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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
/. What articles and what is the value
sold TO South America since the Mckinley
law? .. Do we sell agricultural tools cheap
er abroad than in this country? 3. What
per cent. OF our wheat ana corn do we sell
to other nations? 4. Was the balance Of
trade against US the last year? j. a. G..
/. Breadstuffs, all kinds Of provisions,
canned goods, all solts o., oils, cotton goods,
clothing, all sorts of iron ware, agricultural
utensils, machinery, boots and s~hoes-about
everything we manufacture. About $780,
0O during the fiscal year 1892. 2. That Is a
question which has been answered in the
Journal five hundred times in the last four
years. All of the chief dealers and manu-
facturers in the country have declared time
and again that they do not, yet certain
Democratic demagogues and organs insist
that they do, quote bogus figures to prove
il. the ''cuckoos'' Of these d~emagogues and
organs repeat the lies, and il seems that
some Republicans have not learned any bet
ter than 10 believe the Democratic echoes
about grocery stores and ether places where
opinions are exchanged and Democratic lies
dispensed. When that assertion is made
now. ridicule Is the best answer. NJ man
should permit his intelligence TO be insulted.
8. The statistics OF the year 1892 show that
225. 6G5. $40 OF Gil. 10000 bushels of wheat
raised were e~xported-the largest export oil
record. In 1891 ii was los. co., 900 bushels of
800, eco, OO0; in 1890. 100, 100000 OF 4sO.5j0.GO0; in
1889, IS, 500, 900 of AIS. 5000 bushels. The large
export OF 1892 was due Co a short crop the
world over. In 1892 &c. COZ. 2S5 bushels of corn
vess exported Of a crop of 2.06o. $4,000: In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
The Hawaiian boomerang.


Two small boys were CURLING one an
erang?' IVY, don't yer known replied
the other; its a thing wot yer throws at
'nuther Teller an 1t comes back and hits
yer and kills yer" We fancy that MIR.
this definition, if put strictly into diplomatic
language. The Hawaiian boomerang has
come back. and has badly disiigured the
throwers, If it has not actually killed them
The Hawaiian episode has greatly wfdened
the breach already existing between the
he is the nominal head. A few of the &C
knowledged organs of the administrator
are still attempting TO justify the almost
unexplainable course of the President, and
treating the whole affair as a huge joke.
As a Nation we have been Inundated by
the fact that the executive of one of the
most insignificant of foreign powers has
been Justified by the people of America in
sending TO the President Of this great Re
public a letter which can hardly fail to
bring ridicule upon the diplomacy of this
Nation, and make it's foreign policy the
laughing stock Of the world. For this mis-
fortune neither the people nor their rep
reSentativeS in Congress are responsible.
The people have already indicated them
selves and their representatives Will be
forced to do SO or feel the blow Of the
boomerang.
1t is a pleasure to note that Southern
Democrats are, in a great measure, OPP
posed to the policy of the President This
may teach some people what well-posted
men have known for years, /. e., that no
warmer loyalty TO the principles of broad
Americanism, no greater love and rever-
enc for Old Glory exists to-day In any
part of the Republic than in the States of
the Southland. The fact is significant, and
should be recognized by the loyal men of
the North and West.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

sands of patriotic Democrats throughout
the country have the utmost contempt for
it If the question of restoring the mon
archy were submitted to a vote Of the
American people, 1t is probable that nine
tenths Of them would vote against II. thus
in effect condemning the administration
policy. And yet neither party, as a party,
has taken any ground on the question.
A better reason than this why no charge
can be brought against Republicans or
Democrats OF inconsistency on the Ha-
waiian question because OF their attitude
towards the colored people in this country
is that there is not the remotest connec-
ton between the two questions. There is
no more connection between the colored
people of this country and those of Hawaii
than there is between our native Indians
and the Chinese. The race question, as it
exists in this country, is sui generis, and
has no connection with like questions in
any other part of the world. 1t owes its
existence here to the former prevalence Of
slavery and the attitude of the Democratic
party on the suffrage question, and is, there
fore, distinctively an American question.
The attempt to connect 1t in any manner
with the situation in Hawaii is irrelevant
and absurd. There is no color question in
Hawaii.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
DEpEw ON THE INCOME TAX BILL.
He Thinks the Tax as Now Proposed
Is

Holland, In Philadelphia Press.
Nobody needs to ask me what my opinion
of the income tax is as a matter of policy
in q government Of such form as ours. 1t
can only be justified in a case of extreme
emergency Xix that which existed at the
time of the rebellion. But as a matter OF
law, / am free TO express an opinion. but
not the one which this Western paper has
attributed TO me. / have never said that
an income tax was unconstitutional, because
Ii is not. The Supreme Court has decided
that, or rather it has decided that il is not
. direct tax But L do say, after some re-
Election and examination. which confirms
my first impression. that the income tax
proposed by the Wilson bill is clearly I'M
constitutional, and if the bill ever becomes
a law IL Will be opposed because of its al
legged unconstitutionality, and the Supreme
Court will be asked to find an opinion.
Whether there will be a general move
ment TO embarrasS the government by ap-
pealS TO the Supreme Court L do not know,
but there is no doubt that the proposed
tax, when it becomes a law, will be re-
sisted, as a direct violation of the Consti-
tuition. The legal difficulty with this pro-
posed income tax is that IL is a graded one;
in other words, that 1t says a certain class
specifically denominated, shall be taxed,
While a certain class, also specifically de-
nominated, shall not be taxed. 1t declares
that a man having $1,000 income must pay
a tax, but the man having 1893 is to pay
nothing. 1t would be just as proper TO say
that the man who lives in a brown-stone
house shall be taxed. and the man who
lives in a wooden one shall not. The man
who wears broadcloth shall pay; the man
who docs not wear it shall be exempt. Any
tax, to be constitutional, must be wholly
equable and equal in its distribution and
operation Therefore, if Congress should
say that everybody having a fixed income
must pay 2 per cent. upon ii, il would levy
a tax entirely within its power to levy. IL
makes no class distinctions now in respect
of any tax. The proposition has never been
seriously considered before.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
A LATE BUT HOPEFUL DISCOVERY.

The attitude of the Democratic party in
Congress seems to have alarmed a large
number of people who have been devoting
themselves to criticising and destroying, in
a small way, the Republican party dur
ing the past fifteen years. They were not
so surprised as to make protest until re-
Gently. Now they are alarmed at the atti-
rude Of the South and Southwest upon
financial questions. The Democrats from
that section controlled the party in regard
to the income tax; they furnished the oppo-
sition to the repeal Of the Sherman silver
purchase act; they set themselves against
the issue of bonds to make good a def
cheney which they have created, and now
they are intent on coming what they are
pleased to call the seigniorage and to repeal
the laws which prevent the flooding of the
country with State bank notes. These ex-
cellent people have discovered that the
Southern Democrats in Congress are given
over to the worst sort of financial heresies-
heresies long since exploded.
The wonder is that they did not discover
this fact long ago. When were the Demo-
Gratis in Congress from the South and
Southwest financially sound? Did they not,
I'm 1877 and 1878, vote to repeal the resump-
ton act? Did they not begin to vote for the
free coinage of silver in 1877. and have they
not continued so to vote as often as op-
portunity presented itself, except when a
few Of them, to put themselves where they
could ask postofices of President Cleve-
land, voted for the repeal of the Sherman
law? When did not the Southern Demo-
Gratis practically control the policy of the
House when Democratic?
II seems very strange that these excellent
people could not see. all these years, the
wickedness of the general suppression of
States and the danger it involved. 1t has
been going on for fifteen years. and some
of these good people have mildly defended
the wrong. even when 10000 voters were
DISTINGUISHED by an irregular amending of
| the Constitution in Mississippi. 1t was not
until the purpose of the Southern Demo-
cratic congressman was disclosed in recent
financial legislation, and particularly in the
income tax proposition, that the better
element" in the South, and particularly In
the Eastern cities. discovered the hostile
purpose of the Southern Democracy to the
financial welfare of the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

All that they have said so far is false and
ridiculous. But, what is more significant,
nothing regarding Democratic candidates.
One or two organs In this State have run
up the name of Senator VOORHEES,, but as
a rule there has been no space wasted over
Democratic candidates by Democratic pa
pers. This is because the future is forbid
ding. The Democracy has no hope for 1896,
and no one is found who desires to be ad-
yertiSed as a. candidate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
1891. S2.o4l. 900 OF 1.4s9, 10000 bushels. 4. Not
for the year ending with last December.
40 the EDITOR OF the lnoianapolls journal:

l.. What are the political parties in
France, and upon what questions do they
divide? 2. How many members compose the
French Assembly? 3. How Is the President
chosen? 4 What are the names OF promi-
nent French politicians since the commune?
5. Why are elections held on Sunday in
France?
1. The political parties are not SO dis
tinctly defined as In other countries. Until
the last election the Bonapartists and the
Monarchists were quite important factions,
but they dropped out in the last election.
of what NAV be called Conservative Repub-
licans in distinction from the advanced ele-
ment, which espouses indefinite social ex-
periments. The present controlling element
has practically been in power since the es-
adjustment of the republic. 1t has, among
other things, established a nonsectarial pub
lie school system, which is now the best
in what it undertakes in the world. 1t has
established the most systematic protective
tariff in the world, the protection of French
There is no higher practical craftsmanship
in the world than is displayed under the
present regime in France 2. The French
Assembly has 723 members. 8. The President
is elected by the Assembly. 4. Ex-Presi-
dents Theirs, MacMahon, Grevy, Gambetta,
all dead; President Carnot, NJ. Ribot, NJ.
De Freycinet, NJ. Rouvier. NJ. Cavaignac,
NJ. Ricard, living. 5. Elections are held Sun
day because it is u universal holiday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
The South Carolina Liquor Law.

Governor Tillman, in North American Re
view.
The claims of the dispensary to support.
and its superiority over any form of IL
First, the element OF personal profit is de-
stroyed, thereby removing the incentive to
increase the sales. Second, a pure article
is guaranteed, as 1t is subject to chemical
analysis. Third, the consumer obtains hon
est measure of standard strength. Fourth.
treating is stopped, as the bottles are not
opened on the premises. Fifth, 1t Is sold
only in the daytime; this under a regula-
ton of the board and not under the law.
Sixth the concomitants of ice, sugar, lem
same inclination to drink remaining, and
the closing of the saloons, especially at
night, and the prohibition of its sale by
the drink, destroy the enticements and Sc
auctions which have caused so many men
and boys to be led astray and enter on
the downward course. Seventh, it is sold
only for cash, and there is no longer
"~chalking up" for daily drinks against pay
day. The workingman buys his bottle of
whisky Saturday night and carries the rest
poolrooms, and lewd houses, which have
hitherto been run almost invariably in con-
nection with the saloons, which were thus
a stimulus TO vice, separated from the sale
Of liquor, nave had their patronage re-
duced to a minimum, and there must neces-
the local whisky rings, which have been
the curse of every municipality in the
State, and have always controlled munic-
ipal elections, have been torn up root and
as a political manipulation is absolutely de-
stroyed. The police, removed from the
control of these debauching clements, will
enforce the law against evil doing with
purity in all governmental affairs must re-
Culf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
THE NATURAL GAS WRECK.
People Had Noticed 0dor of Escaping
Gas at Kuechler's.

Daylight yesterday showed that the resi-
dence OF Louis Kuechler. at No. as Mad
ison avenue, wrecked Tuesday night by an
explosion OF natural gas. and resulting in
the death OF his twelve-yearold daughter,
was damaged more than at first estimated.
The front part OF the building is a COM
plete wreck. while the rear part is scarce
ly damaged at all. A neighbor said that
for several days previous TO the disaster
the odor OF natural gas was very stros-.
showing that there was a heavy leakage
somewhere. This leakage was probaDly "A
the cellar. and as the gas perVaded tfS
house IL was ignited by the fire from 4
stove in the saloon. There Was only one
fire burning at the time. IL IS a remark
able fact that the ruins did not take IRE.
The building was rented by kuechler.
The member OF the family are now with
the married daughter. Mrs. Emma Fessler.
who resides on McCarty street, near High
street. II was thought for a time that
little Charles. aged nine years. was inter,
na!ly injured. but he afterwards showed
no signs of severe injury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

One of the county officers here in con-
sultation said that he mad a canvass for
the position and spent money to secure the
office upon the assurance that the fee and
salary act would either be repealed or de-
clared unconstitutional. Now that a large
number of men are making strenuous eff
forts to secure county nominations, they
will at least be prudent If they
will assume that the old fee system which
preceded the present law will not be re-
stored by the new Legislature. If the
legislature should be Republican a salary
law will be enacted which, while it will
deal fairly with officials, will remember
that the government is for the people, and
that their substance snail not be eaten up
by a loose fee system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
Voorhees, Versus Gray.
Courier.

1t is the general understanding that the
new State Democratic committee has been
organized in the interest of Senator Voor-
hees and against Isaac p. Gray. However
hat may be, it is to be hoped that the
Senator will be able to confound his enc
mics when the test comes. Mr.. Voorhees,
Is by no msans an ideal statesman, but Il
Is to his credit that he has always been
O. consistent Democrdt-that is TO saw. as
consistent as the erratic course of sis
party has permitted him to be. On the
other hand, Mr.. Gray is a renegade Re-
publican, a selfish and self-seeking poll
tician, and has no claim upon the Demo-
cratic party that has not been paid over
and over again
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
A Victim of circumstances,

az am jist a unfortunate victim Of cir
c~umstances,'' explained the bullet-headed
gentleman TO the city missionary who want
ed to know how it happened that he was in
prison
Victim of circumstances?'
Oats what. De night / went fur to do
dis job dat 1 got pinched fer, de policeman
had a toothache, an couldn't sleep"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

The country Is never without the self
exhibition of a crank. Sometimes it has
several at the same time. 1t is a most
favorable season for that class of peo-
pie, but nevertheless one Coxey, of Ohio,
seems to have a fair claim to the most
conspicuous place In the galaxy of lop-
sided intellects. Coxey is undertaking to
raise 1O0, 600 men to march from Ohio to
Washington to demand Of Congress the
issue Of $500, 600, 900 of fiat money to be ex-
pended in the building Of good roads. to the
end that the people may have employ
ment. The last man who spoke of march
ing 100000 men to Washington was Henry
watterson, and that was for the purpose
Of seating Mr.. Tilden. 1t would have been
comparatively easy to have rallied 1Oo,0 900
Democrats to march to Washington to seat
a President who would haye had $1,000 Of
fees to dispose Of. Even the proverbial
gallantry Of the Ohio Republicans might
be depended on to induce many thousands
of them to march to Washington when a
Republican administration was about
to be ~inaugurated. but they would
try TO reach the capital by rail.
Coxey proposes to march thither and
TO overawe Congress. The Pittsburg Dis
patch takes Coxey's proposal with some
degree of seriousness. 1t does not imagine
that he can get many thousands to join
in his silly chimera, but he may get a
few, and for that reason the monomania
to let Coxey and a few hundreds start If
they will. Experience is the best cure. even
for cranks and fools.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
A woman Who Observe,

Mr.. Wickwire-Prize fighting is not half
the brutal thing that people think 1t is, if
Corbett is right. He says the chief strain
on the fighter is in avoiding the blows of
his antagonist.
Mrs. Wickwire-Is that so? 1 supposed
that the hardest part of the work was the
preliminary talking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

It may be remarked that the people of
indianapolis are not now in favor of hir-
ing conventions and other bodies to hold
their meetings here. They have come to
the conclusion that they nave sufficient
attractions without a bonus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

The term cuckoo in American politics
has come to stay. Like ~''doughface' and a
few other happily descriptive words in the
political vocabulary. it will be used long
after it's origin has been forgotten The
fact that IT makes a Democratic Congress
sgbtine mad to whisper cuckoo"
when he is lauding the administration
shows that 1t is one Of the few immortal
urnraa that were not born TO die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
Why Amelia Is Wrong.

Amelia Barr thinks the newspapers ought
TO make suicide unpopular as they rave the
duel by ridiculing it. She Is wrong; the
duel, If allowed to flourish, draws IN men
who of their own motion would never
countenance anything so silly, while the
suicide is no loss to the community.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

In view Of the Hawaiian fiasco and Mr..
CIeveland's shameless dickering for con-
gressional support, the administration Is
well described as a bargain-counter admin
istration which is trying to work off a
lot OF badly damaged party principles and
traditions upon Congress by offering off,
oIn1 chrnnnos as nriZpS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

The influence OF favors hoped for is yet
SO potent in the House that all the Demo-
Gratis, with the exception of Cummings, of
New York. and Geary, of California, voted
10 sustain the Cleveland Hawaiian policy
Yesterday II it went no further.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

The next presidential campaign will not
be one of education. The people are already
sufficiently educated On the tariff question
and the result of prospective free trade. The
next campaign will be one of retributton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

II things go on at the present rate much
longer 1t will only be necessary, in discuss
Ing the relations between the President and
Democratic Senator's, to say that there are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

Walter @. Gresham's political recreancy
stead of drawing Republicans into the
Democratic party it has driven Democrats
ont of II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

When the New York Board of Trade
had invited Chairman Wilson to It's BAN
quet. it's members should not have for
gotten the lain OF courtesy and
shouted cuckoo" That many of them did
1t, however. shows the prevalent hostility
TO the Wilson bill in the North
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

So the voorhees, committee will put a
duty on sugar and coffee and refuse to
double the tax on beer. 1t also proposes
TO extend the bonded period for spirits
from three to five years. Thus the Voor-
bees committee takes care Of it's friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
uniformed savnges.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

C~oIorado's Indians, TIE ties. have become
weary and want to move lest. X is evil
dent from this that they have never heard
of Governor Pennoyer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
Wise When 1t Is Too Late.

Wilmington On. CO Messenger Oem)
If Cleveland had told the people plainly.
clearly-without circUmlocutlon or cunning
phrases formed to mislead or p~erplex-that
il elected he would pursue the very policy
he has in all particulars, we verify believe
that he would not have received a single
Southern electoral vote.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

AS the Democratic party propose TO levy
q special tax on all persons who have an
income of more than $4,000 a year, why not
provide tina all persons with incomes under
1000 shall ride free in public conveyances?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

If the Wilson bill can be made to join the
array of the unemployed by striking out
its enacting clause, there will Immediately
be a stampede of the rest of the army for
the factories and mills.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

All the imports of all the world amount
90 only s6.OOO.OOO,OO 900 a year, while the an
nual domestic exchanges Of the American
people aggregate $50. 900, 10000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
blessing I'm Disguise.

This administration is a providence in
disguise,to fire insurance companies. There
haven't been half so many mill and fur
mace fires reported this winter as there
were this time last.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08

The bankers of New Yorl. are not dis
couraged with the United States of North
America They know the men who will be
put upon guard. Uncle Sam Is here TO
| stay, and he will swap his spawned team
mighty quick at the first opportunity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-08
One Thing They Can Do.
nr.r-a-1-Is. Dr.

There is this much to be said about the
Republicans in the Senate; If they cannot
defeat the passage Of the Wilson bill thew
can give the administration cuckoos a few
joits that will make their teeth rattle ike
castanets.