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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

In Paraguay, when a gentleman is intro
duced TO a lady, it Is customary for him to
kiss her.
The tomb of Mahomet Is covered with dia-
monds, sapphires and rubies, valued at
$10,000000.
A Iong-distance telephone is about to be
put into operation between Berlin, Germany,
and stockholm, Sweden
An establishment has been started in Lon
don where houSemaids are supplied by the
morning by the day, the employer
prefers.
An intelligent cat is pet in the house of
Mrs. Mary Brownell. at Wilmington. Del.
When Tie animal desires to be let out of
the cellar, IL rings a bell.
The stock of Goldfish landed at Portland,
Me, during the season just closed. figured
W over 100000 pounds or. as one paper puts
L., lib cords. An eighty-pound fish stripped
and boned for the market produces about
thirty-fve pounds of food. The bones are
sold for fertilizer. the skins for glue and the
trimmings" are sold cheap TO restaurants
and hotels.
A clergyman, who was drafted during the
late war. is reported in the person of the
Rev. Warren l.. Hayden. who was preach
ing at the time in Rupert, VT, but living in
Salem, N Y. He was drafted in Salem
when he went TO Troy and paid commu-
tation as his society at Rupert would not
spare him. Mr.. Hayden is now living in FL
gin. H.. as the pastor Of a Campbellite So
ciety there.
Princes 7ismarck writes to a friend in the
Isle OF Nj. Know that II had had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
REJECTION OF HORNBLOwER.

The refusal of the Senate to confirm the
Presidents nomination OF Mr.. Hornblower
as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
involves more points OF interest than an
ordinary rejection. In the first place, there
was an objection to Mr.. Hornblower in
New York on the ground that he does not
possess the capacity and has not had the
experience requisite for such a position. 1t
has been shown that decisions made by him
referee have been sharply criticised and
set aside by the Court of Appeals. On the
other hand, the Bar Association of New
York has unanimously declared for his con-
firmation Mr. Hornblower had made him.
self obnoxious to the Hill element by his
opposition to Judge Maynard. But it does
not seem that the question of fitness had
so much TO do with the rejection of Mr..
Hornblower as the desire of Democratic
Senators to reassert the heresy that the ex-
ecutive has no right TO make nominations
to which the Senators representing the
State where they are made are opposed, If
Of the same party. Again, revolt has been
ripening among the Democrats in the Sen
ate which would break out when oppor-
tunity offered. The Hornblower nomina-
ton seems to have presented the occasion
and the President finds his foe, Senator
Hill, stronger than himself with his own
party. 1t is probable that a majority of
the Democrats recorded are against the
President 1t is further asserted that four
Democrats who did not vote stood ready
to do so if their votes were necessary to
reject Mr.. Manley, of the Republican ma
tional committee who has been taking a
deep interest in the matter, confidently pre-
diets that the vote Hornblower fore
casts the defeat of the Wilson bill in the
Senate-that the combination which de-
feated the Cleveland nomination will defeat
the Cleveland tariff bill. The Journal sin
cerely hopes that this will prove true.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

aration for building than there is. 1t is
probably safe to say that building material
of all kinds is SO per cent. cheaper to-day
than it was year ago, while the wages
of building mechanics of all kinds never
were lower. The Journal does not believe
in taking advantage of hard times TO beat
down wages, but it is fact
that in the present stringency men
are willing and glad to work
for less than ever before. If capitalists
were wise they would take advantage Of
the present situation to build. for certainly
they can never build cheaper. They ought
TO realize that times will certainly improve
within a year or so. and buildings erected
now can be offered at such rates as will
make it easy to secure tenants. If all who
contemplate building next spring or sum-
mer could only see the situation it really
exists and begin active opera tons now they
would save considerable money and con-
tribute materially towards helping the I'M
employed. The timidity of capital sometimes
overreaches itself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
NOT AN INHERITED COMPLICATION.

In a lame defense of the administra-
tion's Hawaiian policy the Chicago Herald
says: 1.-The Hawaiian complication was
inherited from the Harrison administra-
ton" This is the favorite defense nova
days to every charge brought against the
administration. The hard times are the re-
suit of Republican legislation which the
Democratic party has not yet had time
to repeal. The terrible condition of the
government finances is owing TO Republic
an blunders which the present administra-
ton has not yet been able to remedy. The
enormous falling off in government reve-
nues is due to conditions created by the
Republican party which the present Con-
gress has not yet been able to reform, and
so on. The administration inherited all its
blunders and all its failures 1t is an in
nocent victim of heredity. helpless child
of fate, vicarious sufferer for the sins of
others.
1t is not true that the Hawaiian compl-
cation was inherited from Harrison's adj
ministration. The Hawaiian question was
inherited. but not the complication The
question as inherited by this administra-
ton was entirely free from complication,
and IT was in the hands OF Congress,
where IL could safely have been left for
final disposition. President Harrison had
sent the annexation treaty to the Senate.
The executive was relieved of all further
responsibility in the matter. 1t was for
| the Senate to decide whether the treaty
| should be affirmed or rejected. II Mr..
| Cleveland had been wise he would have
| left the question where he found it. and
thus have escaped all complications ard
] the humiliating defeat that has Defallen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

There is no one so hard to discourage as
a poor singer.-Atchison Globe.
They call it the Louisville & Gnashville
since it passed its dividend.-Boston Her
AID
This country could get along with fewer
orations and no restorations-New York
World.
Popular indignation must now give way
for pity for Cleveland and Gresham.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
An editor thinks that people of the right
stamp are those who inclose return post
age.-Texas Siftings.
If Governor Mitchell will but consult the
wishes of the people he will make 'em
fght-Washington Post
1t is a wise provision that the conceited
usually gets wife who thinks he's
smart-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mr. Cleveand's message to Congress on
the Sandwich Islands muddle: Take 1t Ha-
waii."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The charity which gives and asks no
questions" may not be prudent but it is
beautiful.-RocheSte Democrat and Chron-
icle
Head-cutting Lii would find a congenial
companion in Bloody bride Waite" of
Observation-Disclosures Democrat and Chron-
icle.
In order to satisfy her desire for blood
Liliuokalani might come over and secure
a job in a Chicago Washington
Post.
Congressman Breckenridge of Kentucky,
NAV be reelected, because he is running
in a race horse district and only the men
are allowed to vote.-Dallas News Oem)
How beautifully all this diplomatic fiasco
has unmasked Cleveland's pretensions to
greatness, and how the idolators are fall
ing off.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiSer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
WHERE THE WEALTH GOES.
Lesson Easy to Learn from the Ma
tiOnaI COrdage Trust.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.


The Cordage Trust is to be 'reorganized"
with assets worth sl2,OOO,O6O to ST. 900,
represented by stocks and bonds purporting
to be worth $34, 600, 600 The old concern was
capitalized at So, 000, 900, but having gone
through bankruptcy and been happily ire
organized" that modest sum does not suf-
flee. A cool 50 900 is created by fiat and
the consumers of cordage will have TO pay
it through monopoly profits. The overcapi-
talization of corr orations of this kind
measures the value of the privileges they
enjoy. Sooner or later the stockholders Of
such concerns who are not mere bandits eX
pect the securities to pay good dividends.
In this case of the Cordage Trust per cent.
is anticipated on $3i,00000O, which is equiva-
lent to al least Il per cent. on the amount
actually invested, and probably IL would be
nearer Is per cent Tine current rate is or
6. but the monopoly privileges possessed by
this company are worth o to II per cent.
more
Facts like these throw flood of light on
the question of the millionaire and pauper.
Claims upon the resources and earnings of
the people are thus established by mere
trick of legal legerdemain without any
equivalent being given. And in most cases
the claims are paid, for in spite of bank
ruptcies the capitalization is seldom scaled
down. on the contrary, with reorganization
the capitalization is usually increased, and
IL dividends are not Immediately paid they
will be when the country grows up TO the
demands. 1t is by processes like the growth
of these corporations with all the incidents
of stock watering and wrecking that the
wealth of the country is passing from the
hands of the earnerS to the Golfers of the
accumulatorS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

Washington special gives some inter-
esting information regarding the large num-
Der of bills which have been presented to
the last and the present Congress to cor
rect the military records of individuals who
served in the late war. For years the War
Department had authority to remove the
charge of desertion from the record of all
persons whom it could be made TO appear
circumstances over which they had no con-
troll When the war closed 121,O00 names on
the muster rolls had the ominous word de
serter'' opposite them. Thousands of them
were in hospitals, sick at home, put on duty
without proper authority, or mustered out
from hospitals whose papers never reached
their regiments in the field. 1t was easy
during the ten years which the law pro-
vided for the correction of records to fur
nish evidence and be put right 1t is fair
to observe that the greater part did SO.
When the disability pension law was passed
it seems that thousands against whose
names the charge of desertion had stood
for q quarter of century suddenly became
inspired with a desire to have the disgrace
removed. Now and then, probably two or
three in thousand may have some merit
in them but as a whole it is fair to assume
that they were deserters and should so
stand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
WHERE SENATOR MORGAN STANDS.

In the discussion as TO the probable out
question by the Senate committee on foreign
relations, the fact seems to have been over
looked or forgotten that Senator Morgan,
chairman OF that committee, is distinctly
committed to the policy of annexation. On
the Stu of February 1893, few days before
President Harrison sent the annexation
treaty to the Senate, Senator Morgan in
troduced a bill as follows:
That whenever the United States shall ac-
quire dominion over any foreign country or
place, by treaty, or annexation, or other
wise the President of the United States,
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
may appoint governor for the same and
a legislative council TO consist Of any num-
Der of persons not less than five nor more
than twenty-five, whose acts shall be SUBJ
ject to revision or repeal by Congress, and
shall otherwise provide, said governor and
council shall constitute and conduct all pro-
viSional governments for such country or
place until Congress shall otherwise provide
by law.
This bill evidently contemplated the rati-
Senate, and proposed to make timely pro-
vision for that contingency by providing a
mode of government for the islands, Obvi-
ously, Senator Morgan would not have in
troduced such a measure had he not been
himself in favor of annexation. few days
later he delivered a speech in the Senate In
which he favored the acquisition of the
islands by the United States on the broad
and patriotic ground that they were natural
vidette posts for this country and necessary
to the protection of American interests.
There is no reason to believe that Senator
Morgan has changed his mind. He is not
one of the cuckoo Senators. Assuming
that he holds the same views on the subject
Of annexation now that he held year ago
it is not likely that he will make a white
washing report on the administration s
Queen restoring policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
Neglect of Great Local Reforms.

Many citizens of Indianapolis have al
lowed their attention to become so absorbed
In the consideration of national and interna-
tIondl topics that they have heedlessly over
looked certain great local issues recently
sprung upon an innocent and unprepared
public and agitated fercely by an evening
paper. They have persistently discussed
the tariff and Hawaii and the Corbett-
Mitchell MILL and have shown a reckless
Indifference to the price of laundering COL
lars and cuffs and TO the direction in which
front gates swing. What they were evident
ly expected to do was to unite in great
movement to reduce laundry rates one cent
per collar, or to such lower degree as would
bring the bills within the possibilities of an
impecunious editors purse; they were con-
fidently expected to rise at once when the
matter was presented to them and demand
the rehanging of all the gates and barn
doors in Indianapolis. With singular obtuse-
ness they failed to meet these requirements
On the contrary, they assumed don't-care-
annexed expression which the vile and grasp
ing laundrymen interpreted to mean that
they could wear collars and cuffs to fringes
at the same rates as before, and which led
the City Council to ruthlessly kill the gate
ordinance Because there was no popular
iSiiiS W nhcCb dilu push tncSc great ISSUES
what might have been glorious victory over
the washermen has fallen fiat; what might
have been REFORM with big "R" and
trils has ended in the gates swinging out
and tripping up unwary editors as in the
bitter past 1t is very sad. The public
ought to respond quickly TO such an oppor-
tunity TO assert itself 1t having neglected
to do So the only thing left for the bril-
liant originator of the two schemes is TO
educate 1t up to the desired point. If people
won't go off at the touch of a trigger per-
haps they can be led TO triumph by
slow and circuitous route. Let the news
paper champion of reduced laundry rates
undertake a series of object lessons by
which men can gradually be made to per-
up cheaper they can wear more of 'em.
This might be followed by illustrative
course showing how citizens are to get out
of their front yards in of fire when the
gates swing in. All this will take time
during which the newspaper in question will
be a tremendous bore; but that is nothing
new in its case, and will. of course, not deter
it from the performance of noble duty.
Meanwhile, too, and alas! editors and other
citizens must pay regular rates for clean
cuffs and do the best they can to keep from
running against outstanding and depraved
barn doors. when they go home of nights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

Ex-Representative Townsend, OF New
York city, who is interested in the forma-
ton of a Democratic organization hostile
to Tammany, has presented some interest
ing facts regarding the cost of asphalt. He
estimates that the average price paid by the
Tammany board was from $3.50 to 1915 per
square yard. He presents the testimony of
Mavor Wheeler. of Utica, II. Y, that when
there was a fair field for competition, he
obtained Trinidad asphalt with a five years
guarantee for $1.95 per square yard. In
Toronto. Canada, two and half inches of
asphalt has been laid upon six inches of
concrete for from $40 to $3.50 per square
yard. In reply to his query, the New York
and Bermuda Asphalt Company informed
Mr.. Townsend that asphalt had been laid
upon a concrete base in Detroit, Utica and
Washington at s2.10 per square yard. A
writer in Paving and Municipal Engineer
ing says chemists cannot find any differ
ence between lake and Land" asphalt
and he adds as expert that no one who
has used both kinds, in their refined state.
can tell the difference.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
MORE ABOUT THE REED CASE.

The Journal has received letter from a
correspondent in Greenfield complaining
that the criticisms upon the presentation
of the States case in the trial of Reed
were unintentionally unjust. All that the
Journal said was that in the nature of
been vigorous in another county court
as here, where the States counsel would
have been familiar with all the circum-
stances for months. Such cases are trans
ferred because the prosecution cannot, in
the nature of things. avail itself of the
advantages it would have where the crime
was committed. There is no doubt that
the three lawyers representing the State
made as much of their case could any
others The correspondent goes on to say:
The people here feel as the Journal does.
that it is an outrage that so many cases
are venued from Marion county and other
counties in order that criminals may more
readily escape conviction Something should
be done whereby the punishment of grave
crimes may be more speedily and certainly
secured.
1t is not only we'll that people realize
the eVll ana danger OF a custom wnlcn
turns the laws and the revenues of coun-
ties to the protection of those accused and
probably guilty of committing the highest
crimes, but they should, in the most eff
fective manner, proceed to put an end to it.
No one thing can SO tend to embolden the
criminal class as the knowledge that the
resources of county can be employed in
their defense. and that judges permit APP
peals to be made to jurors outside Of the
Justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

Purveyors of the press over in London
have queer Idea of what constitutes news.
Among other thrilling foreign dispatches
that came to the Journal yesterday was
this, from London: 1.-THE Pail Mall Ga
zette, to-day was printed wholly by the
use of electrical power thus being the first
London paper to use electricity in driving
its presses" The Journals printing ma
chinery has been operated wholly by cleo
trical power for many months, but it never
occurred to any one connected with the
paper to cable this fact to England.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
RepubIican Editorial A..ociation.

The annual meeting of the Indiana Repub-
lean Editorial Association will be held in
this city, Thursday and Friday, Feb. 2 and
q. 1894 The secretary, ]. a. Kemp, of Sa-
lem. Ind, will issue the usual call in few
days, giving time, place and programme of
the meeting. The annual election of officers,
representatives to national associations. etc,
Will be supplemented by a programme of
interest, in which several prominent editors
will give their views on practical subjects
of Importance to the craft. Besides this
there will be able papers on the duties of
the press to the party. and the exigencies of
the hour. The association is composed of
about 125 members and an effort will be
made to secure a full attendance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
Queen Lii!


A kindly little word
Is what we want with thee
Just now.
Dost know. o dusky nymph.
That bricks
And tired vegetables
And various things
Will soon fly at thy frizzled head
Down there in Hawaii Evidently
It's time for thee to skip,
To disappear
Like a chicken liver down
A hungry COON
Don't wait,
Just grab right on
To all the buds and cash
And all the pomp and pride
And circumstance of misfit ROYALTY
Within thy reach
And come at once
To this appreciative bourne
Where freaks draw like thunder;
Come to New York,
We want TO see your queenly shape.
Perhaps We, too, Will fall
Deeply In love with thee,
And swear that thou and only thou
Shalt reign.
We hear that thou art fat:
We're used to royal fairness;
We're badly stuck on il.
Another chunk more or less
Won't feaze us.
So come along, old girl.
and get a good new job
Before you lose your freshness:
Before a bad banana
Hits you on your jugular.
Come on, we say,
o LIliuokalani!
C. T. w. in New York Sun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
4 Tariff Prediction.
Washington Post 1nd)

washington IOst NIIitI+J
All the silver tongues that ever wagged.
ali the eloquence and epigram that ever
sparlxled. will not save the wilson tarl I
hin so long as IL contemplates free cotl,
free sugar and an income tax. Thougn
The advocates of that bill be as Cicero and
- &c iutas and their speech thrill with
r. Syveatness of the dithyramb. they can
not hee11ile the Nation into accepting IL.
We may lull ourselves beneath the music,
~ 49, inhale the charm of rounded peri
ods and feel the tremor OF great ana
passionate appeal. but, like Ulysses, me
pPo,,ntrv will resist the siren song and SAIL
away into the open sea-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
A Magazine Wall.

Across the dank and gloomy sky,
The coal-black clouds do scoot and scud
Without. within his soggy sty,
The swart swine revels i'm the mud.
A settled sense of sore despair
Has soaked my dim, benighted soul;
/ feel weight of rainracked air
Upon my grimy musings roll.
A gruesome ghost its shadow throws
Across my brain-sad heart be still
1 think. to ease my many woes,
I'll go and take a quinine pill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17
slight Discrepancy.

Mr. Dadson lin one corner of the ball
room)-By gee. that boy of mine has danced
with more girls than any other young fell
low in the room. He is just his father over
again.
Mrs. Dadson lin another corner of the
ball-room)-It is just amazing to note how
confident and how popular Willie is with
the young ladies. He isn't bit like his
father was at his age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

him. The complications began when he
withdrew the treaty from the Senate. They
have all grown out of the bad advice of
his Secretary of State and his own bull
headed determination TO undo the acts of
the Harrison administration and to re-
store the monarchy and the Queen. The
only heredity in the case is an inherited
talent for Democratic laundering and po-
litical spite
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

The Republicans OF Iowa were fortunate
in having three we'll known men among the
aspirants for the senatorship-Represen
lives Gear. Hepburn and Lacy. If the other
aspirants who were defeated are as able
men the three named. there is a
richness of capacity for high public service
In that State. Ex-Governor Gear. the eau
Gus candidate. is a man of senatorial rank
He Is in every respect front-rank man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

The New York Sun having recently as
serted that there many great men
now living as in any period of the worlds
history. ethe Philadelphia Times questions
the statement and asks who and where
thew are. Looking over this country with
its eagle eye ii can discover but one, and
that one-Edison. not Cleveland. And the
Times is a cuckoo paper too.