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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The Queensberry rules nave knocked out
an enemy of human society in the first
round.-Philadelphia Record.
The Marquis of Queensberry knocked out
Oscar Wilde in the first round. He is the
best man of the two viewed from any
Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
The passing of the aesthetic Oscar Wilde
into an oakum-picning prison is one of the
spectacles which the world is now longing
to see.-Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
In one of his books Oscar Wilde says that
"a man can't be too careful in the choice
OF his enemies" Oscar didn't think of this
when he selected Marquis of Queens
berry for one of his enemies.-St. Louis
Globe-Demoerat.
What is true of Wilde's plays is just as
true of his tas y and disgusting books.
Let every decent man into whose library
a line of this monsters writings may have
found it's way seek it out and burn it
before the sun goes down.-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Wildes. the Queensberrys. the Lord
class, but it is very insignificant class in
These vices are bred of idieness. inherited
wealth and the artificialities of aristocratic
Society.-Chicago Times-Herald.
Mr.. Oscar Wilde seems to be in the mid
die of a very nasty and very deserved and
very bad fix and we hope the young dudes
In our country who thought it was chic to
INITIATE USUAL VllQc VIII take u mint duu
govern themselves accordingly. The morals
of the later Roman empire do not go in this
d~ay.-Louisville Commercial.
The hideous exposure of Oscar Wilde is a.
vindication of DIR. Nordau's diagnosis of
fn-de-siecle literature and art as the sympt
toms of physical and moral degeneracy,
and it j~ustifes those he~althy-minded critics
who have stood out against the whole fash
ionable and hysterical movement" as OBJ
scene. abnormal and Observation-Disclosures
Times.
AS to the literary pollution represented
by Wilde every man and woman who
wants to preserve the decencies of society
and to promote the higher ends of civil
ization should refuse to admit it into the
household. They should boycott the thea
ters that present the Wilde plays as sensa-
tional substitutes for the decent drama.-St.
Louis Posr-Dlspatch.
If there are many more like Oscar Wilde
in London, that metropolis should at once
undertake a moral purgation and escape
the fate of the ancient cities of the plain.
The people who raved over Wilde when he
was in this country and who have admired
his morbid writings, will. not be likely to
place themselves much in evidence here
fter-A[innepoliS Tribune.
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Growers solipsism.

(After Whitman.)
How tickle is famel How ironical the ca
prices of fortune.
How quickly doth the loudest applause turn
to pitiful reproaches!
How swiftly doth the strange spell of poll
tics change the masses to asses!
Three years ago my heft disturbed the equi-
librium of the globe!
l was Columbia's thrice-called Cincinnatus.
born to rule Cor ruinD
I nodded, and ten thousand hungry Bour-
bons bobbed in unison.
I spoke. and London felt a trenlor from
Stead's sanctuary TO the Darkest
Quarter!
1 alluded to the "plain people, and they
hung on to my words like kittens to a
nourishing tabby!
My platitudes gave to encyclopedia deini-
lions the flavor of ~oraeles!
A year passed. $50 did my glory.) The
finances became stringent and the
times colicky.
The prosperity that made u. S. great van
ished like a dream of Eden.
The devil was to pay-in gold, and silver
demonetized!
I laid it on Sherman. and before the session
ended he laid it over me!
Now, 10! there are few so infatuated as to
do me reverence.
1 am a veritable smountain of mummy" a
harpooned and landed leviathan.
My physical amplitude makes my impotence
all the more conspicuous!
ct is hard to sustain a character that has
been so pitilessly exaggeratedD
l and my henchmen erst inveighed c%ontinu-
ously against "plutocrats,"-
Forgetful that labor implies a condition of
dependence on capital.
We wanted power, distinction, salaries, at
whatever cost; and Fate awarded
them!
I now see how lovely it is to be poor, hon
est, obscure and irresponsible.
Like my happier prototype, l can say: A
sorts of men take a pride to grid at
me-"
Even London is aghast; and Free Trade is
thoroughly wounded in every respect"
I would rather be a third-rate lawyer in
Buffalo-sappy, happy and happy,
Than the scandalized magistrate of an I'M
grateful republici
"A five-dollar fee, with unadulterated beer
and co~ntentment,
Is better than a ffty-thousand-dollar re-
sponsibility and nothing but vouchers
and bonds to show for it!
I now understand why it would be pleas
anter to hire cheap under st. Peter
Than to maintain undisputed supremacy in
Sheol!
Therefore, 1 long for a respite from the
conspicuity of fame and caricature,
And the restful quiet of Blizzard Bay pull
ing black bass and bull-head!
And I'm going to have it or bust! I am
not a candidate for a th-d t-mD
u. c. Ochiltree.
yn5far nnIiC AnriI K
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R. p. HalloweI is a well-known resi-
dent of Massachusetts, a graduate of
Harvard and a man who has been con-
nected with practical reforms. During
the past winter he has been in the
South on account of his health. During
the latter part Of the winter he was in
Camden, S. c., with several friends.
While there he pursued his investiga-
lions of the political and social condi-
tions of the colored people. his object
being to secure all the advantages of
education for the younger generation
and a recognition of their legal rights.
Mr.. Hallowell was we'll received when
he went there, but so soon as it was
learned hat he visited colored churches
and schools he was treated with cool
ness. Finally he was the recipient of a
warning from the local regulators to
quit the place in four days. One of his
family, an invalid woman, opened the
letter by mistake, and, when she read
it, induced Mr.. Hallowell to go to Ashe-
vile, in North Carolina, well knowing
that he would remain if he saw the
threatening letter. When the leading
citizens of Camden learned that Mr..
Hallowell had left under threats of
white-capism they expressed deep re-
greet that his indiscretion had caused
an expression of Ill will. which they de-
nounced because it would injure the
city. Mr.. Hallowelrs retort is very
sharp. He tells them that his only pur-
pose in visiting colored meetings was to
promote the welfare of citizens of the
TYnited States who seem To he still ra-
garded as slaves in some parts of South
Carolina. That a well-known and phi
lanthropic citizen should be warned to
leave a town because he had shown
himself the friend of colored people
recalls the incident of 1874, when the
Governor OF Massachusetts sent an
agent to Charleston, S. c.. to investigate
the complaint that colored sailors, citi-
zens Of Massachusetts,. had been put In
on arrival Of the vessels in which
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THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH
AMERICAN TRADE.

The two things in South America that
European governments are interested in
are the control of South American trade
and the payment of the debts owed by
South American states. AS long as
they can control these matters they win
not trouble themselves much about po-
litical distractions. Several of the South
American states are deeply in debt. their
bonds being held in England, Germany
and France. and when it comes to en-
forcing payment these governments may
make common cause.
AS for the control of South American
trade they hav it now. and unless the
government and people of this country
show more intelligence and enterprise
in the future than they have in the
past, they will retain it for a long time
to come. 1t speaks poorly for American
craftsmanship and enterprise that. not
w~ithstanding our nearness to South
America. our identity of American name
and republican institutions, and our
common interest and pride in the unity
and development of the Western hemi-
sphere, the great bulk of South Amer
{ lean trade should be with European
countries. Not only does the United
States control only a small fractional
part of South American trade, but that
which she has is mainly done in foreign
ships. paying heavy toll in exchange and
freight to outsiders, and the business
done is transacted through foreign
banks to the profit Of foreign stoekhold-
ers- As TO the profits sof banking in
South American capitals h following
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acter of the latter has been badly lam
aged. A reconciliation ought to be brought
and another knot tied. The wedding should
be attended by every civilized nation on
the globe, and it should be an occasion of
international congratulation.-Delphi Jour
ncl-
The burning question of the day is how
to get back to full bimetallism. The Jour
nal believes that the way is through an in
ternational agreement. We believe it is
bound to come and there is no power on
earth that can prevent it. Both the gold
monometallists and the silver monometal-
lists are in the minority. and neither can
force their theories on an unwilling people.
jority of the people of the civilized coun-
tries of the world are In favor or b1metal-
lism, and this sentiment will finally tri-
urnph as sure as the rise OF to-morr0w's
sun.-Crawfordsvilie Journal.
We now have in circulation-or ready for
circulation-if the business of the country
demanded it. s23. so per capita, in gold. sill
yer. greenbacks and ~blackbacks; all good
at face value. This is as much, if not more.
per capita. than we had in 1892. when gen.
eral prosperity prevailed among all classes,
yet we are told that our present hard
times are the result of an inadequate sup
ply of money, If this be true, why did
it so happen that hard times did not set
in until after the election of 1892? If times
revive it may be that more money will
be needed to transact the business of the
country but so long as there are millions
of dollars of idle capital seeking invest
ment it is idle to charge our ills to want
of a circulating medium.-Parke County
journal.
We have reason for believing that the
COIN craze was i~nstigated and is being
nourished by a combination of silver mine
owners who can well afford to spend
large sums of money to employ
writer's and hire speakers to advance their
interests. The Republican party cannot af-
ford to load itself with the .coin' idea,
and Republican newspapers ought not to
encourage it. To do so is simply to lend
aid and encouragement to Populists and
to recruit the ranks of an enemy that must
necessarily stand In opposition to the prin-
ciples and traditions of Republicanism.
Free silver would assist materially In fur
Their enriching the silver mine owner, but
there is no prospect of the people being
benefited Observation-Disclosures Courier.
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extract from a recent letter written by
an American gentleman in Montevideo
will show how they run:

extract from a recent letter written by
an American gentleman in Montevideo
will show how they run:
An English bank cashed a sight draft for
me and gave me an English pound ster-
ling of $3.50 for s. American gold, equal to
more. making 6ls per cent. and then
charged me 2z per cent. for paper money,
instead OF paying me first the value OF my
IIsn gold in paper money to. use, aggregat-
ing 8 per cent. on the transaction of about
two months, the time it takes to get its
money back. In a year this would be "a
per cent. Then, when. at the end of my
visit, / have a little paper money left over,
which won't pass in other countries, / go
to that bank to exchange the paper from
it for the gold / bought from it, ashamed
to make another deal, 1t refuses to change
the money and drives me to a broker, who
charges another 22 per cent. / found this
the European bank was able to advertise
in its yearly statement that it was a profit
able institution that had laid VI S4l5, 900 in
its reserve and paid an annual dividend of
IL per cent. to its fortunate stockholders.
There should be an American bank in
every South American capital and agen-
cies for the sale of American goods.
Our manufacturers should learn a les
son from those of Europe by manufac-
turing and packing goods to suit the
taste Of the people who are expected
to buy them, instead Of the taste or
convenience of those who manufacture
them. This government should initiate
the policy of European governments in
establishing steamer lines to leading
South American ports, and our consuls
should be instructed to Civ less time
to talking and writing politics and more
to promoting American trade. Thus in
time we might reverse the present dis
graceful condition and transfer the great
bulk Of South American trade from Ecu
rope to the United States. This would
be much better evidence of statesman
ship and enterprise thar quibbling about
the Monroe doctrine.
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The Chicago Journal very plainly
tells the public hat the C1wil-service
Reform League of that city. which does
a large business in professional reform,
did next to nothing to secure the law
which the voters ratified last Tuesday,
taking the city's service out of the
control Of the corrupt rings and
placing it upon the merit system.
Only two of the numerous vice
presidents OF the league found time
to go to Springfield to urge and
work for the passage of the law. The
men who carried that measure through
the Legislature were Republicans in the
city of Chicago, and the mass of Repub-
licans voting for it last Tuesday made
it a law. Better methods in administra-
ton would stand a Slim chance if such
men as pose as reformers were depend
ed on.
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THE INDIANA PRESS.

Every election shows how thoroughly the
country is disguised with the Democratic
party.-Vincennes Commercial.
Although there is no doubt that the free
silver craze is subsiding, yet it appears in
spots where the literature of the silver
men is circulated. Stamping fifty cents
worth of silver as worth one hundred cents
will not be approved by the people.-Dan-
vile Republican.
Undo Democratic tariff legislation and
give the country a Harrison administration
and people will be so busy that they will
not have time to sit around and discuss
all of the financial schemes that cranks
and fanatics may thrust upon the country.
Lebanon Patriot.
There is no doubt that the Democratic
party is determined to get away from the
tariff issue the coming campaign. The Re-
publican party cannot afford to let the
tariff smaSherS get away from the response
bility of their misdeeds and should hold
them squareiy to the ssue.-NoblesvilIe
Ledger.
When the Republican party regains con-
troll of the government one of it's first
acts will be to restore relations of reci-
procity with other powers. 1t is one of
the ironies of the existing situation that
an administration pledged to .'freer trade
should have embroiled US in needless tariff
wars.-Crawfordsville Journal.
Citizens of Indiana cannot but feel proud
over the report Of State Treasurer Scholz.
who has been East closing up some bond
negotiations. He says that the credit of
indian is g~ilt-edged. Truly, this is a
pleasing thing to have said of the buffeted
Hoosier State, even If it's late Legislature
did adjourn in a fuss.1South Bend Trib-
une.
1t is very we'll remembered that in the
first Cleveland campaign war upon 1.-THE
great surplus in the United States treas
ury'' was a supposed Democratic virtue.
and during his administration of four years
this surplus was not materially reduced.
How impudent then is the claim of the
Democratic press that the Harrison adj
ministration wasted the Cleveland sur
plus."-Muncie Times.
The idea advanced by the Indianapolis
Journal of having two sessions of the Leg
~islature, the first for the passing OF bills
to third reading only. is a good one, and
would do away with much vicious legisla-
ton. A proposed law which will stand
the test of a years study and dissection
prior to enactment would certainly come
nearer being in the interest of justice than
one which Is rushed through the Legfsla-
ture under party whip and spur in a few
days.-Worthington Times
There is a strong sentiment developing.
the world over, in favor Of bimetallism.
What Is wanted is not only national bimet-
aiIism. but international bimetaiIism. Gold
and silver have been divorced. and the char
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The Frankfort News affects to doubt
that the Journal is honestly in favor of
international bimetallism. For the past
six MONTHS it says. .the Journal has
not contained a paragraph or even a
word favOring a national monetary con-
ference, and this looks suspicious-devil-
ish suspicious" If by national none
tary conference the News means 'in-
ternational." as is probable, hen its
editor has read his paper very cursori-
ly or else his memory is strangely at
fault. Not to go back further than a
month, on March Is, it concluded a half
column editorial by saying: The rem
edy is the establishment of a ratio by
international action by which the par
ity of gold and silver shall be estab-
lished On some ratio which will make
one metal as good money as the other.
The indications abroad were never SO
favorable for the restoration of silver"
The Journal of March n contained an
editorial on .'Bimetallism in Germany
which began with the statement that
indications continue to increase of the
growth of a friendly sentiment in Eu-
rope towards international bimetallism,..
~f Oa a
pressions of German statesmen, closed
by saying: These opinions and others
of like import from representative Ger
man statesmen show that international
bimetallism is a live issue in that coun-
try, and that the proposed international
monetary conference is exciting deep
interest" Two days later the Journal
concluded an article on the silver ques-
ton hus There is much to be said in
favor Of bimetallism and the free coin
age Of silver on an international basis,
and there is reason to believe that the
problem is rapidly approaching a solu-
ton on that line" On April / a half
column editorial closed with the state.
ment that The only safe road to bimet-
allism lies through an international
agreement and ratio Similar express
sions might be multiplied many times
during the last six months. There has
not been a day for years past that the
Journal has not been in favor of bimet-
allism and Of silver coinage on a ratio
to be fixed by an international confer
ence.
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Anour rEorLE AND rHIxcs.

The largest gold coin in existence is said
to be the gold ingot, or .loof' of AMMAN.
a fiat. round piece, worth about $325. the
value being written on Ii in India Ink.
Newark has a DR.. Parkhurst in the person
OF Rev. F. C. G. Jones, pastor of the
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, who went
into a resort and saw women acting In
very r~eprehensible ways.
Madame Patti win this season be paid
at Covent Garden the large sum of sl2.0 900
ZOE SIX Representations, or at the rate OF
5000 per night. The fee is nearly double
that ever before received by a prima donna
at a London opera house.
Canon Carmichael. in a lecture In Dublin
recently, said there was one class of women
who injured the movement for woman's
progress, namely, those who went about
reviling and vilifying man, acting as if
there was no good man In the world and
no bad women except those whom man had
made bad.
The ruler of Japan was born on Nov.
3, 1852. and his birthday is celebrated not
only in Japan, but at every place where
Japan has a representative. 1t is said that
the Mikado is the purest-blooded sovereign
or the world. He is the 121st Emperor OF
japan by direct descent from a line which
began about six hundred years before
Christ.
Speaker Peel. when he ~retires, will have
served eleven years. He win receive a PEN
sion of $4,000 a year, and il the precedents
are followed. a peerage. There have been
eight Speakers of the Commons since the
beginning Of the century, and in only
three cases, and those in the years immedi-
ately following passage of the reform bill,
has there been a contest for the nomination.
The abolition or rather the moderation
of heavy winter fiannels is part OF the
new doctrines of hygiene. Many doctors
now advise a graduation of flannel under
wear If they advise it at all, and point
out that 1T is much better to increase the
outdoor wear as occasion requires than to
winter days as well as on sharply cold
ones in the same weight of flannel.
Every year Worth sent the Empress
Eugene a large bouquet of Parma violets
tied with a mauve ribbon on which was his
name embroidered in gold. This was in
memory of her patronage at the time
Paris tradesman. Even towards the Em-
press. in the days when he made her cos
tunes. Worth exhibited his characteristics
stubbornness. He used to take his work
always had his way, frequently everything
the Empress's wishes.
The Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist,
tells this story on himself: 'I seldom
address an audience that / don't think
of the words of the good old colored woman
after I had preached to a great concourse
of colored people on one occasion. This
large. fat, old colored woman-I suppose
she would weigh two hundred pounds
and said: God bless you. Brudder Jones:
you Is everybody's preacher and everybody
loves to hear you preach, and every Niger
loves to hear you; and, Brudder Jones, You
breaches more like a niger than any white
man that eyer lived; and, Brudder Jones,
you have got a white skin. but. thank
couldn't take her literally. But she meant
kindly in what she said TO me-"
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silver coinage till two years ago, close her
minis to it?-Louisvilie Commercial (Rep)
A good thing done at the wrong time
loses in force. The Democratic party will
solve the money question in due time and
1t alone can solve it right. for it alone is
a party of the people not under the thrall-
tempt to solve it by a sort of plebiscite in
an OH year with no election pending is to
invite rldicuie and tempt disaster-Chicago
Tfmes-Herald Dem.)
This movement is evidence that the Dem
ocrats believe that a majority Of the pee
pie of Illinois favor free silver, and that
II the party is first in the field with the
idea and has a candidate to place upon
a national platform in favor of free silver
the Democrats of the State may take a
leading part in debating not only the ut
terances of the party on the silver ques-
ton, but also in saying who shall be the
party's candidate in 1S96.-Chicago Record
0nd1
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The Secretary of the Interior has re-
quested the Secretary of War to inform him
when the Seminole war with the United
States was officially declared ended, if ever.
1t was recently asserted in an argument
before the Interior Department involving
the title to certain lands that the war
had never been officially declared closed,
hence the Secretary's inquiry. AS a matter
of fact the Seminole war closed in 1S43, but
if no official announcement of the fact was
ever made the authorities may hold that
constructively it is going on yet. If General
Zachary Taylor were alive he might throw
some light on the question, as he COM
manded the United States troops in the
war referred to, but he died forty odd
years ago, and his death was officially an
nOunced.
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A man whom a jury found guilty Of
accepting deposits in a bank after he
knew that 1t must fail was sentenced to
. year in the State prison. AS two
years is the minimum term of impris-
onment the counsel for the defendant
asked the judge of the Whitley Circuit
Court to release their client on. the
ground of a defective sentence. and
their prayer was granted. Such a per-
formance may be good law, but it de-
feats the ends of justice and tends to
bring the administration of it in the
courts Into contempt. 1t is the result
Of a system which makes jurors the
judges Of the law as well as the fact.