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The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
THE EIGHT-HOUR MOVEMENT.

The American Federation of Labor,
in resolving to devote its energies to
bringing about eight hours as days
labor, admits by its caution that it has
undertaken delicate as we'll as very
great task. The fede ration does not
propose to enforce the eight-hours prop
osition in all the trades which the or
ganization represents, but to select GER
tain trades whose conditions are most
favorable for the experiment, and en-
deavor to secure the assent of employers
to the change, and, in case of failure, to
initiate strikes in those trades, to be
sustained by the resources of the whole
organization. 1t is but fair to say that
the temper displayed by the federation
in this matter has shown no trace of Bit
terness toward employers.
The problem presented is difficult
one. If the plan is adopted and the
skilled labor of the country is paid as
much wages for eight as for ten hours
work, it stands to reason that either the
price of every article produced
must be advanced proportionate-
ly or cOrrespondingly larger
share of the joint product
of labor and capital must be transferred
to labor. The question at once arises
whether or not the profits of capital in
vested in the great industries of the
country can surrender one-fifth of their
gains and yet be remunerative. There
is a general impression, which dema-
gOgues strive to make conviction, that
the profits of manufacturers are very
large. For periods, in some industries,
this is doubtless the case, but in others
the dividends or net returns are very
small. So far as reports of dividends
paid, which are declared in some States
by corporate manufactures, the average
earnings of capital in industrial enter
prises do otexceed, on an average, 6 or
2 per cent. In many cases large and
costly plants are run without profit. To
ask capital that is receiving or per
cent. to give up one-tifth of it to the la
Dor will result as disastrously to labor,
in the end, as to the employer. In the
tIdutS Tic VIII DC LndU
the contractor will add fifth to the
item of labor in construction, and if the
trades which furnish materials do the
same thing, the cost of building, and
consequently the rents of houses, will be
advanced in the same ratio.
Itis urged that men can do as much
work in eight hours as in ten. This re-
mains to be seen. The committee of the
federation does not make such claim,
but, on the contrary, takes the other
view. There is not the slightest doubt
that men may labor so many hours in a
day as to render them unable to do as
much and as good. work as they could in
less hours, but no investigation has yet
been made with view of ascertaining
the number of hours during which the
best results can be obtained. Very
much of skilled labor is employed in the
use of machinery, which it would be i'm
possible to give additional speed to
make up the difference between ten and
eight hours.
The federation displays wisdom in de-
Gliding to try the experiment with few
industries instead of attempting
to force SO radical change
along the whole line of produc-
ton. Its leaders seem to understand
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

the disaster which would attend such
q revolution, and TO be determined to
avert it. Any general movement of the
kind without several years. notice would
involve the industries of the country in
disaster, which would fall alike upon en-
plOyer and employe.
While the movement is involved with
doubt and difficulties, one thing is clear
and imperative if the change is TO be
made, and that is that the industries of
the country must have all the protection
which can be given them by laws to shut
out the foreign competitor. If our great
industries are to pay higher wages they
must be protected against the much
cheaper production of Europe by bar
riers SO high that they cannot be over
leaned
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

WE fancy 1T would puzzle the Journal. or
any other advocate of sugar bounty. to
present single argument in favor of such
a bounty which would not be equally as
strong favor of bounty to the producers
of other articles.-Sentinel.
Most people would recognize a differ
ence between an. article which we can
produce and one which we cannot. No
amount of protection or bounty could
ever make this tea or coffee producing
country, but we can and ought to pro-
duce all the sugar we consume, and more,
too. Mr.. Claus Spreckels, than whom
there is no better authority, says the
United States can raise enough sugar to
supply the world. Russia, Germany and
France have all been giving bounty on
beet-sugar production for years past,
until now France and Germany actu-
ally export sugar. No other country on
earth has the extent of country avail
able for sugar production-cane, sorghum
and beet-that the United States has,
and a failure to promote and foster the
industry by government action and leg
lation will be a costly mistake.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
ABOUT THE OLD FLAG.
How to Find Out What Is Thought of Il
and of the Stars and Bars.

now 20 r1nu Gut what Is Thought of 1t
and of the Stars and Bars.
Joe Howard. in New York Press.
If you want to know whether the old flag
Is respected and the confederate fiag de-
spised; If you care to appreciate absolutely
the feeling of the people-not the spouters,
not the sensational editors, not the hire
hngs, but the people. the solid. homely.
honest. t.thlnking, hearty feeling people-go
through New England and talk with the
farmers. Go into the interior of New York
State and listen to the comments. Take a
trip through the teeming West and follow
the railway track into the extreme beyond,
mingle with the voters. show them this
story of Jefferson Davis. read TO them the
ridiculous eulogies as 10 his motives and
the bombastic prairies awarded him by sill
iy writer's at the North-then you will get
1t. 1t is. all very well TO talk about the
bloody shirt and the meanness and un-
fairness and uncomradeship of waving
Ut, but IL you want to stir feeling
keep on waving the confederate flag. When
ever confederate dies wrap bis coffin init,
have pictures made of the late lamented
induce sensational mongers to print col
umns after columns of eul0gy, and then pull
out the shirt stained with the life blood of
farmers boy. Take the two. one in one
hand and one in the other. and you will
have contiagration quick enough. These
people who are everlastingly prating about
burying the bloody shirt never hesitate to
utilize the confederate flag. The burial of
Jefferson Davis III quiet. respectful, cit-
Zen-attended way, would have been trib-
ute to the peace against which he fought
but which he and his gladly availed them
selves of when it was obtained The fiaunt-
ings and the tauntings indulged in by his
superserviceable friends at the North and
IL editorial suggestions made concerning
the Grand Army of the Republic and its
failure to follow the confederate flag have
started anew a discussion which, were it on
the eve of a presidential election. would
render as absolutely certain the defeat OF
the Democrat candidate as the rising of the
sun or the going down thereof
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

We doubt the wisdom of Senator Ed
munds's rumored proposition for the es-
tablishment of national university at
Washington. AS to its constitutionality,
the violence of Democratic denunciation
may be mitigated by knowing that Pres
ident jefferson favored the same pro-
ject, and Justice Lamar, when Secretary
of the Interior, recommended it in one
of his annual reports. 1t has been
favored by other eminent men of both
parties. But that does not prove the
expediency or wisdom of the measure.
State universities, as a rule, are not the
best supported or most successful, and
it is doubtful if a national university
would prove an exception to the general
rule
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

THE Republicans in the House seem
to be lacking in leadership. In two or
three preliminary skirmishes they have
been defeated and Outvoted. True, the
matters involved were not important,
but the principle is, and that is that the
Republicans must get together, keep to-
gether, and have recognized leader
who is fully equal to the position, if
they expect to profit by their small ma
jority. The Democrats are led by Car
Isle, assisted by able ieutenants. The
Republicans need to be well organized
and ably led against this opposition.
Mr.. McKinley's position as chairman of
the ways and means committee makes
him, by right, leader of the House. He
is very able man and good parlia-
mentarian, but perhaps he is not suffi-
ciently alert and aggressive for leader.
If not, somebody else must take that
position. The very narrow Republican
majority makes it highly important that
this matter should be attended to.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
For several years the Republicans of

For several years the Republicans of
Delaware have been prevented from vot-
ing because the Democratic tax collect
ors would not accept the poll tax, which
is a prerequisite for registration and
voting, and have thus deprived hum
dreds, if not thousands, of the right of
suffrage. Tax collections cannot be
proved, although every effort has been
made to pay the tax. Senator Higgins
has now taken the matter to the courts,
and there is ground to hope that this
great wrong may be stopped and that
the Republicans of the little State OF
Bayard may have the right of suffrage
restored to them.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
SILVER PRODUCTION.

The Engineering and Mining Journal
publishes from time to time carefully
corrected figures regarding the silver
industry, which throw much light upon
the subject. These statistics show that
out of the eighty-eight silver producing
mines that have paid dividends, only
twenty-six have paid dividend during
the past fourteen months. There are
sixty-eight silver mines that have never
paid a dividend, so that the total of
silver mines not now paying is 13O to
twenty-six which pay, or five to one. A
part of the paying mines owe their sue
cess to the production either of gold or
lead in connection with silver. The
mines which have paid anything since
September, 1888, have a capital of S13S,-
TAG, 900, on which the last dividend was
S1,O1s,31 and all the dividends aggre-
gate S40,576,S65. of which the silver
lead mines have produced more than
half, and the silver-gold mines an
additional fifth. But the assessments
paid on all silver producing mines
amount to s72,74s, ,ss7, of which $685.
OS9, 756 have been paid on mines which
have never paid dividend, their NOM
inal capital being 1885,, 100000 The
mines not now paying, but having once
paid dividends, have q nominal capital
of $3.50, ,515,0O0, while the mines which
are still paying have capital of $685.
$4,000. The assessments on mines
which have once paid dividends amount
to S44,6J9, 13O, which is a sum larger than
all the dividends ever paid by the mines
which now afford dividends. These
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

THE Jefferson Davis Monument Asso-
citation has issued an address to the peO-
pie of Mississippi, urging the formation
of branch societies throughout the
State, the opening of popular subscrip-
tions, and the circulation of petitions
asking the Legislature to appropriate
100000 toward a monument to "the
grand and heroic man which shall reach
heavenward, and endure through the
ages to come" This monument, when
completed, will be another place for edi-
tor Grady to- take his boy to learn the
duties of citizenship.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
Newspapers in Public Schools.

The teacher who takes his texts from the
newspapers will enlist another powerful
ally, and that is the parents and families
of his pupils. The business man who can
find no time for books eagerly peruses his
daily paper, and takes keen delight in dis
cussing its news or its politics Children
who find it difficult to attract their faith
er's assistance in their studies will find him
Immediately interested when the news Is
the subject of their inquiries. Another
feature of q good paper which should COM
mend itself to the teacher as an assistant is
the moral training which it inculcates. All
great reforms. all philanthropic movements,
All patriotic @ projects ma @ In the new Jniewspa-
everywhere praised and vice held up to
obloquy. and the qualities of energy. ae-
tivity and industry as exemplified in the
career of successful men clearly portrayed
as the secret of their success.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

THE appointment of Capt. Nicholas
Ensley, of De Kalb county, as pension
agent, is an excellent one in all respects,
with only the usual regret that it in
wolves the disappointment of several
other most worthy applicants. Mr..
Ensley was good soldier, has served in
the State Senate, possesses first-rate
business qualifications and strong po-
litical backing. Other applicants for
the position had strong claims, but al,
must admit that the selection made is a
good one
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

personal friends and adherents of that
distinguished boodler, the public will
take its professions of political virtue
with large allowance of salt. These
same Democrats never saw anything to
condemn in Mr.. Payne's open and notori-
Gus purchase of the senatorship. The
probability is they favor some other mill
ionaire than Brice.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

THE discussion over the proposed re-
moval of General Grants remains from
New York to Washington has closed
with the announcement from Mrs. Grant
that the body will remain at Riverside
Park. In view of this decision the mon
ument fund has taken fresh start, the
New York Weekly Mail and Express in
creasing it by gift of $4,000. The
total amount of money collected for the
purpose is now $4,000.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

OHIO coroners' juries seem to be on the
right track. Railroad Commissioner Capel-
lar was censured for criminal negligence
in the recent inclined-plane disaster al Gin
cinnati for not having had the contrivance
inspected and made safe; and now Mine In
spector TIazeltine is held criminally re-
sponsible for an accident in a mine at
Steubenville. where he had failed to enforce
the use of the required precautions. 1t
would have healthy effect if some of the
gentlemen who grab for the State offices
and administer them as sinecures were
brought TO realizing sense of their duties
by fines and imprisonment.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

THE Mormon saints are having hard
time of it these days. 1t appears that
when they are not breaking the laws
against polygamy they are engaged in
transgressing other statutes, and the
minions of the law will not let them
alone, as was once the case. 1t has
come to this, that the saints must be
honest and moral or go to Jail, and it is
a hard alternative with them.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

al AN young free-trader," said a
Boston boy as he took Mr.. Cleveland by
the hand. 81 hope you will live to be a
very old one, my little man." replied Mr..
Cleveland impressively, patting his
candid young disciple on the head.
And yet there are people who deny
that Mr.. Cleveland is free-trader.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
Nobody Object.
Atlanta ConGfI

The South is good name for this section.
and the most enterprlsing Southerner has
is the product of his section, and he does
not care to masquerade as anything else.
Let the Yankees represent fankeedoln. and
let us say that the South is represented by
fvnical Sonfherners
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

fOstDIspatCn
Twelve special officers assigned to lottery
cases have not made an arrest in nine days.
And vet these nine days Immediately pre-
ceded the drawing of the big Southern lot
dollars from this city. While the police
have been shamefuliy inactive the lottery
rascals have reaped their monthly harvest
of criminal profits on the credulity of poor
people.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

THE New York Star, which is now the
only original DIR. Jacob Townsend DEM
ocratic paper in New York, denounces
the Sun and the World for ridiculing
Mr.. Cleveland. This is sad; but Gov.
Hill did the same thing.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
Where the Doctors Have a Chance.

Medical men in general are probably not
aware that in France. at least, the doctors
claim on the estate of deceased PATENT
has precedence of all others Even the
landlords claim for arrears of rent must
yield to the doctors fee The courts of
Rouen, Poictiers and the Seine have alike
decided that as II is an imperative right of
humanity that the dying should have the
necessary care and treatment. such attend
ance should be paid for before all the other
hahfs
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
New Use for the National Game.


1t has been left TO the Missouri legislators
to devise the neatest means OF being cor
rupted without doing violence TO their con-
sciences. They met the lobbyists for cer-
tam bill in bogus games of poker. and pre-
tended TO win what really were bribes.
Poker still holds its own as the great Ameri-
.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
yoorhees,s Attention Called.

The attention of Daniel Webster VSor-
hees is gently but firmly directed TO the
fact that one of 1.-The Carnegies" whom he
would hang if lie had his way, has been
hOb-nobbing, dining, speech-making and
having good time generally with Grover
Cleveland up in Boston. In view of this
extraordinary performance there is but one
course open to Voorhees,: He must either
embrace Carnegie or ask to be divorced
from Cleyeland.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

THE latest report is that Miss Caldwell
has raised her bid. and that Prince Murat
has graciously accepted it. American girls
generally get what they want if they are
able and willing to pay the price. but con-
gratulations are not always in order, even
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
An Unkind Suggestion.

Boston Globe tDeml.
Uncle Joe Mcdonald. of Indiana, declares
that the Democrats of his State are almost
a unit for Cleveland as presidential can
didate in 1892. This viii serve To remind
the country that Uncle Joseph is now a
possibility for second place. Hendricks Is
dead. English is eilaced and Thurman is
I'D
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

Pittsburg Post
To Andrew Carnegie's suggestion that the
best use that ex-Presidents can be put to is
to run them again, certain enemies of
Cleveland are giving hearty assent. Let
him rnn again.. exclaims one paper. land
unlucky practice" There was a bit of
irony in Mr.. Carnegie's suggestion Nhich is
only inst dawning on the friends of Cleve.
land
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

AND now some anonymous scribbler de-
clares that the fashionable influenza is
nothing more nor less than the old time
"break-bone fever" 1t is safe to say that
this scribbler Is not an early settler, or one
of the oldest inhabitants. Those worthless
will tell you all about the agonies they suf-
fered with that fever. but would scorn the
idea that any modern cold in the head can
compare with it in intensity of misery.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

The young man who is casting longing
eyes upon that piece of plated jewelry as a
Christmas present for his very best girl
should tear himself away and go TO a shoe
store. Good shoes do not glitter. but will
protect her against that inclemency which
is sure to tarnish the bloom of youth and
l,aoutv
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

IT is an off day in the Office of the st.
Louis Republic when it does not parade
the Pretorian guard and issue Cleve-
land order to Democrats, "Stop that"
referring to the offering of pension bills
in Congress-
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

statistics show that while large fortunes
have been made by few from silver
mines, the majority of them are nom
paying, and yet are being worked in the
hope of reaching rich ore which will pay.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

THE Louisville Courier Journal has an
editorial on 1.-THE improvements in
Arms" And this from a paper which
has heretofore insisted that Kentucky
women were perfect.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

APRoPos the recent speeches of editor
Grady about educating one son at the
monument of Jefferson Davis and at Plym-
outh Rock. it is suggested that his name
should be changed to Henry w. Gush.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

age.n What is remarkable about thisf If
John Walter was not qualified at thirty
five to manage a newspaper, the London
Times or any other he never would be.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

An exchange considers it worthy of COM
ment that John Walter who succeeds the
late Mr.. Mcdonald as manager of the Lon
'don Times, lis only thlrty-fve years of
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
He'd Never slonkeyed with 1t.


The inventor of the circular saw is dead.
He died a peaceful and painless death. lie
never tried his invention with his finger To
lind out if it was SoinS,
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
in case OF success

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
What is the law concerning exemption from
toll on Sunday2 L
OAKvILLE, Ind
Toll cannot be exacted from persons going
to or from funerals. or from ministers of the
gospel while going to or returning from
their appointments for preaching.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal:
Will you please give the present population Q
Denver, Col? CONSTANT READER.
DANyILIE. Ind.
1t is estimated at about 5000.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
To settle wager please state whether any
one ever went over Niagara Falls in safety.
TRADERS POINT, Ind.
Assuredly not.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Assuredly not.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-02-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A Cedar Rapids, Ia, clergyman
recently took this for text: "Can q
man with family work for thirty
dollars q month and be Christianp''
The Lutheran church is growing
rapidly in the United States In 1870
the number of communicates in that
denomination was less than 400, 600
Now there are over 1000. 900.
The minister who. sixty years
ago, preached the first sermon in Chi
cago still lives, and he is still of the
opinion that Chicago is good mission
airy ground.-Martha's Vineyard Her
aid.
The Female Mission Home at Sgd
ney, Australia, has been in operation
fifteen years, and is managed wholly
by women. Its object is to receive
young women who have fallen, or who
are in danger of falling, from virtu-
GUS life, and to help them to retrieve
their position in society.
Hon. Daniel Needham. in one
of his addresses before the Massachu-
sets Horticultural Society, said:
"There is physical energy enough
wasted every season by the students of
Harvard College to carry on a truck
garden which would supply very large
ly the vegetable markets of the city Of
Boston"
There are 971 Universalist par
ishes in this country, a church MEM
bership of $3.50, a Sunday-school
membership of 53,2O5, BIG churches
and church property to the value of
1895. 756. The denomination sup
ports a dozen educational institutions.
with 1924 students and ia teachers
and professors. Union.
Concerning the habit of coughing
in church, the Lancet says: cit repre-
sents to large extent avoidable evils.
bred of habit and thoughtless imita-
ton, and their very desirable reduc-
ton is therefore by no means hopeless.
Even where basis of disease UNDER
lies the explosion, little self-control
could usually do something to lessen
its force or its frequency"
In the church of Christ there is
danger of overlooking the necessity of
the feeble members. The need of
the stronger ones. no one will ques-
ton. A minister's success depends
largely upon getting every member of
his charge to work. However feeble
some of the members may be, if they
are truly saved they are part of
Christ's mystical body, and have some
necessary work to perform.-Dr.
Werner.