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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

SINCE the recent election in ST. Louis
the city government is decidedly mixed.
A Democratic Mayor heads the list, fol-
lowed by a Republican comptroller, a
Democratic auditor and a Republican
treasurer. These are the four important
executive Offices of the city. But the
variety does not stop here. The presi-
dent of the board of public improve
ments is a Republican, nearly all the ap-
pointed officers, holding over to the be-
ginning of the third year of the Mayors
term, are Democrats, and, to cap the eli
max, both houses of the municipal as
sembly are controlled by the Republic
ans. This division of Offices is not alto
gether the result of foresight or design
on the part of the people, but it has the
obvious advantage of putting both par
ties on their good behavior, and enabling
one set of officers to watch the other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

AN election law embOdying the Aus
tralian ballot system, and substantially
identical with the new law in this State,
has been passed in Tennessee. 1t is re-
garded there as a practical disfranchise-
ment of colored voters. The Memphis
Avalanche says: "The law will bear
hard upon the Republicans in the coun-
ties to which the law applies, and where
they have been accustomed to drive the
ignorant masses of their party Il the
polls like pigs, and vote them solid.n
This is the usual manner of referring to
negro suffrage in the South. 1t is very
easy to enforce the Australian system in
such a way as to disfranchise voters who
cannot read. Possibly an educational
qualification may be a good thing, but it
should be applied openly and directly,
and not in such a way as to deprive of
the right of suffrage any who have pre-
viously exercised it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

The Aflment that Frustrated Booth-Its
Cause and Treatment.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
If, as alleged, it was too much smoking
which upset Mr.. Edwin Booth at Rochester,
it is far from being the first case of the
kind in our history.
Within the past twenty years the medical
faculty has come to clearly comprehend.
and to accurately diagnose, a disease which
they now denomlnate as smokers heart"
Excessive smoking, whether by pipe. cigar
or cigarette, affects the action of the heart
and disturbs the circulation. Tho pulse
will intermit-not with any regularity
sometimes one beat in four, sometimes one
in ten, sometimes two or three at a time,
and then comes trOuhle. The brain, missing
its regular pulsations of blood, waivers. the
heart ~fiutters, and then follows a temporary
collapse.
Strong cordials are Indicated" Strong
coffee is ~gOOd-strong spirits is better. But
the remedy, too often relied upon. is as bad
as the disease; and the subject grows slowly
worse. Angina pectOris Is said to sometimes
result.
One of the leading physicians of this
city relates a case in point. A patient suf-
fering from smokers heart" believed that
he had a chronic heart disease, and came
for a careful examination early in the day
before he had eaten any breakfast. The
~stethoscope showed the heart to be sound
as a dot-he had not smoked for twelve
hours. Greatly relieved at the verdict he
lighted a big black cigar, and sat smoking,
upon an empty stomach, while he talked.
In a few minutes, as he rose to go, his feet
failed him, and he fell in a momentary
faint. The heart was fiuttering wildly, but
yielded at once, and resumed its normal
action, after a strong stimulant..
The moral of this story is that, If you
smoke at all, you should smoke in modera-
ton, and only on a well-flled stomach. It
is recklessness that hurts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

APRIL 80 is ArbOr day in Iowa, and
being also the presidential centennial
anniversary, a special effort will be
made to have the tree planting ceremony
extensively observed as a fitting memo
rial of the century's end. The patriotism
of the teachers and school children is
appealed to in an address issued by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
and each one is urged to do his part in
making the occasion notable by planting
a "Washington tree.r "Plant it Deep
says the address, that its roots may
take a firm lold, as his name has in the
hearts of his countrymen. Water it in
the drought of summer, guard it and
strengthen it to resist the winds of
winter. Teach the children to call it
their Washington tree; let them asso-
ciate it with his words, his deeds, his
character. and thus form within their
minds that lofty ideal of citizenship
which is the soul of true patriotism, the
safeguard of republican liberty Ac-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
WORK FOR
Views of an Intelligent Man Who spreaks
from Practical Experience.

from Practical Experience.
Interview with Joe Mackin.
You believe in prison labor, thenip
Most thoroughly, anal think my opin-
sideration. Professors, philosophers, doc
tors and editors Will sit down and theorize
upon this proposition. but it is only theory
after all, learned as it may be. | have the
orized myself. But now | throw aside
theory on this question and speak of the
practical aud my own experience. i have
managed to keep my health and strength,
but it was by discipline. That discipline
would have been of no avail SO far as my
own efforts were concerned had / not had
work twelve hours out of every twenty
four. l never kne how pleasant hard
work was, and how much satisfaction and
enjoyment could be found in ii. If 1 had
not had work l should nave been by this
time a wreck and a candidate for the Kan
kakee asylum. No greater mistake could
be made IN the management of these insti-
buttons than was made IN the adoption of
the constitutional amendment two years
ago, prohibiting the employment OF prison.
ers upon contract work. If they are not al
lowed to do that, what can they dot If
they have not something TO do half of them
Will become ravlng lunatlcs In a little
while. Why, you, will ind men here on
Sundays begging for work-fOr something
to do to keep them from too close associa-
ton with themselves and their own
thoughts. / should be like them had / not
cultivated the habit and become an invet-
crate reader. But the men who come here
and who bave no taste for reading arc not
able even by their work to keep from be-
coming prey to their own broodings and for
that reason they leave here worse than they
come. Take away their work and youtake
away the one thing that now keeps these
men out of the insane asylum. With insan-
ity as the growing weakness of the race,
can the State afford to encourage the ten
dency by locking men up in solitude with
@,< cvxr%l.v,~ 70 10 ~ - xL.-l-
about. Better kill them at once instead of
sending them here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

bird was sent by the patriarch. The custom
appears to nave been derived by the
Romans from some of the Eastern nations.
THE death of King John of Abyssinia re-
moves from earth the last of a noted line
if the late King John told the truth. He
claimed to be a direct descendant of King
Solomon and the vivacious Queen of Sheba.
Owing to the death of his son by poison
King John left no issue. The extinction of
a line going back to a period long before
the late civil war will awaken regret among
the Four Hundred of New York. A Mike
King John who could claim descent from so
antique a leader as Solomon is a loss to So
ciety, in spite of the fact that he was a cold
bl00ded wretch.
The new statue of the Virgin in the chapel
of the Convent OF. the Sacred Heart, at st.
Louis, has provoked considerable criticism,
even from the inmates of the convent. 1t is
described as being the figure of a young
girl III the bloom of youth, and when it ar
rived the nuns were more than aStOnished;
but they Were assured that it was done in
Rome under the supervision of one of the
highest authorities of the Church, the de-
sire being to have the Virgin considered
In her youth as well as in her maturity.
The statue stand seven feet eight inches
high and Is carved from a single block of
Carrara marble.
OF the late Rev. Bartholomew Edwards,
who, before his death, was the Oldest
Church of England clergyman, it is told
that when nearly ninety years of age he
rode, unattended, on horseback to make a
call on a ~neighboring squire. His horse was
taken round to the stable during his visit.
When it was brought back for him to
mount, the butler said: would you like q
chair. sir, to mount your horses" He look I'd
at him with a whitening glance, saying.
"A chair to mount my hOrsef If / wanted
a chair it would be time to give up riding"
n he put his foot into the stirrup, and
threw his leg over the saddle as if he had
been five-and-twenty. The height of the
horse was about sixteen hands.
WHEN the Manistee g. Northwestern rail-
road was being built Mrs. A. p. Sorenson
didn't want the road to run in front of her
house, and ordered the track-layers to clear
out. They laughed at her. Then she took her
rocking-chair and knitting work and sat
down on the right of way. The railroaders
picked her up and set her aside. She re-
turned with her chair and some blankets
and camped down again. Her meals were
brought to her, and she ate, drank and
slept there during the raw November days
and nights. The track was laid I'D to her
camp each way, and hen the company
wanted to connect the inks the gritty OBJ
structiOnist was arrested and sent to jail.
Recently a jury gave her a verdict of $500
and costs for false Imprisonment, but the
railroad is built.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

companying the address are a number of
patriotic songs suitable to the occasion.
This union of the tree-planting with the
centennial ceremonies was a happy
thought, and one that might be utilized
elsewhere. Indiana has no arbor day
nor forestry association, but permits the
destruction of its forests to go on with
out interference. There is no reason,
however. why teachers and others who
contemplate conducting some centennial
exercises of interest to the children on
the 3Oth should not adopt the tree
planting idea. A Washington tree in a
school-yard would Dol become a land
mark, and an object of peculiar interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WHY shonld a w~ell-heeled government
care whether it's pOstOfice department is
'self-snpporting" or mott If it can't be
clerks to death let it stop trying.
IT is evident that President Harrison has
some very shrewd ideas about the Southern
political situation. If he shall succeed in
building up his party in that section by
peaceful and honorable methods the service
thus rendered to the Nation will be an en-
during monument to his sagacity and wise
statesmanship.-Chicago News.
WHY do we not go to work i'll earnest and
create a fighting navyi If Great Britain
can build 14,000-tOn war ships, why cannOt
cruisers to steam twenty knots, why shOnld
we be content with unarmed cruisers to
steam nineteen? 1t is time to stop playing
at navy building and to go to w0rk.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
NOTHING in the way of negotiations will
United States ocean with the
countries of South America without such
help to our shipping as will enable it to
compete with the free-trade shipping of
Europe: Enlightened legislation by Con-
gress will bring that about in time. and
then the league of American nations can be
formed.-Chlcago Journal
1 THE native Southern employer regards
labor as degrading and the laborer entitled
B to little more consideration than a mule.
/ Il alh 4taS Dttnt tAltIE tuucdUlOu. lutV nave
learned nothing since the days OF slave
labor. They assume that the laborer.
white or black, who works for them is
owned by them body and soul. If he goes
counter to their wishes, politically or 9th
erwise, they regard it as a sign of hostility
next to trcason.-Detroit Tribune.
ALARGE portion of the mors modern
element of the Democracy in every
Southern State has been out of har-
.mony with the party for years
past on the great economic issue
dices have Kept them within the partisan
traces. The time for the break, though,
cannot be postponed much longer, and it
looks now as if it would be brought about
by the conference at Chattanooga.-Sr.
Louis GlObe-DemOcrat.
THE vast bulk of the laborerS of the
United States are educated to the theory of
a free government by law as the best de-
tense of labor; and plots to destroy the
law will be as actively opposed by them as
by any other interest. But in the presence
of an ignorant class which is melted by
strikes to the use of dynamite. are not cap
ital and labor alike interested in seeking a
reform in the conditions of labor which
shall insure both the education of the lg-
n0rant and the abolition OF StrlkeS?-PittS-
burg Dispatch.
the needs mt perils of the Nation and any
faith in it's future, can doubt that the time
is coming when Presidents will no longer
be worried and burdened with the disposal
of thousands of offices, until they have lit
tie time left for the great affairs of the
country. and the sooner the extension of
civil-service reform sufficiently to accom-
plish this result is brought about, the bet
ter it will be for the American people. The
Offices must be almost entirely divorced
from politics. or the federal government
will become nothing more than a huge pa
tronage-dispensing machine.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
WOMEN WITH THE BALLOT.
A State in Which Female Suffrage Is an
Accomplished Fact.


Topeka (Kan.l Letter. in New York Times.
Thousands of women participated in the
municipal elections held throughout Kan
sas last week. In Topeka alone over 1900
voted, and in LeavenwOrth. Wichita, Atch-
isOn, Fort Scott and smaller cities tho num-
bers far exceeded those of 1887. No issue,
other than that of decent municipal gov
eminent, was presented, and the accepted
explanation of this large vote is that the
women now fully appreciate the fruits of
the victory they won twO years ago.
The. scenes at the polls certainly sus-
tanned this view of the situation. In To-
peka the women displayed more enthusi-
asm than the men,. They not only went to
the polls and worked, but many of the
most influential of them sent their car
riages to remote parts of the city and
brought in numbers of their leSs-happily
circumstanced sisters, who needed but the
one incentive of rapid transit to make
them good nineteenth-century Kansas citi-
zens. Hundreds of colored women visited
the voting places during the day, and many
of these electiOneered with all the art of
practiced politicians. Every hack or carry
all in the city was called into service, and
it was noticeable that the BLACK vote" re-
quired more transportation than its paler
adjunct of civilization. Much to the dis
gust of the Republicans, most of the white
women voted for Democratic candidates
for Mayor in Topeka, LeavenwOrth, and
Atchison. In the former city the Repub-
4lSah q - lnSOtCl
while i'm Leavenworth the notorious Col.
Dan Anthony, brother of Susan B., headed
the Republican ticket. Susan b. Anthony
came OutfrOm Rochester to help the Colonel,
but the women proved too much for them,
and he was showed under by 700 majority.
1t is possible that Miss Anthony is not so
much In favor OF women suffrage IN Kan
sas as she was q week ago.
, At each voting place in Topeka, and pre-
sumably the other cities, a partition sepa-
rated the men and women as they deposited
their ballots. The women seemed more i'm
pressed with the responsibility of their act.
and scrutinized their tickets carefully be-
fore passing them through the windows.
Out in this benighted country the names of
of paper. With charming frankness many
of the aides who voted for the first time
produced pencils and scratched" their
tickets and then handed them to the clerks
unfolded and with the changes visible to
the canvassers. In an alley near one of the
polls three white women were seen in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

HOWEVER the late Legislature may
have damaged other industries, it sue
ceeded in giving the lawyers something
to do by the simple device of making a
batch of suspiciously shaky laws. Still,
the charge that the session was held for
the avowed but secret purpose of giving
the legal profession a lift is probably I'M
just. The majority merely played into
the lawyers hands through ignorance
and stupidity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
A Pessimistic View of Stanley.

Stanley started with a small army. He
lost his way. His men suffered, died and
deserted. and their commander, whenever
he was depressed or apprehensive, ordered
a few of them killed as a lesson to the
others. He found Emin-found him sleek,
prosperous and happy. In no need of being
taken care of, but amply able to take care
OF Stanley and his crowd. This is all there
is in it, the fourishes will come later. The
number of natives killed on the return trip,
the sum total of the plunder-an this must
for the public. The world will be told that
this great march, in some mysterious way,
put an end to the slave trade and was a
tremendous thing for Christian civilization.
Well, there are two ways of looking at it.
on the other hand, he is a shrewd dare
devil, with as little principle as he had
when he deliberately fought under two
flags in our civil war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

A SOUTH correspondent of
the New York World, writing about the
colored schools and educational move
ments in that State, says the negroes
Learn as easily as whites, but the trouble
is to make them honest. He says a we'll
known educator in South Carolina said
to him: at is easy to teach a negro
trigonometry, but it is nexttoimpossible
to teach him to be an honest man, The
correspondent adds that this condensed
statement of the case had been approved
by every Southerner to whom hehad re-
lated it. This is nonsense. I'm the less
classic and equally expressive language
of the street, it is "rOt." There are hon.
est negroes and dishonest ones, just as
there are honest and dishonest whites,
and no doubt the proportions in the two
races are about the same. There is
nothing in the moral structure of the
negro that makes him inherently dis
honest, and we regret to say we
fear that all whites are not immaculate
from their birth in the matter of person
al integrity. There are negroes in this
city, poor ones at that, who are as strict
ly honest as any man that breathes, and
who could be implicitly trusted to any
extent. There are such negroes every
where, and no doubt the proportion of
such is as great as that of strictly hon.
est whites among those of like station.
Southern whites who have robbed the
negro of his earnings for generations,
and who rob him now of his civil and
political rights, should not try to make
him out an innate thief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
CONCERNING AN EXTRA SESSION.

A strong argument, from Republican
standpoint, in favor of an extra session
of Congress is based on the necessity OF
the party's promptly redeeming its
promises in regard to legislation. The
Republican majority in the present Con-
gress is very narrow, and may be re-
versed by a slight change in the political
currents of 1890. 1t is important that
the Republicans should not only hold
their present majority in Congress, but
increase it in the next congressional
elections, and to this end it is important
that they should carry put certain plans
of legislative reform. The question is,
can they do this without an extra ses-
sion?
The House of Representatives is slow
to get down to business, and under its
present rules legislation progresses very
slowly. The revision of these rules is
one of the matters demanding earliest
attention, and this alone may take sew
eral weeks. The usual holiday adjourn
ment will absorb two weeks of the regu-
III SSSoiOht oLQ W OhO tlLhO thO oAO
are revised it will be heal the middle of
January. Then a number of important
contested election cases will demand at
tentiOn, and occupy considerable time.
1t is evident that with the best possible
management the real business of
the regular session cannot be reached
before the spring is well advanced.
This business will embrace among other
things the passage of a law to secure
fair elections for members of Congress,
and a revision of the tariff. Both will
be bitterly opposed by the Democracy,
but the Republican party is pledged to
both, and mustredeem its promises. The
enactment of a national law to secure
fair elections for members of Con-
gress is a matter of vital Importance.
Several of the Southern States from
which the Republicans have Repre-
s~entatives in the present Congress
have passed gerrymander and other
laws intended to shut them out, and
unless something is done to secure fair
elections the Republicans may find
themselves without a single Representa-
tive from the South in the next Con-
gress.
Thepassageo of anew tarifflaw, to which
the Republicans are pledged, will neces-
sarily consume much time, and other
important matters will demand their
share of attention. 1t is the opinion of
some who have given the subject most
careful consideration that these matters
cannot be disposed of during the regular
session in such a way as to do justice
to the interests involved and place
the administration and the Repub-
lican party in a proper position be-
fore the country. If this is a correct
view of the case, the only practical rem
edy is in a special session, at which much
of the work above limited at could be
done and the business of the regular
session so far advanced as to make its
completion possible before the opening
of the canvass for the fall elections i'm
1890. AS the President is in a position to
judge of these and other considerations
for or against an extra session, he will
no doubt reach a conclusion that will be
best for the country and the party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
General sherman's Distinction.

General Sherman spoke in terms of IN
condemnation of an administration
that would appoint ex-rebels to represent
e eafs co oIsad;yn IN for an tSsp sete u ne rs s f9 Gsn ea .Tne
Johnston in the Office of Railroad Commits
siOner. The rugged old Union veteran en-
t~ertains no animosity against the men he
fought SO bravely, bat he very properly be-
lieves that they ought not to be sent abroad
to represent the government which they
tried to destroy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

zophone-and-E Electrical Micophone-Trum-
pet-Aucastic-E lectromotor-P Power Musical
Car-DIstance-Loud- Speaking Transferring
strument Company: capital, S65. 100000, 10
is plain that a company needs a great>deal
of capital to carry all those names; but, on
the other hand. it can also be urged that
with all that imitation in the title, it might
be content without an equal imitation OF
the millions of stock which il is to carry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10

The New York World publishes a four
column illustrated article on the natural
gas wells of Muncie, and its advantages
as a manufacturing point. With free
gas for factories, and the public spirit to
advertise its advantages, there will be
no reason why indianapolis cannot com
pete with Muncie. But we must have
free gas first.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
Enlarging His Trade.


Postmaster-general Wanamaker has
signed a parcel-post convention with the
Leeward islands. While this will be a
great convenience for Leeward island la
dies in getting their supplies of needles.
tape, ribbon and other dry goods snch as
obtain in a large emporium, we desire to
suggest that a strict watch be maintained
lest the Leeward islands be Struggled into
the United States carefully folded inside a
newspaper.