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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
N n OPINION.

WHETHER free American workers of GER
tain grades of skill are willing to accept
cided by importing in their stead ignorant
and degraded labOrers from other lands,
who have never known American life OF
American laws.-New York Tribune.
THE people have shown, in every posi-
BILE way, that republics are just as grateful
as mOnarchies for the last and greatest
service a citizen can render to his country,
and the Democrats must seek further and
more in~telligently for an issue with which
to tickle the popular fancy.-Baltimore
American.
WHEN the tariff ceases to protect Ameri-
can labor it's usefulness is over, and it
might as we'll be abolished. 1t is only be-
cause facts show that it does protect
American labor and does enable American
manufacturers to pay higher rates of wages
that the Press advocates it SO strongly.
New York Press.
IT should be understood once for all that
the Republicans, SO far as they can reach
the trusts at the custOm-bOuse, will give no
quarter. AS between free trade and trust
oppression the choice will be made quickly.
If these be the only alternatives which are
offered in any commodity the protectiOnists
will not hesitate to declare for free trade.
st. Louis Giobe-DemOcrat.
THE formation of a great railway trust
in this same section would be a signal for
the multiplication of most unfriendly laws
for the railroad companies in all these
States. Congress, too, might be expected
to take its part as the regulator of inter-
state commerce.. until the last state of these
railways would be indefinitely worse than
their present condition. = Philadelphia
Press.
THE trust system may burden this
country with a new form of chattel entail.
infinitely more dangerous than that which
our laws have eradicated as to real estate.
1t is an evil which may demand an amend
ment to the Constitution to work it's de-
structi0n. But it is an evil which, if it be
not destroyed, will itself destroy the spirit
and intent of the COnstitutiOn.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
If John Bull thought the American Re-
public was in any danger ne would not
place several thousand million dollars in
our railways, breweries, wheat-mills and
other enterprises. Nothing is more de-
structive of property values than revolu-
tiOns, and because our British ~neighbors
know this to be the most stable govern
ment in the world. they are anxious to in
vest their money here.-Louisville Courier.
Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

The compilation of back numbers
about to be unloaded on the schools of
Indiana is well named the Rip Van Win
kle Series. How will the people relish
having children learn to read ont of
books which contain not a word con-
corning the great events of the civil war
and not a patriotic selection of any kindf
Being twenty-five years behind the
times, it is no wonder the monopoly
could buy the obsolete copyrights for
asong. Of o they willmake money,
but it will be made at the expense of the
children and the schools. 1t will be
made by starving the minds of the
children and undermining the public
school system. If the people care as
much for their children and their schools
as we believe they do, they will soon
unite in a demand for free school books
and no monopolies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
CHANGES IN EDUCATIONAL METHODS.

The system of teaching the English
language has changed almost entirely in
the last twenty years. as any teacher of
long experience in the public schools
will testify. The difference begins
with the methods of making the infant
mind familiar with the alphabet, in
cludes the substitution of the word sys-
tenn for that of letters, and extends
through the Language books" readers,
grammars and rhetorics of the various
grades. There have been also many
changes in the accepted pronunciation of
words and an alteration in the characters
used to indicate the vocal sounds. All
these changes have been for the better.
Parents and teachers agree that it is far
easier to acquaint a child with the rudi-
ments of the language by the scientific
object-lessOn method than by the old
fashion of forced memOrizing of discon-
nected and, to the little Ones, meaning
less symbols. This change of system is
not a mere difference in the skill
of the educators, but is shown in
all tho textbooks. Publishers of the
better class quickly responded to the
wants of the public and issued books to
meet the requirements.
To the average ignOramus who may
think of engaging in the publishing
business for speculative purposes, it
may look like an easy matter to compile
and edit, for instance, a series of school
readers. As a matter of fact, such a
work, if properly done, involves great
care and labor, an accurate acquaintance
with advanced methods and with the
limitations of the school grades, a high
scholarship, and a familiarity with the
best literature. This is true as well in
preparing q "1irst" as a "ifth' reader.
Indeed, it is more important that the
reading books placed in the hands of
first and second year pupils be exactly
adapted to their wants and capacities
than those for higher grades. This fact
has been recognized by instructors and
publishers, and some of the first lesson
books in more than one series recently is
sued command attention and admiration
for the skillful manner in which they
gradually unfold the mysteries of the
language to the young student, and for
the artistic and fitting illustrations. The
latter are essential parts of the object
method.
All the accounts given of the readers
to be furnished under the new law by
the Indiana school book ring, show that
they are twenty or thirty years behind
the times. Books prepared for the crude
civilization of Missouri thirty years ago
cannot be revamped to meet the require
ments of the high and progressive edu-
cational system long established in In
diana. The enforced use of books of an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

Curious History Of the Origin of the Law
Now Prevailing in That State.

Curious History Of the Origin of the Law
Now Prevailing in That State.
Topeka Letter in New York Times.
How did prohibition become intrenched
In Kansas? In the funniest way magma
Bile. In 1879 Senator j. T. Bradley offered
the then existing dram-shOp law, requiring
that the councils of cities of the first and
second class should not grant licenses un-
less each petition presented to them con-
male and female residents of the ward
wherein the proposed saloon was to be sit
uated. This amendment also related to
townships, imposing strict duties upon the
commissioners, and made the signing of
offense. Senator bradley made a strong
fight in behalf of his measure and it began
to attract attention. One day Mr. Detweil-
er, a noted temperance advocate. went to
Bradley. ,complimented him upon his work
ance, and then showed him a draft of
o joint resolution which Judge N. {. Nc
Farland of this city had DRAWN proposing
a prohibltory amendment to the COnstitu-
ton. This was the identical appointment
which has since turned the eyes of the
world to Kansas. Detweiler begged the
senator to father the resolution, but Mr..
Bradley declined. not being in accord with
weller to Senator George F.: Hamlin, of La
Cygne, who agreed TO and did present the
joint resolution. 1t was placed on the cal
endar and lost to sight for the time being.
amendment was made a special order from
day to day and gained friends rapidly.
Finally it's opponents held a caucus
and decided that the only way to
kill it was to substitute the Hamlin
prohibitory resolution. Their idea
was that this would either be killed
OH final passage or laughed out of sight by
the people should it by any means come be-
fore them. So they rallied around it, and
when Bradley and his friends saw through
the game and realized their inability to
pass the dram-shop amendment. they turned
the tables on the conspirators by changing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

AN article in the Financier shows that
throughout the North, and especially in
the manufacturing districts and centers,
w~age-earners own the bulk of the bank
deposits. Pittsburg banks carry $685.
900, 900 of deposits by wage-workers in
mills and factories; Philadelphia, a
great deal more, and all the manufact-
uring cities and towns of New England
in proportion. The Financier claims,
and practically proves, that the bulk of
the bank deposits of the country are
owned by workingmen. Yet there are
persons and papers who assert that ur-
der our industrial system American
workingmen are in a condition of hope
less slavery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The wealth of Frederick Douglass, United
States minister to Hayti. is estimated at
S30O,O 600.
WILLIAM FINNEFRoCK, of Lancaster, Pa,
has brought suit against Alice Frecht, his
n~eighbor, because she plaques and taunts
him continually.
THE Maharajah Dhuleep Singh recently
appeared at the opera in Paris wearing
jewels valued at S4OO, 900. Two detectives
watched his box throughout the evening.
The Prince of Wales receives from the
British exchequer more than 1921, 600 a year,
the Duke of Edinburgh more than S142,O 900,
and the Duke of C~Onnaught S125, 600. The
Duke of Cambridge gets $4,000.
WORDSWORTH had a way of thanking
authors of poems that were sent him, i'm
mediately, ending with this set phrase:
From the perusal of which. When am at
~leasure, / promise myself great PLEASURE
GOVERNOR Ross. formerly of Kansas,
and one of the United States Senators who
stood by Andrew Johnson in the impeach-
ment proceedings, is now employed as a
printer in the office of the Santa Fe New
Mexican.
A E owned by John Seal. of Swarth-
more, Pa, which has supplied his family
with spring chickens and eggs for nearly
IOUIlceu ycdIS, dS IcCc Wy q 10 a ITeSBl6
to prevent her from setting, when she CON-
mitted suicide by hanging herself.
THE Woman's Journal that
the women's rights movement has reached
Madagascar. A new law in that island
"gives a husband the power to chastise his
wife with a regulation whip only, and does
away with clubs and dray-stakes entirely"
lively Buddhist "bonzes" have opened
a~''pagoda" for religious teachings and serv-
ices on the Esplanade des Invalides. The
gong is being daily rung for the daily sacri-
flee, and the priests in yellow robes are
praying for the conversion of the luxurious
Parisians.
HINT and rumors from abroad tend to
confirm the suspicion that Mary Anderson's
condition is much more serious than the
public has been permitted to suppose. The
belief grows that her illness is traceable to
the horse play in the peasant dance of the
Winters Tale"
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, who. not
withstanding his dislike to the title. is
called the banker poet" is not a banker,
but simply a broker, and a very modest one
at that. He transacts a commission busi-
ness in New York which does not keep him
remarkably busy.
THERE is q curious museum at st. Peters
burg, to which access is not easily OBJ
tanned. 1t contains all the imperial state
and private carriages, but the most inter
esting among all is the b%rougham in which
Alexander il was killed. The back Of it is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

Mr.. RUSSELL b. HARRISON, who is
now in England, recently had occasion
to send a business ~cablegram, which he
signed Harrison Able Democratic
papers, who hold that eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty, have made this
'autocratic signature" the occasion of
much indignant diatribe against the
owner of it, and against the President.
The JaytOwn editors who are wrestling
with it do not know that cablegrams
cost so much per word, including sigma
ture and initials, and that no person
who sends n signs anything but his
surname. However, it is a great SUBJ
ject for them to tackle, and about up to
the level of the average Democratic in
fe1lect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
Assets of Publicity.
Rrooklvn EarlA

Next to narrow escapes from fire and lost
from the British nobility are among the
actresses most valuable assets of publicity.
The handsome and energetic American who
whistled her way into sudden popularity
IS enaoled TO announce rnat she has re-
proud Anglican aristocrat. This advertise
ment will wiring with anguish the soul of
the manager who can do nothing but trans
init through the mails the Intellectual scraps
OF eulogy cut from remote provincial
papers. If she had actually married the
wealthy English baronet" the announce
ment would nave lost its Yalue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
Take q Rest Often.
Philadelphia Times Dem.)

President Harrison is sensibly taking n
rest in the cool mountain breezes of Deer
Park. where his family is spending the
summer. There are carping critics who
complain of the President every time he
leaves the capital for a yacht ride or for a
visit to his family at Cape May or Deer
Park, but everybody of average sense is
glad to see him take a rest whenever he
can get it. Dom bother about clam critics.
The President is human; he is steadily over
worked; he is bedeviled by ~ofice-hunters.
and let him grab a good rest whenever the
opportunity offers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

hochester N. ~ Democrat.
"Thi is becoming a nation of badge.
wearers." was the statement made by an
observant citizen yesterday. Just stand
here on the -Four Corners and watch the
men as they pass. Nine-tenths of them
wear a badge of some description. They
range all the way from an expensive soci-
ETY. badge costing $50 or SIS down TO brass
baubles which you can buy for a few cents.
They generally are the insignia of some So
ciety, and l think that shows the tendency
OF the American people to organize. AL
most everybody belongs to some organize
ton, and by the number of badges that
man passing there wears, 1 should Judge
some of them are on the rolls of three or
fOur.v
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE.

The conference of Republican states
men to be held soon in New York can, if
conducted in the right spirit, be made
very serviceable to the party and the
country. Having no connection with the
machinery of the party organization, and
being an informal assemblage, its con-
illusions will not carry the weight of
caucus or convention action, but they
may prove very useful in blazing the
way for future action on some important
questions. The gentlemen who will at
tend the conference will do so not as
delegates o. representatives of the
party, but in their individual capacity,
and will, therefore, be able to discuss
some questions of party policy more
freely THANH if they were under instruc-
tions. There will be some Sena-
tors and Representatives present,
and these can both contribute
to the discussions and gather
the spirit of the conference, to be re-
flected later in Congress. That body, it
is now generally believed, will assemble
in extra session about the middle or lat
ter part of October, several weeks before
the regular session, to perfect an organ
ization and dispose of preliminary work.
The New York conference can be made
to contribute still further to that object
by bringing about a clear understanding
among the party leaders concerning
some matters that will engage the atten-
ton of Congress. The Importance of such
an understanding is obvious. For the
first time in nearly ten years the Repub-
licans will be called upon to organize the
House of Representatives and will have
a majority on the floor. This majority
will be very small, but enough, probably,
to place on them the responsibility for
legislation. AS there is no presidential
election near, Congress will be compare
lively free to legislate on questions of
national Importance, and the Republic
ans should be prepared to adopt on all
such questions a line of action that will
command the approval Of the country.
If they founder through the session
without accomplishing any important
work, the administration and the party
will suffer thereby. The coming con-
ference in New York can vindicate it
self, and be made useful to the party and
the country by paving the way for such
action i'm Congress as will strengthen the
President and command popular ap-
prevail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

THE City Council is right in moving
slowly in the matter of granting fran
chises for new street-car lines, but its
delay should be only for the purpose of
deciding upon what is best for the pub
lie interests, and should be made as
short as possible. What Indianapolis
needs now more than any other one
thing is rapid transit to distant quarters
of town and to the suburbs. The growth
of the city will be retarded until this is
secured, the limit at which horse-cars
are found convenient and satisfactory
having already been passed in nearly
every direction. Whether the method
of transit be cable or electric lines does
not matter SO much to the citizens in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

THE New York World has informa-
ton to the effect that Democratic man.
ayers have resolved to drop free trade
as a party issue and to enter the next
campaign untrammeled by so heavy a
yoke. The Sentinel evidently has not
received a pointer as to this change of
base, and finds nothing better to do
than grind away on the old q~uinine
and tariff chestnut. Perhaps it doesn't
know how to let go without assistance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

A FLOOD that browns 5000 Chinamenis
a calamity rivaling6hat of Johnstown,
but it is not easy for the average Ameri-
can to think of it in that light. AS a
nation and as individuals we pride our
selves OH our broad-mindedness and un-
selfish liberality of feeling and action,
but, after all, a disaster to an alien peo-
pie, to 'heathen," in fact, OH the other
side of the world makes a very different
sort of draft on our Christian sympa-
thies and pocket books than when the
sufferers are nearer home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

THE latest emanatiOn from Democratic
headquarters is that Mr.. William G.
Whitney, ex-Secretary of the Navy, has
an eye on the next nomination for the
presidency. Mr.. Whitney isn't much of
a statesman, but he knows a sure way OF
getting office in the Democratic party.
1t is simply that of applying Standard
Oil in proper places and proportions.
The recipe has been tried in the family
once and found to work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
The Legitimate Outcome.

Those of our lady friends Who still insist
upon being permitted to vote, to ride a.
straddle, to chew tobacco, to wear breeches,
and to do generally as men do. are respect
fully referred to his Excellency Legftime
of Hayti. He is putting trousers on the
young women of Hayti, placing muskets
in their hands, and sending them TO the
front. This is the legitimate outcome Of
woman's rights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
THE ST. Louis Globe Democrat says:

Col. Gilbert A. Pierce, whoseems to be certain Of
election as one of the Senators from North Da-
kota, 10 more of a literary man than a politician,
having prepared an admirable concordance of
Shakespeare, and written a novel and some very
clever poetry.
1t would bemore accurate to say that Col.
Pierce is quite a literary man as we'll as
successful politician. By the way, was 1T
not a compendium of Dickens instead of a
concordance of Shakespeare he preparedf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

AN Allegheny man is doing a profitable
tilling water and retailing it to customers
who doubt the purity of the regular supply.
The water is simply turned to steam and
then condensed, five gallons being required
to make one of distilled water. -f'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

We pity the poor devils who froth at the
mouth and have fits every time the old flag
comes in sight. Yes, pity is the word. There
isn't patriotism enough in their shriveled
mire on the Fourth of July. Patriotism!
They don't know the meaning of the word.
They only know what it is to be loyal to
dislOyalty. They stand whimpering and
driveling ov6ethe grave Of the lost cause
when they Ought to be thankful they were
not buried with it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
Peace i'm Europe.

washington Post
The beautiful peace which hovers over
Europe reminds us of that white-winged
variety which we have seen fondly brood
ing over two ~unacquainted bulldogs chained
in opposite corners of the carriage room.
If a staple should fetch loose we fear the
air would overflow with tattered bits of
this sweet entente cordiale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

The snug little sum of $1,125 is what
the government has to pay deputy
United States marshals appointed in
this city to work for Cleveland last fall.
The number of Democratic patriots who
draw a per diem for this valuable serv-
ice is 225. The rest of the State is yet
to be heard from.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
Pooling the Clay County Miners.

Saturday the executive committee of the
Brazil miners distributed s256-all there
was to ~give-among $3.50 dependent per-
sons. Out of twenty-three towns and cities
contributing to the relief fund, twenty-one
were mining towns in the Hooking valley.
The latter can afford to give. While they
to work, the operators of the Hooking val
ley are securing large coal contracts which
would otherwise AVE been filled with coal
from the Brazil mines. This is charity
which paws.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
Only Blufing.
Philadelphia Press,

Phfladelphia Press.
And now Governor Lowry, of Mississippi,
proposes to force the forfeiture of the
charter of the railway company that trans
ported the big prize-fighters to their battle
ground. 1t is only a threat, however. The
Governor is bluffing on a pair of measly
deuces.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
One Good Thing.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has agreed to build a $500 house for the
widow of a lneman drowned at Johustown
and pay her his former salary of $50 q
month. The company lost six employees at
JOhnstown, but what it is doing in the
other five cases is not reported. However.
this good deed should be recorded as an Off
set to some of the mean things told of the
company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
The Veneer of Civilization.

Atlanta CONSTITUTIONS
Great, indeed, is ~blackguardism and
brutality! A thumb nail need not be very
long to scratch off the little veneering of
civilization with which the people of this
age cover their innate brutality. 1t is a
quality that belongs to the race, and the
race cannot get away from it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
A Hopeless Rebel.
Detroit Tribune,

The Grand Army of Beggars" is what
the red-mouthed rebel editor of the Nash
Vile American calls the veterans of the G..
A. X. 1t Is a clear waste of salt and ice
trying 10 preserve such a critter as he.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17
Ready for Business.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Nineteen young men graduated in Jour-
nalism at Cornell University the other day.
They are now prepared TO copy real estate
transfers and building permits In the high
est style of the art journalistic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

Some people are not in favor of restricted
immigration, They wouldn't bar out the
Anarchists and criminals who come here to
conspire against our laws and institutions.
But they would kick hard if the streams of
water they drink from were fed by sewers.