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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
DENOUNCING A TREATY.

Foreign dispatches during the last few
days have had a good deal to say con-
corning the action of the British govern
ment in denouncing the existing CONNER
cial treaty with Germany. The word
'denouncing'' as here used is not to be
taken in the common sense of censuring
or stigmatizing a wrong. 1t is used in a
milder, diplomatic sense, synonymous with
proclaiming or making known in an official
manner. Great Britain's denunciation of
the existing commercial treaty with Ger
many simply means that she has given
notice, as required by the treaty. of her
intention to terminate it next year. When
the announcement was first made the Lon
bluff towards Germany and bristled up in
their usual fashion. a cablegram said that
the general impression created by the big
headlines in the London papers was that
at last some more than usually i%nsolent
act of the Hohenzollern autocrat had so
far precipitated matters that the English
! feet would soon find something better TO
do than to play the abortive games of hide
and-seek in unsuccessful naval maneuvers
off the Irish coast" Instead of this, it
was simply the first formal and official
step towards the Inauguration of a now
policy for the commercial consolidation of
the British empire The commercial
treaty OF Germany stood in the way of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

1t is that season of the year when bust
ness is at its lowest ebb-the season Of va
cations for all who can take them, and of
short days for those who remain in ware
houses. workshops and offices. The fervid
sun of midsummer rules and humanity is
forced to inaction. And yet, in marked
contrast with the past four years, business
has actively started up all over the coun-
try. Factories of all kinds have orders
which indicate a general activity. Travel
ing men again report that there is a de-
mand for goods, with a firmness of prices
that has not been known for years. Re-
ports from cities all over the central West
show an unprecedented awakening of busi-
ness. A good crop of wheat is bringing
better prices than nave been realized for
| years. The clearings of the banks, which
show the increase in the volume of bust
ness, were, last week, 1871 per cent. in ex-
| cess of those of the corresponding week last
year.
These statements are not those of parti-
san newspapers, but are taken from COM
mercial papers such as business men con-
suit and which are in interest : 9und to give
reliable reports. They are $ ined by
every local paper which give. atten-
ton to the life and conditions Of commune
ties. The era of prosperity IS hcre. The
croaker may not admit II ,ut the men
who are alive to What is going on about
them nave no doubt, because they believe
what they hear, see and realize.
The indications nave been favorable for
months, in spite of the persistent sneers
about Republican prosperity. The coming
waited the assurance of tariff legislation.
1t is not probable that the fullness of the
present promise and realiza ion of prosper
ity would have come so long as uncertain
ty existed regarding tariff revision. The
certainty of the passage of the present law
was a signal to go ahead, and its passage
was followed by a bound throughout the
country. Those who make it their vocation
to denounce the present tariff will vehe-
mently deny that the tariff had anything to
do with the change, even if they admit a
general improvement, but the people who
welcome the coming of better times will
see that the advent of prosperous times and
the passage of the Dingley tariff were of
the same date, and will draw their own
practical conclusions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
A Brooklyn womnn's Diversion.

A Brooklyn woman has been varying the
monotony of life in that city by having two
husbands under the same roof. Whether
or not Brooklyn women are accustomed TO
have two husbands simultaneously under
other circumstances is neither here nor
there; the fact remains thai this woman,
Mrs. Trahan by name, provided interest
and excitement for herself BY going over to
Hoboken, marrying Mr.. Schultz and bring
ing him to live in the same house with Ira
han. She accounted for Schultz on the
ground that he was a boarder, and tx
planned Trahan by the statement that she
was employed as his housekeeper. For two
months she amused herself by carrying on
this pretense. but finally the two men nap
pened TO fall into a friendly chat on the
front stoop and each found that the other
regarded the woman as his Wife. 1t was
naturally a shock to both. particularly 10
Trahan, whose matrimonial tour had lasted
for several years, but the result is a divorce
suit. 1t is not likely that his wife will re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
The New Count of Monte Cristo.

Rochester Post-EXpress.
If William j. Arkell, the enterprising
proprietor of Judge" is not mistaken,
it may turn out hat he is the owner in
fee simple of pretty much all the Klon-
dixie region. 1t seems that he sent an
expedition to Alaska a few years ago and
that the gentlemen in charge OF it had the
presence of mind before coming back to
file Mr.. ArkelFs claim for about all Of that
country in which gold mines might. could.
would or should be located. When last
heard from Mr.. Arkell was closeted with his
lawyer with a view to finding out whether
he could read his title clear to all the de-
sirable real estate in question. The law
yer's brow was represented as being a
good deal corrugated, which perhaps war
rants the painful suspicion that there may
be a corner lot here and there in Klondike
which Mr.. Arkell will not be able 10 hold,
at least not without instituting legal pro-
ceedings.
The news in regard to Mr.. Arkell's own
ership evidently has not yet reached the
Pacific coast. For, according TO the lat
est telegrams, men were climbing over
one another 10 take passage from Seattle
for his gold preserves, just as though
there was no such person in the world as
Arkell. 1t is TO be hoped that a COM
promise may be reached. The proprietor
brethren to be one of the kindest-hearted
men in the world. So ii is safe TO as
sumo that he will consent TO go halves
with the worthy Woodworking men who
have gone TO the Klondike d.ggings in good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
THE PRESIDENT, CONGRESS AND
THE PARTY.

The Journal has never been regarded as
a Mckinley organ. 1t did not devote itself
to urging his nomination. During the cam
paign it was frequently criticised by those
who posed as the Mckinley leaders for not
devoting columns to the personal glorifica-
ton of the candidate. This was accepted
by some oficious whoopers-up as evidence
Of hostility and ground for discriminating
against the Journal by favoring papers
published outside the State. It's answer to
it's critics was that before Major McKin-
ley had been President a year the Journal
would be a more consistent supporter of his
administrator than would some of those
who were then so zealously, in fact, so
officiously meddling.
Major Mckinley has now been President
five months. In many respects he has
passed through the most critical period of
his administration. He has been criticised
as are all Presidents, but, judging from the
of the press, he has won the re-
spect and confidence of the country. Even
those who do not agree with his policy
and fight his party have spoken kindly
of the President. To-day it can be conf
IDENTIFY asserted that President Mckinley
holds a higher and firmer place in the
opinion of the American people than he
did when he took the oath of office. He
has kept every pledge made by his party
or himself. Upon all the questions of public
policy, concerning which the people are
most interested, President Mckinley has
met every expectation of those who pre-
ferred his election. Even if he had ten
offices to confer where he now has not one
there would be hundreds and thousands
who must be disappointed. This is not the
fault of the President, but the unfortunate
circumstance that so many excellent men
are infatuated with ~officeholding. If these
complain, as some will, the President cam
not be held responsible.
Partly because of the sagacity of the
President and partly because of the devo-
ton and wisdom of Republicans in Con-
gress, the party in Washington is firmly
united. Both have labored to meet the rea-
sonable expectations of the country and of
the Republican party. There is every reason
to believe that the President and the Re-
publicans nave so far succeeded that were
a vote of the party taken to-day it would
be well-night unanimous. At a period in
the life of the party in power when the
greatest dissatisfaction usually exists there
dence in the policy and the wisdom of the
Republican President and Congress on the
part of the Republican party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

Inc British Court Of Appeal, the highest
court IN the kingdom except the House of
Lords has ordered a decision on a point of
commercial law that will be authority in this
country. The question was one where a firm
OF bankers had mailed customer a draft for
$4,000. 1t was stolen froms the mails by a
sWlndler, Who forged the Endorsement, de-
posted 1t in a bank to his own credit, drew
$z'WO on account and decamped. The ques-
tlon was whether the loss should fall on the
odhh as reInltter or on the customer as re-
celVer' me lower court and a higher one
ooth held that the loss was that of the per
son TO whom the check was sent, but the
court OF Appeal, with the lord chief justice
presiding, reversed the previous decisions
ana held that as the check failed to reach
the person for whom it was intended there
was no payment, and therefore the loss
fell on the bank.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
BUSINESS CONDITIONS IMPROVING.
Review of the Situation by "a Comnier-
ciaI Periodical.
Chicago Bonds and Mortgages.

CAASa6O DoHQS ana Mortgages.
Despite the ordinary midsummer dull
ness, tue events Of the last month Justify
the belief of better times being at hand.
Inc uncertainty which overshadowed the
country a month ago has been removed by
the Senate's action in passing the tariff
bin. and merchants and manufacturers are
supply awaiting the enactment Of the new
measure, now near al hand. TO lay out
their work Tor the coming year on rnore
extensive lines. The market for securities
has hardened and broadened. The average
sales of bonds for the first six months of
1896 Were %.i rs per month. rhe Chicago
convention was held in July and the sales
dropped Immediately 10 an average of less
than &,o00,c0 a month, Then came the cleo
ton which proved the turning point. Money
left its hiding places and again sought re-
munerative Investments. Sales of bonds in
creased steadily until the aggregate for the
month of June reached nearly 500, O0l. CO.,.
while the average sales were over $l4. 900. coo.
Idle money is once more crying aloud for
investment. but il wants investments that
are safe, The wheels of industry are turn
ing with accelerated motion, and iron and
steel works have booked orders enough TO
keep them busy 10 the end of 1897. The
railroads are showing gratifying gains in
And above all these hopeful indications
towers the prospect OF a bountiful crop
about ready to be moved. At the present
moment the crops form the recuperative
force in this country and their favorable
progress will prove a most important fac
tor in the future of national and interua-
tional business. Spring wheat and corn in
the surplus States give promise of an
abundant yield. From all indications the
crops in other countries are less promising
than usual and the demand for American
wheat is thus supplemented.
The national treasury is in a very salts
factory condition and in sharp contrast to
the situation a year ago. Then the gold
reserve was barely above the theoretical
requirement of one hundred million dol
lars. Now there is a stock of gold of over
$4,000, 900 and Secretary Gage sees no indi-
cation that it will not continue at that very
comfortable level.
Altogether there is a decidedly more wide
spread feeling of hopefulness and conf
dence. coupled with the positive assurance
that the autumn will bring the long-looked
for revival of cOnsumptive demand.
The times are getting better.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
THE TARIFF AND IT'S MAKERS.
Men who Are Entitled to Especial
Credit for Their LabOrs.
Review of Reviews.

4NSNlCW VI INtNlGNS.
The u~nlovely side of tariff-making at
Washington is so much dwelt upon that
there is always a little danger that the
country may fail to accord to certain able.
honest and experienced men the credit
that is cir due. II would seem TO us that
the 81. .er of the House, the Hon. Thomas
b. Reed, is entitled 10 recognition for the
splendid qualities of tirmness he has shown
during the recent special session, and for
the leadership which, though at times a
little masterful and arbitrary. has had the
deliberat~ notion of a very great MAORI
ty of nbers of the House. Mr.. Reed
has be II sustained by upright and ex-
perien nen like Mr.. Dingley, the chair
man 9 the ways and means committee;
but Mr.. Reed personally. perhaps more
than any one else, is entitled to the credit
that belongs to the victory achieved by the
House over the Senate in the matter of
the tariff on sugar. In the Senate, the Sc
rene and conciliatory spirit of the Hon
w. B. Allison, OF Iowa, together with MS
mastery of the general principles as well
as the details of tariff and revenue legtsla-
ton, must be credited to a great extent
with the success achieved in steering a
Republican tariff measure through a body
of men so peculiarly aligned as the United
States Senate Until this country becomes
emancipated from the tarin-making meth
DDS that have prevailed hitherto, no great
national measure for customs taxes can be
anything else except a series of compro-
misses. The Democrats, in making the Will
son-Gorman tariff, showed that both par
ties were subject to the same sort of press
ure, and that the time had not come in
this country for broad, logical and disin-
terested tariff-making. One of the worst
mistakes the country had made in many
years was the permission it gave to the
Democratic party to tear W the Mckinley
tariff and substitute for it a haphazard
measure which, in the nature of the case,
could not be expected to emain in force
for more than from two 20 four years. We
need tariff stability until we have reached
that stage In our political and commercial
development where we may hope for real
tariff reform. The next revision Of the
tariff should be scientific rather than par
tisan. It can wait for several years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04
Reforming the Pulpit.
Kansas City Journal.

hdnSdS lily JOuFldl.
The American pulpit is the immediate
and characteristic outgrowth of the re-
ligious life of the American people. 1t is
supported by the dollars of unsentimental
citizens who think they know when they
get a dollars worth. There is behind it no
coercive government, and no intelligent
American believes that the preachers
hands hold for him the power Of spiritual
life and death. Moreover, the pulpit is
filled by men who, a few years ago, were
ordinary American boys. with bullying
pockets and s%unburned feet. These things
being so, the pulpit fairly reflects the spirit
and good sense of the whole people. The
preacher has the inalienable right of the
American citizen to make a fool of him
self. Unfortunately, he occasionally exer-
cises it. But the evil is autocorrective. The
successful church always has a working
majority of sensible men who refuse to fol-
low unwise leadership, and the average
minister is a man who is worthy of such
a constituency. The way for the news
paper TO reform the present defects in the
American pulpit, If 1t feels impelled to that
sort of work, is not occasionally to make
a horrible example Of some unknown and
misguided man, but TO try, in season and
out, to raise the general level of good
sense, good breeding and clear thinking in
the American home, the training school Of
that future citizen of which the preacher
will be the religious exponent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

REVIEW OF Reviews.
Nor can this modern South African Co
lossus write any better than he can read.
To be sure, he can sign his name to public
documents, but in somewhat the same way
that Osman the Great, the founder and
first Sultan of the Osmanli Turks. used to
sign his name to public documents-by dip
ping his hand in a saucer of ink and
spreading it out on the paper, thus literal
~ making his sign manual. Not that Pres
ident Kruger has not got beyond Osman the
First, for he can guide the quill sufficient
ly to sign his name to papers of state, but
to write one of those papers, or even an
ordinary letter, with hts own hand, would
be quite beyond his powers, is the story
often told in Pretoria. And yet, should |
leave the impression with my readers that
he was simply an ignorant old Boer, 1t
would be a very false impression. From
the scholars standpoint, possibly ne IS
that. but from the standpoint of the poll
tician and man of affairs he Is one of the
shrewd great men of the time. If he can
not write a state document he can dictate
one. He knows what is in every one that
he signs. and his native shrewdness en-
ables him to get the better OF far more
scholarly rulers of mightier realms than his
when the interests of his poor ~burghers."
as he pathetically calls them, are con-
carppd
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

metallic conference on the invitation Of the
United States, but he says there is not the
slightest reason to believe it will ever
swerve a hairs breath froSa The gold stand
ard. Neither government nor people in
England" says Mr.. Phelps, have, or are
likely TO have, the least idea of departing
from the monetary system which has con-
Quoted them to this result, or of trying any
new experiments in nance that have Moth
ing to ommen them but the yagaries of
a set of philosophers whom no sensible
mar would trust with the management Of
his own property"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

1t is time for the croaker to seek shelter,
for there is no longer doubt that a wave of
prosperity is beginning to sweep over the
land. Confidence in the future has been
restored, for money is being offered freely
at low interest to those who wish to engage
in new enterprises or enlarge old ones.
Capitalists are investing in stocks and
bonds of railways and industries, and prices
are booming in consequence. Wheat is still
soaring upward, an advance of ~ cents a
bushel being recorded at Chicago yester-
day., based on the great demand of foreign
ers. Several million bushels nav been en-
gagged for export in the past few days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

The history of gold mining in all countries
has shown hat the profits of placer mining,
great as they may be, are small compared
with those of the systematic working of
lodes and fssure veins that follows after.
The placer deposits now being worked in
Alaska are the result of ages of glacial
action andathe operation of natural causes
on some great lode or rock deposit. When
that lode is discovered and systematically
worked there will be a new wonder in the
world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

Queer. 1t is unfortunate. to say the least,
that the money should not be paid to and
the profit secured by the producers fellow
citizens. A German writer has recently
estimated the total annual tribute paid by
the United States to England at $3.50. 00O,00;
a French writer puts II at $500. 000, 1000. The
truth may be assumed as lying somewhere
between the two. The real tribute is per-
maps equal TO a fair interest on 0OO.0 co.,
90. This amount seems unreasonably great,
even Tor a country of the of the
Cnited States. and which likes to think
that it has emerged from the infant con-
dition. Something like one-third of the
total value which it is able annually to
EXPORT goes TO enrich an absentee landlord.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

When the Wilson-Gorman tariff was
about to go into ef~fectvessels laden with for
eign goods waited outside the ports of New
York, Boston and Philadelphia, day after
day, awaiting the signal that the new law
had actually gone into effect before they
should come in with their cargoes of foreign
products. In the case of the Dingley law
they put on extra steam to get into port
before it should take effect In one case
they fingered in order 10 get lower duties,
while in the other they hurried in order TO
escape higher ones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

Either British laws are better adanted
for new mining communities than United
States laws or they are better admins
tered. All accounts agree that peace and
order prevail in the Klondike settlement.
Rights of person and property are pro-
tected, and there has been no shooting or
lynching reported. 1t was not so in Cali
fornia mining camps in 1880, nor in many
other American camps since.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

New York Evening sun.
The excessive rains which are diminish
ing Europe's cereal crops this year are not
wholly without compensation TO her in the
Increased returns from her ship roperty.
The demand for grain transportation has
enabled owners to secure a very handsome
Advance on the rates lately ruling for
freiehts. and the tendency is still upward.
England secures considerably more than
haIf Of this tribute. which all ship owners
indifferently levy upon the American pro-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

United States senators who watch the
trend of affairs predict that the proposed
annexation of Hawaii will be the first
question of Importance to demand the at
tention OF Congress at the next session,
and that the treaty will be ratified.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

Complete returns of the movement of
southern iron show that during the hrst SIX
months OF the present year there were
shipped from the Birmingham district in
Alabama 1853, 406 tons of pig iron, of which
l20, 7OS tons were to Europe, mostly to Eng
land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

'1he August grand jury in New York was
composed largely of m~illionaires. 1t was es-
tllnated IN the courtroom that the wealth
represented on the jury amounted to nearly
SI-o'orJ'OVO. Every one of the millionaires
tried to beg OF. but the court made them
serve.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

Prof. Henry w. Elliot is getting excited
over the seal business, but no one else
seems to be taking the slightest interest in
1t. With this temperature the American
public is not going to concern itself with a
subject 50 suggestive of furs-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

one reason given against the annexation
of Hawaii is that it would necessitate an
increase of our navy. Not necessarily, but
If it did a strong navy is not a national
calamity. We have got to have it anyhow,
and might as we'll nave a good harbor and
coaling station at Hawaii.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

Manufacturers of agricultural implements
and machinery in Chicago all report a large
increase of trade, with a prospect of good
collections. one large establishment says:
I'VE have already shipped for this season
between seven hundred and eight hundred
cars Of machinery more than our total sales
of last year and expect the increase to
reach one thousand cars"