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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 80 1899

many years; the New York or Chicago
hearers would have rended their threats
in approval Of the sentiments. They
want to kill off wealthy men; SO, Mr..
Voorhees, says, does he. What better
encouragement to go on with their rev.
olutionary plans should they want than
this? He would be hailed not only as a
sympathizer. but his high position would
entitle him to rank as leader among
them. Those Anarchists were not pres
ent at the Bloomfield meeting, but the
fact that the Indiana Senator is teaching
a social doctrine precisely similar to
their own will speedily become known
to them and do its dangerous work. 1t
matters little what Mr.. Voorhees,, as a
man and citizen of Terre Haute, may
think; it is when, as Senator and
representative of great State, he SO
far fOrgets his duty to State and Nation
as to publicly advocate and encourage
the dangerous classes, that his words
are important, and he is open to the con-
demnation of the public.
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A SENATORIAL TEACHER OF ANARCHY.

When half-crazed creatures like Lucy
Parsons, or professional agitators like
the half-civilized Herr Most undertake
to carry out social reforms by urging
one class of citizens to murder another,
the intelligent people of the country lis
ten to their rawlings with disgust, but
also with feeling that the speakers can
do little harm, owing to their low stand
ing and lack of influence in the COM
munity. 1t is very different matter
when a Senator of the United States
breaches such incendiary doctrine. 1t is
one thing when a semi-lunatic and an
ignorant foreigner urge revolution by
violence as a means of settling economic
and social problems, and quite another
when q representative of the greatest
republican government on earth sug-
gests the same plan. The disgust felt
in the one case bears no compar-
ison to the contempt entertained by all
sensible persons for one who allows
his demagogic tendencies to carry him
to the point reached by Senator VOOr-
bees in his Bloomfield speech. eff
had my way with such men as the Car
negies l would hang them,n he said, on
Saturday, to the crowd assembled to
listen to his words. This utterance diff
fers in no way from the rantings of the
Chicago Anarchists, but in just the de-
gree that Senator's influence exceeds
that of Parsons or Lingg, it is more
dangerous. 1t will not do to say, as in
dulgent friends will, that Mr.. Voorhees,
did not mean his remarks to apply in a
literal sense. 1t is not advisable to take
this Democratic Senator too seriously at
ell times, but this case is one in which
he must be held strictly responsible for
his words and their significance. His
Greene county audience was made Up
largely of farmers who had not reached
that state of mind that would cause any
unfriendly reference to wealth to meet
with instant approval, and no applause
greeted his bloodthirsty suggestion as to
capitalists. If that speech had been
made before a crowd of Democrats from
the slums of New York or Chicago, how
differently would it have been received |!
The Greene county grangers checred now
and then during the course of the adj
dress, but perfunctorily and because
the speaker was their Dap," whom
they had helped to keep in Office for so
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
NEW JERSEY POLITICS.
Fisk, in His Desertion Of the Prohibitionists,
Takes Most of the Third Party with Him.
Trenton Il \ Suecial

Fisk, in His DesertiOn Of the PrOhibitionists,
Takes Most of the Third Party with Him.
Trenton IN. j. Special.
The political talk of the past week in this
State has conferred around the desertiOn of
the Jersey PrOhibitOnists by Gen. Clinton
b. Fisk. 1t occurred at the Prohibition
General found that he was not wanted, and
fizzle anyhow. So he pulled out and went
West Just before the delegates assembled.
Fisk has only been half-hearted in the
third-party work here for the past few
months. He was thoroughly disguised
with the repeal of local option by the DEM
Ocratic Legislature last winter, and an
nOunced very positively that he thought it
was time for PrOhibitionists and Repub-
licans to unite and get Legislature next
fall that would re-enact local option.
The other third-party leaders did not
agree with Fisk. They insisted on main
tanning their organization, no matter what
became of temperance. They acted as
though they were suspicious of their old
leader, and the General made up his mind
it was time for him to get out. Evidently
a large portion of the party deserted with
Fisk, for scarcely half the delegates APP
pearediat Asbury Park, and most Of those
that did get around were women, who were
more anxious to get woman suffrage plank
in the platform than anything else.
The convention was an entire failure, and
the loss of Fisk takes all strength out of
the third-party canvass this year. As near
as can be ascertained General Fisk re-
mains PrOhibitiOnist in national politics,
but in local politics next fall he will work
with and for the Republicans.
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years, the consciousness that her full-length
portrait remained there TO represent her.
MIS-. Hayes was the most non-partisan
wlfe OF PRESIDENT whom / have ever
known. In fact through her Kentucky an
tecedents, she seemed. if anything, more
fond or democrats than of Republicans or
rather. so completely ignoring either as
such that her husbands best supporters
were sometimes hurt that their wives and
daughters enjoyed no special welcome at
the White House
1t was Samuel J. Randall who gave her
the warmest encomium the night of tbs
first diplomatic reception ON her stand
against wines and liquors at the White
House. AS he approached her to make his
adieus heard him say to her, with beam
ing eyes, Madam, / like your pluck.D and
it was white-haired Southerner who
called her. after attending one of her recep-
tions, "a God beautiful woman
On the whole, i believe that both her own
and Mr.. Hayess administration were provi-
Dental in their tone and quality. They
healed many asperities of the reconstruct
ton period; and of him il surely may be-
said, however one belittles him, HE gave
the country rest"
If there was ever a man whose bereave-
ment called for sympathy it certainly is
ex-President Hayes in the shadow of his
wlfe's new-made grave. never saw such
another worsfiiping husband as he. do
not think his worst enemy, If any now are
LETT, could help feeling sorry for him In his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

This will have to be decided by the
courts. If the opinion of the Attorney
general is correct that the new law is
compulsory at all points, it will only in
crease the friction, aggravate the dam
age to the schools and intensity popular
indignation against the monopoly. The
fact that the latter is relying on legal
compulsion to force inferior books upon
the people against their will shows its
true animus. AS the monopoly has in
voked the law against the people, the
latter should do the same against the
monopoly, and fight it as long as there is
an inch of ground to stand on. 1t is
fight for popular rights, for good text
books, and, eventually, for free ones.
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PosTMARKs NEED Reforming.
Badly stamped Letters Which Worry tho
Life Out Of Business Men.

Badly Stamped Letters which Worry tho
Life Out Of Business Men.
Philadelphia Record
while the Postmaster-g Is in re-
forming mood wish he would give a mo-
ment's attention to the illegible postmarks
on nlne-tenths OF the letters that 90 flying
through the country" said a member of a
big wholesale dry goods firm yesterday.
1T Is an impossibiiity to decipher the
hieroglyphics that spread themselves over
a great amount of our correspondence. I
suppose that we Philadelphians. who are
accustomed to spell out most complex ana
grams and drop letter puzzles on our street
lamps, should be able by this time te
fathom the meaning of these postal enig-
mas, but it is tough tussle to guess at a
nine-lettered word when only three letters
appear. Don't we have the postoffice add
dress inside the envelopef
"Oh, yes, generally; but its essential part
is often omitted; that is, our correspond.
ents are rarely careful to tell us what State
they hail from. If man writes from Gin
dress 4 big round 'O.' or if from Chicago. he
adds a superhuous Ill., But if the letter
comes from Crisis Cross Corners OF Smith
Vile, the penman assumes that the fame of
his native heath is worldwide, and that it
would be waste of ink to mention wheth-
or it Is located in Texas. Arizona or New
Jersey.
I'VE appeal to the postmark for guidance,
but its black blur is generally meaningless.
A gazetteer will not set us straight for
smlthville or the Corners will probably be
found to be as numerously situated as
Homer's birthplace. In time we accumu-
late quite heap of letters with undeciph-
cradle postmarks, which have never been
answered nor ever can be, because of the
writer's stupidity and the postmaster's
should decorate each envelope or they
should be omitted entirely"
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE danger in America is far less from
idle rich men than from rich men who are
perniciously and pertinaciously active in
controlling politics and government for
their own selfish INTERESTINGLY York
World.
THERE has, undoubtedly. been great ethi
cal gain in the past hundred years, pessi-
mists to the contrary notwithstanding, and
we can feel sure that gain is being made
now in morals. in politics, in the general
development of SOciety.-ChlcagO Inter
Ocean.
MEN and brethren, the first step toward
the millennium of plenty 4 is to produce
more, not less; to do better work, and not
less; to do it heartily, as unto the Lord"
and not grudgingly as if self-satisfaction
were really better than honest and pro-
ductive service.-New York Tribune.
IT sounds very wellin theory and looks
very well in print, and thousands of people
are ready to take up with these new
tangled ideas that promise SO much in the
The only trouble about the socialistic idea
Is that there is no telling where the
tendency of government ownership will
stop if allowed any headway.-Chicago
Times.
IT is a notorious fact that parochial
schools are inferior, so far as secular edu-
and are not generally preferred, OF even
liked at all, by Catholic parents and chils
dren. 1t is not question of freedom to
attend those schools or to send children to
them, but Of freedom to keep out of them.
aud to enjoy the benefits of the schools pro-
vided by the State.-New York Times.
BAD statistics are worse than mono at all.
They can be used by any body to prove any
thing. 1t is better that the census gath
erers should do few things and do them
accurately and thoroughly, than to try to
do many and make an imperfect job of
most 1t would be of the greatest interest
and value if this Nation could take account
of stock in 1S90-fnd just what it has and
owes. deduct the latter from the former,
and then brag of the result-but how is it
to be dOnei-Chicago Tribune.
ONE argument in favor of national uni
versity is that it would render it unneces-
sary for young men to 60 abroad to COM
plete their studies in any department of
learning. In the opinion of the best edu-
Gators this practice should be encouraged.
The oldest and richest colleges do encour-
age it by awarding a small sum of money
to certain number in each graduating
class sufficient to enable them to go abroad
and continue their studies in different
European ountries.-Chicago Herald.
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was impressed that the fluid from the tree
would effect cure. He was sponged with
the fluid. and said he felt much relieved.
ETHEL MACKENZIE, one of the Evening
Telegraph's London correspondents, says of
Mrs. Galrett-Anderson, now one of the best
known physicians in England, that she
that country. mo school or hospital was
then open to her in London, and il was
only by immense perseverance and indomi-
table will, and to paying largely to private
physicians for instruction, that she sue
ceeded in obtaining degree abroad. where
the medical faculties are less conservative
in their ideas and more willing to share
their pleasures and work with the SEX"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

Hon. DANIEL VOORHEES, has many old
friends who viii be both shocked and
grieved to learn that he and Lucy Par
sons are preaching the same doctrine.
Daniel says: eff I had my way with
men like the Carnegies / would hang
them" The amiable Lucy puts it thus:
"They, the people, must rise and bear
out the heads of those devils-those
capitalists-0n pikestaffs. The revOlu-
ton comes, the red flag waves" etc.,
etc., ending in a wild hoop-la. There is
a difference in form of expression, a diff
ference in the proposed method of ex.
termination, but none in sentiment. The
one utterance was no less anarchist doc
trine than the other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

THERE is a good deal of significance
in the prevalent rumor in London that
the Prince of Wales is anxious for the
Queen to abdicate because he thinks he
could secure more favorable civil list
now than he could at any future time.
The current discussion ON royal grants,
while pretty sure to end favorably to the
crown, has disclosed q strong sentiment
of opposition and growing restlessness
under the expenses of royalty. The
Prince of Wales knows enough of hui
man nature and of English nature to
know that this feeling is likely TO in
crease rather than diminish, and that
his chance of getting liberal appropria-
tons for civil list from Parliament
would be better now than few years
bence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
Indisna's Great Good Luck.

y. w.
where is the greatest gas region of the
United States now locatedf"
1T is included within 1900 square miles
in Indiana. There the rocky strata of the
earth forms a great dome, which not only
contains gas, but also an accumulation of
OIL"
Where will we get our oil in the futureso
'That is difficult to answer. but the most
promising part of the United States. I
should say. is found on the western slope
of the Appalachian mountains, running
through southern Pennsylvania, through
West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern
Tennessee, into southern Alabama. This is
a very broad belt. and think in the fut-
ure it will yield enormous quantities of
petroleum. There are other isolated areas
west of the Missouri river in the Rocky
mountains, which promise very we'll,
though they are much smaller in territory
covered
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

SENATOR VOORHEES, wants to hang
"the Carnegies;" but does this ferOcious
sentiment apply to the. SCOTS, the
Paynes, the Hewitts, the Whitneys, the
Brices, the Burts, and all the other in
Vulnerable throng Of Democrats who,
according to Mr.. Voorhees,, are engaged
in the capitalistic occupation of "rob-
bling the peopleq" He surely doesn't
mean to make flesh of Republican cap
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

There is noble old manor house on an
estate not far from Washington. recently
purchased by rich Washingtonian. The
other day he asked party of friends down
to see it, and proudly displayed it's attrac-
tionstill they all exclaimed with delight
delight all the more keen because every
thing was more or less dilapidated. When
he had exhausted the house and the garden
he said to his guests: Il bought an an
cestor with this place. Come and let me
introduce you to him." So they all fol-
lowed him to. secluded SPOT in the
grounds where they found a fine old marble
vault built into the hillside. The host
opened the rusty iron door, and they all
passed into the cobwebby darkness. Pres
emily they made out on the left-hand shelf
a skeleton lying at full length. with Tiny
snakes nest iii the brcast-bOne. That's
8 Colonel Plantagenetv said the host. who
built the house and this tomb"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

Mr.. JONATHAN M. RIDENoUR, whose
death occurred yesterday, was for many
years prominently identified with active
affairs in this city and other parts of the
State. He was sagasious and untiring
in the pursuit of business ends, and ever
ready to assistin enterprises looking to
the public welfare or the prosperity of
the city. His demise will be sincerely
regretted by the large number of those
who have enjoyed his acquaintance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

CONGRESSMAN JOHNNY LAMB, who
is posing in New York as a great states
man, tells reporter whom he has pro-
cured to interview him. that he has dis
covered the coming man for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination in 1892 in
Mcpherson, of Delaware. Mr.. Isaac
Gray, of Indiana, who has another man
for the place, may now be expected to
sit down on Johnny at the earliest OPP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

If Mr.. Voorhees, Bloomfield hearers
hadn't known better, they might have
thought, from his speech, that he had
been a rip-roaring free-trader for thirty
years. He neglected to say anything
about that eloquent address, in Atlanta,
In favor of a protective tariff, that won
him so many handsome compliments not
longer than three years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
Modern Human Sacrifice.

The shocking story comes from Savannah
that a colored child in Liberty county,
Georgia, has been sacrificed by its parents to
the pseudo Messiah" who was sent to tho
lunatic asylum few days ago. If the story
is true, and there is no reason to doubt that
it is. it proves that there is indeed a most
deplorabIe condition of affairs among tho
blacks in the region where the murder oc-
Cured but it docs not necessarily prove
that they are all relapsing into barbarism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

In reply to certain questions of the
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton the Attorney general holds that the
language of the new school book law is
compulsory in the duties it imposes on
township trustees. There is no doubt
about this, but the question will still
arise as to what those duties are, and
whether they include the compulsory in
PRODUCTION of the books in the schoolsf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

WHEN the Indiana schoOl-boy gets
through with one of the elementary
Arithmetics" furnished by BecktOld q
Co. the law compels him to buy "Com-
plete Arithmetic" if he wishes to COM
plete his studies, although the first two
hundred pages of it are a duplicate of
the elementary. 1t is afemarkable lot
of books, that Standard series.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
He Was Surprised.
He "Hs SUI PTIscUs
Concord IN. H. Monitor.

Concord On. HI MOnllOr.
The agitation of the question of erecting
a statue TO Gen. John Stark recalls the fol-
lowing anecdote: Vermont farmer and
his wife, on their first visit to. the Capitol
at Montpelier, passed before the statue of
Ethan Allen. They gaZed long and
thoughtfully, and then the silence was
broken by the husband: Gosh. mother, I
allus thought Ethan Allen was horse"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
They're Wiser Now.
Boston Journal

Boston Journal
ford,s Magazine did the Democratic party
a good deal of hard service in the late cam
paign, and now it is said to be suing the
Democratic national committee for its
money. The Democratic managers appar-
emily do not think SO highly now of red
hot free trade arguments as they did ~ hen
they contracted for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

AND so the Greenbackers will have
nothing to do with the Prohibitionists.
They may be cranks, but are not such
colossal cranks as to weigh themselves
down with two impracticable schemes at
the same time when one will sink them
deep enough. Chairman Jones is wise
in deciding that his party shall go it
o1npa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30

WHEN Senator Voorhees, begins the
hanging of capitalists like Carnegie,
will he use the ropes used by sheriffs or
will he employ the bell-cord in use on
passenger trains?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
Must Have Been a Kentucky Hen.

Mr. Jackson Lariscy brought to the Syl-
vania Telephone small egg. about one
inch i'm length and half an inch in diameter.
somewhat of a bottle shape, being rounded
off at one end, and having small end run
ming out like bottle neck. at the other.
1t was found in a small-sized hen egg by
Mr.. Lariscy. and occupied the place of tho
yolk in the egg.
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VOORHEES, AND MRS. PARSONS.

Senator Voorhees, speech at Bloom
field, on Saturday, and that of Mrs. Lucy
Parsons, at Chicago, on Sunday, show
that the craftsmanship and oratory of
this country are not all confined to one
sex. 1t is interesting, also, to observe
the similarity in the utterances of the
two orators. Thus we have:
| Senator Voorhees, at
Mrs. Parsons at Chicago. BLOOMFIELD.
We have q free gov A government which
eminent; they have altakes from one portion
free government fnlOf its citizens in order
France; yet we arctic enrich another class
slaves. There must beIdOn't deserve to exist
another evolution-a on the face of the earth,
revolution against theIand will not long exist
"bastiles" of labor. unless the people con-
sent to become slaves
The people must RISE If had nv way with
They will rise, and they men like the Carnegies
will storm and captureI that preyed upon the
those bastiles, and they land, and sucked peo-
will bear out the heads piles blood like leeches
of those devils-thOseII would hang them
capitaiists-On the topslT are public enemies
of pikestaffs. worse than the Torres
were during the Rev0-
luton.
say there will be a Why, think the ii me
revolution. i say yOulwill come when you
men are brave enoughlwould rather-a good
to rise and put down the cal rather-take q
tyrants. There will beIpitchfOrk and pitch Re-
slaves in the bastile ofIpubhcan politicians out
labor no longer; y0uIOf your way than to
will do with tyrants and pitch hay in yeur
put out the bosses. meadow.
You must march, arm The Declaration of
I'm arm, and shoulder to American Independence
shoulder, against these was a mere declaration
"bastiles" of labor. You against q theory and a
must not march in helprinciple OF wrong,
street, to he moved rather than against
down. but you must getan actual grievance.
within the walls, and You have an actual
victory, sweet victory, grievance TO infiame
is yours. your animosity and hos
tiiity TO the present
lstate of affairs.
1t would be hard to say which of the
speeches was the more mischievous and
incendiary.
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Time VIII Tell.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
The story that Mary Anderson is in q
foreign insane asylum is both affirmed and
denied. Only time will tell whether the
retirement of one of the foremost orna-
ments of the stage has been brought on by
paresis or by a jealous advertising agent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
The Aim of Prohibition.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
newspaper article going the rounds of the
patent insides." The real prohibition
ideap is to steal the votes of enough tenn
perance Republicans to elect the candidate
of the whisky Democracy and perpetuate
Democratic saloon rule.
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THE Typographical error" has. from time
immemorial. been made the scape-goat for
many a blunder due to editorial careless
ness, but here is the first instance on rec