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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Western Capitalists Becoming Greatly
interested I'm 1t.

Robert P. Porter, in Philadelphia Inquirer.
Talking the other day to a gentleman
from Iowa interested IN agriculture, ne toi9 9
broken out In that State in favor or beet
sugar and that farmers were fully alVe
to this new Investigation of crops. Seven
state government have taken up this new
and valuable agricultural industry ana APP
propriated money for the distribution OF
seed and the cultivation of the sugar beet
The Los Angeles Times estimates that
some s., GEO. eco will be invested in sugar fac
several millions of dollars more go into beet
sugar plants in Colorado and the Terri
tories. The people of Phoenix, Ari;, and the
settlers in the ella valley are discussing
the feasibility of bonding that region for a
100000 sugar factory and refinery that viii
utilize the product OF beets from Sg.OO
mons have had such success with their fac
tory at Lehi, Utah. that they have con-
tracted for the machinery for new beet
sugar factory of thousand tons capacity
to be built in the neighborhOod of Provo. A
company of Frenchmen, of whom LaZard
Freres, the Partisan bankers, are members,
has decided to invest some $1,6O.O00 in tour
beet sugar factories in California, New
Then a syndicate of San Francisco, st.
Louis and Chicago capitalists have decided
to build three of the largest beet sugar fac
tories in the world factories each having
a daily capacity of 100000 tons of beetsl in
the Arkansas valley, in Colorado. me
building of these immense works is to begin
before August. The factories all complete
and equipped will cost $5,OO0OO, and VIII
bring under beet cultivation some eighty
thousand acres of virgin soil.
The beet sugar industry in the United
States has been practically developed in
the last six years, or since the enactment
of the Mckinley tariff law. Until the last
six months four-ffths of all the capital
in the industry was invested in 1890 and 1891
One of the brightest and most hopeful spots
in American agriculture at the present time
is the prospect that this industry will be en-
couraged. 1t would be nothing short OF
criminal if our legislators. by reason or the
Trust should
swered from a schedule which will give
beet root sugar proper protection. The an
adversely the sugar beet interests and for
this reason the safest and best thing to do
is to give the beet sugar growers a schedule
containing small bonus which(Will be used
to directly benefit a home industry and
which will not in any way aid or abet the
Sugar Trust in its efforts to monopolize the
market for refined sugar. small bounty,
if only given for a few years, would prac-
tically establish the industry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

I'VE are unalterably opposed to mono
metallism, which has locked fast the pros
perity of an industrial people in the paraI-
\ysis of hard times" This declaration of the
Ohio Democratic convention implies that
our present currency system is one OF
monOmetallism and that the free coinage
of silver at l6 to 1 would bring about BIZ
metallism. Exactly the reverse is true. We
have bimetallism now, and would have
silver recommendation under the other con-
dtion. Moreover. it is absurd to say that
the gold standard has brought about hard
times when we had the same standard and
the same relation between gold and silver
during the prosperous Harrison adminis<ra-
ton that we have now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The patriotism that finds its chief ex-
preston in sending up fireworks once a
year is well enough in it's way, but that
which involves an intelligent understand
ing of the character of the government,
its history and its relations to other coun-
tries is far better. 1t is this sort of knowl-
edge that the civil government classes of
the Indianapolis High School acquire, and
it was by way of continuing this education
for themselves and others that they insti-
tuted a celebration of the Nations birth
day of somewhat different character from
the customary Fourth of July spread-eagle
oratory and indiscriminate praise of coun-
try. 1t is q movement that deserves en-
couragement, and the annual meeting at
Plymouth Church on Saturday should be
largely attended by men and women who
are willing to renew their patriotism once
a year by other means than firing rockets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

A prominent Republican senator is
quoted as saying: THE tariff bill which will
become a law next week will be the last
general tariff measure enacted by the
United States Congress" In explanation
Of this statement he predicted that future
tariff legislation would be confined to
changes in the rates of duty on specific
articles in certain schedules, and that no
party viii again undertake to overhaul the
whole tariff. 1t would be a great thing
for the business of the country if this
should become the established rule. Ger
tainly if the new tariff brings sufficient
revenue for the government and general
prosperity to the country the people will
not listen to a proposition to replace it
with another free-trade tariff for deficit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

HeceiveTshiDs and References and the
Money in Them

New York Letter in Philadelphia INQUIRER
Justice comes high in New York A Judge
o. the Supreme Court in this city receives
~, oUo a year Litigants have long com
plalned because a hlgh-priced judiciary had
to be supplemented by higher priced ref
erees IN very many important cases Ac-
lions Tor the partition of property or for
accountlngs, contested divorce suits.
Wits OF habeas corpus. and lit
i tions of involving complex cues
that fail to referees. The advantage of a
reference is that it is usually more expedi-
tlous than to await tr1al in open court
owing to the fact THAI it takes from one
TO two years to reach a case after it has
been placed upon the general calendar of
cree is entitled to charge S. for each ses-
sion he holds. The average referee. how
ever, is not satisfied with Sc a session, and
II IS usual Tor him to enter into some slip
ulation with the attorneys about the
amount to be paid. He may arrange for $40
or $25 hour, with $3.50 or $500 extra for
MS report. session before a referee may
De haI an hour or six hours, or merely
the time consumed in asking for an adj
Journment. And receivership is still more
ProhtaDIe. receiver gets per cent. of
the money that comes into his hands-in
many cases it amounts to a fortune. In
adaluon to getting his own fees, the re-
celyer in a big case is allowed to employ
all the clerks he requires at the expense
or the property he handles.
But receivers and referees like kisses
go absolutely by favor OF the seven thou
sand lawyers in this city it is said that
liOl more Inan one hunured receive two or
more references year. The meaning of
which, according TO an expose in the Her
aid, is that relatives and friends of the men
on the bench receive all the profitable an
pointments. Not that each Judge gives these
pickngs TO his next of kin, or law part
ner direct. That would be rather too bare
faced an act even for a lawyer Instead
Judge A will give a reference to the reIa
tive of Judge b., which will be reciprocated
when the time comes, by a receivership be-
ing given out by Judge b. to the law part
ner of Judge A: In other words. the bust
ness is kept in the family as it were. bv an
profitable to have been a law partner oS
a judge than to actually be on the bench
Any form of litigation Is necessarilv ex-
pensve but the litigant in New yess~,1 =
likely to have the experience of the man
whose attorney said to him: Don't keen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

turing up Tuesdays view Of her. The ac-
customed little, pufTy. red-faced old wom-
an in bedfzaned black, with tired and rather
bulging, pale eyes. slightly Sowing Wnen
not distributing conventiantl griHs, was
not there at all In her place was the most
beautiful and queenly old lady, with deil-
cately gray face, and hair and expressio Oh
majesty pride, and tenderness. After sixty
years, in which candid lips had formed "a
the word beauty ii was all at once tne oll iiy
word by which to describe her People taIk
lovingly still of this wonderful lnetamof-
phosls When the papers the next uay Gi-
lated on it such phrases as her lCEe.y
ed The venerable sovereign was rot only
the all-important parsonage OF the occa-
sion; she was its belle as well.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

1t is announced that Mr.. Bryan will re-
main in Nebraska the greater part of the
season and canvass that State. where su-
preme Court judge and two regents of the
State University are TO be elected Inas-
MUCK as Mr.. Bryan carried Nebraska last
fail by about 1900 majority, it seems
strange that he should waste his eloquence
upon his own State. But there appears 10
be reason for it. The close fusion of 1896
cannot be counted on. The Democrats de-
sire to have the candidacy for the judgeshp,
the Populists insist upon it, and a silver
Republican threatens 10 lead q contingent
Ok 500 followers of his brand out of the
fusion camp. Thus is fusion menaced in
Nebraska. Mr.. Bryan cares little who is
the candidate for judge. and has so ex-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The. discussion in connection with the re-
newal of the charter of the Bank of
FRANCE, which has just been prolonged by
the National Legislature until the end of
1920. has brought to light the measures that
were adopted during the war of 1870 for
the preservation of the specie and valuables
contlded to the care of the institution to the
extent of over 800, 900 900. 1t seems that the
whole of this treasure was packed into
some 25.O00 cases, marked explosive pro-
'jectiles, and was shipped by rail to Brest,
where it was cached in such a manner
In the arsenal that, had even the Germans
captured the port. they would never have
discovered the hiding place. Indeed so
elaborate were the precautions adopted that
neither the people who shipped the cases
at Brest had any idea of the contents of
the boxes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Guiding Para, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de
Janeiro Santos, Buenos Ayres and Monte
video. 1t is proposed that the vessels shall
be of 1000 and 5000 tons and fitted up with
first-class passenger accommodations. al
though relying chiefly on freights and the
transportation of mails for profits AS a
means of extending foreign trade that is a
most sensible proposition. The way to get
trade is go after it and furnish facilities
for developing it. All other governments
subsidize ocean steamship lines for the
purpose of developing trade but as Con-
gress cannot be induced to do that it re-
mains for private enterprise to do what it
can. The carrying out of the Philadelphia
plan might result in the development of a
large and profitable trade
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Herold Frederic's Letter.

How shall one express it? The thing has
out; it proceeds from within them 1t burst
forth tremblingly dt the sight of the Queen.
She became visibly TRANSPORTED before the
see caught the big throb from those i'm
front. II ran from heart to heart through
the kingdom with more than electric swift
ness.
Since. as little boy, beheld how people
gasped. stared, and quailed at the tidings
of Lincolns death. / have seen no such
compelling emotion flashed on the universal
face. 1t was all the Queen. How strangely
she rose 10 the mighty occasion. None OF
the familiar photographs of her. and quite
as little any personal recollection of her AT
other times. is Of the slightest use in con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
The Bicycle and the Book.

The bicycle is a rival not merely of the
church, but Of the library and bookseller
as We'll. The fact should be frankly ad-
mitted In many cases it is proper that
this should be so. But, though the Ish-
those who have time ito burn''-as well as
to scorch-that men have minds and souls,
and that they need training and exercise
as much as the body does. We should not
ride so much that we cannot read enough
to save our minds from atrophy. and it
would do no harm for our youthful scorch-
Jehovah neither delighteth he in anv
mans legs" The present athletic craze
comes as perfectly proper and natural re-
acton, but 1T is time for us to begin to
think of more satisfactory and rational
adjustment than now exists The bicycle is
all right in its place, but let us not give too
much of our energy to it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The garnishee act is one of those which
was hurried through the Legislature with
out its provisions being fully understood.
a few men interested as lawyers may have
had an interest in its passage. There is no
reason why laws should be enacted to help
men collect small debts, thereby causing
dealers to give credits which they would
not give could they not invoke the law to
secure payment after largely increasing
the amount to be paid by the addition Of
attorneys fees
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
Mark of the Amateur Editor.
Kansas City Journal.

There is one distinctive mark through
which the beginner in Journalism never
1alls TO reveal himself. He is consumed
with a desire to correct all the inadverten-
cies which may appear in any of his ex-
changes, and most of his time is spent
IN ferreting out little things at which he
may cavil and thus display his superior in
formation. 1t is needless to say that he
soon comes to grief. About the second week
ne succeeds in attracting the attention Of
some of the old wheel horses of the pro-
iesslon, and one of them IS sure to give
him a much-needed lesson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Miss Fidlet." said the summer young
man, 1.-The time has come when 1 can no
longer conceal my regard love you as
never I loved girl before"
: Why" said the summer girl blthely.
you ridiculous creature! Don't you re-
member? You loved a girl in this very
same way last year. And I was the eirln,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Senator Turpie lies awake nights coming
what he thinks are fetching phrases about
matters and things and then constructs a
speech around them. He makes the bore
Of his gun first and then casts the metal
around it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The few ex-Republicans who have made
themselves advisers-in-chief to the local
Democracy by urging it to put a silver
plank in the city Democratic platform could
profit by studying the humiliation of their
brethren in Ohio in the Mclean convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Many persons will remember Parks's
statue "Bacchante,' which excited so
much admiration when on exhibition in this
city few months ago. An effort was made
to raise fund for the purchase of the
statue to be presented to the Indianapolis
Art Association, but it failed. A number Of
persons showed their interest in the move
ment by subscribing, several quite literally,
but as it was found impossible to raise
the requisite amount the effort had to be
abandoned, much to the regret of those
who had become interested in it. From
here Mr.. Parks took the statue to Cincin-
natl, where it was placed on exhibition.
Other engagements induced him to dispose
of it, and as he preferred it should remain
in Indianapolis he gave the refusal of it
to Miss T. L. Voss of this city, a lady of
artistic tastes and the means of gratifying
them. Miss Voss purchased the statue and
it now graces a room in her house. "Bac-
chante' is Mr.. Parkss greatest work, and
art lovers in this city are to be congratu-
lated that it is to remain here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The deficit for the fiscal year just closed
will be little less than $25 OoO, 900. This is
about one-half what it would have been
had not the Importation enormously in
creased, and consequently the revenues, in
anticipation of the new tariff bill. The bad
results of these excessive importations,
due to the action OF the Senate in striking
out the retroactive clause of the Dingley
bill, will be felt for at least year to come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The silver push" as the mayor has al
ways known, can be captured or broken UP
by making a few places for the few of the
members who can be of any political use to
anybody. Some Of the push can do any
candidate the best service by opposing him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The movement of an army of people to
the Pacific coast in connection with the
convention of the Christian Endeavor, fair
ly blocking the railroads, does not sustain
the claim of the calamityites that the
whole people are well nigh pauperized.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Weary Watkins-They kin all run for
Office that wants it, but none of it fer me.
I've been there. The responsibility broke
down me nerves.
Hungry Higgins-What Office did you
ever hold?
II wuz dog catcher
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Statistics of the American silk industry
show steady and remarkable growth. In
1870 the capital employed was 1921 100,
value of product $12,2lOO62 and number of
employees 6,649. In 1890 the capital employed
was S51,OO55S7 value of product 500. 154 500
and number of employees 5O.913. Such an in
dustry deserves encouragement and protec-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02


A new law of Massachusetts makes 1T the
duty of the Governor, on or before the
18th inst. to appoint a commission of three
persons to investigate the subject of the
relations between cities and towns and
street-railway corporations, the taxation of
street railways, and their franchises in
Massachusetts and in other States and
countries, and the need, if any, of legisla-
ton to establish a more fixed tenure of
franchises of street railN avs, and an eQul-
table method of taxing the same. The COM
mittee is given comprehensive powers for
thorough investigation of the subject in
trusted to it, including the summoning of
witnesses and the employment of experts
and all necessary clerical and other as
sistance, and it may incur such reasonable
expense, including travelling expenses, as
may be authorized by the Governor and
council. The chairman of the committee
is to receive as his compensation $4,000, and
each of his associates 81, 500. One-half of
the expenses of the committee is to be
borne by the street railways, according to
gross earnings. The committee is to report
on or before the first Wednesday in Feb
ruary in 1898. The experiment is a new
departure in dealing with street railways
and their franchises, and is a good exam
pie of judicious methods in legislation
The appropriation is sufficient to insure a
thorough investigation, and the report will
doubtless be worth all it will cost
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The present administration will be fortu-
nate If it is able to pay off the debt increase
made during the Cleveland administration
and reduce the public debt to what it was
at the beginning of Growers term.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

The new tariff bill will not become law
on the 4th of July. but it will be so soon
afterwards that it should add zest to the
celebration of the Fourth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
Not of Importance.
WASHINGTON Posi-

Z
me fact that Daniel Webster was OPP
posed 70 the annexation of Hawaii counts
put little. great many things have
CURED since the death of Daniel including
statesmen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Some Evidence.

Watts-My pastor insists that the bicycle
is an invention of the devil
Potts-Well, it is mighty hard to keep in
the straight and narrow path on one of
tl4.y9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
The CheerfuI Idiot.

For five years." said the aged boarder,
Il had to use an invalid chair"
"And l." said the Cheerful Idiot, have
been using crippled chairs ever since 1 be-
came a boarder"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

There is a movement on foot in Philadel-
phia TO organize new steamship line, with
capital of s1o0O0,00O, to build and operate
a line of eight steamers between that city
and the principal South American ports. in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
THE IADIAAAPOLIS JOURNAL,
IndfanepoIfs. Ind.

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All communications intended for publication IN
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Washington Post

washington Post.
Hon. John r. Mclean is strongly in
cnned to the notion that the safest way
70 manage a political convention is 10
stay away from 1t and allow the delegates
70 imagine they are running things to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
Want a Good Thing.

Kansas City Journal
Those Southern. senators know protection
y MOI Democratic. but they also know it
- sooo business sense and they want some
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

Judge Hough was set aside in the Nc
Lean convention because he cannot write
his wealth with seven figures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02

anything back" .T haven't" was the re-
ply. Il gave you the last cent had when
! retained you"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
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