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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
The New Police Station,

When the city expends $15O,0OO for po-
lice station it should get a building that
will not only be convenient and modern
in it's appointments but one that Will pre-
sent an architectural appropriateness in
harmony with the beautiful city that In
dianapolis is. Because building is for a
police station it should not be architecture
ALLY hideous. Jails are now SO built as
not to be ugly in their plainness. A po-
lice station built to-day at a cost of $780,
O00 will last for years, and should be some
thing more than barn to outward appear
ance
Architects and builders who have seen
the plans for the police station criticise
them on the ground that the exterior of
the building will ignore everything like
architectural effect. The official architect
has changed the original plans, 1t is said
vet the changes have not relieved the build
ing of many of the objections which can
be made without being critical The Jour-
nal wishes that the official architect to the
mayor could have designed a building that
will impress those who shall look at 1t
thirty or forty years hence with the idea
that the representatives of the city in 1897
had some notions of architecture beflttlng
the period. 1t seems that he has not, and
because il is more important 10 einploy INC
official architect than to have police sta
ton in whose exterior there are evidences
of q. knowledge of architecture, the city
seems to be doomed to have in one OF It's
most freouented localities a huge brick and
stone barn.
This should not be so; the police station
costing $50 900 should be a building with
at least a passable exterior. The plans for
a station of the barn order OF architecture
are not beyond the reach of the Council
That body cam if it has greater regard Tor
the real interests of the city than to give
the official architect a job, refuse TO lhdorse
the plans and demand others which VIII Sc
cure to the city and to the locality Where
the station will stand for many years
building with some pretensions to archl-
tectural fitness rather than hldeously
plain high building of brick and stone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
RESTRICTION or IMMIGRATION,

A writer i'm the current issue Of the
North American Review asks: Should i'm
migration be restricted?' and proceeds at
once to cover nearly ten pages of that peri
odical with words to prove that it should
not The writer admits that on the east
ern seaboard, where he resides local in
terest would answer yes; but he goes
on to explain that the sentiment is in favor
Of the restriction of immigration because
eastern cities are already crowded with me-
chanic and artisan and laborer so that
each views the arrival of others from Eu-
rope as the arrival of competitors and
rivals.
This is doubtless true. The writer knows
about his own locality; but when he makes
the remarkable statement that in the CEN
trail states of the Mississippi valley "the
demand for unskiled labor which the i'm
migrants are qualified to perform is still
in excess Of the supply" he displays de-
gree of ignorance which should have caused
his manuscript to have been returned by
the editor with thanks. When the writer
declares that ''stiH farther west, where the
average percentage of population to the
area of the land dwindles in some localities
TO the vanishing point, the isolated inhabi-
tants who are wrestling with nature on
their scattered farms and ranches raise a
cry for laborers as emphatic and distinct
as the opposing cry in the East" he is the
victim of some strange hallucination.
These are astonishing statements. Thou
sands of men in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and
others of the Central States, who have been
seeking in vain for steady employment
since the beginning of 1898 would be de-
lighted to find it true that the demand for
unskilled labor is in excess of the supply.
If in any considerable city in the Central
States notice should be given of purpose
to give employment to 800 men, 1900 would
appear, all anxious for work. If this ad-
vocate of the interests of immigration
agents had read the papers of Colorado and
the other newer States during the past four
years he would have known that the supply
of all kinds of labor is in excess of the de-
mand just the same as it is in the East.
There is now more labor-more would-be
wage earners of all kinds in this country
than there is employment for. During the
Hush tIIneS OF Io9I-5z the supply Vi ldpor
was fully equal to the demand. Since that
time the closing or curtailng of many in
dustries all over the country has turned
many to idleness, while shiploads of COM
mon laborers have been brought to our
shores 10 add to the multitude seeking that
employment which they cannot find.
To get rid of this surplus of labor and
to improve the conditions of the wage
workers of the country Congress should re-
enact the bill which Mr.. Cleveland vetoed.
The interests of several millions of laborers
or would-be laborers in this country are of
few foreign steamship companies whose adj
vantage lies in freightng common labor to
this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

A few days ago a city paper, comment
ing on the power of the speaker of the
house. said: LAS every appropriation bill
must originate in the House." etc. Yester-
day the same paper said, Finance meas
ures, according to the Constitution, must
originate in the House" EXpounders of
the Constitution should aim at accuracy.
1t says, "All bills for raising revenue shall
originate in the House of Representatives.
This does not include appropriation bills,
and, still less, all finance measures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

The limitations which come from Wash
ington to the effect that the Senate will
not devote months to consideration of
the tariff bill are very gratefully received
by the people. If the Senate really has the
best interests of the country at heart and
desires to meet the appreciation of the peo-
pie, it will proceed to devote itself to bust
ness-like consideration of the tariff bin
and endeavor to come to an early vote
thereon.
If any one in Washington assumes that
only those who voted for Major Mckinley
are anxious to have the tariff question set
tied by Congress, they are making a great
mistake. All men whose interests are
touched by the condition of business de-
sire to have the question of the tariff set
tied All intelligent men who are not bound
to theory are convinced that the present
tariff will not produce the revenues which
the government needs, and consequently
they expect tariff legislation. Moreover,
the country has been expecting tariff leg
islation in harmony with the Republican
creed and pledge and there is waiting
for it. Many business men believe that
business will not generally improve until
the tariff legislation which the country has
expected shall be accomplished fact.
If the reports from Washington are re-
liable the Democrats have come to the
conclusion that it is good politics for
them to give the Republicans the right of
way with their tariff bill. And it is good
politics.; for if the Democrats should under
take to prolong the discussion simply to
put off the passage of the bill until October,
the intelligent people would hold them re-
sponsible for delay which Republicans, if
decided majority, cannot prevent.
Republican senators cannot fail to real
ize the Importance of the position they oc-
cupy to the business interests of the coun-
what may seem to be unnecessary delay.
The people cannot see why the Senate cam
not take up the tariff bill and consider it
daily, and all day, until it shall be COM
pleted. They cannot see the courtesy there
is in permitting a senator to offer a reso-
luton upon a comparatively unimportant
subject and allowing him to give notice
that he will call it up and speak upon it
at some future day, thus stopping consid-
Grafton of a question the country is impa-
tient to have settled If Republican sena-
tors could understand public sentiment they
would push the tariff bill with persistent
perseverance. They would not postpone
until tomorrow the work which can be
done to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
SAFETY ALONE IN PRoMPTNEss.
Need for the United states to Improve
Commercial Facilities.

J. A. Latcha, in North American Review.
1t is well known the competition of India,
of Australia, of Argentina, and especially
of Russia. which. within the past three
wears has been building railroads at q ire
mendous pace to deliver it's wheat at sea-
ports, is destroying our grain export busl-
ness, which for generation secured the
gold with which to pay our trade balances.
The loss of this business, in addition to the
shrinkage of cereal values. has bankrupted
many of our greatest railroads within the
past six years, with resultant destruction,
not only of more than $500 600, 600 of railroad
values, but with even greater depreciation
Of private property dependent for its value
on the prosperity of our great transporta-
ton system.
If we are to change the present CONNER
cial conditions in the United States, we must
act Immediately. We must perfect facllt-
ties enabling us to undersell all other agri-
cultural nations in the markets of Europe.
We can do this quickly and relatively for
a triflng expense, by the improvement of
our old east-and-west railroads thus en-
abling them to carry at a profit wheat,
corn and meats at such low cost that eX-
ports of grain and other agricultural prod
ucts can be made at New York harbor,
thus controlling the food markets of the
general merchandise from Europe to New
York and thence to the far West. If we
cannot do this, and promptly, We will in a
few years have further financial collapse,
regardless of what may be our currency
or our tariff.
We had n balance of trade in our favor
fore in our history. Yet business prostra-
ton VIGOROUSLY never has been more com
plete than during the year past. and is now
almost as serious as at any previous time.
Prices OF all grain and farm products, ex-
cept wheat never have been less. A mer-
camille house with a million dollars capital
at the opening of the year may do ten mil
lions of business and at the close of the
year its invoices may show a capital of
5000 600. That is precisely the situation of
the United States. Our vast business with
the world during 1896 was conducted at a
loss Had it not been for the misfortunes
Of all the wheat-producing nations of the
earth other than the United States We
would have financial wrecks from one end
of the land to the other. Even as ii is.
bankruptcies are and have been appalling.
and all financial and commercial interests
are in most serious straits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
THE FESTIVAL CHORUS
LIST OF THOSE SINGERS COMPOSING
THIS YEARS ORGANIZATION.
Effects Under Mr.. Van Der Stuckens's
of the Choruses of Past Years.

Expert musicians who have heard the re-
hearsals of the May festival chorus think
the chorus this year, under Mr.. Van der
Stucken, will show finer effects than those
of the choruses of previous years al
though there is considerable new material
in this years organization. Next week
will be busy one with the chorus, as it
will be devoted to the finishing touches
There will be several rehearsals in Tom
linson Hall before the festival, and it is
hoped that the enc week from Monday
night may be held there. 1t will be neces-
sary to enlarge the seating capacity of
the stage somewhat this year.
The full list of the chorus is as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

man in the South better deserves recogni-
ton at the hands of the Republican admin
istration than General Longstreet. One of
the best fighters on the Confederate side
during the war, he has been an outspoken
Republican almost from the day of Apo
mattox, and the severe criticism and CEN
sure of his Southern friends have failed to
make him swerve from that position.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
REFLECTION OF ARBITRATION.

The Senate has turned back the clock
and we shall be very much surprised if
the country does not regret it in future
Philadelphia Inquirer CRep)
Twenty-six .jingo senators voted against
it, but more than twice as many millions
of the American people have ratified it, and
the treaty has not failed.-New York Her.
aid Und.)
Silver jingoism, antagonism to Cleveland
and hatred of England have killed the
treaty The popular will is overborne by
a senatorial cabal VIII Mr. Hoar con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

There was considerable feeling at first
between the Republicans in the House and
the Senate committee over the changes in
the tariff bill, but it is said to be subsiding
Correspondents who remember and compare
say that the feeling is not near so bitter as
It was in 1890 over the Mckinley bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

Now that Omaha has been given an APP
preparation in aid of local exhibition, Con-
gress will do well to drop that way of ex-
pending the public money. 1t began in
New Orleans, then came Atlanta, now it is
Nashville and next year it will be Omaha.
It is a good time to stop.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

The Illinois senators who have been so
bitterly assailed for passing a bill giving
the streets of Chicago TO the street-railway
companies think they have got even with
the people by passing libel law which
they believe viii close out the newspaper
which criticises legislator Unfortunately
for the senators in question, the people of
Chicago have risen en- masse to denounce
can reach hundreds of thousands of people
individually.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

It appears that the great victory which
the Greeks were announced as achieving in
repulsing the assaults of the Turks was
not a real affair. The assault was made to
conceal flank movement which has re-
suited disastrously to the Greeks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

The recent fire calamity in Paris caused
mere fatalities among distinguished people
than any similar one on record. but the ac-
tual loss of life was not nearly as great as
that which occurred in the burning of the
Ring Theater. in Vienna, Dec. s. 1881. In
that case the fire broke out in the evening
when the theater was filled, and in the
panic and rush which followed nearly one
Thousand nersons lost their lives
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

A committee of the Pennsylvania Senate
which has been Investigating the municipal
affairs of Philadelphia for two years reports
the municipal ownership of its gas works
a failure and advocates their immediate
sale or lease to responsible persons. This is
contrary to representations and claims
made by the municipal authorities, but they
may have had an Interior purpose
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

The test of the new tariff bill, or of any
bill Congress may pass, will be whether it
furnishes sufficient revenue for the govern
ment and adequate protection for American
Industries. The people want both of these
things, and they expect Congress to comply
with their wishes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

An exchange, noting that 100000 stand
ard silver dollars were coined during April,
remarks that two Mexican dollars will not
purchase one of them And yet the Mexi-
can dollar contains more silver, and it's pur-
chase power fluctuates with silver bullion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

The most active of the push trying to
persuade the Democratic leaders in this
city to make the silver question an issue
in the municipal election are a few persons
who call themselves silver Republicans. In
fact, they are men who have not been given
the offices for which they have yearned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

There is nothing to be learned of modern
the lesson furnished by the Greeks of the
folly of inviting war without being pre-
pared for it. An army without cavalry and
with ANTICIPATED rifles is in no condition to
cope with one that is properly organized
and well armed, even if it were equal in
nnnherS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

The fame Of General Grant is of the last
ing kind. Yesterday the Chinese legation
at Washington and many Chinese women
planted an English oak on the site of the
generals old tomb in Riverside Park. Or
ders to this effect were sent by Ii Hung
Chang and the Chinese Emperor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

1t is said by those who know him that
Justice Field will not leave the Supreme
Bench until he shall have been a member
of it longer than any of his predecessors.
That period will arrive next June should he
live until that date
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

Mrs. Potts-Well, one good thing, at least,
has come out of this eastern war.
Mrs. Watts-And what is that?
Mrs. Potts-My husband has stopped read
ing the paper through aloud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

Legislature is puttering over an anti-de-
partment store bfll, he feels that he has
cause for renewed thankfulness for sixty
one days session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

Greece entirely forgot the wise maxim,
'In time of peace prepare for war" After
many years of peace she put an army in
the field without cavalry and with anti
uuated guns
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

If the late Candidate Bryan carries out
his plan of travelling in silver and gold
standard countries to study their condi-
tions he will be able on his return to tell
the people how much more prosperous,
progressive and civilized the people of Mex
leo and Central America are than those of
Great Britain. Germany and France.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
nntimisf and Pessimist

Hungry Higgins-Say what is these here
optimists and pessinists 1 see so much
printed about?
Weary Watl1ins-One is a rooter and the
other is a knocker. when you put it in
United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


He thought to raise a garden, but
The neighbors' hungry chickens
Assisted, and it came to pass
He only raised the dickens.
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Krauss,s nesidence Damnge,,.

The residence OF Paul II. Krauss. 20,
North Liberty street, was slightly damaged
by fire yesterday A defective fiue started
a little blaze In the wall which was ex-
tinguished by the fire department before
il had made any progress
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

Kansas City Journal.
1t must be confessed that the Greeks
fought much more Valiantly under their
old pagan gods than they do as soldiers OF
the cross.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
Candid Criticism.

What did you think of my King Learn
asked the young man after his first appear
ance on the amateur stage.
ITO be candid about it, said the young
mans dear friend Il don't think you acted
miserable so much as you acted miserably'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

system of government, and the least abom-
Unable are those which furnish the greatest
revenue with the least friction and burden
tn the neonle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

The general impression prevails in Wash
ington that the Senate sugar schedule will
not do, because it is as favorable to, the
Sugar Trust as is the present tariff.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

washington rumor says that General
Longstreet, OF Georgia. viii soon succeed
General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina.
as United States railroad commissioner. No
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

If Shakespeare could not have described
a storm at sea without having mace sea
VOYAGE how could Dante have oescrlped
he'll without having been there, OF now
could Milton have described the personal
appearance of Satan and his co-rebels with
o,,+ having seen them?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08
The Way of IL.

Boston Transcript.
Greeble-Is that your baby? Crowndon--
No, sir; the possession is on the other side.
He Is not my baby; IN his father.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-08

Abromet, Miss A. L.
Anderson, Miss H.
Aldag, Miss Cora
Algeo, Miss Ida y.
Barmeier, Mrs. II.
Bell, Miss Cornelia
Beissenherz, Miss A.
Budweitsky, Miss S.
Behymer, Mrs. c. B.
Cochrane, Miss J.
Cochrane, Miss A. c.
Callahan, Miss Lille
Constantine. Miss T.
Capito, Miss Dollie
Cook, Mrs. A. K.
Coleman. Mrs. G. NJ.
Deeds. Mrs. j. O.
Fahrbach, Miss f.
Fertig. Miss Lena
Foster, Miss l.. G.
Foster, Miss J.
Fisher, Miss Lulu
Fait, Miss Nenette
Freiis, Mrs. G. j.
Frery, Mrs. J. f.
Greiner, Miss Anna
Houser, Miss Ann
Hansen, Miss Louise
Higgins, Miss Mile
Hill, Mrs. NJ. O.
1sham, Miss Cora
Jungclaus, Miss d.
Jerusalem, Mrs. r. b
Linn, Miss Maud
Lynn, Mrs. w. c.
Lyendecker, Mrs. II.
Monroe, Mrs. l.. A.
Messing, Miss E.
McCauleV Miss
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McGrew, Miss Ella
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Pitzer, Miss Mabel
Pearce, Miss G..
Parmelee, Miss H.
Piatt. Mrs. j. T..
Roger, Miss Belle
Reisoner, Miss Julia
Sonntag, Mrs. j.
Spaulding. Miss l.. NJ.
Smith, Mrs. Andrew
Schellschmidt, Miss
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Sims, Mrs. G.. b.
Schergens, Miss A.
Schaeffer, Miss A.
Schall, Miss Lillian
Sullivan, Mrs. John
Sanborn, Miss Carrie
Shideler, Mrs. f.
Thomson, Miss Maud
Upham. Mrs. A. S.
Vestal, Miss j.
Walker, Mrs. l. N.
Weddell, Miss r.
Wilkinson, Mrs. p.
Writ, Mrs. Sarah c.
Warren Miss Kate
Waldo, Mrs. j. B.
Wiley, Mrs. Irpha A.
Wands, Miss Lottie
Williams, Miss NJ.