The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09

would deprive the individual of free will
by this theory: TT must not be understood,
however, from the foregoing, that every
thlng which happens to the soul during life.
or even the inevitable time and manner of
It's death, are the results of causes set up
IN former lives alone. This would be to
bind man in the straitjacket of predes-
tlnation which is just the error into which
the observation-disclosures have fallen. There
are new causes set up at every step of the
souls pathway, to be adjusted by the divine
eternally free to choose, and must therefore
be eternally able to set up new causes,
whether for good or Ill. All of which is
interesting, If not convincing.
Among the contents of the Eclectic for
September are "A Retrospect of the
Reign" British Interests and the Wolcott
Commission 1.-The Growth of Caste in the
United States" 1.-The South African Bub-
BILE and The Present Government in Tur
key-Its Crimes and Remedy" The writer
OF the last-named article says in conclu-
sion: 1T is not the laws of the country
which are defective but their execution. 1t
is the present corruption in high places
which vitiateS and paralyZes the whole adj
man rule is abolished, Turkey will drift
from bad to worse, and an empire possess
ing immense resources and inhabited by
people who have only recently given proof
OF their strength and vitality, will continue
to be a curse to the world and a dishonor
to our age.
Mr. A J. Halford contributes a chapter
on Matters Diplomatic" to the Interna-
tional Magazine for September. He says,
incidentally: "A sentence in one of Secre-
tary Olney's letters to the Spanish minister.
contained in the Cuban correspondence
which was recently printed, has attracted
attention. He wrote of the ineluctable and
lawful sovereignty of Spain That sounds
quite like state document in the Cleve-
lana administration. The strange word
q ffifaar nIDln
comes from the Latin luctari, to struggle;
eluctari, to struggle out of; and ineluctari.
not to struggle out Of The author of the
phrase Will not find himself sustained by
history in the use of it. Holland, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, San Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Colom-
bia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentine, Para
quay and Uruguay, have all at one time or
another eluctated' out of the sovereign
grasp of Spain, and if Secretary Sherman
be accepted as authority, Cuba. is likely to
DO the same, and that right speedily"
In an article on THE Floating City Pop
ulation' in the midsummer number of the
Annals of the American Academy of Polit-
ical Economy the writer includes in such
population not only the few hundred men
and few score women who are at any given
time absolutely without shelter except such
as charity relief may provide but also
the 10000 5000 persons who live in
cheap lodging houses and who are homeless
IN the sense that they have no real home
no home ties and influences, no permanent
engagements for payment by the, week or
month that would interfere with the cheer
ful acceptance, at the eleventh hour, of
free shelter which might open its doors If
only for a night" AS to the problem of
improving this element of society, he says:
The irresistible conclusion of the most
careful study will be that the fundamental
difficulty is in the home and school life of
the young people. The correctional de-
vices to which some attention has been
given are needed only to give society
better chance as it were to work at it's So
cial and educational problem. Kindergar-
ten, manual training, trade schools, pro-
fessional training for public school teach
ers, instruction In the best ways of using
an income large or small, the prevention
of indiscriminate charity organized inteln-
gent effort on behalf of individuals and
families in distress, the proper care of
homeless children, the study Of social con-
ditions in college settlements, the creation
of public opinion by the extension of uni
VerSity teaching-theSe are the methods
which, without any desire to be eclectic
and to conciiate everybody, but only with
an intense conviction that our whole social
problem is one l propose as the means of
eliminating our shiftless and floating popu-
latiOn."