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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

artistic element of his nature so highly
developed that it will forbid the ex-
preston of impurity in literature. The
group of modern writer's whom the lee
turer named as proving his statement
were all pure lived and pure minded, it
is true. but perhaps these are character
istics of a comparatively pure age. The
private lives of many equally great
writer's of earlier times will not bear
such close examination. Burns's case
sustains his views, the unexpurgated
editions of that great poets work be-
traying his dissolute life. On the other
hand, Poe. whom Mr.. Allen classes among
the great writer's, was a protiigate.
George Eliot, to whom he does homage,
lived a life contrary, at least, to conven-
tional virtue. There is lola, too. whom
Mr.. Howells considers a genius, who is
hardly an exponent of Mr.. Aliens the
DRY. He chronicles all the ~indecencies
and vileness of life, but his personal
character is said to be above %reprOach.
Mr.. Allen should reconcile these incon-
s~istencies in an otherwise admirable adj
dreae
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

that this would still further prolong the
time between the election and Inaugural
ton of IA President, which is already too
long. There is force in this. especially
In view of the recent tendency to deny
certain constitutional rights to a Presi-
dent after q popular election has gone
against him. If the rule is to become
established that the incumbent of the
office is shorn of a considerable part of
his constitutional powers by IN adverse
election it would not be wise to lengthen
the time between election and Inaugural
ton day. If any change is made it
should be shortened instead of length
ened. There are good and valid reasons
why q President should take the Office
in considerably less time than four
months after his election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

would have been somewhat shocking IN
London.-Cieveland Leader.
The President evidently has taken pity
upon him and 10 Mexico br goes. He il q
politician. nothing more. and is out of place
in n diplomatic position. philadelphia In
qulrer.
IF Mr.. Cleveland had said hat he could
merely give him q consulship Mr.. Gray
would hav accepted it with thanks. What
he wants il an office. the bigger the better.
but If he cannot get a big one he will take
a'littie on~e.-Chicsgo Tribune
Mr.. FRAY Is q man of mark. who was
q not unhopeful candidate for the nomi-
nation to the presidency. and no one will
begrudge him this agreeable and honorable
retirement. in which be will represent the
interests of the country creditably.-Phii-
adelphia Times.
OK the ordinary political grounds be had
"claims." 1t is well for the good name Of
the country that he is not sent to any con-
spicuous European capital. He IS a coarse
and uncultivatd man. with no fitness for
diplomatic place. But perhaps the Next
cans will be less sensitive. and they are our
immediate Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12
AN ABSURD PRETEXT.

The Philad elphia Times takes time by
the foretop when it holds ex-President
Harrison responsible for any financial
panic which may come. The ground for
his responsibility is that if he had used
his influence with the Republicans in the
House the Sherman law could have been
repealed. This is absurd. Itwould have
been presumptuous for General Harrison
as President to- have sent word to the
Republicans in Congress by agents, as
did Mr.. Cleveland to the Democrats,
that he desired the repeal of the Sher-
man silver act. If such interference by
General Harrison had had no greater in
fuence with Republicans than did that
of Mr.. Cleveland with Democrats
his efforts would have been fruitless,
as were those of the new President with
his party in Congress. AS it was, a ma
jority of the Republicans in the House
voted to take up and consider the bill
reported for the repeal of the Sherman
act in spite of its Objectionable features.
Furthermore, there was nothing in the
situation to warrant any such urgent
and unusual action by General Harri-
son. The outflow of gold cannot be
traced to the Sherman act, but to a pur-
pose of Austria to secure a stock of gold
for gold payments, and to other govern
ments to strengthen their gold reserves.
o Congress of his own party. If, as the
Times intimates, a panic may come
from the Sherman silver law, the Presi-
dent a call that Congress together,
and If he can make it appear that the
Sherman law is an element of
great danger, Republicans generally
will vote with the Democrats to repeal
the measure. The editor of the Times
knows much more about national
finances and revenues than the average
therefore, knows that the real danger is
not so much the Sherman law as such q
change in revenue laws as would put
the balance of trade against this coun-
try. which would follow a revenue
tariff. When it shall become necessary
to send a hundred millions in gold to
Europe to pay for the excess of mer-
chandise imports over exports. and
factories are closing here because for
eign-made goods are displacing home
made in our markets, then the trouble
which the Times fOresees may come.
Indeed. it will be a miracle if it does
not. If there shall be such a change,
General Harrison is the last man in the
country who can be held responsible
for the result.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

their colors and shout for their cham
pion. The others take defeat hard, but
quickly rally and look hopefully and
ambitiously to another year to redeem
them. Next year thcy will come again
with ribbons flying to "take the town."
and the town, as ever, will be glad to see
them. The manner and matter of the
orations are minor things; the zeal. and
loyalty, and irrepressible enthusiasm of
the students concerned are beautiful to
behold. Everybody is 'for' the college
student when he-and she-come TO us
on their road up Parnassus and with
their faces lifted toward the summit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12
THE REWARDS OF LITERATURE.

Mr.. James Lane Aliens very delight
full lecture on the development of
American literature is evidently the re-
suit of careful thought and extensive
reading, and showshis own cultured and
critical taste, but some of his views ex-
pressed are at variance with others and
with facts which he must admit. He
says, for example, by way of accounting
for the lack of imaginative literature in
this country, that the rewards are in
sufficient; that writer's, in order to live,
must devote at least a part OF their en-
ergies to other pursuits, and that the
government, unlike France and certain
other countries, offers no encourage
ment to their art. elf ten or
twenty thousand dollars" he asks,
"were offered for the production
of a high-class work of fiction, what ex-
cellent effect would not such a stimulus
haveP" 1t is unquestionably true that
literature is ill rewarded, but It is also
true that the returns received by work.
ers in this field were far less in the past
than now, yet this did not prevent the
production ofmasterpieces. There is evil
dence to show that Shakespeare, though
he did gain ''land and beeves." and had
a Second best bed" never acquired as
much from all his immortal plays as
more than one modern writer has done
from a single "society DRAMA" with "a
run Of O season or two. John Milton
sold the manuscript of paradise LOST
for the sum of 60. All along down the
list are the ~impecuniOus writer's. Gold
smith was practically a beggar. Burns
lived and died in poverty. In our own
country hlr. Allen says that the names
of but two imaginative writer's of
the first half of this century. namely,
Hawthorne and Poe, will live; yet Haw-
thorne added to his income by other
means han literature, and Poe was al
ways poor. All the facts are contrary
to Mr.. Aliens theory. The incentive of
a high and adequate reward would
doubtless bring more writer's into the
field and would be of benefit in many
ways, but it is yet to be shown that
genius can be created or even stimu-
lated by the application of the commer-
cial principle. The man who has o
message to the world will deliver it
sven through difficulties. This, at
least. has been the history of the past.
and Is likely to be in the future, though
every one will wish that the path of
genius may be made easy.
Theory and fact are not altogether in
harmony when Mr.. Allen asserts that
great writer's have failed exactly
in proportion as their moral char
acters Mere defective-the idea con-
veyed being that the weakness of
character impressed itself upon the
work. AS n general proposition it is
true that a mans deeds make up his
character, and that this is again mani
tested i'm his utterances. but specific
conclusions based upon this are hardly
safe in regard to so complicated a thing
as the human mind. The mental or
ganization is many sided. A writer
may do immoral acts and yet have the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12
OUR COLLEGE STUDENTS.

A college is q little world of itself.
It's laws, its work, its social features,
it's rivalries, its rewards, absorb the
interests and energies Of the stu
dents as those interests and en-
ergies are never absorbed again.
Not that matters OF even greater
moment than the problems of books will
O present themselves, but it is only
when life is new that the very delight
of living casts n glamour over existing
conditions and adds Zest to all pursuits.
The enthusiasm which carries with it
a faith that sees no obstacles comes but
once. This joy in living, this enthusi-
asm, this clannishness and concentra-
ton make the college atmosphere, and
it is O breath of this which comes like
a refreshing breeze to Indianapolis
once each year with the irruptien of the
eager, bright-faced oratorical contest
ants and their friends. 1t is the fashion
of older folks to smile and gibe at the
self Importance of these youngsters, at
the assumption that their proceedings
are OF paramount consequence to the
entire community, at the high excite
ment over coming tournaments which
pervades their ranks, but these smiles
are indulgent and the gibes good ma
tured. The truth is that the older folk
rejoice in their way at these manifesta-
tons of fervid energy and earnestness.
Perhaps there is q touch of envy in their
regard, but it is not enough to abate the
pleasure with which they look upon the
young faces nor the sympathetic interest
felt in their success. They know, these
elders, that there is no later happiness
quite like that involved in pursuit
Of q prize which at the time
seems the final goal and upon
whose capture everything depends.
Other prizes will offer themselves and
be desperately desired and struggled
for, but more selfshness will be involved
in the pursuit. The contestant. having
had experience. will have learned that
failure TO win does not mean the end of
all things, though it may end his strug-
giles. He will have acquired philosophy,
and philosophy. fortunately, is not a
belonging of youth. Among the stu
dents one wins. His supporters fiaunt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12
NET EARNINGS AND WAGES.


The managers of the railroads enter
ing Chicago whose switchmen are threat
ening to strike declare that they cannot
increase the present scale of wages for
the reason that the present earnings of
the roads will not permit it. They de-
clare that while wages have been adj
vancing the earnings of the roads have
been decreasing, and that the canse of
this decrease is found in increased wages
to employees. Those who have studied
the matter know that the rates of trans
portation of the great staples of the
country have fallen very largely in ten
years, while the competition has COM
PEELED a much better and probably a
much more costly equipment of rail-
roads. 1t this is the case, and the net
earnings of railroads are falling of,
it will be easy for the managers to
make the fact plain to those who
represent the switchmen by the sta
tistics of traffic. When this is done and
it e that the earnings of the
roads are not sufficient to permit the
puyD1cDb VI hiSnCA "d6Co, AhOb Wv thO
same time, meet their fixed charges,
there can be no ground for a strike. If
the roads cannot earn sufficient money
to pay more wages, the interest on
bonds and a fair dividend on the
stock, no reasonable man or o~rganiza-
ton should demand it. Nor can the
employees say in any such case that the
earnings of the roads are no affairs of
theirs. or that they must have higher
wages whether interest on bonds is paid
or dividends declared upon stock. 1t
would be equally inconsistent for
them to insist that the managers
of railroads which might not be
earning running expenses should hire
money to pay increased wages, as to
hold hat all obligations to those
who have money invested In railroads
must give way in order that higher
wages may be paid. Higher wages can
not be demanded i'm any industry in the
face of declining profits. In the matter
of z the net earnings of the bust
ness must be considered. During the
past two years wages have been ad-
vanced in many industries because large
sales and unusual demand have made
the aggregate Of profits larger than be-
fore. If the party in power keeps its
pledges, q period in which q decline of
wages must take place is at hand, for
the reason hat the announced policy
will make foreign competition effective.
If such conditions come, the employer
must show that his net receipts have so
decreased as to make it impossible
to pay the higher wages. and en-
ployes must either accept the situa-
ton or force the closing of shops
and factories. So If at the present
time the managers of the railroads
running into Chicago show from their
books that they cannot afford to pay
higher wages, those making the demand
should withdraw it, or else go where
they think they can do better. The ap-
| plication of common sense rules to all
cases of difference should put an end to
strikes and lockouts, which always re-
| suit in loss and injury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12
MINISTER GRAZ.

ISAAC will make an extraordinary envoy.
truly.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
ISAAC 2. GRAY, as minister 20 Mexico.
will have q si7,5oO a year job. while Steven
son. who heat him out OF the vice presiden-
tiai nomination, gets only B 5000 q year.-St.
Louis Giobe-Democrat.
Ii strikes Us that the Mexican ministry is
q rather poor job for the Governor. who at
one time scorned anything less Than the
Democratic nomination Tor the presidency.
Cincinnati Commercia. Gazette.
THE President Is TO DO congratulated on
keeping Pussy Gray away from all English
speaking countries when the Indiana
statesman goes abroad. Gray's grammar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said to have
determined not 20 appoint editors to
Office. The reason given is that it looks
too much like a reward for past services
or a fee for future ones. This looks
like a far-stretched discrimination
against the newspaper profession. Edi-
tors do not stand on a different footing
in this regard from other professions,
except that, as a class, they render more
party service than any other. As Offices
generally go according to party service,
why should not editors be rewarded as
well as others? If Mr.. Cleveland had
made known this determination six
months ago, what would have become
of his campaign7
By the way, if he adheres to this rule.
where will editors Morss and Shanklin
be 'at?n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

THE story which Representative Far
low tells at home of the attempts made
TO bride members to vote for the gas
bill shows that he did not do his duty
to himself and his colleagues. What he
should have done when he was ap-
preached and offered money to speak
for the measure was to rise in his place,
proclaim the ~offense, name the offender
and move for his punishment. One
stroke of heroic treatment like that
would drive out of the Legislature the
men who attempt to bride.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

AN Ohio capitalist who has taken an
active part in strengthening out Cover
nor McKinley's financial affairs author
ICES the announcement that his personal
friends have, by voluntary contribution,
raised a sum equal to his entire indebted
ness. which will he paid off at once. The
Governors property and that of his wife
will be saved TO them untouched. Such
friendship as this is worth having. and
it is just such friendship as Governor
Mckinley deserves. He has a host of
friends and admirers throughout the
country who will be glad to heal of this
happy turn of affairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

1T is of comparatively little conse-
quence what kind of statuary groups,
either as to subject or execution, the
monument commissioners place around
its base. Thanks to their pigheaded
persistence in perverting the original
purpose of the monument it has no
longer any distinct motive or meaning,
no moral inspiration. 1t will require an
interpreter in history, and future gen.
erations will still wonder what mongrel
meaning was intended to be conveyed
by the hybrid hodge-podge of dates on
its a~stragal. When finished it will be
chiefly a monument to commemorate a
breach of trust by the commissioners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

OF the race and correct the tendencies to
degradation as o measure of self preserva-
ton. 1t is idle and foolish to waste energy
sym patty and money In the hopeless effort
to cure and restrain what should never
have been permitted TO exist. Physical
degradation must be- corrected to promote
regeneration.
This extract shows that the author
follows his convictions to the root of the
matter. Whatever may be thought of
his conclusions the facts and figures he
presents in regard to the growth of
crime and pauperism show that the sub
jecti ia one which neither patriotnor phil
anthropist, Christian nor infidel, capital
list nor wageworker can afford to ignore.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
Cleveland organ. takes occasion to re-
mark that General Harrison spent last
Sunday in Pittsburg. not because he
objects to travelling on that day, but TO
arrive in Indianapolis on Monday. If
the Republican must devote space to
such matters, it might tell the truth,
which is that General Harrison never
travels on Sunday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

EPhiladelphia Record says: "Those
who follow politics for the sake of the
spoils will note with interest what man
ner of man President Cleveland shall
appoint to be collector of the port of
New York. Inflling the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Collector Hen
bricks the President may be enabled to
indicate clearly enough the future pol
icy of his administration" All this is
doubtless true. but, whoever may bs ap-
pointed. the Record and all the rest of
the mugwump and Democratic wor-
shippers of Cleveland will lift up their
voices with One accord and approve the
selection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

THE managers of the worlds fair are
strongly inclined to keep it open a Sec
ond year, though they do not make any
pledges in advance. It will probably
depend on the patronage and the wishes
of the public. 1t will hardly be posi-
bic. in n season. for everybody To
visit the fair who desires to, and, con-
sidering the enormo cost of the prepa-
ratiOns and the extent of the display, it
would seem a pity to contine it to one
season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

IT appears that the outflow of gold
has about ceased. Europe has all that it
desires to pay for, and Wall-stroet spec
ulators fail to see anything to be gained
by Withdrawing gold now that the Har-
rison policy of refusing to issue bonds
for gold has been adopted by the Cleve-
land administration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

SOME of Mr.. Cleveland's personal or
gans regard the placing of Senator
Voorhees, at the head of the Senate
finance committee, followed by five free
silver Democrats, as very like a studied
insult to the Democratic President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

If the managers of the Citizens Street.
railway Company under the new regime
show a purpose to adopt a progressive
policy aud to give the people of Indian
hpolis and vicinity q fair service, they
will not fail to be appreciated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

AND SO Josiah Quincy, formerly civil
service reformer n mugwump. has
been made Assistant Secretary of State
in order to attend to the applicants for
consulships and such because Secretary
Gresham has n delicacy about the dis
tributiOn of patronage
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

IT will not do to assume that because
cities have successfully managed water
hnd gas supplies that they car efficiently
manage street railways. which involves
the employment of SO many more
officials and employees.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

THE opinion is growing in Washing
ton that Mr.. Cleveland's withdrawal of
the Hawaiian treaty was simply to give
him a chance to modify it in some un-
important particulars so as to make it a
Cleveland instead of a Harrison meas
ure. This is peanut politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

II is suggested that Mr.. Cleveland
has proved that the Democratic party is
an organized hunger" but he will
heyer have such knowledge of the Demo-
cratic thirst. The limitless scorns Or
rauizatioD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

WHEN the city of New York votes
money from its treasury to entertain
distinguished foreign visitors, without
objection, it would be strange If the In
dianapolis Council should refuse to vote
$4,000 to entertain Union veterans and
their friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

found that the making of hat city a
safe place for prize fighting is injuring
the reputation of the city in a mi
which threatens its prosperity. People
whose patronage is desirable will not
visit a city whose hotels are filled with
the class of men whom sluggers attract.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12
ThE INDIANAPOLIs JOURNAL.


THE Philadelphia Times. speaking of
the newly appointed minister to Mexico,
says: "Mr. Gray is a man of mark" Oh,
no.; it isn't so bad as that. He can sign
his name.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-12

SENATOR SHERMAN's proposition to
change Inauguration day from March 4
to April 80 is objected to on the ground