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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
VIEWS OF INDI&SA EDITORS.

The endless chain viii - worry our
United States treasury officials when there
is a monthly surplus instead of a monthly
deficit.-Seymour RepubHcan-
The country is not anxious to hear or read
any long-winded tariff debates from the
Senate end of the Capitol. What is wanted
is good, hard, sensible work and early re-
sults.-Middletown News.
The tariff plank OF the Republican plat
form adopted at St. Louis contains this
sentence: 1.-The country demands a right
settlement and then it wants a rest II
Congress- will give us the right settlement
the country will do the rest.-Plymoulh
News. 5@t% CT c. "c
The rapidity with which foreign products
are reaching our shores should stimulate
the friends of the Dingley bill in the Senate
to renewed efforts to pass it at the earliest
day possible. If long delayed our markets
will be glutted with articles which should
be produced by American laoor.-Fdrhe
County Journal.
Fourteen shiploads of free wool a day
coming into a single port is rather discour-
aging to the prospects of the American
wool grower. No wonder the Republicans
of the finance committee are sitting up
nights pushing to get the Dingley bill on
the statue books as soon as possible.
Huntington Argus.
The Republican party swept the country
on a platform which declared for protection
quite as strongly as for sound money. 1t
not only has the moral right, but rests I'M
der a moral obligation, to fulfill it's prom
ises. 1t has been put in power to maintain
the integrity Of the currency, to pass ade-
quate revenue laws and to protect Amer
lean industries. If it fails to do these things
it will disappoint an expectant Nation and
prove false to the trust reposed in it.
-Knightstown Sun.
Importations continue to be very heavy
and the Senate continues to haggle over
the tariff bill. Every days delay is a rob-
berry and an outrage ON the just rights of
the American people. The manufacturers
in Europe and the importers in the United
States can well afford to pay the expenses
of Congress and a liberal bonus besides for
every day this legislation is delayed. That
august body known as the Senate of the
United States may still retain q sense of it's
Importance, but if it will not face the situa-
ton fairly it may discover that it is drift
ing away in the minds of the people from
the idea of any real necessity for its exist
ence.-Pendleton Republican.
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Pennsylvania road and started on their
Western trip. They received every atten-
ton from the train crews and reached their
destination safely this morning.-New AL
bany Tribune.
Last Thursday. John and Henry Morgan.
of Marco, Ind, loaded at Newberry thir-
ty-one Mathers stable cars with fat steers
that will average over 900 pounds, to be
shipped over the e. & l. Railway to Terre
Haute, then over the VandaIia and Clover
leaf to Boston. to be exported to England.
rms was the finest lot of cattle ever
shipped from Greene county Four hundred
being above 1900 pounds, at $4.S5 per hum
dfed, to almost $4,000, is no
small matter these times. The Morgan
Bros, are famous for growing fine cattle,
but this year they broke the record. We are
Informed they sold this lot of fine export
steers for $4.S5, weighed at home on the
farm. Quite a number of them weighed O.
GOO pounds and some few of them above
that.-Bloomield News.
A letter from Hon. Henry T.. Johnson
to his wife warrants the statement that
Mr.. Johnson is in a very critical condition
physically, and that his death at any time
would not be a cause for surprise. His ply
sician, DR.. Ruffin, says his lung is affected,
and that he also has a serious enlargement
of the heart. caused from nervousness, ex-
element and overwork. Mr.. Johnson's
illness following so soon after the death
or ms great friend. Newt. Martin, and the
similarity of their ailments, has caused him
10 become alarmed and greatly concerned
about himself. What he needs is absolute
rest and abstention from mental excite
Inent. Every care for his welfare is being
bestowed. lie is unable to give any atten-
ION TO public affairs.-Cambridge City
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WHAT CAN BE DONE.

me country awaits the message of the
President on Cuban affairs with deep inter-
est. The situation in Cuba is pc
culiar. The Spanish authorities, I'M
able to fight ii battle, have driven
the inhabitants Of the country into
the towns ard many of them are said to
be starving. Among them are some citizens
of the United States-less than two hun
dred. 1t is proposed to bring these home,
or, rather, to the United States, if they will
come. The most of them are Cubans who
came here to be naturalized for the prOtec-
ton citizenship would afford them in Cuba.
In no real sense are they citizens, since
they were not naturalized to become such.
Relief can be given to these people. But
what shall be done for the starving natives
of the country? Must they be left to their
fate? What has the civilized world to say
to the policy of compelling noncombatants
to starve? 1t has often been the case that
the residents of a besieged city have been
brought to the verge of starvation. but in
Cuba the starving pacificos are in towns
held by Spanish authorities, into which they
have been driven by Weyler to keep them
ACH NA1AAS NAOPO "AACA NCNHN ~ 09N -
the insurgents. This is not what can be
called civilized warfare. 1t is a cruelty I'M
heard of in modern times. 1t is a policy of
subjugating a country not by destroying
the armies which hold it, but by starving
the inhabitants, regardless of sex and con-
dition. AS there can be little doubt hat
this is what is being done, it seems that
the time has come for other nations to
protest.
AS a whole, the war in Cuba has not been
one of battles which have in any way been
decisive. For more than two years Spain has
been laboring to subdue the insurgents, For
that purpose it has brought 100000 men to
Cuba, and yet it has accomplished nothing
toward suppressing the real insurgents. 1t
has sacrificed many thousands of it's SOL
diers TO the climate and a neglect to pro-
vide for the care of it's men, but the Span
ish leaders have not won a battle of suffi-
cient Importance to be in any sense decisive.
So far from that, there is good reason to
believe that the insurgents are as strong
now as they were a year ago. Now another
hot season approaches, during which the
invaders can do nothing to suppress the in
surrection beyond devastating the country
and driving its inhabitants into the towns
to starve.
Thus far this government has done all
that can be done to preserve a strict neu-
trality, in spite of the fact that popular
sympathy has been with the Cubans. Some
time ago it was suggested that the time
had come for the United States, whose com
mercial interests nave been injured by this
two years of alleged war in Cuba, to inform
Spain that if it cannot suppress the insur-
rection it must proceed to make peace in
Cuba. 1t seems that there should be some
power among the nations to put an end to
what appears to be the devastation of Gu
ba and the starvation of it's people.
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fishing revelation of Turkeys military
strength, and the Sultan knows it. The
leading paper of Paris says the result of
the war has been to place Turkey in a po-
sition she has not held for the past half
century, adding: Her tremendous military
effort is largely in excess of what the
struggle against Greece requires. 1t was
done to refute the allegation of decrepitude
and to demonstrate to the Sultan's own
subjects and to those of the smaller states
and to the great powers that Turkey is
able to hold her own against other dangers
than a war with Greece" British, Russian
and Austrian journals express much the
same view. After maintaining for years
the pleasing fiction hat they were nursing
a sick man the powers have suddenly dis
covered that they nave to deal with a very
well and strong one. The Sultan has
shown that there is nothing the matter
with him, and now he proposes to assert
his rights and take his proper place in
European society.
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AROUND THE STATE.

Perhaps the first temperance lecture de-
hvered in Rising Sun was by Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, in 1888. Rev. Lyman Beech
er and his son Henry Ward were here at
the dedication of the Presbyterian Church,
and on Saturday night the lecture on tenn
perance was deliVered.-Rising Sun Re-
corder.
While a marriage ceremony was being
performed in Churubuseo, a kerosene lamp
famed up and was about to explode when
the bride seized it and hurled it through
the window. The groom then came out
from under the table where he had hidden.
and the ceremony proceeded.-Portland
City Mail.
1t hardly seems possible tha large fish
eight and ten pounds in weight can be
caught in a common ditch or in the creeks
that are only q few inches deep. Such is
the case. and German carp of an enormous
size are being landed every night along
Johns creek by h~and-not even a hook and
line or spear being used. The Wabash river
is alive with these carp. During the high
waters they run up into the creeks. and
from there into the small bitches. All a
carp wants is enough water to cover it,
and plenty of mud in which it can wallow
like a hog.-Blutfton News.
A few months ago Mr.. John A. Tindall
instituted steps for the purpose of secur-
ing a dependent pension for Miss June
Marker, of Falkland, she thinking her faith
er was dead. The fling of the claim led to
the discovery by the department that a
man in Colorado answering the description
of Miss Markers father was a pensioner.
An investigation revealed the fact that
Miss Marker was this mans daughter and
they were quickly reunited. They are now
at UpIon City. This morning Mr.. Tindall re-
ceived a letter from his client in which
she expressed everlasting gratitude for
what he had done in finding her father.
-ShelbyVille Republican.
Three children, Mary, William and Re
gina Schorr, passed through the city yes
terday on their way from Germany to the
home of their mother, Mrs. Mary Schorr,
at Jasper, Dubois county. The oldest one
was only twelve years old. They were prop
erly tagged and were being taken through
without delay. They came into the city
over the Pennsylvania road and left a few
hours later over the Airline. and were
quite an attraction at the State-street
depot, where they We're placed in charge
of Station Agent Guernsey. Their father
died two years ago and they had been liv-
ing with their grandmother, the mother
having come to this country shortly after
her husbands death. She sent for the chill
dren a few weeks ago and they left Ger
many about three weeks ago. They were
met at New York city by an agent for the
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
stephen Lescomb. D. A.

One might think from the title of this
story that it is a university tale. but it is
not. 1t is a love story and not a good one.
either. A man loves a maid. Being her in
ferior socially, though her intellectual SUI
perior, he hesitates about declaring his
love. Though assured that his rival is who'll
ly unworthy of her he refuses to disclose
the facts which would have saved her from
certain misery and himself from solitude.
She loves him even to the point of writing
him a letter saying so, though she does
not give it to him. Though represented as
a young woman of intense individuality,
she calmly permits herself to be married
to a person she despises. As a love story
it is disappointing, and this feeling is not
materially relieved by any other feature
of the book. The inconclusive argument
concerning the immortality OF the soul
which is introduced certainly does not
brighten the story any. The author is
Julius II. Hurst, and it seems to be a first
effort. New York: c.. Z. Putnam's Sons.
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The rumor of a continental European al
lance against Great Britain, noticed in the
Journal a few weeks ago, is reiterated in a
more definite form. a dispatch from Ber-
lin says:
The correspondent in this city of the As
ISOLATED Press is reliably informed that dur
ing the past week a definite understanding
was perfected by which the Cabinets of
Germany. France and Russia will soon
reach the solution OF the Egyptian and
TFansvaal questions. and this viii be done
systematically in an sense. As
soon as the GraecO-Turkish trouble is set
tied the subject win be jointly taken up.
unless Great Britain in the meantime pre-
cipitates matters. in which case she will en-
counter the united. open hostility of the
three continental powers. The ultimate OBJ
ject of the agreement is TO force the evacu-
alton of Egypt and the notification of the
Pretoria convention of 1856 and to put the
Transyaal on a perfectly Independent basis.
II this alliance is formed it will be an i'm
portant event in modern history. In a
broad sense it viii indicate the determine
tion Of the powers parties to it not My
to put a stop to England's territorial extern
sion policy. but to force her to relInquish
territory that she now practically controls.
In other words, she is to be prevented from
acquiring any more territory in southern
Africa and is TO be required to evacuate
Egypt In the north. If that should be done
in the interest of Germany and France the
next step would probably be. in the interest
of Russia, 30 break down British power in
the East. An attempt to enforce this policy
would bring on a war compared with which
that between Greece and Turkey would be
chiId's play.
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the ground Of it's central location and facili-
ties for getting to and away from the city.
The Warsaw Times, edited by General Reub
Williams. says:
1t seems TO us that it would be wise to
return the holding of the Department En-
campmentS to indianapolis, the capltal OF
the State, where the large majority of the
various organizations that went out from
Indiana had their first headquarters, and
around which cluster SO many OF the mem
cries of the late war in the minds of the
surviving soldiers. While there has been no
general complaint, yet one often hears the
remark Now If ii met at Indianapolis |
would try TO go, but ii is too far away, and
l can't afford TO spend three days IN gong
to the encampment. Columbus is as good
a point as any, in all probability, but We
only express the views of a large element
OF the members of the G. A. X. IN the WISH
to have the ncampment return TO indian
apolis permanently.
The Wabash Tribune prints an interview
with a veteran of that city who expresses
a preference for this city because of its
railroad facilities. He says:
Richmond is not on a direct line for those
who live north and west of indianapolis,
our railroad facilities. Going, IL was an
right. But on the return trip we were com
PEELED to lay over at Anderson all nIShd II
was the fault of the Panhandle ROAD. 1hey
would not run a special to ACCOMMODATE
those who were DESTROYS of getting nome
before Friday night, and | tell you II Is m
III N6l1lCll dAih NP1AAEA - =
way. Columbus, the next place for hold
ing the State encampment, offers the same
objection as Richmond presented. l am IN
favor of Indianapolis, and | am sure tnat
nine-tenths of the people who usually VISIT
such gatherings would prefer the caPIIal
| city as a meeting place to any other. Inc
railroad facilities are of the best ana no
city in the country of like size oilerS petlef
hotel accommodations than indianapolis.
Other State organizations have had a
similar experience. and after meeting a lew
times in other, cities, have finally settleo at
the capital on account of it's central loca-
ton and superior railroad facilities. In ali
other respects a dozen other cities in the
State are able to handle such an AFFAIR as
the annual G. A. r. encampment IN a most
satisfactory manner, but when 1t comes 10
reaching the city conveniently from all
parts of the State and getting nome again
without unnecessary delay or expense IN
| dianapolis is beyond comparison the pest
noint in the State for any State organlza-
tion or association to meet.
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REGARDING THE PENSION AGENT.

The statement that there is no opposition
to Mr.. Spencer serving out his term as pen
sion agent beyond two Republicans is not
true. Among veterans the opinion that Mr..
Spencer should be superseded is very gen.
eral. He has not been an efficient pension
agent. UnJer his administration the pay
ment of pensions has been delayed as it
never before has been, in spite of the fact
that he has increased the clerical force in
the office. Before the first payment after
the passage of the Overstreet bill, requiring
all payments to be made by draft, he gave
notice to pensioners that some time must
elapse before all could be served, because
he could ask his clerks to work but eight
hours a day. Payments were extended
over ten days, and even longer. At the
time the Journal remarked hat an efficient
pension agent, who had control of his office,
could have asked his clerks to put in ten or
twelve hours a day during the first days of
payment, with the promise to make allow
ance for the overwork by giving each clerk
two or three days leisure when the rush
should be over. AS the last payment was
more promptly made, it is possible that Mr..
Spencer has acted upon the suggestion.
It may be added that none of the Demo-
Gratis holding federal offices nave the slight
est claims upon the clemency of the adj
ministration. Mr.. Thompson was a good
postmaster, yet he was removed a year or
more before his commission expired be-
cause of Democratic clamor; but Postmas-
ter Sahm and Collector Tanner are efficient
officials. who have not made themselves Of
fensive by craftsmanship. 1t is different with
Mr.. Spencer. AS soon as he came into
office he dismissed nearly every clerk,
though all of them were veterans of good
record, in the most manner, to
make room for men whose only claims were
that they or their hackers were active par
tisans. Mr.. Spencer regarded it as a good
joke to discharge a veteran because he was
a Republican.
His unseemly whimpering should not
save him. When the present payment is
fairly over he should go. I'll not sign his
petition" said a well-known advocate of
civil-service reform, when asked to put his
name to Mr.. Spencer's petition; 'let him be
discharged and thus get the flavor of the
medicine which he administered to a score
of veterans who were competent clerks"
The Journal repeats: Mr.. Spencer should go
as soon as possible; he has no claim upon
Republican forbearance.
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wants Everything Turned Loose.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
AS a citizen of this community l wish TO
point out the inconsistency Of certain per-
sons in regard TO their overzealOus interest
in preventing the owners of land going
down into the bowels of the earth and pro-
curing the treasure thereof. We do not
wish to uphold the needless waste of nat
ural gas, but think and insist that If 1T
is right and lawful for a great corporation
Ga monopoly to locate a pumping station
and drill wells by the hundred and draw,
as it were, the lifeblood from under us and
force it with their powerful machinery OUT
of the State for their own profit and the
enjoyment Of citizens of other States. then
I believe it is perfectly right and a sacred
duty of farmers and owners of property,
If they so desire, to drill down on their
own premises and procure all there is Of
value therein. If it were not For the effect
of curtailing TO a certain extent the output
of gas and thereby cutting off the profits
of these great gas companies, we would not
hear a word of protest from the baroas Of
aristocracy and m~illionaires: or if they mad
the full and complete control of ali OF the
territory, it would be quite different. for
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lite, that the prosperity which was prom
Used with the election of Mckinley has not
come, as if changing Presidents without
changing the laws which affect the indus
trial conditions of the country could bring
prosperity. After all. there is not much
difference in men who fail in getting what
they have set their minds on in the way Of
office if they allow themselves TO become
dissatisfied. They nurse their grievances
until they become the foes of the party to
has been no change in the policy and con-
troll of the Republican party since MIR.
Wanamaker was the best Postmaster Gen
eral the country ever had. He has simply
failed of an election to the United States
Senate.
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General A. Med. McCook, whom Mr..
Logan so furiously assailed in his letter,
is reported as expressing surprise thereat.
lie had not received the letter, but he had
seen some of the statements and was at a
loss to understand the cause of them, as he
had had no trouble with Mr.. Logan about
a uniform at Moscow. where General Nc
Cook represented the United States, except
that he gave Mr.. Logan his opinion, when
asked for it. to the effect that he thought
that, as it was a national affair. he could
not appear in the uniform of the Ohio State
Guard. He did appear in the uniform of
the cavalry of the United States army, to
which he did not belong.
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The Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia
will celebrate its tenth anniversary by join
ing the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
in making a success of the first annual
meeting of the international congress of
business men, to be held in that city June
!, 2 and 3. This meeting is intended to be
a gathering of representative business men
of both North and South America, for the
purpose of discussing purely commercial
questions and particularly reciprocal-trade
interests. After the congress the party will
visit the leading cities of the country.
South America and Mexico will be fully rep
resented.