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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
THE NEW TARIFF.

No one will claim that the new tariff is a
perfect measure. AS a matter of fact,
when there are hostile interests it cannot
please all. Like all legislation which af-
fects trade and industry, the new law is a
measure of compromises and concessions.
This, however, can be said of it: it is the
result of the experience of years in the
making of tariffs which will yield revenue
and afford protection. AS an American tar
is that outsiders who desire the American
markets are very hostile to it, In many
lines of goods the European competitor,
because of the ad valorem duties in the
Gorman-Wilson bill, which make fraud
through differentiation easy has filled our
markets with his goods for three years. Not
a little is the prosperity which Mr.. Depew
reports in Europe due to the markets in
this country which the old law opened to
them.
The new law will not accomplish all that
it would had there been a Republican SEN
ate to promptly second the action of the
House. During the delay of nearly three
months caused by the Senate the country
has been filled with foreign merchandise,
thus depriving the treasury of many mill
lions of revenue which it would have re-
ceived if the Senate had passed the bill in
thirty days. Warehouses have been crowd
ed with free wool and raw sugar and the
products of European factories. so that
months will elapse before the treasury will
feel the full benefits of the new tariff
The duties on sugar have been advanced
and changed from ad valorem to specific.
There are two reasons for this. One is the
very low price of sugar throughout the
world, incident to stimulation of the beet
sugar industry 1t can bear heavy duty
and yet not cost the consumer as much as
it did ten years ago. Another reason is
that it is a tariff for revenue, because so
much of our sugar is raised abroad. The
government must have a large revenue be-
sions call for $l4O 100000 a year or more So
long as so much money goes to pensions
the aggregate of appropriations will be
large.
There can be no doubt that the new tariff
will return the markets for many lines of
goods to our own producers. 1t will restore
the wooden industry and a large number of
varied industries which were lost by the
Wilson-Gorman law Furthermore, the
passage of the law viii settle the tariff
question for a long time. Until it was set
tied by the passage of the bill many indus
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

citizens or corporations of this State re-
lating to articles manufactured or produced
within the State, and also combinations be-
tween persons or corporations who do not
control the output or product of articles i'm
ported into the State concerning which the
combination is made.
The law does not apply to any sort Of
combination or trust arrangement to con-
troll the output or price of any article pro-
duced within the State unless such combi-
nation be intended to affect the price of the
imported article, nor would 1t apply to a
combination between persons or corpora
lions outside of the State to control the
price of an article imported and sold within
the State, unless they controlled the output.
These exemptions greatly weaken the law,
but they do not wholly emasculate it. If
the coal operators or the manufacturers of
glass. tin or any other article produced in
the State are in combination with coal
operators or other manufacturers through
out the country, controlling the entire out
put to fix the selling price in this State,
such combination would come under the
law. The Sugar Trust is clearly within the
law, and if it has any agents who are
carrying out its stipulations or rates they
can be reached under the law So could
agents Of the Standard Oil COMPANY In
fact, if the law were strictly enforced the
Standard Oil Company would be debarred
from doing business in the State There
must be in the State a great many agents
OF outside corporations or manufacturers
who control the entire output of certain
articles ard who are il combinations to
control prices within the State and else
where. All such agents for outside trusts
come under the law. The attorney general
Should try and make a case against some
of the trust corporations doing business
In the State, and the judges of Circuit
Courts should instruct grand juries on the
subject, as the law requires.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
HOW TO BREAK DOWN THE SUGAR
TRUST.

For some years past the Sugar Trust has
been a cause of great scandal in this coun-
try. Under any circumstances it would be
a scandal that a combination of capital
should be strong enough to control a great
branch of trade, crush out competition, fix
the price of a prime necessity of life and
levy tribute on all the people. But the Su-
gar Trust has done more and worse than
this. 1t has manipulated the markets so
as to make and break the fortunes of indi-
Viduals, and it has entered the halls of Con-
gross to influence legislation and tempt SEN
ators and members to speculate in an arti-
Gle about which they were legislating No
combination of the kind has ever caused
as much scandal in the country, and if it's
power is not broken it will cause a great
deal more in the future. The shattering of
the Sugar Trust will be a happy day for
this country and people, morally and finan-
cially, and if the new tariff bill shall prove
to be a step in that direction it will merit
and receive universal commentator. There
is reason to hope that it may. In the clos
ing debate the tariff bill in the House
Mr.. Dingley said: TRUSTS cannot be Grad
icated by epithets." He might have added
experience has shown they are very hard
to reach by legislation. Then, with en-
phasis, he declared: 1.-The way to break
down the Sugar Trust is to establish a beet
sugar factory in every congressional dis
trict in the country and make competition.
That is the way to clip the wings of the
trust" He is right. If this country pro-
duced all the sugar it consumes as Ger
many does, thanks to her development of
the beet-sugar industry, it would not be
importing about S10O, 100000 worth of sugar
a year from other countries, and there
would be an end of the Sugar Trust. Of
course there could not be a beet-sugar fac
tory in every congressional district because
there are large sections of country where
sugar beets cannot be grown, but under
proper protection there would soon be fac
tories enough to supply the home demand.
Those who have made closest study of the
sugar schedule of the new tariff bill, in
Guiding the chairman of the ways and
means committee say that while it will
cut the profits Of the trust down to a mar
row margin it will afford sufficient protec-
ton to the beet-sugar industry to insure
it's steady and progressive growth. Let us
hope it may be so, for, unquestionably, in
the language of Mr.. Dingley that is the
way to clip the wings of the trust
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

The Cleveland Leader says that of SIG di-
vorce cases instituted in the Common Pleas
Court of that county during the year ending
July only ninety-ive were begun by men,.
In ISL cases the wife was the plaintiff.
These figures tell the same story as those
recently published regarding divorces In
this State. They show one of two things
either that men are, as a rule, worse than
women, giving much more frequent cause
for divorce, or else that men are much more
patient and enduring of the ills of matri-
mony than women are. The fact that a
great majority Of divorces are granted for
part of the husband indicates which is the
true alternative.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

An ordinance imposing a vehicle tax has
just been passed in Chicago. Bicycle rid
ers, who have hitherto had everything their
own way, are indignant, but their wrath
is somewhat mitigated by the fact that
ali other vehicles must pay a tax as well
as bicycles, and by the further provision
of the ordinance that all vehicles, including
carriages, drays and wagons of all sorts,
must display lights at night. This last
is a requirement that should be added to
the Indianapolis regulations. This city al
ready has the tax and finds that the sys-
tenn works we'll, but there are some matters
relating to street traffic not yet satisfac-
tory, and the question of lights on other
vehicles as we'll as bicycles is one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21


Newspaper biographies OF Jean lngelOW,
whose death occurred yesterday, cite the
Songs of Seven as probably autobio-
graphical. The Songs of Seven" cele-
brates seven periods in a woman's
life including maternity. widowhood
and the giving of children in marriage. In
asmuch as Miss Ingelow never married and
her most inquisitive biographers cannot
discover romantic episode in her life, the,
assumption that the poem in any way out
lines her own experience is far-fetched, to
say the least. Her work is also spoken of
as having a melancholy tendency, but this
same poem, beginning with the familiar
lines Of childish elation in Seven Times
One" is equally joyous in Romance"
Love" and Maternity" and even the
longing for home" in Seven Times Sew
en- is hopeful rather than sad THE High
Tide tells a tragic tale, and ''Laurance''
is a novelette, in verse with a pathetic cpl
sode but happy ending, such as all prop
erly constructed novels should have. Other
long poems are touched with the pains and
sorrows of life, but scattered through them
are hopeful and cheerful lyrics that sug-
gest only sweetness and sunshine. 1t is
the exceptional singer who does not incline
to the minor chords. but Miss Ingelow's
verses are not more distinguished for their
melancholy than those of other poets. She
wrote much that is beautiful and that will
not be allowed to die
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
western Forest Fires.

John Muir in the Atlantic
1t is not generally known that notwith-
standing the immense quantities of timber
cut every year for foreign and home mar
kets and mines, from five to ten times as
much is destroyed as is used, chiefly by
running forest fires that only the federal
government can stop. Travellers through
the West in summer are not likely to for
get the firework displayed among the vari-
Gus railway tracks. Thoreau, when con-
templating the destruction of the forest on
the east side of the continent. said that
soon the country would be so bald that
every man would have to grow whske rs
to hide it's nakedness, but he thanked God
that at least the sky was safe Had he
gone West he would have found out that
the sky was not safe; for al through the
summer months, over most of the mountain
regions. the smoke of mill and forest fires
is so thick and black that no sunbeam
can pierce it. The whole sky, with clouds.
sun moon, and stars. IS simply blotted out.
There is no real sky and no scenery. Not
a mountain is left in the landscape. At
least none is in sight from the lowlands.
and they all might well be on the moon,
as far as scenery is concerned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Two Things Unknown.

Kansas CITY journal.
Joseph jefferson says there are only two
things in modern life of which the Ameri-
can people know nothing - the editorial
sanctum of a daily paper and the green
room of theater. TO this fact, perhaps,
Frank Pixley thinks, may be attributed the
failure Of every play which deals with
newspaper life. Not a newspaper play has
succeeded. Milton Mobiles Phoenix
probably was the nearest approach to a
success, but it did not deal exclusively
with the editorial sanctum. Many of the
leading actors of this country have at
tempted editorial roles. but failure has been
scored every time. The average theater-
gper knows no more about the inter
nal workings of journalistic life than he
does about society on Mars Reporters
frequently are represented in successful
plays, but almost without exception they
are extremely unreal. The stage reporter
could not hold his job on a live newspaper
two days. But many other familiar stage
TYPES exist only behind the footlights. "Od
Hoss" Hoey's tramp is conceded to be the
best vagrant who ever invaded theatrical
life. But he wasn't real Tramps are IA
miliar figures in everyday life but no one
ever saw Hoey's counterpart in the city
streets or the country roads.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
garfield Mementoes Removed.

washington Letter in New York WorId.
The brass star inlaid in he MOSAIC iioor-
ing of the waiting room at the Pennsylvania
railway depot to mark the spot where
President Garfield fell after being shot by
Guiteau has disappeared SO has the mar
bic tablet which occupied a place on the
wall a few feet above the star and was
inscribed with the date and brief history
tablet were objects of interest to all strang-
ers visiting the capital city for sixteen
years None Of the attaches OF the railway
knows why they were removed. and Nis-
itors invariably ask TO have them pointed
out. "Orders came from Philadelphia sald
an employee of the railroad company To-
day, Ito have the star and tablet removed:
That is all we know about IL down mere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

The silverites are not dismayed by the
great gold discoveries in Alaska. One OF
them comes to the front with a story of
the discovery of a silver cave in Virginia
which ought to brace up the silverites con-
siderably The Bryanite who claims to
have made this timely discovery is James
Riley, a farmer in the mountain region of
Roanoke county, Virginia. His name should
be placed on record, because when Mr.
Bryan is elected President Riley ought
to be taken care of. He claims to
have accidentally discovered-and what
a timely accident it was-a small opening
to a cave, on entering which he was daz-
zled by the visions Of the shining white
metal which met him. Besides being scat
tered all over the inside of the cave there
was near the center solid column Of
nearly pure silver six inches square, ex-
tending from the floor to the roof, speci-
mems of which have assayed 80 per cent. of
pure silver. Enthusiastic Bryanites in
Roanoke county are ready to believe the
whole mountain is made of silver. The only
danger is that so great a discovery of the
white metal may unsettle the commercial
ratio between silver and gold, which, as
everybody knows, is now fixed and I'M
varying at 16 to l.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

1t is believed that prior to the adjourn
mont of the present session of Congress
Speaker Reed will announce the standing
committees of the House. During the pres
ent session he has had ample opportunity
to become acquainted with the members
and their fitness and aptitude for work.
The announcement Of the committees now
will give members a chance to do some pre-
liminary work and will save time at the be-
ginning of the regular session. 1t is good
idea
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

are so confident that the mines are on the
British side that they are discussing the
propriety of exacting a royalty of 10 or
10 per cent. on all the gold taken out by
foreigners. The settlement of the boun-
dairy line will not be of great Importance,
as experts believe that the whole country
abounds with gold, and that as much will
be found on the American as on the British
side of the line
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

People may talk about the cares and re-
sponsibilities of the presidency, but what
effect has such morahzing upon aspiring
youth in face of the fact that it is the
President who gets seventy-eight- pound
Georgia watermelons sent to him as gifts?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

The people who are complaining that GER
tain physicians who have been licensed by
the State Medical Board have since been in
toxicated seem to have the mistaken i'm
preston that a medical certificate is a GER
tiiiCate of moral character
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
The SOnred CYnic.

81" said the Innocent Youth, cannot
understand all this sudden cutlery against
the summer garden as an institution. Are
summer gardens a new thing?"
Nav" said the Soured Cynci. But this
is perhaps the first time they have really
imperiled the welfare of the better classes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21


In urging that an effort should be made
by the proper authorities to enforce the
antitrust law passed by the last Legisla-
ture the Journal is not unmindful of the
fact that the entire law may be held uncon-
stitutional on the same ground that the
Texas law was. The law contains the fol-
lowing:
Provided however, that the provisions of
TINS act shall not apply TO agricultural
products or live stock while in the possess
sion OF the producer or raiser.
The Texas law forbade all combinations
to raise or lower prices, except of agri-
cultural products or labor, and for this
United States Judge Swain held it uncon-
stitutional. In his opinion he argued that
the law denied the constitutional guaranty
of the equal rights of citizens and was
vicious class legislation in that it forbade
say, 20 per cent. of the population to do
what it allowed the other 50 per cent. to do
He held that it was a law which sought to
divide citizens, not exactly by the occupa-
ton they followed, but by the sort of prop
erty they held, and that it had no good ex-
cuse in morals and no warrant in the con-
stitution of State or Nation. If there is
any one thing evident from a study of the
act" said the court, lit is that it is aimed
to favor the agricultural class, and is
against the merchant and mechanic and all
Others without either reason or justice"
The language of the Indiana law differs
somewhat from that of the Texas law, but
the principle is the same. This, however,
is no reason why an effort should not be
made to enforce the Indiana law and, if it
is unconstitutional, let it be wiped out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

In the closing contest over the tariff bill
the Republicans in the House showed a
great deal of tact, wisdom and self-control.
They knew they had the votes to pass it,
hence they wasted no time in speech MAX
ing at the rate of 100000 a day, let the
Democrats talk for a reasonable time and
then moved the previous question. That is
the way to do business,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Alarmed.

only one ultimatum this morning" re-
ported the underling.
Something must be the matter with the
mails" said the Sultan. Then his swart
cheek paled as an idea struck him. Can
it be possible" he asked himself, that I
am getting InpoDular?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

If the new tariff law yields a revenue
ample to meet the expenditures of the gov
eminent and allow a Republican admins
tration to begin again the reduction of the
national debt, largely increased during the
Cleveland administration, the American
people will feel like saying, Richard is
himself again..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Poor Man.

Il don't believe young Billfghter is very
happy under the matrimonial yoke"
He amt His wife won't buy him as sood
clothes as his father used to-,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

When the House adjourned after mid
night after passing the new tariff bill a
great crowd of Republican members formed
an impromptu chorus and sang America"
This was a fitting finale to the passage of
a measure framed to rescue American in
terests from wreck and ruin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

Extensive preparations have been made
for the dedication of the Logan statue in
Chicago tomorrow, and the event promises
to be interesting and impressive. General
Logan was a typical volunteer soldier and
well deserves the high honor which is about
to be paid to his memory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

1t is a little unfortunate that the great
gold discoveries in Alaska lie so near the
supposed boundary line between that ter
ritory and the British possessions as to
raise a question TO which government they
belong. 1t has been agreed that the boun-
dairy line is TO be the 14lst meridian of
longitude, but the meridian has not yet
been definitely located through that coun-
try. AS it has been tentatively established
the mines are on the Canadian side, and
the chances are the definite location of the
line will so determine but it is not 50 GER
tain as to exclude the possibility of a dis
pute. The Canadian authorities. however,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
ST. LoU1s-Union News Company. Union Depot.

BY request of the Nancy Hanks Lin
coin Memorial Association donations
of 81 each, for fund to be used i'm
keeping i'm order the grave of Abra-
ham LincOIn's mother, will be
ceived by the journal and acknOwI-
edged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

Everywhere throughout Indiana farmers
and fruit growers are rejoicing over their
crops. When the farmers are happy pros
perity is no longer an event of the future
it has arrived.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

A case pending in the Criminal Court at
Cincinnati involves the question whether a
person who aids or assists another in COM
hitting suicide is particeps criIninis, and, if
so, of what grade of crime. A few months
ago a farmer living near Cincinnati at
tempted to commit suicide by hanging HIM
self in his orchard. Just as he made an
unsuccessful attempt, in which the rope
became united, a neighbor came along and
volunteered. to show him how to make a
knot that would hold. He did so, the farm
er made a second attempt and succeeded
The accommodating neighbor says he was
so Mortified by the suicides commissions
that he forgot to render any assistance or
give an alarm until it was too late. Now
he has been indicted as an accessory to
the farmers self-destruction. Some people
are too obliging for their own good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
The Dear Girls

Minnie-I have had the same dressmaker
for three years.
Numerically? 1 thought you had worn
that dress only two seasons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

The man who buys his own coffin and
puts up his own tombstone is an everyday
parsonage, but one who decorates his own
grave is rather unique in the gallery of
freaks. Such man, perhaps it is better
to say part of man, lives down near Phil
aGelphia and goes frequently to the ceme-
terry to lay flowers upon the grave which
contains one of his arms and both legs,
which were lost in series of accidents
some years ago. The other day he tainted
from emotion, or some other cause. when
on one of these melancholy expeditions and
was found unconscious on the spot where
the fragments are buried. He feels that
his last days are at hand and that he will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
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