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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-09-26

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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-09-26
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-09-26

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
JOURNAL SUNDAY

great profusion to every street-corner.
and the wayfarer, tempted by their
beauty, spends good money for pots of
roses, and pansies, and pinks, only to
see the blossoms wither and die in his
gas-heated rooms. tits touch of spring,
however, and he does not grudge the
cost.
Still another sign that greets him even
earlier than these is the seed ANIMALS,
that, with illuminated covers, showing
marvellous floral growths and fascinating
descriptions of flowers and vegetables,
leads to a revival of his latest fancy
for agricultural pursuits, and to plans
not often carried out-for cultivating q
garden or even farm.
All these things are experienced by
the city man before the first spring
month is reached and the sun grows
warm. By the time the rural resident is
watching the swelling buds and the
springing grass his friend in town has
exhausted his vernal emotions, and is
looking forward impatiently to summer
and vacation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
SIGNS OF SPRING.

The resident of the city becomes aware
of the approach of spring somewhat in
advance of his brother in the country.
There are many premOnitory signs with
which the thermometer has nothing to
do. One of the surest indications that
winter is drawing to close is to be
found in the advertisements of the
merchants who provide the community
with wearing apparel. The first symptom
of all is betrayed in the announcements
of great reductions" in winter gar
ments. When man is urged to buy
heavy overcoat for next to nothing and
women are invited to purchase clOaks at
"less than cost" it is safe to infer that
the season when coats and cloaks must
be laid where moths will not corrupt, is
close at hand. When, following these
enticing offers, comes notice of the ar
rival of ..spring goods and summer
looking fabrics are displayed in the shop
windows it is reasonably certain
that winter is over, although
snow may whiten the ground
and never bud be seen.
Another indication is the sudden erup-
ton of greenhouse plants in public
places. A sunny day brings flowers in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

In procuring such amendments from
time to time as experience shall indi-
cate. Besides, the arrogance and abu-
slvenesa of this class, assuming to be
the sole guardians and expounders of
prohibition, and taking special charge of
this movement, had so Disguised thou
sands of good citizens that they refused
to countenance their claims to leader
ship, and hence they either did not vote
at all or voted against the amendment
because these men had made it their
measure.
But, evidently, the day of what is
called constitutional prohibition is past.
With the exception of Rhode Island, all
late votings have been against it. Even
In Maine it failed by 1,7OO of majority,
yet, having plurality, it was
declared adopted. But that was
most fatal stab to prohibition. PrOhi-
bition had been in the laws of the State
for thirty-three years, and the testimony
of such men as Dow, and Blaine, and
Frye had been uniform that it was as
well enforced as any other law, and with
satisfactory results. The amendment
was adopted in 1884, but since that, if
Neal Dow is to be believed, the law has
been so imperfectly enforced as to be
practically valueless. Others, however,
say that the only difference in enforce
ment is in localities in which such men as
Dow have withdrawn from the prOhibi-
ton element, and, instead of helping to
enforce it by electing good officers, have
gone in little self-righteOus party, call
ing themselves the sole representatives
of prohibition, and leaving the saloon
element in power.
But of what value is prohibition in
Constitution, any wayf Like our con-
stitutional provision for the registration
of voters and the regulation of fees and
salaries, it is imperative without legis-
lation, and the splendid success of Iowa
shows what an earnest, united people
can do without such an amendment.
The truth is that in no State but Indiana
has prohibition ever been pronounced
unconstitutional by the courts, and in
this State none but Democratic judges
have ever cOncurred in that opinion,
and yet, in the last two elections, this
same element has done its best to keep
them the expounders of the Constitution
and to elect them to the Legislature as
if intent on fastening the saloon upon
the State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
INDIAN CORN,

Americans have never taken a proper
pride in their great native cereal, Indian
corn. Nearly every other country has
its special food product which it claims
as its own distinctively, whether native
to the soil or not, and vaunts its merits
until it becomes inseparably associated
in each case with the national idea. Ire
land has given its name to the potato,
although that tuber is of American
origin; Scotland does not boast of its
oat crop, but Scotch oat cakes are the
peoples pride; Germans dote on their
rye bread. Entire races in tropical Asia
subsist upon rice, and are happy. Ameri-
cans, alone, with one of the most won
derful grains grown ON the earth ex
clusively their own, fail to give it proper
honor. They are willing to admit that
it is great product; they look approx
ingly ut the vast cOrn-fields of
the Western prairies, and, as a
matter of business and speculation,
are interested in the crop statistics;
they are even beginning to recognize the
aesthetic beauty of the plant, but when
it comes to question of food they pre-
fer something else. With numberless
preparations of corn, white as snow, yell
low as gold, fine as wheat -four, unbrOk-
en- as "hominy," ground wholesomely
coarse or in dainty ''hakes, the unreason-
able American citizen prefers to irritate
his interior with indigestible oatmeal,
processes a liking for tasteless rice, and !,
in place of the cOrn-bread that made his
pioneer ancestors robust and vigorous,
to consume the sticky rye and dainty,
but less nOurishing wheaton lOaves.
Americans, il is true. are favored above
all the people of the earth in having a
variety of food to choose from, and can
not be expected nor asked to favor an
inferior article. even from patriotic mo-
tives, nor cOnfine themselves to single
product, however excellent. From a
hygienic standpoint, however, if for no
other, it would be well for them to be-
come acquainted with all the culinary
possibilities of Indian corn. Having done
this, the interest and pride in the cereal
will come of itself, and they will
be eager to sound its praises. The pro-
posed display of corn and corn products
at Paris is plan to be highly COM
mended and encouraged. If carried out
as projected it willprobably prove arev-
elatlOn, not only to foreigners, but to
many Americans who have hitherto
turned up their fastidiOus noses at
'pones," and dodgers" and Johnny
cakes" as something UNBEATABLE. There
is every reason to believe that the dis
play will have the effect of greatly in
creasing the market for corn products
abroad, and when this comes about a
greater demand will result here. The
stamp of foreign approval is needed to
make corn appreciated in its own home,
so initiative are the people who set the
fashions and follow them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
PRoaBITloH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The result of the vote In New Hamp-
shire on the prohibition amendment was
q surprise to many. Instead of the two
thirds vote necessary to carry the
amendment, it did not even get ma
jority. There is much significance in
this when the facts are considered. New
Hampshire has had prohibitory law
since 1866, and it has been well Sustained
by the courts and very generally en-
forced. In New Hampshire, as In every
State In which the enforcement of laws
is left to local authorities, and the local
authorities are chosen by the people of the
locality, there are some towns In which
the law is comparatively dead letter,
becoming, in fact, what all such laws
must become, o local-option law, for no
law that seriously contravenes the aver
age public sentiment of community
can ever be enforced. The extent to
which this has been carried has been
much increased by the withdrawal of
many professed Prohibitionists from CO.
operating with the others for the sake of
forming and maintaining political party
never enough of them to accomplish
anything as party, yet often enough to
leave the saloon interest master of the
situation, and the law not enforced.
Happily, the number of impracticables
Is rapidly decreasing in New Hampshire,
as well as elsewhere, so that in the near
: future we may hope,ttere viii be har-
oQny IN enforcing the laws existing and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
An Un-American Word.

a
The silly gable about premier ought
to cease and the word ought to be dropped
from the American vocabulary. The word
is French. The thing is primarily English
A prime minister is unknown IN our sys-
tenn of government; unprovided for by the
Constitution. or, in fact, provided against
by that instrument; foreign 10 our instifu-
tions. The idea of a prime minister or
premier is only thinkable in countries
where the head of the State is nominal,
and the head of the actual government IS
the actual chief executive. This anomaly
has no sort of shadow of existence here.
The President is the executive department:
the elect of the people; one-third OF tho
federal Government. His Cabinet officers
are his secretaries and execute his Will and
policy. They have no powers. as such.
save in special cases where Congress has
given special powers for special objects.
as to the Secretary of the Treasury. Our
government is unique. Its powers are
strictly defined. The President is ire
mendous fact and factor. the only man pri-
marily responsible for the execution of the
federal laws His power is such as no En-.
glish monarch has had for many centuries
and far exceeds that of any English Prime
Minister
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

Nav York IndependeT

The negro problem is a difficult one If you
put it in this way: How can the negroes be-
kept in submission and deprived Of their
eminent, while theoretically allowed equal
political rights with the whitesf 1heprob-
lem is an easy one to answer If the question
is, what do justice and Christianity de-
mand shall be done for the negro! The
problem of keeping the negroes serfs Ia
harder than was that of keeping them
slaves, and we do not wonder that the solu-
ton of il gives great anxiety To those who
are laboring. over il. Our geometry leava
ont that problem.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

Hon. Il. C. RICHMOND, chairman of the
Wisconsin State central committee of the
Prohibition party, has published his fare
we'll address to the party. He could stand
every thing until the Louisville convention
said that such as he should be sat down
upon. We opine, from the tone of his fare
well, that it was not so much the sitting
down, as it was who sat down upon him,
and for what Mr.. Richmond was opposed
to voting double. He wanted no women
suffrage in his platform, but the convention
put it there, and the convention was COM
posed largely of women. To be sat down
upon by women, for women, was too much
for Mr.. Richmond
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

THE many severe and fatal cases of i'll
ness arising from the inclement weather of
inaugural day has caused a renewal of the
newspaper movement in favor of change
in the date of the ceremony from March 4
to April 80. The plan is one that COM
mends itself to all who were present at the
late Inauguration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

WHAT'S in a namef Much, sometimes.
You would not like to eat monkey if you
knew it, but if nicely stewed and served as
squirrel you might enjoyit Mr.. Sickle
man, q young Indianian who has made two
trips to Africa and travelled extensively
in the interior of the Dark Continent, says
monkey is common article of diet there,
and is good food. why mott" he says.
''They live on nuts, vegetables, and clean
food, and are far more Clearly in their
habits than swine" He says the flesh is
tender, juicy, and well favored, resembling
squirrel more than anything else. To o
question what other animal food was used
in Africa. Mr.. Steckleman said: "The hip
popotamus furnishes very good meat, but
it is rather rare because the animal is so
difficult to kill. Hippopotamus steak,
nicely broiled, is excellent. But the best
thing ever ate in the way of meat is ele-
plants trunk. That is real delicacy."
Asked what it tasted like, the traveller
thought a moment, and said, at tastes like
calls head or pigs feet, only much better
than either" These native delicacles may
taste very good in Africa, but we doubt if
q boarding-houses, conducted on the Afri-
can plan, would do well here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

add to the ATTRACTIONS of the places. Gin
cinnati had its Springer, its Probasco; it
has its Sinton, and others like him: Wash
ington had its Gorcoran; Pittsburg has it's
Carnegie; Philadelphia its Drexel, New
York had it's Cooper; Baltimore its Hop
kins. The list is long, but Indianapolis is
not found in it. Indianapolis wants an art
building, an industrial school, music hall;
it wants fountains and parks, and other
beautitiers. 1t would take almost any
thing in the way of improvement, if of
fered in the right spirit, but it gets nothing,
and seems likely to get nothing. The rea-
son cannot be, of course, that there are no
public-spirited citizens. 1t must be that
they are all pore"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

THE election of Mr.. Charles Evans as
City Librarian is altogether 'cOmmendable,
and shows disposition on the part of the
school board to deal with public trust in
the right sprint Mr.. Evans was the best
librarian the city ever had, and his removal
was never justified, During the interven-
ing years the board has tried a series of un-
fortunate experiments only to come back. at
last, to the correct principle, and employ a
librarian. The appointment of Mr.. Evans
will probably open 8 new career of useful
ness for the Ebrary. ss75
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

FROM this distarice it appears as though
the members of the New York Society for
the Prevention of, Cruelty to Animals had
forced the resignation of its president,
Henry Bergh, less from an interest in the
welfare of animals than from personal
dislike to Bergh. 1t is to be hoped that the
association will not be made less efficient
by this change. 1t is the parent society
and has long set the example. for other or
CARNATIONS of the sort throughout the
country. Il
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION contains the

THE JOURNAL. OF EDUCATION contains the
following sadplaint; I
Boston pays(s woman. one Of the board Of
six assistant supervisors. a salary of SO. $50,
while the national government pays the head of
the Department OF Education q salary of So, 900.
How long will tue people of the United States
continue thus. to hirniliate themselvesi
The possibility that the woman super
visor is worth $3.50 more to the community
than the head of the Department of Educa-
ton seems mot to have occurred to this
organ of instruction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
beds in the East Room. Your true Yankee
is nothing, if not practical.

''ST. PATRICK and ParnelI" is the ALTER
alive cry to-day. The ancient saint has to
divide the honors with the one newly r1sen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

The weather bureau risks nothing in
flying the coldrwave flag all the time. Cold
weather is bound to come if it waits long
enough
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

Mrs. HARRIsoS's reported complaint of
the limited sleeping accommodations at the
White House brings Boston paper for
ward with theadyice to put up folding
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

IT gives the home-loving but impecuni-
Gus resident of indianapolis pain in his
epigastrium to read of the generous gifts
and requests to the public made in other
cities by wealthy men. Hardly a city in
the country but has or has had its public
spirited men, who give freely OK their sub
stance to benefit their townspeople. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
Telephone Calls.
Business On1ce------23SI Editorial Rooms ....24
TWELVE PAGES.

The Sunday journal has double the circn-
lation Of any Sunday paper I'm Indiana.
Price Eve cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

THE Bostonian Society, Boston associa-
ton whose purpose is to collect and pre-
serve the history of that city, has just
voted to admit women to membership. The
Indiana Historical Association declines to
admit women into its sacred circle. When
it finally concfu des to do SO it may be able
to get at history worth knowing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

The Forum contains an appreciative
article by the Marquis of LOrne on the
United States government. which he calls
1.-THE American System" After remarking
that few governments enjoy more real
stability than ours, he says:
The American shipof state is built in so many
compartments, that even II several became
water-logged. the ship would float. This cannot
be said of many older nations Mere centraliza-
ton, either in the hands of q monarch, or in the
hands of democratic chamber" has reached
to such point that any great popular impulse,
any wave of passion promoted by disaster, and
driven by envy and poverty, may Overturn the
vessel and cause it to become for a time help
less wreck. This is not conceivable in the case
Of the United States. There is so much check
and counter-check, so slow an operation of the
forces of movement, that men have time to con-
slider.
This is well expressed and, from a son-in-
law of Queen Victoria, shows an intelligent
appreciation of our governmental system.
1t fails, however, to note the naturally con-
sentative and law-abiding temper of the
American people. which makes them es-
sentially a self-governing people. Afterall
is said, that is the foundation of the whole
business. Forms of government change
with national character, and when the
time comes. if it ever does, that we are I'M
fit for self-government we shall then have
some other kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

A WRITER in the North American Review
thinks the practice of the American people
has settled into an unwritten law that no
person will be elected President who has
passed the age of sixty years. The writer
says: "a
1t is now a hundred years since Washington, at
the age of fiftyseve was chosen. Jefferson
Madison. Monroe and j. q. Adams were each
elected at that same age. OF the twenty-three
Presidents only three were elected after the age
of sixty one. OF these three two were military
men, who died soon after Inauguration and the
other was James Buchanan. Eighteen of the
twentythree We're elected before the age of sixty,
at fifty, and seven while in the forties. Gen.
Grant was forty-six; Mr.. Cleveland, torty-seven,
and General Harrison ffty-five. ,e
The record is in favor of men under sixty,
but it can hardly prove sufficient to drive
the presidential bee from the bonnets of all
our statesmen who have turned three score
years. Isl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

STATISTICS made up from the latest poll
ing list in Chicago show that the city has,
or had as that time, 1926 authorized
voters. The three chief classes of voters
are Americans, so-called, numbering q, 2239;
Germans. numbering 4.2O1, and Irish, num-
boring 14,613 Among the others, the BOhe-
milan voters number 2,644, and the English,
1908, leaving 1876 votes to be devided be-
tween Swedes. Canadians Norwegians,
Scotch. Danes. Poles, Hollanders, French,
Russians. Italians Hungarians, Welsh, Bel
gians and others. Probably no other city
contains so mixed a population, and so large
foreign element.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

PRIOR to the meeting of the late Legis-
lature there was considerable discussion in
favor of a vehicle tax as a means of increas-
ing city revenues. Public sentiment was
practically unanimous in favor of such a
tax as being just one, easily collected,
and prevalent in other cities. A bill was
drafted authorizing the Council to impose
such tax; also. to impose tax on tele-
graph and telephone poles by which the
city revenue would have been further in
creased. These bills were placed in the
hands of one of the members from this
county, but were not even introduced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

THE judge of the New Orleans Criminal
Court has granted a new trial to man
convicted of manslaughter because it was
proven that the jury had played poker for
four hours while trying to reach a decision.
The Judge, in deciding the application,
said: Twelve men, supplied with a quart
bottle of whisky, deck of cards and
handful of beans, who played poker from IL
o'clock at night until 4 in the morning,
could not possibly give the prisoner a fair
trial" Perhaps they were professional
jurymen and case-hardened to the solemni-
ties of the situation. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17

THE movement looking to the furnishing
of free natural gas for manufactures is one
of great importance and should receive the
hearty support of all classes of citizens.
1t does not run counter to any of the ex-
listing companies. but, on the contrary.
has the sympathy and approval of all of
them. 1t proposes to pipe gas here from a
new field, for the sole and exclusive pur-
pose of attracting manufactures. and to
do this by offering fuel free. The pro-
jectors expect to make themselves whole
by furnishing gas to private consumers in
one or two neighboring towns, but in this
city their only aim would be to supply
manufactures, and TO do that free. What
ever else the movement may embrace, this
is enough to commend it to the public.