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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26

The Terre Haute Express, in a long
editorial. accuses the friends of the
State University of breach of faith.
1t relates that the friends of the uni
versity. Purdue and the Normal School
chose committee of six to go to the
Legislature and ask that the three in
stitutions should be provided for by
an annual tax. ignoring this UNDER
standing. the friends of the State Uni
versity presented a bill which asks
levy for that institution which would
give it nearly 100000 year. leaving
the two other institutions to care for
themselves. The Normal School people
are very indignant over the matter. and
the friends of Purdue do not hesitate
TO characterize the performance of the
university people as sharp practice. If
taken in the order of their deserts, the
Normal School should stand first and
Purdue next. In 1858 the Legislature
imposed 4 levy Of Ia cents on each 500
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
AN OLD TRUTH REsrATED.

Commenting on that portion of Gov
ernor McKinley's speech before the man
ufacturers' convention at Cincinnati in
which he dwelt on the development of
the internal commerce of the United
States, the st. Louis Post-Dispatch
says: ''If free trade between the States
has done so much for our internal COM
merce. how is any reasonable person
to suppose that high tariffs can enrich
the country?' This question ignores
the fact that labor conditions between
and among the States are practically
the same. while between this country
and European countries they are very
different. If the same scale of living
and of wages that prevails in the differ
ent States prevailed in Europe there
would be no need of protection for
American industries.
The tariff has developed our internal
commerce by enabling American en-
ployers to pay the wage rate which
American workmen require, thereby at
once making them large consumers and
preserving home markets for home
producers.
The manufacturers convention. which
declared itself nonpart1San and nom
political. took a business-like view of
the question when it declared that ito
the largest possible extent our home
market should be retained and supplied
by our own producers, and our foreign
relations should be extended in every
direction and manner not inconsistent
Herewith This distinctly recognizes
that the preservation of home markets
for home producers should be the first
object of American legislation, and that
foreign trade should be a secondary
consideration. Foreign trade rela tions
should only be extended by means not
inconsistent with the protection and
preservation of home trade. All bust
ness men see this clearly enough. In
fact, it is plain to everybodyS except
that particularly obstinate class of blind
people who will not see
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26

IL there could be an investigation
which could get at the bottom of some
business transactions of the Prison
South it is believed that a considerable
amount of irregularity could be dis
closed Indeed, the warden in his tes-
timony at the last investigation made
1T appear that he had certified to the
delivery of a large amount of bricks
before they were delivered. so that his
friend might get his pay. He further
testified that he sold labor to fayorite
who was the lowest bidder. These were
facts sufficient for his removal, but
Governor Matthew's new board did not
make the change. 1t is also generally
admitted that he is man of ungovern-
able temper and unfit to deal with pris-
oners. These facts being known. there
can be no use in seeking further grounds
for demanding his removal. AS for taxi
ing the testimony of prisoners generally
nothing can be gained by examining
them in the presence of officers of the
prison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
DELINQUENT TAXES.

The facti that the aggregate of un-
collected taxes in this and some other
counties has been increasing is one Of
the features which the committees of
the Legislature having the salary bills
committed to them will be called upon
to consider. To have considerable and
increasing percentum of the taxes as
sessed lapse is a great injustice to those
who pay their I'd xes. while the fact that
no special effort is made to collect de-
linquent taxes will surely increase the
number of nontaxpayers and the amount
Of the delinquencies. Special effort must
be made to collect delinquent taxes. If
only second notices are sent few will
respond. If, on the other hand. the
treasurer looks sharply after delin-
quents, sending out special agents, the
larger part of such taxes can be OBJ
tanned. Under salary law which
makes no special provision for the eX-
penses incident to the collection of de-
linquent taxes no unusual effort will be
made to insure their collection when
the cost thereof must come out of the
salary of the treasurer. That is the
cause of the large amount of uncol-
leCteQ taxes III MARION county. IN view
of this fact would it not be wise to al
low the treasurer a small percentage on
all taxes delinquent six months or some
other stated period which he can col
lect? If this special effort had been
made in this county both the city and
county would now have large sum of
money which they will not have until
some special effort is made to collect
it. Such a provision in a salary law
need not in any way interfere with the
general system of salaries, but it would
be only a special compensation for a
special service which would be very
valuable to the county. Nor would the
general principle of salary in contra
distinction to purely fee compensation
be violated. The salary would cover the
service rendered upon the assumption
that all the taxes were paid according
to law within the specified time. The
percentage upon delinquent taxes would
be a compensation for collecting tax
which can only be obtained by sending
out collectors. as is now done in many
States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26

son OF authority no less stringent Radical.
Now that this person, whose name was
Lewis, should be taken by any one to have
given his name TO the boy was more than
Thomas Stevenson could endure. And the
name spelled Frenchwise to divert sus-
picion.
1t is said that Gladstone, in his younger
days. used to sing negro melodies with
banjo accompaniment very creditably. Re-
Gently Arthur Balfour won distinction as
parlor entertainer. In his leisure hours Mr..
Balfour cultivates both sport and learning
very successfully. He is notably good golf
player, and he has become an authority on
ghosts and other objects of psychical re-
search.
Chinese papers say that the Emperor has
ordered six two-edged swords for Prince
Kung, Ii Hung Chang, Ii Hung Tsao,
Weng Tung Ho, Kang vi and General Won
Hanneken. With these they have the right
without asking imperial permission, to cut
off the heads of all persons from the second
rank down who propose peace with Japan.
This does not look as if the Chinese wish
to give up the fight.
The youth is bore and gives her pain.
Then why does she ask him to come again?
For the simple reason that he must go
Ere he can come again, you know.
Detroit Tribune.
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HIS HEAD CUT In TWAIN.
Yet He Is Not Paralyxcd and Retains
His Mental Faculties.

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 25.--Of all the
peculiar and interesting cases the saw-mills
of Puget Sound have sent to this city, none
completes with that of Horatio Stetson,
an engineer I'm Stetson & Posts mill whose
head was cut half in two yesterday by a.
rip saw. StetSon was engineer and as
sisted his brother in fixing the machinery
in the saw-mill. BY chance the mill feed
belt came off and Stetson passed under
the table to fix 1t. He ran his head against
the saw, and in less than the twinkling
of an eye his head was cut across the top
JUST in front of the ears. The saw went
down into the brain fully three inches, the.
point of exit either side of the head
being on a level with the top of his ears.
Stetson crawled out from under the table
and his brother clapped the two pieces Of
his head together The brother says that
blood and brains were coming from his
head which looked as if it was falling
apart
The wounded man was hurried to the
hospital and while on his way there was
possessed with a mania for swinging his
right arm. 1t could not be held. He was
speechless. but understood everything said
to him. When he was placed on the oper-
ating table it was thought he would die be-
fore the flow of blood could be stopped.
He went through the trephining operation,
however. and was put to bed. Toward
night partial paralysis of his arms and legs
set in, but he regained the power of speech
and called for mis- mother. AT that time
he said he was not suffering pain. During
the night he was restless, but toward dswn
he took a bowl of beef tea. From this
time on he became stronger, the power
of motion Of the limbs came back and his
mind was perfectly clear. tie could talk,
but with difficulty. His temperature was
normal and his pulse remained all day and
up to O'Clock at night In the condition Of
a perfectly we'll man. There was no in
Illumination in the wound and at last ac-
counts there was no indications of fever
setting in.
According to the technical description of
the wound 1t begins on the top OF the head
and, entering the brain, cuts the fissure OF
Rolando This section of the brain Is sup
posed to affect the power of motive, the
truth of which claim is borne out by the
manner In which Stetson acted on the way
to the hospital. Many physicians do not
wonder at his being alive. but they are
mystified at his being possessed of all his
mental faculties and retaining the control
of his limbs, having a good appetite and be-
ing perfectly normal in all other conditions
of his body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
THE DUTY OF GOVERNMENT.

While Judge Gaynor, of New York.
was undoubtedly correct in declaring
that as between the public and the
stockholders of a railroad the primary
responsibility of the directors and man.
ayers of the road was to the public.
and that it was their duty to run their
cars, dividends or no dividends, he ought
to have embraced the opportunity to
declare that there rests on the authori-
ties a reciprocal duty, viz. that of pro-
lection. When the government creates
a corporation and invests it with a
certain franchise it virtually assumes
the obligation to protect the corporation
in the exercise Of its franchise. Indeed,
it does not need to assume this obliga-
ton, for that is the duty of the govern
ment towards all corporations as we'll
as all individuals. Protection in the ex-
ercise of legal rights and functions is
the first duty of government towards
every artificial as well as every natural
person, and failure to extend it is indie
feasible on any ground. No matter how
grasping or grinding the management
of a railroad may be or how deservedly
unpopular and odious, the duty of pro-
tecting it in the exercise of it's rights
and functions still rests on the govern
men:.
In the recent street-railroad strike in
Brooklyn this principle was measurably
lost sight of. Condemnation of the rail-
road management. which was doubt
less deserved, and sympathy with the
strikers, which, within certain limita-
lions, was equally well founded, were
permitted to overshadow the fact that
the authorities did not do their duty in
protecting the roads and enabling them
to operate. There We're several days be-
fore the militia were called out during
which the city authorities of Brook
lyn not only gave no adequate protec-
ton to the railroads. but made no con-
cealment of their sympathy with the
strikers who had tied them up and were
smashing cars. cutting wires and hav-
ing their own way generally. Impera-
tive as is the obligation of railroad
to perform its duty to the public, it
cannot be expected to do SO when it is
left at the mercy of a mob. The Brook
lyn Eagle states the case rightly when
it says: "a railroad company cannot
be required to run its cars when it's
wires are cut until it has had chance
to repair them and until the city can
assure it that its wires will be cut no
more" Again. on the samo line, the
Eagle says: when the effort of the
companies to give service is defeated
by strikers, and when the effort of the
companies to resume service is made
ineffective by the failure or denial of
protection, the companies by law are
justified in withholding service until
protection is secured and assured"
This is the correlative proposition to
the one which was correctly stated by
Judge Gaynor, the reciprocal duty of
the government towards railroads. A
thousand mandamuses of court cannot
compel a corporation to discharge its
duty to the public when the constituted
authorities who represent the public
fail to protect it from a mob as was
the ca Sc for several DAYS in BROOKLYN
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who have friends in the public fEstitu-
tons want to know is not whether the
attendants are Republicans or Demo-
Gratis. but if they are competent and
faithful"
There may be other opinions than
these. but if there are they were not
expressed in these knots of editors.
Therefore, it is fair to assume that the
Indiana Republican editors do not con-
slider nonpartisanship confined to the
selection of boards. but to the policy
pursued by those boards in the manage
ment of the charitable and correctional
institutions of the State, to which the
Republican party is pledged, and that
opinion the Journal most cordially in
dorses. Such an expression of the pol
icy of control should be incorporated in
the bills devoted to that subject.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
A BLUNDERER AT ESTIMATES.

Washington dispatches state that the
Secretary of the Treasury is much elated
over the prospect that the number Of
persons and corporations that will have
to pay the income tax is likely to prove
much greater than has been estimated.
thus yielding much larger revenue
than has been expected from this source.
1t seems the departments estimates
have been based on the supposition that
$1,000 persons and corporations would
have to pay the tax. whereas returns
from thirty-six out of sixty-three inter-
nal revenue collection districts estimate
the total number of persons subject to
the tax in those districts at 243,510 or a
grand total in all the districts of 426, 1872.
or 341, 132 more than the departments
estimates. The first thought suggested
by this remarkable disparity is that it
furnishes new proof of Secretary Car
isles inaccuracy in business matters
and of the worthlessness of his esti-
mates. 1t was the same with regard to
the deficit. In his annual report of De-
cember, 1893. he estimated the deficit
for the current fiscal year, six months
Of which had already expired, at $2S,-
100000: the actual deficit for the year.
as shown by his last report, was $685.
S03,26o. His estimates in other matters
have been quite as inaccurate.
The fact that probably five times as
many persons will have to pay the in
come tax as the Secretary has esti-
mated may justify his citation over the
prospect Of increased revenue. but it
does not relieve the measure from the
charge of being class legislation and
tax on thrift. 1t has been defended on
the ground that it was a tax on the
rich. who were comparatively few in
number and abundantly able to pay.
The argument partakes very strongly
of agrarianism. and while the returns
show that the number of rich or we'll
to-do people in the country is much
larger than has been estimated, it is
still evident that the income tax affects
only class and is largely a tax on
thrift. 1t is unsafe. however. to base
any conclusions on estimates made or
approved by Secretary Carlisle, for he
seems to have fatal facility in making
figures lie. The alacrity with which he
figures out successful financial achieve
ments in advance is only equaled by
the regularity with which he reports
failures in the end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
THE PASSING BYNuM.

Mr.. Bynum has been explaining "the
great commercial depression" Before
the event of Nov. Mr.. Bynum denied
that there was any depression of con-
sequence. Since that event he has evil
IDENTIFY learned about it. Mr.. Bynum
learns slowly; he reasons as crab
crawls. backward. His assumptions he
mistakes for reasons. Ten years in
Congress and thirty-five years out of
Congress, he has never been able to
learn that producers and consumers are
one. He looks at them as two distinct
bodies. Consequently. in his speech he
says that "the chief cause of the de-
preston has been the effort of the pro-
Queer to bind the consumer" Now, the
cause of the trouble is precisely the
opposite. While the American producer
and consumer were bound together, as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
THE SUGAR DIFFERENTIAL.
Important Amendment to Representa-
tive Wilson's Repeal BILL


WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-Representative
Hopkins, Of Illinois, member of the ways
and means committee, will offer an amend
ment of Mr.. Wilson's bill 70 remove the
discriminating duty on sugars from certain
foreign countries which will be designed. ie
is stated, to insure the efficieilrx of Mr..
Wilson's bill in accomplishing its object.
that is. the ending of retaliatory measures
against American meats. The amendments
will be substantially as follows:
Provided, That in the case of foreign
country, whether independent or a depend
discrimination in such country against prod
ucts OF the United States the duty mem
toned in this bill shall remain in full
force prior to the enactment of this BILL"
The amendment, If enacted. with the bill,
in the discretion of the executive branch of
the government IL Germany and her allies
do not conclude to discontinue their dis
examinations against American meat and
other products after the discrimination has
been RENTED the President has authority
to enforce it against the government Of
character, Mr.. Hopkins argues. there will
be no assurance that the administration
designed. Since the German officials have
maintained the insistence that their ex-
clusion of American cattle is inspired solely
by sanitary reasons they might continue
1T without inconsistency, and the United
States would receive nothing in return for
its concession. Western members who have
been spoken to concerning the amendment
favor it. 1t has significance also in show
ing that a part of the Republican minority
has receded from its attitude of opposition
to the administration bill. At the meet
ing of the ways and means committee in
which the bill was discussed there was cast
a solid Republican vote against reporting
1t to the House. AIR. Hopkins thinks the
Western men VIII vote for it regardless of
party lines il the amendment can be at
tached.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
TOO MUCH SILVER PAID OUT.
More Certificates Were Outstanding
Than Carlisle Had Coin to Meet.

More Certificates Were Outstanding
Than Carlisle Had Coin to Meet.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2o.-An Interesting
fragment of financial history is found in the
report of Secretary Carlisles recent APP
pearance before the ways and means COM
mittee, which has been made public. Mr..
Sibley, of Pennsylvania, in the course of
an informal discussion. said to the Secre-
tary: I'm your reply to the Senate resolu-
ton asking why the treasury had refused
to give silver in exchange for gold you re-
piled to the effect that you had no free
silver. Has the silver accumulated since
that timer"
II do not remember the date of the re-
ply the Secretary answered.
THAT was Aug. II, 1S93' said Mr.. Sibley.
I'm the summer of 1881 Secretary Car
Isle explained, "by oversight OF the as
sistant treasurers throughout the United
States, silver dollars were paid out to meet
the extraordinary demand which then ex-
isted for some small currency 20 such an
extent that we had, in fact. more silver
certificates outstanding than we had silver
dollars in the treasury. When / discovered
the fact it was stopped, of course at once
The ten subtreasuries scattered
throughout the country, and, not being in
communication with each other, when the
people demanded silver dollars, on account
of the great necessity for small currency,
they paid them out freely, and 1t was dis
covered that they had done to such an
extent that outstanding silver certificates to
the amount of between 100000 and 100000
had no silver left behind them. That was
at a time when small currency was at a
premium"
At another point in the discussion, the
Secretary having said that it had been his
experience that the kind of money paid out
by the treasury the kind received
back Mr. Breckenridge remarked: the
amount you pay out is not so much larger
than the amount which, by taxes, etc. you
get back, is it?'
1T ought to be about the same" Secre-
tary Carlisle replied, although, in fact. we
are falling behind"
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MEANING OF NONPARTIsAN MANAGE
MENT.

The Republican editors of Indiana are
not only as intelligent a body of men as
can be found in the State, but they
come in contact with the party voters
as much as any class of men. and are
as well, and some of them better, able
to give an opinion regarding the popu-
lar sentiment than most others. They
were very much in town yesterday, and
their views on many State matters
were expressed. In a knot of a half
dozen at the Statehouse ~one of them
brought up the question of the nom
partisan management Of the State in
situations and said: 1T makes no
difference whether the boards are of
three, four or five members composed of
men OF both parties. That will not
make them nonpartisan; but what these
boards shall do in regard to the en-
ployes and what they do in regard to
contracts decide what is partisan and
what is nonpar.isan. Efficient employees
should be retained because they are
efficient, all appointments should be
made upon ascertained fitness, and those
who are found to be unfit should be dis
missed. If there are more than are
needed, as is likely to be the case under
the present partisan rule. the useless
should 60 That is the nonpartisanship
to which the Republican party is
pledged. and there should be some ex-
preston in the law changing the con-
troll Indicative of this purpose" To
this terse statement of the meaning of
nonpartisanship the half dozen listen
ers gave hearty approval One of the
young Republican editors. one of the
ablest and most influential young men
In the State, said. I'VE want the pub
lie Institutions managed upon strict
business principles. What the people
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-The engagements
OF gold for shipment by to-morrow's steam
ers aggregate 100000. of which the Bour-
gogne will take 100000 and the Lucania
$3.50. 900. This makes the total exports for
the week $7,20O.00o. which ID the largest
amount shipped in any one week since
April. 1885, The amount Of gold withdrawn
from the subtreasury to-day was S7.000Oo0
which brings the total Withdrawals for the
week up to $13.l550Oo. OF this sum 50. 800 0O0
was take in gold bars, none. Of which are
into the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company
and 100000 into the Merchants National
ury established gold reserve has there
been withdrawn for export in any one week
a sum equal to this weeks Withdrawals.
gold shipments will foot up nearly $50, Co.,
O0o which is greater than any months ex-
ports since last June