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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

A correspondent in Fountain City writes
the Journal the following and asks for in
formation:
The stock in trade. with the Populists in
is the decentralization of silver in 1873. They
claimed that it lessened the debt-paying
caracity by one-half of the government as
well as every citizen who was a debtor in
any form at the time In ether words.
they claim If a man was in debt $1,000 the
pelling him 10 pay 2.O0O to extinguish the
debt because of the shrinkage in values of
silver and farm products Is this true?
1t is not true. and the claim is not new.
when the Populists were demanding the
issue of fiat money and fighting specie re-
sumption they made the same statements,
but have never been able to do more than
assert. which, with people who cannot I'M
derstand the force of reasoning, takes the
place of argument.
Flrst-In 1873, when the coinage act was
revised. dropping the standard silver dol
lar few had been coined during the pre-
ceding twelve years. and these only for
foreign use. From the date OF the establish
ment of our minis until the passage Of the
Allison,Bland act in 1878. only s,O12. S3S stand
ard silver dollars had been coined, and
about 16S5O0.OOO of minor silver coins That
is, until 1873 only about STAG, 100000 of silver
OF all kinds had been coined in eighty
years. On the other hand, from 1878 to 1901,
All, 10000 standard silver dollars were coined
and about s4s.OOO.OOO OF minor silver coins
That is, in the eighty years before silver
coinage was limited. Sl55,00O.O00 of silver
money was coined, and during the period
$4e0 10000 of silver was coined. exclusive Of
trade dollars.
Second-At the time of the so-caled de
monetization of silver, not silver dollar
was in circulation in this country and had
not been an element in the currency for
thirty years. In fact the silver dollar for
many years had been regarded as curios-
ity TO be boarded. Moreover. at the date
of the passage of the decentralization act
the metal in a silver dollar was worth
more than the gold dollar. and silver dol
lars had commanded a premium OF from l
TO per cent. nearly every year since 1854
In other words, silver never constituted
any considerable part of the legal tender
money OF the United States until after the
act of 1878. Again. the act OF 1873 was
passed before the resumption act. nearly
six years prior TO the return to specie pay
ment. and at a time when the greenback
dollar was worth but IS cents in geld and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
Lettern from the Fnr Enst.

On Sunday the Journal Will publish the
hrst Of a series of letters from the we'll
known correspondent Frank G.. Carpenter,
describing his journeyings in Japan, China,
Corea and other Asiatic countries. Much
has been written about these countries by
tourists following the beaten track of
travel, which affords but superficial view
OF the real life. customs and character OF
the people. Mr.. Carpenter, as indicated in
his first letter, purposes to go far beyond
the ordinary lines of travel which for the
most part include only a few seaport cities.
and to penetrate the interior and to visit
places which are practically unknown to
the outside world Among other matters
of interest he will make study Of the In
dustrial conditions and prospects-a subject
of especial Importance to Americans since
the Chinese are beginning 10 enter various
lines Of manufacturing which will bring
them into direct competition with our own.
Mr. Carpenter Is especially qualified for
these Investigations. This will be his sec
ond visit to these regions; he knows what
he wants to see and how to see It; he is
remarkably observant, and, above all, has
the happy faculty of telling what the pub
lie cares most to know about foreign coun-
tries, and OF telling IL in graphic style. His
letters. which the Journal considers itself
fortunate In having secured, will be far
more interesting and instructive than the
correspondence OF the average sightseer
whose so-called facts are apt to be the re-
suit OF hasty impressions and inaccurate
hearsay. The opening letter outlines his
tour and is key to his plans, and should
be read by all.
The series will appear In successive issues
Of the Sunday Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
A KANSAS CALAMITY BOWLER.

Kansas Is likely to pay dearly for her
Populist administration of the State gov
eminent In addition to Governor Level
lng's pranks, which have injured the State
materially In prestige, besides costing con-
siderable money, the State Labor Com
on the farming interests of the State which
is sure to have very injurious results For
years past tho people, press and pulpit
of Kansas have been trying to convince
the rest of the world that 1t is the great
est agricultural State in the Union, a land
that perennially flows with milk and hon
Labor Commissioner and, in a voluminous
compilation of alleged facts and figures,
tries TO prove that farming In Kansas
does not pay. that the farmers are starry
cerned, agriculture is played out" He
says: 1T is notorious fact that, except
in 1888 and 1890, and in a few localities of
the State I'm 1891, wheat has been produced
at a loss III hanSaS lot the last ten years.
Again he says: From this department
were sent out 1913 letters to as many diff
ferent farmers in the State asking among
other things. this question: Taken as a
whole, does farming pay? Why? To this
query 1922 of the 1923 townships in the
State responded. 1t will be interesting to
curious people to know that Of that num-
Der l251 answered emphatcally no. while
the forty-one who answered yes quail
fed the statement with one or more ad-
jectives, the universal testimony being
that farming does not pay because of low
and continually declining prices" This is
fallacious and misleading 1t may be true
that farming in Kansas does not pay In
the sense of enabling farmers to lay up
money and carry big bank accounts, but
if they are making a living, supporting
their families and gradually adding bet
ternents to their farms they are doing as
well as most business men. In that sense
farming does pay. If 1t did not Kan
sas, which is almost exclusively agri-
cultural State would have been growing
poorer for the last twenty years instead
Of richer 1t will take the people, the pull
pit. the press and the immigration agents
of Kansas a good while to counteract the
effects of this mischievous report of a
Do1,,Iict T obo, Copo,,icciopor
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Edward Atkinson, the Boston statistician,
has been working over the census statistics
relative to mortgages, and as the result
shows that the real estate mortgage in
debtedness of twelve counties in New York
and New Jersey. in which are situated the
chief cities Of that section, aggregate 81
2SO.C0O,O00 which is 2125 per cent. of the en-
tire mortgage debt of the country and 81
per cent. Of the aggregate of mortgage in
debtedness in what is called the West. He
further shows that the farmers of the great
creditors more than debtors even in respect
to their money obligations. All of which
is bad for the demagogues who prate about
the money power.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

The placing Of the name of Col. /. n.
Walker, of this city, before the delegates
of the next National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic for the posi-
ton of commander-in-chief was the spon-
taneous action of the delegates to the State
Encampment last week. He Is not a candi-
date for the position in his own name.
but is the candidate of the Department of
Indiana Not only is the delegation of
twenty-six members pledged to work for
his election, but a special committee has
been selected to press the matter. Since
the action of the Lafayette encampment
a prominent member of the Grand Army
in New England has voluntarily pledged
himself to the friends of Colonel Walker,
and yesterday the Kentucky Encampment
unanimously instructed its delegation TO
vote for the Indiana candidate. The
lutions prepared by Colonel Walker for
the last National Encampment on the sub
ject of pensions have brought his name
prominently before the Grand Army all
over the country. Indiana has never had
a candidate for the first place, and for that
reason it's Grand Army believes, now that
it presents a man admirably qualified for
the position. its claim should be recognized.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Herod's daughter was the first woman
to get a head of man.-Florida Times
This is good growing weather for Repub-
lican misunderstanding Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
1t looks as though the lost month of
March had turned up at last-PhiladelDhia
Record.
angels it is only necessary to plead guilty
Galveston News
Toll. feel, think hope: you will be sure
to dream enough before you die, without
arranging for 1T. Sterlin.
This kind of weather still continues TO
play thunder with spring poets and early
Standardization Press.
Senator Murphy says the tariff question
NAV not be settled before November next.
Why this hurry?-Washington Post
He-You're the first girl 1 ever loved.
She (charitably)-And yet l suppose they
all thought they were still girls.-Puck.
OF course the Republican Senators are
blocking the passage of the Wilson bill"
Traveller.
H-And what would you do If 1 kissed
you? She with dignty)-Fd caIl mamma.
(After a pause) But mammals out this
evening.-Life.
Man dn theater to woman in 'front.'
Madam, 1 paid $3.50 for this seat. and
YOUR hat Woman (calmly)-That hat
cost $40-Boston Courier.
A Southern paper says 1.-The X. K. K. of
the North is Koxey's Kommonweal
Kranks' This is unjust Most Of them
are Js.-Chicago Tribune.
April with its winds and squalls
seems determined to spite the woman who
has been dying TO wear her new bonnet
to church.-Phladelphia Press.
The bitter. burning sarcasm of circum-
stances comes up in selling gas by the
on the square.-Philadelphia Times.
MANY a man who doesn't swear in the
ordinary manner relieves his feelings and
conveys the idea just we'll by the way
IN which he throws his hat on the floor
If supper isn't ready when he goes home.
-ChicagO Tribune.
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people for having brought about the desira-
Roby matter. he has shown that, without
any special legislation or extraordinary
powers beyond those conferred on him By
the Constitution. the chief executive OF the
up the local administration of justice and
securing the enforcement of law. All that
was needed at any time to put a stop to
White Cap outrages was the prosecution
and conviction of few prominent Offenders,
and that has been done for the first time
during Governor Matthewss adInin,stra-
ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

an important criminal case upon its merits
is prevented by the raising of technicalities
which simply prevent the bringing out of
the truth. There has been far too much
of that sort of thing in American courts, and
IL has done much towards bringing the
administration of justice into contempt
and undermining popular respect for the
courts. What the people have right to
demand in this and every other criminal
prosecution is that justice be done, and that
cannot be done by shutting off investiga-
ton. In his evident determination to lift
his court above the atmosphere of mere
technicalities Judge Baker has set an ex-
ample worthy of imitation by the judges
of all other courts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

Whatever may be the outcome of the
case now on trial in the federal court in
this city the community and the cause of
evident purpose of the judge to try the
case, In the full and obvious meaning OF
the words. The law holds every man in
nocent until he is proven guilty, but it
was never intended TO be used as barring
the way to the proof of guilt by the inter
position of mere technicalities. The cause
of Justice is not served when the trial OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

recent statement in the Journal to the
effect that Mr.. George f. Parker. editor
of the writings and speeches of Grover
Cleveland, dying with quick consump
ton is said by Mr. G. w. f. Kirk, of Shell
byville, Ind, to be Incorrect Mr.. Kirk
writes that Mr. Parker. who is his nephew,
and is known to many people in Indiana,
is in the best Of health. The Journal cheer
fully makes the. correction, and congratu-
lates the young editor on his physical
vigor. Perhaps the rumOr grew out Of the
quick political decline of Mr.. Cleveland and
his party, and the natural supposition that
all persons closely connected with either
must be sick unto death also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
Lincoln,s Misplaced CIemency.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
w. c. p. Breckinridge came near being
hanged as a spy during the war and was
saved only by the clemency OF President
Lincoln. The Kentucky COngressman's
worst enemy would be ashamed Of any
feeling of regret that events were not al
lowed TO take their course. but how very
much better from every point OF view, IL
would have been for Breckenridge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
Nothing Can Hurt Them Now.

WaShlngton Post.
Ex-Speaker Reed, Of Maine. was asked
what he, as a Republican, thought OF the
possibility of early adjournment, and
If in his judgment ii would occur by the
10Th of June.
II think" said Mr.. Reed, speaking with
his usual elaboration. that IL will be
much later"
How much later?
Il can't say, but considerably later"
MIR. Holman says If Congress is in ses-
sion after the 18th of June IL will be fatal
to Democratic prospects next autumn.
Il don't think" said Mr.. Reed, with a
humorous twinkle of the eye, that any
thing the Democrats can do will damage
their prospects worse than they are at
present"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
Best They Could Do.

Once there was a soldier man who kept
beer saloon
And he had a wooden leg
Now, the coppers came i'm on him after y
o'clock at night,
Intending then TO pull him. cause he'd
done what wasn't right.
And he left his limb behind him, as he
hoped clear out OF sight
So they merely pulled his leg
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
THE INDIANA PRESS.

Colonel Ingersoll makes $4,000 a year
from his lectures. He knows why ne thinks
Moses was mistaken. - Tcrre HaCte EX-
press.
Cleveland has just about smashed the
Democratic party. He will complete the
job before his term is over.-South Bend
Tribune.
IL the times under Harrison were not
prosperous why did the farmers hold their
wheat when they could have sold II at So
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
Populist Labor Commissioner.

The Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew, who
pany with other prominent railroad men
on an inspection trip. did little political
talking while in Cincinnati He began by
saying to a reporter that when Mr.. Cleve-
land goes out of office there will not be
another Democratic President for gener-
alton to come. This idea and prediction he
amplified as follows:
Let me go back a little and explain why
l make such a broad statement. For thirty
two years the United States lived under one
of d The e9u baG n was
ty. New States were admitted into the
Union. and gathered strength and infiu-
Democratic party. 1t said to the people,
You are living In the midst of plenty you
have all you want; you are in heaven,
now vote for Us, and then will come the
millennium, and then the conditions will
never change, and as long as you live you
will have no trouble. Trust US, and We will
happened that the people, replete with good
things, grew Disseminated, and then
thought a change might bring on the mil
lennium, and they voted the Democratic
ticket Now, they have suffered themselves
to be decoyed out Of the Garden of Eden,
and. instead Of the millennium, they find
that they are hopelessly involved in in
dustrial anarchy. Trade is FRUSTRATED and
factories shut. Furnaces are out, and gen.
eral depression Is on every hand. 1t was
all brought about by Democratic inability
to rule The Democratic party has it's
President it's Senate and it's House of Rep
resentatives but il cannot move. 1t is
afraid to carry out the promises ii made,
and thus the country suffers. The result
Is that the Democratic party is annihilated
for the generation 1 speak of. When the
first gun was fired on Fort Sumter II had
the effect of annihilating the Northern
wing of the Democratic party. The firing
of that gun brought on the rebellion.
There was the Douglas and Breckenridge
wings of Democracy then, and they stood
opposed. The attack on Fort Sumter an
initiated Douglass followers and then 1t
was the North and the South arrayed
against each other. To-day we see no re-
tellion in sight. but there is one, it Is the
Nation against the Democratic party, and
the unanimity and concerted action taken
by the Nation at each election that comes
along proves what | say, that the Nation
is bent on annhilating the party in power,
and it will do il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
THE BRECKINRIDGE CASE.
It's Central Theme the same that New
and Popular Novels Are BASED ON.

It's tentrni Theme the Same that New
and Popular Novels Are Based ON.
Kate Fields Paper.
There is strong tendency TO lament
the undoubted popular interest in GER
tam celebrated case now drawing Z. its
Close. Even the presiding judge has added
MS voice 10 the general wall and has given
the public 10 understand what ne thinks
or IL for crowding the court room and fol-
the trial. This wholesale denuncistion
seems out of place TO me- since IN has been
evident from the first that this interest IS
or two sorts. There is, OF course, much
more vulgar curiosity-the same impulse
which drives people of inferior moral per-
ceDtions to crowd the theater where a
questionable play is produced or 10 buy
the book that has been shut out from the
mails. This sort of moral poverty is al
only cause of il were found In detailed ac-
counts of court proceedings. But besides
this there is the legitimate interest which
arises from the fact that this suit against
the Kentucky Repres entative is also a trial
Of many principles Of our conventional
morality. Questions which have been brisk
ly argued by the novelist. the sociologist
and the reformer are here reduced 10 the
''Tne second Mrs. Tanqueray'' draws full
houses, and two nations grow hysterical
over The Heavenly Twins" II is useless
to protest that people should take no in
terest in a case from real life which in
cludes the points at issue in both play and
novel, and which has, moreover. for its
central figure ran well known all over
the country. Look for moment at the
questions directly and indirectly. raised by
this case. Why should society discriminate
between the man who has sinned and the
woman who has sinned with him? II IL il
possible for a good woman TO marry
man who is not good. why is II impossible
Tor woman who is not good 10 marry
man who is at least as culp3ble morally
as herself? When a man makes this dis
tinction between the sort of woman who
can be married and the sort of woman who
Is not TO be married. Is he iustifiable I'M
der any circumstances in permitting MEM
berS or the two classes to associate-to say
nothing of lending his direct sanction TO
their meeting? What Is the duty OF So
ciety to a who makes these distinc-
lions yet Who does not carry them to the
logical end2 And when a man of more
than average ability cannot protect him.
self from an adventures, to what extent
can the courts be relied upon TO help
him ont of the trOuble2
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Reversing Greshnm's Decisions.

Washington Special to Chicago Record.
The Supreme Court OF the United States,
on Monday last, reversed two more OF the
decisions made by Secretary Gresham while
he was presiding over the Seventh circuit
custom-house case and the other suit
brought by the North Chicago Rolling-mill
Company against the st. Louis Ore and
Steel Company. This makes eight OF Secre-
tary Gresham's cases that have been re-
versed during the present term, and IL is
clean record, not one Of his decisions hav-
ing been affirmed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

Leading cuckoos in the Senate begin to
admit that the Wilson tariff bill may fail
to pass. Senator Voorhees, says THE bill
may be defeated. and it will not surprise
me If it is. but those Democrats who do II
will dig their political graves so deep they
will never be found on resurrection morn,
no matter how loud the trumpet may
sound That sounds very VoorheeSian.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

For once its dsadbeat march was checked;
Tor once Its leaders were made reflect that
What we need to reform this realm Is TO
put Annie Clabaughs at the helm
over that toll gate rose and fell on the
biisk spring winds that loved IL well An
MES laughter. heard in heaven. as she
counted her tolls-one sixty-seven. Honor
10 her, and let tear for her sake fall on
COXpN'S ear
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JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY.


Can be found at the following places
&c Capucines-
NEW YOEK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHIIApELPHIA-A.P p. Kemble. 3735 Lancaster
avenue.
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House.
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Thompson's DiscreditabIe speech.

IOUlSVlIIe COur1er-JOurnaI.
We know Of no speech made under cir.
cumstances of such publicity that is in so
many respects discreditable. That Colonel
Thompson chose TO give il a tone which
could have hardly been lower and 10 put
IL i'm words which could have scarcely been
coarser are matters within the purview OF
his own taste. But that he chose 10 bare Ii
a conception of morals and philosophy
vicious it is false is not only a legit-
innate, but an imperative subject for public
condemnation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
A Libeler of American Manhood.

If this libeler of American manhood (Col.
Phil Thompson) had stGt,ied to convict his
own client he could not have devised a
surer plan, for even If the members of the
jury were all OF the same low order as the
two Kentucky colonies IL is not likely they
would publicly proclaim their shame after
this appeal by acquitting the defendant. As
il is 70 be presumed they are not men OF
that kind they will now be likely to bring
in a swinging verdict for the plaintiff, even
if they have no respect for her or her meth
ode
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13

The claim of the New York Herald that
it is the income feature of the Democratic
tariff bill which gave every New Jersey
city to the Republicans on Tuesday shows
how absurd a bigoted free-trader can ap-
spoke on Tuesday in New Jersey, and they
declared against the Wilson bill as whole.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
Lesson of the breckenridge Case.

The great didactic value Of a case OF this
sort Is that IL indicates the supremacy OF
the Decalogue a guide to conduct Re-
Spectability Is neat and convenient little
idol, and honor is the finest flower of civil
lied sentiment; but when a man tries 70 be
respectable and honorable without observ-
ing the fundamental requirements OF the
moral law he is pretty sure TO get into
trouble. The skillful sophistries which are
so effectual to convince ones self that the
primrose path is really parallel with the
all when submitted to the general public
or the recording angel