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The oasis., 1897-12-18
MONEY AND BULLION.

The following telegraphic quota tions at noon Friday Of this week, are kindly supplied TIE OASIS by Harlow < Gowan, Brokers, Nogales, Arizona.
 BAR SILVER.
 London ......... . 9 l5-l6d per oz New York ........ 56fc per oz
 MEXICAN DOLLARS.
 New York ............,.... 45i ct. San Francisco ............... 464 ct. Nogales ...,...,...............4 ct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
SOCIALISTIC EXPERIMENTS AND
LABOR

statement in the Sunday Journal by
Professor E. T. Cox gave some interesting
facts based on personal knowledge of the
socialistic experiment conducted at New
Harmony, Ind, by the Owens from 1924 to
1927. The experiment was in some respects
the most remarkable of it's kind ever at
tempted in the United States. The Owen
family all Scotch, consisted of Robert
Owen, father, and Robert Dale. David
Dale and Richard owen, sons. They were
able and highly educated men, and were all
identified with the New Harmony expert
ment, though the father returned to Scot
land in 1897, while the sons remained in this
country All three of them were honora-
bly, idep lifted with the history and devel
opment of the State Robert Dale Owen
served several terms in the Legislature and
in Congress- was a member of the consti
tutional convention of 1852, and filled other
important positions. He died in New York
in 1877. Dr. David Dale owen made the
first geological reconnaissance of the State
in 1887, and in 1859 was appointed state ge-
ologist, holding the position till his DEATH
at New Harmony, in 1860 Richard Owen
served as captain in the Mexican war, was
afterwards assistant state geologist. was
colonel of the Sixtieth Indiana regiment
during the civil war, and Professor of nat
ural sciences at the State University.
The Owens did not establish the New
Harmony colony. They were wealthy. and
they purchased the town and about 90, GOO
acres OF lands from the Rappites, Ger
man society who wished to return to the
East They paid $4,000 for the whole
plant, including lands. buildings, church,
town hall, schoohouse etc. There was
no franchise or good will TO be paid for
1t was the purpose of the Owens to estab-
lish a colony on a socialistic, philanthropic
plan and they made an honest effort to do
so. Associated with them In the scheme
was another Scotchman, William Mcclure.
known among scientists as the father of
American geology" He was the leading
founder Of the Philadelphia Academy OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Natural Sciences ard its president for
twenty years. He was also president of the
American Geographical Society A social
istic experiment with such men at the head
of it, backed by capital and good intentions
and well advertised naturally attracted a
good deal of attention. The little Posey
county town became Mecca for advanced
thinkers and philanthropists from all parts
of the country. including some scientists.
Among the latter were Thomas Say, high
authority on geology, entomology and con-
chology. He died and was buried in New
Harmony Charles Alexander Leseur lived
there several years, and on his return to
France was made curator of the Havre
Museum. Professor Joseph Neef came,
with his wife, from Switzerland, with rec
concentrations from Pestalozzi and took
charge of the school. Two of the Owens
married daughters Of his. Other distin-
guished foreigners visited the town with
out becoming residents of it. The scheme
contained the seeds of failure from the
start, and it failed completely as a So
cialistic experiment in less than three
years, though the town remained and still
remains a monument of the philanthropic
but impracticable views of its founders.
Professor Cox says that what brought
the Owens to this country was the inven-
ton of the cotton gin and the machine
cards in this country, which were des-
tined to throw out of employment thou
sands of operatives and thus increase the
misery of the world. They reasoned that
there was something wrong in the organi-
cation Of society when the introduction of
labor-saving machinery proved 81 sorrow
instead Of a blessing to mankind" No per-
son now doubts that the invention of the
cotton gin and carding machine was a
blessing to mankind, yet the invention of
almost every labor-saving machine from
that time to the present has caused many
persons to have the same misgiving. The
New Harmony experiment had its origin
in the best of motives was backed by in
telligence and capital and managed by men
of the highest honor, but it was doomed
to go the way of all similar experiments
Perhaps Debs will succeed where the
Owens failed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
DISCOVERY OF PopUL1sT LEADERS.

The real Populsts seem to be discovering
the true inwardness of the 16 to ! preten-
sion Since the election these intense peo-
pie appear to have been communing with
themselves about the outcome of Bryan
ism, now that he declares himself Demo-
crat and declares that the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver shall be the leading
issue in 1900 Last year they were caught
the free coinage of silver promised. The
leaders said at that time that they pre-
ferred a fiat dollar issued in sufficient guam
titles to enable the people to do a cash bust
ness, to be furnished directly to the people
upon farms and other evidences of property
at an annual rate of 2 per cent. interest. If,
however they could not have such a dollar.
a 50-cent dollar was the next best thing
on the principle that half loaf is better
than no bread.
Since the election it seems that these real
Populists have been asking whose the So
cent dollars would be if there should be
free coinage for silver bullion. They have
no silver bullion. They do not belong to
any combination that owns silver mines
From what they learned of the cIoseness of
the slver-mine millionaires during the last
campaign they cannot be relieG upon to
make free distribution of silver dollars.
as some innocents believed a year ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Mrs. Stowe. that deserves a place in your
autobiography oh, no. my dear" said
Mrs. Stowe. ever on her guard against get
ting into print, that belongs to my
oughtnt to biography"
Maud sold a poem TO a magazine,
The very day she was seventeen.
Twas ali about the pangs of misprized love,
The usual very pretty rhyme in dove"
They put the poem carefully away
For six years, ere ii saw the light of day.
They published it, with all its sorrow seeth-
ing,
The summer when her second boy was
teething.
Town Topics.
In ancient days when a lover wooed
And asked a girl to be his wife,
The maiden fair
Would make him swear
That he would stick to her for life.
At present when lover wooes
And asks the girl to share his lot,
She gently signs
And then replies:
lit all depends on what you've got"
Cleveland Leader.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
HUSTLING FOR BUSINESS.
New York Finds That 1t Must Work
for Western Trade.
.etter in PhiIadeIDhia Press

Letter in Philadelphia Press.
For long time New York business men
have felt that it was unnecessary to take
any special means to attract buyers to this
market. They have acted like a once ia
nous newspaper publisher of this city now
dead, who insisted that it was beneath his
dignity to permit canvassing for advertise
ments since the pre-eminence and fame of
the paper were in themselves sufficient in
ducementS to attract advertisers.
Fierce competition, however, compelled
that publisher to change his views. He
found that he could not stand upon his dig
nifty and make much money. So. now at
last, some OF the enterprising younger bust
ness men of the city the newer element
which is in the Board of Trade and the va
rious trade organizations, realize that if
New York is to maintain it's supremacy as
a commercial center, it must no longer rely
upon its great name.
While New York was sluggish, Chicago ST
Louis and other Western cities were grad
ualy, but surely, sapplng trade which for
merly flowed to New York.
Now an association has been created to
which many thousand jobbers and retailers
throughout the country are eligible non
resident members, all of whom have been
invited TO join. To-day the secretary of
that association announces that although
the invitations have only been issued for
few days, yet nearly five thousand appliea-
lions for membership have been received
This encourages the hope that/a very large
membership may be secured Within few
months.
The nonresident members will receive spe-
cial concessions from the railways and no.
tells, and other inducements will be offered
to bring them to this city during the two
seasons of the year when buyers are ac-
customed to come here or to other CONNER
cial centers to replenish their stocks.
But the association does not propose to
stop here. IT viii do what ii can 10 pre-
vent discriminating rates against New
York, such as are alleged to have enor-
mously built up the grain export trade of
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Hampton
Roads at the expense Of New York and
Boston, and, in such other ways as seem
eXpedient. this association proposes to fight
for the maintenance of New York pre-
eminence, and TO enter into a fierce though
friendly competition with other great cities
Of this country for the trade of the small
jobber or retailer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The author of the letter to Governor
Mount in behalf of the miners at Fontanet
is laboring under the delusion that the ex-
ecutiye can furnish those who are out of
labor and bread with all they need at the
public expense, and that refusal on his
part will be evidence of hostility to the
miners. Such ignorance is deplorable, be-
cause it leads those who are bound to it
to regard those who execute the laws as
anarniaS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The good crop Of wheat that is just now
being harvested viii do much toward bring
ing about that era of good times we have
heard about.-AIiddletow News.
From this time on the suggestion of
Major Mckinley that it is better to open
the mills than the mints will be carried
into execution as rapidly as possible.-Ham-
mond Tribune.
Congress should follow up the passage
of the tariff law with an antitrust law
that will make all trustdom howl The OPP
party platforms and campaign speeches.
-Muncie Times.
The miners strike is not the result of
conditions imposed by mine operators, for
1t is generally conceded that they are pay
ing all that they can afford. 1t is simply
dae to the low price of coFl So, II the
strike is to result in any good at all, 1t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

They have also discovered that the silver
who are urging free-sllver coinage to
double the debt-paying wealth of it's men,
bers utterly regardless of the Populists or
the voter who lends himself to their
scheme.
So the real Populists, in the words of the
address of the Populist conference in Nash
Vile last week, are saying that 1.-The free
coinage of silver is not a broad enough
platform of itself for political party"
Mr.. Debs declares that the ree-coinage
issue is dead. Mrs. Lease, who was one of
the most potential influences in bringing
Populists TO the support of the silver party
last year, has declared that the silver
question is an issue of the past, and will
never again serve as the leading issue for
the reform element of politics" The two
hundred Populist papers whose editors are,
from self-interest, walking in the middle of
the road, will all be declaring that silver
is not enough of an issue and before six
months shall have passed some of them
will have got so far into the light as to
have discovered that the 16-to-1 proposition
is the scheme of a combination of a few
score wealthy mine owners to make them
selves multi-miIlionaires If the POpulists
in the Fourth district are really travelling
the middle of the road, and Brother Brow
der is a sincere middle-of- the-road leader,
they will go about shouting with the lead
ers of the Nashville conference, that the
free and unlimited coinage of the silver
bullion of a few mine owners is not an
issue to be espoused by those who oppose
money sharks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The liability which a life sentence for
murderers involves to subsequent pardon is
illustrated in Minnesota, where there APP
pears to be a sentiment in favor of the
pardon of the notorious Younger brothers.
They belonged to a band of outlaws who
would murder when necessary to carry out
their plans. The crime for which they were
finally sent to prison was the shooting and
killing of a bank cashier who refused to
unlock the safe. The shooting was done
by one of the gang, and the others were
parties to it. They have been in prison
twenty years or more under a life sentence,
yet with a full knowledge of their notorious
character and their responsibility for
cold-blooded murder it is proposed to
pardon them the ground that they have
received sufficient punishment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Estimates of the wheat crop are at best
only the best guesses made by men in diff
ferent parts Of the country, hut the stocks
Of wheat in sight at any given period are
actual measurements. July !. 1897, the
worlds stock of wheat In sight-that is,
In elevators, storehouses and afioat-was
70, 266 bushels. July l. 1896, the wheat
in sight was l07S0l,oOo bushels in 1895, 1885,
$1,000 bushels; in 1894. 154.sl9OO0 bushels: in
1893, l57,2980OO bushels. The quantity in
sight this year is the smaleAt since 1880,
when it was 74.l5s.OOo bushels. IL the stock
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
Three BeIIamys.


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Ability runs in the Belamy family. Ed
wards brother Charles is a brilliant jour
nalist who once disturbed his family by
writing a clever. but rather naughty, novel
full of socialism and free love. Another
brother Francis, is. I believe, lawyer of
high rank in his profession His cousin,
Francis was one Of the abest editors the
Youths Companion ever had. and a chosen
associate OF that gifted creature, Edward
Box whose influence on literature / am
conscientiously compelled to deplore and de-
nounce whenever / get d chance. Francis
BelIamy is now in his second year of liter
ature of editing the Illustrated American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop writes to
a New York paper to urge the immediate
need of a hospital for poverty-stricken vic
tins of cancer, and suggests that it is bet
ter to build cheap temporary structure
with money that can be easily raised than
to wait an indefinite time for possible large
donations to be used in a costly building.
enterprise which has engaged her energies,
but as to most hospitals. 1t is the fashion
to build these institutions as if the chief
purpose were permanence. They have not
most expensive, which does not always
mean the most useful ones of the kind 1t
frequently happens that the encroachments
of business or altered conditions make it
desirable to change the site of a hospital
when the cost of the structure makes it i'm
possible. Such a building is not well adapt
ed to other PURPOSES but if made with a
view to use, say five or ten years only. it
can be torn down and removed, or can be
replaced with a new one at less expense
than the original outlay for a permanent
establishment. 1t could be made fire proof
and sanitary-as sanitation goes-and yet
be temporary. Sanitation is not yet per-
fected science, and it is by no means GER
kept free from disease germs, so that for
more reasons than one a renewal every few
years is desirable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

A free-trade afternoon paper prattles of
naturalizing Chinese and Japanese in con-
nection with the Hawaiian treaty and asks
II that will protect labor. The writer of
such confession of ignorance should put
aside his free-trade textbook long enough
to know that it is not proposed by the
treaty with Hawaii to make citizens of the
Asiatic laborers temporarily in the Sand
witch islands
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

of wheat in sight at the close of the crop
year which is put at July l, governs the
prices those having experience affirm,
then good prices may be expected for the
cron of 1897
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

If Senator Aldrich wishes to retain the
good opinion of the country which he has
enjoyed heretofore he will not make a fight
for the retention of the Senate sugar sched-
ule, Whatever pride of personal opinion
he may have in the matter he should sub
est tariff
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The fact that several of the larger mine
owners seem disposed to grant an increase
of wages strengthens the hope that a fair
basis of arbitration may be reached. At ali
events, the movement on that line should
be pushed with vigor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The new law in Pennsylvania imposing
upon unnaturalized foreigners tax of 8
cents for each day they labor in the State
is causing a rush for naturalization papers.
The object of the law was to get rid of an
undesirable class of aliens, but it may have
the effect of greatly increasing the number
of nndesira BILE citizens
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The conference committee will not waste
much time over the sugar schedules if the
country is consulted, since the people are
for the schedule which affords the Sugar
Trust the least favor and at the same
time will not put the American consumer
in the grasp of a European sugar monop-
n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Thus far the striking miners have done
nothing to ALLEVIATE public sympathy. The
statements they have made as to their
hard lot and their appeals for support are
almost pathetic in their earnestness. and
they have shown commendable DISPOSE
ton to observe law and order 1t is to be
hoped the miners may adhere to this line.
although the critical test OF their self
control has not yet been reached.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

New York financial authorities say the
London market for American securities has
closely reflected the varying probability
that the President would send a message
to Congress recommending a revision of
our currency system. Foreign capitalists
see that the question affects our national
cradtt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The successful transportation across the
continent of the army of Christian Endeav-
orers was as characteristic of the nine
tenth century methods as the growth of
the organization itself. AS civilizers the
railroads are only second to the church
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

One of the biggest strikes of recent years
Is on In Great Britain. The engineers to the
number of 10000, have struck for an eight
hour day, without any reduction of wages.
and 1t is expected by tomorrow the num-
Der Of strikers will be increased to 10000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The Ohio State Board of Health proposes
to make war on adulterated sugars Just
now there seems to be more danger of an
adulterated sugar schedule in the tariff bill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
The Secret of 1t.

'Brannigan-Ah, it takes an Irishman to
win the women.
Smith-Yes. Women do have a weakness
for taking a man at his own valuation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Kansas City Journal.
The good Lord has evidently determined
to make the whole year 6. picnic for Kan
sas For q time a few scattering counties
were very badly in need Of rain bur this
week He poured ii all over them without
shedding a drop on those portions that
were wet enough
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The returns from the county conventions
Of the sound-money Democrats in Kentucky
make 1t certain that the state convention
TO be held on Wednesday in Louisville will
contain larger part of the men in that
State who have been influential in the
party in the past
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

With the prospect of Australia having to
import wheat and England hops from the
United States, the outlook for better times
for American farmers is good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Some one asks the New York World which
is the best college. on general principles
that is the best which can get the most
work out of the students.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
Art Talk.

THAT man who wished for a vignette,"
Asked the artist, has he been ignette?'
To which tbs reported
The hall maid retorted
NO sir; l think he hain't bignette."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

1t would make a good many hearts ache
II the President should leave Washington
on his long summer vacation before send
Ing in that expected list of foreign appoint
noents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

The Christian Endeavor convention has
probably convinced San Francisco that a
good deal Of the United States lies east of
the Rocky mountains
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

After three years of expenditures exceed
Ing revenue and deficits accommodating
monthly the country will be prepared to APP
preciate a change.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

Mr.. John r. Mclean, of Washington and
the Cincinnati Enquirer is not travelling an
asphalt roadway to the Senate in Ohio Mr..
Allen w. Thurman has declared war upon
Mr.. Mclean in the following language
We are going to wage unrelenting war
against him. 1t will not cease until we
have driven him back to Washington,
where he belongs. He left the State under
a miserable cloud, and now he comes back
here with his dirty politics to drag the
party into the mire again. He began his
dirty politics with the state convention and
combined with a goldbug, John Farley, to
run Democratic convention and to dis
grace Democratic platform.
This is not nice talk regarding the man
who is reported to stand ready to open
more barrels of dollars to promote, Incl
dentally, the cause of 5O-cent dollars, but
mainly the election of Mr.. Mclean to the
Senate. Nevertheless, those who recall the
career of Mr.. Mclean in Cincinnati politics
must credit Mr.. Thurman with a greater
accuracy of statement than he usually at
tains. Then, there is the Hon. Ulrich
Sloan, who was temporary chairman of the
state convention. The Hon. Sloan was
supporter of Mr.. Hough for the nomination
for Governor, and he and Mr.. Houghs
friends were led to believe that Mr.. Nc
Lean was helping the cause of Mr.. Hough,
whom he really defeated. Mr.. Sloan was
so angry that to a correspondent of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer he said: II have
talked with John r. Mclean over the teIe-
phone and have told him one thing.
told him that he is a traitor and a coward
and that he had proved himself such That
is all / said" 1t could hardly be expected
that Mr.. Mclean would be interested in
hearing more in that line. Mr. Hough
was rejected because he is a poor man,
while Mr.. Chapman, who was nominated
is a wealthy coal mine owner and the
president of national bank. Assuming
that the cause of 16 to l is. to purchase
victory by the expenditure OF large sums
of money Mr.. Mclean should not be be-
rated because he preferred a partner who
could stand a part of the expense.