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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

Not less than two hundred thousand men
and boys are employed in the mining and
loading of coal in the United States. These
men and the capital employed give value TO
an article which. until reached by these
agencies. has no value. And yet the Presi-
dent and those who agree with him class
coal as raw material and insist that it
should be put upon the free. list. 1t re-
auires more skill TO mine coal than it does
to raise rice or sugar cane. yet, in the
Cleveland tariff bill one is protected and
the other declared to be a proper article
for an import duty. But coal gives en-
ployment 10 thousand men where sugar
and rice production in this country does to
ten. Why then, are these raw materials"
favored and coal and iron ores discrimi-
mated against:
There can be no such definition for raw
material as the President and his associ-
ates make. y material worth only a few
cents a ton in the bowels of the earth, but
which is given a value at the mouths of the
mines of s125, 9.157, as was the coal mined
and sold during the year 1892. should not be
stigmatized as raw" No article in the
list of staples has so much value given TO
it by labor and capital as coal. In the sense
that no labor except transportation is added
to it. once mined, it is finished article.
In speech delivered last December that
eminent business Democrat, President In
gals of the c., g.. c. & St. l. Railway
Company. denounced the proposition to put
coal on the free list as not demanded by
the Democratic platform. and as ruinous 10
the industrial interests Of whole sections OF
the country. He declared that four thou
sand men were idle In connection with the
railroad system of which he was president
because of the falling off in the consump-
ton and shipment of coal The great coal
strike. so disastrous in its consequences.
was a direct result OF the scare in indus
trial centers caused by the Cleveland tariff
| policy. Operators found it impossible to
sell their coal as they did during the pros
| porous years of 1881 and 1892. The result
was oyerproduction. and from this came a
! cut in prices under the excessive cea'. =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

The Evening Coupon is allowing its lit
tie soul to be greatly worried about the
Journals contribution to the Light Artil-
lery fund. The Journal makes a great
many contributions for public and private
benefit in the course of a year, but it is
not in the habit of announcing them from
the housetop or otherwise advertising
them. In order to set the Coupons mind
at rest, however, it is willing to depart
from it's rule on this occasion, and to say
that it made a subscription to the pro-
posed artillery banquet week or more ago.
When the committee called some days lat
er, and announced its change of plan, the
Journal cheerfully increased it's contribu-
ton, adding the statement that the amount
would be doubled if necessary. The Cou-
pom can secure the figures by applying to
the committee, but perhaps the informa-
ton here extended will tighten it's anxiety
sufficiently. 1t may be casually remarked
in this connection that if the Coupon had
lived a hundred or so years ago its char
acter as common scold and spiteful gossip
would have kept it on the ducking stool
a great part of the time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

There is no sense in lying to people
merely because you like them.-Galveston
News.
The public will be glad to hear Mr.. Debs's
cold facts, if they are real cold.-Detroit
Tribune.
A mans domestic relations do not trouble
him as much as the relations of his domes-
tic.-Truth.
Business may be looking up, but it
doesn't do much else but look.-Philadelphi
North American.
a photograph of a Senator's sugar order
is better evidence than a Senator's mega
tive.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The who smokes the vilest cigarettes
can write the most scathing editorials de-
nouncing them.-Chicago Times
The confiscation of Mr.. Debs's kilograms
will seriously interfere with his contem-
plated alibi.-Kansas City Journal.
The sudden and mysterious disappearance
of one j. S. Coxey is not causing any con-
siderable amount OF alarn.-Washington
Post
No friend of Senator PETER has yet
stepped forward with the explanation that
he was intoxicated at the time.-Kansas
City Journal.
We grow more humane grow older.
Whereas once we kicked the neighbor S
dog openly We now poison him the sly.
Kate Field.
We have noticed that the only one in the
family who looks pleased when the door
bell rings is the girl who is engaged.
-Atchison Globe
Anna Diggs and Mrs. Mary Eliza beth
Lease. the two prophetesses of Kansas.
ought 10 be submitted TO arbitration.-New
York sun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

tinuing in the railroad departments of the
stock yards after Wednesday. at o'clock
D. m.. Twill be forever branded as scabs
and treated "a such" Debs denies the au-
thenticity of the circular and says. This
is fair sample of the methods that have
been employed TO poison the public mind
against the strike and those officially con-
nected Herewith" As a matter of fact.
the circular embodied resolution unani-
mously adopted by the local branch of
the a. r. Y. at Chicago. and signed by its
officers. 1t may have been somewhat of a
liberty on their part to affix Debs's ap-
prevail to the resolution, but they probably
felt authorized to do so because it was in
strict accord with his known views and
with his conduct Of the strike. The Chi
cago Tribune issued the morning after the
circular was posted said that dozens of
the men have been beaten at the stock
yards and hundreds threatened with vio-
lence if they persisted in working In the
name of the A. r. L. notice was served
on all the men at work that they must
quit their jobs last night" The men who
are exercising this tyranny are Debs's fol-
lowers, and they are doing it through the
official machinery of the organization of
which he is the head. The circular was
genuine, and Debs's denunciation of it was
a false pretense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
THE PRESIDENTS DISCRIMINATION.

second careful reading OF the letter Of
the President to the House shows that the
brunt of his attack upon the Senate bill
falls upon those schedules which impose
d duty on coal and iron, which Mr.. Cleve-
land classifes as raw material. while he
enue bill which have caused the scandals,
the sugar schedule and the VOORHEES, whis-
ky tax. There has been no scandal rela-
tive TO the putting of duty OH coal and
iron ore. Both are the products of several
Democratic States. the Virginias. Mary
land, Alabama and Tennessee. Theoreti-
cally the Senators of these States are free
traders. like Ensign Stebbins in regard to
the Maine law. but practically. when the
products of their States are under consd-
Grafton, they are opposed to it's enforce
ment. Those Senators have made
trade; they have simply declared a pur-
pose to vote against a bill which would
wreck leading industries in their States.
Upon these Senators and the protection of
dents attack is spent. The coal mining
corporations 10 which the President refers
not large and dominating corporations
like the Sugar and Whisky trusts, but
comparatively small aggregations of cap
ital. When it comes to sugar the Presi-
dents language is mild and even deferen-
tial. Sugar. which all the people consume.
is a proper object of revenue. says Mr..
Cleveland. within a certain scope; that
is. 30 or 40 per cent ad valorem. AS the
difference in the price of raw sugar and
refined is a cent and a half a pound. what
would the 30 or 45 per cent. on cent and
a half. equal TO six mills be but pro-
tective tariff on sugar equivalent to six
mills on the pound? AS to whisky. Mr..
Cleveland is silent And yet there is no
part of the revenue bill which is more
barefaced concession to a trust than the
whisky sections which Mr. Voorhees, has
championed.
Why is the President so harsh upon
COAL so lenient toward sugar and silent re-
garding whisky? Is it because his party
and personal friends. large capitalists in
New York and New England, have bonded
the Nova Scotia coal lands. which would
be worth millions if coal were free? The
Journal is aware that limited number OF
Democrats of the mugwump brand will
rush into epthets at the suggestion; but
will they calm themselves enough TO give
a clear explanation of the Presidents mo-
tives in reducing the damage estimated by
tire naval experts because of the imperfect
armor plates made by the Carnegie COM
pany from 100000 to $4,000 when the evil
dence was complete? Has it any connec-
ton with the Carnegie letter indorsing
the Wilson bill? Is the Cleveland leniency
regarding the Sugar Trust due to a like
frendliness?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
DOUBLE EL0PEMENT.
Mother and Daughter Fly with Their
Lovers and Get Into Trouble.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, July Ca sensa-
tionaI elopem mt f. I'M Knoxville, Tenn,
eliminated i'm the equally sensational ar
rest here of all the principles i'm the affair.
Mrs Matte I.andes. a fine-looking woman.
aged fifty. is in Jail William II. Lowell,
weIl-dressed man OF forty-three. n in a
cell at the Seventeenth-street police sta
ton, and in an adjoining. cell is G. :. Jen-
nings. a fashionable looking young man. The
three were arrested by detectives at No.
1902 West Walnut street. on warrant
sworn out by G.. W. Landes. OF Knoxville.
Iandes. who is said TO he i'm comfortable
circumstances financially. came TO Louis
Vile from Knoxville a few days ago and
at once called on chief OF Detectives Ow-
ems and told him his troubles. According
10 his statement his daughtef Nellie, y
beautiful young woman. aged nsncteen.'
had been receiving attentions from q. ;.
Jennings against his wishes. He also stated
that ne had suspected his wife OF being on
much too friendly terms with William III.
Lowell on July s. he said. the whole party
eloped. taking with them two smaller chilS
dren Lowell came 10 Louisville with Mrs.
l-endes and the children The Oldest
daughter, Was accompanied by Jennings.
The house az 1702 West Walnut STREET was
rented and they had been living there since
I.andes spent nearly two weeks searching
fo- them before he came to this city. lie
secured the assistance Of the detectives.
who succeeded in locating the guilty par
ties The oldest Slaughter was hot i0clSec
no being left 10 take care OF the youngest
children
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
THE INDIANA PRESS.

Organized labor as now controlled will
be the death of organized labor.-Clay
County Enterprise.
The demagogue who excuses the Anarch-
lists crime is really a man than the
AnarchiSt.-LebaHCn Patriot.
No Democratic Congress ever passed a
law to strengthen the arm of the general
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Progress.
Capitals cruelty is no worse than the
cruelty of labor toward labor and for that
no arbitration is proposed.-Plainfield Prog
reSS.
There is every prospect that a good many
of the strikers will now have to strike for
some means of earning a living.-Gcshen
Times.
Strikers, when they strike, should be
careful not to hit Uncle Sam. for he won't
stand il and is liable TO strike back-Steu-
ben Republican.
The late Pullman boycott has done the
cause of organized labor more harm than
all the corporations could have inflicted
upon it for many years.-Columbia City
Mail.
The time to strike is next November and
at the polls is the place. Let everybody
strike then and there. and strike hard for
better times and future prosperity.-Cory-
don Republican.
Debs reminds us of the Methodist preach
err who, breaking down in the middle of
his discourse remarked: Brethren. | had
a great subject but 1t has caved in on me-"
Lagrange Standard.
Cleveland and the Democratic bosses who
encourage and pandered to the whims OF
the dissatisfied element now find that these
same indictments do not deserve encour-
t.-Nincennes Commercial.
Democratic demagogism and Populist
madness have sowed the wind. and all the
people, but more especially their deluded
victims the workingmen. are reaping the
Observation-Disclosures Republican.
The motto for the hour-Perfect freedom
for the laboring man TO quit work or be-
gin work when he pleases without hin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

ORANGE by capitalist. corporation. labor
boss or labor union.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
The State Sentinel has grudge against
Governor Matthews. and his executive acts
meet its disapproval. The Sentinel is un-
happy in its Quarrels. II is always out with
the man the people hold in the greatest
respect.-Huntington Herald.
The strike will cut quite figure in
political way. 1t Will strengthen the Pop
ulist party and weaken the Democratic
ranks Many Democrats who are disguised
with the way the administration has dilly
dallied With important questions are anX-
ious to find some excuse 10 leave the party.
Hammond Tribune.
If Debs ct al. could have carried their
strike there would be no safety for the
traveller or shipper in the future. A little
dispute between an employer and his office
boy in Boston might leave the traveller
stranded in Colorado or stop perishabe
goods at way station in Indiana any mo-
ment-Union City Eagle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

ton. and reduction of wages. which con-
stitutes s. per cent of the cost of coal, was
the logical consequence.
Mr.. Cleveland learns nothing from this
warning. but insists that the article TO
which labor gives So per cent. of its value,
aggregating over s125.OOOoOO in 1892, shall
be put upon the free list, thus subjecting
the American coal miner TO labor COMPETE
tion with the coal operators of Great Brit
ain and Nova Scotia, whose product can be
shipped as cheaply therefrom as that of the
to New England and New York Unsatis-
factory as are the wages of the American
coal miners to-day. they are 60 per cent.
higher than those OF Great Britain. The
free coal for which Mr.. Cleveland writes
his unusual letter and for which his friends
of the Nova Scotia coal syndicate are zeal
Gus. means further reduction of coal
miners wages or closing of coal mines
greater deprivation in any event, and idle
ness and beggary as an alternative The
President, dropping TO his former demagog-
ism, talks Of coal corporations. The few
hundred men owning mines are of no ac-
count compared with the tens of thousands
of laborers who glse value TO coal. The
President may not or will not see it, but
the mass of practical people can and do see
it. They know that the Cleveland free raw
material fad. as applied to coal, means de-
creased production and reduced wages
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
STATE BARS WILL OPEN.
South Carolina Dispensary Business to
BE Resumed.

COLUMBIA, s. c., July pa thousand
people attended the campaign meeting at
Aiken to-day. \ man in the crowd asked
Governor Tillman, while he was speaking,
What about the dispensary?" 'The dis
pensaries will be opened about Aug. l.
think" replied the Governor. The Gov
ernor then took one of his hand primaries
on the question whether the dispensaries
ought to be reopened A large portion of
the crowd voted affirmatively, and none
in the negative.
This statement of the Governors, taken
in connection with previous ones on the
subject, is regarded as a positive declara-
ton that the State bar system will be re-
inaugurated soon possible after the
political complexion of the Supreme Court
is changed by the introduction into office
of Justice-elect Gary on July 30
The Supreme Court has never declared
the dispensary act Of 1899 unconstitutional.
Cases before il were brought under the
act of 1892. which was practically Identical
with il. Since the unconstitutional deci
sion stocks OF liquor have remained UNI
touched in all dispensaries, and dispen-
sers have been on half pay. holding their
commissions The machinery of the sys-
tenn can be put In operation again in an
hours time. The Supreme Court decided
subsequently that the present law forbds
all sales of whisky, but in most towns and
cities this decision has been ignored.
Liquor has been constantly and openly
sold, and no licenses have been asked or
paid.
This chaotic condition of affairs has GER
tainly strengthened the dspensary senti-
ment but Tillman's action will be con-
strued as a defiance of the Supreme Court
and a practical notification of law, as
declared by highest State tribunal. and
the popularity which the dspensary has
gained may be lost
Sampson Pope. an extreme Tilmanite
and candidate for Governor, stated in an
interview to-day that while he favored the
dispensary law the decision OF the court
should be recognized. and that the law
should be re-enacted when the Legislature
meets in December. He thought that an
attempt to enforce IL now might lead to
trouble and preferred that the law should
go than that another drop of blood should
be shed on account of IL.
The Prohibitionists are again threaten
ing to place a State ticket in the field ana
this declaration may force them out. for
they opposed to the dispensary plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

\ few days ago Commissioner Lochren
reported to the Senate that 15,OS2 pensioners
had been suspended under the Cleveland
regime. of whom 1854 had been restored to
been reduced. That is, 2.411 had been final-
ly dropped and 1854 pensioners had been
suspended without cause. These facts of
Democratic charge that the pension rolls
were honeycombed with fraud when he
went into office was false, or that the Hoke
Smith contingent has not the courage Of its
convictions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

mo President can be above his party;
no President can dictate to his party; no
President can change his party platform"
So says Senator HILL and he is right.
This is his way of arraigning Mr.. Cleve-
Mr.. Hill says, twas not that ringing and
explicit declaration in favor of the plat
form which his party had a right to ex
-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

Many persons have doubtless been sur
prised by the ignorance shown by labor
leaders and strikers of the laws governing
the rights of persons and property. This
ignorance has found expression in varie-
~ of forms. 1t appears in the proclama-
tons and manifestoes of the leaders not
less than in the acts Of violence committed
by their followers. Most of those who have
been arrested have denied that they have
done any wrong ard have actually seemed
to be surprised when informed by the court
of the law governing such cases
When traced to it's source this ignorance
seems TO be. in one form or another an
expression of the idea that a wage-worlxer
has sort of right in the product of his
labor. and that the position he fills is his
lob. both while he fills it and after he va
Gates it, Both OF these assumptions are
radically wrong. A man who agrees to
work for wages has no proprietary inter-
est whatever in the product of his labor
He simp Y sells his labor for a price, and
when it is done the product belongs TO the
purchaser. This may seem hard. but it is
the law and the fundamental principle OF
the wage system. If the system is wrong
cooperation. profit sharing. or something
of that sort: but while it continues it
should be respected and observed.
The idea seems to be almost universal
yfv,or of aCt
who strike. that his job is his own, both
while he fills it and after he vacates it.
If this were true il would follow, as strik-
ers assume. that they can throw up job
and resume it at pleasure. and that they
have right TO use force and violence to
prevent any other person from taking it.
But the assumption is ridiculously false.
No workingman makes his job. 1t is made
the product of his labor. and second by the
employer who gives him a chance to work
The people pay the employer. the employer
pays the workingman, and that makes
the Job. 1t belongs 10 anybody who is
willing to work for the wages offered and
WHO IS III IL for the time being. When a
man quits one job for another that pays
better wages. a thing he never hesitates to
do. he doesn't take the old job with him,
nor feel under any obligation TO provide
a successor. He simply abandons IT, So
if he goes on a strike he throws up his job,
and from that moment has no more control
over il.
These are very elementary principles. yet,
ers and strikers who are brought into
court, they are very little understood.
There seems TO be great need for the
coming generation of Americans to be
better instructed in the ethics as well as
the law of personal and property rights
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

There is said to be positive proof against
one Democratic Senator that when he de-
MED under oath that he had speculated in
Sugar Trust stock he committed perjury.
photograph Of an order 10 a certain broker
10 buy Sugar Trust shares. which order
Is signed by the Senator. This Interesting
photograph Is said 10 be in the possession
OF member OF the tariff conference COM
mittee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
Mans Stupidity.

II wonder what that girl is working her
face around to one side all the time for?"
asked the fussy man on the North Indian
apolis car. do you reckon she's got the
toothache?"
Here you have been married fifteen
years, and don't know any more about
girls than that" replied his wife in dis
gust. Don't you see she's got her young
man with her? She's twisting her cheek
that way to make her dimple show
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
PROMPT Action.

Your Royal Highness," said the high
plenipotentiary secretary, IT have the honor
to report that dispatches from our province
of Mbwpka are here with the news that the
natives have risen and are Strengthening the
missionaries"
Now. by my great-grandfathers ghost"
shouted the monarch, this thing must be
stopped at once. First thing we know the
bloody heather will be slaughtering the tax
collectors"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
Spgcc Joke.

She seemed d vision.
q"
Her eyes took on deeper hue.
"thi-'
She moved restlessly.
nix"
1t was plain, even TO those who knew her
least, that her mind working.
TIL"
They hung entranced on her utterances.
at
Still she spake.
''some day
Her fond mother hearkened with suspend
ed breath.
women will lose all fear of mice
Indeed she seemed visionary.
CThe joke in this instance is on the idea
that she seemed vision in the first line
and visionary in the last. Usually the
joke in this style of joke is on the publish
er who buys at space rates a joke of six
barrels and only one load)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

During the grand jury investigation at
Chicago not particle OF evidence was pre-
scented to show that the railroad managers
had in any way violated the law during
the strike or conspired to detain trains.
The charge that they had done the latter
was too silly for belief
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

To return TO the old but pressing issue
does any fair-minded person believe that
wages in this country can be sustained
when the competition with the half-paid
labor OF Europe is from 80 to rs per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

David Bennett Hill, of New York, APP
pears to be about the only Democrat in
Congress who retains an equitable frame
OF mind in the presence of the Demo-
cratic deadlock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21

The waiter girls in the Union Pacific din
ing rooms have struck against an order
requiring them to wear blue serge dresses
reaching just below the knees. If they
would stop to think a moment that cos
tune would afford admirable facilities for
kicking against oppressive orders