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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-01
PROPOSED INVESTIGATION OF THE
A. II. A.

The attempt of Representative Weadock
ton of the A P. A. shows g. gross miscon-
ception his part of the constitutional
functions of the House. His motion to
that effect was based on a memorial from
Henry M. Youmans, who was defeated for
Congress in the Eighth Michigan district
by w. S. Linton, and who attributed his
defeat to the opposition of the A p. A.,
whose members. he said, were induced to
vote against him by representations that he
was a Roman Catholic and that the Pope
would control his vote in Congress- Mr.
Weadock represents another district in
Michigan, and he champiored Mr.. YOU
mans's cause by demanding an investiga-
ton of Mr.. Unions right to the seat lie
declared that Linton's election was invalid
because it had been brought about by a So
ciety (which was un-American, illegal, and,
under the laws Of Michigan. traitorous
organization"
A member of Congress must have q
strange idea of it's relations to the people
and of it's power under the Constitution If
he thinks it restrict the right of the
people to organize for civil or religious
purposes on any basis or any line they may
see fit to adopt. The only case in which
Congress would have any right to interfere
would be to break up a reasonable organi-
cation, and even in that case there would
have to be some overt act to justify it in
taking cognizance of the matter 1t has
no more right to investigate the ~ p ~
than it has TO investigate the relations be-
tween man and wife. The A. p A. may be
all that its enemies claim; ii may be I'M
American, narrow. bigoted. intolerant, I'M
necessary. unwise, impolitic-it may be all
these and more. but it is not reasonable
nor illegal. The fact that it is secret or
ganization does not detract from it's right
to exist. 1t has as much right to exist as
has the Republican or Democratic party, or
any of the score of secret societies
throughout the land. Without reference
to its motive. spirit, scope object we
simply assert that it has an undeniable
right TO exist, and that Congress has no
more right TO investigate 1t than it has to
abridge the freedom of speech or OF the
press.
The beauty and the strength OF popular
government and universal suffrage lie in
the fact that they are self-reformatory. All
the ofr-scourings of the earth pouring into
the ocean cannot pollute IL. 1t assimilates
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-01
LESSON OF THE STOCK MARKET.

There is no possible reason in existing
purchase act should affect the prices of
railroad and other stocks. because there is
reason TO believe shat the stopping or
the purchase Of silver bullion by the United
States will start a half dozen fa"'Or:es or
give thousand Len the wages which will
enable them 10 again become large CON-
sumers of the staple products of the coun-
try. the transportation OF which sgives to
railroads the business which makes divi-
dends and makes railroad values higher.
The repeal might maintain the confidence
of European investors in American securi-
ties. but few of them are held abroad, COM
pared with the aggregate and these are
probably of the best class. Nevertheless,
during the past few weeks, papers like the
New York Times have been predicting that
general business would start into a copdi-
ton of positive activity just as soon as it
was made certain that the Sherman repeal
bill should be passed. In the expectation Of
repeal, and basing it upon that fact, the
manipulators of the stock markets have
been proclaiming a rise. They pointed to
the fact of a general advance all along the
line, and attributed it to the certainty of
the passage of the repeal bill Upon the
strength of such assurances by the Cleve-
land organs, which are trying to make the
people believe that the Sherman purchase
law is the sole cause of the business and
industrial paralysis. a large number of
those who dabble in stocks, and a part of
the manipulators. bought heavily, advanc-
ing prices all along the line, to the close of
last week. On Monday when it well
known that the bill repeating the silver
purchase act would be passed during that
days session of the Senate, the prices of
stocks declined all along the line. Noteven
the immediate repeal of the Sherman act
could withstand the pressure to sell and
the general decline. That is, the prices of
stocks were advanced without any cause.
The manipulators of the markets, aided by
doomed the market, leading hundreds to
purchase. On Monday the manipulators
dared not trust the artificial imitation
longer, so they let the prices decline and
took the f1eeces of the lambs who, with
out judgment to see that other causes than
the purchase of 100000 ounces Of silver
bullion a month depress business, went in
market which they believed would rise
higher and higher. And so it will be with
others AS the weeks pass those who are
sanguine that the repeal of the Sherman
law will restore business and industry to
the activity of a year ago will learn their
mistake
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THE PASSING OF THE FAIR.

But although the external splendors OF
the fair shall vanish, its higher glories have
been fixed imperishably for all time. Gath
ering luster with the succeeding years.
they will fall in a great white bar of light
athwart the portals of the coming century
Philadelphia Press.
The greatest glory Of the Columbian Ex-
position is glory of love. It's spell, which
may heaven make perpetual, is the supreme
command Of toll throughout the globe for
the progress and ennoblement of humanity
It's triumph Is the triumph of liberty its
beauty is the beauty of peace-Chicago
Herald
Other worlds fairs will be held, but very
few of the millions who have seen this
one will ever see another and If they do
it will, indeed, be another The White
city, with its gorgeous palaces and inconl-
parable parable court OF Honor can never be re;
be gone forever.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Like the mirage it will fade from sight,
even more swiftly than ii dawned into
view, but unlike that it leaves behind in
that of which it was but the duplication
and shadow-for in truth the White City
were better called the Shadow City-ail
the mighty forces and supreme achieve
mentS that go TO make the present the
greatest age of the world. = Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The great representative American public
mas Deen 10 chicago ana our own people
have utilized the fair more thoroughly than
anybody else. In time il will be seen to
mark an epoch in our Industrial deyelop-
ment. What 4S notable has been the thor
oughness with which the details of the fair
have been attended to and the absence of
disorder among those within the grounds
Boston Herald.
Its closure now means grateful rest and
relief. 1t will bring back the city from
a condition OF high tension to it's normal
state, which is sufficiently exacting for the
energies and activities OF any people. Ii
will give its people an opportunity TO re-
place business in its natural channels, TO
adjust conditions on their legitimate stand
ards, and 10 reduce this long-continued
high pressure to the natural leve.-Chicago
Tribune.
Using the term IN its very broadest sense,
the fair has been cosmopoltaniz;ng the peo-
pie. The world is better acquainted with
itself. Americans. by whom this advantage
has been, Of course, most largely utilized,
have learned to regard the man under a
turban or a fez as something less irrational
and outlandish than he has appeared In
the picture books. Such an international
gathering as that of the worlds fair can
hardly have failed TO knit the ties of HUI
mainly more closely together Chicago
Record.
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lars and fractional coins equal at all times.
cent for cent, 10 gold or any other money.
Louisville Courier-Journal Dem)
The rock in the channel has been removed
and the big ship OF i.-ade viii have plain
sailing before IL again. The only other
naming obstacles are the fear OF meldling
with the tariff and the ever-present bugbear
OF the incompetent and time-serving Demo-
cratic party.-Cincinnati Tribune (Rep)
The Democratic party has learned prac-
teal lesson that ought TO make its leaders
cautious about experimenting with the great
factc.-s of the country's business. Tho
tariff will likely be approached with less
assurance than was the problem OF the cur
rency.-Louisville Commercial Qnd. Rep)
1t remains TO be seen how much the pas
sage of the law will accomplish for the i'm
provement Of business. 1t will help our
credit abroad and make a better market for
American securities, but il is by no means
clear how. il can aid materially in removing
the paralysis under which our general IN
dustries and trade are at present languish-
ing.-Milwaukee Sentinel 4
And now the silver purchases being stop
ped. the people will begin booking to Con-
gress for that other legislative action"
spoken OF by the President in his message
the action which will put beyond all
doubt the intention and ability OF the gov
eminent to fulfill its pecuniary obligatl esnl
in money universally recognized by ali CIV
ilized countries. Chicago Tribune (RepD
The repeal Of the purchasing clause or
the Sherman law has not enhanced the
value of our products, agricultural or min
eral, nor has il started up the factories
Some factories have started UP on short or
full time, after a ps'iod of idleness long
but there is substantially the same paraly-
sis of industry now as few months ago.
The silver question did not involve the m
dustrial probleTns.-Chicago Inter ocean
(RpDl
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succeeded in making himself believe that
the Mayor had wronged him. wherefore he
killed him. Such a state of mind argues un-
healthy conditions of society
But if the laws were strictly enforced and
crime punished with certainty and prompt
ness the number Of cranks, and especially
of murderous cranks, would not be nearly
as great. Murderous cranks should be
hanged for the same reason that rattle
put them out Of the way. The fact that
there are so many chances Of escape from
punishment for crime tends to develop muir
derous thoughts and intentions Let it
once be understood that there is no hope
of escape for murderous cranks. that their
punishment will be certain, swift and ter
rible, and their number will diminish.
Prendergast deserves hanging quite as
richly as Guiteau did, and for the same rea-
son. The plea Of insanity should not have
been admitted in the Guiteau case, nor
should it be in Prendergast's Both were
egotism and nursed their imaginary wrongs
until they worked themselves into a. state
of mind in which they felt justified in do
ing deliberate murder. There is no insanity
in this. 1t is deliberate crankiness of the
murderous TYNE
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MURDEROUS CRANKS.

Is the murderer Of Mayor Harrison a
crank, or is he insane? What is a crank.
and what constitutes insanity? 1t is not
unlikely that this whole ground will be
traversed in the trial of Prendergast, as
it was in that of Guiteau. Judge Wylie, in
his charge to the jury in the Guiteau case.
said: "But if he (GuiteaU should be mere
crank, and the act Ghe assassination of
Garheld) a mere whin, and the defendant
able to control his conduct then you should
find him guilty" This was the first at
tempt to draw the line judcially between
crankism and insanity. 1t was the first
time the word crank was heard from the
bench. 1t has since found it's way into the
dictionaries, and is defined as "a person
whose mind is Unbalanced or awry; one
who lacks mental poise; one who is sub
ject to crotchets, whms, caprices or absurd
or impracticable notions; especially a per-
son of this sort who takes up some one
| impracticable notion or project and urges
it in season and out of season. a mono
maniac. InlS Is a comprehensive ueIiIl-
ticn, and careful application of 1t to
ciety will show that the number of cranks
is very large.
But there are cranks and cranks; cranks
who are mere bores and nuisances, and
cranks who are dangerous. Experience has
shown that this country has produced not
r,t..
Garfield and the murderer of Mayor Har-
rison are the most conspicuous, but there
have been many others. The man who tried
to kill Russell Sage was one. Yesterdays
dispatches mentioned two others in New
York, one of whom tried to kill several
people, and another who called on Edwin
Gould with blood in his eye and demanded
49, 900 in cash or a tip on the market"
The New York police arc quite familiar
with this species of murderous cranks. So
are the Washington police. The White
House has been repeatedly besieged by
wild-eyed men with a grievance wanting
to see the President They are always
placed under arrest.
The murderous crank seems to be an
American product. Other countries have
assassins, Nihilists and Anarchists, but, so
far as known, the murderous crank is in
digenous to American soil. No other Ian
guage has synonym for our word crank.
and even in this country it is of compare
lively recent origin. Is there anything in
our state of society or mode of life that
tends to develop cranks. and especially
! murderous cranks? 1t might be worth
the while OF sociologists and penologists
TO inquire whether the high conditions
OF life which exist here and the nervous
strain under which We live do not tend IN
that direction. Hobbies develop very rapid
| ly in such an atmosphere. Prendergast was
| a very young man, yet he had worked
| himself into the belief that he was the only
person in the great city of Chicago who
had solved the difficult problem OF elevat-
| ing the railroad tracks. For that purpose
| ne wanted to be corporation attorney. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-01
A REPUBLICAN RESULT.

And now the long struggle In the Senate
Is over. The Sherman law is repealed by
the vote Of the Senate, but the repeal bill
goes back to the House because it differs,
in some respects from that which that
! body passed in August. 1t is now probable
that the Bland faction cannot long prevent
the substitution of the Senate bill, even If
it should try. The text of the Senate bill
is as follows:
That much of the act approved July
IA, 1880, entitled IAN act directing the pur-
chase OF silver bullion and issue of treas
ury notes thereon and for other purposes
as directs the Secretary of the Treasury to
purchase from time to time silver bullion
10 the aggregate amount of $500 600 ounces
or SO much thereof as may be offered in
each month at the market price thereof
not exceeding one dollar for three hundred
and seventy-one and twenty-five one-hun-
dredths grains of pure silver, and to issue
IN payment for such purchases treasury
notes of the Unied States be, and the same
Is, hereby repealed.
And it is hereby declared to be the policy
of the United States to continue the use Of
both gold and silver as standard money
and to coin both gold and silver into money
of equal intrinsic eXchangeable value such
equality to be secured through international
agreement or by such safeguards of legis-
lation as will insure the maintenance of
metals and the equal power OF every dollar
at all times In the markets and in the pay
ment of debts.
And it is hereby further declared that the
efforts of the government should be stead
lily directed in the establishment of such a
system of bimetalism as will maintain at
all times the equal power of every dollar
coined or issued by the United States in
the markets and In the payment Of debts
The Senate vote in favor of the bill was
do &c ID
Gratis. while the vote against it is made UP
Of 20 Democrats, 9 silver State Republicans
2 populists and Mr.. Cameron, the one al
legged Republican outside of silver State
opposed TO repeal. That is. the vote of the
Democrats in the Senate would not have re-
pealed the Sherman law. Indeed, ii it had
not been for the certainty that the Repub-
lican vote would carry the repeal bill, sew
eral Democrats would not have voted for
it Could they have defeated the Presi-
dents measure they would have arrayed
themselves against him. These Senators
were Faulkner, German, Hunton, of Vir-
ginia, and, perhaps, two or three others,
but they dared not place themselves In op-
position to triumphant President Aof
In the House the situation is more favor
able for the Presidents party; still. If there
was not a certainty that the Republicans
would give 100 majority for repeal, there is
good reason to believe that the House
would not concur in the passage of the
Senate bill. In other words, the repeal of
support of the Republicans outside the sill
vcr-producing States
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SHREDs AND PATCHES.

Will Altgeld pardon Prendergast?- PITTS
burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
a mugwump is man who goes 10 the
POLLS TO vote against somebody and not for
anybOdy.-Richard Croker.
The New York telephone girls have been
vaccinated. 1t is to be hoped the treatment
will answer-Philadelphia Record.
Heidi you say the furniture was Louis
XIV? She-Yes Why? He-The bills sug-
gested the Reign OF Terror.-Beau Monde
Now that the financial question is prac-
tically settled what is that eminent Indi-
anian, Col. Gil Shanklin, TO get?-Wash-
ington Post
Whan a mans friends praise him TO his
wife she looks pleased If a bride, but If she
has been married some time she looks sus-
picious.-Atchison Globe.
South Dakotas amended divorce law APP
pears to have increased rather than dimin-
ished the divorce crop. Inside lots at Sioux
Falls are again looking up.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
China claims that a Monaghan Columbus
discovered America fifteen hundred years
ago. 1t was a good thing he got his work
IL before the Geary bill passed.-Philadel-
li;. Times
In the gloom that has come upon Chicago
with Carter Harrison's death there is no
CLEAN of comfort for Governor Altgeld.
Prendergasts bullet ended his political am
bition.-Chicago Journal.
While the school girl has, Of course, a
great many things TO make her happy.
there is no doubt that chewing gum con-
tributes as much as anything else TO her
jawousness.-Buffalo Courier.
1t is only the simple truth to say that
the Republican Senators have done a good
deal more for Cleveland than the Demo-
cratic Senators OF war times did for Lin
coln.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Last November it appeared that the Re
publican party had received a severe turn
ing down. Since then it has become APP
parent that il was the country that was
turned dOwn.-Kansas City Journal.
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and sending them to New York and Brook
lyn, where they have timing establish
ments. All there is against this ingenious
story Is that black plates are not admitted
free of duty under the Mckinley law. AS
is from 1 cent TO Ia cent pound. 1t seems
past ordinary comprehension that paper
which should be as well informed as the
New York Herald should permit any one
to make such a statement in its columns
as that taggers plates are admitted free Of
DUTY
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whatever is harmful and corrects whatever
publican form of government and society.
They tolerate, assimiate and purify every
thing. AS the whole is greater than part,
so the people are greater than any party or
faction. Whatever they desire and approve
will endure. and whatever they condemn
will go down. If a political organization is
founded on true principles it will survive,
otherwise it will pass away. The true
motto Of a republic is to prove all things
and hold fast that which is good. Try
everything and hold on to the best If any
class of people wish to form a secret So
ciety let them do so. If good comes Of it
the people at large will adopt 1t, if evil
they will reject Il. In a republic all things
find their level. The right of organization
is as sacred as the right of peaceable as
semblage or of free speech and free press.
1t Is one Of the safety valves of society,"
with it.
The resolution for an investigation of the
A. p. A. was as much out OF place as
would be a resolution to investigate the
Catholic Church. Perhaps the House could
not do less than refer it to the committee
on elections, but that should be the last of
it. The question should not be allowed to
come before the House again on any pre-
text whatever.
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lesson.

Mr.. L. Clarke Davis, OF the Philadelphia
Ledger, did not go fishing with Mr.. Cleve-
land for nothing. Although he was not
as a good many people expected, he has
succeeded in getting his son, Charles Bel
mont Davis. appointed as consul to Flor
ence, a very choice and desirable position
among the minor foreign consulships. Van
Allen had to pay $4,000 for his place, but
the Establishments paid to a presidential
fisherman count for something too.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-01

While those shareholders in loan and
building associations who are not borrowers
will, in thousands Of cases, be compelled
to cease paying installments and draw out
what they have accumulated. or as much
of it as is possible, those who are borrow
ers will be the greatest losers If the DEM
ocratic hard times continue, as they will
be forced to surrender by scores and hun
dreds, in Western cities, their half-paid-
for homes. Such is the result of what Mr..
Cleveland has referred to as an object
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SILVER REPEAL.

The business men OF the country know
this morning that an honest dollar Is the
noblest work of statesmen. and that Uncle
Sam is not TO be welded 10 an idol OF sill
ver.-Cincinnau Commercial Gazette Rep)
The passage of the Voorhees, bill in lief
erence TO the Wilson bill plainly indicates
deep-seated economic unsoundness in this
Congress, and that the war for honest
money is by no means ended. There are
battles yet TO be fought.-Chicago Herald
DEM
The country will get all the silver money
Ii wants and IL will not get IL In the form
of dollars liable at any moment to drop
" half their purchasing powos. but Of dol
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DR.. Henry Smith Williams contributes to
the November North American Review an
article on insanity which contains some. re-
marks on harmless lunatics' that have a
peculiar fitness just at this time. He says:
The harmless lunatic" outside an asy-
lum, occupies position strictly analogous
to that of the historic 'unloaded' pistol.
Each Is, think, responsible for about the
same number of homicideS. But the harm
less weapon stops at that, while the harm
less man easily takes the palm by adding
a long list of other crimes. For most of
these crimes the community can thank
itself, because it fooliShly tolerated in it's
midst person whose only safe place of
residence was an asylum. A COM
cial comment the organization of a society
for the prevention of the incarceration of
sane persons in asylumS'' in a day and age
when no such atrOcity as that implied is
dreamed of or could be practiced, does not
yet bask very fully in the, light of knowl
Indeed, it almost seems as If no lesson
would permanently suffice, and as If the
harmless lunatic" would pass, with the
''unloaded'' pistol, into the category of
things perennial. -
The community has had another lesson,
and 1t remains to be seen whether its eff
feet will be more lasting than those which
have gone before. Until the time comes
that a man who threatens the life of an
other is promptly put in Jail or an asylum
the lesson that no lunatic is harmless will
not have been learned.