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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

There is talk in Ohio of repeating what is
known as the corrupt practices act because
it is not enforced. The law is based on the
English purity of elections law and aims
at securing the purity Of 1.-THE ballotsby pre-
venting bribery and corruption in elections
To this end it prescribes the purposes for
which money may be expended in political
campaigns and requires an itemized report
by candidates and campaign committees of
all expenditures made by them or through
their agents. After the recent state cleo
ton the Democratic state committee filed
statement showing that it had expended
only $1,000. The statement is so glaringly
false on its face that many persons are
suggesting the repeal of the law on the
ground that it were better off the statute
books than to remain there dead letter.
The reasoning seems unsound. If the law
is right in principle the fact that it has been
violated is no reason why it should be re-
pealed. If it is weak at any point it should
be amended but what is needed seems to
be a stronger public sentiment in favor of
a similar law, and its enforcement is found
to be decidedly conducive to honest cleo
lions. The best law, however, is worthless
unless it is enforced, and right here is
where public officers and the people them
selves fail in their duty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The recent publication of the number of
clerks in the Treasury Department at
Washington from the respective States in
connection with the number to which each
is entitled. upon the basis of population.
calls to mind the surprise of a representa-
tive on ascertaining that in all the depart
ments his district had not only a much
larger number of clerks and other employees
than it is fairly entitled to. but that many
of them were unknown to lifelong residents
of the locality. He ascertained upon exam
ination that number of them had been so
many years absent from the district that
they had no knowledge of it as 1t is to-day,
and no associations which cause them to re-
gard it as home. AS often as there is
change in administration which they sus-
pect may endanger their permanency they
appeal to the man who represents the dis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29
THE LESSONS OF BURTON'S con-
EESSION.

The account which the convicted man
Burton gives of his early life could be given
by thousands who have closed careers of
disgrace and crime. He was given a good
education and moral training. His oppor-
tunities at the outset were good. The infiu-
ences of a good home and careful instruc-
ton were lost upon him. He was not vicious
at the outset, but was the victim of idle
ness. The good teaching at home and.
doubtless, of the Sunday school, could not
counterfeit the pernicious influences of the
days of idleness. His kind friends did not
see the necessity of putting him at some
regular employment when he was fourteen
or fifteen years of age They did not real
ize the Importance of teaching him, during
earlier years, that labor in some sphere is
the duty of every young man and the part
in life he must assume if he is to come to
anything. 1t is not improbable in his case,
as in thousands, that fond but foolish rela-
tives gave him the impression that what is
called toll was not for such as he, because
parents or guardians had toiled so effect
lively that he could lead a life of leisure I'M
til some light and congenial employment,
with large compensation, should come to
him. So, during the years in which charac-
ter is forming, and in which the boy and
young man should be acquainting himself
with some vocation, Burton was turned
over to aimless idleness. He found COM
panions, for there are enough idle boys in
every village in the country who should be
put to some employment to make COM
pany of idlers. Such companions are to be
found in every community, and goodly
portion of them is furnished by the best
people, who imagine that it is a kindness
to boys not to put them at some kind of
work a part of the time when out of school,
and not to trouble them with views of the
begin in innocence, but in time they be-
come more or less vicious. Their members
come to be known as fast and then as
tough. This is because aimess idleness is
an abnormal condition, at war with-well,
the Divine economy After a time they no
longer expect to engage in useful occupa-
ton, because they have come to abhor it,
so they turn to anything else to get sub
sistence. Out of the ranks of such associa-
lions come the worst criminals and sharp
ers, rather than from those who are born
in squalor and it's vices. The prospects of
boys and young men who i'll early years go
to the factories with dinner pals and return
at night with grimy hands and faces are
vastly better than those of boys and young
men the condition of whose parents makes
it possible for them to grow up in aimless
idleness The wonder is that those who are
inquiring into the causes of criminality fail
to discover the potency of idleness in filling
the ranks of crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The correspondent OF the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, who has been visiting the
Indian Territory declares. that there "are
too many white Indians . This is due to
the increasing value of the reservations and
the distribution of large sums of money
among the tribes by the government. The
title of thousands to be Indians depends
upon very small strain Of that blood. The
fact that the Indians are the richest peo-
pie per capita has stimulated marriages
with whites. Not only have white men be-
come ''squaw men" BY marriage, but
white women who are thrifty have married
Indians or half or quarter Indians, and
their nearly white children are filling the
schools which the government supports.
1t is believed that something must be done
to stop this white-Indian movement A
law defining the degree of blood which
shall constitute an Indian. has been sug-
geSted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29
THE TARIFF IN THE COLLEGES.
Free Trade Not Making Progress in
Those Institutions.

Boston JOuTIdl.
1t is undeniable that in some of our New
England institutions of learning the Eng
lish theory in political economy is still ex-
pounded with vehement partisanship, and
it may win some temporary converts among
the immature or the uniformed. But there
is ample and conclusive evidence that it
makes little permanent impression upon the
students at large, for in their political SYM
pathies they are Overwhelmingly Repub-
lican. Indeed, there is proof that the Re-
publican preponderance is now stronger
than ever.
Take Harvard for instance The presi-
dent of the university is free-trade Dem
ocrat. So are some of the professors, no.
tably those of foreign birth or affiliations.
But President Eliot himself recently ac-
knowledged that ''mest of our students are
Republicans. OF the young men who
graduated at Cambridge between 1885 and
1892 when the tariff reform propaganda
was in the heyday of it's energies. 712 sig
nified that they sympathized with the party
of protection, 365 with the party of free
trade. Since then the Republican majority
at Harvard has very heavily increased.
In other New England colleges the same
proportion holds. AT Williams the last class
which enjoyed the radical free-trade in
struction of Professor Perry contained forty
Republicans and fourteen Democrats. The
next class contained fifty-siX Republicans
and eight Democrats. A recent canvass of
Amherst showed that 50 per cent. of the
students at that sterling institution We're
Republicans. AT Princeton the Republicans,
when last enumerated, stood to the Demo-
Gratis as three to one, and three to one is
also the ratio at the University or Pennsyl-
vania. Yale used to be regarded as a
perfect 'hotbed of Cobdenism." and with
reason. There was a time when Yales
senior classes contained more free trad
ers than protectionists but the Ameri-
can side of the tariff controversy now re-
ceives more consideration at New Haven,
or the students have developed more abil-
ity TO think for themselves. for the statis-
tics of recent classes show a steady and
strong gain for protection. These are the
figures as the Yale Class Book gives them,
far
silver issue began to be disturbing factor:
1885, 1890. 1891 1892. 1898 1894
Free trade....... So 40 ~ ~ 81 A
Protection ....... 43 SO 70 50 Il Ia
Clearly the American idea wears better
than the British idea in academic as in
nolitical discussion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

An exchange complains that what is
called spiked -four is being sold as the
pure article when it is an adulteration.
Spiked flour is mixture of wheat and corn
flour. 1t is not necessarily unhealthful,
but those who pay the price for wheat flour
should have it. One objection to the corn
flour is that it is composed almost entirely
Of starch, the coarser and more nutritious
portions of the cereal having been elimi-
mated. Mixed with low-grade wheat flour,
it gives it a Wilderness which it does not pos
sess, but when it is made into bread it will
be soggy and every way inferior to bread
made of the -four of the wheat. Chemists
say that starch, in order to be digestible
should be cooked much longer than wheat
-four. Good cooks say that corn starch
needs to be cooked twice as long as wheat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

flour. This being the case bread made of
spiked flour" must be more or less indi-
gestible. 1t is said that a glucose sugar
for most of the spiked flour in the market.
Thus far the mixture has been marketed in
the South and Southwest. Corn is great
cereal 1t is often called king. Considering
its manifold uses, the title is well applied.
1t is too bad to turn it TO dishonest uses.
such as glucose to adulterate sugar. and
flour to adulterate the natural product of
wheat. k#F
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

Child nature Is essentially the same in
all ages and chimes, save as modified some
what by surrounding influences. The tale
OF the two bad boys who cried, Go up.
thou bald headn' to Elijah, to be speedily
devoured by two she BEARS, was doubt
less inserted in the Hebrew narrative of
Bible times because there were Hebrew
boys then and there needing such an adj
monition. So there were in the early Puri-
tan days of New England. From Sewalls
diary we learn that the boys of Boston, in
1862 seeing Captain Breeder in a strange
garb, made an outcry from one end of the
streets to the other, calling him a devil
The people came out of their houses to see
what was the matter" And on April l
SeWall records: Il have heard child of
six years old say within these two or three
days that one should tell man his shoes
We're unbuckled (when they were indeed
buckley, and then he would stoop down to
buckle them; and then he was an April
fool. So we find that child nature, like
human nature, is practically the same in all
ages. This idea. pervades 1.-The Young Puri-
tans of Old Hadley," by Mary p Wells
Smith. The book essays to depict the life of
Puritan children for young people. The
conversant with Puritan ideas and modes
of life, and in this book she has applied her
knowledge very pleasantly to description
of Puritan child life. The story seems to
be based, partially, at least, on historical
facts, and has enough of adventure in it to
interest young readers illustrated. New
York: Roberts Bros.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The title of this book is well chosen. 1t
deals with some of the inside workings OF
government machinery which most people
know very little about, including some in
teresting features of its administrative and
detective work. The author. Mr.. o. p. Aus
tin, is a well-known literary worker of
Washington, ID. c.. Uncle Sans Secrets
is book for young people, especially for
boys, and IL has evidently been written
with the praiseworthy purpose of interest,"
irg the rising generation in national affairs,
both by supplying such information as they
may naturally seek and by awakening in
terest in the history of the Nation. This is
done In the form of a conversational story,
which is at once interesting and instructive
for young readers. No other book has been
published that contains as much accurate
information concerning variety of gov
ernmental affairs conveyed in a manner so
well calculated TO interest and instruct
young readers as "Uncle Sans Secrets"
New York: ID. Appleton a. Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

There is no sensible reason why the fact
that a millionaire had married his house,
keeper should create a sensation. Thou
sands of men in their right minds marry
housekeepers every year, and many of
those men. strange as it may seem, are
just good as that California millionaire.
If any one feels like dsputing this last
statement, it's dollars to- crullers that he
won't say SO to the aforementioned house
keepers. 81 ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The speaker who introduced Senator Fora
ker as the toastmaster at a political ban
quet in Cincinnati, Saturday night, said:
He is a gentleman who is admired in every
quarter of the globe for his DASH his wit,
his courage, his noble manhood, his states
manship, his loyal Republicanism and his
true and patriotic Americansm." No doubt
the Ohio senator possesses all those quail
ties, but is it not putting it rather strong
to say he is admired for them lin every
quarter of the globe?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The fact that Boss Croker has declared
against the leadership of ex-senator and
Ex-Governor Hill and in favor of Senator
Murphy is causing considerable comment
in the newspapers. Those who should know
say that it does not mean that Murphy
shall be leader of the New York Democ-
racy, but that Mr.. Richard Croker desires
to be. and will betif Mr.. Murphy is made
the nominal head of the party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

Santa Claus will have as many followers
as usual this year. While the army of his
loyal subjects shall have been increased by
the addition of several thousands of new
devotees, yet perhaps just as many more
have reached the age when the appalling
information has fallen upon their ears that
the old reindeer story is a. fake
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29
Stopping the Attraction.

"Our cities are overcrow0ed, said the con-
frmed pessimist They draw the youth of
the country as the candle does the MOTH
1T is that very overerowding we are try
ing to STOP" said the earnest reformer, 'by
making the town just as moral as the
country" 81 n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The antipodes are having trouble of their
own. What with typhoons, railway wrecks
and belligenent uprisingsy of natives, the
people of eastern Asia might almost as
we'll be civilized and havespresidential cleo
tiOnS and football
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The policeman who interfered with one
OF Mayor Taggart's most useful citizens
and had his head beaten with his own club
by the azores. al useful person will not be
popular at ,..eadquarters now that the may
ors asst -ant has been sentenced to half a
wear in the workhouse on that patrolman's
evidence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29
Snsnicioms.

"Clever idea of mine, said young Mr..
Fits. sending you a typewriter letter;
wasn't it, dear?"
WAS she pretty?" Mrs. Fits demanded.
"Who?'
1.-The typewriter girl
''Er-why-yes."
Il thought so. The love passages in that
letter seemed absolutely inspired"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

During the month of October the total of
the stock of money in the United States
was increased $1S,O26OO0. If there were free
coinage of silver bullion owners metal the
minis could not put out more than eighteen
million silver dollars a month.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

There does not seem to be any necessity
for an extra session of the Legislature to
|legislate regarding the waste of gas. Ex-
isting laws are Believed to be ample. The
trouble seems to be that offenders are not
brought into court after being indicted.
No special legislation can compel prose-
cutting officers to do what they seem not
disposed to do. Public sentiment can push
if it is made emphatic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

because it means that the commerce of
China has been partitioned effectively
as if its territory had been parceled out to
the four European powers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

An enterprsing citizen Of Colorado claims
to have discovered that Mother Mckinley
is joint heir to a large fortune in Scotland.
THE estate says a dispatch. sis worth
several million dollars, and was wiled to
the American heirs years ago, with the un-
derstanding that it should not be transferred
until stated period had elapsed. The peri
cd expired some time ago" The enterpris-
ing citizen of Colorado is evidently reach
ing after a null
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

Years ago Great Britain was the only
government which had any hold upon Chi
nese territory For a long time its power
IN that quarter was undisputed 1t con-
trolled 90 per cent. of China's trade. A few
years ago Russia secured a terminus for its
vast railway at a port of China, but it
was in the north, and was ice-bound four
months in the year. Since that time Rus
STA has secured Port Arthur, and this has
Increased her warlike measures on the east
ern coast OF Asia. The French had posses
sions in the East. about some portion of
which there is a quarrel with England.
Now comes Germany, and. under the pre-
text of seeking indemnity, seizes one of
4 most desirable harbors on the coast of
China. 1t is evident that Germany pro-
poses to hold that portion of China. This
has been done to keep pace with its rivals
Tor the commerce of China. Thus China, to
the north and south of the portion of coun-
stry in which Great Britain Is interested.
IS held by Russia and Germany. Years ago
this occupation would have aroused violent
opposition in Great Britain, but thus far
ia nrotest is made to an occupation which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

An exchange imagines that the construc-
zion of seven dry docks for our naval ves-
sells in as many States will stimulate log
rolling in Congress. The secretary of the
ravy shows that the docks are necessary,
and he has named the points where they
should be located. Under such conditions
Congress should vote the money for con-
etruction upon the merits of the recon-
manhattan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

While the Journal believes that the death
sentence should be given and executed in
extreme cases. it does not believe that the
crime Of Burton, great as it was, deserves
that penalty. He did not intend to commit
murder. Doubtless he would not have en-
tered the conspiracy to rob Eldridge if he
could have known that it would involve
the probability of taking human life. He
carried a pistol 10 defend himself. as do
thousands Of others. and used it, bat not
as the result of premeditation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The foreign secretary of Austria seems to
have greater occasion to appeal TO Europe
TO assist in holding the Austro-Hungaran
empire together than in making commercial
war on the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

a. novel objection to free rural delivery
which comes from the merchants in some
country towns is that it prevents country
people from making their weekly trips to
town, thus interfering with trade. But the
farmers will have to trade all the same,
and If they do not go to town as often they
will trade more when they do CO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

II Senator Mason, of illinois. is bent on
fighting for Cuba, it is possible that the
present captain general would not object
to a few men of the senator's warlike build
landing on that island
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29
pnnte,s -piyine Comedy.

The test of great literary works is their
reproduction in successive generations and
editions. TRANSACTIONS into other languages
Is also q test Dantes Divine Comedy"
has stood all these tests. The recent revival.
or rather spread. of interest in the work
has brought forth new edition of the Rev.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

Many people mistake neglect to enforce
existing laws for an inadequacy of law.
The perfect statute is dead letter until
given life by faithful enforcement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

But two governments in the world assume
to-day to make the credit money of their
people-the council of India and the United
States. Even growing paternal Germany
does not think of such thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The way that jury at Greenfield got at
the Burton case and settled it does the law
abiding citizens of the world good. Such
things are much better and more popular
than the militia when it Comes to prevent
ing mobS. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

That was a mighty mean man who sug-
gested that it was for the health of the
public, rather than that of Hall Caine, that
the latter was adjured to let up on his
writing for a long, long time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

Every new rumor as to the falling health
Of Mr.. Gladstone and the Pope is promptly
denied, but all the same they are both at
an age when men do fail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

The year following presidential election
Is apt to furnish large number of in
stances of postoffice appointments that are
loaded, and the present year is no excep-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Misrepresented,

81 hear" said the zephyr, that you have
been raging through the Northwest
Never was a worse mistake" howled the
blizzard. Il was quite cool"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

1.-THE bravest areNthe stenderest,' quoted
the youngest neophyte. M
mo doubt" said the Cornfed Philosopher
But don't you get the idea that every tough
is a coward,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

1t is really comical, in a Sort of uncanny
way, for a murdererJin his. signed state
ment" to talk wisely and knowingly of
moral courage 4nstgst -..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

If representation is the thief of time
there is a good case of receiving stolen
goods" against Hawaii in her japanese
deal Il -.t4-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

If they want presiding officer in Vienna
who can preserve order in the Reichsrath
they had better send for Thomas Bracket
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29

Now that Senator Hanna's election seems
assured, he might cultivate political cour-
tesies to his own advantage and that of the
Republican party.