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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
THE NATIONS BIRTHDAY.

One hundred and eighteen years ago to-
revocable step towards separation from the
mother country and the formation of an in
dependent government. All that had passed
up TO that time-the long years of stubborn
act, the destruction of the tea in Boston
harbor, the battles of Lexington and Con-
cord, and many acts of oppression on one
side and resistance on the other enumer-
ated in the Declaration itself-might all
have been adjusted. But the Declaration of
independence. which was not adopted with
out many misgivings on the part of some
of its signers and difficulty in bringing all
the colonies to its support, made compro-
mise impossible and war inevitable.
After all that has been written concern
ing the heroism of the act, it is still diff
cult to rise to the height of the spirit that
actuated the men who thus threw down the
gage of war on the part OF few feeble and
sparsely settled colonies against the most
powerful nation in the world. Nor were the
political sentiments embodied in the Dec
laration less heroic than the act of war
which it involved. The equality of all men
and the assertion of popular will as the
true basis of government are principles
which seem trite and commonplace now
but their public and solemn assertion in
1876 marked a new epoch in history and
the beginning of daring experiment in
and commonplace now, it is because the
success of the experiment which was then
and there inaugurated has familiarized them
to the world and given them the force of
milarity should not breed contempt, and
Americans cannot be too assiduous in cher
fishing reverence for these time-honored sem
tments and cultivating the spirit which they
invoke. The Declaration of Independence.
the war that followed and the Constitution
which was the browning work of all were
a complete embodiment of the spirit of self
government and of liberty regulated by law,
which was 10 become the corner stone and
glory of the first government among men
of the people, by the people and for the
people. ZOO
We have but recently entered on the sec
ond century of the government of which the
Declaration was the precursor. A hundred
years is not long in the life of a nation,
but it is long enough TO effect great changes.
The thirteen sparsely populated colonies of
i06 have grown into forty-four States with
a population of 100000. From a simple ag-
ricultural people we have become a great
manufacturing and commercial nation The
growth of population and the changed con-
ditions Of modern life have raised new
questions and new dangers. Ii is not I'M
likely that the second century of our ma
tional existence will test the strength of
our form of government more severely than
il has ever been tested before, except. per-
haps. in the civil war. Because We are a
republic cannot expect to escape the
complications or the dangers that beset
other governments. They must be met and
grappled with. Upon the manner in which
this is done depends the continuance Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

The offer which Superintendent Jones has
received from Cleveland to take charge of
the public schools of that city is so attrac-
tive and comes to him in such honorable
way that it would be surprising if he
should decline it. If our board could afford
to offer Mr.. Jones salary that would JUS
tify him in remaining here in spite of the
flattering offer from Cleveland, the Journal
believes ii would be wise to do so, but
probably that is out of the question. That
his departure will be a loss 10 the schools
of this city goes without saying While it
cannot be said that he found a bad or in
efficient system when he came here he has
place the public schools of Indianapolis in
the front rank The Cleveland people are
evidently very much pleased with the pros
pective acquisition of Professor Jones. The
Leader of that city publishes letters from
several prominent educators commencing
his work in this city, and says editorially:
1t must be remembered that the fame of
the indianapolis schools has been made
far more than local under the management
of the gentleman who has been chosen for
a wider field of labor here. Superintendent
Jones has been recommended by authori-
ties of the very highest class. There is every
reason to believe that he is an educator of
the first rank and that he is thoroughly
competent TO administer the duties of the
office for which he has been nominated in a
manner worthy of his distinguished prede-
cessor.
The retirement of Mr.. Jones will devolve
grave responsibility on our new School
Board in the choice of a successor, and UNI
der the circumstances there will be con-
siderable speculation and anxiety as to how
it will be met.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

certainly no public demand for such action
forward in the natural course of discus
sion of ways and means and of municipal
expenses. But while there is an undoubted
willingness to afford the gas companies all
needful advantages. the proposition made
by the Gas Trust TO establish the meter
system will, it is safe to say. meet with
ments in favor of it are not convincing. The
gist of the communication TO the City Coun-
ell is that. whereas, the gas supply within
reach is becoming limited and may not last
many years, therefore it behooves the au-
thorities to restrict the consumers privi-
leges now in order that the time of its use
may be extended also, as the trust has not
made the profit it expected. it is proper
that the price of gas should be raised in
order that the company should make a
profit and pay off its shareholders. This
sudden solicitude on behalf of the share
holders. OF whom it is said there are 2,6O0
is the more surprising since it was under
stood from the beginning that the citizens
who took stock in the trust did SO less
an investment for the purpose of profit
than contribution to general fund TO
secure fuel at low r. es. So little did they
value their stock that large numbers of
them were in short time persuaded to
part with it at a large discount, and the
statement that 900 still retain their shares
will cause a general lifting of eyebrows
by the assertion in the letter to the Coun-
Gil that "these stockholders have never
asked. nor received, nor expected, nor can
they receive a cent of profit" Just what is
meant by this and the further assertion
that they have not received the full pay
ment for the interest due them on the mon
ey they have virtually loaned for the good
of the general public" is not quite clear in
view of the fact that dividends have been
paid at least twice. Only a few days ago
the payment of a ten-per-cent dividend on
the CdpIldl 4 per cent Interest was all
nounced. Now, since it is admitted these
$500 shareholders did not expect profit and
that they went into the enterprise for
the purpose of securing cheap gas, it is safe
to infer that the majority of them would
be in favor of RENTING future profits and
continuing to receive the fuel at the old
rates. 1t is probably true that there is con-
siderable waste OF gas under the present
system, though the estimate that it reaches
80 per cent. is undoubtedly greatly exag-
gerated; but if. as the trust declares. the
supply will give out sooner or later in any
case it is reasonable to believe that con-
sumers would prefer to enjoy the luxury
while it lasts than to be compelled by its
increased cost to return now to the use of
coal. According to its own showing, the
future expenses of the Gas Trust cannot
be as heavy as in the past, and it seems
possible that its suddenly-aroused sense of
duty TO the shareholders and its anxiety TO
pay its debt to them easily be graft
fled before the wells have all been pumped
dry-or wet" as gas parlance has it. at
all events, the need of establishing the me-
ter system is by no means apparent on the
face of the showing made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Messrs. Hendrickson and Blackledge were
entirely right in opposing the resolution to
invite Messrs. Conner and FrenZel to act
advisory members of the Manual Train
ing School committee. If the voters of the
First and Tenth districts had considered
the services of those gentlemen necessary
to the proper management of school affairs
they would have elected them. Placing
them on the committee after their defeat
at the polls is an uncalled for reflection
on the judgment of the citizens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

compelled TO carry on his business at a
loss or carry ii on at all If he does not
choose TO. However. the real issue is not
not, but whether the railroad traffic Of
this country is TO be controlled and the
country itself run by organized bodies of
lot but by force and violence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Everybody experiences great bodily dis
comfort in such weather as prevailed last
week, but there are no visible indications
that unusual mental depression is the
rule or that il is even common. People
become irritable, il is true. and show
other signs OF nervous disturbance. but
these are commonly recognized as in
evitable though temporary results of ex-
cessve heat and not at all serious. IL
must be. however. that this irritability in
certain individuals Is a symptom of a
deeper-seated trouble: that the tempera-
ture which causes the flesh almost 10 melt
causes the brain TO weaken. What else
can account for the unusual number OF
suicides that have occurred durin. the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

The militia that was called out to sup
press rioters in the Pennsylvania coal dis
tricts during the miners strike had the
same experience as the Indiana militia.
There were no riots after the troops ar
rived on the ground, and the hitherto OBJ
streperous strikers suddenly scattered. and
when found exhibited much meekness of
demes nor. This behavior has demonstrated
that these lawbreakers nave a wholesome
respect for military authority, and only
dare to exhibit their lawless propensities
when they have reason to think force will
not be used TO prevent them. While the
appearance of State soldiery has decided
ly repressive effect on the men engaged in
interfering with public and private rights,
United States troops are even more awe
inspiring. When they are brought into
service it is we'll understood that they are
there to obey orders. and that they will
obey. They are not influenced by sympa-
thy or the arbitrary rules of any union, or
by political expediency. and know no per-
sonal friends or foes when an order comes
10 fire
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

The request made TO the Board OF Public
Works to substitute asphalt FOR brick in
the paving of South Meridian street. be-
cause the noise from the brick would be
detrimental to the Manual Training School,
is we'll enough as far as il goes, but that
is not far enough. With all its merits, as
phalt is noisy when much traffic passes
over it, and in that respect is but a shade
less Objectionable than brick. Wood, with
all its drawbacks, is the only variety of
pavement which deadens the sound of travel
to degree that saves the nerves of adj
joining residents. And, when you come
to think about it, the health and convent
ence of the citizens is rather impor-
tant consideration too.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
government the anniversary of whose birth
we celebrate to-day.
Dictator pebs has Furnished his ult

Dictator Debs has furnished his ulti-
matum- He says the present strike will
only be settled on the following terms:
tween Mr.. Pullman and his employees on a
basis satisfactory TO the men and all the
men must be taken back to work.
Second-There must be an adjustment be-
tween the railways and the strikers; all
must be restored TO their old positions
and no wages shall be cut nor shall dis
examinations be made.
This is worth cutting out and FASTING
in ones hat for little while. 1t may
serve hereafter as a measurement of the
and what he got
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

past ten days? Several have been COM
mitted in this city. a remarkable num-
Der have been reported to the Journal from
various parts of the State and the same
condition of affairs has existed elsewhere
in the country. as shown by the local sui
eide list in the Journals exchanges. Prob
ably the same variety OF causes that lead
to seif-destruction at any season OF the
year have been in operation during this
late torrid term, but there seems no doubt
that the heat produced in some individuals
an aggravated and uncomfortable sense Of
trouble that otherwise might have been
overcome. There is time in each cycle
of twenty-four hours when the physical
vitality is at its lowest ebb; it must be
that the mental and moral powers also
have their tides and are at their lowest
when the temperature is in the nineties
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
No MORE BURDENS FOR stTIRAL-
GAS CONSUMERS.

There is no disposition on the part OF any
reasonable person to impose unnecessary
burdens on the natural gas companies OF
the city. Some time since the Journal ex-
pressed it's belief that for reasons which
need not here be repeated the plan TO tax the
gas mains was not now expedient There is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

1t is a maxim of law that he who does
an act by or through another does it him
self. On this principle why should not
President Debs be held legally respon-
sible for the acts of those who act by his
orders? When he stops mail trains. cuts
out sleepers and turns switches by his
agents, it is as if he did it with his own
hand. Debs should be arrested
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
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Car BE- found AT The following places
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de Cs.sfsincs.
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ST. LoUIS-UniOn News Company. Union Depot
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Dictator Debs says he will try and have
his forces keep the peace to-day, and that
eff there is any trouble it will not be of
our seeking" 1t is kind in him TO suspend
hostilities on the national holiday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

The six naval cadets out of this year s
class of twenty-five, for whom no places
in the navy can be found, doubtless
disappointed, but at least they have the
advantage of a first-class education, and
one of a sort which qualities them for lucra-
tive employment in civil life. Uncle Sam
trains his soldiers and sailors thoroughly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Attorney-general Olney has shown nim-
self equal to the situation during the
present strike. He has been prompt to
to United States marshals have the right
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

1t is all very we'll to talk about COM
pulsory arbitration of labor troubles, but
what power can compel men to work for
wages which they are unwilling to receive
or employers to pay wages which they
are unwilling to pay?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

General Coxey. late of commonweal
fame. says of the strike that something
will come of all this" Something has
come of it already. The government has
declared that freight and passenger trains
On interstate railroads must not be in
erfered with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

1t would be hard to find more fragrant
case of breach of public trust than the
School Boards high-handed action in re-
fusng to require its treasurer to account
for interest on the school fund
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

In his valedctory speech Mr.. Frenzel
said ''Since 1 entered the School Board
many years ago the schools of this city
have nearly doubled" He might have add
ed that interest on the school funds has
entirely dsappeared
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
In These Hard Tunes.

MY dear brother you making any
efforts TO save your immortal soul?"
''Am L? I'm trying to save everything 1
can these hard times"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
In the Mountains.

She-I wish we had met at the seashore
instead of here.
He-Why?
She-You might be aole then to show
little sand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Sixty days hence men who now regard
Debs as little tin god on wheels will
be cursing him as stupid blunderer and
enemy of labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

So much talk about Pompeii and Hercu-
laneum gives quite an antique flavor to
Indianapolis conversation at times; but the
talk soon drifts back to that very modern
and most unpleasant topic-Debs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. James l.. White, superintendent ot
railway mail service. IN his last annual re-
port urged the passage Of special act
maxim. any interference with mail train
criminal offensc. No such statute has
been passed bat the events Of the past
week show its necessity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Fourth" In old-fashioned days the coun-
try was ruled by law and not by Debs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
ne Wanfed to I<uO.,-

Tommy-Say, paw.
Mr.. Figg-What do you want now?
Tommy-Can a whole knot be a knot
whole when it is not a knot hole or not?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

One of the most unreasonable features
OF the present strike is the demand Of
railroad employees for a restoration of the
wage scale that prevailed before the panic
OF 1898. The demand is clearly premature
If the reduction was necessary and I'M
avoidable when made. as was universally
admitted. it must be obvious to every
reasonable person that it is much too soon
to ask a restoration Of the old scale. The
railroad business has scarcely begun to
recover from the severe prostration of
last year. and it will be long time before
1t will have fully recovered The demand
for the restoration of the old scale of
wages is unreasonable and unjust The
present strike is more likely to be followed
by further reduction than by an increase
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

Kansas City Ioi

Kansas City Journal.
What this country needs 4 law that
will give fellows liise Herr Most n wear
at hard labor every time they open their
Shiny mouths.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
AIaS Too True.

What do you think of Pythagoras's doc
trine that man may become brute after
his death?'
After his death? Plenty of men do that
a few months after marriage"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

How is the interest on the school funds
divided, anyhow? Not that the people have
any rights, but they would like TO know.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04

You may break, you may shatter the
board if you WILL but the scent of John
Frenzel will hang round il still.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-04
Are You quite SURE.

Philadelphia Press.
This. IL may be well 10 re'.xsrk IN r.
LAWS. not y. Deos.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-05-30
Modern Newspapers.

/ do not know whether you have ever
gone into the publishing department of a
big newspaper or not, but | would advise
you TO 90 some time. 1t is worth your
while; and take your children. Go down
into the basement of great metropolitan
newspaper-nay, 60 down into the cellar
and two cellars underneath it, and there in
place as large as the auditorium of a
theater you will find, according to the
gravity of the occasion, from three to twelve
first class presses hard at work. Five miles
of white paper goes into one end OF these
wonderful machines, wiggle waggles over
the various things and comes out of the
other end $4,000 papers, eight pages print
ed on both sides, folded and nicely piled, 90
in package, ready for delivery. ] would
not be at all surprised if within the next 10
years little gutta percha baby was born
with every thousand and came oat on the
sidewalk to read the paper aloud to the peo-
pie. That would come not to be any more
tnan what we see to day con-
trasted with what was known a few years
ago.-Joe Howard on journalism.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-05-30
Lo,c Prices Fiftv Years Ago.

A Culpeper correspondent Fredericks-
burg Free Lance quotes figures from an old
sale book of gentleman who died in Mad
ison county in 1S43, to show that the pres
ent depression in The prices of farm products
is not the first that has occurred in this
country. The property referred TO was sold
on twelve months time, and brought the
following prices Horses sold at from $50
to $40 per head, colts from so to Sl4, COWS
and calves, S. without calves, from 81 to
Sc; two and three year old cattle, from Sc
to SlS; yearlings, from 81 to $3.50; calves,
from 75c to 81 sheep, from SOC. to Sl.1O
average 9Oc.l; hogs, soc, to Sl.5O; turkeys,
1Sc, to 2Oc.; geese, Ice; bacon in 100 pound
lots, sc. per pound; flour 1926 per barrel ,
wheat Gle. per bushel; corn, 81 so per bar
rel rye 45c. per bushel, and bran, &c. per
bushel (about 9Oc. per hundred); tobacco
81 per hundred, and all other things in pro-
portion. 1t seems from the foregoing that
we are passing through the same mill our
fathers did fifty years ago.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-05-30
Tiraiuia ftee gress.
A Queer Lot.

Not everybody is aware that there has
existed for centuries among the white peo-
pie of this country class more curious than
any of the foreigners exhibited in the Mid
way plaisance or the side shows of the
Worlds Fair. These are the clay eaters OF
Georgia, race peculiar to themselves
From the child years old to the patriarch
of many winters this horrible appetite for
clay manifests itself among them Many OF
these strange mortals live among the hills
or the Oconee south of Milledgeville, in the
vicinity of tumbled down old town called
Scarborough. 1t is only few miles from
Milledgevile, but it is as far away from
civilization as Ekimoland for all practical
purposes.
The clay eater lives in the lowest state OF
poverty and cares for nothing better appar-
emily. The soil Of their region is a whitish
clay, mingled with sand beds. The clay
they eat is not that ordinarily found. but is
fine white, lumpy kaolin, something like
soapstone. 1t is said to contain arsenic
and that is why the people eat it. At any
rate, the habit is as fixed as that of opium
eating or whiskey drinking, and no work o.
philanthropy or religion has ever been able
to rouse these miserable beings from lethar.
gy into which clay eating has kept them fol
centuries They look like a deaths head
and crossbones, so cadayerous and skeleton
like are they Ordinary methods of max
ing living are unknown among them prac
tically. Besides the clay they par!ake lib
orally of moonshne whiskey, but they con
sumo little grain, vegetables or meat. Th'
clay seems to stupefy and satisfy them, par
alyzing all desire for effort While authro
biologists and biologists are penetrating tn
four corners of The globe they ought to spent
some time investigating this strange Amer
lean product, the clay eater.-Hagersfo'ei
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