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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
AN ATTEMPTED BOYCOTT.

So far as known, the only attempt at
coercion that has been made in this city
appeared in the Sentinel yesterday. 1t was
in the form of an editorial attacking the
officers of the indianapolis Brewing Com
pany by name as British syndicate beer
brewing criminals and demanding that
they be arrested and punished for an al
legged violation of law. The specific charge
is that the company has laid a switching
track connecting of it's breweries with
the Big Four railroad that said track
crosses the west end of New York street.
and that it was laid without the knowledge
or consent of the city authorities. This is
not true. The track does not cross New
York street nor any Other street, and it
was not laid without an understanding
with the city authorities. 1t only crosses
private property, and the right of way was
secured before it was laid. The animus of
the attack appears in the fact that it
names Messrs. Albert Lieber, president of
the Indianapolis Brewing Company, John
p. Frenzel, secretary, and Otto Frenzel,
treasurer, as violators of law, and says,
Punish the British syndicate beer-brewing
criminals. The trouble is these gentle
men, like many other Democrats, have
openly repudiated the Popocratic PLATFORM
and candidate and are doing all in their
power to defeat them. They are for sound
money and if they contribute to any cam
paign fund this year it will be for the pro-
motion of that cause. Hence the Bryan or
gan holds them up as violators of the law
and calls on it's readers to boycott their
business. 1t says:
The people who believe that the rich
should be made to observe the law as well
the poor have this matter in their own
hands. Let all those of that opinion re-
solve that they will not drink a drop of
Indianapolis brewery beer until this track
is removed and the guilty parties are pun
iShed to the full extent of the law.
This is an attempt at coercion. 1t is an
attempt to carry politics into business, and
to induce people to boycott home indus
try under the pretense that it is foreign
corporation and that it's members have vio-
lated the law. A majority of the stock of
the Indianapolis Brewing Company is
owned in this country. 1t is essentially an
Indianapolis industry. 1t pays out a great
many thousands of dollars annually in
wages to Indianapolis people. This, of
course, would not entitle 1t to violate law,
but it should entitle it to fair treatment
and preserve it from an attempted boycott
for political reasons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

]. Laurence LaughIin. in the Atlantic

j. Laurence Laughlin, in the Atlantic
When the bubble burst in 1873, business
disasters were not confined to the farming
class. Expansion of trade, inflated prices
airy ventures of all kinds, collapsed and
brought down men of affairs in every occu-
patton with pitiess impartiality. The farm
er, having entered into engagements for
large sums when all the world was BOOM
ing with speculative schemes of develop
ment, suddenly found himself prone on the
ground, with his flying machine lying
splintered and ruined beside him. But in
this fate he found himself in company with
men engaged in all branches of manufac-
ture and trade. 1t is in such a soil. cora
posed of the debris of speculation anu over
trading, that a crop of weedy delusfoils
grows. 1t is commonly known that the
years succeeding a panic are the ones in
which quack remedies for industrial dis
tress find many gullible victims. Unframed
IN economic reasoning, inexperienced in in
dustrial history, untaught in penetrating
into the causes of commercial phen omena
the under-educated man Is the prey to the
first nostrum that happens to be offered
him. His distress pinches. How easy to
believe the dogmatic assertion that the
cause of his distress Is the scarcity OF
money!! Why not? He knows precious
little about the principles of money. Why
should it not be that, well as something
else of which he knows equally little? It
Is all mysterious. anyway. He must be-.
Heve the statements of the man who first
gets his confidence. Therefore, in times Of
industrial depression, we have always had
an epidemic of crazes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Friends of the University Of California
were not altogether pleased over the found
ing of the Leland Stanford University in
that State, fearing that with its immense
endowment it would cast the older institu-
ton into the shade. The large donations
which, according to report, it is now
about to receive will probably revive their
spirits. Two universities in a single
State seem rather more than it's needs
call for, but in this case 1t must be remem-
bered that all the Pacific coast region Is
tributary to these schools, and that, what
ever may be the case now, the time will
soon come when they will both be needed
to meet the educational demands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Ex-President Harrison, in writing of
This Country of Ours in the Ladies'
Home Journal, touches briefly on pensions,
but with his few words he covers the sub
ject and leaves nothing more to be said
There may be fair differences of opinion
as to the extent and conditions of pension
relief" he says, but there is no room for
doubt as to pensions AS an answer to the
sneering charge that the soldiers were paid
for their services in monthly wages he
says:
Eleven dollars a month for war service
implies, at least, relief in case of wounds
or sickness for the soldier, and that the
public will care for his widow and minor
children. When the law of piliage prevailed
it was otherwise; and when our rich men
take to fighting our wars we can abolish
the pension system, but thus far it is
historically true of the armies that won
Indians and the British, and saved the ma
ton in the great civil war, as of the king
dom of heaven; mot many rich"
If it were not President Eliot he had in
mind when he wrote the next paragraph
that gentleman and his kind are we'll an
swered
There are two views of the pension ques-
tion--one from the Little Round Top at
Gettysburg, looking out over a Yield sown
thickly with the dead and around upon
bloody, blackened and MANNED men cheer
Ing the shot-torn banner of their country;
the other from an office desk on a busy
street. or from endowed chair in a uni
1ersity, looking only upon a statistical ta-
BILE.
The self-constituted critics of the govern
ment who have the attitude of regarding
the sum total of pensions as a personal
burden and each pensioner as an impostor
or an object of charity, are left with
nothing at all to say
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
DU MAURIER AND OTHERS.
Noveis Tint Can he Dramatfxed Arc
the Most Profitable

New York Letter in Philadelphia Press.
Il In one of the chats which Du Maurier SO
. rely gave to the correspondents after
.IHlpy became famous, he spoke of his
intense a desire to. visit America and his
fear that 1t would never be gratified. He
the weakness OF his heart might be ag-
gravated by an ocean voyage. But he said
he remembered quite vivfdiy some parts Of
York for a little while when a lad He
h huad Ia the vicinity of the old University
building which at that time and for TWEEN
~ years after was the center of the liter
liam Alpin, of Brooklyn speaks of his rec
direction OF Du Maurier, with whom he was
q a., ooy playmate in the brief period that
city. 1t seems to be generally forgotten or
perhaps it was not widely known that Du
Mbauri lei . spent a year or two of his boy
Richard Mansfield lost fine opportunity
When ne refused to listen to suggestion
play Svengali. 1t is not generally known
tn that it had been proposed to Du Maurier
70 the stage, and 1t may be that he had
mat proposition under consideration 1t
MAS Ielt that under skil,ful treatment the
creamy suggestiveness of the story might
De strikingly produced with appropriate
stage accessories. The plot of Peter ID
pt course, the splendid pecuniary rewards
winch Du Maurier received are conspicu-
that are told to-day, vet those who are wei
informed upon the earnings OF the mora
SIuccsssIui writer's of literature, say that
III III Maur1ef earnings We're not greater
.nan those or Mrs Humphrey Ward or
Psrnap S those which Kipling has received
MRS Ward was paid SIS 600 for the serial
rights, of her latest story and was guar.
a i a royalty which will bring her earn
iiHsS ior mat story to at least $40 900 For
Her TOUR stories she has received In plI
nearly quarter of million The attempt
10 oramatize her first story, Robert Els-
mere, was wretched failure
hIpilTg, Tor the story Of Arerico1
NE, which is only about 80 600 words in
iehgth, received So. 900 for the serial rights
ana was guaranteed a royalty not SPECIFIED
put SI9,ouO was paid on advanced account
SO lnat h1pIing received for that story be.
lore a. WORD or II was in print, S27, 600, and IL
- esnmated Will receive in all not less
man forty thousand. His earnings now
$4,000 year.
j. M Barry, who is now in this country
supervising the stage representation of his
mover, The Little Minister" received h
Is Understood. $780, 900 for the serial and book
EuoucatIon OF his novel Sentimental Tom-
my: The impression among dramatic
managers is that THE Little Minis
ian MacLaren. who Is also in New York
intending. to deliver his first lecture here
next week, has received less for his "Boai-
ME Briar Bush" than might be expected
from It's enormous sale. 1t has almost
matched the sale of "Trilby' In this coun-
one than the first edition of "Trilby'' was
Ihe indications are that Bret Harte will
receive more from the royalties of his plsv
sue. which is a success, than his yearly
income Tor his stories. which has averag ed
Ior the past ten years about $751; 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Messrs. P. NJ. Arthur grand chief Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, F.
p. Sargent, grand master of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen. and f. w.
Arnold. grand secretary and treasurer of
the last named organization, have united
in a statement printed in this issue de-
nouncing the fraudulent use of their names
to bolster up the Bryan cause and declar-
ing themselves in favor of sound money
and Mckinley. The men who make this
statement are among the ablest and most
trusted labor leaders in the country, and
while they have no right to speak for any,
body but themselves, their words should
carry weight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

cities who have no visible means of sup
port and who insist that there is not
money enough to do the business of the
country. They are the fellows who never
work except when they are sent to the
workhouse, and who are ready to vote for
anything that they think will hurt plu-
tocrats.'' These and their kind are the
drones of the country, and 80 per cent of
them are for free silver and Bryan. 1t i'll
becomes a candidate whose political follow
ing is so largely composed of that class
to call manufacturers, capitalists and en-
ployers of labor "drones.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

The correspondence between Chairman
Rosenheimer. of the Populist wing of the
PCpocrat party, and Chairman Convoy
printed in this issue. discloses distressing
state of affairs. The Populist chairman
wants Mr.. Gowdy to use his influence to
get the Popuists representation in the
appointment of election sheriffs and says,
1.-The Populists are not entirely satisfied
with the sincerity and honest intentions of
the Democracy" 1t has been but little
while since the Democrats and Populists
were joined together in the bonds of po-
litical matrimony. In token of the union
the Democratic committee removed Demo-
cratic electors from the ticket and put in
their places Ave Populists. The honeymoon
OF this marriage Is not yet over. Para
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Supreme Court of the Nation be a party
machine; shall all appointive offices bo
USED. as a compensation for votes: can this
NaSion enforce its own laws and protect
its own property without asking An
arehist; shall one-half OF all the national
and private debt be repudiated: but after
all. the greatest issue is. shall free govern
ment be a failure.
No nation can exist that follows a policy
founded on crime. The preamble to our.
Constitution and the Chicago platform are
farther apart than 16 to /, or even farther
than 80 to 1. and no nation can run on a
double standard of principles. the moral
tone OF which differs so widely and it
must follow one or the other. for 1t is not
possible to follow both. II is a time of the
greatest Importance. and the man who
WlSneS TO continue a government. by and
Tor the people. should consult the leaders
or his party. who by their ability. learning
ana long experience in public affairs have
siown tneir honesty and patriotism.
hnlshtstown Ind. Oct. ~. w. w.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Mayor Strong is equal to the occasion
when he requests all New Workers who IA
vor sound money to decorate their dwell
ings and business houses for the parade
next Saturday. in order that evidence may
be given of a spirit of patriotism on the
part of our citizens" When the national
honor is at stake the man who labors and
votes to preserve it expresses patriotism
as Enthusiastically as he who is ready to
fight for his country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Some papers are printing as if it were
important silly letter from Mayor Tag
CART in which he says Bryan will carry
Indiana by $4,000 majority. 1t has been
apundantly proven that Mr.. Taggart's po-
ltical judgment and predictions are abso-
lutely worthless. If he is sincere in this
prediction, which there is abundant reason
to doubt, he simply makes himself ridicu-
lous. Indiana will vote for Mckinley and
sound money by a very large majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

"at little over 49, 25." Observe. "a little
over" 1t may be 1929 1891, but it
will be there or thereabout. The value of
this prediction is shown by the further
statement that where a poll has been
taken the farmers are unanimously in ia
vor of free coinage" People who form
their opinions on such absurd CUFF as
this will find that they have been awfully
misled. 1t will take five good-sized figures
to express McKinIeys plurality in this
State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Mr.. Watson is reported to have said to
a Populistic friend who urged him to with
his party as depending on his remaining
in the race and that before he would come
down he would suffer himself to be lied
to the block and be beheaded. Somebody
ought to break the news gently to Brer
Watson that he is not really in the race.
and that it is therefore a waste of dra-
matte energy for him to pose as martyr.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

It is a fact we'll known to any loan man
that the great majority Of mortgages re-
corded in any county record are held by
local owners in small amounts. They rep
resent the thrift, enterprise and frugality
of every community. They are the people
whom Bryan denounces as 'plutocrats,"
and whom Mr. Shively. the Populist cam
didate for Governor, Jumped together as
'shooknosed ShylockS."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
He Knew.

Watts-The trouble with you is that you
have no energy. 1 don't believe you know
what energy is.
Weary Watkins-Yes, I do Energy is
wot some people has to have fer to make
enough fer our profession to git Twin
off of 'em.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

phrasing Hamlet, one might say: THAT 1t
should come to this, Not two months mar
ried. nay. not SO much not two. A little
month" And yet the chairman of the Pop
ulist committee says, 1.-The Populists are
not entirely satisfied with the sincerity and
honest intentions of the Democracy" At
this rate there may be divorce before the
oil
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

The City Council. 1t seems, does not in
tend that the streets shall be cleaned dur
ing the last two months of this year. In
deed there is intimation in the proceed
ings of Monday night that cleaning can be
dispensed with throughout the winter. In
such event. If it becomes necessary for the
Board of Health to take hand, will the
residents be called upon to clean the streets
in front of their property?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

In his prayers for the country last Sun
day DR.. Lasby. of Central-avenue NJ. E.
Church. prayed, 20 Lord, give a reign
OF common sense" Was that not a neat
way to pray for sound money and honesty.
as against free silver and reputation?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Bryan says that the free coinage Of silver
would cause a great advance in the price
of commodities When told that economic
writer's and historians unanimously agree
that when prices go up wages lag behind,
he says: MY friends, l think not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

The local Bryan organ fears that some
persons may construe the head line, Coop
err for gold as referring TO Charles Nj
Cooper. alleged candidate for Congress in
this district. No danger: he belongs to a
class who are entirely above the suspicion
Of being for sound money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

can he found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Windsor Hotel and Astor house.
CHIcAGo-Palmer House and P. 0. News Co..
217 Dearborn street - a.. va,
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley q Coz A'1 '
IoIyISvIIIE-C T. Deering northwest corner
of Third and Jefferson streets, ana AooiSfiAe
Book Co., 1855 Fourth avenue
ar r0rrIs-rTn,on News Company Union Depot.
WASHINGTON d. C.-Riggs House Epnllt
House WIZARDS Hotel and the washington
News Exchange Fourteenth street. oeewsen
Penn. avenue ana f street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

The Bryan doctrine that the American
people are divided into two classes, the very
rich and the very poor. is false and mis-
chievous. There are some very rich people
and some very poor ones, just as there are
some very tall people and some very short
ones. but the great mass are about equally
removed from either extreme
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
SHORT-SIGHTED POLITICS.

Everybody remembers that parable of the
wise man who built his house upon rock:
And the rain descended, and the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat upon that
house, and it fell not. for it was founded
upon a rock. And there was another, a
foolish man, who built his house upon the
sand: And the rain descended, and the
floods came and the winds blew and beat
upon that house, and it fell, and great was
the fall of it. The parable is having a
mem orable exemplification in politics this
year Nothing could be more foolish and
shortsighted than the course of the sPopo-
crat managers, who, abandoning solid
ground, have tried to erect political house
on the treacherous quicksands of Populism
and fiat money. Under the leadership of
chief architect Bryan and the advice and
assistance of such foolish builders and con-
tractors as Jones, Matthews. AltgeId and
others of that class. they have moved the
Democratic house from it's old foundations
and are trying to reconstruct it on some
thing more shifting than sand. But the
rain is descending, the winds blowing
and the floods are at hand. In few days
they will beat upon the fimsily constructed
Popocratic house, and it will fall with a
great crash.
Incomparably wiser and more far sighted
from a political point of view, is the con-
duct of those Democrats who are rebuild
ing on the old foundation on the solid
rock of Jeffersonian and Jacksonan De-
mocracy. of sound money and national hon
or. The rain, the floods and the wind may
beat upon their house, but it will not fall.
1t will endure, and those who have built it,
the Clevelands, the Carlisles, the Palmers,
the Buckners, the Jewetts, the Wilson's, the
Sheerins the Hollis and men of that class,
will carry the keys of the house and dis
pense its Inequalities, while the Mat
thewses the Kerns, the Taggarts, the
Green Smiths and all blind leaders of the
blind like them will be trying to pull them
selves out of the wreck and quicksand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Debs fer United States Senator! The
very thought must cause sickness of heart
to every citizen of Indiana who wishes
honor instead of disgrace for his State.
But the Debs brand of Senator is in accord
with the Bryan presidential measure. For
tunately. the possibility of either is re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Candidate Bryan has declared that he
fully indorses every part of the Chicago
platform, including the one which virtually
declares that the United States government
has no right to enforce it's laws in any
State without asking consent of the Gov
ernor thereof When told that this is the
very doctrine for which Jeff Davis con-
tended, he says: MY friends, I think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Business is in a state of suspense, await
ing the decision of the people whether they
will elect as President a statesman under
whom the country will continue gold
basis. or a political adventurer and charla-
tan who is pledged to shoot Niagara.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

All signs Indicate that the real business
men of the country are almost solid against
Bryan. A large majority will vote for Nc
Kinley and sound money, a respectable
minority for Palmer and sound money. and
scarcely corporal's guard for Bryan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Will 1t be mo pay, no speech at the
street corners where Bryan is billed to adj
dress Chicago multitNdes? If not, why
not? The country people who had to put
up'' will want it explained if their city
cousins have n free blow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

Chairman Rosenheimer has disclosed the
real opinion of the Populists concerning
the Democrats. Now, if Chairman Martin
would only tell what the Democrats really
think of the Populists honors would be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

The coercion cry has been greatly over
worked by the Bryanites. Self-respectlng
men do not like to be charged with cow
ardice, and are not drawn to the Pop can
didate by such tactics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
So Would She.

Aunt Sophronia-And that is what you
call rational bicycling costume is it? If
/ went out on the streets in a rig like
that 1 would be ashamed to show my face.
Maud Ethel-So would 1 if had a face
like yours, ST
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

/ The exodus of sound-money men from
the Popocrat party gains momentum ana
numbers every day. There are net enough
brains left in the free-silver faction to give
n resDectablity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
Really Not SupposabIe.

HE may be all right, but one would
think from the looks of him that he had
horse sense"
But how could you expect a bicycle face
to indicate horse sense?'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28

The Bryan remedy for the present hard
times is free-silver coinage and an unlim-
tied issue of debased currency. When the
quack who prescribes this remedy is as
sured by every competent authority that
this would make times worse than ever.
he says: My friends. I think not"