the Wisconsin
State Medical Association; the addition of their
ladies to the New York presbyterian Synod:
the decision of the Attorney general of MINNIE
sofa that woman Is a person; the admission Of
women to the bar in Oregon; the holding of
State conventions in Vermont and Penn
sylvania; of weekly public discussions by women
in New York city, and for dozen or more
local meetings by the Massachusetts Womans
were registered to vote for school committee in
Boston as last year, but no women were elected.
The number was z, 238. Two hundred we're
registered in Lynn. To counterbalance all this
advance it was reported that Tufts College
Mass has refused to admit women by a vote of
IL to q The class for the study of politics
formed by the national organization has been SO
successful that notice is given that an evening
class will be formed to accommodate any women
Tor men) who wish to join, if fifteen names are
sent to the president Mrs H. r. Shattuck. NAL
den, Mass. before Dec 80.
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MoTTo for the street-car drivers: This is
the winter weather of our discomfort