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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01


sides fought equally well. and it is no
credit to the valor of the one to give
the impression that the other was lack
ing in soldierly qualities. They also
carry the impression that the Confed-
crate leaders were better soldiers than
were Grant, Thomas, Sherman. Sheridan
and others. The South had it's best
leaders at the start because they were
the most prominent officers in the reg
uiar army, while the North was COM
PEELED to test man after man until
Grant and his associates proved them
selves leaders. Above all, the history
for the loyal North must not praise
men whose offense puts them in the
same list with Benedict Arnold The
most that charity can do for these men
who deserted the United States army
to fight the government which had edu-
Gated them and who violated their oath
of allegiance is to secure silence.
1t win not be difficult to write such
history, and such a history is the
one which the people of the North de-
mand, both in justice to those who were
on the side of the Union and as a duty
to the generations to come
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
The Spring Poet.


Still HES the yernal poet forth
To hear the flush streams flowing,
And feel the softening of the north
And see the new grass growing.
And any latent germ of song
Which in his heart he nurses
Takes up the spring hope sweet and
strong
And blossoms into verses.
What though his tone be sometimes Grass,
His feet inclined to stumble?
He finds his muse wholesome lass
And does not cant or grumble.
Through all the years he has remained.
Despite the scoffing classes
OF connoisseurs with powers strained
And Philistine and asses.
And when the final spring would bloom,
The poet and his poem
Upon the brim of time shall loom,
Her harbinger and proem.
-Jethro C. Culmer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
NO CAUSE FOR CONGRATULATIONS.

Evidently Collector Tanner is dis
posed to congratulate the people of this
city that the receipts for customs du-
ties have increased to an extent under
the greatly reduced duties which indi-
Gates that two or three times as many
foreign goods were put upon our mar
kets last month as during March, 1S93
That may be well for the port of In
dianapolis, but there is another view
of the matter. Only given amount of
goods can be sold. and if three times
as many foreign goods are put upon
our market now as compared with
a year ago, and this holds true
of the country generally, the Amer
lean factories and workmen which
We're employed a year ago cannot
have as much employment now. If
American labor has lost the making of
these goods they have also lost the
wages which were paid them. They con-
sequently have less money with which
to buy the products of the farm and
the factory. The farmer in particular
loses next to the employee of the fac
tory, because he has lost large NUM-
Der of consumers whom he supplied
without competition. Now the goods
which take the place of the homemade
are made by people who draw their
food supplies from other countries and
pay their rents and profits of the retail
trade to foreigners. The foreign goods
must be paid for abroad in the money
which was paid to labor and enterprise
in this country under the protective
tariff. 1t means the purchasing in other
markets the goods which we can make
at home, and that the men who would
have made them must be idle hereafter
or crowd into the employments already
full. 1t means that if the American
producer is to regain this part of the
market which threefold increase of
foreign goods means he must cut wages
to the plane of the foreign competitor.
These results may be gratifying to
the Cleveland regime and the Cleveland
office holder, but they are anything else
than that to the thousands of working
men and working women who have lost
employment or suffered reduction of
wages consequent upon this humbug of q
tariff reform which in practice causes 4
a loss of wages and a general shrink
age in the values of all traffic and prop
erty which depends upon the general
good wages and steady employment of
all those who work for wages or salaries. j
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
THE SCHOOL HISTORY AGITATION.

Last week the Journal gave an alb
stract of the memorial and the resolu-
tions of the committee of the Indian
apolis posts of the Grand Army relative
to the histories used in the schools of
were referred to a committee, which
recommended and the encampment in
structed the department commander to
appoint committee of seven members
specially qualified for the work, to which
shall be referred the memorial referred
to. with instructions to present to the
State Board of Education the objections
to school histories now in use, and to
request and insist upon their with
drawal and the substitution of a text
book giving true and faithful account
of the war period" This means that
the veteran organization will take up
the school history matter in an intelli-
gent and conservative manner, but with
purpose which the publishers will do
wen to consider.
Already one of the publishers of
schoolbooks has heard of the movement
and has written to ascertain what is
desired. as his house is revising its text
book. His question is not difficult one
to answer. A school history should de-
vote quite number of pages to the
war period. 1t should give a true and
impartial version OF the cause of the
war: it should tell who began it, give
statistics regarding the leading cam
paigns. the general features of the pol
Icy or the Lincoln government and the
Davis pretension, and the general re-
suits. Such a history cannot be made
by revision of those now In use. as
they are inaccurate. unfair to the Union
cause and the Union armies. Two Of
tlIem carry the assumption that in point
devotion md heroIam TIE armies Of
/ <Ils zs!6sllss6 N sxe superior to those ct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
TAXING FOREIGNERS.

The collector of internal revenue at
New York has given notice to foreign
consuls in that city of his intention to
collect income tax from foreigners hold
ing American securities, and he is said
to be sustained il this position by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The
language Of the law shows that this is
not q violent construction. Section
provides that the tax shall be paid on
excess of income over $4,000 'by every
citizen of the United States, whether
residing at home or abroad, and every
person residing therein, and a like tax
shall be levied collected and paid an
nually upon the gains, profits and in
come from all property owned and of
every business carried on in the United
States by persons residing without the
United States This clearly includes
foreigners living abroad who derive in
come from property or business in this
country. Section 81 is as follows:
Any nonresident may receive the benefit
of the exemptions heretofore provided for
by filing with the deputy collector of any
district a true list of all his property and
sources of income in the United States and
complying with the provisions of Section
2 as # resident In Inc comput Ing income leone
source, but unless he be a citizen of the
United. States he shall only pay on that
part of the income which is derived from
any source in the United States.
This section discriminates between
nonresident citizens and nonresident
aliens who derive income from any
source in the United States. If citi-
cess of $4,000 subject to the legal ex-
emptions, and If an alien he shall pay,
according to Section 1. on such excess
of income derived from all property
owned or business carried on in the
United States, and according to Section
81 on excess of income derived from
any source in the United States 1t is
very clear that these provisions cover
income of foreigners from any property
owned or business carried on here. as
mills, factories, breweries, ranches.
mines or any productive property what
ever But the New York collector holds
that they include income derived from
American securities. This would not
include government bonds, as they are
not taxable, but it would include State
municipal and railroad bonds.
The Journal does not believe this posi-
ton is tenable. 1t is carrying the right
of taxation pretty far to say that
foreigners residing abroad shall pay on
income derived from properties held or
business carried on in this country. but
to say that they shall pay on American
securities held by them would be an
extreme view. Certainly no foreign
holder of American securities would pay
the tax without protest, which would
probably be seconded by his govern
ment. 1t will be hard enough to collect
the tax from incomes derived from prop
critics owned abroad. but an attempt to
collect on American securities held
abroad will certainly fail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

work of politics. He was looked upon as
one who had more inclination for the pleas
ures than the business of life. He was a
racing man. fond of the turf and all that
belonged to it. Now it is distinctly in favor
of mans popularity in England that
he should be votary of the turf. The
people do not desire that their leading
statesmen should be ascetics. 1t is an adj
ditional attraction in a. public man that
he should be lover of sport in one form
or another. Many a sturdy Tory softened
toward John Bright because he was known
to be an ardent lover of trout and salmon
fishing Lord Rosebery has indeed a great
many sides to his character AS Savage
Landors words put it, he warmed Doth
hands before the fire of life.'' He stretched
out eagerly for every wholesome occupa-
ton and amusement that existence could
give him. Other men of his station moved
along one groove, and only one. The man
of the turf was man of the turf and
nothing more. The politician was a poll
tician, the scholar lived with his books.
But Lord Rosebery seemed to want to grasp
at everything and to accomplish everything.
This gave him great start at the begin
ming, for it made him known in all circles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Their progress of events in he Dominion
will be awaited with interest-Pittsburg
Commercial-Gazette.
The question is one of manifestly vital
Importance. and it remains to be seen If
the Dominion government viii persist in
it's demand and undertake to enforce its
order by arbitrary means. when the result
must almost inevitably be civil war Of
the worst kind.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
If there is any question more than an
other upon which free people should be
free to act as they please it is that Of edu-
cation, upon which the very future of the
community depends, and under the condi-
tiOns now being asserted the state of the
province of Manitoba is more nearly related
to serfdom than to liberty. as Americans
understand it.-Philadelphia North Amer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
THE MANITOBA SCHOOL TROUBLE.

The Canadian crisis indicates that the
Kanucks are bound to be in the SWIM
Boston Herald.
1t seems a ridiculous thing TO be reach
ing out one embracing arm toward New
foundland, while the other hand grasps
Manitoba by the throat and tries to shake
her own win out of her.-Boston Traveller.
The opposition of Manitoba to the revival
or sectarian schools Is perfectly natural
and intelligfble 1t Ii distinct step back
ward. No wise government would order It,
No progressive people would submit to it.
Boston Journal.
rnent thu right of fhe central government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

that droughts and loss of crops have
tended to make cattle raising unprofit-
able at the low prices which prevailed
in recent years. From 1850 to 1890 the
annual increase of cattle was $50 per
cent, while from 1890 to 1893 the in
crease has been eight-tenths of / per
cent. These figures tell the story-sup-
ply beyond natural demand for a period
and restricted supply as the result of
reaction. At the same time it refutes
the theory that the restricted coinage
of silver has anything to do with the
rise and fall of such commodities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

AS newsboys are sometimes given
special catchwords or phrases to cry on
the street to make papers sell. SO the
deluded advocates of free silver coinage
are taught by the bullion owners to.
shout Decentralization" as means Of
keeping up the agitation. In doing this
they are simply pulling chestnuts out
of the fire for the bullion owners. Silver
has not been demonetized in the United
States. Every dollar Of the white coin
now In circulation is full legal tender.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
GIANT GILBERT DEAD.
He Was seven Feet Sis Tall and Was
Known to All Circus Goers.
New York Sun.

Col" James Gilbert, the giant of Bar
mum. Forepaugh and all the other big shows
of the country, is dead. and his body lies
abeth street waiting until coffin can be
made that will be large enough and strong
enough to held ii. Gilbert stood seven feet
six inches IN his stockings and was big
in proportion. he was Mexican, bora
in Chihuahua not quite thirty-five years
ago the only child CT parents who were
short even for the snall-s.zet; Mexicans.
His rapid growth used TO be TO his parents
a source OF wonder mingled with disrnay,
for by the time he was ten years old he
was 100 big TO wear his fathers cast-off
clothes, and when he was fifteen 1t took
twice as much cloth to make a suit OF
clothes for him as Il did for his father.
faincd his full growth. and an agent OF
Barnunats circus found him and brought him
tn New York, where tna show WAS playing.
colonel and put into 9 nfantlful qnlform
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Many of the Journals exchanges
throughout the State are commenting
on the unusual amount of building that
is going to be done this season in their
respective cities and towns. In some
cases they give lists of contracts al
ready let. and in others names of those
who are preparing to build. The re-
ports show that the number of build
ings will be greater and the character
better than in any previous year. This
is an unmistakable sign of returning
DrOsDerify
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

basis. transacting business with the rest
of the world with currency worth less
than 50 cents on the dollar. The de-
mand for free coinage originates with
the owners of silver bullion who would
like to have dollars worth of silver
coined into two dollars. That would be
a great snap for them, but ruin for
other nenIlle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

The silver maniacs who are rending
the air with idiotic bowls about the
distress caused by the alleged '.demoneti-
zation' OF silver conveniently ignore the
fact that this country has now a stock
Of coined silver amounting to s624. o00. 000
This Is greater amount per capita than
any other country In the world, and
every dollar Of II Ii legal tender and
par with gold. Notwithstanding the fact
t{I6t INN intrinsic valua az tine silver.
1l3sf ~ I'm present price of silver il
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

1t is not so funny for General Master
Workman Sovereign as it is for others
that the printers doing the work on his
official organ. the Journal of the knights
of Labor, have struck. Having advo-
Gated strikes up and down the country.
It remains to be seen what he will do
now that he is the greedy employer"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

insufficient education and the influx
of ignorant foreigners says ex-senator
Edmunds, lis the greatest danger of
this country Unlimited misinforma-
tion upon economic subjects. it may be
added, is the worst sort of insufficient
education. 1t is even worse than dense
ignoranee
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Senator Frye. OF Maine. has created
quite surprise by his claim that Mr.
Reed. as Speaker. did more for the Nc
Kinley law than did the aspirant whose
name the law bore. And it is part of
the inner political gossip that Senator
Frye and his colleague, Mr.. Hale. are
really in favor of Senator Allison's NOM
iuafiou
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

The Brooklyn Eagle is merciful to it's
readers. Instead of torturing them daily
with a spring poem, it prints six columns
of poetic illusions in single issue The
Eagle is probably proceeding on the theory
that a quick death is preferable to a slow
one, for few people are mentally strong
enough to survive reading six columns OF
spring fancies' in one day. The Eagle
uses these headlines:
HSre's Spring at Last-The Poets Have
Thawed Out as Witness Below-After Be-
ing Practical Folks All Winter, the Sap
Has Again Mounted to Their Heads, and
They Have Budded and Blossomed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
Atn,visn,.

81 cart let you have any money; that's
fiat said the new woman.
.'Why?' asked the husband, tears gather
ing in his limpid blue eyes.
Because confessed the breadwinner,
shamefacedly, "there is a bargain sale
down at Cuttems, and they are selling the
lovel.est spring trousers ever seen for 2.9S.
thought / had gotten over the bargain
counter habit but this is something / can
not resist"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

The advocates of free silver coinage
at the present ratio are fond of de-
the largest creditor class in this coun-
try are the wage earners. No person is
more interested in maintaining the pur-
chasing power of the dollar than the
man who works for daily or weekly
wages. and they outnumber the silver
mine and bullion owners a great many
thousand times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

On Saturday the price of silver was
671a cents fine ounce, which is cents
above the lowest quotation. Two rea-
sons are assigned for the advance-the
news of the armistice between China
and Japan. rendering it probable that
there will be large demand for silver
to pay the indemnity, and, in a less de-
gree, to the improved prospects of an
international monetary conference.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

ting together. the Legislature, Governor
Morton and Mayor Strong having
united upon bipartisan police board to
be appointed by the Mayor--a result
which Is largely due to the influence Of
Governor Norton u.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

1t is painful to note that the Chicago
Inter Ocean has discovered blemishes in
the Mckinley boom since the recent
kindly utterances of the venerable
editor of the Chicago Tribune regarding
the Governor of Ohio.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

4 Can be found ut the following places
FARIS-American Exchange In Paris, So Boulevard de
Capucines
NEW YORK-Gtsey House, windsor Hotel and Astor
House.
FHILADELPHIA-A.,P. Kemble. cor. Lancaster ave.
and Barring ST.
CHICAGO Palmer House. Auditorium Hotel and p.
q. News Co.. 81 Adams street.
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley & Co., I5f Vine street.
LOUISVILLE. t. Deering northwest corner OF
Third and Jefferson sts, and Louisville Book Co., 3J6
Fourth
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, d. c--Rggs House, Ebbitt House,
q WIZARDS Hotel and the Washington News Exchange,
nth street, bet Penn ave. and Fstreet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Recent statements Of the leading men
in Washington representing the silver
producing States lead to the inference
that they would prefer that an inter-
national monetary conference shall not
be held. l...-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Chicago wants honest aldermen
said an orator Saturday night in that
city. Those who read Chicago papers
are forced to conclude that it is a long
felt want yet to be supplied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

The collector of internal revenue at Phil
adelphia has decided that income from play
ing poker is not subject to tax on the
ground that it is fuctuating and uncertain.
That is true, but if the winnings of year
exceeded the losses by more than $4,000 the
excess over that sum should be taxed. Let
us have fair DEAL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

LouIsville Commercial. ~ AZ N
enemies of ali men who work for Vases
or salaries. and Of al taen who expect
and are trying TO get ON IA the wofid
BY economy and hard work. and OF All
men who put by their savings. rho
free silver men, 70 far are the mere tools
who want 10 make them pay nlpro mr. thai
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Those who desire to obtain the most
accurate nisinforma ton upon the money
question should read nothing but the
tracts and books issued and paid for by
the silver mine millionaires.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

With the country on single silver
basis, as it would be under free coinage.
all depositors in savings banks and
building and loan associations would
draw out in deprecated silver what
they paid under the gold standard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

give women suffrage. but it made wife
desertion felony, punishable with inn
prisonment at hard labor in the peni-
Tertiary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
He Gets SIangy.

II WONDER chuckled the waiter girl,
what the shoe clerk boarder will do when
he finds that the wheat cakes have been
lined with muslin in honor of the day?'
In all probability. Maud Edith" said the
Cheerful Idiot, ..'he will chew the rag
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Why should the farmer who gets only
55' cents for bushel of wheat favor a
policy that would enable the owner Of
q silver mine to have every so cents
worth Of silver coined into dollar?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

Minister Willis took occasion to show
the i'll feeling of the administration
toward the republic of Hawaii by not
inviting its President to semi-official
dinner
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

One looks in vain for the names Of
any Of the ex-Democratic Congressman
among the Presidents late appoint
ments. Are they persona non grata?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Those Girls.

There is not bit of deceit in her face,
is thereo'' y
mot in the least. It is so plainly made
up that it does not fool one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01

A currency of which one dollar is just
as good as any other dollar in purchase
bower is what the people desire.