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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
AID FOR THE MINERS.

The Journal heartily approves of Gov
ernor Mounts appeal to the public for con-
tributions for the relief of those who are
suffering among the coal miners. AS the
Journal has said before, the miners lot is
a hard one at best. Even in good times
and with steady employment it is with
difficulty that many of them keep the
wolf from the door, and when wages are
reduced or employment ceases there is
actual want in very many families. The
people of Indiana cannot afford to permit
this state of things to exist among any
class of it's citizens. That it does exist
at present in the coal-mining counties to
a considerable extent and that it is eX-
tending every day, is apparent from the
report made by the commissioners sent by
the Governor to investigate the situation.
These commissioners were well selected for
the performance of this duty. They Wis
tied and personally inspected the coal
mining camps and villages in six counties
and reported a state of things that induced
the Governor to make appeal to the
public for aid. Without recapitulating the
points of the report or of the Governors
appeal, the Journal fully concurs in both.
1t must be remembered that in the present
case the miners are not striking for a
grievance, either real or imaginary, but
against a condition which makes their lot
unbearable and which many of the oper-
ators admit should be Moderated. The
miners are far removed from the centers
of population and have no means of max
ing their condition, necessities or sufferings
known to the public. The Governor has
adopted the best possible means of doing
this. committee of prominent citizens
of Indianapolis has been appointed to re-
ceive and distribute the money or supplies
that may be contributed, and this COM
mittee viii act in conjunction with local
committees in the different mining camps,
appointed for the same purpose. Persons
outside of the city who wish TO contribute
can send their contributions TO Hon. John
B. Conner, state statistician, or if they
are sent direct to the Journal they will be
acknowledged and placed in his hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

capable of a tenth more heat than the Rus
slams get, or SO per cent. more heat than
the government is now getting from coal"
This is important il true An invention of
this kind that would apply to war ships
would apply TO steamers of all kinds and
might work a revolution in ocean transport
tation. The facts above referred to show
a steady drift towards the use of oil for
fuel and indicate strong probability that
the time is not far distant when it will be
quite extensively used for this purpose.
Even now here is no question as to its
heat-producing qualities, and the mechan-
ical difficulties in the way of it's use have
all been overcome. The important ques-
lions are as to the cost of oil compared
with coal and the abundance or perma-
nence of the supply. Unless a device can
be made that will bring the cost Of oil as
fuel below that of coal it cannot be ex-
pected to come into general use, and even
then not unless manufacturers and others
can besassured of a supply which, If not
permanent, will at least last for a consid-
cradle time Manufacturers know that the
supply of natural gas is not permanent, yet
the profit in using it is so great that they
can afford to locate in the gas belt with
the certainty that it will eventually give
out. If oil could be made as cheap as nat
ural gas, or even considerably cheaper
than coal, it would soon come into general
use as fuel The claim made for the inven-
ton of the Anderson men looks rather
doubtful on its face, but it may prove to
be well founded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
1900, Ooo. 900 pounds

on l,5Oo,O00'0O0 pounds of raw
sugar, or about $15.OOO.OOO. There was a
possibility up to the last moment that the
secretary's suggestion might be adopted by
the conference committee, and when it be-
came known that it was not. trust stock
went up. 1t was not because the conference
report gave the trust a new advantage, but
because it failed to impose a tax which
the trust feared might be imposed. The
price of sugar may advance under the new
law, but it will not be because of any bene-
fit it confers on the trust. 1t will be be-
cause of the increased duty which the new
law imposes en- foreign sugar The Wilson
law was decidedly more favorable TO the
trust than the new law is. for while the
differential, or the difference between raw
and refined sugars, under the Dingley law
is 1872 cents per 100 pounds, under the Will
son law it was 221a cents. In other words,
for every 1917 cents the trust can make
under the Dinglev law by importing raw
sugar and refining it, it could make 221a
cents under the Wilson law Yet those who
supported the Wilson law talk about the
new law faVoring the trust.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
WHEAT AND SILVER.
The local organ of Organism says:

The local organ of Organism says:
The esteemed Journal is finding great
comfort in the fact that wheat has gone
up in price while silver has gone down on
the theory that bimetallists hold that wheat
prices and silver prices must move to-
gether We know of no intelligent bimetal-
list who holds any such theory and if any
did it was disproved long since.
The last clause of this statement is true,
for the theory that the price of wheat and
the price of silver are linked together has
certainly been completely exploded. The
statement that no intelligent bimetallist
ever held the theory is misleading. The
only intelligent bimetallists are the adVo-
Gates of a single gold standard. The only
countries that have a bimetallic currency
are those which have the gold standard,
and all intelligent bimetallists know that at
the present commercial ratio of gold and
silver bmetallism is only possible I'M
der that standard. The supporters of Bry-
an in the last campaign were not bimetal-
lists, but silver monometallists. Bryan
himself, little as he knew of the true laws
of finance or monetary science, knew that
the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 meant
silver monometallism. His entire cam
paign was made on the theory that free
coinage would make money cheap and plen-
ty and thereby cause an advance in the
price of farm products. In one of the first
speeches he made after starting West from
New York, viz, at Clarksburg, w. Va, on
Oct. l, he said:
The free coinage of silver will help the
farmer, and, until the farmer is prosperous,
there can be no prosperity in this country.
If you are engaged in manufacturing you
cannot sell the products of your factory
unless there are people in this country who
have money to buy what you have to sell,
and the only way in which the farmer
get money to buy what you have to sell
is to get money for what they have to sell,
and If the farmers are not able to sell their
crops for more than enough to pay their
interest and their taxes, then they have no
money to spend in buying the products of
our mills and factories
This was one of his stock arguments. In
every speech that he made in the rural dis
tricts he argued that the low price of farm
products, wheat included, was due to the
alleged decentralization of silver, which had
cheapened the price Of The metal as well
as of farm products, and that with free
coinage at Is to the price of silver would
go up and wheat with it. This was one of
the strong points in Professor Coins"
book, which was the cornerstone Of the
Bryan movement in the West. AS both
wheat and silver happened to be low at
that time it was a plausible argument, and
the Bryan papers and speakers worked it
for all it was worth. 1t is literally true
that mo intelligent bimetallist' ever main
tanned that silver and wheat went up and
down together, but Bryan himself and a
large majority of those who supported him
maintained it, as they would now if recent
experience had not disproved it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

A correspondent of the Journal in the OIL
producing region of Indiana stated a few
days ago that some of the large operators
were thinking seriously of piping oil to this
city to be used as fuel in manufacturing,
and that they believed it could be fur
nished at price that would make it
cheaper than coal. Since the present strike
began several large factories in Chicago
have substituted oil for coal. Now comes
a statement that an Anderson, Ind, man
has perfected an invention which has been
tested and will be patented Immediately for
the use of oil instead of coal on war ships.
The invention, says dispatch to the Jour-
nal, covers a system of oil-burning which
would make it possible for a vessel like the
Indiana to carry enough fuel to last on a
trip around the world. The system is gas
generation from OIL The gas is generated
by an atomizing plan, is smokeless and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS.
Librarian Young Gives the Position
to ThOrvaId SoIberg.
Washington Special

w oSliihSNO l OPOSAcA'
Librarian Young is having very
difficult task in making appointments
for the new library. The appli-
cations are numerous and the impor-.
tunities from senators and members of
Congress so great that MIR. YoungS task
is very difficult, as he is seeking to secure
the best men possible for all the responsible
places in the library.
one of the most important places, and
for which there was great pressure, was
that of register of copyrights. For that
place Mr. Thorvald Solberg, of Boston, has
been chosen. He was informed on Saturday
of his appointment, and to-day Mr. Solberg
wired his acceptance and stated that he
would take charge of the department on
Tuesday morning
There We're large number OF applcations
for this position which, next to that of chief
assistant librarian, is the most important
place on the staff of the new library.
Mr. Spofford is the chief assistant and
Mr.. Hutcheson has been made superintend-
ent of the reading room. With Mr.. Sol
berg as head of the copyright, or business
department of the library, Mr.. Young has
secured three men specially quallned Tor
their respective positions
Mr.. Solberg is a native. American citi-
zen. He was born in Wisconsin in 1852.
For thirteen years he was employed in the
Congressional Library, and eight years
since was picked out by the Boston Book
Company as the best man in the country
to take charge of one of their most impor-
tant departments.
He is now at it's head, and the president
of the company wrote to Librarian Young
that Mr.. Solberg has shown rare intelli-
gence tact, method and organizing ability
Similar letters and kilograms were sent by
the Authors Copyright League, the Cen
fury Company, Harper Brothers d. Apple
ton &, Co. and other leading publishing
houses. strongly urging Mr.. Solbergs APP
pointment
There were fourteen applicants, eleven
of whom were evidently highly htted to
discharge the duties of the Office. All pos
sessed influence. and it was a matter Of
difficulty to make the proper choiee Mr..
Young determined that merit aione should
decide him. He was very much impressed
by a treatise on copyright law and the
duties of register which accompanied Mr.
Solberg's application.
With this paper were copies of a num-
Der Of articles Mr. Solberg had written on
the copyright subject COR foreign and do
nestle publication. His views were OK
pressed so clearly and in such excellent
English and showed such a thorough
knowledge of what was wanted at the head
of the registers Office and it's conduct that
Mr.. Young sent for Mr.. Solberg for a per-
sonal interview.
This confirmed him in his impression OF
the man whom he had never seen, but
who from his own writings ard the letters
of leading publishers he thought WAS the
applicant best fitted for The position.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

Mrs. Stoves daughters are in poor cir
cumstances, and their friends are taking
measures to aid them, at least to the eX-
tent of saving the home that was their
mothers. The cause for their loss of in
come is the expiration of the copyright of
Uncle Toms Cabin" Before calling on
the public to contribute to the aid of the
famous authors family it might be well
to interview publishers who are still max
ing a profit from her books and theatrical
managers who find Uncle Toms Cabin
one of their best-paying dramas. 1t is
doubtful if Mrs. Stowe ever had any bene-
fits from the dramatization of her book,
though she ought to have realized a for
tune AS long as her books are sold and
the play put upon the stage her heirs
should share the profits, even though legal
rights have expired
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
QUESTION OF RANK DECIDED.
Only Ex-O6icers Entitled TO Wear Uni
| form of Volunteer Rank.
| W..
Washington Post.

An echo of the coronation ceremony,
which led to so much correspondence on
such subjects as diplomatic uniform court
procedure, and matters of precedence In Of
fetal ceremonies, is found in an opinion
lust rendered by the attorney general
and regular army and navy officers to wear
the uniform Of the highest rank which they
attained during the rebellion.
Col. John j. McCoOk, who represented the
United States army, and Captain G. II.
Wadleigh, the representative Of the United
difficulty over the question of precedence,
growing out Of the fact that McCook
claimed the lead by virtue of his high
volunteer rank as shown by his uniform.
Minister Breckenridge sustained the army
officer and the State Department was
partments for their construction Of the
statute granting officers the right TO bear
the rank and wear the uniform of their
highest volunteer rank.
The direct issue was presented in a recent
application of James T. Farrell, brevet
major Of United states Volunteers and late
captain of the Fifth New York Heavy Ar
tillery The two departments were unable
to agree upon the matter and IL was re-
ferred to the attorney general. The latter
has decided that only ex-officers may wear
such uniforms and bear such rank.
In other words. an officer at present on
the army rolls can wear the uniform OF
the volunteer rank. but persons who were
honorably mustered out of the volunteer
service and who have no army connection
now may wear IL on occasions of ceremony
This is In line with the former construction
given to the law by the War Department
but 1t appeared that the practice was about
severe blow TO many thousands OF voluntee-
officers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

1t appears that some senators and repre-
sentatives have never heard of the none
tary conference held in this city in January
last. They know there was national con-
vention Of sound-money Democrats here
which put up a ticket for President and
Vice President, but they never heard of the
nonpartisan convention of representative
business men from all parts of the
country which took important action
on the money question. This shows that
some so-called statesmen take very little
interest in public events or national affairs
outside OF partisan politics. They should
hire somebody to read the papers and keep
them posted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Pneumatic Bicycle Brooches.
New York Journal.

The very latest bicycle invention is the
breeches with the pneumatic seat They
were patented last week by William r
Isaacs, of Philadelphia. You can blow the
seat up with a tube, just like a tire, and
the happy result is that you can make
yourself fit any kind of a saddle. Even #
the latter have a surface of spikes, it will
accommodate itself to your shape.
The question of a bicycle saddle that will
fit the human form divine is still a trouble
some one. There ought, apparently, to be
a special shape of saddle for every in
dividual man and woman. Obviously, this
is impracticable but a solution of the
problem is rendered needless by this new
invention, which enables any person to ac-
commodate himself to anybody else's bicy
Gle seat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
JOHNSON'S OBJECT LESSON.
1t Was Unique, but the Dakota Man
Scored Point.
WASHINGTON Special in New York Tribune.


Washington Special in New York Tribune
One of the more serious as we'll as sin
cere statesmen in Congress is Representa-
tive johnson, of North Dakota, who is an
exceedingly intelligent and useful member
of the committee on ways and means. Be
ing a practical farmer himself, Mr. Johnson
naturally believes that the agricultural in
dustries are entitled to fair consideration
IN all protective tarlH legislation. In this
respect he found himself in full sympathy
with his Republican colleagues of the com
mittee, and yet he felt that some of them
were not so thoroughly informed in regard
as they ought to be- And so one day Mr.
Johnson decided TO give his colleagues an
object lesson on the subject of ''skirted"
1ieeces. He somehow obtained possession
of a sheepslkin with all the wool on-a real
sheepskin whose OdorS had lost none of
their pungency while in Store-and this he
brought to the room in which his colleagues
We're assembled to consider the wool duties
Now, gentlemen" said Johnson, with a
manner and in a tone that would have
made market for lightning-rods even in
a heavily wooded country" one re-
marked, Il have promised myself the pleas
ure of giving you an object lesson on the
sheepskin," and Johnson unrolled and
spread it on the floor. The room was some
began to assert itself. Governor Steele, of
Indiana, eyed it askance and sided into the
corridor, murmuring, That's a mighty
strong argument" He was quickly joined
by Tawney, of Minnesota, who lighted his
cigar at SteeFes blew a cloud and re-
marked "Well, l worked in a boiler shop
once, but it wasn't so loud as that odor. !"
One by one Johnson's colleagues edged past
him and out of the room. but he was so
busy teaching his class that he did not
mark the desertion of his pupils until he
finished his lecture and looked about him
There remained only Dingley and Payne
and they were preparing to flee. Even Gros-
venor, the great sheep man." had van
ished behind the cloud of tobacco smoke
Steele and Tawney and Russell had raised
in the corridor. But Johnsons lecture was
a profitable one. One of his colleagues is
said to have remarked: johnson can get
ANYTHING he wants, so far as l am con-
cerned If he dos snt get it he may unroll
another ancient sheepsl1in or something
worse"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
One on Reed.
Washington Letter.

Another story has been added to what
will some day become an interesting colec-
ton of Reediana. The speaker was re-
Gently talking with a prominent member
of the House, when he was led to tell a
story at his own expense. concerning James
Hamilton Lewis, the fusionist congressman
from Washington State. who attracts at
tention on account of his anti-Populist
on the floor. First, Mr. Reed remarked:
when 1 was out in Washington during the
campaign last summer, some of LeWis's
ing but Polist palaver above and pants be-
low, but they were wrong, as I've since
been led to believe. I'm going to study
him. he's interesting"
Then the speaker said that when Lewis
first came to Congress last winter he went
up to the Western man on the floor of the
House and said: Well Lewis, I'm not Sc
bad as l look, am I?''
mo, indeed. Mr.. Speaker" replied Lewis
promptly; that, l am sure. is impossible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

The new tariff law is likely to prove
beneficial to American manufacturers and
producers not only in the protective duties
it lays on foreign products, but in its bet
ter administrative methods for the exclu-
sion of important classes of merchandise
This will tend materially to increase the
confidence of American manufacturers in
their ability to hold the market and their
faith in the future of business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

President Ingalls, of the Big -Four Rail-
road, made point in his argument before
the Board of Tax Commissioners which is
worth emphasizing. He said:
I don't think that any of US has seen such
a depression as has been going over this
railways have been put to their wits ends
to make both ends meet. We go over our
pay rolls and we knock off some poor devil
here and there who may get $35 $40
month, and some man who may be getting
$50 month we reduce to $49, and nothing
is too small for the economies we are en-
deaVoring to practice. The same is true,
the country; it is pretty near true of all
the homes; and yet the expenditures of the
Nation. State, counties ansb cities have gone
on at pretty near the same rates they were
making in 1891 and 1892.
Mr. ingalls, had previously complimented
Indiana as being the first State moving
in the direction of a retrenchment and re-
duction of state expenditures He might
have said the only one. The statement
quoted is in the main true. Everybody and
everything all classes and all interests
have been economizing and retrenching ex-
cept governments, national, state, county
and city. In many instances these have
grown more EXPENSIVE during the last four
years of hard times There is a great field
for reform in the reduction of government
expenditures of all kinds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

without wishing to enter into the merits
Of the question which has brought about
conflict between the Young Mems Christian
Band of Muncie, and other citizens of that
town, matters in which outsiders are not
qualified to meddle the Journal feels justi-
fled in remarking that the band was rather
exceeding its Christian privileges in draw
ing revolvers upon the fellow-citizens whom
it desired to reform. Its pious zeal seems to
have exceeded it's discretion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

There has been another official investiga-
ton of Mrs. Maybrick's case and another
refusal by the English authorities to in
terfere with the execution of her sentence.
The belief that she is wrongfully impris-
oned which is entertained by number of
American women who have ceaselessly
worked for her release seems to depend
mainly on the facts that she is an Ameri-
can by birth and that her husband was a
wretch who deserved killing on general
principles whether she did it or not The
first Of these arguments does credit to the
patriotism of her countrywomen, but could
hardly be expected to have much weight
with stolid Britishers who believe that in
spite of the transcendent charms and viz
tues Of some American women others are
quite capable of administering cold poison
to their husbands, and that when they do
they deserve punishment for it. Naturally,
too the second plea in her behalf is not
wholly convincing. Mr.. Maybrick was
probably not model husband, but the in
fluence of the new woman is not yet suf-
ficient to secure an international law per-
hitting the determination of such Offend
ing male persons by their wives, and until
this is the case American women who rashly
dispose of their foreign husbands must
take the consequences. Under the circum-
stances, namely, that one court, a special
commission and two secretaries of the
Home Office have passed upon the case and
found no extenuating circumstances, it
may be as we'll for the American public
to accept the possibility at least, that her
sentence is just in spite Of the emotional
protests of women who never knew her,
anG to turn it's attention and sympathies to
more deserving subjects.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

should not be They are entitled under
all circumstances to the same standard and
measure Of justice as individuals. They are
entitled to as much consideration on ac-
count of hard times and as many r,ason-
able exemptions as individuals-as much,
but, OF course, no more. The last few years
have been very hard on all classes and all
interests. railroads included, and the state
board ought to give just recognition to this