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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

A desire to get married Is what constitutes
an eligible man.-Atchison Globe.
When the weather is good for corn 1t IL
not good for much else.-Atchison Globe.
Charity vaunteth not itself-being sum
GENTLY pulled up in the newspapers.-Puck.
An encyclopedia Of the unknown would be
much large than the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Horn.
Holmes chad a winning way with women
No doubt he was a perfect ~lady-killer.
Philadelphia Record.
think is not applied with a whitewash
brush.-Detroit Tribune
The court says that Corbett must not
marry again. If reports are true. he doesn't
want to.-Kansas City Journal.
The man who does not advertise in sum-
mer is like the man who does not sprinkle
his lawn in dry weather.-Printer's Ink.
If the new woman really comes in bloom
ers 1t will be a smart boy, indeed. who will
know his own father.-Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
If it could only be shown that murderer
Holmes ever killed anybody, there would be
no difficulty in prosecuting him.-Washing-
ton Post.
A large majority of the things not
dreamed of in Horatio's philosophy are to
be found in Coxey's Ohio platform-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Miss Flagler who shot a boy at Wash
ington has been exonerated. probably in the
belief that If she had been aiming at the
boy she could not have hit him-Chicago
Record.
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THE WILSON BILL AND THE COR.
MAN LAW.

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Some Democratic papers and most Of
the Cleveland organs are now referring
to the present Democratic tariff law as
the Wilson bill. Fol the most part 1t is
not based upon the Wilson bill. 1t is
not the bill of the Democratic members
of the Senate finance committee. The
latter greatly modified the Wilson bill,
and that in turn was amended in 403 par
ticulars, mainly to increase the duties.
A large part of these amendments were
in the iron and steel schedules. In the
Wilson bill. ccal and iron ore were on
the free list. but in the German act,
which Mr.. Cleveland denounced as a
piece of party perfidy," a duty Of 40
cents a ton was imposed upon both ar
ticles. The Wilson bill made ad valorem
duties. while nearly all of the duties of
the present law in the metal schedule
are specific. The Wilson bill placed a
duty Of 20 per cent. ad valorem on pig
iron. equivalent to about 81 per ton. The
German law made the duty "a per ton.
or twice as much as that of the Wilson
bill. The Wilson rate for steel rails was
20 per cent. or about $3.50 a ton. while
that of the German act makes 1t $7.s4.
The Wilson duty on structural shapes"
was 80 per cent, or about S. a ton: I'M
der. the present law it is 1914 per ton.
So in most parts Of the German law. so
far as metals are concerned. the du-
ties are specific and protective-higher
on the advanced forms Of iron and steel.
and so high as to interfere with foreign
competition. To please the South, cot
ton ties were put on the free list, but
the attempts to put barbed wire and ag-
ricultural implements on that list failed.
AS a whole. however. specific and high
duties rule throughout the metal list.
The result OF this favoritism to the
iron industry can be seen in the advance
ment of wages 10 per cent. or more.
This is because the duties are at least
100 per cent. higher than those specified
in the Wilson bill and are speciic-that
is, so much per ton or pound, which pre-
vents the frauds Of differentiation which
are practiced when the duty imposed is
a percentum Of the alleged cost Of the
goods. If the duties were no higher
than on WOODEN goods. there would have
iron industry.
1t may be added that the iron indus
try and those depending upon it are the
most important and most widely diff
fused in the country. The general i'm
provement of the iron industry after
the election last November was due to
the fact that the prostration therein had
been most general from January, 1898,
because the demand fell of so largely
after the Inauguration of Mr.. Cleveland
When the German act became 9 law,
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From Senator Carter, of Montana,
whose silver mission was. so much talked
of two months ago. comes the intelli-
gence that politics, meaning free silver
coinage, is not much talked about. He is
reported as saying:
The people. as by common consent, are
dropping the subject. Business is moving
along very we'll, although the silver mines
are still closed down. The people of my
State who have looked to the mines for
their industry are now turning their atten-
ton to other things. In Montana. the Popu-
list party Is regarded as the party Of the
past, and even II IL does come out for free
silver 1t will receive no support.
Now, If a few score of men who hay
been sitting on dry-goods boxes in the
shade OF village stores Or who have
been ranting about goldites to %half-dozen
audiences at street corners up and down
Indiana n other States. could be in
duced to drop the matter and to find
some employment by which they could
earn bread. 1.-THE people. by common
consent" would be entirely willing.
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From homes beyond the furthest space
The winds come to their trysting place.
Assembled on some lonely crest,
Or gathered where the murmuring pines
Have summoned them by secret signs.
They tell of journeys over seas
And whisper of earth's mysteries.
They know why strong sap-currents sing
Trough northern trees in earliest spring,
In snowy woodlands of the North.
Such things he learns whose guided feet
May find the place where four winds meet.
1t is not true the winds are foes,
Though some bring buds and some bring
SHOWS;
AS friendly kings might arbitrate,
And each Is sovereign any hour
The friendly land Is in it's power.
They find delight IN bold surprise
And would defeat mans prophecies.
Ships put not forth, seeds are not sown
Until the favoring gales nave blown.
The destinies of nations wait
The winds that ruin or create.
These secret things he learns whose feet
May find the place where four winds meet.
Through summer woods at nights high tide
A lonely wind will sometimes ride
So quickly gone. so vague a thing
Ears hardly catch its whispering.
And no one knows from what far home
This vagrant messenger may roam.
Nor any more might seek to gain
Its purpose from a weather vane.
But swift that breath of air will go
Where only silent trees bend low
A stir of leaves. a sudden hush
A thrill runs through the underbrush,
Then he who runs with winged feet
May find the place where four winds meet.
Now I nave sped in many a race
To find this secret meeting place:
North. east, south. west nave I been led.
Sometimes In hope but oft in dread,
Fearing to pause and scorning rest,
Pursuing ceaselessly the quest.
For whether on the land it be
Or in some meadow of the sea
/ find at last the tryst. 10, there
The tyrant rulers of the air
Shall yield to me each plot and plan
BY which they rule the world, and man
Thenceforth may walk with careless feet
Indifferent where the four winds meet.
Meredith Nicholson, in Modern Art.
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A writer is the New York Sun, who does
not seem to have gone crazy over the en-
forcement of the Sunday closing law in
that city, offers the following advice to
saloon keepers:
The liquor BUSINESS has suffered in repu-
tation and in the quality Of those engaged
in 1t because 1T has been conducted in vio-
lation of law. 1t is a perfectly legitimate
business. specially licensed end therefore
pa ads harSy approved gp and 91st Just and anndd
peculiar advantage that competition in 1t
is restricted by this system of license. 1t
Is regulated by law. but it is also protected
by law and in return for the protection
II should obey the regulation. II the pub
lie necessity requires that the saloons shall
p pc 0 I S Se snnaf fSr their II Supplies sne , IS on an that imt
day, the best way of demonstrating hat
such is the. case is to make Sunday aoso-
action of the saloon skeepers themselves.
If it is not the cas-. If the public does
not irsist On having them open, they cam
not ,osa, get ant ihe e wSsDss naIyst Priyils sgs HRasT
to get it,. If they secure 1t at all. =
BY pursuing such a course the liquor deal
s sps SSnis s which 70 it tssln s' saSe 50 long asy
as 1t dsies law. Law breaking lowers both
the self-fespect CT the vtolator and tbs re-
ity. 1t has tended to idwer the tone of
the whole traffic in this city and to give
it q stigma under which thousands of rep
utable dealers are FESTIVE. They are put
under a han. '@tA
Therefore let every saloon keeper shut
up his saloon tight on Sunday, without any
reference to Commissioner Roosevelt. but
simply because he is commanded by the
law so to do and then-leave 1t to the peo-
pie to say whether they regard the dep
~rivation as an intolerable oppression or a
agitation Of the question would be made
general and the liquor dealers would not
suffer from the disapproval and the re-
sentiment they excite by wantonly break
ing the law. 1t is a question which ought
to be decided and 1t must be decided by
the people. n the decision will have all
the more force because A. will be made In
the dealers. The questiehy1s whether the
people want to buy liquor on Sunday, not
whether the saloons want to sell It.
This Is applicable to other cities than
New York. General Grant once said the
best way to secure the, repeal of a bad
law was to enforce it. In Indiana, as in
New York. the people have declared,
through the law-makings power, that in
toxicating liquors shall. not be sold on
Sundays. In 10th States this law is Of
Democratic enactment. though that has
nothing to do With the main question. The
point is that, being the law, 1t is the sworn
duty CT the authorities to enforce Ii, and
If saloon keepers are swises instead of OPP
posing. they will aid IN It's enforcement.
If the law is a bad one it's strict and i'm
partial enforcement Will bring out !tr bad
features ard lead to- "a popular demand
for its repeal or amendment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08

Discussion as to the ownership of the
Island OF Trinidad Is bringing out a
variety Of views The latest is a state
ment OF Mr.. j. NJ. Morgan. United States
consul-general at Melbourne. Australia.
during Mr.. Cleveland's first administra-
ton. Mr.. Morgan was a m~idshipman
81 the Confederate navy. and served on
the Confederate cruiser Georgia. He says
that In the summer OF 1868 Admiral
Semmes ordered the Georgia to Trini-
dad to lie I'm wait for and attack Ameri-
can ships passing in that direction. She
lay there six weeks, during which time
her commander took possession of the
island for the Confederate government
and look several prizes into port. AT
this time says Mr.. Morgan. the island
was not claimed by any nation. Had 1t
been > Captain Maury was much too
careful q commander TO nave broken
the neutrality laws by taking prizes In
there, coaling ships without permission.
and 'heaying to- neutral ships as he lay
= apcnor 10 the harbor." For these
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08
WANTS TO SEE HER DAUGHTER.


IAN FRANCISCO. Aug. Lord sho'to
Douglass is going home HIS eventful ana
sensational visit to the coast win terminate
inside Of ten days or two weeks He II set
fling up his business and getting his lug
gage together, and on Saturday. accompan-
led by Lady Douglass. will leave for Los
Angeles. 1t is their intention to spend .
little time In southern California. They VIII
be the guests OF several wealthy English
families in Los Angeles. and before going
East they win visit San Diego and all the
important places OF Interest. From SOUTH
ern California Lord and Lady Douglass VII
go East. They will take a hasty spin around
the principal cities. and the first week In
September they exepct TO be steaming across
the Atlantic on their way 10 England IL iS
at the request OF the Marchioness or
Queensbury that the young people are going
TO England.
Another report says that Lady sholto
Douglass il evidently determined TO
fit herself for her new social position and
has applied for admission 10 the Alameda
High School. Her .adyship has not yet been
enrolled. as there exisss . doubt IN tho
mind OF the principal about the eligibility
OF q married woman TO 60 TO school,. and
her a~ppIicssion has been .sferrsd % she
under aov11en1on6
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08

AT one time the treasury officials de-
posted funds with banks in the cities
for the redemption of pension checks.
This is no longer done. They are re-
deemable at the United States subtreas-
uries. During the present week the
banks in this and other cities Of Indiana
will have paid out cash for at least
81, 000, 900 of these drafts. They are un-
der no obligation to do this. They dc
not make a cent by so doing. Instead Of
that they pay out current funds, take the
risk incidental to mistakes in counting so
large a sum of money. and forward at
their own expense these checks to the
places Of government deposit for re-
demption. In this city all the banks
have paid cash to those presenting these
checks without charge. In every case
they have been paid money as good as
gold, that is, money which will purchase
as much as gold. But for
these banks thousands of pen
sloners would hav been at the
mercy Of private brokers who would
have charged them 5 or 10 Per cent. for
cashing their drafts. This would be so
because the brokers would have been
obliged to scrape money together In or
der to redeem so many drafts in a short
time, tn banks, on a solid foundation,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08

Among the extracts published from a
recently discovered diary of President
Polk Is one which gives his view of Of
f1ce seeking. "a year gone," he writes,
March 4. 1876. land the pressure for Of
nee has not abated. Will this pressure
never cease? I most sincerely wish that
I had no Offices to bestow. If / had not,
Il would add much to the happiness and
comfort Of my position. AS 1t is, l nave
no ONCE to bestow without turning out
better men than a large majority Of
those who seek their places" In an
other place he says: Almost the whole
of my embarrassment in administering
the government grows out OF the public
patronage which 1t Is my duty TO dis
pense-" He refers with contempt to 1.-The
herd Of Office seekers" and says patron
age must weaken any administration.
These were the views OF a President forty
years ago. and no doubt they have been
shared. by every President since. 1t is
no wonder every President advocates
the application and extension of the civil
service law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08

The case of the recent killing of a COL
ored boy by Miss Flagler, of Washing
ton, presents some peculiar aspects. The
fact that the young lady has written a
letter of coincidence to the boys moth
er and sent her money to defray the fu-
neral shows that the killing
was devoid of any personal malice on
her part, and there is other evidence that
she deeply regrets the. occurrence. There
is no reason to believe that she intend
ed to kill this particular boy or any
other person, so that in the ordinary sense
of language there was no malicious in
tent whatever, yet IN the eye of the law
the act was criminal. In law, malice is
to another. whether fatal or not. and If
an injurious act is Intentionally done the
law imputes malice, even though no mo-
tive be shown. The law attributes NAL
ice to reckless acts of homicide when nc
particular motive can be traced. Where
one purposely fires into a crowd without
intending to kill any particular person,
but does . kill one. the law presumes
the killing to have been intentional, and
81 WhCAA OhC IN
car in which he knows there are passen-
gers, though without aiming at any per-
son. 1t would seem that firing at ran
dom into a tree where a human being is
known to be concealed would fall under
the same rule. The legal presumption of
malice can always be rebutted by evil
dence. and in this case it would be COM
petent for Miss F1agler to show that
she did not fire with malicious intent.
But the circumstances are such as to
put upon her the burden Of that proof.
In the eye Of the law n human lie is
as sacred as another. and the ends OF
justice require that the law should be
applied and enforced impartially. If
such a homicide as the n under con-
sideration had occurred in England it
would have become the subject Of a
rigid judicial investigation, irrespective
of the social status of the parties to 1t.
That is the only way to make law re-
spected.
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A gentleman who has recently visited
Atlanta. Ca. and made a personal in
vestigatfon OF the prospects of the APP
preaching exposition in that city. as
sures the Journal that they are excel
lent The exposition will be patterned
somewhat after that OF Chicago, though,
Of course. on nothing like SO vast a scale.
Many Of the buildings at Atlanta are
about completed, and a large amount
of space has been bespoken. Most of the
Northern States will nave separate
buildings and exhibits. as will several
foreign governments. n everything
points to a very attractive exposition. 1t
win open about the middle of September
and continue three months. embracing
the most pleasant period of the year for
visiting the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08
THE OUTBREAKS IN CHINA.

The present outbreak in China is by
no means the first of the kind that has
occurred in that country, and unless the
outrages should be continued the loss
Of life will not be as great in this out
break as In some previous ones. A lit
tie less than ten years ago a series of
riots occurred which resulted in the kill
ing of a large number of Christian con-
verts and the expulsion of the mission
aries from several provinces. At that
time it was said the fury of the mob
against foreigners was embittered by the
intelligence of the persecution and mas
Another outbreak occurred about three
years ago. which spread with such ra-
pidity through several provinces as al
most to assume the character of a revo-
luton. More lives were lost and much
more property destroyed at that time
h there have been, as yet, in the
present outbreak.
1t is a mistake to regard these out
breaks as being directed primarily
against missionaries or the Christian re-
ligion. They are the result of the in
tense Chinese hatred Of foreigners, and
as all missionaries are foreigners they
are naturally among the first objects Of
attack The Christian religion is hated
not so much on account of it's doctrines
as because it is a foreign religion and
represents foreign interference. The
common people in China do not distin-
guish among Japanese. American, Eng
IfcA n- Gnrrr4. ~-,... k..& oil
are alike foreign devils" and obnoxious.
The people are extremely ignorant and
easily imposed upon, and it does not
take much to fan their chronic hatred
Of foreigners into a fame. Some of the
placards issued just before the recent
riots show how skillfully this was done.
One aid there was ample evidence that
children. Another stated that "at the
present time foreign barbarians are hir-
ing bad characters to steal small chill
dren that they may extract oil from
them for their use." A third, evidently
ntended as a sort Of justification,
charged English, French and Americans
in China with s~ympathizing with the
Japanese. and said IF in the future you
wish to preach your doctrines in China.
you must drive the Japanese back to
their own country; then you will be al
lowed to preach your holy gospel
throughout the country without hin
drance."
The hatred Of foreigners which thus
appears to be the underlying motive OF
all the outbreaks and massacres In
China, is not confined to that country
or people. Race prejudice and even re-
ligious prejudice are found even in civil
lied and Christian countries. The ex-
pulsion of the Jews from Russia dis
closed quite as proscriptiye a spirit as
does the hatred of missionaries in China,
and the massacre of Chinese in several
of the Pacific States, a few years ago,
should remind us that we are not in a
very good position to condemn race pref
udice.
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have sufficient money because, through
their stability. all intelligent people in
the community who have money which
they are not going to use at once, take
1t to the banks The money thus ac-
cumulated constitutes the much berated
money power" The Journal has no
interest in IN bank except as
a customer, consequently IL can
have no object in calling attention to
this evidence of the usefulness of a sound
system Of banks except to show that they
are in the highest degree useful to thou
sands Of poor men and women four
times a year. And yet Chief Master
Jawman Sovereign would have them
destroyed, n the cheap demagogue on
a false scent Of Office oenounce them as
monopolies n the oppressors of the
people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08
MAGAzINE NOTES.


The publishers OF the Mid-Continen
issue a formal announcerdent of the discon-
tinuance of thai magazine and of the
fact that it's unexpired subscriptions will
be filled by Scribner's Magazine.
The fitness of the title Hearts Insur-
gent to Thomas Hardy's serial story in
Harper is not quite clear, the hearts OF the
leading characters, seeming, up TO this
point, decidedly feeble organs ana ahav not OIL, eq da
velop strength. but so far the tale Is rather
wearisome and disappointing.
Barper's Magazine opens its August mum
Der very happily with the "Midsummer
Nights Dream" as illustrated by Abbey
and discoursed upon by Lang. The Abbey
conception OF Titania is worth, as show
tom. in the act of transformation and as
a lover. is not less deiightful.
In the August Harper Mr.. Howells in
dulges in some pleasing "reminiscences OF
writer's and other celebrities whom he met
in and about Cambridge a quarter of a
century ago. He is never more entertaining
than in this kind OF work. and a succession
of essays as admirable as the CALCULATIONS
of a Cheerful Giver." completed last month
In this magazine. would soon give him a
new reputation equal TO tnat wnlcn ne en-
joyed In his early career as a novelist.
Modern Art contains two poems by Mere
d,th Nicholson. both good. but one in par
ticular-"Where Four Winds Meet'-show-
ing a distinct advance in the authors liter
airy art. The second poem is a tribute to
the late William T.. Walters, the Baltimore
art collector. OF him he says:
He was no dreamer, yet amid i.fe's haste
Dared follow where the high ideals led;
His largess made the wide world less a
Arts path less hard to tread"
The twenty-dfth annaul School Journal
OF New York. issued by E. La Kellogg &
Co., is a Handsome humble OF eighty-eight
pages and contains a variety Of valuable
matter relating to schools and school
work. Among other features p = sympos-
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with Its moderately protective duties,
and the election OF 1894 made 1t certain
that there would be no more tariff re-
form for the benefit Of Europe. the iron
iron manufacturers were the first to adj
vance wages. In other words. the de-
feat OF the Wilson bill and the positive
assurance that 1t cannot become a law
until the American people again forget
the Cleveland experiment, are the causes
of the slowly improving condition OF in
dustry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-08

Mr.. Edward Atkinson's proposition that
banks be authorized to issue certificates
Of deposit asa part Of the circulating
medium VIII not be received with un-
bounded enthusiasm. 1t might lead to
the issue Of certificates for which there
Is no deposit because the money may be
loaned, as Is the case with most banks.
as their reports show.