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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14
..rHE SUBMERGED TENTH

Those who regard themselves as re-
formers because they read pessimistic
essays ON THE Submerged Tenth" and
apply the term to the whole country
should get copy of the special report
of the Commissioner of Labor on the
slums of Baltimore. Chicago, New York
and Philadelphia, because it would show
them that the submerged are in the
large cities, and are not even one-tenth
of their population, much less one-tenth
of the inhabitants of the whole country.
sThat report has just been printed, and
contains many facts which upset the
assumptions of those who evolve most of
their assertions upon this subject from
their imaginations.
The investigation of the experts of
the Labor Bureau at Washington has
extended only to the most marked slum
localities in Baltimore, Chicago, New
York and Philadelphia. In these plague
spots they found 1882 inhabitants. This
is not the entire slum population in
those cities. but that of the infested To-
calities. The report contains several in
teresting features. As between the ma
tive and foreign born, the latter prepon-
OtTdteS LII DdltllilOFe 1900 per cent. u
the total population is foreign born, but
in the Stun districts 1921 per cent. We're
born abroad. In New York 1928 per
cent. of the population is foreign born
while in the slums it is 62.5S per cent
of the whole number In Chicago 1923
per cent. of the population is of foreign
birth; in the slums $751; per cent were
foreign. In Philadelphia 25.74 per cent
element constitutes 6045 per cent. Hit
eracy is also a marked feature of the
slums. The illiterate in Chicago, for in
stance, is 1858 per cent. of the whole,
while in the slums it is 25.37 per cent.
In New York 7.69 per cent. are illiter-
ates, while in the slums they are 1856
per cent. of the whole. In the whole
city of Chicago the foreign-born voters
are 50.62 per cent. of the whole; in the
slums, 61.31 per cent. In New York the
foreign-born voters are 1898 per cent,
but in the slum districts canvassed they
are 62.44 per cent.
In regard to earnings the report con-
tains a statement which will surprise
most readers. namely. that .sthe earn
ings of the people living in the Stun
districts OF the cities canvassed are quite
UP to. the earnings of the people gener-
ally and at 1arge.* Another fact which
the canvass or the slums has developed
Is that no greater sickness prevails ~
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the districts canvassed than in other
parts OF the cities involved. and that
while most wretched conditions were
found here and there. the small number
Of sick people discovered was a surprise
to the canvassers.v
In connection with the foregoing de-
auctions, the report states that in New
York there was liquor saloon for each
200 Inhabitants when the investigation
was made. but in the district canvassed
there was a saloon to every 129 persons.
In Baltimore there was a saloon to ev-
cry 223 persons in the city at large, but
one to every los persons in the slum
district. In Chicago there was a sa-
loon to every PIP persons. while in the
slunls there was one to every 127. The
number of arrests made by the police in
Chicago in 1893 was one in every eleven
OF its population, while in the slum sec
ton there was an arrest to every four
Inhabitants. The preponderance of law
lessness indicated by the figures which
are given for Chicago is found in the
other cities. From such facts it does
not require much penetration to discover
that illiteracy, intemperance and vicious
association are the prolific causes of the
submerging of the tenth or less in the
large cities.
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Tragedies.
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

The work Of collecting what is left of the
income tax is now going forward.--Pitts-
burg Chronicie-Telegraph.
The difference between a mean man and
a man of means is not always clearly
marked.-Philadelphi Record. sf
What is needed is not legislation to make
and elusiye.-Chicago Dispatch.
In the way of gifts the tendency of Easter
is to become almost as big an income tax
as Observation-Disclosures Record.
If the Supreme Court doesn't plug up the
cracks it will soon be as easy as a woman's
sewing Observation-Disclosures Post.
The counterfeters of the postage stamp
probably excited suspicion by using a good
quality of gum.-Kansas City Journal
The income tax is crippled. The poor old
thing ought to be knocked in the head and
put out of it's misery.--New York Mail and
Express.
President Lincolns relatives can't hold
office under a Democratic administration.
and that settles it.-PhiladeIphia North
American.
Higbee-Why do you ask me for informa-
ton if you consider me such an ignoramusy
Mrs. Higbee-I merely wish to prove it,
Harlem Life.
Many people who profess to believe in the
theory of the greatest good 10 the great
est number, also believe that the greatest
number is No. PUCK
Lord Nolverton. who was recently mar
ried has an income amounting to sfCo COO
a year. He should be able to keen two
hired giris--Pittsburg Chronicle-T Telegraph
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journsi.

10 Tie f1ultor OF the Indianapolis journal.
Can Congress remonetize silver-that is.
make 4121a grains 81, the unit of values, and
maintain the present ratio of l to IS? 2
What amount are we now paying Europe
annually as interest on our Indebtedness
private and governmental? 3. Have we gold
enough in the United States, public and
year in advance? o. ID. r.
l. Silver has never been demonetized. The
standard silver dollar of 4121A grains has
never been anything less than legal tender,
but there was never any considerable num-
Der of them in circulation prior to 1850.
There were, March 1, 1895, 422, SIT, 749 stand
ard silver dollars, which are full legal ten
der, and $77,071.7 TAI of subsidiary silver, which
is legal tender in amounts of $40. There
were at that date $3.50 705, 157 of treasury
notes based upon the silver bullion pur-
chased under the Sherman law, which are
legal tenders. To speak of "demonetzed sill
ver,'' when 573, 531 1893 of silver dollars or
notes are based upon silver, is absurd
Yes; Congress can enact that any number
of grains of silver shall be stamped one dol
lar and be legal tender, but when it should
make the silver dollar the single unit of
value, the country would be put upon a
silver basis and it would be idle to talk
of any ratio of coinage. Under the free
coinage of silver, the ratio of 16 of silver to
l of gold could not be sustained, as sixteen
ounces of silver now is worth in the mar
kets of the world only a little more than one
half an ounce of gold. No man would take
gold to the mint and get dollar for dollar
when he could go into the market and pur-
chase with that gold dollar enough silver to
make one and half, one and quarter,
or even one and an eighth legal tender sill
yer dollars. There would be no ratio The
United States would be a silver basis.
After the ratio was made is to 1 in the
United States, little silver was coined here,
because the European ratio of 1914 to-
made silver worth more there than here.
What is needed to establish a parity be-
tween the two metals is an international
ratio. That would be bmetallsn. 2. The
most intelligent estimate of the interest
on bonds and stocks payable in Europe is
So, 5000 900. The greatest expenditure of gold
in Europe is by travelers-nearly 500, 900 900
a year March 1, 1895, there was $46S, 56S, 100
of gold in circulation and 1914 O65, 55S in the
treasury-a total of $685., s33, 65s-enough to
pay many years interest at $37 5OO,O 900 a
year, particularly when the balance of trade
is in our favor.
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Newspapers Freaks.

The silly fashion practiced by a few
newspapers of issuing special editions on
colored paper in honor of some foreign ma
tionality lately received a. severe and de-
served rebuke from citizens OF Hamilton,
o. One or more of the papers of that city
considered it neat and appropriate thing
to print their ST. Patrick's day editions on
green paper. Much to the surprise of the
publishers a considerable number of their
patrons were displeased with this child's
play. Subscribers followed the time-hon-
ored custom of freeing their minds in let
tiers to the editor, but no notice being
taken of their protests a circular, addressed
to "the patriotic voters of Hamilton and
with pointed suggestions printed on red,
white and blue paper, was put in circula-
ton. 1t reads thus;
By reason of the very unpatriotic ap-
pearance of the Daily and other papers of
ing clothed in Ireland's national color, and
by reason of the fact that on Feb q
Washington birthday the colors of our
country were conspicuously absent, and by
reason of the fact that the letter published
below and many similar letters. with the
full name of sender, We're sent to these pa
pers for publication and ignored-by reason
of these facts 500 patriotic citizens of
Hamilton will and have discontinued their
subscriptions to said papers.
The following is a copy OF one of these
letters which were ignored:
HAMILTON, o., March rs, 1895.
Mr.. Editor have this day returned to
you by mail your un-American and I'M
readable paper, which was left at my house
on last Saturday March 49, / have been
a constant reader of your paper from the
day it made its first appearance, and l
think have a right to make this request:
That when the 18th of March rolls around
again. and you have some Irish friends to
jolly, print them a green paper, but please
send me my paper in black and white.
Truly yours for America, PATRIOT
(Full name signed here.)
If the protest has no other result it will
at least serve as a salutary reminder to
publishers that people who subscribe and
pay their money for newspaper acquire
certain rights in it-one of which is that it
shall be in readable shape and no typo
graphical eccentricities INDUCED in that will
interfere with its merits as dissemination
Of news. paper printed in black ink on
green paper, or in any other but the accus-
toned combination of colors, is apt to be
exceedingly trying to all but the strongest
eyes, and readers have good right to raise
objections. Publishers might, with almost
equal propriety, send to their American
subscribers papers printed in Celtic or Ger
man type.
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them The average evolutionary mounting
OF the Bible IS simply horror. 1t must be
read as literature. The association having
In charge the university extension work has
done favor to the public in bringing here
man who is qualified as a literary in
terpreter of the sacred book. Professor
Moulton's readings with explanatory COM
ment. are an intellectual treat. and a reve-
iation to most hearers of the lyrical and
dramatic possibilities hidden in the most
familiar chapters They depart lingeringly
and with a wonder that the ministers of the
city do not all flock to learn the speakers
method and style.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's recollec-
tions are to be brought out in book form
next autumn.
Hans Breitmann, otherwise Mr.. Charles
G. Leland is making we are told a new
collection of "Breitmann Lieder-
Miss Braddon intends to write no more
novels. She has already given to the world
more than fifty works of fiction.
Mr.. Frederic Remington has made use of
his Western experiences in the preparation
of a volume which he calls Pony Tracks
A volume of poems dealing chiefly with
Egyptian subjects is soon to be. brought
out by Miss Mathlde Blind She calls the
book Birds of Passage"
.'F'ringilla'' is to be the title of the forth
coming volume of verse by the author of
Lorna Doone." 1t is said that Mr.. Black
more published book of poetry some years
ago, but not under his own name.
Tolstois new story is called Master and
Man" 1t describes with pathos and SIM
plicity the way in which commonplace.
money-loving man sacrifices his life in
great storm to save that OF his servant.
We are to have. within few weeks
life of Sara Bernhardt. which is being writ
ten by r. H. Sherard, the biographer of
Zofa and Daudet. The actress has co-op-
Grated with Mr.. Sherard in his work. and
his book viii bear her special authorize
tion-
That strange story. East Lynne which
SO many of US know all about and yet so
few of us have read. still leads in point of
popularity all the novels in England The
London publishers of the book have just
issued the four nundredth thousand Of Mrs.
Woods novel,
Mark Twain says that a doctor has no
more right to ask literary man for an
autograph than the literary man has a right
to ask the doctor for prescription. Gen.
Lew Wallace gets even by prefaciag his
autographs signatures with the words
written by request
NJ Paul Meurice. who is the only surviv-
ing executor Of Victor Hugo. says that the
manuscripts yet to be published include
Ocean consisting OF two volumes. mostly
in prose- which contain an account given by
an eyewitness of Louis XVFs execution,
and three volumes of letters
Dr. Max Nordau, who has come into great
notoriety on account OF his book entitled
@Degeneracy.' was born at Euda-Pesth In
1879 He Is Of Jewish extraction. He studied
medicine, and since 1850 has .practIced his
profession in Paris He has been the corr
respondent Of the Frankfuerfer Zeitun1
the vossische zcitun8 (the Berllnera "a
yorite ssTante Voess9, and the Poster Lloyd.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

Professor Ragan, of Greencastle, in
an address to the Delaware County
Farmers Institute, attributes the de-
cline of apple culture in the Ohio valley
to the destruction of the forests, which
for years protected orchards from the
blasts of severe seasons He claimed,
also, that the destruction of forests has
banshed birds and native animals which
had protected orchards and brought in
their place insects and disease which
are sufficient to destroy fruit. The last
statement is probably true, but SO long
as apple culture thrives in the much
colder regions of Michigan, northern
New York and New England there is
reason to suspect that the cutting away
of the forests has not caused a severity
of climate that will destroy the apple
tree. The subject which Professor
Raglan has treated is very important
one. The State which has lost wholly
or in part so important an industry as
apple production should lose no time
in seeking the cause Now that there
is large and growing demand for ap-
Piles for European markets as well as
at home. something should be done to
lead to the restoration of the Indiana
apple orchard.
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that 4 discovers nothing pantheistic.
On the contrary the Doctors remarks
are very innocuous. consisting as they
do Of the commonplace ard far from
original assurance to women that their
only business in the world is to marry
and rear children. incidentally, no
doubt. he viii permit them to assist
him in reform work as he did in New
York, but for the most part they must
attend to the duty he has laid down for
them under pain of his severest dis
ulea Slirf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

The county clerk who issues mar
riage license which involves girl of
fifteen years of age without her parents
consent. and the minister or magistrate
who performs the ceremony of marriage
involving such a minor should be made
to suffer some penalty which law should
provide. Such cases happen in Indiana
every week, and, it may be added, such
marriages usually lead to Indebtedness
and are the most prolific source of d.
yorce or separation.
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HE STILL LIVES. q

Thirty years ago tonight Abraham
/ Lincoln's earthly career was closed by
| the bullet of an assassin. Thirty years
| is a long period in mans 1ife-so long
| that to-day, the number of people who
remember that terrible event is small
| compared with those who cannot. And
yet it would be safe to say that the peo-
| pie of this country know more of Lin
coin than did those who were living
during the years he was at the head
of the American people. It would also
be safe to say that, thirty years dead,
Abraham Lincoln is more talked of,
more read about, more the object of af-
lection and reverence than he was at
the date of his assassination, or even
ten years subsequent. In the public
libraries all lives of Lincoln show
marks of much reading. His portrait in
some form will be found in more homes
than that of any other man. Speakers
more frequently allude to him than to
any other man in history. He was an
unknown man. comparatively. when he
became President; but while most of
those who We're prominent during that
great crisis are rarely mentioned or en-
liIely lOISOttcii, Tie LdIIleS OIL LlICOlu
and two or three of those most closely
connected with him in his great work
have become household words. The men
who gave Lincoln the most loyal and
cordial support in those days have
gained in the estimation of to-day be-
cause of that loyalty, while the men of
his own party whose personal ambition
led them to intrigue against him dur
ing that period will remain under the
same sort of stigma which attaches to
the men who plotted against Washing
ton.
Fortunate, indeed, is that nation
which has a Washington and Lincoln
as perpetual ideals about whom cluster
the heroic virtues which are an inspira-
ton to generation after generation
through all the years, proclaiming that
all those who shall deserve we'll of pos
terity must take on their high-minded
patriotism, their perfect integrity and
their unselfish devotion to the public
welfare. Fortunate, indeed, for this Ma
ton that the spirit of the man whose
eyes were closed in death thirty years
ago pervades the land and that the in
dwelling of that spirit in the hearts of
millions is the hope of the Republic.
Few men have been so great as to con-
quer death, and it may be safely said
that event as has Abraham Lincoln.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

The Utica IN. " Herald prints a letter
written by Martha washington to her niece
1t bears date Philadelphia, April 8, 1876, and
is one of only two letters of Mrs. Washing
ton in existence. 1t is a sweet, matronly,
domestic letter, but the following sentence
is sufficiently conclusive that the writer did
not possess a strikingly brilliant style: II
am sorry to hear" she wrote, that Mrs. NJ.
Bassett enjoys such bad health. and she can
have very little pleasure If her life be al
ways indisposed' History. has not pre-
served the memory of Mrs. NJ. Bassett, but
we cannot help wondering if she continued
to enjoy bad health until the close of her
indisposed life put an end to her pleasure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

A new system of telephone service is
about to be introduced in Chicago by the old
company, known as party circuits, 1t con-
templates putting several subscribers who
do not use the telephone frequently on one
Wire, the connection being so arranged at
the central office that each person on the
circuit can ascertain in moment whether
the circuit is occupied or not The new plan
IS devised especially for residence districts.
and will result in reducing the cost of serv-
Ice from one-third to one-half, according
to the number of subscribers on a Circuit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

Governor Matthews is to be COM
mended for his prompt action in taking
steps TO have the dam and lock in the
Wabash river near Mt. Carmel, ILL.,. re-
moved. AS the obstruction completely
excludes fish from the upper Wabash
and its tributaries during the spawning
season the effect in short time would
be to destroy the stock of fish in all
these streams, thing that should not
be tolerated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

The suggestion that the President is
exempt from the payment of income tax
under the clause of the Constitution
which provides that his salary shall not
be increased or diminished during his
term of office is on a line with most of
the technical twaddle of the day. The
meaning of the constitutional provision
Is too plain for argument, and it is
equally plain that an income tax does
come within ii.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

There is a very general suspicion that
the rapid advance of the price OF crude
Oil is a device of the Standard monopoly
to~crush out the growing competition.
1t at least may be assumed that the
Standard knows what it is about, and.
those who do not will be safer to keep
out of oil for the present. or it may
reach that uncomfortable temperature
known as boiling
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

The intellectual duty of reading the Bible
has often been urged Apart from the
moral and religious importance of the book
it has a literary value and beauty beyond
praise. Amy one having reasonable famil-
iarity with the English language can read
it with profit and pleasure, but only the
biblical scholar knowing the true relation
of all it's parts. can give the full interpreta-
ton and make clear all its beauties 1t is
seldom that the Scriptures are read impress
sively or fmproyingly. Ministers rarely do
it. perhaps because they treat each verse or
paragraph as detached from the rest, and
for the purpose Of illustrating religious or
theological point. So-called elocutionists
TAIL In the EFFORT, Tor the same reason that
they fail u the rendering Of nearly al se-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

As an immediate effect of the increase
in the price of beef in the Eastern cities
a large increase in the consumption of
fish is noted. At this season of the
year tie supply of fresh fish in the sea-
board cities is practically inexhaustible,
and they afford an excellent substitute
for meat and cost less than half as
much. In the interior cities, where
ocean fish are now received in fine con-
dition they cost more than they do East.
but stili less than the best cuts Of beef.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

Those who doubt the general tendency
of the Christian world toward unity will
find every church hearing or claiming
the name observing Easter. Fifty or
seventy-five years ago every Protestant
church except the EDiseopalian would
have denounced such observance as a
wicked device of the Church of Rome
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

Less than three years ago one Perry
caused great sensation by just missing
successful train robbery. He was
captured. tried and sent to the peni-
tertiary. While in the penitentiary he
made two attempts to escape. but. be-
cause he feigned insanity. was trans
ferrea to an insane asylum. from which
he easily devised means of escape And
80 Mr.. Perry is free to take up his pro-
fession: but what can be said in defense
of physicians who are thus imposed
upon by person playing crazy?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

1t should he possible for some good
citizen like Mr.. Chandler to defeat such
school commissioner as Mr. Russo has
been and is likely to be. He has been
but the echo of the element which has
increased the city debt and which has
adopted policy of wastefulness and ia
VOrif;Srr
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BUBBLES In THE AIR.

HOusecIenninE Hymn.
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Mingled well with yellow soap,
For springtime is at hand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

If the astonishingly large sale and use
OF bicycles the past few months will
stimulate the good roads movement, as
the champions of the bicycle claim, the
end of the era of almost impossible
roads is near at hand