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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09
NO TIME TO ENCOURAGE IMMIGRA-
TION,

A scheme is reported which has for it's
object the organization of a company to
take care of immigrants at a nominal cost
while about New York, and to afford them
employment and land for settlement from
the railroads. This would be well if we had
not thousands of people in the country who
could be assisted by some such agencies.
During the coal strike it was asserted that
nearly double as many men were in the coal
regions for labor as there was employment
for. There are many more men in other
branches of industry than there is renumer-
alive employment for. This being the case,
why is this scheme proposed to add foreign
labor to a field that is already full? No
good object can be attained and it is evil
and evil only to put laborers who can sub
sist on half the wages the labor of this
country is accustomed to into places where
they will for time underbid the natives
The coal troubles in Pennsylvania came
from this class of immigrants, who, after
getting the places of natives or those who
have long been here became the most law
less of strikers. We have enough of that
sort now-enough people who raise the ltal-
ian flag, as did crowd of miners, to show
their defiance to government in this country
1t is altogether possible that the benevo-
lent persons who will be asking Congress
for bill to permit them to place immi-
grants really represent shipping companies
and that their benevoence is of the thrifty
order. Last season gave us a sight Of
class of immigrants that we do not want
The thrifty German and other northern
people who have intelligence we can absorb
under ordinary conditions; unfortunately
these are not the people who come to u.s.
but what may truthfully be called the
dregs of Europe.
1t is time to close the doors to a class Of
people who are only common laborers, be-
cause the market is already crowded. 1T
may be added that any protective policy
which fails to protect the common labor
market to those now in the United States
is defective. There is not a government in
the world which would not shut out immi-
grants when they became so numerous as
either to drive those in the country into
idleness or to fall into pauperism themselves
for want of employment. Why should not
the United States?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09
A PATHOLOGICAL INQUIRY.
Reply to Coarse Attack in a Local
NIaEaziReIet.

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal:
L am taken to task by a learned Indian
apolis gentleman for not understanding the
English language because, in critcsing
Browning's Last Ride Together in the
Sunday Journal, I rashly asserted that the
young couple operated in a cart instead of a
carriage. My critic says, with the calm cOur-
age of man whose forte is omniscient
and whose only foible is science that peo-
pie drive in carts but ride in carriages, and
hence If Browning had. a.. two-wheeler in
mind, he would have entitled this exquisite
poem The Last Drive Together"
l freely acknowledge that l live in the
backWoods and am not up to city fashions
but still venture the assertion, and ask 10
be corrected, if wrong, that drive is an
active verb and refers to the pleasant eX-
ercise of whacking and guiding the mules,
while ride is passive, and relates to the act
of being hauled. OF course, there are other
meanings to both verbs. And l further sub
NIT that the number of wheels in vehicle
can have nothing whatever TO do with the
distinction between the two parts of speech
A cart has two wheels. Do not AIRY and
Arriet" in their bakers cart take a ride
together quite as much SO as Algernon and
Gwendoln in their carriage? Must the for
tocratic verb ride" and be confined to the
democratic drive" because of the less num-
Der of wheels. If so, what does a man on
Der of wheels? If So what does a man on
a bicycle do--ride or drive? Take a two
story hanson, which is a. Fashionable cart
with the driver upstairs and the passenger
below-does not the passenger in the lower
story ride, while the JehuI above both rides
and drives?
The same gentleman also objects with in
dignation) to my suggestion that in the
Last Ride Together" the youth put his
arm around the maid. He asserts that this
would have been highly unbecoming.
Browning says:
Thus leant she-and lingered-joy and fear,
Thus lay she moment on my breast,
Then we began to ride"
Clearly they took preparatory and rem
iniscent hug before starting. Is it to be
supposed that when she 'leant and ling
ered' and LAY moment on his breast
that the youth put his arms behind him and
held them tight? Or that when once in the
cart or carryall he put a newspaper be-
tween them? D. p. BALDWIN.
Logansport, Ind, Nov. Z.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

A few years ago it was the fad of the am
bilious editor of an opposition paper to
make up list of mortgages in the agri-
cultural States. One of them with a statis-
teal turn made up list for the Democratic
press sometime in 1850 or 1891. 1t was a story
of financial disaster in figures. During 1890
and 1891 the entire calamity press published
a series of estimates of farm mortgages,
claimed to be made from reliable sources.
They showed that the farmers of the coun-
try were not only deeply in debt, but that
each year they were sinking deeper into
that which was a slough of despair. Out of
the PRONUNCIATION of these figures and of the
oratory with which they were presented
came the Farmers Alliance, a political
machine. In year or two it became the
Populist party. In the South as well as the
North the organization secured million
votes. 1t swept Kansas and it dominated
other States driving out of Congress promi-
nent Democrats in the South as well as
Republicans in the North. Finally, the pom
derous magazine essayist was led to dis
cuss 1.-THE agricultural depression" and to
suggest all sorts of remedies, all impracti-
cable, but filling for the magazines.
The whole subject of mortgages was TAX
en- up in connection with the census of $780,
The work was difficult and slow, but
enough facts had been obtained in 1892 to
prove the falsity of the figures of the pro-
fessional calamityites. But the truth goes
afoot, while the faisehood flies on wings,
consequently the REPUTATION did not make
any progress to speak of for years, even
when supported by the favorable reports of
state bureaus The papers which Haunted
the calamity of universal mortgage in the
faces of the people for four years did not
publish the official REPUTATION. Many of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09
MICE FOR VIVISECTTON.
A Woman in Paris Who Raises Them
for That Purpose.



Paris contains woman who follows an
occupation which probably enjoys the dis
tinction of being the only one or It's KIND in
the world. Her livelihood IS gained by
breeding mice and selling them to ply
sicians and medical colleges for the pur-
poses of vivisection. Nine. Alexandra is her
name, and she has been in this business
nearly fifteen years. Her clients include all
the leading specialists of Europe, Richet
asd Cantonese, of the gay metropolis.
among them She insists on each of her
customers making contract to take so
fore she will do any business with them.
Madame is never short of mice. At present
she has about one thousand on nand. ana
as these animals multiply very rapidly, she
will have double that number In an in
credibly short time She also keeps rabbits
and guinea pigs, but mice are ner specIalty.
Her first customers were the PaSteur Insti-
tute the Municipal Laboratory, and several
other such places. She has hardly any COM
petitors and she has more orders than she
can we'll FILL She feeds her mice exclusively
on bread and milk. Her clients insist that
the animals must be white and plump, and
she finds this diet the best for them. When
they are three months old they, are ready
for the doctors, and she seldom has any on
hand after that age. She disposes Of these
hapless victims, not only to her regular
clients in Paris, but also TO several persons
able to stand a long journey. and they are
as fresh when they arrive in London as they
were when they left Paris.
Nine Alexandra has kept her calling a
secret all these years. for the reason that
there are many persons in Paris who would
present of all the rodents they might want.
The physicians, however, know what they
are about. They want mice, but they don
want ordinary, everyday mice. Only Gull
tured well fed dainty mice will suit them,
and they have given the contract to Mime.
Alexandra because they know that she is
the only person in Paris who can supply on
demand any number Of such desirable ami
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Philip D. Armour, the Chicago millionaire.
is said to be the only American who keeps
a private physician in his employ all of the
time.
Prof. George Frederick Holmes, Of the
University of Virginia, who died recently,
had held his position since 1857, but had
never been late to single lecture.
A Bangor (Me) motorman suggests that
persons who want to stop trolley car al
night strike a parlor match. the flash OF
which, he says, can be seen a long dis
tance.
Lieut.. Spencer Churchill son of the late
Lord Randolph Churchill. has been allowed
to Join the British force on the Indian from
tier as volunteer. 1t Is not altogether his
baptism of fire. for he has already seer
something of warfare in Cuba.
man in Paris finds profitable business
IN collecting bad debts by stoD2inS at tn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

A local sensation has been caused in St.
Louis by the statement of an old man who
lived there when he was boy, and who
says that in 1888 a bottle of whisky was
buried near central street corner of the
town. He was under the impression that
the event was a matter of record in the
county clerks office, and an examination
of the records of that date disclosed a GER
tificate by the county clerk that ION this
second day of September, 1885,, there was
buried at a certain point, by certain we'll
known citizens who were named lone bot
tie of good old Monongahela whisky, which
said bottle was placed in stone jar" etc.
Search will be made till the bottle is found,
when it will doubtless figure in another
ceremony. The citizens of st. Louis are
very jealous of its historic traditions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

Upon the representations of the repre-
sentatives of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, through committee of which Judge
Marsh is chairman, the State Board of Ed
ucation made a contract with the publish
ers of 'Montgomerys School History to
have some of the grossest errors left out
and other statements of fact inserted. When
the book was printed and accepted it was
found that not half of the corrections prom
Used had been made. The shortcoming was
discovered some time ago and caused much
Indignation at the State Encampment Thus
far the Board of Education has made no
public explanation for failure to have its
contract carried out. 1t might he well to
make one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

The people who have been cultivating
cramps in the arms by holding up their
hands in holy horror at necessarily stringent
measures on the part of the government in
preventing anarchistic violence in the min
ing regions would find something much
more worthy their indignation if they would
turn their eyes toward the coal operators
who are said to be importing the heather
Chinee to dsplace American labor in the
mines of northern Illinois. II is hard to ex-
plain such action except on the ground of
purely mercenary and greedy motives. 1t is
certainly indicative of everything that is
un-American and uncharitable. There is an
army of unemployed men in this country
Some of them do not want work. More of
them do. Those who do want work are
Americans who are worthy a living on a
self-supporting basis. 1t is this fact that
lends the action of the northern Illinois
mine operators it's uncharitable and unpa-
triotic aspect. Let's have none of it in In
diana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09
The Waste OF Natural Gas

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
1 wish to call the attention of the people
of the State, and especially of the gas belt,
to the shameful waste of natural gas in
this city and adjoining territory. There are
at present five or six enormous flambeaux
burning in this city, and as many more
near here, representing the entire gas pro-
duction of as many different wells, and the
state authorities seem powerleSs or lndif-
ferent to the condition. This waste or gas
is along the same line, only vastly more so,
as the destruction of forests and the de-
struction of our fish, with the difference
that violators of the fish laws are punished.
Yet the SEEMING of a few fish is as nothing
in comparison TO the waste of gas, which
means it's ultimate and speedy exhaustion.
The evil results of its loss are far-reach-
ing. 1t means to the cities and the State
the loss of hundreds OF valuable manufac-
turing plants. millions Of dollars paid TO the
workmen and indirectly TO the people and
State at large, an enormous depreciation or
values in real estate and personal property,
and the taking away from the poor the
greatest blessing given by nature-cheap
fuel. All of these must be Sacrihced in or
der that few wildcat oil spectators
may be allowed to waste q million dollars
in vain effort 10 get a possible hundred
The facts are the oil boom in Alexandria
is a fake" The field never paid operating
expenses and has been practically ADAM
doned. There never was any oil mere eX-
cept in pockets that would gush up for a
few days and then leave an empty hole, to
pour forth its volume of gas or make a
fiambeau light a refuge for trampS. Let the
Governor look into this. If we have no laws
TO stop 1t. let us know II at once. II we
have, 1t seems that these men are not too
great. too strong and powerful to be
brought to speedy trial ana TO punish,
ment. The conditions are alarming, and
what is done should be done at once.
Alexandria Ind. Noy. ). FARMER.
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them have continued to print the same
exploded lies ever since.
In connection with these historical state
ments concerning the creation of millions Of
mortgages by the purveyors of calamity
the testimony of one of them involves the
most remarkable REPUTATION of the heresies
upon which he rode into Office. Hon. J. w.
BreidenthaL Populist leader from the
first, has been bank commissioner in Kan
sas for more than five years. Strange as it
may seem, Mr.. Breidenthal has been in
vestigating the much-proclaimed poverty Of
the farmers of Kansas, as shown by the
record of mortgages covering a period of
more than ten years. What does the Popu-
list leader find? That the farmers of Kan
sas have, within the past eight years, paid
off S160,OO0.000 of Indebtedness exclusive of
$40, 900 of debt settled by foreclosure. The
Populist leader declares to the world that
the farmers Of Kansas will begin 1898 with
only one-sixth of the mortgage debt which
stood against them in 1890. four-sixths hav-
ing been paid off and one-sixth foreclosed
This means that the howl of calamity
which has extended over decade has been
humbug. The cry has been so loud and
persistent that tens of thousands have been
deceived by it, and have joined with those
who believed themselves to be oppressed by
the money power If Mr.. Breidenthal is
telling the truth, and there is no doubt of
it, there has not been the terrible depres-
sion in Kansas the past eight years that
has been portrayed by Popuhst and Bryan
lite orators. Farmers have had hard sea-
sons, but there is every reason to believe
that the great body OF farmers who have
given intelligent care to their business have
suffered little from the late depression
as any class of producers in the land. For
the shiftless in any vocation there never
will be that prosperity of which they talk
The hungry wolf looks into as few farmers
doors as of any other class in the land.
Slowly but surely this fact is gaining
ground. Mr.. Breidenthal, Populist, has
done more to undermine the heresy of ca
lamity than any other person. But what
will the organs, the PETERS, the Weavers
the Jerry Simpsons and like howlers of ca
lamity say to him?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

So many of the charities of Indianapolis
struggle along from year to year on funds
painfully collected in small amounts and
inadequate to the purpose that it is espe-
cially gratifying when any one of them is
given such substantial aid that its life is
no longer precarious No institution is more
deserving than the Newsboys' Home. 1t is
of benefit to class of children difficult to
reach in the ordinary channels of benevolent
effort, but not the less in need of restrain
ing and uplifting influences. The gift of a
permanent home where these boys, many
of them waits, may always be sure of a
kindly welcome was born of a happy
thought, and will be a monument to the
young man in whose memory it is given
more enduring than marble.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

needed for the park. The mayor caused
tax to be assessed upon the basis of bene-
fits to the lands adjacent to the purchased
ground for it's Improvement This assess
ment was delayed because 1t would meet
serious opposition when an attempt should
be made to collect it. Subsequently, he de-
clared in favor of a general levy for the
park system. AS it is probable that such a
change in the system of assessments will
require an amendment of the charter by
the Legislature, extensive improvements
cannot be begun on the park system for
nearly two years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

One of the arguments which led many
people to submit to the passage of the bill
creating the Parks Board and making pro-
vision for park system was that the
board charged with the supervision of the
creating of the new system would not only
be a nonpartisan one, but it would be
made up of citizens deeply interested in the
work It was started on that basis, but
the unconstitutionality of the law trans
fers the control to the Board of Public
Works, which has business enough OF its
own to which to attend. and which has no
special qualifications for the Intelligent. d.
rection OF such work. II the mayor and
his Board of Works are DESTROYS OF awaiting
themselves OF the assistance OF the four cit
liens who constituted the defunct Parks
Board. they could ask them to act as advis-
ers There is great danger that the large
sum Of money which has been borrowed
may be frittered away. as It can be used
Tor any city purpose now that the Council
may sec ut to vote it. Again, the $S5OOOO
wtll de 40 more than purchase the la4d
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

A somewhat sensational preacher in New
York, in delivering a eulogy on Henry
George, used language very much like that
Of DR.. Eliphalet Mott on the death of
Alexander Hamilton in 1904. Not long since
one clergyman brought the deadly parallel
to bear upon one much more distinguished.
and thereafter some person leveled it at the
accuser in the form of a poem with deadly
effect. All this is petty and mean. All good
things will bear repetition many times, and
1t is much better to repeat anothers good
= thing than to repeat ones own stupid
things. But no one should forget the quo
tation marks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

Carl Snyder in Review of Reviews.
1t is amazing to learn that this, a pub
lie work will be completed for millions of
dollars less than what its own engineers
had deemed possible, and fol-. not one-half
what the astute engineers of the govern
ment had computed. The single item of dy-
Mantle has saved perhaps $7,000000 or S.. 000,-
900. It's conveying devices for removing the
earth and rock to the spoil banks have
saved millions more. The entire cost of the
canal will be in the neighborhood of $685.
OO0.O00 1t is safe TO say that under the
same methods and appliances employed in
the cutting of the Suez canal the enterprise
would have cost nearly as much as the for
mer, or approximately $780, 900, 600.
The canal itself offers a wildly pictorial
Illustration Of how this has been accom-
plished If you take one of the suburban
trains out of Chicago which traverse the
line OF the canal you may see what you
might mistake for gigantic bridges swing
ing across the channel but apparently en-
ployed in the business of dumping dirt.
These are in reality enormous hosting
cranes and one may gather some idea OF
their size from the fact that one of them
is almost long in its span as the Euspen-
sion bridge at Niagara.
These colossal cantilevers, seven hundred
feet in length. are poised upon pivot In
the center swinging freely. and are capable
Of sustaining a weight OF fifteen tons. They
carry earth and rock from the bottom of
the canal to the spoil banks hundreds OF
feet away at the rate of five hundred cubic
yards per ten-hour shift. Other machines
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

1t was hardly necessary for the Omaha
clergyman to vouch for the late Henry
Georges Christianity Nobody had attacked
or questioned his Christianity, even those
who were opposed to his political and social
views not considering his religion in any
way affected by those beliefs. Nor is it
quite clear why the Nebraska preacher
should so bitterly accuse the Vanderbilts
Of opposing Mr.. George. The Vanderbilts
own comparatively little real estate, and
would, perhaps, have no objection to seeing
land pay all the taxes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09
pronunciation Of Latln.
Springfield Republican.

The value of Latin as a common language
for learned men, which is still considerable,
though so vastly less than in earlier times.
will be increased if anything comes of the
conference of the Latin countries which is
TO be called to consider the proposal to fix
upon some uniform standard of pronouncing
the language. The system favored by those
who have preached the scheme is the mel
lifiuous italian method. which certainly has
much TO commend it. If this conference
reaches any definite results the other nations
Of the world ought to ratify them. The
called English method of pronounclng
Latin is only less absurd than the hard and
mechanical theoretical pronunciation that is
schools and colleges. Neither gives the eff
feet of a real language on which centuries
of use have wrought their natural effects.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-09

anna" though I'm not sare-was on the
lower surface Of the other. When the links
are fitted together the inscriptions are con-
cealed, and there is no hint of the rings
secret. The bridegroom wears a similar
ring. and ! am told that no bride can con-
slider herself In the fashion this winter un-
less she is wedding with just such an en-
blem of eternal love.
That makes me think-speaking of we'd
ding rings and eternal love, / me2n-of the
way a certain Washington widow who was
married for the second time last month,
evaded dilemma. She promised her first
husband that no matter what happened she
would wear his ring so long ats she lived.
She couldn't quite bring herself to wear
two wedding rings, so--well she simply had
the date of her second wedding and her
second husbands initials engraved in the
first husbands ring. She tells of it with
honest pride. too.