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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
joys Victoria Has Missed.



Queen Victoria has reigned for great
good deal just now. All sorts of pleasant
things are of current mention concerning
the healthy widow of WindSor-and yet,
and yet somehow the thought Will come
that the Queen has not had all the best of
it, though she holds the long-distance
standing start record for regning against
time. Although she has been prominent in
British society for nearly sixty years, and
has seen her name in the papers FOR four
generations. she has never had the ines
Unable pleasure of boSsing and making
miserable a quartet of eXpressmen on May
taking up the folding-bed and walking. She
has not tasted the delight of being right
tackle or left quarter back at a bargain
day sale, so that the 40 cents saved by mus
cular strife might be fitttingly invested in
a matinee ticket and 10 cents worth of
chocolates. The keen ecstasy born OF find
ing half-dollar in a worthy husbands old
trousers. filed away and forgotten, has
never been hers She has never looked on
in a blandly supervisory way while the man
weighing 7,2i1 tons down the cellarway to
alternating quarters. Nor does she know
any of the sweet sublmity or arguing
with the landlord when he comes to say he
cannot possibly put on new window shades.
until he not only abandons the negative
to varnish the parlor floor. She never put
up single glass jar of peaches and IL she
has ever made over last years accordion
piaited cape into a this years bicycle suit
the royal chronicler has neglected to give
the date.
she hasn't shot the chutes; she hasn't--but
pshaw! She has done nothing but reign
continuously for 80 years Ill days. We
rather pity her.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

The Rev. DR.. Talmage, in his sermon
at the First Presbyterian Church in Wash
ington City, Sunday, is reported to
have said that never within his memory
had many people literally starved to
death as in the past few months. The
Journal is not advised to where the
Rev. Mr.. TaImage spent his summer
cation and many people literally
starving to death. 1t certainly could not
have been in the farming districts, where
corn and potatoes are selling at very low
prices, and where a CARLOAD of vegetables
can be purchased for a dollar. Who be-
sides the Rev. Mr. Talmage has heard of
any one literally starving to death in this
country? There are thousands of men
without employment on account of the
iniquitous tariff legislation of 1894, but
there is no actual starvation. Why did
not the Rev. Mr.. Talmage take up a col
lection if his statement is true and save
from actual starvation some of those who
are not yet dead?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
BRYAN's HONEST DOLLAR.
POpOcracy's Candidate Commends th'
Cheap Mexican Ccsa.
Phila delnhia Press

Philadelphia Press.
A Mexican dollar is IAN honest dollar"
Mr. Bryan says, because il is worth Just
as much melted as newly minted. that is,
1t is worth just the value of the bullion
that is in il and nothing more. This is not
entirely true. There is charge OF 4-l1
per cent. by the Mexican mint for coming
silver and Mexican dollar melted down
would only bring the owner o. clio cents
at the Mexican mint
1t is true. however, that the Mexican
dollar liz generally valued for just the sill
yer that is in il. 1t is honest TO this ex-
tent. 1t is worth little more than half
dollar of our good currency. as yet UNI
furnished by Organism. An American dol
lar silver or gold Will buy as much as
two Mexican honest dollars i'm either the
United States or Mexico but If Mr. Bryan
has his way this will cease and the Amer
lean dollar will become az cheap and nasty
as the Mexican dollar which he commends.
Mr.; Bryan pays a poor tribute TO the
intelligence of his audienceS-wage earnerS
most OF them by. exploiting the Mexican
dollar as the model coin for the United
states. Does he imagine that they ere 50
dull as TO desire that the dollars in which
their wages are paid shall be made one-half
as valuable as they are at present? BY the
credit of the government and because OF
the fact that the treasury stands ready. by
equal exchange. If need be. to maintain it's
parity with gold, our big volume of silver
good as gold. Every one who receives
wages, salaries or fixed incomes from any
source will be robbed of one.half IL Mr..
Bryan'S equivalent of honest Mexican dol
lars ever becomes the currency of the
United States.
The Mexican dollar has been used as an
object lesson to illustrate the cheap and
nasty currency Mr.. Bryans party would in
troduce into this country. Mr.. Bryan not
only admits the truth of the comparison.
but glories i'm it, silver dollar that is
worth only its bullion value. and that bull
lion value 30 cents of our present good Cur
rency is the kind of an honest dollar Mr..
Bryan's party want TO bring into the
United States. Such dollar would not he
honest because it would lower wages. cheat
creditors and rob the thrifty of their saw
ings and benefit only the silver mine own
ers and the repudiator who want TO pay
their debts in cheap dollars.
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treated as of Importance by any section of
the American people is received in a mirth-
ful spirit. Bismarck's hopeless ignorance
on all financial questions made his the
butt of two generations of his parlia-
mentary associates whenever he eSsayed to
talk on them. His speeches these sub
Jects used to be filled with maddened re-
tortS to men who criticised him.
While 1t was true. he would say. that
as a nobleman. he had not been trained in
the small tricks of trade and money count
ing. yet he rad the Emperor behind him.
and that was more important than any So
called economic principle. His commercial
wars with his neighborS. his groteSque un-
equal systems of domestic taxation, have
done more toward making the Social DEM
oerats the largest single party in Germany
than all other causes combined He knows
no more to-day about the silver question
than Secretary Carlisle does about the
family arrangements regulating the Sake
Altenburg succession. and no one in Eu-
rope, not even among the eX-Chancellor 5
most heated partisanS, would dream OF re-
garding him as authority on that or
any other fiscal question under the sun.
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INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

Good times and bad money cannot exist
at the same time.-Greensburg Standard.
The swallows will be smoked out of fac
tory chimneys after the election of Nc
Kinley.-Connersville News.
Major McKinley's speeches grow better
daily and make the best political literature
of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Enterprise
1T IS, of course, an insult 10 the working
man to say that he can be coerced by any
body into voting either way.-NoolesVilIe
Ledger.
The United States is too great a nation
and its people are too honest to settle at
80 cents on the dollar.-North Vernon Re-
publican.
Bryan's faith in his being a child of des-
tiny is certainly on the wane, judging from
the growing bitterness of his speeches.
Richmond Telegram.
Senator Teller says that the free coinage
of silver would not bring immediate pros
perity. but that within the next twenty
years all those who might be content 10
labor and wait would DC rich and every
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
A Bit of News for Mr.. Riley.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Mr.. E. V. Lucas contributes an interest
ing article to the September Fortnightly
Review, one of the leading literary periodi-
Gals of England. entitled Some Notes On
Poetry for Children Among other things
he says:
Among poets who can with knowledge
describe for us child life both subjective
and objective. we are fortunate in possess
ing Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley Mr. Riley
IS New Englander. and the boy to whom
he introduces us is d New Highlander. too
speaking the Hoosier dialect but none the
less boy for that. Let Mr.. Riley's right to
speak for children be found in these two
Hoosier stanZaS called Uncle Sidney-it is
quite established there:
- Sometimes when bin bad
An pa correcks me men
An Uncle Sidney he comes here
I'm allus good again.
Cause Uncle Sidney says
An takes me up an smiles
The coolest mems they is amt good
AS baddest little childs.' q"
He follows with two stanzas from Mr.
Riley's "Raggedy Man" which is familiar
to everybody hereabouts, and upon which
he bestows a deserved compliment. Mr..
Riey's friends all rejoice in the growing
appreciation of his genius by the English
and the Englishspeaking people every
where. His little volume of ''Old- fashioned
Roses" published by Longmans Green &
Co., or London, has passed through sixteen
editions. Mr. Riley's new book entitled
Child World is to be issued smut n
eously here by the Bowen Merrill Company
and in London by Longmans, Green q Co.
some time in October. There is no doubt
about its success. Having been privileged
to see some of the advance sheets and
with some knowledge of the motive and
scope of the work, l predict for it a greater
popularity than any of his books have
hitherto attained. His friends like to see
Mr.. Riley's praises in foreign periodicals.
but at the same time are sorry to note
the ignorance of his friendly critic in the
Fortnightly concerning Mr. Riley's home
and the boy who speaks the Hooser dia-
lect. w. p. F.
Indianapol Sept 2S
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

The stories which Mr.. La Toilette, form
erly of this State and a New Yorker tell
of the manner in which they have been vic
timzed by the silver mine statesmen, Jones.
of Nevada; Teller, Of Colorado: Dubois.
Pettigrew and others, show that as manip-
ulators in the gold brick or green goods bus
mess, they would be ''out of sight" Mr..
La Toilette was first induced to negotiate
for the New York Mercury, which was to be
turned into silver organ. He got some of
his money into it for these gentlemen and
statesmen, who gave all sorts of promises
Mr.. La Toilette interested a New York
Spectator of wealth. who kept the Mer-
curry afioat as a free-silver paper until he
had put up 100000 in purchase money and
otherwise. Latterly Chairman Jones urged
the New Yorker to continue to put up his
money at the rate of 81, 900 a week to sup
port the Mercury. For time he did, but
when he was convinced that the silver Sem
ators were not intending to keep their
promises, he let the Mercury go, and with
it his 100000. The same men are trying
confidence game on larger scale upon the
American people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

The facts which State Statistician Thomp-
son has condensed from the United States
census and supplemented with statistics
gathered from the official returns made to
his office. will satisfy any intelligent and
unbiased person that the wall of the ca
lamityite about the devastations of
the owners of farms by mortgages is with
out cause. Many people, farmers no more
than others, feel the burden of mortgages
these hard times. 1t could not be other
wise unless those who owned the property
years ago could not sell it, The fact, how
ever that 81 per cent. of all the farms in
the United States are unincumbered and
that the value of the incumbered farms in
1880 was but S3,054 923, 165, while the unin-
numbered were valued al $40, 224, 1923 asa, dis
proves the constant cry that farmers are
being robbed of their farms by the holders
of mortgages The further fact that "a per
cent. of the outstanding mortgages are for
the purchase of farms and their improve
ment is confirmation of the baseless char
acter of such claims. But more impor-
tant are the figures presented in reference
to mortgages III Indiana. OF 800 SO mort
cages recorded in the decade 1854, DEGREES
of foreclosure were made on only Flip of
them and sheriffs' deeds, indicating that
the party giving the mortgage could not
satisfy the creditor. were only ,39S in ten
years. And these include town property
known as lots as well as farms This means
that one piece of mortgaged property in
twenty-eight has been going into the hands
of the creditor during the past ten years.
The figures of the Statistician further show
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
nged as a. Show.
New York Sun

New York Sun.
1t was announced that man would be
hanged at the Westminster Aquarium, IN
London. one day recently and good many
people assembled to witness this eevating
spectacle, which is understood to have been
imported from Paris. They did not the
man hanged. but when they We're admitted
to the chamber of horrors they found
him already hanging from the roof by a
rope which passed through the ceiling. He
was dressed in French worlxingman's
serge suit and wore voluminous red silk
scarf around his neck. which completely
concealed the disposition of the rope. The
official explanation of the performance is
that the weight rests on the jaw, not
the soft parts of the neck 1t
CHASTITY spectacle. and was unsuccessful
a money-making scheme that the man
ayers have since withdrawn the exhibition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
After Hearing the Man.
Boston Transcript.

Mr.. Bryans speeches in Boston will
make converts. nor will they change
the minds of those who have all along held
him to be simply a smart politician with
all that the term implies. There are
scores of public speakers who are his SUI
perors in forcefully and eloquently pre-
senting cause. Many of his own support
ers exceed him in eloquence, and few are
less logical. We would like 10 consider Mr..
ant thought that millions of Americans will
cast their ballots for one who has given
few evidences of possessing marked ability
or even conspicuous talent. but nothing
that he has. said or done since his nomi-
nation has led us to revise our first opinion
that he is the most unprecedented man
ever nominated for the presidency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

New York Mail and EXPRESS.


Some of Mr.. Bryans fool friends in Chi
cago have arranged feature for the big
free-siver parade on Oct. which is likely
to react unDleasantly upon themselves.
They propose that one detachment of the
procession shall be made up of men claim
ing to have been coerced by their employ
ers into pledging their votes to Mckinley.
and that these men shall wear black mas ks
to conceal their identity. The masks will
they will be worn. not by the victims of
coercion or oppression, but by loafers and
liars hired for the occasion by free-siver
campaign funds. We don't know of any
thing more likely to start ii riot in Chicago
than the appearance of lot of masked
hirelings oaradins as down-trodden work
inRmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Omaha World Herald CMr. Bryan's pape
Nov. IS 1892

Omaha World Herald (NIr. Bryans paper,
Nov. is. 1892.
The next secession of Congress will have
to wrestle with one deficiency OF $685. 000.-
600 This is on account of pensions. The
appropriation for pensions for the next year
mast not be less than $50, 600 600. 1t is there
fore easy arithmetic to perceive that the
appropriation that Congress must make for
pensions next session must aggregate not
less than $ls6.000.000. This tremendous sum
would in itself be enough to run a reasona-
BILE government One would not complain
if 1t We're an honest debt. but a large pro-
portion is not debt. because it was not
earned by any act of patriotism or heroic
service. The government IL held up and de-
spoiled of no mean portion of this, and il
seems helpless to defend itself. One cannot
help being curious to know how many more
years it will take to exhaust the generation
which feels itself injured by the war. 1t is
safe to say that never did generation dis
play such remarkable longevity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Every keeper Of sheep grows less grain
on that account, and as his fiocks increase
becomes buyer and consumer of the grain
grown by his neighbor; hence all farmers
are interested in wool growing, though
they are not flock masters themselves" So
says David Harpster, of Ohio. the leading
sheep raiser of the United States, in let
ter declaring his belief in the necessity of
protection for the wool-growing industry
and his ardent support of Mckinley and
sound money,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
Simple Facts.
: K5sFH tFfN A NtVNs
New York World Dem.)

New York World (Dem.)
Wages are higher now than at any time
before 1873.
Every workingman knows this fact or can
easily find it out.
Each dollar of wages will now buy much
more than any dollar did before 1873.
Every workingman knows this fact or can
easily find ii out.
Every workingman Is better off to-day
than at any time before 1873.
Every workingman knows this fact can
easily find il out.
Why then. should any workingman vote
for a return to the conditions prior to
1872
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Now that Mr.. Bryan has been a long dis
lance out of his way To visit Mr.. Sewall
in Maine, Mr.. Watson might ask him when
In Georgia, If he could not make it conven-
lent to spend night Sunday at his
humble residence. If Mr.. Watson should
do this he would find out at once that
Mr. Bryan thinks that SewaI is a better
man on the ticket Besides. the Sewal
mansion in Bath is much more imposing
in Georgia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
The Foolish Advertiser.
New York Recorder.

4NtW I
That advertising ass who depends upon
good note paper and a fashionable hand
writing to attract attention. is flooding club
boxes and private houses with notices of
his wares. Last year it was play: this
year it is Il cleaner. The thing is clever
in its way but ii is. nevertheless. bore
and a nuisance. The day is not far off when
~ priVate-looking carriage. extremely well
appointed. will drive about and a beautiful
~ dressed lady will get out at your house
and leave cards-business cards-of enter
DriSing firms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Mr.. Bryan's organs are quoting his
speech in favor of compelling railroad com
panies TO put safety coupiers on their ears
as II he were the first and only champion
OF that measure. More than three years
before Mr.. Bryan made his speech In the
Harrison gave all the facts in his first mes
sage TO Congress, adding that lit is a re-
proach TO our civilization that any class
OK American workmen should. in the pur-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
For Home Reading.

Il just finished Miss Skryber's new novel
this afternoon
Il have heard something of it. Is it-ah-
suitable for home reading?"
Strictly. / know / would not like to be
seen reading it in public
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

The Business Mems Sound-money Asso-
citation of Chicago has 1000 men enrolled
greatest display ever made in a political
campaign if the weather should be favor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Bryan and George Fred Williams, each
with three nominations and unlimited gift
of CAB. are two of kind. After Nov. 3
they will have another Hond of union-three
nominations and no election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Opeh to Discussion.

He-They say that i'll temper will make a
woman grow ugly in appearance.
She-More likely it is the other way. Los
ing her looks will make a woman grow i'll
hammered
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Mr. Bryan's friends deny that he is teach
ing anarchy but when incendiary fires fol-
low in his wake, and his supporters tele-
graph congratulations on the injury done
weight
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Mr.. Bryan ignores his managers and pro-
poses to play "a lone hand from this time
/, forth. He would have better prospect if
ii were not for Tom Watson, who carries
an ace up his sleeve and will persist in
staying in the game.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

A woman came into the courts in Paris,
last week, claiming to be the moral wife
of Prince Bismarck and wishing to be
made his legitimate spouse. The term
moral wife is probably used ~ the 44l-
genuous French people because the situa-
tion indicated is immoral
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
Triun,ph OF Boston.

You may ridicule dear Boston if you
like said the maiden with the gilt-edged
glasses but her influence is extending
over the world, silently, yet surely"
II guess you said 'er that time assented
the lady from Chicago. 1T hasn't been
more'n week since I read that the earth
was getting colder and colder every YEAR
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

To double the wealth of a few thousand
wealthy mine owners, largely in Great
Britain and other foreign lands, Mr.. Bryan
is laboring to prejudice wage-earners
against employers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

land, but as Mr.. Sewall has been selected
by Mr.. Bryan as his favorite. and proposes
to stick, how can he be got off the Popo-
cratic ticket?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Kansas CT.

Kansas City Journal.
Miss Populism-Don't tell anybody that @
/ axed We to be my company. Billy.
Billy Bryan-No danger I'm as much
ashamed of 1t. Poppy, as you be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Mr. Bryan has not get found time to ac
cent the Populist notification of his nomi-
nation. As he is making Populist speeches
doubtless Mr. Bryan thinks his friends of
that name should accept them as an ac-
canfance OF their views
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

John Boyd Thacher has at least achieved
the distinction of being the only man who
ever declined a Democratic nomination for
Governor of New York out of sheer disgust
with the platform
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

The Sentinel tells how many millions of
wicked Republican gold Mark Hanna is
sending to Indiana, but continues to assert
that 1t never, never can be bribed Doth it
not protest too much, mayhap?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Already sS4 100000 of gold has come to
us from Europe since midsummer. and
81 100000 more is ordered and on the way.
And yet the Popocratic orator tells US
that the cowardIy yellow metal is leav-
ing MS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

In what class does Mr.. Bryan put the
seven million depositors in savings banks
and shareholders in building and loan as
sociations. against the robbery of whom
Mr. Kern Indignantly protested May IS,
1895?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

Financier La Follette's faith in the I'M
supported word of the silver mine owners
in regard to the purchase of a New York
paper was touching. He Knows now that
signing paper testifying that it is a de-
sirable piece of property is not precisely
equivalent to signing check in payment
FOR stock
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
showed His Ignora nee.

New York Evening sun
When Bryan talks about the clergymcn
of the country lolling i'm luxury. he simply
shows that he does not know what the
average salary of members of the profess
sion is Taking parsons all around they are
more underpaid than overpaid.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29

The Democratic national committee and
Mr.. Bryan should turn over their trouble
some candidates for Vice President to Gov
ing over the tickets of regular conven-