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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
THE LATEST TARIFF BILL.

The Chicago platform denounced protec-
ton as "a fraud, a robbery Of the great
majority of the American people for the
benefit of the few" If this is true the
evolution Of the wilson-v German
tariff bill has been a change from bad to
worse. From a free-trade point Of view
It illustrates 9TH Rake's Progress be-
ing a regular and rapid moral decline. The
Wilson bill contained some protection, the
Voorhees, bill a good deal. and the German
bill contains a great deal. But while It
contains a great deal of protection and is
therefore an abandonment of the Chicago
platform 1t is not a protective tariff bill.
1t is simply a log-rolling. patchwork bill,
part free trade. part protection. and de-
void of any ruling principle.
The changes made by the new bill repre-
trusts and to the demands Of the South.
h sugar schedule is wholly new, and
the changes are in the interest Of the
trust. TIL duties which it imposes on
sugar do not take effect till JAM l, 1895,
so that the government will get no revenue
from this source till after that date. and
the trust will have time to purchase all
Of this years crop that It can lay its
hands on and import 1t free of duty. This,
with the domestic supply. will give the
trust a sufficient supply Of raw sugar to
run It's refneries probably for two years
without importing a pound of dutiable
wooden and cotton schedules. the latter
being in the interest of Southern cotton
mills and the former hostile to Northern
WOODEN mills. Experts say that in the en-
tire cotton schedule there is a reduction of
only about 5 per cent. from the Mckinley
bill. The agricultural schedule resembles
that of the Mckinley bill more than that
of the Wilson bill. The Wilson bill put
coal on the free list; the Senate committee
bill imposed a duty Of 40 cents a ton, and
the new bill raises it to so cents a ton.
The iron and steel schedules are re-
modelled on protection lines, and lumber
and wool are left on the free list. The
inconsistencies. and is sure to provoke
violent opposition in both branches of
Nongress
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

no longer bothers transatlantic voyagers.
as there is a company which rents the
chairs for the voyage, with ar agent at all
the piers whence the regular liners depart.
You pay the chair agent a dollar and pre-
sent the receipt TO the deck steward and
he marks a chair with your card.
A plan that will sometimes destroy a
large number of rats is TO ill a barrel
partly full of water and cover il with an
inch or so of meal. A hole is bored in the
barrel a little above the meal and the rats
enter. sink through the meal and find a
watery grave. In catching rats in steel
traps great care is required TO deceive the
rodents. Traps need TO be we'll covered
and everything done to avoid raising the
suspicious of the OFTEN when
rats refuse TO eat poisoned bread and but
ter they may be baited with poisoned
crackers, cheese or meat Rats are shy
and gamy creatures. but IL is possible 10
make game of them"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

1t is always best for a man to keep his
temper. No one else wants it.-Picayune.
1t begins to look as If Clevelandism could
not make Coxeyism a success.-Albany Ex-
press.
The Indians always sing before a fight.
SO do the opera singers.-Yonkers States
man.
Jillson, who is pretty well up on colors.
says 1t is only natural for a man to feel
blue when he hasn't a Courier.
When a man swears TO love, support and
cherish, he does not mean to include her
relations.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Speaking of bereavement, Jones affirms
that of his wife's first husband--Salem Ga
Zette.
A girl measures a man by the hero in a
novel and finds out after marriage she should
lave measured him by her father.-Atchison
Globe.
Every movement of the Coxey armies is
faithfully reported. but we never read a
word about a morning ablution.-Syracuse
Standard.
II is said that Senator Turpie can speak
eight different languages. Billingsgate APP
pears to be his favorite this year.-kansas
City Journal.
Sunday School Teacher-Why did Judas
Iscariot hang himself? TOMMY guess be-
cause he couldn't borry a revolver.-Phila-
delphia Record.
W. C. p. Breckenridge says the newspa-
pers did it all. Not all, Colonel. They did
the biggest part of it; the jury did the rest.
Philadelphia Press.
Letter carriers may be seen collecting let
tiers at midnight, but this doesn't explain
why some late males don't arrive till near
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
THE HARD TIMES AND SOCIAL con-
DITIONS.

-
The workingman, a labor organ pub
lished in this city. discusses the cause of
the prevailing hard times in a very fair
and temperate spirit, though, as the Jour
nal thinks, inconclusively. AS to overpro-
d~uction, which is thought by many to be
a large contributing cause of existing con-
ditions, it is asserted that the whole the
DRY is founded on error" because there
certainly can be no surplus when any one
has not enough to supply his wants" Yet
1t is admitted that 1.-The farmers of the
country have In overproduction Of farm
products at present" and that there are
manufacturers of boots and shoes and
clothes In the East who have more Of
their productions than they care to have
on hand" in consequence of which their
factories are shut down and their en-
ployes are going hungry and ragged. These
admissions do not consist with the asser-
ton that "the whole theory of overpro-
duction is founded on error" Yet the
workingman says in reality there is no
overproduction. for 'if the farmer could
sell his products to the hungry he could
purchase the output of the manufacturer;
the manufacturer could run bis establish
ment on full time. thus giving employment
to those who are idle-and then there
would be no 'overproduction.'" That is
true, but the fatal '1f' stands in the way.
1t is because there are not enough per-
sons able to buy the farmers products
that he is not able to buy those of the
manufacturer, and this condition makes
overproduction all around. After all is
said, however, 1t comes pretty near be-
ing a bubble on words. In a sense there
is no overproduction as long as the wants
OF everybody are not supplied. and yet IL
a great many persons have not the means
with which to supply their wants there is.
TO that extent, overproduction. The man
with unsupplied wants and without money
or work cannot see the matter in the same
light as he whose means are tied up In
manufactured products which he cannot
sell. The way to enable people to supply
their wants is to give them work and
wages, and this can only be when men who
are able to pay wages have confidence
enough in the future to be willing to risk
their means in manufacturing or other
enterprises.
The labor organ thinks the real cause of
the prevailing hard times is the unequal
of distribution it says that is the
cause of all the trouble. 1t was
never intended that one class of people
should have enough and to spare. while
another class were going hungry and
cold" If it was never intended it has
always been. and the high commercial con-
ditions of modern times seem TO make IL
a more inevitable condition than ever.
The Journal would rejoice TO see a more
equal distribution of wealth, a wider diff
fusion of comfort, and the entire abolition
of poverty. but how are these results TO
be accomplished? There have been ex-
tremes of wealth and poverty in all ages.
and they exist to-day In all civilized coun-
tries. The great middle class of neither
rich nor poor Is relatively larger in the
United States than in any other country.
] and yet the contrast between the ex
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

States has grown so serious that health Off
GERS from Wisconsin. Michigan. Ohio, I'LL
nois and Indiana viii meet In that city
to-day to consider IT. There are more than
twenty cases in three counties OF this
State, all traceable 70 Chicago. and the
priety Of establishing a quarantine against
the city by the lake. This would involve
considerable inconvenience to the travelling
public and should only be ordered upon
clear proof OF necessity; yet. IL the neces-
sity. exists, the authorities should not hesi-
tate to issue the order. Chicago is now
reaping the reward of the incompetence
or negligence of its health officers for
months past.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
PRIZE FOR A DRESS.
Women RefOrmers Want a Suitable
Garment for Girl Students.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. May S.-Marriage
and divorce and dress reform were the sub
jects hat occupied most of the Aime of the
executive board of the National Council of
Women of the United States at the Con-
tinental to-day. The council resolved that
the first step toward elevating the home Is
to put man and woman as memaKers in
a position of legal equality. 1t passed an
other resolution thanking Judge Jere Will
son for his just advocacy of the rights of
women under the law and In the professions
in his recent public plea before the court
of the national capital. The council then
decided to offer a prize for a design Of a
suitable student girls dress. one suitable
for all college work and exercise. They
adopted the following as the requisites for
such a dress: First, no Interference with
the free and natural action of the organs
and limbs of the body; second, no contrac-
ton of the natural womanly outlines; third,
simplicity OF construction and ease of ad-
justment TO the wearer; fourth, adaptation
10 a variety OF materials and TO changes
in temperature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
Asphalt Pavement. and Dust.

There Is no rose without a thorn, saws
the homely adage. This seems to be true
OF modern discoveries and inventions. Nat
ural gas has it's explosions, electricity its
deadly wires, and asphalt pavements their
dust. The pavement Is the rose and the
dust is the thorn. In some respects asphalt
makes an ideal pavement, and if the dust
problem could be solved 1t would be wholly
so, provided always that it be well con-
structed of the best materials and hon
estly laid.
A few years experience with asphalt
has shown that the chief objection to it is
the difficulty Of keeping 1T clean. Being
hard, smooth and impervious it facilitates
the accumulation of dirt and TO other
sources contributes a fine, gritty dust of it's
own. Unless the pavement be kept per-
fectly clean the slightest breeze will raise
a cloud of dust, and where street cars run
there is a continual cloud of dust without
any breeze. The rapid motion of the cars
Is followed by a swirl of dust and with
the cars passing and repassing every few
minutes the dust never subsidies. There
are but two remedies; one is to keep the
pavements absolutely clean, the other is to
sprinkle them. Absolute cleanliness cannot
be obtained by scraping, such as is now
uone III thlS city. lnat removes most OF
the dirt. but does not at all affect the dust.
Our asphalt streets are never really clean
and free from dust except for a few hours
after a heavy rain. The same is found
true in other cities. In Philadelphia. where
they are having the same experience, the
Press says: 1.-THE coarse brooms used on
the streets remove the grosser forms of
dirt. but the dust slips through their mesh
es. 1t is only after.a hard rain or a lib
eral use of the hose that a city street is
ever really clean" Machine sweeping does
not furnish much relief. TIL choice seems
TO be between hand sweeping and sprink-
ling, with the weight of argument and
cleanliness in favor Of the former. Prop
erty owners who have been required to
pay for asphalt pavements are entitled to
insist on relief from the dust nuisance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DR.. r. B. Morrison tells the American
Dermatological Society that after long trial
OF electricity for removal of superfiuous
hair, he has concluded to give II UP.
The inventory of the estate Of Edwin
Booth, filed with the surrogate, shows the
dead actors personal property to amount
to $6O2,6l5, mostly in bonds and mortgages.
"They are doing some good by making
women think, even though they only think
they think is the comment of Miss Kate
Field on the suffrage agitation in New
York.
1t appears from the just published COM
plete works of Abraham Lincoln that this
greatest statesman among our later Presi-
dents was in favor of women voting on
equality with men.
The commencement exercises of the Tus-
kegee (Ala) Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute, will take place on the 31st of Nav.
Hon. G. w. Murray, the only colored mem
Der of Congress-. is to deliver the annual
address.
In Australia women are generally en-
ployed as railway station agents. In many
Of the small stations a woman is in sole
control. being ticket seller. telegraph oper-
atOr and baggage mistress. They receive
about 80 cents a day.
Arthur Percy Fit is to marry the only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight L.
Moody on May 16. Mr.. Fit is a Dublin
University man. having graduated with
high honors. He came to America a little
over a year ago as Mr.. Moody's private
secretary.
Austin X. Jones has rung the college bell
at Harvard for forty years. One morning
recently he dlscovered that a prankish stu
dent had stolen the ciapper Of the bell. 1t
did not bother him In the least. He went
out, got a blacksmith's hammer and made
noise enough to arouse the community.
Miss Harriet Monroe. OF Chicago. is in
New York, in the interests Of her suit for
$4,000 damages against the New York
World. which paper. IL is claimed. printed
her columbian Ode" a copyrighted poem,
without permission. The case comes up be-
fore the courts about the middle OF this
month.
The little annoyance OF having to store
ones steamer chair while ashore in Europe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

A Philadelphia man on a bicycle, care
less of his route, allowed himself to be run
down by a trolley car and mangled, and
now the papers are loud in their warnings
to wheelmen to keep from being run over.
On the other hand. a Detroit paper an
nounces another boy run down and badly
injured by a bicycle and asks fiercely:
Are we to have a new juggernaut in De-
troit? Are not butcher carts, street cars
and railroad engines enoughg' The poor,
prosecuted bicyclist has been driven from
the sidewalks. now his absence from the
street seems TO be desired, and next the
only thing left him will be to get off the
aartb
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

To read some Of the Journals exchanges
one might assume that the Republican ma
tional convention was coming of next
month, and that all the prominent men in
the party were devoting themselves to a
canvass for their favorites. The interview
er who is so ignorant Of newspaper work
as to assume that bad manners are the
chief qualifications pounces Upon promi-
nent citizens who are assumed to be as
pirants for the nomination and hurls at
them all sorts of questions which impu-
dence rather than brains can suggest. The
friends of such prominent citizens are fol-
lowed to their private rooms and asked if
they are in town to assist in setting up
this or that boom The imaginative ed
itor notes the arrival of prominent men
and at once writes an editorial based upon
the assumption that they can have no
earthly reason for being ava from home
except to set up the machinery which will
be used to nominate this or that prom
inent Republican. Last week a contempo-
rary noted the change Of two newspaper
properties, involving in the aggregate more
than three-quarters of a million dollars.
and then proceeded to assume that that
had been done solely in the interest of a
presidential candidate. 1t never occurred
to that editor thai money is not put into
newspaper properties to make presidential
candidates; that all the Republicans spoken
of as candidates could not raise
half the money required to pur-
chase the two newspapers If their
last dollar could be utilized, or that no
Republicans have hundreds of thousands
of dollars to put into newspapers simply
to nave their influence before convention
for a candidate. Men who purchase news
papers nowadays do it for the same rea-
son that they build factories or manage
mercantile affairs-to make a living and to
make money. Long ago intelligent men in
politics learned that a paper which has
not enough patronage to warrant. its ex-
istence is not worth buying. for the polit-
ical influence it may have.
Il ID we'll tHOuSH " COlSliCI H qucSllOu
Of candidacy for 1896 as an event. but 1t is
too early for men to wildly excite them
selves ever the matter. For one, the Jour
nal heartily wishes that all the problems
which press upon the American people
could be settled as easily and as satisfac-
torily as the Republican candidacy for Pres
ident. That candidate, whoever he may be.
will be a man who will have the confidence
of the country. a man of high character.
and who has given evidence of possessing
those qualities which the high office de-
mands. He will be a man who will receive
the hearty support of many more men than
call themselves Republicans. and will re-
ceive a much larger popular vote than any
| presidential candidate has hitherto received.
and will be elected. At least, the matter
of the candidacy can be postponed until
after the November elections, unless one
must turn himself to unnecessary and I'M
profitable labor.
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recognized the promise of the new writer
and. after his kindly fashion, showed his
appreciation and offered him encourage
ment and friendly criticism. Mr.. Riley,
grateful for this recognition and aid, adj
dressed to his friend the verses given be-
low, and which were printed at the time
in George Harding's Herald. That the
friendship still exists is proved by the POI
cts public appearance tonight at the
Paine benefit. and makes a reproduction
of the tribute timely.
Old friend Of mine. whose Ginning name
Has been the burthen of a rhyme
Within my heart since first / came
To know thee in thy mellow prime:
With warm emotions in my breast
That can but coldly be expressed.
And hopes and wishes wild and vain.
l reach my hand to thee. Dan Paine.
In fancy, as 1 sit alone
In gloomy fellowship with Care.
1 hear again thy CHEEKY tone,
And wheel for thee an easy chair.
And from my hand the pencil falls
My book upon the carpet sprawls.
As eager soul and heart and brain
Leap up to welcome thee. Dan Paine.
A something gentle in thy mien.
A something tender in thy voice,
Has made my troubles so serene,
1 can but weep, from very choice:
And even then my tears, 1 guess,
Hold more Of sweet than bitterness,
And more of cleaning shine than rain,
Because of thy bright smile, Dan Paine.
The wrinkles that the years have spun
And tangled round thy tawny face,
Are kinked with laughter. every one,
And fashioned in a mirthful grace.
And though the twinkle of thine eyes
is keen as frost when summer dies,
1t cannot long as frost remain
While thy warm soul shines out, Dan
Paine.
And so l drain a health to thee
May merry Joy and jolly Mirth
Like children Chamber on thy knee
And ride thee round the happy earth!
And when at last the hand of Fate
Shall lift the latch of Canaan's gate
And usher me in thy domain,
Smile on me just as now, Dan Paine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

Just as soon as the street-railway COM
pany understands that it's best upholstered
and silver-mounted cars must be put on
Pennsylvania street and run on a two
minute schedule, and when the Board of
Public Works realizes that its life depends
upon having that same thoroughfare prop
erly swept and busted every morning be-
fore breakfast-then, and not till then. will
the editor Of the Evening Coupon be able
to resume regulation of the affairs of the
1DtxrarSa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

Years ago bacon and cotton brought the
same price, that is. the ratio of bacon to
cotton was that Of / to l. Last summer
ratio of 2 III TO /. Mr.. o e. Davis, who
writes these facts to the Galveston News.
demands that Congress shall pass laws
which will restore the old ratio between
cotton and bacon OF l TO i. II Congress
can restore the value of silver bullion so
that the silver dollar of the ratio of 16
to / shall be equal in price TO the gold dol
lar, why can it not restore the bacon-cotton
.otfo9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

Michael Schwab, the Chicago Anarchist,
delivered a speech at a Socialist gathering
In Milwaukee a few days ago. in the
course of which he said: 1.-THE policeman's
club is the most enlightening factor / know
OF. Whoever receives one blow from 1t is
cured forever of his Illusions This shows
there Is still some hope for Schwab. A
man who recognizes the meliorating infiu-
. ence OF a policeman's club is not entirely
beyond the hope Of reformation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
Ancient Order of Hfbernfaus.

OMAHA, Neb.. Nav S.-The national con-
vention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
convene here to-day, with four hundred
delegates in attendance. The delegates
marched in a body to St. Johns Collegiate
Church. w.tre soler. high mass was cole
brated and Bishop Scanned delivered a ser
mon. The delegates then returned TO Mo-
rand's Hall, where the convention proper
was opened, with national delegate Wilhere
presiding. The Pennsylvania delegation de-
cided TO support national delegate Wilhere
for reelection. and the prospects are that
he will be chosen unanimously as the chief
officer of the convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
Monument to Booth Dedicated.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May S.-The memo
rial monument at the grave OF Ed win Booth
at Mount Auburn was dedicated this after
noon with impressive ceremonies. Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale, D. D., made an address.
in which he brought forward the beautiful
simplicity and generosity OF the dead
tragedians nature. Those present were Ed
wilma Booth Grossman, daughter of the de-
ceased; Joseph Jefferson, Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe and Mrs. ole Bull. The monument
is a massive affair in form of a monolith,
and upon its face is a has relief in bronze.
which represents Booth in the prime OF life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09

DENVER, Col, May S.-Judge Bentley
to-day granted the motion OF Bishop MATHS
attorneys TO throw out Of court the suit
against Rev. T. H. Malone to recover an
alleged shortage, on the ground that IL had
not been authorized by a majority of the
trustees, but the Judge decided that there
was no COLLISION, and put the costs on the
corporation. Another suit will be instituted
at once by the congregation OF st. Joseph's
Church. Archbishop Chapelle will come to
Denver May q to examine Father Malone's
acts, but an appeal will be taken to Mgr.
Satolli direct from the accommodation
of Father Malone and the members of his
church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
Citi.ens' Ticket WON at AIbany.

ALBANY. Ind. May s-The election for
town officers Was held here yesterday. Two
Democratic town trustees and one Repub-
lican on the Citizens " ticket were elected.
Tn clerk and treasurer ran on both tick
cts and were elected. The board OF trus-
tees Will stand one Republican, one "citi-
zen" Republican and two Democrats.
Dissatisfaction because the Republicans
renominated the OLD board was the cause
of the split among the Republicans. 1t was
a citizens victory, but Democrats are CALI
ing IL a Democratic victory.