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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
THE WHEAT MARKETS OF THE WORLD.

During the last campaign the orators
of the alleged free-trade party told the
farmers of the West very much about
the wheat markets of the world"
from which the Mckinley law shut them
out. These orators and organs did not
undertake to locate these markets, but
they declared with much vehemence
that all Europe wanted our wheat and
would take it if the wheat growers
would take their goods in exchange. In
this connection the report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture showing the ''pro-
duction and distribution of the princi-
pal agricultural products Of the world"
is of practical value, because it shows
the average wheat crop, country by
country, and the quantity of that cereal
consumed by it's people. In connection
with the loud-mouthed proclamations
of the free-trade champions, it is inter-
esting and can be of practical value as
an educator, since the wheat statistics
show how wide from the truth the reg
ulation Western speech of the free-trade
orator can be. The wheat market of
the world is confined principally to
Europe. The statistics of the imports
of wheat into European countries which
do not raise enough to feed their peo-
pie show an average yearly Importation
for the decade 1SS1-90, as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DWIGHT L. MOODY will conduct q series
of evan gelical meetings In Chicago during
the worlds fair.
KANSAS has an attractive, unmarried
young woman preacher of the Universalist
ter. and an eloquent apostle of the larger
hope.
PROF. ELISHA GRAY was once o black
smiths apprentice. and has q rusty
wrought-iron fire shovel kept in corner of
his library to prove 1t. He pounded the
shovel into shape on an OHIO anvil early in
the fifties.
Rosa BoNHEUR, of whom Henry Bacon
remarked that che began by painting rab-
bits and assembled in the scale until she
painted the horse. which Leonardo de
Vinci considered the nobIest animal an ar
fist can copy. after man. celebrated Der
seyenty-first birthday on Wednesday. She
still yields the brush.
BISMARCK this year tApril u reaches his
seven ty eighth year: Verdi will be seven
ty-eight; Allen G.. Thurman. eighty; Har-
riet Beecher Stowe. eighty .oue; Pope Leo
and Senator Morrill,, eighty-thre Glad
stone and Oliver Wendell Holmes. eighty
four; De Lesseps aud David Dudley Field
eighty nine; Gen. Neal Dow. ninety, aud
Louis kossuth ninety-one.
aWHAT 10 called an oral newspaper has
been started in Hungary. There is an ex-
change for the collection of news, and once
an hour news and comment is sent by tele-
phone to each of the su bscri bera. The copy
for printing IN newspaper. The charge Is
only Is cents q month, and the couvcn-
iences for receiving the news and making
notes arc excellent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
CRUISE OF THE CARAvELS.
Experiences of American Tars Who Piloted the
Columbus Cookie Shell Fleet Across the Sea.

NORFOLK. Va, March 2S.-The cruisers
Newark and Bennington. which towed the
caravels Santa Maria. PInta and Nina to
Havana, have arrived here. The officers
and men who piloted the spanish boats
don't want another like experience. Ono
of the officers wonders how Columbus ever
succeeded in getting over here. The three
vessels are built as nearly as possible "a
conform to pictures and descriptions of the
one used by Columbus. Their weather
qualities are very negative and they can
only make progress that is at all salts
factory when the wind is fair. As for
lacking or working 60 windward, it is Ut
terly hey ond their powers. Even the Santa
Maria. which is considerably larger than
the other two. only succeeded In
making q little moro than twenty-five
miles day. against only moderately
fresh head wind and not q particularly
lumpy sea. although she made much more
favorable showing with the fresher wind.
The accommodations aboard the finta and
Nina were only sufficient To call Tor de-
tail of two officers and eight sailors ID act
as their crews during the ocean trip. The
experiences of these people were such az
will probably deter others from volunteer
ing for similar voyages. should there ever
be occasion TO make them. The men-of-
war towing them were enabled in smooth
water to make about eight knots an hour.
and even then the light frail craft would
skip along from the crest of one wave TO
the top of another in q most astouDd-
ingly lively manner. When the
sea would rise the scudding ana pitching
added to the incessant rolling and made
them more Than ever uncomfortable and
menacing to limbs and body. While no
serious accidents are reported. owing
largely to the careful and skillful way all
the vessels were handled. there was gen.
eral bruised feeling and soreness OF body
that made nc a great relief w ben the caraveis
were left behind at Havana Nobody
envies the Spanish officers the getting OF
these vessels up to New York. especially X
there should by any chance be n heavy
wind or sea on the way up The danger Of
them diving under a head sea ana swamp
ing is considerable. and great deal Of care
will have 10 be exercised 20 prevent disas-
ter to the little cookie shells.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
GIVE HIN AN EQUAL CHANCE.

Ex-Governor Lowry, of Mississippi.
has long article in the North American
Review, in which he considers the pos
sibility of training the negro as q me-
chanic. He acknowledges that the ne
gro is capable of such training, because
he became a skilled labOrer in many
trades before the war and under the re-
strictions OF slavery; but now. says Mr..
Lowry, he will not submit to the re-
straints of apprenticeship necessary to
give him skill. "He appreciates
the advantage of superior skill,n
says Mr.. Lowry, yet the teachings of
liberty are. to his mind, inconsistent
with the exercise of absolute and
continued authority over him." What
ever may be the conditions in Missis-
sippi, the Ex-Governor is hardly safe in
making congratulations from them. It
will be time to say that colOred men re-
fuse the restraints incident to the
proper learning of a trade when they
have unrestricted opportunity to enter
those trades. This, to the shame of
white men be it said, they have not in
most States, even in the North. Trades
unions, as rule, do not accept them as
members, and they are forced into the
ranks of unskilled labor and to such of
the few occupations rs are not controlled
by unionism in some form. Where the
opportunity is open they seem willing
to profit by it, as in this city, where
number of them have become carpenters
and do satisfactory work. The negro
must have an equal chance before he Is
judged by the same rules applied to
white men,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

OF course. the distinguished Mr.. Ris-
ley came back to Terre Haute, as he
says, but it was after good many years
and when times changes had made the
Golden Circle" so odious that its men,
bers were not likely to call unpleasant
attention to themselves by taking legal
measures against him to recover their
lost funds. even if such prosecution had
baen possible. The foolish people,
Mr.. Risley complains of as seeking noto-
riety by putting forth this tale are ami
mated by the purely unselfish purpose
of giving Mr.. Risley little extra poto-
riety. Mr.. Risley should not be hasty
in his denials of past connection with
the knights of the Golden Circle nor
rashly assume that the books of that
defunct organization no longer exist.
The record may be pulled on him yet by
some irate knight"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND FEDERAL JUDGES.

The lower house of the Texas Legis-
lature passed resolution few days
ago declaring its want of confidence in
certain federal officials of that State, as
sorting that the unwarranted enlarge
ment of its powers by the federal jul
dietary constitutes just cause of alarm,
and requesting the Texas delegation in
Congress to frame and press bill de-
fining and limiting the jurisdiction Of
federal courts; also, bill for a consti-
tutiOnal amendment making United
States judges removable at the pleasure
of the President, and one abOlishing the
two federal district courts in Texas.
This is good Democratic doctrine. From
the foundation of the government to
the present time it has always been q
fundamental principle of Democracy to
"view with alarm" every exercise of ma
tional authority that intsrfered with
State. rights or with local schemes of
political rascality. They have always
preferred State justice to United States
justice. The old c0uplet applies-"no
man e'er felt the halter draw. with
good opinion of tho law" Texas Demo-
Gratis view with alarm the federal courts
and the exercise of national authority by
federal officials because they represent
power and authority that cannot be
brow beaten, bulldozed or trified with.
For this reason they would like to see
United States courts abolished.
1t is not likely that this wish will be
complied with. The Democratic party
is on top, and will probably do a good
many startling things during the next
few years, but it will hardly go SO far as
to abolish the federal courts, even if
they are unpopular in the South. Per-
haps they may compromise by making
the Constitution conform to the late
Confederate Constitution, which pro-
vided that "any judicial or other federal
officer, resident and acting solely with
in the limits of any State. may be i'm
peached by the vote of two-thirds of
both branches of the Legislature there
Of" With such clause in the Consti-
tuition, Texas or any other Democratic
State could soon get rid of federal
judge who made himself disagreeable
by enforcing the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

EX-CoNGREssMAN CLOVER. who aspires
to the leadership of the Peoples party in
Kansas. has furnished letter to the press
In which he decortIcates Congressman
Jerry Simpson quite artistically. The &C.
caslon of the excoriation is Simpsons oppo-
sition to the bill for opening the Cherokee
Strip to settlement The letter Is interest.
ing az furnishing one Populist leaders
candid opinion of another. Mr.. Clover
says:
thousands OF shivering home seekers for not
publicly exposing the contemplate skunk as
soon as found him out; In doing anything 10
help him Is where erred. and am willing to re-
ceive the condemnation that should come TO one
who would shield such scoundrels in any way.
any time. az 1t did near the end Of the session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

THE latest, but not the least signifi-
cant, evidence of the changes that are
going on in public sentiment in Great
Britain is the passage of resolution by
the House of Commons providing that
hereafter members shall be paid sal
airy for their services. Heretofore a
striking point of difference between the
British Constitution. and that of the
United States has been that in Great
Britain members of the popular branch
of Parliament received no salaries. 1t
has been claimed that as a result of this
the country got better service. and that
there was no inducement for dema-
gogues tn seek an election to Parliament
on account of the money that was In ii.
Obviously, however, the system tended
to keep poor men and men of moderate
means out of Parliament, thus strength
ening and perpetuatine the rule of the
aristocracy. The adoption of the salary
system would result n bringing into
Parliament n class of men who hereto
fore have had no part in the shaping of
legislation--poor men who cannot afford
70 90 to Parliament merely for the honor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

Mr.. CLEVELAND has intimated from
time to time. while promulgating his re-
markable series of rules, that his admins
tration was to be conducted on business
principles. One of the first principles
of an honorable business man is to treat
his employees fairly and to discharge no
one "for cause" without hearing his de-
tense. In the classified service of the
government this course is obligatory,
but Judge Gresham peremptorily dis
misses a man on hearsay evidence who
has served acceptably in the State De-
partment for twenty-five years. The
Judges habit of taking snap judgment,
so often complained of by lawyers who
practiced in his court, seems to accom-
pany HIM into official life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

NEW YORK. March 2S.-.The funeral of the
late Elliot +. shepard took place to-day
from the Fifth avenue Presbyterian
Church. Before the cortegc started for the
late residence of the deceased. at which tho
Rev. DIR. John Hall oilicisted. ana only the
members of the family and the pallbearers
were present The subsequent church
service was conducted by the pastor. the
Rev. Dr. John Hall The coffin had q floral
covering I'm the nature of q pail. devoid OF
the usual sombre black. which was of fex.
ible wire cloth OVERLAND with young aspar-
agus sprays and lilies of the valley and vio-
let's. The remains were taken Co New Dorp.
staten island. where they were played 10
the Vanderbilt vault in the aoravian Gem.
etery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

PRESIDENT HARRISON is reported to
have said to his Cabinet, one day when
some Of the new Western Senators had
swooped down on him and insisted on
his doing something which he did not
think was right: This free coinage of
Senators is likely to prove somewhat
troublesome, l fear" 1t is proving
troublesome, and is likely toprove more
so. AS class. the Senators from the
new States are a nondescript lot, and, if
report is true, some of them have rec
ords which will not bear probing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

TRENTON. n. j.. March 2S.-Judge Green.
Of the federal conrt. has filed q very impor-
tant opinion III the case OF the Edison Elec.
tric-light Company against Westinghouse.
Church. Kerr Il CO.. In which he upholds
the Edison patents. The suit was brought
to decide the question whether tho device
used by the Trenton EIectrio-light Com
pany for the distri button OF the electric
current 10 an infringement of the Edison
patent. and the court virtually declares
that IL Is. Millions Of dollars are involved
In these rights throughout the United
States. and Will accrue to the Edison CON-
pani-s. The patent In question Is that COW
ering the consumption aud feedins-wlre
method OF distribution. Edison obtained
IL tea years ano-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

THE st. Louis Republic. Democratic.
thinks that it has inflicted an injury
upon Senator Morgan, of Alabama, by
calling him ga Ben Harrison Democrat"
because he has upheld American rights
in foreign affairs. The ablest Demo-
crat In the Senate can afford to be an
American and join Senator Voorhees, in
applauding the foreign policy of the
Harrison administration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

that is in 1t. Although the mere adop-
ton of the resolution by the House of
Commons does not secure the change, it
is a first step in that direction, and is
evidently an outRrowth of the great
movement that is going on in Great
Britain in favor of the masses against
tho cloeaae
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
BUBBLES In THE AIR.
The City Boy.

It was the first time Johnny had ever heard a
guinea hen.
"Oh. MAJ" he shouted "come and hear this
chicken windin itself upv'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

THE just appointed postmaster in
Clark county. who has served two years
in the penitentiary for sheep-ste aling,
while evidently not a success in that
vocation. might have been an excellent
convict, thus meeting the requirements
of the Presidents recent proclamation
that dead-beats were not to be selected
for affica
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

ALL accounts indicate that the citi-
zens of Indianapolis are ready to do
their. part in making the coming en-
campment success. They have never
had such body of visitors to entertain,
but they will rise to the occasion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
Signs.

Green peas, spinach. nice young onions,
Brand new hats AMI pallid suits;
Mackintoshes and goloshes,
Trees a. putin out new shoots;
Garden seeds and wh;tewash artists,
Women combing out the grass;
Book beer signs along the highways,
Farmers peddling sassafras;
Thunder showers and lots Of lightning,
All the regular sort of thing,
Shows the almanac is right when
1t proclalms that this is s-g.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

1T is said that within forty-elght
hours after the reorganization of the
United States Senate fourteen Senator's
sons and one Senator's daughter had
been appointed committee clerks and
were drawing pay at the rate of S2,240
per annum. This seems to be the es-
sence of Democratic reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

THE President does not admire our
distinguished fellow citizen, the Hon.
William S. Holman. AS matter of
fact, he dislikes him very much, and if
he can influence the Speaker of the next
House he will be deposed from the
craftsmanship of the committee on ap-
nominations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
The Advance Of Woman.

"were You aware" asked the professor. "that
the young women of the present day are much
taller than women were twenty years agoi"
"I know that their hats are whole lot higher"
was the sad reply of the man who sometimes
tries to see an operate performance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

THOSE active Democrats of Indiana
who "abhor the machine" should make
the most of the situation by giving ex-
hibitions of themselves up and down
the State. AS the greatest curiosities in
Indiana they would draw immense
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
The Eaaier Taax.

Mrs. Mann-It is strange that you cannot hold
the baby few minutes, when you used to be
able to hold me your lap for hours at q time
Mr.. Mann--The young one is so restless. He
squirms and kicks all the time. You didn't kick
the least little bit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

the vaults OF the Safe Deposit Company in
washington, where they will remain until
next Saturday. when Mr.. Curtis will starr
with them for Chicago. The papers are
about fifty in number and comprise the
original documents relating TO Colum 5us's
voyage of discovery. his reports TO Ferd-
insnd and Isabella. and his will.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
A Biased Opinion.

Miss Hart-Which do you think is usually the
sillier-the bride or the grooml
Mr.. Oldbatch-The groom, Of course. That's
how he happens to be o groom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

SECRETARY CARLISLE will do well to
accept all the gold that is offered him.
1t is good stuff to have in the vaults of
the treasury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

Total ,942 ,525
Thus it appears that the countries of
Europe which do not raise their own
wheat have been importing an average
of 240, 942. 525 bushels year during the
decade ending with 1890. That would
be good deal of market for the world
outside of Europe il Europe mad no
countries which export wheat, which,
unfortunately for the wheat market
of-the- world theory. there are, as fol-
lows:
Exporting Countries. Net Exports, Bushels
Austria Hungary. 5.s46 500
Bulgaria O.OSo,J30
Russia ---------. S3.lIO.oll
eervia. ...-..-....--..-----.--...-. 2,236,0l2
Total. las, COS
Deducting 116. 1868 bushels. the ex-
port of European wheat-growing coun-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

IT is surprising how many Democratic
newspapers are willing TO be Sub
sidizedn with an Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
TnE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

EDITOR WATTERsON is in no particu-
lar danger of being muzzled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

DOES the new postmaster of New
Washington belong to the ten-per-cents
or the ninety-per-cents?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

tries, from 24O,942. 525 bushels, the i'm
ports of the rest of Europe. and the
"wheat market of the world" requires
in Europe 124. 1885, 1927 bushels annually.
During the same decade the average
net export of all other exporting wheat
growing countries was as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29

when he knew 1t was too late to
do anything. Jerry thinks q man is
nonentity unless his mouth Is always
open. His contemplate conduct kept his
party associates apologizing for him all the
time, but have written my last apology.
boarded at the same place he did for six or eight
weeks at the beginning of the first session OF
Congress. and found him to be one OF the most
selfish and contemplate men ever met and
roxy shyster and demagogue as well. wes at
the convention at Wichita where he was so
unanimously nominated. 1 heard shouts ana
laudations; I heard Mrs Lease call him the
Abraham Lincoln OF the West" and knowing
him as L did, his contemplate, selfish nature,
his demagogy and all, could but ask myself,
.What hope san there be for people who can
be 40 easily dupedi" I wish from now on to
make amends for my part in helping him cover
up his Infamous conduct and am very sorry
did not go over his conduct aud expose him. L
was deferred from 1t by those who Thought IL
better to let him co. contemplate as he Ia rather
than be charged with being instrumental In
sending Republican to Congress-. My own I'M
pulses were right, and am sorry that did not
follow them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
MINOR MATTERS.

Minority Report the Case of Lee Mantie,
Appointed Senator from Montana.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Vance.
chairman of the committee ON privileges
and elections, in behalf of the minority of
the committee. to-day submitted to the
Senate q report upon she case of Hon. Lee
Mantle, finding that he is not entitled to
take his seat as Senator from Montana.
The report is signed by Senators Vance.
Gray, Palmer and Mitchell. The report
quotes the constitutions al provision and the
act of 1866 relative TO the election and APP
pointment of Senator's. and then contends
that the original terms of Senators must
begin by being chosen ly the Legislature.
AS there are but two ways of constituting
Senator'S. SO there are obviously but TWO
ways of creating vacanc.es-one the pri-
mary way by the expiration of the censti-
turional term for which the Senator was
elected. the other tho accidental, or un-
foreseen or unexpected Happening of
some casualty TO or upon the incumbent.
such as death before his term ended. and
resignation. expulsion, disqualification or
any other cause thai should take him out
of the Office to which he was elected.
vaiusble Spanish Papers.
WASHINGTON. March 2S-Wi,liam f.
Curtis. in charge of the Spanish-American
exhibit at the worlds fair. reached WASH
ington this morning from Norfolk, having
in his custody the Columbus papers loaned
by the Spanish government for exhibition
at Chicago. They were brought tc this
country on the cruiser Newark. Mr.. Curtis
was accompanied on the trip from Norfolk
TO this city by military guard. the obliga-
ton assumed by the United States to the
Spanish government requiring that the
papers should be constantly under the pro-
fnn nj In Inf nj frxsA Mt
the United States while In transit. The
papers have been deposited temporarily in