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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18
GOLDEN FACTS AND SILVER FIG
TIONS.v

Mr. Lewis Hancock, of Austin, Tex,
has submitted some facts relative to
gold and silver which are very pertinent.
He shows that in 1873 in all the world
there was about $3.50, OOO. 900 of silver
money in circulation, and that the only
nations that demonetized silver, that
is. withdrew IL from use as money"
were Germany, Sweden and Denmark,
or 50.OO0.0O0 of 1900, OOO, 900 Of people using
silver money. The amount of silver
money demonetized or withdrawn from
use as money was $3.50. 0O0, 900, leaving
81, 100000 Of silver in use as money.
No silver was withdrawn from use as
money" in this country by the act of
1873 or by the Latin Union by it's action
in limiting or stopping the legal-tender
coinage.
All of the authorities. Soetbeer, Null
hall and others, make the total produc-
ton of silver during the twenty-one
years from 1873 to the close of 1894
$3.50, 000,000 The highest estimate of
the white metal used in the arts and
sciences during the same period is $685.
100000, which leaves $500, 000, 900 as the
total of the worlds silver coinage since
the crime" of 1873. The increase of the
silver coined into money since 1875
81. 100. 600. 000-is 81 per cent. added to the
stock Of silver money in existence at
that date. And this increase of 81 per
cent. making the worlds stock of silver
money $4,000, 900 900. against 81. 400 900,
If none had been lost, is called demoneti-
zation-the withdrawing of silver from
use as money!
During the same twenty-one years the
worlds production of gold was S2,411,-
100000, of which 050.000000 has been
used in the arts and sciences, leaving
1885,. 100000 for coinage purposes. Max
Ing allowances for gold boarded in India
and China, the amount of gold coined
from 1873 to the end of 1894 was $780,.
100000. In 1873 the amount of gold
money was estimated at $3.50. 000, 900; in
1894, So. 900, 0O0, 0Co-an increase of AZ per
cent. in the twenty-one years.
BY further figures culled from these
recognized authorities on these topics, 1t
appears that the worlds stock of gold
and silver money has liner" ased from
1s94-an increase Of $4,000. 100000. exclu-
sive Of recoinage. or an increase of over
63 per cent. If the population of the
world has increased 20 per cent. in the
twenty-one years included in the period
since 1.-The superlative crime of the GEN.
tury," gold and silver money has in
creased more than three times as fast,
and faster, undoubtedly, than at any
period in the worlds history.
In the light of such indisputable facts
as these statistics afford, sensible people
will soon see that the charges about the
curtailment of the worlds money by de-
monetization are the inventions of the
silver bullion syndicate. their hired
claquers and the demagogues of the
calamity variety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

and with the visitor close to her that
powder and rouge could III deceive him.
not one wrinkle. Her hands are as soft and
as smooth as any young miss could wish her
own to be. 1t Is only in her wrists-those
remorseless clocks of the human frame
that the tale of her years Is told. And she
wears long laces about them, which conceal
them except when her gestures. free and
graceful as the flying OF a bird, disturb
their folds and reveal the little tracks upon
her flesh. Her voice has not in it one of
the cracked high notes which one expects
life. and journeyed well along toward the
time when the sun must set, and along
rough and rocky road at that: but Ii is as
full OF the round. full. wonderful tones. the
rich, penetrating, mesmerizing cadences
which have charmed audiences and init
mates from the day when she first swept
or Zarnette in Coppee's PEASANT
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POOR PROPERTY.

The statistics OF the railroads of the
United States for the year ending June
80. 1894. collected and published by the
Interstate Commerce Commission, are
not of a character to sustain the charges
that men become millionaires by the
earnings of this class of property. The
year was that in which all the indus
tries of the country suffered from the
reign of the Democracy. Like many
hundreds OF thousands Of people, the
railroads cut expenses to the lowest fig
ure. The number of employees was re-
duced 90, 994. or over IL per cent. while
the gross earnings fell off S147 $3.50. 077, or
more than II per cent.
The capital stock of the railroads of
the country is s4.S24.O75659. of which
80, O66. $50 O94 paid no dividends, and to
pay an average dividend of Sal per cent
on the remainder. aggregating sos, .976.
about sac, OO0. 900 was added to their debt
1t is probably true that a large part of
this aggregate stock is water, but so
long as the roads can earn no money
with which to pay dividends on the in
fiated stock, it is not worth while to
devote much time to denouncing the
watering of railroad stock.
The bonded debt of the railroads is
s5.S56, 5s3.Ol9, but large portion of the
aggregate mileage of the roads is in the
hands of receivers, because the roads as
managed do not pay the interest as it
falls due. Eventually the most of them
will go into the hands of the bondhold-
ers or be sold for their advantage, but,
whatever comes, those holding hundreds
of millions of bonds will never realize
the money which they invested. Most
of the transcontinental lines. with
branches covering the States west of
the Missouri river, are bad investments
for the bondholders. The gamers are
the people of the States to whom they
furnish the means of transportation.
and without which their lands and prod
ucts would be of little or no value. Thou
sands of people of limited means were
induced to invest in these railroads
when they were building. and have lost
nearly all that they put into them. Now
the struggle is continued by the larger
bondholders. who are. in some instances.
putting in more money In the expecta-
ton that small hut certain return will
come in time. And yet these properties,
or, rather, representatives of lost money.
are those which class of reformers
would have the government come into
possession OF and run in the interest of
the people At the present time only the
very rich In a cooperative capacity can
afford the luxury Of owning railroads.
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AND MIR. PEW IS STILL IN.
A Mnssachusetts COLLECTOR, Who Out
wits Two Administrations.
Washington Post.

1t was expected a few days ago that
the President would announce the appoint
ment of a Democratic collector of customs
for the district OF Gloucester, Mass, but
there seems to have been some hitch and
the appointment has been delayed.
This case is of the most unique i'm
the history of federal officehoding The
place is now held by Republican named
Pew, who was appointed by President Har-
rison. Soon after he had qualified it was
found that he was cashier of a national
bank sat Gloucester. and as this is against
the regulations, Secretary Window asked
for Mr.. Pews resignation. While the mat
ter still pending Secretary Window
died. In course of time Secretary Foster
reached the case and, he too, asked Mr..
Pew to step aside. The collector, however
thought otherwise. and when Mr.. Cleveland
came into office Mr.. Pew was i'm possess
sion of both offices. The dictatorship pays
about $500 a year, so that ii is worth
keeping.
When the Democratic administration
took Mr.. Pew in hand considerable diff
Guilty was experienced i'm finding a Demo-
crat TO take the place. Against every man
who was mentioned some one would come
forward with charges or objections. and IL
was not until last winter that the Presi-
dent nominated Henry T. Kittfield TO be
collector. But Mr.. Kittfield lived in Man
chester. which, while in the same district
diately the people OF the latter town pro-
tested against the appointment of an out
slider and their protests were so vigorous
that the Senate refused TO confirm the
nominee. Since then further steps have
been taken find a successor 10 Mr.. Pew,
and IL re Is as successful in the future as lie
has been in the past this administration
will go out of Office with Mr.. Pew continue
ing In happy possession OF his two places.
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LEAGUE OF CATHOLIC UNITY.
Organization OF Clergymen That May
Result I'm Much Good.

NEW YORK, June ia meeting of cler-
gymen representing all the denominations
of the Protestant Church. was held i'm TIM
city recently. Ii is regarded as a most i'm
portant step in the direction OF Christian
unity. DR.. Edward 3. Coe. OF y, Dutch
Reformed faith. said that the rivalry dis
played in foreign fields by the missionaries
of various Protestant denominations
amounted, practically, to a scandal. and
was calculated to thwart the efforts OF
Christianity, since even the most simple
minded heather could hardly fail TO draw
the conclusion that a religion which SO
widely divided factions of its own believers
was not ideal. 81 do not understand hs
said. that the meeting of June was for
the purpose of forming new organization
among Protestants. Il was to open the way
for clergymen of all denominations TO get
together and discuss what are known as the
Lambeth articles of common faith"
The meeting held in Gracehouse, adj
joining Grace Church. and the name
adopted was the League of Catholic Unity.
Prof. Charles w. Shields. OF Princeton.
was chosen president; and Rev. Chsuncey
Langdon, of Providence. secretary and
treasurer pro TEN. The circular sent out
says: without detaching ourselves from
the Christian bodies TO which We severally
lations thereto or seeking TO interfere with
other efforts for Christian unity, we accept
as worthy of the most thoughtful consld-
Grafton the four principles on church unity
proposed by the bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal Church AT Chicago I'm 1876. and
amended by the Lambeth conference or lSs
as follows: The holy Scriptures OF the oii
and New Testaments as containing All
things necessary TO salvation ana as peug
the rule and ultimate standard OF Idltn-
The Apostles Greed the baptismal SYM
boil and Nicene creed the sufficient stale
ment of the Christian faith The TWO sacra-
ments ordained by Christ himself-oaptl.m
and the supper OF the Lord-ministered win
unfailing use of Christ's words OF instltu-
ton and of the elements ordained by Him.
The historic episcopate locally adapted IN
the methods Of its administration 10 the
VARYING needs Of the associations ana peo-
ME called of God into the unity OF His
church. /" This letter was signed: congre-
gatIonal. F. Benjamin Andrews David Nell
SON Beach. George Dana Bolrdman, Amory
II Bradford. D. q. Moore, Philip = Mox-
an: Episcopal. Edward Abbott. William Du-
bose William r.. Huntington. William
Chauncey I.angdon. Randolph II. McKim.
Henry y. satterlee. George Williamson
Charles A. Briggs. Edwafd Il. Coe. Charles
C.uthbert Hall. {. :. narrower. J. Il. Re-
men SNYDER. Charles w. Shields
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is decreasing. OF those who are respon-
sible for the depression which followed
the full employment of 1892. Mr.. Comp
ers should accept his share. Four
months before the election he took occa-
sion to give his opinion, with its official
weight as the president of the Fedora
ton of Labor that il would make little
difference with the labor of the country
whether the Republicans or the Demo-
Gratis succeeded. That opinion did much
to elect the Cleveland regime. The over
throw OF protection turned several mil
lions of men out of employment. Now
that there is certainty of the restora-
ton of protection, the unemployed of
1894 are finding employment at lower
wages and the outlook is generally hope
full. Under such conditions Mr.. Comp
ers should help the situation by casting
aside the pessimism which paralyzes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

Ex-Representative Sibley. of Pennsyl-
vania, who already has some sort of a
silver nomination for President, very
frankly declared in his Memphis speech
that he was for free silver because 1t
will advance the price OF wheat and cot
ton" That is. he would double the
price of the necessaries of life here. but
not the price of the surplus of wheat.
cotton. etc. sold in Europe. This means
that he would deprive the pensioners of
one-half of the purchase power of $120.-
100000 Of annual pension money-to help
whom? The spectators in silver bullion.
This is thousand times more unjust to
the pensioners than the Cleveland game
of reissue =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

III there ever was completely vision
airy project. the scheme of liberating Ire
land by war is one. Whatever may be
our wish in the matter. and most Ameri-
cans wish home rule or independence for
the Emerald isle. 1T seems that all those
who have any knowledge of what war
to separate Ireland from Great Britain
must involve must see nothing but fail
ure and disaster in any attempt to Sc
cure the independence of the island by
armies organized outside of Ireland.
Vast sums of money. not merely mil
lions. but hundreds OF millions would be
necessary for such an undertaking. with
country as base of operations. That
IL can be done without millions and
without base is simply the height Of
absurdity. Still. it is probable that tens
OF thousands of patriotic Irish men and
women will contribute to the fund from
their meagre wages.
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that the bulk of Republican sentiment
is opposed unalterably TO free coinage
on the ratio OF 16 to 1. President Sulzer
responds for what the correspondent Of
the Pittsburg Dispatch calls Ben Harri-
sons State as follows:
The Republicans of Indiana are now and
have always been for honest money. con-
sisting of gold, silver and paper, believing
in a liberal use of silver. every dollar.
however, to be the equal of every other
dollar and securely backed by the national
government the debt-paying and purchas-
ing power of all our money to be on a
parity. They desire bimetallism and would
welcome an international agreement, fixing
the same ratio the world over / believe
our delegation to Cleveland will be prac-
tically unanimous in favor of the views
above represented.
President Chadwick, Of Utah. sends
word that if free coinage should not be
Endorsed its delegation may retire from
the conventional sort of bluffing which
will be likely to be resented when it is
done to coerce nineteen-twentieths of
the Republican sentiment which will be
represented in the convention.
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ed would begin with groans and cracklings
to separate. In sixteen hours II would be
free and the force of the lime would be
spent.
III used powder or dynamite said he
i would rip out such a mass as that In
and cracked into a hundred pieces. or.
more likely. In a large blast, the powder
would simply tear out a way along the
spawls and leave my big rock as solid as
ever
II thanked my Welshman" said Cen
Newton, and told him he was much of a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

Mr.. Gompers has not been cheerful
since he was deDosed from the presi-
dency Of the Federation of Labor This
Is cause for regret. because Mr.. Gompers
has been a useful man and might have
continued so If he had not been infiu-
enced by the Socialists. Mr. Go.npers
now estimates that the number OF idle
men In the country who would work Il
they could find employment is 2.0O0.000
This Is only half as many as Coin
made Commissioner Wright responsible.
who In turn denied having made such a
statement. But. whatever the number
~ u u not a. large as year ago. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

Mary had a little wheel
With tires made to blow,
And everywhere that Mary went.
That wheel was sure to go.
One day without formality
She broke the trustees rule,
And promoted immortality
BY hiking off TO school.
why does the wheel get wicked so7''
The eager children cry.
5" Cause Mary rides the wheel, You know
The trustees did reply.
And so the trustees turned IL out,
The teacher shed tear.
go be immoral somewhere else;
We want no hiking here"
brooklyn Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18
SECONDHAND ICE.
A Story Showing How Mere Sentime at
Interferes with Business.
BROOKLYN Times.

A singular question of hotel ethics has
arisen at Winston. n. c.. The guests at the
Phoenix Hotel. at that place, rose n revolt
covery. The discovery was simply this:
That the ice used in their iced tea and other
cool drinks had first been used in another
part of the hotel in preserving the 1nteg-
rity Of a certain dead person named Charles
Johnson. The guests not only denounced
the action of the proprietor in using sec
hotel in body, and the proprietor either
has made or is about to make an assign
ment.
The defense offered by the proprietor is
significant. The proprietor declares that
while it is true that the ice in question was
was interposed between the corpse and the
ice, and that consequently the ice was in
no wise damaged by the useful office which
It was called upon to MI before being placed
The fact that the boarders did not ac-
cept this explanation as satisfactory indi-
Gates clearly the extent to which mere sem
timent governs the actions of the large ma
jority of mankind. Scientifically, it cannot
be gainsaid that the ice was quite as pure
after. the corpse got through with it as it
was before. All that the ice had done was
melt. So much of it as did not melt was
ready to melt with as much potency and
propriety as that which had already melted
Whether this residuum was used for an
other corpse or for lemonade was, scien-
tifically, matter of total indifference. But
here enters enfeebIing sentiment, and in
stead Of accepting the ice on the basis Of its
own intrinsic virtues, goes in for an in
spection of its past and the ice: like many a
struggling human creature, is hampered
and shut out from the sympathy of the
world.
The cold philosophy of the situation Is
eimply this: That in such emergencies GER
tain facts must be kept a secret. There are
many articles of food of which ii is the
custom to say that If we knew how they
were made we would not eat them. The
point is that the eater must be kept in
Ignorance OF these necessarily distressing
facts. 1t was the same way with this ice.
II the secret Is not sure, then il is better
in case there is anything like stampede OF
boarders in sight, TO dodge the chance by
etor, for example. might better have in
vested i'm fresh ice for the tea, if need be
selling the ice of the dubious past to the
proprietor of the next hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

New York Evening Sun.


For those lily-livercd persons who don't
believe in an army or a navy. or in being
In a condition TO make the flag respected,
there Is word of wisdom in the last
book of Coventry Patmore. Nations" he
says, Idle of softening Of the brain. which
for long time passes for softening of
the heart" NOBODY ever accused this poet
and philosopher of being lingo, or a lover
OF war. hankerer after broils. But
he has reached an age when men. If they
have IL In them can see national life stead
lily and see II whole In spite of the milk
sops the United States will not die OF any
softening of the brain. disguised as a phil
anthrouic love of their enemies
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

One GETS the impression that legisla-
lures which linger about their work for
months are very liable To do many fool
ish and mischievous things during the
last sixty days. These would be avoided
IL the Constitution should require all
bills TO be offered in a short session of
thirty days and then considered in an
other thirty or sixty-day session six
months later
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

Glaufin and Eugene NJ. Breeze. stock bro
kers. who engineered the big Fair wheat
deal have fallen out. and Mcfaanin has
sued Breeze fo- an accounting. charging
breeze with embezzlement and with having
destroyed papers and mutiiating records. es-
peciaily those relating 10 the Fair wheat
deal a receiver has been appointed TO close
up the business OF the irm. Mctiaunin Is one
OF the witnesses OF the nrst or so-called
stolen Fair will, while Breeze - brother
of Louis c. Breeze. private secretary TO
the late ex-senator and one or the exc
citors Of that will.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18
The PessiInist.

Dear me,' said the fluffy girl boarder.
How funny
What is funny?" asked the shoe-clerk
boarder
II just read story of two men fighting
over whether il was the sun or the moon
they saw in the East on foggy morning."
"Oh, If men want TO fight" Clipped in the
old bachelor boarder, lit is no trouble to
find an excuse. i have known men TO fight
over a girl
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represented in the convention.

The narrow and bitter Cleveland DEM
ocrat who is now writing the editorials
for Harper's Weekly asserts that if Gen.
eral Harrison or Governor Mckinley
were President either would sign free
coinage bill There was once a Harpers
Weekly which was above such con-
temptible partisanship. 1t was When
George William Curtis was it's editor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

Now that the silver strife is going on
in Illinois and Indiana. the several gen.
tlemep who were spoken of as aspirants
for the Democratic presidential nominal
ton few months ago are following the
example of Bre'r Rabbit
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Receiver for stove Company.

ALBANY. y. Y, June T.-Upon The ap-
piication of the trustees OF the Perry
Stove Company, OF this city. one OF the
largest stove manufacturers In the United
Tauidation vas Med in the Supreme Court
and Judge Foreman has appointed Gen.
Zelden +. Marvin. OF this city. as re-
ceiyer The stockholders, at their annual
meeting last week. decided that 1t was
undesirable TO continue business on sss
present basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

In 1873 copper was worth about 20
cents pound. but the average price
for the 250oO0.0Oo pounds turned out in
1894 was 9fs cents. There is no record
Of "the greatest crime of the age" hav-
ing had anything to do with the decline
in the price
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

Bernhardts greatest triumph is unique.
She has triumphed over time, In ali the
world to-day there is no woman actively in
the public view who has lived so long, and
who has lived so much during the years
that she has lived. She may be fifty. she
may be fifty-five, yet she looks thirty, and
that not only on the stage. when she has
all the accessories of arranged lights and
hidden paints TO gloss the ravages of time,
but in her own reception room at midday,
with the light OF the sun shining brightly In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

DIR. Depew is probably right when he
says that the Republicans will get more
electoral votes if the Democratic nation
al convention should declare for the free
coinage of, silver than they would if it
should adopt the platform of 1892.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

The Democratic editor in this State
who is so angry with the President be-
cause he did not give him office that he
will champion free coinage because the
President opposes it-well what kind of
a Democrat is he?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18

During the eleven months ended with
May our exports fell off s74.OOO.OO0. Dur
ing the same period our imports in
creased about the same figure This is
gain for foreign countries of nearly
$50. 900 during the first round OF the
Democratic tariff