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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
One Attraction of the saloon.


Il amt going home, I tell you. There
amt no fire there, and there amt goin'
to be none" Two men, who looked like
workingmen, were walking along the street
together. One was evidently trying to get
the other to go home. The answer
gives one an idea what a mission
airy influence a warm fire may be. Possibly
this mans wife and child were at home,
and had to stay there, whether there was
going to be fire or not. Perhaps the head
of the family reasoned that since he had
no employment by means of which TO OBJ
tain money to build a fire with, and could
not help his wife and child if he were there.
he might as we'll go where there was q fire
to-wit, TO the saloon. There are always
plenty of places where even an UNEMPLOYED
man may find warmth. OF course such a
person may go to the public library and
read the books and papers, but somehow
the public library Is not as easily accessI-
bic as the saloons; and cheerful conversa-
ton is not forbidden in them. And there
is generally somebody at the saloon who
will help even ar unemployed man to do
that which will enable him for a time to
forget his poverty and remember his mis-
cry no more. incidentally he forgets his
wife, and remembers his children no more.
But for the time being he is ~happy-and
warm. What If there were a few places
well, a good many places-in the poor quar-
ters of the city, just as accessible as the
saloons, where men and women who cannot
have fires in their rooms, might go and
be warm and comfortable and find nothing
more mischievous to drink than hot milk
or coffee?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
A TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER.

Certain people are so constituted that
they are only happy when they find some
thing to grumble about. and some of them
are so unreasonable that they will even
srumble about the weather-the sunny, de-
lightful, joy-inspiring weather served out
to the residents of this favored region
through the months just past. To the
greeting pleasant dayi' they respond with
reluctant assent and the modifying lament
that st is uns easonable; we should have
snow and frost" The number of persons
given to complaints of this sort is remark
able, but not one of them is able to offer u
satisfactory reason for his desire for a
greater degree of cold. Cold is not neces-
sarily conducive TO health; but is often
quite the reverse. \ period of low temper
allure is almost invariably followed by the
death Of many aged people and others of
impaired vitality. When the influenza and
the grip were at their worst, a season or
two ago, cold weather did not check their
ravages Men and women in robust health
are invigorated by a nipping air, but I'M
fortunately such persons are always in the
perature a tax upon their strength. Chill
dren find pleasure in sports incident to a
heavy snowfall, but mothers who must
nurse them through colds and groups and
sore threats are glad when the beautiful"
with it's attendant dangers. has disappeared.
But there is a cause for rejoicing over
the mild weather of the fall and winter
which the chronic grumblers do not seem
to consider. In this season, when there is
such want and distress in quarters where
it has never been known before. the suffer-
irgs OF the people without money and with
out work would be greatly increased by a
hard winter" such as the fault-fnders
seem to want. and the burden upon the
community which undertakes to supply the
needs would be proportionately greater.
The wind has surely been tempered to the
workman shorn of his wages by a destruct-
i've political policy. and for so much he has
cause to be thankful.
All considerations, economic. sanitary and
aesthetic. call for the suppression of the
lugubrious person who means about green
Chrlstmases and fat graveyards' and
yearns for ice and snow and tempests. Let
him HE himself to the far north. or else
keep silence. All sensible people will be
content with the soft air. the blue skies
and the bright sunshine. unreasonable
though they be. Philosopher SEM. r.
Johnson declared on one occasion that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

Has New York ceased to be the financial
center of the United States? Is Wall street,
New York, no longer a bidder when it
comes to placing the loans OF Western cit
tes? Such would seem to be the case upon
the record. The other day. when bankers
In New York heard that a Chicago house
had placed an Indianapolis loan at 4 per
CEN. they were surprised. They seemed to
think that they held the monopoly Of the
large loan business. and, therefore. could
name terms. Then. here is a house or two
In indianapolis which has expressed a de-
sire TO place a loan in six figures. These
facts indicate that that special property
called money TO loan in large quantities is
drifting toward the West. Indeed, when
money is as low in Chicago and ST. Louis
as I'm New York. 1.-The money power of the
East is already upon US here in the cen
trail West.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

The business men of Colorado decline to
ers and their yawpers. Without trying to
belittle the silver interest, they wish it un-
dorstood that it is not the only nor the
repeal of the silver purchase clause of the
Sherman act is not going to kill or even
cripple the productive industries Of Color
ado. The address issued by the business
men is really a protest against the mis-
chievous methods of a class of politicians
who are willing to sacrifice everything to
such in the country, and Colorado : not the
orly State that has suffered from them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
The Value of Special knowledge.
New York Evening Post


Many are the new ways in which the
women of our day are earning a livelihood
and following their own tastes at the same
time. A young college woman. who. a few
years ago, was known as an especially
bright student of history, in which she took
a special course TO prepare herself for teach
ing the subject thoroughly, has become a
most delightful lecturer on historical sub
jects, and is this winter giving a course OF
twelve lectures On different periods to a
class of over two hundred women. AS no
single tickets are sold to these lectures, the
sale of even two hundred course tickets at
s. each will amount TO $1,000. Later in the
winter a second course on special subjects
has been asked for by the lecture bureau
of a certain church. Added 10 this income
will probably be an extra hundred or two
coming from single lectures given at girls
schools and before women's clubs in small
towns. In order 10 listen TO these lectures
intelligently many of the women who at
tend them have formed neighborhood classes
and read in connection with them. Printed
outlines of the talk, with the books of refer
ence TO be used, are given out each Monday
morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
PALACES OF THE wILsoNITEs.

The advocates of the Wilson bill are now
anxious to push that measure to enact
ment at the earliest possible day. Already
their organs are declaring that if the Re
publicans delay it's passage they will be re-
sponsible for the idleness and it's consequent
wretchedness. They assume that as soon
as half the barrier of protection shall be
RACED to the ground business and industry
will revive. Either these people are dis
honest or absurd. Why does trade ~languish
now? Chiefly because the mass of people
depending upon daily labor in a thousand
employments have no money with which to
purchase the great staples of food, clothing
and shelter. which constitute comfort. If
goods could be sold mills would be run,
but goods cannot be sold except in the
smallest quantities, because the armies of
men and women who were earning wages
in factories. shops, and as distributors of
merchandise are now able TO get only the
means of bare subsistence at the best, and
hundreds OF thousands cannot do even that.
Such being the condition, how will it help
the great mass of consumers, whose needs
make a market and whose wages purchase
the mass of the staples of the country, di-
rectly or indirectly, for consumption, to
pass a tariff law which will facilitate the
importation of foreign goods? Professor
Wilson and Mr.. Bynum, secondhand work
men on the Wilson bill, will say that all
the people are waiting until the Wilson
tariff shall make lower prices before they
purchase. Such may be the case with the
limited number who have means at hand,
or whose regular stipend, with an extra
allowance, goes or whether mills run or
not, but it is not the case with the mass
Of people who live upon wages or limited
incomes derived from business. They have
no money with which to purchase the
cheaper goods made by foreign competitors.
The passage Of the Wilson bill cannot put
money into the pockets of labor. 1t cannot
help American industry to purchase goods
in Europe which q year ago were made
here. 1t will put people embarked in the
iron, glass, textile, clothing and such in
dustries where they can see their way
clear to offer a rate of wages which will
enable them to compete for a part of the
American market, but it will be a much
lower rate than labor was paid a year ago
under the Mckinley law.
When the American laborer shall have
had an opportunity to earn the wages of
those who, to use the language of free
trader Mills, ARE put upon the same plane
as European labor" he can expend his re-
duced compensation, and, TO the extent Of
the volume of trade the aggregate reduced
compensation produces. business will pick
up. But as the volume of internal traffic
in any European country is much less per
capita than it is in this country, so in this
country it will fall off when wages are
dragged down to the European level by the
Wilson tariffs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
4 Chicago paper prints the following

query:
b bets A s. that an alien, after residing
in Indiana one year (having declared his
intention to become a citiZen), becomes a.
qualified voter, he not previously having
resided in the United States. What are the
facts?
In reply, the section of the Constitution
Of Indiana is quoted, which defines the quail
ifcations of electors with the following ex-
PLANTATION:
In other words, an alien, after enc years
residence in the United States, six months
of which must have been passed in Indiana,
is a qualified voter at all State and local
elections in that State, provided he has de-
clared his Intention to become a citizen of
the United States. OF course, this ruling aD-
plies only to State and local elections. At
all national elections his qualifications are
adjudged by the provisions OF the federal
naturalization laws.
The statement that the provision in the
State Constitution applies only TO State
and local elections" is erroneous. 1t applies
to national elections as we'll. A person who
has the necessary qualifications to vote at
a State election can vote at any election,
either for members of Congress or for Pres
i5ent and Vice President. The naturaliza-
ton laws do not prescribe the qualifications
Of voters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

Indianapolis bank wreckers want to en-
gage Benjamin Harrison for their defense.
They recall the United States treasury as
Harrison received it in 1889 and as he left
it in 1S93.-Chicago Times.
The anti-administration organ of the
Democracy in Chicago may be posted re-
garding what the alleged bank robbers Of
this city know about different things, but
well-informed people know that while Gen.
Harrison was President $3.50, 0O0, 600 of public
money was expended in the redemption of
interest-bearing bonds. They also remem-
Der that when General Harrison became
President nearly fifty millions of the funds
of the government were deposited in more
or less favorite banks of the Cleveland
administration, for which it received no in
terest. That money was withdrawn from
these banks and paid out for interest-bear-
ing bonds. Everybody knows these facts
except the Democratic editor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

The vaporings of the little Sun, of this
city, on the line of alleged Harrison and
worthy Of notice were it not for the fact
that one of its young men is the local cor
respondent OF the United Press. and pours
to be spread broadcast through the coun-
try. Suffice 1t to say that President Har-
rison's most Intimate friends know nothing
about his plans for the future, and that
such a thing as a movement either for or
against General Harrison as a presidential
candidate has not been heard of in In
diana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

This government claims to nave been and
probably was the first TO employ female
clerks, but the French government employs
"a greater number OF such clerks now than
this government does. The fact that in
France the government controls the rail-
road. telegraph and telephone lines opens
the way for the employment OF a great
many women. Recent statistics show that
there are at present 1888 ladies' employed
at provincial postoffices and 1000 female tel
egraph clerks. In sixty-nine towns the tele-
phone stations are under the management
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

Tom Reed will undoubtedly Chamber up
to the top seats to witness that collision
between the Harrison and Mckinley forces
in Indiana--New York World.
The collision between the Harrison and
Mckinley forces in Indiana is the Pigment
of the overwrought imagination Of that
unfortunate class of correspondents who
labor under the delusion that that is news
to be telegraphed which is not true. There
is no sort Of discussion of the candidacy
for the presidency in Indiana on the part
of Republicans who rave come to the years
of discretion. Just now they are putting
their heads together to devise plans to
knock the life out of Indiana Democracy
next November.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

The Senate committee on foreign rela-
tons Will resume it's Investigation of the
Hawaiian affair to-day. and a week from
to-day will begin the examination of naval
officers who have been stationed at Homo
lulu at different times during the last few
years. Among those to be examined are
the Pacific station a year ago, and several
officers who were stationed on the Boston
when the troops were landed. The COM
mittee can get valuable information from
these naval officers, and it will find that
every one of them is in favor of the United
States acquiring control of the islands
either by annexation or establishing a pro-
tactorafa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
Introducing Dan MacnuIey.
Washington Post.


1t isn't easy TO forget a quaint introduc-
ton once given rue at a 'burgoo" out in
glorious old Kentucky please note that
remark, Mr.. Secretary-by ex-Mayor Bax-
ter, OF Louisville. In an unguarded mo-
ment L had slipped into the chair OF the
Mayor Of indianapolis. and il took them
years-and almost dynamite TO get me
out again. During those years Brother
Baxter, in Louisville, and 1 in the Hoosier
capital. run our part OF the Western hem
isphere pretty much as we pleased. keep
ing reasonably in view OF the motto OF the
old backwoods justice OF the peace. who
said that in the absence of a knowledge of
the law. he cooked his eye on the polar
star Of justice and sailed I'm. Shortly after
we were both ex's i visited what had been
saved of his town. and among many other
things was formally presented To a consid-
cradle body OF the jollie5t gentlemen in that
tollieSt city IN America. about in these
terms: "Fellsr-citizens. permit me 10 in
troduce TO you my friend. Gineral Dan
Macauley. ex-Mayor of Injunaplis-and here
and now let me remark 10 you, gentlemen,
that ex-Ma'or Is h-l!'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

"ef God sends rain, wy, rains my choice"
The -est Of US might at least follow his
example so far as TO accept as our choice
the weather which, for the most part this
winter. has not been exceeded by the ''glo-
rious California climate which multitudes
travel far to enjoy. The new year opened
with a day which left nothing to be desired
by appreciative souls. The like of it might
have been in the mind of the poet who
wrote:
The Lord hath made us a perfect day;
Let us be gladi
Many among US have not much to re-
joice over as this year opens. but they can
at least be glad of the weather.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
Relief DIV PoIiticaI Organtzntion.

Among the letters sent out to county
chairmen by the Republican State commit
tee is one mailed yesterday, in which the
committee says:
I'm times Of prosperity and labor agita-
ton, when 1t costs nothing TO be the work.
inSman's friend but words, we usually find
the Democratic politicians acting in that
capacity.
With the Democrats in control of every
branch of the national and State govern
ments has come a year of distress, when
the workingman needs friends. Not as a
matter of politics, but as a matter of hu-
mainly, we beg that you will devote some
time and attention to what distress there
may be in your county. II relief is already
organized do all you can through your or
ganization TO assist in the good work. II IL
is not stir up our friends and get n relief
committee at work wherever here is hum
ger and want. You will find il more CON-
venient TO do thisSthrough your local paper
than in any other way. Words, either con-
c~iliatory or infiammatory, will not help the
unemployed w-orkingmen this wear: what
they need is work and bread, and We should
do our best to give it to them, regardless
of. whether those in want belong to our
party or not"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
The Suggested Tax on Bachelors.

The only good reason why a bachelor
should be taxed any more than a married
mar would be that a bachelor is In some
way undesirable-like a grog shop-and de-
serves 10 be frowned upon by the authority
OF law. His SingleneSs. which may be but
the determination TO refrain from the mat
rimonial mistakes or his ~neighbors. would
be punished. Surprising him to have made
nave been refused all around. he would
still have To pay $40 a year for continuing
that the bachelor tax will have the sup
port OF none but women and a few envious
men. Most OF the men In Congress are
husbands. but they viii not forget them
selves so far IS 10 tamper with the feelings
OF 100000 able-bcdied, ballot-casting bach
elors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
How the Lighted the Gns.

up in Richie. w. Va" said a CONNER
cial traveller, they use natural gas. At
the only hotel in the town, where i stopped,
the landlord had erected a long gas pipe.
with the end bending over like a hook,
ground. The end was where the gas was
lighted. Every evening the landlord used
to come out in front with a box OF blue
head matches in his hand. turn on the gas,
light matches and throw up TO the end OF
the pipe until the gas caught One windy
evening he stood there and lighted and
threw away a whole box Of matches trying
to light the gas. The idea was a new ono
to me. and ! asked him why he did not
keen a ladder at hand. why said he. the
fact is. / never thought er that. But then
he added, complacently. i alters callate TO
hit her in one out er three
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

The monument in New York city in honor
OF Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock has not
been put in place a day too soon. He was
one Of the ideal soldiers Of the war, loyal
to the cause. loyal to his superior, with a
high courage that was an inspiration to his
their sons and their sons sons will be taught
the story Of his soldierly qualities. He was,
In truth, the superb Hancock"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

Of ladies, affording employment for 75 wom-
en-. The national savings banks employ 425
women and the railways about 24,0oc. Per-
haps the basis of comparison is not alto
gether fair, so far as government service
is concerned, as in this country a large num-
Der OF women are employed in telegraph
and telephone offices who do not come I'M
der the head Of government clerks. But the
figures show that woman is making her way
in France in respect of public employment,
as, indeed, she is in all European countries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

The attack on the Democratic gerryman-
cess which attended a similar movement by
the Republicans OF Wisconsin. Within the
last two years two unjust Democratic ger
rymanders have been set aside by the SUI
preme Court OF that State. In both Of the
Wisconsin cases the line Of attack was the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
EPen Tried RefOra-

Young Biggars-No, / can't say that 1 be-
lieve in those Bible fables. In fact, 1 take
higher ground.
Deacon Potterby-Yes? If history isn't
wrong, there were some fellows in Noah's
time who thought that higher ground
would answer all purposes, but they rather
made a failure Of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
PopuliSts.

A New Orleans dispatch says that the
Louisiana lottery people have left that
city, bag and baggage, on a steamer bound
for Honduras. The party of patriots who
have thus left their country for their coun-
try's good include the principal officers of
the lottery company and a large number
of clerks, employees, printers and others.
The company has obtained a charter from
, the government of Honduras and will at
once proceed to open out it's gambling es-
Establishment in that country and fleece fools
regardless Of age. scx or previous condi-
ton. It's expulsion from the United States
is the elimination of a long and bitter
fight, and is a distinct triumph for good
morals. The good people of Louisiana de-
serve great credit for the persistency and
determination with which they nave strug-
gled to free themselves from the tyranny
Of one of the most corrupt establishments
of modern times, and they are entitled to
the satisfaction of feeling that in Danish
ing the lottery they nave rendered a great
service to the country at large as well as
to their own State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
1t Might Work.

BriggsNI think 1 have evolved a scheme
for stopping the tipping nuisance that will
prove & success, if 1 can only get others to
follow il.
Braggs-Tell it, quick.
Briggs-Oh, it is simple enough. When
ever l give the waiter a tip I explain to the
cashier that it has left me short, and ask
him to stand me off for the meal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
At His Best.

Doesn't your husband sometimes come
home the worse for ~liquor?' asked the
charitable caller.
mo, indeed, num-" answered the wife.
Hes never none the worse for it. It's
only when he is full that he is in a good
b,,r,or OF OIL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

Those who are sending protests to Wash
ington against the Wilson bill should not
address them to an Indiana Democrat in
the House, but to some Republican Sena-
tor. to have them put where they will be
heard from.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

The latest from Washington is that two
of the Populist Senators, PETER and Allen,
Kyle nay do so to be with his party friends.
Should they do SO, a change of three Dem
ocratic Senators would defeat the meas
ure. They should be found
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02

A wise philosopher has said that half the
pleasure in life consists in having some
thing pleasant to look forward to. II so,
ing forward to the adjournment of Con-