The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-06

otner man there. And then, aIter the urearlneSS
spoke perhaps ten minutes. The speech was en-
tirely ex tempore in form. 1t was pathetic. 1t
nified. It held the tired audience as only perfect
speaking does or can. and people went away
more alive for IT. more glad L of the centennial.
more awake to all that 1t had to teach the Nation,
SO quickened were they indeed that almost every
one OF them will tell you now that all the speak
ing OF the evening was admirable FOR the emu
OF a hattie Is what makes IL a victory or a failure.
Now, here he is again. not with a picked audi
ence OF a thousand representatives or the pest
life OF America. but with a merry, Laughing
crowd of three or four thousand
people, who want to see a president Once more
he enters wholly into the occasion. is wholly at
ease and natural, laughs with those who laugh
as he shakes hands with those who shake hands.
ALI this is genius.
Old John Adams. or his son, or Martin Van
Buren,, or James Buchanan, or Polk. or Johnson,
or any of that sort, might as well have tried TO
fly as TO enter with such simplicity, sympathy
and dignity into the life of these who are crowd
ing around him.
Those who know the President well can
testify to the accuracy of this analysis, and
especially to the fact that he possesses a
certain imaginative faculty, a habit of sub
~jective and ~introverted thought rarely met
with. The President is prominently q
thoughtful man, and. without being in the
slightest degree visionary, he possesses
that high order of imagination which APP
propriates and assimilates everything, in
vests common topics with fresh interest
and makes old things appear new. There
are many men of more inches than Pres
ident Harrison, but there are few who live
in as elevated an atmosphere.
PROHIBITION is liable to be defeated in
Connecticut tomorrow. A correspondent
of the New York Sun. who has spent some
time in the State, writes to that paper:
1 have visited the principal cities and talked
with the leaders and representative workers on
both sides, carefully comparing all the testimony
thus received. with the view Of obtaining as cor
rect q knowledge as possible of the actual sttua-
ton. The defeat of the amendment is a fore
gone conclusion. l am willing TO so on record as
will be defeated next Monday by not less than
10000 to $4,000 majority.
As the discussion of the subject has pro-
crossed, there has been a steady growth of
opposition to prohibition among all classes.
and especially among those who are practi-
cal temperance men. but who oppose prohi-
bition on principle. A number of clergy
men have declared against it. The Rev.
DR.. Harwood, rector of Trinity Church,
New Haven, says in the New Haven Pal
ladium:
I think the doctrine of prohibition il at war
with all the ideas and teachings of the English
speaking race. We never can tolerate the idea
that because one man does not want to use q
thing, no one else is to he allowed to use it-pro-
y1ded, OF course, that it is not wrong in itself.
The conscience of the world goes against this
new doctrine.
Of course. many Prohibitionists will re-
ply that the drinking of wine and liquor,
under any circumstances, is morally wrong
and a sin against God; but that is a position
which cannot be maintained in reason or
morals, and the evil of intemperance can
not be successfully attacked on that line.
SOCIETY" in the enterprising West once
in q while develops rather startling inno-
vations. Kansas City has a Mardi Gras,
under the auspices of an association known
as the Priests of Pallas." one of the chief
features of which is a ball. The priests
issued a circular concerning this ball, de-
scriblng the costume de riguer." In it
we notice that the gentlemen must wear
"pants" or they will not be admitted. This
will surely prove a disappointment tothose
who are in the habit of wearing trousers.
InclOsed is q blank for the description of
the feminine costume, with the request
that Ladies please fill ont.D This is
doubtless kindly meant to facilitate the
labors of the society reporters present. and
at the same time permit such ladies as may
desire to dress just as deliberately as they
please on paper, a privilege, as it were,
somewhat analogous to the Congressman's
'leave to print" Evidently, Kansas City
society does not propose to let a little mat
ter of taste stand in the way of con-
venience and pleasure.