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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
"a BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION"

Those who have been asserting that Mr..
has given the city such splendid business
administration are likely to be called upon
to explain, during the next few weeks, the
meaning of the word business in connection
with the office of mayor. Consequently
these gentlemen should be preparing them
selves to explain several very embarrass-
ing questions Two years ago the Sentinel
made figures to show that the Denny adj
ministration was not conducted on business
principles because it's expenditures for the
police and fire departments exceeded those
of the Sullivan regime. Voters were asked
to support Mr.. Taggart two years ago by
the Sentinel on the ground that he would
apply the principles of business to city af-
fairs and reduce the expenses. At the close
of Mr.. Taggart's first year the current ex-
penditures of the city outside of debts and
interest were nearly IA per cent. in excess
of those of the last year of the Denny adj
ministration. In behalf of Mr.. Taggart the
Sentinel promised that he would apply
business principles so as to reduce expendi-
lures; it turns out that the principles which
Mr.. Taggart has applied have increased ex-
penditures nearly one-seventh during the
first year. These gentlemen will find ex-
ercise for their ingenuity to make clear the
difference between the two kinds of Tag
CART business principles.
Mr.. Taggart had the opportunity of dis
posing of the franchises OF the city for tele-
phone service so as to be of advantage to
the thousands using that instrument Such
improvements have been made in apparatus
for telephoning that the company then
holding the franchise could have afforded
to reduce the charges, as competing
home company pledged itself to do. The
of the business administration of Mayor
Taggart should Immediately prepare them
selves to explain in detail that quality of
business which led the business admin
istraton to continue the telephone fran
chise to the old company at the old rate
when another company was eager to take
the franchise and reduce the cost of using
telephone Is or 20 per cent. No doubt
these brilliant Taggartites can explain, but
such an explanation cannot run on lines
parallel to business principles.
Coming to the park bungle, the most elo-
quent of the defenders will find it difficult
to find in the course Mr. Taggart has pur-
sued any trace of business principles. To
issue bonds for $35O,OOO, to have appraisers
go on and contract for land, to cause a
levy of $S00,0OO to be made to construct the
park, and then discover that there may be
a flaw in the park act, seems to be re-
versal of ordinary business principles. 1t
may, however, be a good illustration of
the sort of business principles the Taggart
regime has devised for city affairs-a sort
of principles from which the quality of
business is dismissed when Democrats who
have claims or corporations which can
help shall have received what they desire.
The strictly business principles are for the
few to pay for, while expenditures, taxa
ton and debt are materially increased.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

cells day after day. Several cases OF in
sanity in one of the New York prisons have
been attributed to the enforced idleness,
as have several suicides. 1t is already ap-
parent that it is a misnomer to call a pris-
on where men are kept in idleness in cells
a reformatory since the result of such i'm
prisonment is to make the convicts greater
criminals than they were when first sent
to prison.
If employment or something to occupy
the mind and to sustain the muscles, is
so imperatively necessary to the welfare
of men confined in jails and prisons, it
must be essential to the highest welfare
of those who are not treated as criminals.
If idleness is demoralizing to men in pris-
ons, it must be equally so for those who
are not. If idIeness is curse to men I'M
der one condition, it must have pernicious
influence upon all others. And yet most
men who are in jails and state prisons are
there because they have sought to attain
and employed communities have the least
need for jails, while those who give people
about them the most trouble are men whose
lives are continuous strike against all
kinds of employment. The reason that so
many of those who come into possession
of wealth are of so little consequence in
the world is that they are idlers. These
facts are old, but they are worth recalling
once in while
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
The Pardon of COAsn.

The pardon of Francis A. Coffin, who was
sent to the penitentiary for footing the In
dianapolis National Bank in 1S9S by Presi-
dent Mckinley, is hardly an act worthy of
high commentator. If any one of that mot
ley crew that wrecked that bank is entitled
to leniency and mercy we believe 1t is ola
man Haughey, who we believe was guilty
of being sinned against more than SHINING:
But it is not for the public welfare that
the big criminals should go free or escape
with a light punishment while the small
criminals must stand the full penalty OF the
law.-Noblesville Ledger.
Everything that money could dove do
not necessarily mean in a corrupt sense
combined with political and social influence,
was done for him, and it really should not
be a surprise that he was pardoned. But 1T
is a surprise and a shock to many good peo-
pie, all the same. Believing him to be guilty
of bank Wrecking beyond doubt, his par
don in so short a time tends to upset their
confidence in the courts and the powers
that be- They will feel that there is one
sort of justice for the rich and influential
and another sort for the common herd,
and they will deeply resent what they be-
lieve to be plain perversion of justice.
Those officials who, at great labor and ex-
pense, secured the conviction of Mr.. Coffin,
and who afterward stultify themselves by
pleading for his release, have assumed a
grave and dangerous responsibility, winch
also bears heavily upon a President who, IN
the light of all the facts, grants such re-
quest.-Richmond Item.
1t is difficult to believe that the President
has pardoned Francis A. Coffin, one of the
wreckers of the Indianapolis National Bank,
who had but begun an eight-year sentence
for his wrong-doing The evidence
of the trial made it look very much like a
conspiracy between Haughey and Coffin,
whereby the national banking laws could be
circumvented There was no question what
ever but that the banks affairs had not
been conducted in an open and honest man
ner. Scores of small deDositors We're the
losers. If a pardon has come it is the
result of an unusual pressure that has been
brought to bear on the legal department of
the government. 1t will be a difficult mat
ter to convince the depositors of the defunct
bank that there is reason why Coffin should
not be punished as other men are who are
convicted of lesser crimes. His pardon says,
in effect, that it is no serious matter for a
man to get whatever he can, by whatever
means he can, from a national bank.-I1a-
fayette Courier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
IDLENESS IN PRISONS.

In this State the first result of the law
prohibiting the selling of prison labor by
contract, is apparent; the prisons will
cease to be self-supporting because the Ia
Dor can be turned to no profitable use. This
result could early have been foreseen, be-
cause the state authorities cannot put the
labor to any profitable use. The claim that
the labor could be used in making supplies
for state institutions is not sustained in
New York where it is being tried. 1t is not
practicable for the State to equip factories
to make the cloth. clothing shoes and 9TH
er articles used in state institutions. The
quantities of many articles are so small
that the State county and city can bet
ter afford to pay two or three prices for
them than to undertake their manufacture
Consequently, the support of the prisons
from the revenues of the State is the first
ascertained result of the law prohibiting
the selling of the labor of penal institu-
tons by contract.
Such result must have been expected
by those who gave the matter any atten-
ton whatever, but only few could have
foreseen the second result as it is witnessed
in New York-the demoralzing effect of
idleness upon the convicts. The keeping of
convicts in their cells day after day be-
cause there is no employment for them
has had a serious effect upon them. In
a few days the imprisoned men begged for
labor which would divert their attention.
1t has been learned that men who We're
model prisoners so long as they had en-
ployment have become fractions and in
some instances violent when confined in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The Chicago Tribune approves of the
monetary commission so far as its men,
bership is announced. and adds: 1.-The name
of the Chicago member is not made known
but if it should prove 20 be Secretary Ly-
man ]. Gage every requirement as to abil-
ity, banking experience and familiarity
with the currency question viii be fully
met" 1t might be possible to find a COM
petent man in Illinois outside of Chicago
or another one in Chicago besides Secre-
tary Gage. AS matter of fact. the latter
while in full sympathy with the purpose Of
the commission. is disqualified by being a
government official. The currency reform
movement is not a congressional nor an adj
ministration movement, but distinctly and
peculiarly popular one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The appearance yesterday of the first
number OF Truth" organ of Mr.. c. F.
Smith and his party, created as much
amusement as was compatible with the
day. Truth does not look as if crushed to
earth it would rise again, nor is there any
thing in its appearance to indicate that
"the eternal years of God are hers But
it supports Mr.. Smiths candidacy for
mayor with the zeal of a campaign organ,
and not only intimates but frankly admits
that he is the only candidate in the field
worth voting for. There are some bright
things in the paper, but they give the inn
preston of being the result of several
weeks incubation and the working off of
an accumulation of brightness which will
not occur again. Perhaps the funniest
thing is the serious complaint that the
News, an alleged Independent paper does
not support c. F. Smith. the only truly
reform candidate in the field and the only
one whose genuine old Jacob Townsend in
dependence is blown in the bottle. Does
not the News owe it as a duty to the peo-
pie of Indianapolis says Truth, Ito take
up Mr.. Smiths cause and lay it before the
people with all the force and power it
possesses?' The News should go into
executive session with it's conscience and
decide this matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

According to the Leipsiger Neuestenach-
rchten, quoted in yesterdays Journal
Prince Bismarck has not for years drunk
claret nor smoked cigars. This is a fact to
fill the heart of Miss Frances Willard with
joy and to lead her to offer the glad hand
to the retired German statesman, but alas!
this commendable abstinence is apparently
not due to disposition on Herr Bismarck
part to join the Prohibition party. Further
information in the same Leipsic paper Of
the long name discloses the painful truth
that this aged gentleman has abjured claret
not from a high, moral, total abstinence
principle, but because he preferred better
drinks. His favorite beverages it appears
are beer, champagne and exquisite hook, :"
with now and then taste of old whisky or
cCgnac. The reason he does not smoke
cigars is because he prefers pipe. Thus,
it is seen, he is far from being a reformed
man and is nowise qualified to serve at a
w. c. T. u. meeting as a brand snatched
from the burning. The Prohibition party
has a noble work before it in persuading
the eminent German to abandon, one by
che, his beer, his champagne, his hook and
his whisky, and to take the pledge and
be henceforth teetotaler and an ornament
to the Prohibition party. But the prince is
we'll on in years, and there is some reason
to fear that by the time he has sworn off
from these beverages he will have arrived
ar that crisis in his existence where current
politics will interest him no more. There is
at least no time to lose if he is ever to be
pointed to with pride as an example of what
abstinence may do for a man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The reading public has gone through a
ong and tiresome course of Southern dia-
lect. An effort has been made to aftiict it
with French-Canadian literature, Scotch
dialect has ragged and now that the worst
seemed over and the opportunity open for
fiction in good English, a more alarming
trial impends in the shape of Welsh novels
Already the advertising has begun in Eng
land, and it will not be long until they are
upon us in all their awfulness. The London
critics grow eloquent over the lovable sweet
ness of Mifauioy owen, the heroine of one
OF these books, and enlarge upon the manly
honor of Jeuan Gwylit. Noel Hiraethoy,
Pemnynydd, Ynsoer and Noel Mynnch are
other names with which the reader must
wrestle in this tale which, we are assured,
however, is graceful tender" 'fasci-
mating and perfectly beautiful" oh, we
can't escape it. The Welsh novel is sure to
be the next literary fad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
CURRENT PERIODICALS.

In the Journals mention Of current peri
odicals a day or so ago the amateur
.magazinelet the indianapolis Ishmaelite
was inadvertently alluded to as the Phi
listine. Apologies are due to both these
publications.
The Atlantic Monthly, in it's current is
sue. prints statistics which show that in
1870 the number of bread-winners in the
country was 12.5o5.s2S. or s2.4s per cent. Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

After more than two months of stubborn
contention on both sides the coal miners
strike is practically ended by the adoption
of a resolution by the miners convention
accepting IS cents per ton in the Pittsburg
district. all places in West Virginia. Ohio
and Indiana where relative price can be
obtained to resume work and contribute TO
the miners who do not receive the advance,
where the fight must continue to a finish
This does not differ materially from the
proposition defeated by small majority
on previous vote It's adoption seems to
have been the result of reconsideration
and sober second thought. A second reso-
luton provides that ten days be allowed be-
fore the resumption of work in order to
give miners In all the districts time to con-
fer with operators regarding the advance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

There is not fair-minded man in the city
who knows anything about Pogue's run
and what is necessary to keep it under con-
troll who will not say that the $4,000 voted
to be expended to that end is $4,000 of the
peoples money thrown away to promote
Taggart's election. 1t may make Mr.. Tag
CART some votes. but such steal would
lose the Republican candidate for whom it
might be made thousands of votes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

In 1874 the remains of Daniel Boone were
removed from Missouri, where he died, to
the State Cemetery at Frankfort, KY Now
a state officer of Missouri who has visited
the grave at Frankfort reports that it is
shamefully neglected, the monument chip
ped away by relic hunters, ETC., and Mis-
sourians are talking about demanding that
the remains be returned to that State. If
Boone had his choice he would probably
prefer the soil of Kentucky, with which
his name and fame are chiefly associated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

but it is expected that many of the mines
in Pennsylvania and Ohio will be reopened
at once, perhaps to-day. Immediate re-
sumption in part of the mines will hasten
action by the others, and probably all will
be in operation within a week or ten days
The settlement is victory for the principle
of arbitration and a direct result of meas
ures instituted on this line by the different
state ORGANIZATIONS several weeks ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
WORLDLY Wisdom.

IT will venture to bet" said the Barrel.
that we have about as many friends as
fall to the lot of inanimate objects"
Just keep your hoops on said the jug.
I'VE rank right along with the hated plu-
tocrat. They only love us for what they
can get out of us"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

Bryan's explanation OF the present rise
in wheat, accompanied by fall in silver,
that both the cereal and the metal are gov
erned by the law of supply and demand
This is just what the gold standard people
claimed during the last campaign. and is
practical admission that the Republican
position was CORRECT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

BAH said the Erstwhiles Leader Of
Men. The world is not what it was when
the news of a mere pianist getting his hair
cut can attract more attention than the
movements of statesmen
"Oh, Well" said the Modern Common
Plug. perhaps it is due to the quality of
statesmen"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
The Hammond. Ind. Tribune says:

The Indianapolis Journal thinks it would
be terrible calamity to shoulder $115,0
additional taxes upon the people for the
purpose Of enforcing the compulsory edu
cation act. Does the Journal mean to in
sinuate that the percentage of illiteracy
would not materially decrease by the en-
forcement of said act? Does the Journal
the proper thing for large percentage of
the Hoosier youth to grow up in ignorance
and its natural concomitant, vice and
crime?
Our contemporary on the border line
seems to be shooting rather wide of the
mark. The increase of $115O00 objected to
by the Journal was in this city alone where
1t is proposed to use much the greatest
part of the amount in erecting new school
buildings not clearly authorized by the law.
The Journal does not know yet whether the
percentage of illiteracy in the State will
materially decrease under the operation of
the compulsory education law not, and
neither does anybody else 1t does know,
however, that it is a libel on the State to
intimate that "a large percentage of
Hoosier youth are growing up in ignor-
ance'' when the number of persons in the
State ten years of age and over who cam
not read or write, including adults both
white and colored, is only per cent of
the entire population, while the average in
the whole United States is 10 per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

At reunion of veterans held at Hodgen-
vile, KY, few days ago, a resolution was
adopted urging the present owner of the
Lincoln farm near that place, who is a
very wealthy man, to take steps to have
the remains of Abraham Lincc,n's mother
removed to Lncoln's birthplace. Obviously
the place where she spent the closing years
of her life and where she died IS the proper
place for her remains to rest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW 4ORk-Windscr Hotel and Astor House.
cHICAGo-Palmer House and p. o. News Co..
"a Dearborn street
street.
LOCISVILLE-c. T. Deering northwest corner
o. Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbtt
House, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and + street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The prospectus of Truth, the organ of Mr..
Smith, which was sold on the streets yester-
day. makes it appear that the schoolmaster
who is to teach the Indianapolis voters
kindergarten is more important person
than Mr.. Smith himself. Modesty has ruined
9 number of excellent men
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The Pennsylvania miners wanted 50 cents.
an advance of Is cents on the old rate, and
by the terms of settlement they got 65 cents,
an advance of IL cents. If the miners in the
Indiana district get proportionate advance
it will be quite lift for them and every
body will be glad of it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
STATE PRESS OPINION.

The factory smoke seems to have affected
Mr. Bryans voice.-Gas City Journal.
The gold standard seems to be acting like
a lifting machine on the mortgage crop.
-Greensburg Standard.
The cry dollar wheat" knocks the most
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
An UngaIIant Crusher.

She-You men are too cold-bloodedly mer-
cenary. You cannot make an earnest fight
for principle as women can.
Hell am to infer, then, already, that it
is principle that makes you scrap so at
the bargain counter?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

When the members of the Indianapolis
silver push behold the much-hated but
brainy leaders of the gold bugs manipulate
ing the Taggart campaign while they are
ignored. each should ask himself: where
are we at and how did it happen?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The New York Post thinks the increase
of lynch law is largely due to the growing
abuse of the pardoning power This may be
measurably true, but a more prolific cause
is the lax administration of justice by
courts and juries
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
BUBBLES IN TUE AIR.
The BIoomer Question.

"Our society," said the young woman who
belongs, has decided that boomers shall
be barred"
How vulgar!" said the girl who does not
belong. "They ought never to be in other
than solid colors."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The report that the Bank of England
has decided to keep one-fifth of it's reserve
In silver may be classified as important if
true" Until there is some confirmation or
explanation of it, it should be taken with
several grains of salt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

Neither the operators nor the miners seem
to have made any attempt to provide
against or provide a basis for the settlement
Of future strikes. Perhaps they thought
one settlement was enough for one strike
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

Roston Herald

BostOn Herald.
Ben Tflman continues to indulge his
fondness for calling Grover Cleveland hard
names There are certain creatures that
are in the habit OF biting the heels of those
whose heads they cannot reach and Till
man belongs to that Species
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

Kansas City Journal.
An Atchison man refused to get the new
second reader for his children because it
does not contain Bryan's last speech. he
simply shows his ignorance. Bryans
speech has no right to place in the second
reader 1t belongs in the first.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The time has come, says the Smith party,
for Indianapolis citizens to assert them
selves The Smith party has asserted itself
by printing paper, and SO can count
on one citizen saved
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

When the map of Europe is next revised
Thessaly should be attached to Turkey
since the Turk occupies the land and no one
is protesting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

The free-silver party is the guideless won
der of politics. 1t goes round and round
the track speeding against itself. without
anybody to guide or direct it.