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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
WOMEN IN PUBLIC OFFICE.

Mrs. klock who was one of the three
female members of the late Colorado
Legislature, has some interesting views
on the subject of women in public life.
In an interview since the close of the
session she says, after relating some of
her experiences:
It is, after all. a question Of the individ-
ual. do not see any especial value in hav-
ing some women in a legislature any more
than there would be in having some men.
harm am certain + do not want any
more of it, although I would go back if
were nominated and elected again. for
consider it a duty to serve. 1t stands to
reason that / could do work now that /
have had some experience but / must say
that this experiment of having women in
the Legislature has not been altogether
satisfactory.
Asked if she meant that women as
legislators cannot accomplish much, she
said.
!. I think that women Of mature age, sound
sense can do considerable good in legis-
latures after they have learned something
Of routine work 1t is an unfair advantage
TO take to place one without legislative
experience alongside of another who has
had years of education in these matters and
expect equally good work from both. i
think that could assist now in the organi-
zation of a session with some degree of in
telligence. But one thing is positive. /
would never send young and pretty Wom-
an to such a place. She would have no
show with SO many fool men around to fiat
ter and caJole her into voting wrong.
This was not done with her, she says,
laughingly, for obvious reasons" but
she is evidently not animated by envy
Of her more comely women associates,
of whom there were two speaking of
them with respect, though she did not
agree with or vote with them on many
questions. Her conclusion, however
sound it may be, is rather discouraging
to good looking Colorado women with
political aspirations, but is not likely to
have much effect upon the public called
on to vote for them Mrs. Klock evil
IDENTIFY does not take into account the
possibility that the fool men" who
sought to cajole might be cajoled by
willy and pleasing female legislators into
voting as they had not intended. Her
recognition, however. Of the fact that
the voting on important measures was
not necessarily a. result of intelligent
thought or principle with the women
more than with the men disposes of the
sentimental theory that women in public
life will invariably do the right thing.
She concludes that a woman can con-
slider the needs of a State as capably as
man, and that with a dozen or twenty
women in a legislature made UP of in
dividuals of age, wisdom, experience and
thorough honesty much might be done;
but she is plainly not greatly impressed
with the desirability of putting women
in public office merely because they are
women. She has the sensible view, and
one that women everywhere would do
well to consider. A woman may do as
well In the legislature, or in a city couH-
Gil, or on a school board as a man. but
it must be because she has special fit
ness for the office apart from her sex.
Fitness should be the first and last con-
s.id finr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
THE JOURNALS SILVER VIEWS.

The American people, from tradi-
ton and interest, favor bimetalIism,
and the Republican party demands
the use OF both gold and silver ms
standard money, with such restric-
tfOns and under such provisions, to be
determined by Legislation, as will
secure maintenance of the parity
Of values of the two metals, that
the purchasing and the debt-paying
power Of the dollar, whether of sill
Yer, gold or paper, shall be mt all
times eGnaI. The interests of the pro-
ducers Of the country, its farmers and
Its wOrl<fngmen, demand that every
dollar, paper or coin, issued by the
government shall be as good ms any
other We commend the wise and pa
triOtic steps already taken by our
government to secure an internntiOn-
al conference to adopt such measures
as VIII Insure ~ parity of value be-
tween gold and silver for use as
money throughout the world.
Republican National Platform 1892
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17

The reported betrothal of the son of the
Duke OF Saxe-Coburg Gotha, better known
as the Duke of Edinburg, to young Princess
Wilhelmina of Holland, allies QueenVictoria
with still another royal house. Through her
numerous descendants she is already repre-
scented in nearly every European court, and
this new matrimonial arrangement extends
her family influence to one in whose affairs,
speaking after the manner of the day, she
has hitherto had no finger. 1t must natur-
ally be a source of qualification to the
Queen to see this growth Of power through
her own house, and with all intermarriages
of royalty it is certainly a condition of
things unprecedented in European history.
As for the proposed mar iage, 1t is one in
which the world at large will take friendly
interest, owing to the fact that so much
which is pleasant has been told of the child
Queen. Nothing is known to the public of
the youth destined to be- her husband, but
none of Victoria's grandsons has yet
shown himself lacking in strength of char
acter and fair degree of intelligence, and
it may be hoped that Prince Albert will
prove no exception
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17

predecessor Besides. ais everybody
knows, the acquisition OF gold under this
administration has been from very diff
ferent motive than that of helping the
cause OF international bimetallism. 1t
has been done to replenish the gold re-
serve in the treasury and enable the
government to bridge over difficulties
caused by the shrinkage of revenues UNI
der Democratic administration.
The Republican party is the true friend
of silver, because 1t is in favor of giving
it better and more secure place in our
monetary system than it has ever had.
It IL In favor Of the free coinage of sill
yer at a ratio that will not drive gold
out of circulation. and that will enable
silver to circulate side by side with gold
not only in this but in other countries.
This can be accomplished by an inter-
national ratio, and in no other way.
Those who advocate the free coinage of
silver on any other basis are whether
consciously or not. the worst enemies of
sound monetary system and of ma
tional prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
TO ERADICATE LEPRosY.
An American Bacteriologist to be EN-.
pIoyed by the Hawaiian Republic.

An American Bacteriologfst to be Em-
pIoyed by the Hawaiian Republic.
WASHINGTON, April 16.--AIail advices
from Hawaii state that the government
authorities have communicated with DIR.
Albert D. Hale, of Chicago, with a view
to having him take charge of the govern
ment experimental laboratory for the dis
covery of means to eradicate leprosy. DR.
Hale visited Hawaii some time ago and
expressed desire to undertake the bac-
THEOLOGICAL experiments under government
direction, and it is in pursuance of this
plan that the health department has sub
mitted a proposal which, it is believed he
will accept. The Iepers on the Island of
Molak.s have organized a brass band, and
Admiral Beardslee, in command of the
United States ship Philadelphia, is taking
an active interest in their effort. In order
to secure instruments for the lepers a con-
cert was given at Honolulu and Admiral
Beardslee rendered the services of the
Philadelphias band for the occasion.
The Hawaiian sentiment toward the
United States is shown by the annual
banquet and election of the national guard
The stars and stripes were on either side
"as defense to the Hawaiian flag. The
and the ..Star-spangled Banner as a
finale.
The Hawaiian Legislature is expected to
convene next month and frame laws as TO
passports and lands.
In OrQeT TO set at rest TtpoTtS Ol toItuIc
inflicted on Captain Davis a result of
the recent insurrection Davis has furnished
persons. After reciting the reports, the af-
fidavit states:
Il wish to set at right such a fearful
prevar:cation and denounce the whole
thing as a most Internal faisehood. Not
one of the fortunes enumerated was prac-
ticed upon myself or upon any other
prisoner On the contrary, the government
from the first has treated me with the ut
most fairness and justice and my confess
sion to the authorities relative TO the
landing Of arms was made fyeely and not
after having been subjecteu to torture. /
make this statement believing 1t only fair
that such an imputation against a gov
eminent that has dealt as fairly and leni-
emily with me and all other prisoners as
has the Hawaiian government should be
denied by one who is best able to do so.'
The Hawaiian government has been
now in use hY the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17

The News does the Republican members
of the monument board an injustice in an
article intimating that they are postpon-
ing action because another State officer,
who is not member of the board, desires
delay. There is not particle of ground
upon which to base this insulting insnua-
ton. One of the Republican members in
forms the Journal that no such intima-
ton has been made to them by anyone
in or out of the Statehouse. as the Langs-
dale organ might have ascertained upon in
quiry. The calling of the appointing board
together devolves upon the Governor.
Whenever he calls meeting of the board
the Republican, members will be present,
prepared to act. It may be added that it
is scarcely possible that such an insult as
the charge of the Langsdale organ con-
veys will have the intended effect of coerc-
ing them into the support of It's contentious
claimant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
MoRroN,s cnop REPORTS.
suggestions from Representatives Of
Commercial Organizations.

Suggestions from Representatives of
Commercial Organizations.
WASHINGTON, April 16-The convention
of commercial organizations which has been
considering the Improvement of crop re-
ports to-day adopted the following:
This conference. called to consider means
by which the crop reporting service of the
Department of Agriculture may be improved
tory to the public. beg to submit for the
consideration of the honorable Secretary of
Agriculture the following suggestions:
represented in this conference that the ON
cial crop reporting service should be con-
tinued and that the reports now regularly
issued be continued with such notifications
as are later suggested.
That the April report on winter grain be
discontinued, but that all other features
now embodied in that report be continued.
THAT in all reports concerning acreage
ment give the area by States in acres. as
well as by the percentage OF the previous
years area.
.sThat the department. instead of having
a principal correspondent and three as
sistants in each county, as at present, make
one or more reporters in each township.
all to make their reports directly to the
department al Washington.
'That in the selection of these correspond
ents they should not be taken from farm
ing classes exclusively. but should include;
classes of rural industry
THAT the department discontinue the
employment or Saldfl6Q state agents III the
regular crop reporting work.
THAT returns of reserves of wheat, corn
and oats and nd Gotten otter Be had for dates rep
wheat on July l. oats on Aug. l, corn on
Nov. l and cotton on Sept. /.
THAT arrangements be perfected with the
United States consular service for sending
by cable to the department on or about the
9th of each month statement giving the
best available information concerning pros
poets for crops of grain and cotton in their
respective districts to be published in con-
n-f 10
issued.
s.,rhat it is the sense of this conference
that law should be enacted Furnishing by
fine and Imprisonment any employee of the
Department of Agriculture who divulges to
anyone outside of the Department of Agri-
culture any statistical other general in
formation of the department previous to the
time appointed for officially presenting the
same to the public
The conference then adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
SOLVING THE SILVER QUESTION.
How Watterson and IInIstend Would
Settle the Trouble.
Washington Special to Cincinnati CONNER

cial Gazette.
The Washington Post prints the following
amusing story this morning: The extremes
resented on either side OF a chafing dish stew
at Chamberiin's last night. The two repre-
Colonel Henry Watterson, of Louisville,
and Mr. Murat Halstead, of Brooklyn. II
on eaa coonei to s the
porter of the Post. 1.-THE condition Is that
you let me tell q short story first from
All of Cripple Creek, Coll was assembled
at the, burial ground in that city one day
recently, for one of the leading citizens
had suddenly died, and as he was a lead
ing silver man his demise was sincerely
devolved on him TO make a long and Inn
pressive service. He talked for an even
Just as this word left his mouth the corpss
rose out of the coffin pulles savagely at his
hair and said; wAll that talk and not one
.Wafterson. there was no caution to me
about talking silver. chimed in Mr.; Hal
my scheme with relation to the silver ques-
ton. Here is my idea: You Il know no. that
japan is about to demand s40o,0o0,0oo in
demnity from China, as a result OF the
war over on that side of the earth. Why
can't we scoop that much from the $513, 000,
600 we have sunk in our treasury and give
1t to them for 500 900 in gold, for which
England? That would maintain the parity
of the metals and give the United States
something sound and solid on which to base
future financial legislation ism ~ pref
ty scheme?'
Not half so good as mine" answered
the Kentucky editor. My idea Is to leg
isiate for a commission OF silver mining
experts and assayers, who shall. within a
prescribed time. visit all those portions OF
the West in which silver is mined. They
shall make their tests and place value
on all the hidden silver IN that country;
issue notes. That will save all the trouble
and expense of mining and minting, and
choke off silver talk for at least long
rn give all OeSGTVe0
rest That's a much brighter scheme than
yours -.
go theorizing again. = was advancing
Something practical. and you counter by
theory. You never could be downright
serious"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
SILVER

The Sentinel says "the Republican
party got this country into its troubles,
arising from the characterization of sill
ver. and that after fifteen years of dis
aster President Cleveland. by an intel
ligent policy. has brought in sight
remedy that is conceded on all sides to
be sufficient
BY the decentralization" of silver is
meant the dropping Of the silver dollar
by the act of 1873 As there was not a
dollar of silver in circulation at that
time while there are 422,S26.749 standard
silver dollars in circulation now and ST.
TAP of the smaller coins, it is absurd
to claim that the financial disasters
since 1873 are due to the coinage act of
that year.
The so-called decentralization Of silver
by the United States in 1873 was a ne
cessity of the situation, made SO by the
action of other countries and the laws
of trade. For this country to have con-
tinued free silver coinage in 1873 at the
ratio of is to / would have been as dis
astrous as it would be to resume such
coinage now. So far as the result on
prices was concerned, the action of other
COuLtIlGS 1ilSuEHu dill Tie mischief pos
sible from the characterization of silver,
and nothing that the United States
alone could have done would have
averted the result. The Sentinel itself
has said in another article: There is no
propriety in saying that the demoneti-
zation of silver by this country alone in
1878 was the only decentralization that
affected the people of the United
States" In another article it says:
THE United States is no mere able to
maintain binetallism at 16 to / than
Mexico is to maintain it at her ratio of
161a to i. No country was able to do it
under the old system of bimetallsm, at
ratios which varied slightly" That is
true, and such being the case it would
have been the height of folly for the
United States in 1873 to have attempted
to continue free silver coinage at ratio
Of is to /, with the whole commercial
world against il.
The claim that President Cleveland,
by an intelligent policy, has brought in
sight remedy gives him credit that he
does not deserve. He has no intelligent
policy in finance, and especially not on
the silver question. III he is in favor of
restoring silver TO an assured and per-
manent place in our currency system by
J international action he does not say SO
in his recent letter, nor does he say any
thing to indicate that ne has any intelli-
gent policy on the question beyond OPP
posing silver recommendation. If it Is in
tended to imply that his intelligent
policy consists in the accumulation of
gold, we reply that that policy is not
original with him. President Harrison,
I'm his last annual message, said.
There il, 1 am sure, a growing sentiment
In Europe in favor of a larger use OF
silver, and know of no more eifectual way
Of promoting this sentiment tran by accu-
nulatinE gold here. "A scarcity OF gold III
the European reserves viii be most per-
suaSivc argument for the use OF silver
Whatever merit there Is In this intelli-
gent policy belongs To Mr.. Cleveland'a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
INCOME TAX RETURNS.
Fresh instructions to Revenue Col
Iectors-Many DeIinauents.


WASHINGTON, April 16.--The following
instructions were to-day sent to all inter-
nal revenue collectors:
I'm case of incorrect income tax returns
now filed in your Office you viii notify the
persons who filed such returns that they
must appear within reasonable time,
specifying the date and place for appear
ances and correct or explain said returns,
make said corrections, you will correct and
increase the amount of such returns, stat
ing the particular corrections which shall
be made and the amounts by which said
returns will be increased.
ssW,here persons and corporations liable to
make returns have neglected or refused to
make return, and where In your opinion,
false or fraudulent returns have been filed,
YOU will give notice on form 1863 to the de-
iinnuents and to those who made such
false or fraudulent returns, to appear and
show cause why penalties shall not be
assessed against them.
3tAll returns made by taxpayers Tor 1894.
except such as are delayed by reason of
appeals must be completed and forwarded
to this office not later than the 18TH day of
May next.
Although no official statement of the
facts would be given out to-day for pubiica-
tion it is believed that the returns re-
ceived to-day show almost concluslvely that
a large number of persons IN all parts or
the country who are subject to the income
tax have not made any returns of their In
comes the proportion OF these 70 the whole
number Liable to the tax Is, By some. placed
as high as 10 per cent. This state of things
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
MR.. cLEvELAND,s coon FORTUNE.

Mr.. Cleveland is fortunate in his ene-
mics. To be attacked simultaneously by
Governor Altgeld. Of Illinois, and by the
author of Coins Financial School"
ought to make him feel very sure that
he Is sound on the main question. Gov
ernor Altgeld, referring to the Presi-
dents letter on the silver question. says:
IF I had signed such document 1T
would be ridicuIed all over the coun
try He is mistaken; it would have
been approved as gratifying evidence
that a man may be an arrant dema-
gogue on some questions and yet sound
on the money question.
Altgeld and Professor Coin occupy
substantially the same position. They
both insist that the so-called demoneti-
zation OF silver is responsible for the
hard times, the low price of wheat and
the inability of people to pay their debts,
and that the only remedy is return to
learned says AltgeId. "that the So
called honest dollar is the most dishon-
est dollar ever in demand, for it compels
the debtor to give twice as much prop
erty to pay his debts as would have
been necessary at the time the debt was
contracted Professor Coin chimes in
with "a debt of $1,000 that one thousand
bushels of wheat would have paid ten
years ago now requires the farmer to
give up two thousand bushels of wheat
in exchange for these dollars with which
to pay the same debt"
There are very few debts in this coun-
trv that were contracted before tI,a CO.
called demonstration of silver in 1873.
If that act had any effect in diminishing
the debt-paying power of money and the
price Of wheat it must have been by re-
ducing the volume of the currency. But
instead of a contraction of the currency
there has been large expansion. The
total amount of currency in circulation
In 1878 was $751;. 1881. 800, while In 1894 it
was 1861, 1886, 674. The amount per cap
tia in 1873 was $500, and in 1894 it was
$24.30. How can the debt-paying power
of money have diminished since 1873,
and how can the decrease in the price of
farm products be due to a contraction
of the currency since that date, when,
in fact, the volume of the currency has
increased $909, $685. 65, and the amount
per capita from $1S04 to 24.3O?
Again, if the so-called decentralization
of silver in 1873 is the cause of the pres
ent low price Of wheat, why is it that
several times since 1873 wheat has been
nearly as high and once higher than it
was then. In 1873 the highest price
touched by wheat was S1.46; in 1877 it
sold for $1.76, in 1879 for $1.33, in 1881 for
SLAB, in 1882 for s1.4O and in 1883 for 81.
Moreover, in 1873 there was not dollar
of silver in circulation. whereas now
there is more than $5O0,00O,0O0 In the
light OF these facts the assertion that
the present low price of wheat is due to
the so-called decentralization of silver in
1873 is rank nonsense.
Mr.. Cleveland is not less fortunate in
his enemies than he is in the line of at
tack they adopt and the arguments they
use. They are such that every intelli-
gent man with reasonable amount Of
honesty and every honest man with a
reasonable amount of intelligence must
see that they are untenable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17

the effect OF such action would be to
bring the intrinsic value of all the silver
In the world rp to parity with gold on
that ratio. On the point OF intrinsic
value he said:
age OF the metals. does not affect it's price,
because the law fixes its price The law
and coin it into a dollar. and it is a dollar.
just IS the law SAYS that SO many pounds
Wheat bS Il pu and the law says a that So
much property shall be a dollar.
This is the old fiat money fallacy in a
new form. The advocates of fiat money
secuted the idea of intrinsic value They
claimed that the government could con-
fer the money quality on paper currency
by its mere fiat, and might float an I'M
limited amount of such currency by sim
ply declaring it legal tender without
anything of value behind it. According
to this theory the government could
make dollars out of copper or leather as
easily as out of silver. And SO it could,
if legal enactment could control natural
laws and prices. This teacher of finance
says that, as the law makes sixty pounds
of wheat a bushel, it can. with equal
propriety, say that so or SIS cents worth
of silver shall be a dollar. There is no
parallelism in the cases. In saying that
sixty pounds of wheat shall constitute
bushel the law simply establishes the re-
lation between weight and quantity. 1t
does not attempt to fix any standard of
value or arbitrary ratio of exchange. If
the law should say that thirty pounds of
wheat should constitute bushel that
would not change the bushel measure
make thirty pounds of wheat worth
as much as sixty pounds. An attempt
by legal enactment or government fat
to make thirty pounds of wheat have
the same value as sixty pounds would
be no more absurd or dishonest than one
to give fifty cents worth of silver the
value of a dollar.