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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-16

her States; throttling treason; putting
under heel the most gigantic OF rebellions;
abolishing slavery; making millions of
every pecuniary obligation; reconstructing
the disordered constellation of natural
stars; paying an enormous national
startled the whole world into
acclamations OF praise; taxing its
people without hurdening or expressing
them; reducing the exactions of taxation
with exquisite adjustment to the necessities
of the occasion: providing munihcently
for its veteran soldiers; developing under a
system of protection to its industries and
labor. it's resources of national wealth and
United States beyond any other nation on
the earth in these respects and made IT
a paradise of home as 1t Is of freedom;
this party has from the first embodied the
progress. reform. education and natural
prosperity of the people, as against the
obstruction of all these and the reaction
from them.
The surviving members of the Pitts
burg meeting of 1856 ought to have a re-
union. There cannot be many Of e
living. but there must be a few. Per-
haps If the movement were started some
of the old boys would speak up who have
not been heard from for a long time.
They should get together and fight the
battle of freedom over again once more.
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city. printed reports OF a speech delivered
the day before by Senator Vest at
Fayette. Mo. There was considerable
difference in the two reports. which is
explained by the Globe-Democra as fol-
lows:
When Mr.. Vests intention TO speak at
craft teIeg rap ehn to- aSea s sns GloIs asking
him II he would prepare his remarks and
turn h, us With a copy in advance, to be be
the affirmative. and he made his promise
good. But we happen to know Senator
Vests intellectual methods pretty well, and
speech than he can write. He writes for
the select few. but he talks to the boys
So we dispatched two of the best shorthand
structions to send the speech to us by tele-
graph as delivered. The order was obeyed
to the letter end the speech came to US
over three western Union wires. while the
prepared copy lay on one of the editorial
desks in the Globe-D Democrat Office. AS We
had written, and the Globe democrat was
repaid for it's eleven t~housand-word
telegram by the superiority of the spoken
over the written matter.
This incident from real life recalls a
similar one in which Senator VOORHEES,
figured. During a political campaign in
this State a few years ago he was billed
to speak in an ott-of-the-way Democratic
stronghold in one of the southwestern
counties. The Journal, feeling confident
that a correct report of his speech would
make interesting reading, sent a short
hand reporter with Instructions to take
it in full. The Senator, not knowing the
speech was to be reported, gave himself
loose rein and talked as a Democratic
orator Of his lind might be expected to
a when he thought nobody but Demo-
would hear him 1t was very
amusing to see the difference between
the Journals report of the speech and
that printed by papers which had been
furnished an abstract in advance. One
represented what the Senator wanted the
public to think he said and the other was
what he really did say. 1t made him
mad. a
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Won Suppe, the Viennese composer, found
light opera remunerative. His will shows
that he left $4,000 in real estate and about
100000 in cash and personal property.
The Pope is now possessor of probably
the most valuable chair on earth. 1t is con-
structed of solid silver and is of the value
of $4,000. 1t is the gift Of Mr.. Troop, a
wealthy American banker.
The great-grandson of Robert Burns. the
poets namesakes and only surviving rela-
ton, is an old man living in Edinburgh ia
i'll health and poverty, being employed by
the municipality at small wages.
So many sheriffs in the West and South
have lately added ~bloodhounds to their
force of criminal crackers that the price Of
the animal is increasing. and the raising of
them is becoming quite a business. notably.
perhaps in Kentucky. One hundred dollars
is said to be an average price for a good
bloodhound pup now.
Baron Hirsch has, thus far, sent about
four thousand Russian Hebrews to the Ar
g%entine Republic. and hopes to have a He
brew community there Of 100000 within ten
years. He sends them out in companies of
fifty families, each provided with a rabbi
and a doctor, and he expects them TO settle
in villages. giving a special tract for each
company.
Strange as it may appear" says NJ. de
Guerville, in his account Of Japanese wom-
en-. "a kiss is an unknown thing in Japan
not unknown TO the gay maidens of Yoko-
hama, Kobe or Nagasaki. who have so
much to do for the amusement of foreign
ers. but unknown to the Japanese In gen.
eral. a lover never kisses his sweetheart,
a mother never kisses her child"
Mrs. Z. s. Grant. who has tust purchased
ex-senator Edmunds's house in Washington
for $50 1000, is a very young-looking woman
for her age. Her hair is only slightly
touched with gray. Her voice and manner
are youthful. but her brow shows a few
nesslike in her methods. II has always been
her desire to end her days In washington.
To have father and son both rear adj
mirals of our navy is something which has
rever yet occurred, but which probably
will occur within a few days. Rear-admi-
raj Selfridge. retired, is almost ninety, and
has been on the retired list since 1861, while
his son. now Commodore Selfridge. has
paratory to his promotion to his fathers
rank.
Gen. Samuel f. Carey has been selected
as orator at the unwilling of the Harrison
monument in Garfield Park. Cincinnati.
General Carey is the oldest resident of Gin
cinnati and probably the only man in the
city who voted for Gen. William Henry
Harrison twice for President. Besides this
the General was n warm friend of the hero
of Tippecanoe. and tumpe the country for
him In both OF his memorable presidential
campaigns.
Sardou has attacked the hitherto spotless
personal character Of ST. Just. OF French
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HOURS n WAGES.
Reduction Of the Former without In
terfcring with the Latter.
+ ippincotf,c Nfo oo7;ro

Lippincott's Magazine.
Since fifty years ago there has been here.
as well as in England, a great reduction
In the hours of labor. But this was not
accomplished for the pleasure Of the wage
earners; it was accomplished because ex-
perience proved hat after a certain state
of fatigue had been reached labor was un-
reduced. A large volume of evidence has
been collected in the last few years to
show that production is even more eco
nine-hour or a ten-hour day. Experiments
in this direction are in progress. If what is
claimed for the eight-hour day De proved
d e;ahd, 1t had 1dv been en, partially proved the
But otherwise no amount of ethics or
philanthropy or Christianity will bring it
in. Men are always, everywhere, trying to
get all they can. If they can get more by
working ten hours than by working eight
ten hours they will work.
Wages have been largely increased in the
to economic causes. The principle Of
Christianity which attaches an absolute
value. greater than that of all earthly
not induced any employer to increase
wages. 1t can be shown that this principle
has led to the improved condition of the
laboring classes, but it has done so in
accordance with economic laws. and not
by s~uspending them, or violating theT, or
substituting benevolent for selfish instincts.
Invention and the extension of human con-
troll over the powers of nature have enor-
mously increased the amount of product,
of wealth, that can be got by the labor Of
each individual. This increase has been
distributed, and the laborer has got a part
of it; 1t is not material to this discussion
whether he has got his share, or less, or,
as some persons believe, more. The ma
terial fact is that he has been paid his
increased wages out of an increased guam
tity of production, and not out of an &C
cumulated fund of altruism. No amount of
ethics or philanthropy would have been
able to pay him increased wage had not
some ones inventive skill enabled him to
weave more yards of cloth and roll more
pounds of iron in a week than his grand
father did.
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successful. Minister DENLY cables the
State Department that the Chinese
authorities have agreed hat seventeen
Of the known leaders shall be executed
and all the participants tried. Not only
this. but the local Chinese officials who
sympathized with the outrages and have
tried to shield the rioters have been re-
ferred to a board for punishment Col.
Denby's dispatch leaves the impression
that the Chinese government has COM
piled with all the demands of the min
fSters.
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PROGRESS OF THE WALLER CASE.
The Waller case has made no progress.
THE GROWING ANTI-snvER sENTI-
MENT.

The Farmers National Congress Is a
representative body of men who are en-
gagged in agriculture. During the years
it has been in existence there has never
been an indication that any element in
it sought membership in order to make
it a political organization. The congress
has always discussed economic questions
with freedom, but it has never under
taken to make a political party. Being
thus constituted. it's action on Monday
on the silver question was a most signif-
cant indication of the change of senti-
ment which has been taking place the
past four or five months on that subject.
Had the congress met last April it is al
together probable that the free coinage
of silver, with the ratio of 16 to /, would
have been Endorsed by a large majority.
During April, May and June the silver
question was thoroughly discussed.
Every community in the central. States
has given the silver question a more i'm
partial consideration than any other be-
cause it has not been presented as a
party issue. Nearly three months ago
the question suddenly ceased to be dis
cussed. That was because popular senti-
ment, without the formality of a vote,
a decided against the free coinage of
the white metal. The vote of the farm
ers' congress is but a continuation of the
popular decision.
The action of the congress is specially
remarkable. While it would approve of
an international conference to adopt a
plan for the equal use Of the two metals,
it refused to make the ratio of 16 to 1
the basis of international agreement.
The issue was finally made direct upon
the free coinage of silver, and it was de-
feated by Isl to 104-a majority Of LAT.
Had that vote been taken last May with
the same delegates there is every reason
to believe that the majority would have
been on the side of free silver. The re-
suit is all the more significant because
the central agricultural States and the
South are more fully represented than
the Northeast.
Undoubtedly, there are sections where
the sentiment in favor of a fifty-cent
dollar is yet strong, but they are sec
tons which are not touched by the active
and progressive life of the country at
large, which have considered and passed
upon the free silver question, as the vote
of the farmers indicates.
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FLORIDA,s ORANGE GROVES.
The Yield Even This Year VIII BE by
No Means IncOnsfderable.
Savannah (Ga News

" u
Savannah (Ga-) News.
No reliable estimate of the number of
boxes Of oranges Florida will produce this
year is o~btainable. 1t is certain, however,
that the yield will be sufficiently large to
surprise those who nave had the impress
sion that all the orange groves of the State
were destroyed by the freeze last winter.
There are a great many groves on the
west coast that were scarcely touched by
the frost. They promise to yield well. Al
ready a number of the owners of these
groves have sold their crops in the trees
for about double the amount per box they
have received in previous years. In other
parts of the State there will be a great
many oranges-more than it was expected
Immediately after the freeze that there
Comparatively few of the groves have
been abandoned. Most Of the grove own
ers have gone to work industriously to save
the trees, and it is believed they are sue
ceeding better than they expected. Most of
the groves that were killed beyond all
hope OF recovery were or young trees
which had not yet come into bearing. or
the bearing groves, from three to five per
cent, have been abandoned. Those that are
being cared for are making excellent prog
ress, and will be bearing fruit within the
should not be a hard one. We should not
be at all surprised il within the next five
or six years Florida's orange crop will be
fully as large as it was before the freeze.
There does not appear to be much foun-
dalton for the report hat a great many
families are leaving the orange growing
districts. 1t is true that here and there
a family has gone. but there is not, nor
has there been, any such emigration as
the public has been led to believe there was
by some of the statements that have been
made in the public prints. 1t will not be
long before the places of those who have
gone elsewhere will be filled. In fact, they
are being filed already, because faith in
the success Of the orange industry has not
been by any means destroyed. The freeze
gave that industry a great setback. 1t
did not destroy confidence in it. The time
is not distant when Florida's orange yie.d
will be far greater that 1t has ever yet
been.
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revolution fame. The dramatist says st.
Just, three years before the outbreak Of
the revolution, had spent six months in
jail. He had beaten his mother, who re-
fused him money. broke into her cabinet.
from which he stole silver and jewelry,
and was arrested in a disorderly house.
where he was spending the proceeds. Dur
ing the reign of terror he revenged him.
self by having his prosecutor guillotined-
An anecdote of Pasteur concerns a ride
ne took in a cab with NJ. Duruy. the aca-
demician. When they reached their destina-
ton the latter took out a five-franc piece
and told the cabman to keep the change
as a souvenir of having driven the fore
most sayant of the century. Not to be put
done. NJ. Pasteur gave the lucky jehu a
similar coin, with an admonition to keep il
In remembrance of having driven the great
est minister of the Second Empire. One Of
Pasteur's distinctive traits was his modest
dislike OF display. At the Kiel fete he might
nave had a great public manifestation in
his honor, but he declined il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-16
THE SUPPLY OF WHEAT.

The fact that the statistics Of the
worlds wheat crop for 1895 show a fall
ing off of 100, OOO, 900 bushels compared
with the crop of 1894 is suggestive of the
change which is taking place in the cult
walton of that cereal. A few years ago
the crop in this country was enormous,
while there was a short crop throughout
Europe. 1t was expected that prices
would be very high. and a number of
men who farm the farmers advised wheat
growers, by circulars, to hold the crop
back, as 81 a bushel would be the price
in March Inc April. There was some
holding back, but the fact that Argentina
had a bountiful crop n other wheat
growing countries had considerable sur
pluses in the aggregate sc far made up
the short crop in Europe that prices were
not materially advanced. This year it
seems that nearly all the world, except
the winter wheat belt of the United
States, has rather better than an aver
age crop, and that the loss of 100, 000, 900
bushels, compared with 1894, falls upon
the central wheat States of this country.
But little of our wheat will go abroad.
Even if we had a large quantity to spare,
it would go into competition with the
larger SURPRISES of other countries n
help to reduce the price, since the larger
the SURPRISES put upon the British mar
ket the less the price. The inference
which may be made from the worlds
wheat harvests the past ten years is
that a short general crop all over the
world can never be counted on. There
will be short crops here and there, but
they will be made up by better yields
elsewhere. No crop is so general as the
wheat crop. n the expansion of rad
and the cheap and quick communication
which steam has afforded have opened
new wheat fields. A famine under such
conditions need not be feared. That pop
ulation will press subsistence to the wall.
as was predicted by Nautilus years ago,
is no longer a fear.
A class of crop statisticians have been
showing tina the limit of large wheat
crops in this country has been reached
because all of the wheat lands are under
cultivation. While it may be true that
the wheat-growing area in the United
States has been taken up and put under
cultivation, it cannot be true that the
limit of production has been reached by
hundreds of millions of bushels. France,
with an area of 204, 900 square miles,
raises considerably more than half as
much wheat as a full crop in the United
States, yet Indiana. Illinois, Missouri and
Ohio. with IN aggregate of about 2O3. 900
square miles. a a larger area adapted
to wheat growing than has France. In
diana. which has an area not quite one
fifth as large as that of France, does
not. year after year. raise one-tenth as
much wheat. Higher culture will in
crease the wheat crop in this country as
II has In France. AID its price will make
better cultivation profitable. There is
very sure to be wheat bread enough and
to spare. The problem is to so utilize
the worlds labor that its wages will
be sufficient to purchase 1t. That problem
has yet to be solved.
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REUNION THAT OUGHT TO BE
HELD.

-
1t has been suggested that in case the
next national Republican convention
should be held in Pittsburg an effort
should be made to nave a reunion of the
surviving attendants at the famous meet
ing held in that city in 1856, which was
the initial step in the organization of the
Republican party. Such a reunion would
have peculiar interest for those partici-
pating in it and a good deal of historic
interest. Besides the interest which
always attaches to the coming together
after a long separation of those who have
once been closely allied in a common
cause it would revive the memory of
political achievements which the country
cannot afford to forget and which the
people ought not willingly to let die.
The meeting alluded to was a mass
convention. the call for which was pub
lished in January, 1856, signed by the
chairmen of the State Republican COM
mittees of Maine. Vermont, New York,
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Michigan. Indiana
and Wisconsin. 1t invited the Repub-
leans of the United States to meet for
the purpose of perfecting the national
organization and providing for a national
delegate convention to nominate candi-
dates for the presidency and vice presi-
dency."
The meeting was held on the 22d and
23d of February, and was attended by
representative men of both the old<po-
litical parties who were in sympathy
xrtf0 tho aon Tie nrnpaoTinoc r-ava
marked by the earnestness and en-
thusiasm which are apt to characterize
the Inauguration of great 1t
adopted an address ~embodying the prin-
ciples and purposes of the new party
and arranged for the holding of a ma
tional delegate convention for the nomi-
nation of candidates for President and
Vice President. The National Intelli-
gencer OF Feb. rs dismissed the meeting
with a few cold words. 1t said: The
address is ultra in its sentiments. and
the speeches were inflammatory.' So
they were for that period, but that was
only the beginning of a storm I'm which
there was to be thunder all around the
sky. The national convention called by
this meeting met at Philadelphia in the
following June and nominated Fremont
and Dayton. and their defeat was fol-
lowed four years later by the election of
Lincoln. The record made by the party
thus organized is a brilliant part of the
country's history. One Of its historians
has said:
Snatching from the laundering, incom-
pefent. paisicd and in some instances dis
loyal hands OF its great rival. the torn and
twgeriled republic; preserving the union Of
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With Utah admitted as the forty-ffth
State OF the Union there will remain
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma as
Of these three Territories will make forty
eight States. and the numbe will prob
ably stand at that figure for a long time.
Texas would make several good sized
States but she is not inclined that way,
md 1t will be many years before Alaska
Will be ready for statehood.
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The Assistant Attorney-general for the
Postofice Department in his annual re-
port says the lottery business In this
country has been greatly crippled. IL not
ruined. by the closing OF the mails to
their business. That Is doubtless true Of
IA other forms is on the increase. The
multitude OF slot machines contribute to
the growth OF the passion. and most of
the groceries near public schools sell can
kdy to little children by the cents worth.
9TH q chance OF drawing an extra cent
IN every second or third purchase.
% universal gambling on a small scale
but = stepping stone to larger opera
ona.
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Mr.. William E. Curtis, the well-known
correspondent Of the Chicago Record,
writes from New York as follows:

Mr.. William E. Curtis, the well-known
correspondent Of the Chicago Record,
writes from New York as follows:
Mr.. Brown, who has charge Of the wool
department of the firm of Flint & Co., the
largest importers OF South American wool
in the United States, has been writing and
known him, and has always regarded the
removal of the duty on that article as es-
sential to salvation. But when l met him
this morning he was very respondent.
Since the passage of the tariff bill, he says,
the bottom has dropped out of the wool
market. There has been no money in the
trade. and there is no hope of a revival
unless the duty on wooden fabrics is in
creased. He says that the market for
been swamped by British manufacturers,
so that the domestic mills have not been
able to pay expenses, and most of them
have had to shut down to avoid bank
ruptcy, Notwithstanding the fact that Con-
gress gave them free material. The reduc-
ton OF the duty on wooden goods more
than neutralized the benefits that could be
derived from free raw materials, and 1t is
impossible for American manufacturers to
duty on the finished product is restored.
While many wooden mills making first
class goods are yet running, it is a ques-
ton of time only when they will be com
PEELED to shut down or reduce wages to
the British standard. Attention has not
yet beer called to the conditions of the
business, but it will be soon after the
new year begins, If not before.
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1t is said by those who are qualified to
judge that Sanitarian Wynn is doing a
good work for the health of the city. He
has made the subject a study and is adj
mirably qualified for the position. A man
may be a good physician and yet not be
informed regarding sanitary methods.
Such being the case, DR.. Wynn should be
retained unless the affairs of the city are
to be run in the interest of individuals
rather than the whole people.