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The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

About a fortnight ago Populist Sena-
tor Allen, of Nebraska, delivered
speech in the Senate on the outrage of
using a room in the Capitol for the SEN
ate restaurant He dwelt on the injus-
tice done to taxpayers and pictured
1.-The thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of poor human beings who are to-
day walking UP and down the earth
without a habltation. with scarcely
clothing enough to cover their naked
ness and with scarcely food enough to
satisfy their hunger" A few days later
the Senator asked the Sergeant-at-arms
of the Senate for a permit for himself
and daughter to accompany Representa-
tive Posts funeral escort to Illinois.
The permit was granted. and the Pop
ulst Senator and his daughter made
the trip to Illinois and return in Pull
man car paid for out of the contingent
fund of the Senate. The average con-
gressional reforrner is not made of very
stern stuff.
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
ABOUT PENSIONS.
Soldiers and Their Widows Need Aid
Now More than Ever Before.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The experience of the States of Maine
and North Carolina in the payment of pen
sions shows that there is an Increased de-
instead of falling off as asserted by Com
missioner Lochren, of the Pension Bureau,
at Washington. The State of Maine has
devoted a certain sum, usually about $780,
the widows and orphans of veterans, who
were neglected by the federal government.
This year Governor Cleaves, of Maine, asks
for an addition of $500 to the annual ap-
Sons: advancing age and bodily infirmi-
tiess tlayc caused an increased demand upon
this fund for the past two years, and some
urgent and meritorious calls could not be
favorabl, answered.
Here Is evidence that the reduction of
Tension appropriations by Commissioner
10 sfEeu'S recommendation is forced. and
made al ghe expense of the deserving vet
erans ana others dependent on the gov
ernmerts bounty 1t has required an army
who are suffering from want and disease
In order to permit the administration to
point 10 a reduction In pension appropria-
tiors
pertencs of the State OF Maine and 70 the
ssIiAf of soldiers of the Union. North Caro-
lima provides each year. as far as possible.
for the wants of the most needy and de-
serN.ng who seryAa IN the eonfederate % der ,te
aks xpendea Ss for 'Is purpoae p a inerease so s
mis- year it is expected that the sum re-
,tred will be stin larger In the States
. NJ ssaaue and North Carolina there is at
~ Washington there Is in the White
q os:se a disbelief, often expressed. In the
kNuinfulness and honor of the veterans.
SssSry effort has been made to create The
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
HOW TO INCREASE THE REVENUE.

No person of ordinary intelligence who
has given even a little thought to the
subject can have failed to reach the
conclusion that the most pressing need
of the government at present is more
revenue. The time spent in discussing
new currency bills is worse than wasted
as long as the government is running
behind at the rate of nearly $4,000. 900
per month. The country is not suffering
for new currency system. especially
such as this Congress would furnish,
but it is in the greatest possible need
of more revenue. A man whose ex-
penses exceed his income and whose OBJ
legations are maturing faster than he
can meet them does not stop to theorize
about what kind of money he will use
in paying his debts. What he wants is
an increase of income, and that is the
imperative need of the government at
present The President may write
special messages. Secretary Carlisle may
frame one currency bill after another
Democratic caucuses may meet and ad-
journ, Democratic Senators may en-
body their financial vagaries in wild and
impracticabie bills, but after all is done
the TACT remains tnat the one great
imperative, pressing need of the govern
ment is more revenue. This is the ques-
tion to which, ignoring for the present
all others, Congress should Immediately
address itself.
Granting the necessity of more reve-
nue. the question is how TO get it. Thus
far the new tariff bill as revenue
producer is a failure, at least to the ex-
tent that it does not yield nearly as
much as was expected. 1t may possibly
yield more during the next six months
than it did during the last, though that
is doubtful. but at present it is falling
far short of expectations and estimates
And there is no hope that it will be
amended with a view of producing more
revenue. In fact, in it's present form it
is treated by the Democrats as thing
to be admired and worshiped. but not
amended. 1t is SO artificially con-
structad, SO ingeniously put together
| and SO carefully balanced In its con-
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14


traffic. Asphalt pavements are growing in
favor. Brick pavements have been laid in
many cities In this country with more or
less success. Wood block pavement has
been an utter failure in America 1t is
scarcely necessary to discuss macadam. 1t
villages In estimating the desirabllity of
different kinds of pavementS these quail
ties should be taken into consideration:
Cost, durability. cost of maintt nance. sani-
tation, nolseiessaess, facility OF repair, re-
sistance to traction, ease on horses, ease
on vehicles and appearance The general
experience OF city engineers would seem to
classify the pavements according TO these
qualities in this way:
First Cost-Granite most expensive; then
asphalt, brick, wood blocks. macadam.
Durabi1ity-Longest lived, granite; next,
asphalt, brick. WOOD, macadam-
Cost of Maintenance-Cheapest, granite;
next, asphalt, brick, wood, macadam-
Sanitation-Ffrst, asphalt; brick and gran
lite about equal; wood last
Noiselessness-Woodf first: then macadam,
asphalt, brick; granite noisiest or all.
Facility of Repair-Under the improved
methods asphalt is easiest to repair for
work can be done without the street being
closed Granite and brick rank about equal,
wood next and macadam last
Least Resistance to Tractlon- sphalt,
brick, wooden blocks, granite, macadam.
Easiest on Horses-Wooden blocks, brick,
asphalt, granite.
Easiest on yehicles-Asphalt. wood. brick,
macadam granite.
Appearance-Asphalt, brick. wood, gram
ite macadam.
The committee is unanimous in the opin-
ion that the method of construction is an
important factor, even in the best kind of
pavement. and that the foundation is the
chief thing
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

SIS worth OF statutes for each member
involves. The members voting for such
a proposition would voluntarily black
garded as SIC grab for each of $50
men would bring to every man voting
for 1T the odium of contempt, while the
$4,000 grab of Green Smith would. at
least, indicate that large capacity to
plan and execute which is above the
petty meanness of the small transac-
ton. There seems to be a need for a
few copies of the Burns or some other
Revised Statutes for the use of the
Legislature because the States old re-
vision has been exhausted by previous
legislatures. members who should have
turned them back to the library carry
ing them home. That the members of
committees having use for the statutes
may be accommodated, forty or f1f-
ty copies might be purchased and
put into the custody of the State
librarian or the librarian of the Supreme
Court, who shall let members have
them. taking a receipt therefor and
promise to return before the close of the
would be the same as stealing any book
out of the State library. Such pro-
vision would be reasonable and sensi-
BILE. but for members to vote themselves
a SIG set of books out of the peoples
money would be regarded as an en-
couraging revelation to such leaders of
1obbies as have a few dollars to expend
in the purchase of legislation
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

cessions to different trusts that they
evidently fear if the slightest change is
made it will fall to pieces.
In this situation the Journal believes
it is the plain duty Of Congress to
double the tax on beer The present
tax on beer of 81 per barrel yields a
revenue of about s31 100000 and doubling
it would, of course. yield that much
more. There is no other product that
can better stand an increased tax or
which would yield anything like this
amount of increased revenue. Doubling
the tax would not even increase the
price of beer to consumers, though even
If it did that should be no objection.
The tax would fall on the brewers.
than whom no other class and no other
industry is better able to stand it. OF
course they would protest, indeed they
are already protesting vigorously at the
mere suggestion. They will make
powerful appeal for the poor mans
beverage, present a great array Of
scientific authorities to prove that beer
is healthful and nutritious. and will
demopstrate conclusively on paper that
it is doing a great temperance work in
lessening the consumption of whisky.
But all the same the tax on beer should
be doubled. It's healthful and nutritious
qualities will not be lessened nor it's
merit as a factor in temperance reform
diminished. The consumption of beer
will go on increasing, the poor man will
not pay the fraction of cent more per
glass for his favorite beverage and the
government will get $31 100000 a year
additional revenue which it sorely needs.
If the Democrats in Congress are
capable of taking an intelligent and
patriotic view of the situation they will
not allow another week to pass without
giving both houses a chance to vote
a bill to double the tax on beer. Let
them stop their mischievous agitation of
the currency question and provide some
means of increasing the revenue.
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
WOMAN ON THE JURY.
1t Is Not So Much a Practical as a
Social and Ethical Question.

1t Is Not So Much Practical as a
Social and Ethical Question.
The Century.
cipally on the women whose occupations,
paid or unpaid, are connected with house
and home keeping, for the reason that
those constitute the larger number, and
their physique is not, as a rule, taxed so
heavily that of the bread winning wom-
an outside. But here, aside from the ques-
ton Of strength and fitness, we touch upon
a point of deep Significance
When the State summons man to the
courts it says to him: Drop you business
and serve me: your highest duty is your
excluded the long list of "excused'-lt
would be obliged to say: Leave your do
mestic affairs and attend to me; the State
has right to summon you peremptorily
bitrarily, for uncertain periods of time,
the womans absence from home, would
establish the principal that personal duties
may at any moment become secondary in
a woman's life, and, If put into effect,
would clog many wheel In domestic ma
chinery.
The daily round of woman's duties.
slightingly, for the reason that, taken
singly, the duties often do small.
But anybody knows how much of the we'll
being, the comfort and the good temper
of life depends upon trifies
Madam said a philosopher recently. in
answer to a young womanS impatient plea
for more poetry and less prose in every
has taught me that there is much poetry
in well-ordered prose"
There are reasons against women serving
on mixed juries in the trial of promiscuous
and police reports in any daily newspaper
will help make evident. Jury duty for
women, viewed from this point, changes
from a practical into social and ethical
question.
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
Annual aver Annual aver

That is, never was so much gold taken out
of the earth as in 1913, in the same time,
and never so much silver. STILL the ad-
vocate of the immediate free-coinage her.
esy, not even the learned Senator Jones.
of Nevada will notice these figures.
Mr.. Garnett next calls attention to the
abnormal increase of the banking power"
among the commercial nations. This power,
during the past fifty years, has. vastly econ
omized the use of gold and silver as money
and facilitates the operations of borrowing
by the aggregation of small savings and the
utilization of credits based upon material
wealth According to Mulhail. banking has
increased elevenfold since 1910, three times
as fast as trade, and thirty times fasisr
than population. He also calls attention p
TIA fact that ocean cables. he teiegra. N
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
January Eight.

There were lots of celebrations
In the West and in the East;
There were viands and hbauonS
For the largest and the leaSt
There We're speeches, speeches, speecnes;
The torrent would not dam,
When it turned upon the hero
Who punched old Pakenham.
They gloried in the glory
OF a glorious past and told,
In hyperbolic story,
OF the wondrous deeds of old;
They pointed to the future,
And saw on VictOryS brow
A limb of luStrOuS laurel,
Which they cannot See there now.
At the time of all this blowing.
Way down in Tennessee
A grim, gray ghost was showing
Some signs of energy;
He sighed deep in his bosom,
And now and then would cuss,
The meanwhile turning over
In his sarcophagus.
He sat up, and intently,
With hand up to his ear,
He nodded, not quite gently,
At most that he could hear.
He listened to the buncombe,
And thought of recent facts,
Whereby his party'd got it
Where chickens get the ak.
He knew the wretched story,
Which had disturbed him there;
A triumph, tranSitory,
Disaster and despair.
Then hearing still the speaking,
He shook his bOny head,
And groaned: by the Eternal,
I'm glad that l am dead
New York Sun.
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

New Ork commercial Advertiser
For over thirty years the warning signal
in the shape of the Michigan City light,
which has thrown it's beams over the lake
from Michigan City, has been under the
care of woman who, in fair or foul
weather during all this time. has never
once neglected the duty imposed on her
in 1861, when, through the influence of her
cousin, Schuyler Colfax, she was appointed
lghtkeeper at this port. At THAI time
Miss Harriet A. Colfax was pleasant
faced young woman of twenty-five, and her
petite figure seemed peculiarly untitled for
the position. But time has diproved this
supposition, and the verdict is now unani-
nous that wiser choice could not have
been made.
Miss Colfax is native of Ogdensburg.
N. Y, but as she migrated to Michigan
in 1858, il Is fair to say that she Is a
Western woman. She learned to set type
in her brothers printing Office. Subse-
quently she taught music and met and
formed sort of partnership with her life
long friend and companion, Miss Ann Hart
well, at that time a CHEEKY little school
ma am of Michigan City. For upward OF
thirty years these little women have dweit
together in perfect harmony, their inter-
course being unmarried by single cross
word. Faithfully and fearlessly has Miss
Colfax performed her duties, never once in
all these years neglecting them for a single
night. Never has the Michigan City light
failed in it's mission She Is known in In
diana as second Ida Lewis, and as the
sailors true friend.
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
THE SURPRISING STUPIDITY OF THE
ADMINISTRATION.

There was but one pressing duty for
Congress to perform when it assembled
in December, and that was to provide
the treasury with sufficient funds to
meet current expenses. For months the
expenditures of the treasury had been
greater than the receipts Indeed, the
monthly deficit began soon after Mr..
Cleveland was inaugurated and has con-
tinued until the present time, and, it
may be added. the monthly deficiency
is the only certainty respecting the
future of the administration. The one
pressing duty of the President and Sec
retary of the Treasury was to devise
certain and direct method to so increase
the revenues that no further resort to
the bond purchase clause of a law
passed twenty years ago would be neces-
sary to get money to pay the current
expenses of the government. But in
their communications to Congress when
it reassembled both these officials prac-
tically ignored the monthly deficiency
of six or seven millions. Instead of SO
doing they urged the passage of a. cur
rency and banking bill which could not
have put a million of dollars into the
banking corporations had complied with
it's provisions. would have put the
volume of greenbacks where there would
have been none to take to the treasury
for gold redemption; yet neither the
President nor his Secretary of the Treas
ury seem to have dreamed that three
months after greenbacks had ceased to
be brought to the treasury for redemp-
ton with gold the government would be
compelled to dishonor it's current obliga-
tions. 1t is more than strange that the
President and Mr.. Carlisle did not see
that if there were no greenbacks re-
deemed with the gold reserve in the
treasury to be used in paying current
obligations the treasury would have
been in default months ago.
The real trouble in the financial situa-
ton is the excess of the governments
expenditure over it's income. All of the
distrust which has followed the discus
sion of the administration currency bill
is due to that measure and the fears
expressed by the administration. it's sup
porters and few bankers. If the treas
ury were in a condition to enable the
retention of the greenbacks which have
been used to draw on the gold reserve
the run upon it would have ceased
months ago. But when the greenbacks
are Immediately put into circulation
again to pay the current expenses of the
government they are easily collected
and again presented for redemption.
But with these plain facts before
them and the necessity of an increase
of the revenues to meet current ex-
penses the administration and the Dem
ocratic Congress have ignored the six
teen months old deficiency and devoted
their time to haggling over an admin
istration currency bill which, il it had
become a law. would have paralyzed
business by the prospect of revolu-
ton in the currency system of the coun-
try. And yet neither the President nor
Mr.. Carlisle seems to understand that
the bond sales have been forced to OBJ
tain money to make good deficiency in
the revenues
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
HIGH-CLAss POVERTY.
Democrats Impoverish Libraries t.
Sustain the Government.


The poverty and the lack of resources OF
the United States government are known a N
over the world. Its per cent. bonds bring
only llS. The Superf1uouS and eneryaIing
wealth in which the Hartford public library
of this city is wallowing is not quite SC
famous, but we take pride in announcing
that with such wealth as it has the library
is coming forthwith to the rescue of the
sinking government.
The Hartford library has an income from
it's own investment of about 81 400 year.
ought, that it might do its whole work, to
be much larger. All the difference bet ~een
the 81, 400 received in interest and dividends
and the total of expenses comes right out
of the pockets of the people of Hartford.
Among the assets of the library are ten
shares of Rensselaer, s. Saratoga railroad
stock, on which a dividend of per cent is
guaranteed by the Delaware & Hudson.
Insteac of receiving the semi-annuaI $40
this January the library gets 1884, Six
teen cents share are deducted for he
'r come tax for the United States ,;ove'n-
menl.
The library will probably not be seriously
cr1plred by the loss of this s1.60: but
If it is, the people of Hartford will brayely
meet the emergency, realizing, as all loyal
citizens must, the mighty help that this sum
will prove to the great nation we all love.
Let the Democratic administration stop
worrying. The library VIII stand by the
government If it takes $16G or even 81. The
Union must and shall be preserved.
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

Several Democrats We're more than
happy Friday evening over the report
that both branches of the Legislature
had practically voted to furnish every
member with the three volumes which
comprise Burns's edition of the statutes
of Indiana. costing SIC set. or $4,000
for both branches. Fortunately these
gentlemen were deceived. No such action
has been taken. In the Senate a resolu-
tion to purchase Burnss edition was
presented and referred to a committee,
while in the House the resolution to
have Burns's edition placed upon the
desks OF the members was. on motion
of Mr.. Merritt, OF Lagrange. tabled. 1t
Is not probable that the Republicans in
the Legislature will begin their work by
such . petty raid upon the treasury as
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

Some time ago the City Council Of Chi
cago appointed a special committee to in
vestigate and report as to the best street
pavement. After corresponding with en-
gneers and experts in most of the large
cities of this country and some foreign ones
the committee has reported y mass of in
formation and its conclusions. The follow
ing summary is of general interest:
Only three kinds of paving materials have
answered all conditions and all require
ments for street pavepaentS. They are brick,
granite blocks and asphalt. Granite is best
Tor streets upon which there Is very heavy
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

In this issue is printed an outline of
an article on the question of the supply
OF gold, the work ii does in the worlds
traffic. written by man who lives in
California and has been connected with
the production of the precious metals
all his life. The salient features of his
article. published in the January Forum,
are given. 1t is complete refutation of
al! OF the theories which the owners of
silver mines have circulated and which
many Intelligent people have accepted
as truth The writer shows that their
main assumption that gold has risen is
false
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

and the railway have increased the effect
iveness of gold enabling Its use three or
four times where in 1850 1t could be used
in but one transaction. He presents figures
TO prove that the movement of the mer-
chandise OF the four leading nations during
1S60-64 was effected with II per cent of
specie, while the traffic of these nations dur
ing the period of 1850 required but ~
per cent. of specie In the first period of
four years $792. 900 of specie was pro-
duced and In the last four years s1,2S4, ,29l.-
900. He further estimates that 1t takes but
per cent. of the value of the merchandise
in specie to perform the traffic between the
nations of the worlds per cent. gold and
per cent. silver.
The writer proves the absurdity of COM
pairing the prices of perishable products. af-
fected by vast number of conditions and
contingencies. with standard like gold,
which is not perishable, with view to
prove a fall of prices. Corn is high this
year because 1t is two-thirds crop; wheat
is low because never was much in sight
Therefore comparisons. to be of value, must
be with what may be called continuing
values like farm lands, town and city prop
erty, and wages. Mr.. Garnett compares
the value of farm lands as presented by the
census, except the year 1870, which
omitted because the values are given on a
deprecated paper currency, as follows:
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14

Upon the heels of Secretary Gresham 8
statement that Great Britain has no de-
signs upon the Mosquito coast comes the
dispatch from Colon announcing that
the British war ship Mohawk has ar
rived at Bluefields, and that the officers
OF the Mohawk say that they expect
two more war ships soon. Certainly this
does not look like the British govern
ment had given up all pretense of con-
trol. Secretary Gresham has been over
reached before.
The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
A Suggestion.
Elkhart. Review

A Democrat OF this city hands US the fol-
lowing expressive of his feelings, and those
of good many other people, "A first-class
mechanic of this county. whose business
has been hit hard has prepared a bin which
he proposes to ask the next Legislature to
act upon. 1t is In brief that the cross bones
and skull be abolished from the drug label
az the sign of poison. and in its place be
substituted the word Democracy lie
effect OF this Democratic administration
has successfully permeated paralyzed
and deadened the activities OF the people
that it should upon its own right. become
the standard emblem or danger everywhen~r