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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Large Aggregations of Capital.

Gunton's Magazine.
Every step in the Industrial progress of
society has had to encounter a popular OPP
position. There seems to be an Indefinite
impression abroad that the corporation has
more of the element of conspiracy in it than
the individual or firm type. Hence the ag-
g%regation of capital in the United States
is more inimical to public welfare than in
other countries. This, however, is psyche
logical rather than economic. Corporations,
while not peculiar to the United States,
are more prevalent here than elsewhere
for definitely good and efficient economic
reasons. In Europe the progress has been
sufficiently slow so that native capital could
fast enough to keep up with the
demands of industrial growth. In this coun-
try the case has been quite different. For
reasons it is not necessary to enumerate
here our Industrial development has been
so rapid and colossal that we were wholly
unable to create the individual capital nee
essary to supply the needs of industry.
talizing, that through this means European
wealth as well as the scattered pennies Of
our own people could be utilized to make
possible the great railroad and other un-
dertakings in this country, which nave no
parallel in any other part of the world.
Had we been compelled to wait for the de-
velopment of individual capital in the nom
corporate form, this development would
probably have been delayed half a century.
Corporations, therefore, are peculiarly
American institutions. not because they
contain any inferior element, but because
they are the utilization of the co-opera-
tive spirit made necessary by our eXcep-
tionally rapid industrial rOgres
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Chnrged wlth Forgery.

CANTON. o., May 10.-It developed to-
day that Dominick Tyler, formerly for
many years secretary and treasurer OF the
Diebold Safe and Lock Company. was ar.
rested and placed under bond on Feb. 3
last on the charge of having counterfeited
stock certificates of the company and foFg-
ing thereto the signatures OF the officers.
grand fury are said to have told of transact
tons covering a period of ten years. A
number OF notes bearing the names Of
Tyler and other persons are said 10 have
been negotiated, being renewed from time
TO time. as hey became due, Some of these
notes have been paid, but others are still
outstanding.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Secretary Wilson has distributed sugar
beet seed to about 10000 farmers during the
past few weeks. The main object of the
distribution appears to be to ascertain il
farmers in different parts of the country
can afford to raise them at prices and in
quantities and of the quality which will
make it reasonably safe for capital to invest
in sugar factories. 1t is proposed to make
analyses of the beets of different sections
of the country, so that the section which
offers the best results may receive special
attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

with Greece. If the powers do not act
as arbiters he may demand more than
Greece can give. Should he make such a
demand. can the powers agree sufficiently
to compel him to accept moderate conces-
sions? This seems to be a p~uzzling question
among the people in Europe. AS for the
Greeks, they have not met the expectations
of the world, for the reason that after the
first few skirmishes they did not display
those qualities as soldiers which win admi-
vatioD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

try notaries, who send out the pension
vouchers TO the agency in this city with
out sufficient postage. The department has
ordered that no postage due shall be
quence all letters underpaid must go TO the
dead-letter Office. If, as is most frequently
the case. no return address card is on the
envelope. Chief Clerk Sickels yesterday
transgressed the rule of the department by
paying a dollar for postage OUT of his OWN
pocket, and thus rescuing a hundred or so
Vouchers. This. however, is only a drop in
the bucket. other causes that will delay a
couple of thousand payments are the neg
ers, or to secure the signatures of required
Witnesses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Not So Many Gudgeons.


An echo of the Waldorf banquet is still
heard occasionally at the Capitol. One of
the Democratic congressman who does not
worship at the Cleveland shrine was asked
his opinion about the eX-President's ambi-
ton for another term. III have TO pla-
giarize from Bob InGersoll, he said. You
terances of Growers, Colonel Ingersoll was
asked what he thought Cleveland wanted.
4 think he wants to fish and be President
the rest of his natural life said Colonel
Bob. Well. that's my opinion. and ] think,
too. that no matter how he bats his hook
he Won't find so many gudgeons in the
pend as used to be there"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The commencement season is now upon
us and with it the prize orator. An Iowa
girl contesting for a prize INDUCES in this
flight of e~loquence:
am a human being placed in the midst
OF a great world. Far and wide it extends
on every side. Everywhere is the majesty
of its natural form, lofty mountain tower
ing above broad plains, aged forests over
looking fertile valleys, great rivers flowing
into the mighty ocean. over it all, surging
round. on every side, is the living human
sea, light above. darkness beneath, foam
on its wave, gems in it's depths; through
it there pulsates the quick throb of life.
In its every part, political, social, indus
trial, intellectual, religious, is the same
eager, restless strife and motion. 1t flows
ever outward toward the unknown regions.
1t Surges ever high on the shores of ulti-
mate truth. Majestic in it's v~astness. be-
wildering in its ever changing forms, the
world oVerwhelms by its immensely. Over
it bend the eternal heavens and far away
in the infinite realms of space CLEAN the
lights of other worlds, and l, what am |?
A drop in the sea of life. An atom in the
universe of nature.
The idea of a young woman like that call
ing herself an atom" She's q whole
team, nay, a locomotive and a train. If
the committee doesn't hand out the first
prize to her it is likely to find itself tossed
to one side of the road.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Now that Senator Morgan is determined
to call up again his resolution recognizing
the Cubans as belligerents, it might be well
to let it go through if he would promise
not to antagohize the tariff bill with some
other proposition that does not affect the
United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Perhaps one reason why the Turks have
committed few, if any, atrocities upon the
Greeks is that the present conflict is not
holy" In the holy wal just ordered by
the Sheik-ul-Islam at Constantinople the
followers Of the prophet will doubtless ex-
hibit their speciality to great advantage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Miss Bushbeck, of this city. who was in
the Paris disaster, tells of an old lady who.
in emerging from one of the doors, was
tripped and thrown by her skirts, and the
next instant twenty persons piled on top of
her. Twenty lives sacrificed to the sense
less fashion of long skirts!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

ton of a mill of the entire cost of oper-
ating the Pennsylvania Railroad per ton
per mile. He estimates tina a ship canal
from Buffalo to New York city would cost
$500, 900, coo, which would, with other ex-
penditures, make the cost of transporting
merchandise higher than the price for
which the railways can do the work if the
canal tolls are put at a figure to pay the
interest on the amount which the canal
will cost.
The railway. the writer boldly asserts.
and makes figures to sustain his assertion,
is the one means of cheap transportation
Cheap as are the present rates of transport
tation from Chicago and st. Louis to the
seaboard, we must, if we are to compete
with other food-producing countries, make
a further reduction. 1t is not a question so
much of competition as of continuously low
grade and light curvature, running in close
proximity to coal supplies. After examin-
ing the grades and curves of all the trunk
lines the engineer concludes that the
cheapest transportation can only be at
tanned by a single-track freight road from
Chicago to New York. The best route is
from Chicago to Massillon o., thence to
Butler, from Butler to Milesburg, and from
Milesburg to New York city, $50 miles. He
estimates that the cost of each through
train of fifty-two loaded cars from Chi
cago to New York would be 1896. The
wheat which such Il train would haul would
afford, at 3 cents a bushel, a %freightage of
$S2S.SS, which would give a net profit of
$232.SS, or % per cent. A west-bound train
of thirty-four loaded and eighteen empty
cars, at a fixed charge of 2a mills per mile,
would give $50 to a car and 81, 020 for thirty
four loaded cars, which would afford a net
profit of $424 a train.
Three cents a bushel for hauling wheat
is less than one half the present cost from
Chicago to New York. Such a reduction
of cost would enable the United States to
Undersell the world in European markets
with our cereals and other food products.
Such a saving in transportation would add
to the price of wheat at home and lessen
the price of merchandise to the people Of
the West. 1t would enable us to sell in
Europe 15O,OOO,OOO bushels of wheat more
than we do. because we could underbid
other competitors.
The writer asserts that by the joint ac-
ton of the trunk lines such a railway as
he has indicated could be perfected for
$1,000 Geo., but if they. will not do this an
entirely new single-track railroad can be
perfected from New York to Chicago for
$25, Geo. GOO.
At a time when there is so much said in
favor of ship canals to be built at the pub
lie e~Xpense-ship canals which in the North
will be closed four months in the year
the statements of a prominent engineer
are entitled to consideration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

There is something suspicious in the in
dignation with which the London newspa-
treaty by the American Senate. If the COM
pact was such q prodigious concession to
the United States it is strange that our
London contemporaries should get mad
over it's failure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The burning of sixteen steerage passen-
gers who were fastened in their quarters
on a Galveston steamer like rats in a trap
will renew the agitation over the treat
ment of such travellers that breaks out in
New York about once "a ye-ar--apparently,
as this event indicates, without much re-
formatory effect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The Democratic convention which nomi-
mated Mr.. Harrison for mayor in Chicago
did not put a silver plank in its platform,
but some silverites in this city seem to
think thai 1t did. Mr.. Bryan was in Chi
cago during the canvass and was not in
vited to speak.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

New York now has a law winch cancels
and repeats the charters of all companies
which restrain trade or prevent competi-
ton in the necessaries of life. All corpora
tions must make sworn statements of their
business, and heavy penalties are provided
for neglect. Offices of corporations must
keep their books open at all times for
the inspection of stockholders, and stock
holders are rendered personally liable for
the making of unauthorized dividends. for
the creation of excessive Indebtedness, tor
unlawful loans, for making false certia-
Gates and for the illegal transfer of stock.
Such a law would be unpopular with street.
railway COMPANIES.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

A delaware wife murderer under SEN
tence OF death has sought revenge upon
the witnesses instrumental in his convic-
ton by asking them to be pallbearers at
his funeral. He may be surprised to find
them ready TO assist c%heerfully in this GER
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The Journals industrial notes, as pub
llshed from week to week, show a gradual
and steady Improvement in the general
business affairs of the city. The amount
OF building, planned and already under way,
dence and of the arrival of better times"
The people who have their eyes fixed on
the distant horizon with the apparent ex-
peetation that prosperity, full-blown, Will
come upon them suddenly like a sunburst
should look at home. where they Will find
that it is creeping in unaEares.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

1t has remained for Mr.. Mulch, a Cali
fornia professor of psychology who is lee
turing in Detroit, to discover that the eli
mate of Michigan is most favorable TO the
development of mind, and that the children
of that State can think longer and harder
than any others. What he means, doubt
less, is that the eight-month winters cause
the unhappy youngsters to think hard
about getting away from there when they
are old enough.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
In Retirement.
Kansas City Journal.

AS a rule. Chicago editors are very busy
people. but now and then one lays aside
lis pen and gets out of town for the season.
Editor Dunlop has just left for Joliet,
where he expects to spend d couple of
years in quiet retirement, out of reach of
the noise and hustle and smoke of n great
city. Editor Dunlop's habits are such that
he would have preferred to remain at his
desk, but sometimes the demands of ones
health or the health of the community are
too imperative to be resisted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

An account of the Nashville mans flying
machine tells how he "paddled' with both
feet. If he will teach that accomplishment
to commercial gentlemen of the road it
will be money in his pocket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

DETROIT, May 10.-Herman Freund, a
well-known merchant of Detroit, who es-
tabliShed The Fair" store on Monroe ave-
nue., committed suicide to-day by taking
poison. He was respondent over business
difficulties. He leaves "A family OF ten chill
dreu.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Philadelphia is about to unveil a George
Washington monument. 1t hasn't been in
any hurry; it wanted to be perfectly sat
isfed that Georges pedigree was of a kim
that would make his association with its
old families entirely proper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Milking Him Miserable.

Shelf was just three years ago tonight
that you proposed.
He-Now, did you want TO bring that
up for, on the only night of the week that
l nave away from business?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
ArtfuI Audacity.

80 Boracks is going to marry that aged
Mum girl, is he?"
Yes, and the funny part of it is that
he told her he wanted to marry her on ac-
count of her fortune
"Eh?'
HE told her she was too young and fool
ish to have the care of so much money"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
The Ideal Brother and the Real Thing
Harlem Life.

The Rejected Cornelius, After the Re-
fuSal-You will be a sister to me! A ten
dollar sleighride this afternoon, a box at
the opera tonight, supper at Del's and a
cab home. A sister to me? Great Scott!
What sort of a fool human being do you
take a brother to be!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Kansas City Journal.
1t is said of the Almighty that &. thousand
years with Him are as one day and one
day is as a thousand years. 1t is a good
deal that way with the Senate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Week before last $1,000, OCo of gold was ex-
ported. but last week the export fell to
So 1000. Should it continue tc dwindle
another hone of the clipped-dollar advocate
viii have failed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The Pittsburg Dispatch, which is pub
lished in the city in which the present mag
mates of our street-railway reside, seems
not to share the views of those distin-
guished persons when it says:
Without raising any question of paternaI-
ism in government it can be stated as a
positive conclusion that it is a function of
city government to secure its citizens rea-
SOnable comfort when travelling upon cars
enjoying franchises upon the public streets.
Those streets are not the property of either
the traction corporations or of the city
officials, but of the public. The officials
are temporarily trustees for the public in
their management and the fullest rightful
extent to which they can grant franchises
upon them is to secure the public advan-
have been granted in this city for which
no return has been made in the way of
public convenience and advantage.
That the streets of a city belong to the
public is downright heresy in the opinion
of our rulers who manage the street-raiI-
way. They not only claim the right to do
as they please with them during the period
of a municipal franchise, but for all time.
1t is possible that our magnates and the
street-railway magnates in other cities NAV
arrive at other conclusions in time, but
now they act upon the assumption that
cities are built for the sole purpose of
being run by street-railway companies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The New Orleans s-Democrat sus-
tains Senator McEnery in his attitude in
favor of protection, as a general principle.
There is a good deal of that sensible senti-
ment in the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places;
NEW - Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House and p. O.. News Co..
III Dearborn street.
street.
LOUISVIILE-C. 7. Deering. northwest corner
of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
3ook c., 2J5 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and F street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The Governor of Mississippi. having ap-
pointed his seven brothers to Office, should
make an effort to follow the example of
the Cleveland administration of fastening
them in office by some civil-service device.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

The Senate bankruptcy bill is being crit
icised by chambers of and boards
Of trade, and it is said it cannot pass the
House in it's present form. 1t would be a
4 good topic for the House to consider while
the tariff bill is pending in the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Pittsburg Chronicle-T Tel,

Plttsburg ChronicIe-TeIegraph.
A Mount Washington man utilizes an
abandoned coal mine as a mushroom farm.
This is the most successful method of using
holes in the ground, since ar oil-country
man suggested that useless petroleum wells
be cut UP into post holes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Captain Romeyn has many friends in this
vicinity who are pleased to know that he
was let off by the court as easily as pos
sible, and that, by inference, the severest
condemnation rests upon his enemies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Chicago Poy

OIlICdSO IUSI.
A new Dutch dialect has been discovered
and we are anticipating a time a few
months hence when no magazine will be
complete without that kind Of a story.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

So long as the people of indianapolis pay
three dollars as city taxes to one for all
other purposes it would seem that a cam
paign devoted to city affairs would be more
of business than one devoted to national
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
JOan's Disadvantage.
Chicago Chronicle

OF course, the Greeks have a Joan of Arc.
Helen somethingorother ending in ides has
gone out at the head of 1900 men. Unfortu-
nately, the Greek military costume is so
feminine in its character that her sex will
not anDear in il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Thus far only about a dozen consuls have
been appointed by President Mckinley, but
the service could probably be improved. by
judicious changes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

what may be the result In regard to the
postoffice, I don't know and have no right
TO guess. L. B. BUCKLES.
Thorntown. Ind. MAY s.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Fools Nobody.
Atchison Globe.

AICIIISUH IIUUG.
Occasionally a man going home at 6
o'clock sees a pretty, well dressed girl NOV
ing a lawn mower across a lawn. She
fools nobody. Trimming a lawn is not work
that can be done dressed Up. Her brother
cut it in the morning and she is making
q grand-Stand play.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Philadelphia has a .non-thinkers' club
There is nothing UNUSUAL about the organ
ization except its f~rankness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Kansas City Journal.
If money happens to be scarce in Ohio
the people of that State will know what
went with it. 1t is in the pockets OF the
Washington hotel keepers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
No False Claim.

This guy-'xscuse me; this ma your
Honor" said the policeman, was going
along the street begging and telling people
he was an old soldier
Il wasn't averred Dismal Dawson. Il
told 'em l was an old soldierer.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Siur ON Them.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There is a man in Indiana who is said to
be giving away his money for fear that
after he is dead his wife will marry an old
time rival. This seems to be a slur on the
gentlemen of the legal profession who make
q speciality of drawing wills.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Detroit Tribune.
And where is Liberty?' p~assionately in
quires a young poet who sings of the Hell
lenic conflict. We don't know, but we sup
pose she is out on the boulevard with the
other young women who have new bicycle
suits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
. FamiIy Anair.

T." said one, with the air of a hero,
"once interfered in a quarrel between a
man and his wife,
"Huh!' said the other. Il once tried to
par a freshman and a sophomore
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

Philadelphia North American.
The wheelman doesn't want the whole
earth. He merely asks that a bicycle path
be constructed around it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
should Use Care.
PHILADELPHIA Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Thousands Of federal pensioners who
We're anXiously awaiting the receipt of
checks that they expected last week may
be compelled to wait u very considerable
time longer before they receive what is due
70 them. owing to the carelessness OF coun-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Nothing in IL Name.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
They don't call it the Midway at the Ten
nessee exposition. They call it Vanity Fair,
and that appears to be about the only diff
ference.