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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21
THE GOVERNORS CHARGES.

Governor Mount has stirred up some I'M
pleasant criticism by his move to reduce
the expenses of the state Institutions He
can stand the criticism if he succeeds in
bringing about better economy in the adj
ministration of affairs.--Ell1hart Review.
There is no law authorizing wardens of
state prisons to feed and clothe their fam
flies or luxuriously furnish their own
houses at the States expense. These
abuses have existed for years under both
Republican and Democratic control, but
they are wrong, and should be stopped.
Governor Mount should be commended for
his firm stand in the matter-Noblesvill
Ledger.
Governor Mount is after some of the Of
ficials with a sharp stick. He charges them
with using money for private purposes APP
propriated by the State. We like the Gov
errors style. He is a man after our own
heart. He believes in the strictest econ
omy in public matters, and he is right.
That is just what we need, in this country,
and the more of it the better. There is
too much looseness in public affairs gen
orally; too much freedom is manifested in
the use of the peoples money. Officials
should be held to a strict accountability in
the conduct of public affairs.-Laporte
Herald.
What authority of law is there that
judge who receives $500 a year shall re-
ceive an addition of So a day for going
to another county to try a case? But the
WORST feature Oh the SrdD Is Jfldt they
charge s. for going and IS for coming, al
though the whole business may be trans
acted in one day. If q. county officer should
attempt a grab of this kind the same judge
would haul him over the Goals in an un-
merciful manner. The same is true of the
wardens of our penal institutions. Fur
nishing their private residences with money
appropriated by the State for other pur-
poses is contrary to law.-Crawfordsville
Journal.
If Governor Mount has discovered mall
feasance in office, why does he not instant
ly remove the offending persons and take
steps to secure their punishment under the
laws? Governor Mount has taken a bold
step. He has accused one or more of the
judges of the State, by insinuation, and
several of the minor servants of the people,
by name of wrong. doing. The Governor
cannot recede from his position. He owes
it, to the people and to himself to make
more vigorous cleansing of these public
places if he has spoken advisedly. Gov
ernor Mount must either institute proceed
ings against the accused or openly confess
that he has spoken in haste.-Lafayette
Gail
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obedience and forbearance is no longer a
virtue ana ne has commenced warfare
/ that seems likely to assume proportions
that very soon will compel all people to
acknowledge his belligerency, and If the
preachers seem inclined to rush TO the field
with the machete first, so mote 1t be; let
! the fight come on, and we will see who
comes out best. The preachers have had a
holy trust all in their own hands. have lev
ieG the taxes, whatever they wished. re-
gardless of what the laity said, for all these
years, and when the l&ity would pay all
that was levied against them they, were
met the very next conference with higher
levy Take. for. instance, the foreign mis-
sionary cause. If a church be assessed, say
$500, and would meet that the good breth-
ern would smile with the complacency of
unadulterated satisfaction and raise 1t to
$500, and, If 5000 is raised UP it goes to $500,
but If 1t be not met they will take all that
is given and let the debt hang against this
struggling and simple-minded laity.
Again, under the present ministerial man
agement and cabalism, autocratic, monar-
chical unrepublican, undemocratic, bishop
Star-chamber, more churches are estao-
lshed loaded down with debts than should
be that more prea may find jobs. Good
management would have fewer churches,
and these out OF debt, in good condition and
with a satisfied, contented membership.
Under the present management it is just
one everlasting and eternal beg. beg. Good
businesslike Christi an management would
not offend the sensibilities OF an overbur-
dened, oVertaXed membership continuously
asking for more money than justice re-
quires. Take, for instance, the fol- elgn mis-
Sionary fake hole; a million dollars year
are collected for foreign lands, and for the
benefit of the dear brethren that do not go.
when right here at the door of every Meth
odlst and every other person, church MEM
Der or not, is some worthy, helpless, young
or old person. The best efforts that could
be made could not relieve all of the help
less of our own, and yet we hear pitltul
wall about a naked savage and then take
up a collection, and when we raise our
voice against this some stockholder in the
heavenly trust tells US to be good, go to
prayer-meeting, say our prayers, cultivate
a spirit of meekness, die and go to Heaven;
but, the fight is on, and it is going TO be
a beautiful one.
The conference at the Den'son House next
Wednesday will open the ball and the dear
preachers who have got razors in their
boots are invited forward Just for the run
of it. a LA1-MEMBER.
India ma nnIiS lime 10
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He has courageously set himself to efforts
to keep his own and his party's pledges. 1t
would have been easier to have let matters
drift, because efforts at retrenchment ana
to require closer methods are sure to Of
fend some, because they have fallen into
prevalent notion that public business may
be transacted on a more liberal scale than
private business, where success depends
upon economy all along the line. 1t is not
too much to say that the impression pre-
walls that State agents and employees have
a larger freedom in the use of public funds
than have people similarly employed by
private concerns in the use of their money.
Governor Mount does not entertain such
views. He holds that the State has right
to expect as close financial management as
is required by individuals of those whom
they employ.
In the discharge of his duties the Gov
ernor has found very few instances Where
money has not been expended as contem-
plated by law; in two or three instances he
has discovered what he has believed to be
unwarranted expenditures in some insti-
tutions he has urged retrenchment; he mas
differed with trustees about the expenditure
of certain receipts. In no case has dishon-
esty been charged upon any official. GOV.
Mount is trying to put the public institu-
tions on a business basis. In his efforts he
may not always do the wisest thing (for no
man always does thaD, but he can be
counted on to do all in his power to secure
an intelligent and business-like manage
ment of public affairs-just what the peo-
pie desire and what his party is pledged
TO Io
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21
THE INDIANA PRESS.

The absolute unanimity of purpose in the
Republican party and the solidity of its
ranks in the Senate is distressing its po
ntical enemies acknowledgements Ban
ner-Times.
And now they have invented a device by
which the fish is electrocuted as soon as
it touches the hook. The suckers who
nibble at the free-siver bait should take
warning.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
The low-cut rates on the railroads this
summer will be a good thing, People can
get about and see the general improve
ment of business. There is growing activ-
ity and confdence.-Greenfield Republican.
Taxes must be paid to run the national
government in any event. Therefore, when
framing law to raise these necessary
taxes it is wisdom to protect the American
Workingman, farmer, manufacturer and
producer of whatever kind.-MadisOn
Courier
Senator Turpie is going to make an eX-
haustive speech in favor of an inheritance
tax. Senator Turpe and mossback Demo-
Gratis of his stripe have been bowling about
war taxes for years, and yet they are the
very fellows who are now trying to reim-
pose the war taXes.-Princeton Clarion.
a When the policy of protection shall be
fully restored we shall expect to see an
era of prosperity equaling if not SURPRISING
that of the good year of 1892. when pro-
tective tariff was in operation and had
reached the acme of its success.-Middle-
town News.
Agriculture is again becoming popular in
this country, and the tendency to abandon
the farm for the city is being rapidly
checked. No class of citizens in the United
States have been so prosperous in the past
year as farmers, and the outlook is for
equal prosperity during the coming season.
Angola Magnet.
While there is no occasion for any i'm
mediate alarm in this section of the gas
belt, there is occasion to say all wastefll-
ness of gas should be stopped for the gen.
eral good. No new gas is being formed.
This being true. 1t does not matter how
large amounts of it may be stored up in
Trenton rock 1t will finally be exhausted,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

lent green vegetable and French dressing
should be seen on the dinner table in every
Well-regulateG house 3G5 times a year.
These green vegetables contain the salts
necessary to the well being OF our blood;
the oil is an easily digested form of fatty
acid: therefore. simple salads are exceed
ingly wholesome. We do not refer here to
the highly-seasoned mixtures of meats and
ing. These are rather objectionable How
ever, II one omits the mustard. seasoning
the materials lightly and sensibly and
evening collation.. they are much more
wholesome than the average fried dish.
upon which many depend for their fatty
of recipes for new salads for everyday use
and for dinners iuncheons. etc. together
with group of odd salads and some Cey-
lon salads. Published by Arnold & Co..
Philadelphia. Price. 30 cents
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Publishers, Notes.

Harper & Brothers are soon to publish a
new collection of short stories by Mrs. Ruth
VILE" People for Whom Shakespeare
Wrote" by Charles Dudley Warner, in
which Shakespeare and his time are sympa-
thetically treated; and Eye Spy written
and Illustrated by the late William Hamil-
ton Gibson and giving an account OF the
delights of the country in the attractive
style that won so large circle of readers
for Mr.. Gibson's previous volumes, includ-
ing Sharp Eyes" and Highways and By
ways"
Ii Hung Changs secretary has recently
the pleasure the Viceroy is taking in Gen.
Horace Porter's articles. Campaigning
with Grant" now appearing IN the Cen
His Excellency has had read to him Gen.
Porter's articles on General Grant. and has
been greatly interested in studying the
greatest of his campaigns for the presefva-
ton of the Union. 1t is rare privilege to
read of such deeds related so eloquently by
one who honorably participated In them.
Equality" Mr.. Edward Bellamy's new
romance of the future, will be published at
once by D. Appleton & Co. Publication Will
be simultaneous in the United States, Great
Britain. France, Germany SwltzerIand,
Belgium Spain, Italy and other countries.
1t is of interest to recall that over 1000
copies of Looking Backward nave been
translated into the language OF almost
every civilized country, and its total sale
is almost beyond computation. quite re-
Gently the demand for literature dealing
with sociological questions has led to the
printing of a quarter of million at low
price in England.
Stone & Kimball announce that on the
few remaining copies of the English
Classics" series the price will be raised to
81 a volume or $40 for the set OF eleven
volumes These books have been issued
during the past two years, and have found
great favor as thoroughly we'll edited. we'll
made books, bringing within the reach OF
almost every one the real classics OF the
last two centuries. Until this series, which
was edited by w. F. Henley, appeared It
was indeed hard to find any adequate edi-
ton of Congreve's comedies at reasonable
price. Another book which has not hereto
fore been easy to get was Jane Morier
wonderfully humorous story OF Ha1Jt Bapa
of Ispahan. In England a mans education
is not considered complete until he mas read
this book, and yet it is little known IN
America except among book lovers.
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Cap and Gown.

The gay verses which celebrate under
graduate life and which appear in the COLI
lege magazines of the day must not be
taken too seriously They seldom pretend
to the dignity of poetry. College verse, in
the nature of things, is verse suited to the
period and point of view of undergraduate
days-light, graceful, humorous, spark
ling. with sometimes touch of sadness or
pathos. but never quite frivolous or SCOT
ing. collection of such verses CLEANED
from a number of college magazines is pub
lished under the title Cap and Gown"
them very clever and represent various
forms of verse-ballads, quatrains rom
deaus, rondels, sonnets, triolets, etc The
collection represents thirty-nine different
colleges or universities and no less than
sixty different college magazines The Sc
lections are made with excellent taste by
Frederic l.. Knowles. Cloth, $125. Boston:
l.. G. Page e Co HE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

Great as have been the changes in Great
Britain during the sixty years which have
elapsed since Victoria succeeded TO the
throne Of England, they have been equally
Prussia was second-rate nation. which
was Of little consequence among the pow
ers, it is now the center Of the mighty Ger
man empire. France at that time mad
ceased to be the terror of Europe. as it was
under Napoleon, but is to-day under new
conditions. powerful nation. The prog
ress Of Russia has been greater than any
other European country. 1t has not only
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21
The CuckOos and Hawaii.
Philadelnhla Press.

For men who want to have their cake and
pennv Zoo in the Hawaiian matter, the
cucksos beat all creation. All along they
have been insisting that all statements as 10
in Hawaiiar affairs was a canard. They
asserted alrily that no one coveted the ISL
ands that they were in no danger, etc,
and that they might as well be let alone.
Now that the United States is TO annex
them the cuckoos suddenly discover signs
are ominous for international complications
nations become potentially our enemies. X
WA take Hawaii they declare. we shall
have to double our navy. etc. All OF when
made up your mind the invention of facts
to iii Is easy And this has been particu-
larlY true of the cuckoo attltude ON IaWan.
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last much longer on SPANS side.

"A year ago the advocates of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver were telling the
country that the people were suffering from
an insufficiency of currency, and that relief
could not come except through the panacea
which they offered May T. 1885, the volume
of money in circulation 1nSthe United States
was 1,54O, 007,082. If the predictions of these
advocates of free silver had been true we
should now have less currency than a year
ago. Instead of less, We have more-the
amount in circulation May 1, 1897, being
81, 666, 800, 3SS-an increase of $126,500,00O, or
nearly one-third as much money of all
kinds as was in the country in 1862. The
per capita circulation May l, 1886, was $2l93
and May 1897 it was $2293.
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ice congress or the country had of the
proceeding was that the purchase had been
made. Then the administration appealed
10 Congress TO ratify the transaction. In
the Senate there was strong opposition to
ratifying the treaty and in the House to
voting the purchase money, $7,20OCOO. Every
possible argument was used to defeat the
purchase, 1t was said the territory was
absolutely worthless, that it would cost
an enormous sum to hold and defend it,
that it would weaken the bonds of the Re
public, etc. One speaker in Congress said:
The annual cost of holding the country
will be about as follows: Interest on pur-
chase money at 73 per cent, $730 900; mill
tary power to protect it, not less than
100000; total, So 7S0, 600 a year" In return
for this he could see absolutely nothing
AS TO the absolute worthlessness of the
country he said: None but malefactors
will ever live there, and we shall be at
constant war with the savages." But the
treaty was finally ratified and the purchase
money was voted as the best way out of
bad bargain. From 1867 to 1884 Alaska got
along without any government at all Then
it was made civil and judicial district"
At present the officers, appointed by the
President, are: Governor. salary $1,000;
marshal, $1,000; judge $1,000; clerk. $500,
and four United States commissioners, who
receive fees. The government does not cost
the United States $4,000 a year The gov
ernment has received in actual revenue
from the seal fisheries much more than
the original purchase money with interest.
The salmon fisheries amount to several
million dollars year. Valuable gold mines
have been discovered, the product of which
from 1850 to 1890, as estimated by the drec-
tor of the United States mint, was $46O4, 500
During the present decade it will be much
greater In short, Alaska has become
really valuable possession.
In all these cases time has shown that all
the arguments against the acquisition of
territory were groundless, and that every
such acquisition has added to the prestige,
wealth and power of the Republic.
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Spanish finances have reached a desper-
ate pass. In an interview on Saturday
Senior Castelano, minister of the colonies,
practically admitted that the government is
six months in arrears in the pay of the
army and the civil service in Cuba, explain
ing it by saying that when the ConserVa-
tives entered Office these payments were
already three months in arrears and so
many demands subsequently sprung up
that old debts were not wiped out. This
statement is confirmed by a Havana dis
patch to a Madrid newspaper, cabled back
to the New York Sun, that the government
is over s36, 600 900 in arrears in Cuba, which
sum is owing to the civil and military serv-
ice and to contractors who have furnished
supplies to the army. che last settlement
with the contractors was made in Deem
Der. Nobody, the dispatch adds, sees any
remedy for the existing condition of affairs.
The monthly expenses amount to $10,000,00O.
Some $2,(00000 is received from the home
government and 81, O0O,00O is collected by tax
alton in Cuba; hence the monthly deficit is
about 100000. At that rate the can
not last much longer on SPANS side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

Commenting on Mr.. Bryan's reception at
Lansingburg. n. Y, where 5000 people paid
so cents apiece to hear him. Bryan paper
asks rs there another man living who
could get so many people to pay that price
TO hear an address on the money question? %
Perhaps not; nor is there another country
where so many people would pay anything
at all to hear the money question discussed
BY man who constantly shows his ignor-
ance Of its first principles.
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The Arhntns.

The Arbutus is the name given to the
year book issued by this years graduating
class of the Indiana State University. The
title chosen raises an inquiry as to it's fit
ness among those who were under the inn
preston that the arbutus. or mayfower
is not indigenous in Indiana, but it is ex-
planned by the seniors themselves that the
famous and fragrant spring flower is found
in wild state in the neighborhood Of
Bloomington. The book contains a record
OF the work of the class. sketches of the
school and the faculty, accounts of the nu-
merous college societies. secret social and
literary, class jokes and a miscellaneous
record of those things that seem so iInpor.
tant to the students themselves and are of
so little interest to outsiders The Illus
drawings, are numerous. and the volume
altogether makes handsome souvenir. 1t
is published by the indianapolis Sentinel
Printing Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

The new Constitution of Delaware, which
ew9ll not be submitted to the people for rati.
fieation, sets aside the equal representation
by counties under which two-fifths of the
ture. In the new Constitution the State is
divided into legislative districts. Having
had single-tax campaign and being hos
tile to the theory the Constitution contains
a provision which practically prohibits leg
islation in that direction
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

made tremendous strides toward civiiiza-
ton, but it has become the dominating
power in Europe. Compared with it's neigh
bors in Europe, Great Britain has held its
own in material prosperity. but it is very
doubtful if it has the force IN the councils
of Europe that it had fifty years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

If constitutional monarchism is much
stronger in Great Britain to-day than it
was when Victoria became Queen, as un-
questionably it is, it is largely due to her
personal characteristics and the popularity
eign would develop strong republican SEN
fiment in a few years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

Now and then report appears that Mr..
Bryan is to be dropped before 1900 in order
that a so-called silver Republican may be
nominated by the so-called Democratic
party that year. 1t is to prevent something
of the kind that he is travelling up and
down and across the country. just now he
is the only man in the race. but three years
may cause marked changes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21
First Time for Him.

you have injured my reputation, young
man. said the great after-dinner orator.
You said in your paper that had got
off a new joke
Begging your pardon, doctor" said the
soft-eyed reporter, you are under mis-
apprehension. 1 said you got the joke off
for the first time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

The reports of the commercial papers con-
tinue to point out the Improvement that is
taking place in the general business of the
country 1t is a pity that there should be
men who feel it a duty to vehemently deny
what conservative business men see and
furnish many facts to prove ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21

Tatterley," by e. Gallon. is the story Of
man who had lived a selfish, isolated life,
his one occupation and purpose being that
of money-making for the mere sake of ac-
cumulatins wealth. He was misery, and
refused TO befriend his relatives, even the
son of dead sister, who had been left
in his care. The sudden death of his one
servant. man who was really his one
friend changed the current of his thoughts.
ana through a freakish fancy he resolved TO
pass himself off as the servant and let the
dead man represent him, the fraud being
made easy by the strong resemblance be-
tween them and the fact that he was al
most stranger to his relatives. BY this
means ne. came in contact with these rela-
tlVeS. and became acquainted with their
opinions of him in a way that would not
have been possible otherwise. He found
selhshness. but he also found kindness and
even affection where he had never discov-
ered IT in his proper person. and the re-
suItlng change in his character is the les
son of the. tale. A very pretty love story
Is i, woven into the highly improbable but
pleasantly written narrative. Paper 90
cents. D. Appleton & Co., New York.
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salads and salad Making.

Mrs. S. r. Rorer. one Of the best-known
authorities on cookery, has Issued a little
book on the making of salads and salad
dressings which will no doubt be welcomed
by housewives who seek 10 increase their
knowledge of this branch of the culinary
art Mrs. Rorer is, herself. an enthusiastic
advocate of the use of salads, and says in
her preface: "A salad made from a succu-