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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

The journal, its readers will affirm, can
not be accused of being a champion of
Speaker Reed. Because it has never done
so, is no reason why it should not defend
him when he is made the subject of unjust
criticism. To make him the dictator of the
House. some do, even as some ReDublic-
ans do, is even a greater insult to the Re-
publican majority in that body than njus-
tice to Mr.. Reed. On Saturday a popular
orator who seems to consider the involving
of the United States in war with Spain over
the Cuban troubles a matter of no conse-
quence, assailed Speaker Reed as being en-
tirely responsible for the refusal of the
House to act upon the Morgan resolution of
the Senate recognizing the Cuban insur-
gents as belligerents. 1t is surprising that
any one who has read the newspapers
should not know that the House has twice
by decided vote, resolved not to consider
the Senate resolution.
Representative Henry when in this civ
a few weeks ago. said that the reason
the Republicans of the House did not take
up the Senate resolution recognizing the
Cuban insurgents is because they had rea-
son to believe that such action would en-
barrass the President in his efforts to bring
the war in Cuba to an end, and that when
ever the speaker and the Republicans
should be assured that the administration
desired such recognition the resolution
would be adopted. 1t is very probable that a
cool and clear-headed member of the House
knows more about the purposes of the
House than does an orator who is evidently
willing to make a hit at the expense of
Speaker Reed, whose integrity no man can
decently question.
1t is probable that the President the SEN
ators who are in full accord with him
including Mr.. Fairbanks, Speaker Reed and
his associates in the House who understand
the purpose OF. the administration, know
vastly more about the Cuban situation and
the wiser policy for the government to pur-
sue in regard to the Cuban troubles than
any man who is not in its counses and who
magines that such interference with Cuban
affairs may involve us in war with Spain
and perhaps with other European nations
is Fourth of July topic of all engrossing
Importance. If the Cuban affair had been
kept out of the Senate, the tariff bill would
have been enacted ere this. Meantime, if
there are those impatient spirits who ex-
press their Impotence by assaiIing the Re
publican speaker and indirectly insulting
the Republicans of the House, and who
cannot wait the action of the President. let
them hasten to Key West where they can
find passage to Cuba The insurgents will
find them places in their ranks, and
machete. Just now yellow fever is a much
more effective reinforcement for the insur-
gents than the sensational orators could
be- STILL such ardor should vindicate its sin
cerity by joining the ranks of the insur-
gents in Cuba.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.

No scheme on earth can get money among
the people as quickly as improving business
and nothing will improve business as quick
ly as the new tariff bill-Elwood Call
Leader.
1t Is worthy of remark how nearly the
Improvement of business and the progress
of the tariff bill towards completion have
kept pace with each other-Martinsville
Republican.
Any law which tends to secure American
markets for American manufacturers must
necessarily be displeasing to foreign manu-
faCturerS, who, under the German law
managed to capture a good share of the
trade in the United States.-Goshen Times.
The seed of Populism sown in the Demo-
cratic party has resulted in a large crop
until now the organization, impregnated
with the idea of fiatism, is bold in its dec
larations and no longer attempts to conceal
its true hopes and aims.-Lafayette Cou-
rier.
There is no spirit of patriotism in the con-
tention that the foreigner should stand on
as good or better footing in the American
markets than American producers but this
is exactly what would result from carrying
out the ruinous policy of free trade.-Mun-
Gle Times.
The proof that the Democratic managers
and papers are not animated by the proper
American spirit. is found in the fact that
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After the Rain.


After the rain, in the freshened air,
With the streets all wet
And the tree boughs dripping.
Then is the time to Danish care
And let a troop
OF hope come tripping
Right into the heart where the cares have been
Where the silver that lines the clouds is seem
After the rain, the sunbeams sweet
Make gems of the drops
That still falling;
The small boy wades at the side of the street
And gleefally
To his mates is calling.
IT'S pleasure rare to the mudark's eyes,
And the deepest puddle's the greatest prize.
After the rain, the catalpa trees
Burden the air
With their strong perfuming;
The dead blooms fall in the rain and breeze,
And the sidewalks strewn 4.
BY the heavy grooming.
Let joyfulness rule u.s. Away with pain
In this glorious cleaning tide, after the rain!
Richmond, Ind. S. w. Gillian.
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Republican Editorial association.

Arrangements are perfected for the sum-
mer outing of the Indiana Republican Edi-
torial Association, and that of this year
promises to be one of the most pleasant
and profitable the association has ever had
The party will take the train leaving In
dianapols on the Big Four road at ILLS
a. m, July s, or the train on the Wabash
leaving Lafayette at 3:42 p. m. Arriving at
Detroit, the party will take the d. 81 G.
steamer for Mackinac island, returning in
time to attend the meeting of the National
League of Republican Clubs at Detroit
from July 13 to 10. Members should notify
the secretary at once if they contemplate
going, and should follow directions in circu-
lar sent out.
]. d. HOGATE, secretary,
Danvlle, Ind
j. A. KEMP, president,
Salem, Ind
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HiIda Stafford.

Beatrice Harraden's new story, Hilds
Stafford" is pervaded by a spirit of delicate
sadness and mild pessimism, less bitter and
less marked than that of Ships That Pass
in the Night The scene is laid in south
ern California, where Robert Stafford.
young English settler, has struggled hard
to make a home for the girl who comes
out to marry him. He has made failure
of his life at home. Looking back,
she wondered why in the name Of heaven
she had ever come out to this distant land
and got Sherself entangled in a life which
could never be congenial to her.
There was nothing to notwithstanding m
the circumstances of everyday life. nor in
the scenery. With the exception Of her
husband there was no one with whom to
speak all through the living hours Of the
day" Then come the dizziness and
monotony of the rainy season. A reservoir
in the hills above the ranch bursts and
sweeps away the result of years of patient
labor She finally breaks down and up
braids her husband for having brought Ter
out to a life of which she 1ad never Eefore
realized the awfuiness and desoattOI lie,
weak with disease and worn cut with hard
labor and anxiety. IS stricken 10 the heart
and dies giving her the freedom she longs
for This is sad story, but Il is relieved
by some bright features, and even its sad
ness is true to nature. 1t is written n
clean and scholarly style and the dcscrlp-
tfons of California scenery are good. Cloth,
81 25 Dodd Mead & Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

The wife of Washington as well as him.
self has been so much written about that
1t is not easy to say anything new about
her, but her latest biographer Anne II.
Wharton, has written an interesting book
and one that presents a clear idea OF the
simplicity dignity, domesticity and Wlfely
admiration of the Presidents wife. The
stories indicating this last virtue are droH
as. when her girl guests, neglecting to
change their dress for the family dinner.
were anxious to do so on the arrival or
some French officers, she objected, saying:
NO remain as you are; what is good
enough for General Washington is good
enough for any guest of his" No one again
ever gave similar offenSe. Mrs. Washing
toms family affections rank next in
strength to her appreciation or her nus
bands dignities. Her letters mention FREE
with the worst spelling and punctuation
that it is hoped any lady of station ever
contrived But in spite of bad spelling the
letters are interesting and contribute ma
teriallV to our knowledge of the woman ana
the times in which she lived The author
and gives much original matter compiled
from recollections and letters of Lady
Washingtons contemporaries. the book Is,
in fact, "A lively picture of the social life or
those DAYS. Its dinners, when Shad cost
ing SO was banshed from the table; its
dresses. its coaches and horses (Which soma
applauded and against which others ln-
yeighed); its routine of etiquette it's thea
ters and balls; it's economies and brave
spirit at Valley Forge; all this and much
more is set forth in a way that ADDS 10
the interest of the book. Cloth, $l.25. Scribe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

The Washington Post quotes the declara-
the effect that the farmers of Iowa are
marketing their products at less price
since the election than ever before" and
ADDS that lit is never profitable for a party
to go into a campaign appealing for votes
on the strength OF a declaration which the
average voter knows to be false" This is
true; and the Posts political friends in
Ohio, the Mclean organs. are committing
the same blunder in shouting that there has
been no Improvement In business since the
election
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

TOO Long Legislative Sessions is the
topic of the Philadelphia Press, called forth
by the adjournment of the Pennsylvania
Legislature. 1t discovers no good in long
sessions, and finds several serious objec-
tions. Instead of insuring a careful con-
sion in Pennsylvania caused most impor
tant measures to be delayed until the last
few days, to be hurried through. Many
measures were passed concerning which
many members were entirely ignorant.
Doubtless an Improvement could be made
in both long and short sessions by electing,
in many instances, ADLER men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found the following places:
NEW 1ORk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House and p. o. News Co,
CINCINNATI. L. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine
street
LOUISYILLE-C. +. Deering, northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co, sc Fourth avenue.
ST. LOUIs-Union News Company Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, D. C.--Riggs House, Ebbitt
House, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and f street
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

that Japan's rights in Hawaii would not be
assumption has no foundation In interna-
tionaI law, and the second is little less
than insulting. Secretary Sherman devotes
himself entirely to the former. and shows
conclusively that all treaty obligations ex-
pire if either of the contracting powers
loses its existence as an independent state
or changes its form of government. He
cites historic instances of this which clinch
the statement and which, with other points
made, show that the Japanese position is
entirely untenable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

The platform adopted by the Democratic
convention on Wednesday contains the fol-
lowing plank. said to have been written, or
dictated. by General Weaver
THE farmers of Iowa since the election
are marketing their products at less prices
than ever before"
We brand this statement as a lie, without
ifs and andS-a lie. We viii take the NOR
ket reports which appeared in the news
papers on Wednesday morning, the IAotn-
ing of the convention, and compare them
with the market reports that appeared in
the newspapers just one year ago on that
1afa.
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The Private soldiers View.

st. Louis Republic.
IT have Just finished reading one of Gen.
Horace POrters articles on Campaigning
with Grant, said DR.. D. N. Frazier of
reading, and while l found much in it that
was interesting and new, yet there is some
thing unsatisfying to me in all of the lit
erature of the civil war written. by officers
of both sides. They only touch the high
places. What / crave to know about that
war is what, it seems only the private
soldier can tell me- Generals saw only
what the world regards as it's great and i'm
events that marked its progress with n field
glass that sweeps too broad space to be
taken in at a single glance. / want some
of the brave fellows who were in the
their lives shot out, 20 tell me some of the
little incidents that attended their expe-
rience. want to know from them how
they prepared their stout hearts for battle
when they learned from the movements of
their officers that conflict was near, how
they felt and demeaned themselves when
the sky above them was ablaZe with shells
and the ground beneath their feet was
trembling with the roar and tumult of bat
tle how the men with whom they touched
elbows behaved-in brief l want the pri-
vate soldier to tell what he saw and ex-
perienced from the first battle in which he
took part to the time he was either parOled
or ordered by his commanding officer to
lay down his arms and go back home to re-
sumo the ways OF peace No magazine
seems TO have yet been able to get anybody
to write this sort of story, which would
portray more of the human side of that
war than is contained in all II @ labored eff
dealt only with battles and had little or
nothing to do with the real mournful trag-
edy and rOllicking comedy in the midst of
suffering and carnage. There is a fortune
present generation Graves it more than
accounts thus far written
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

entertained during their stay here. All the
cities they have visited have WED with each
other in this regard, and the result has
been series of very delightful and original
entertainments. The visitors spent Satur-
day in st. Louis, where, in addition to other
attractions they met a number of Spanish
speaking people, and from there they went
last night to Chicago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

The funeral of the late Mr.. John S. Spann
was such as he would have wished and in
keeping with his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
to a degree and conspicuous only for the
evidences of regard from valued friends.
Mr. Spann never courted publicity, but he
never shirked duty nor missed an oppor-
tunity of promoting good works, and while
he did not court popularity he had quail
ties which, in the course of long and up
right life, won him hosts of friends and
held them with hooks of steel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

The Journal congratulates the skilled tin
plate workers on having secured the ad-
vance in wages lately demanded, and it
congratulates the cities of Anderson and
Elwood on the assurance of the immediate
resumption of the tin-plate works in those
cities with a full force of operatives at
the advanced scale. The fact that the mill
owners have granted the increase shows
they are satisfied With the outlook for bust
ness, and the resumption of the works will
contribute both TO local and general pros
perity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
soldiers OF Fortune, Richard Harding
Davis's Latest Novel

Mr.. Richard Harding Davis has had
good deal of overpraise and some unde-
served censure His Van Bibber'' stories
we're rather extravagantly lauded. and
some or his later work has been rather too
harshly criticised. His new novel Sol
diers of Fortune" deserves all the praise
1t Is likely to receive, for it is an exceed
lngly good story. To begin with, it is quite
out OF the ordinary in scene plot and charI
acters. 1t is story of life in a revolu-
tionary South American state in whichV
the chief actors are not South Americans
a story of rapid movement and thrilling
interest, with several fine men in it and
one woman, whom all men readers will fan
in love with and remember as
distinct individuality. The hero is Amer
lean to the backbone, a young man who
started the struggle for life at fourteen,
and drifted from Kimberley TO Sudan, and
all over the world until he became the man.
ager of her fathers iron mines in Central
America A born leader he was, and a
leader he became, in the troublous days OF
revolution that led to happiness at last.
The men that are grouped with him in the
foreground are all endowed with life and
individuality--Mr. Langham, the mine own
er, and his son; Reggie King, the millions
aire; MacWilliams, the engineer; the young
English commander OF the President >
bodyguard, the President himself. all stand
before us not merely as folls for the hero,
but as people who have their own lives to
live, their own ambitions, cares and joys.
Soldiers of Fortune is not quite great
novel, nor a book that will hold a lasting
place in English literature, but II Is one
that every lover of good stories viii enjoy.
The illustrations are by c. ID. Gibson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

London papers, fond of ALTERATION, are
beginning to talk about the degradation
of the duchesses." This is their way OF
designating the anxiety of the modern
British aristocracy to exploit themselves
in a spectacular way, and get into the
newspapers like common people. They for
get that even dukes and duchesses are
human.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

General and Senator John B. Gordon of
for Office again, and adds: 1.-THE balance of
my days will be devoted to teaching the
people of the North and South TO love one
another" That is quite a change from the
General Gordon of war times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

1t was stated "a few days since that SEN
ator Mark Hanna had cut the wages of
those employed in his coal mines. A CO.
lumbus special to a Chicago paper says the
report is false. Instead of cutting wages
he has done ali in his power to keep them
up, paying 60 cents ton in a five-foot vein
while Mr.. Chapman, the Democratic can
didate for Governor in Ohio, pays but 81
cents ton in a three-foot vein.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

The Macon (Ga) Telegraph. which sup
ported MIR. Bryan last year hastens to
deny the assertion of Senator Stewart that
clares that 16 to is not a vote-getter, and
Organism Is the old man of the sea-
around the neck of the Democracy. This
prompt Southern protest against Bryan is
significant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

If Germany had not for many years paid
a subsidy on beet sugar she would not now
be selling the United States millions of dol
lars worth of sugar a year There is no
government in the world that does not pro-
tect it's own Industries or interests by sub
sides except the United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

That the officials of the coal-mining or
ganizations have selected the present time
for a strike is a sure indication that they
believe a general business revival is at
hand They would not have ordered gem
eral strike a wear ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

''Bryan wagon No. l." carrying two silver
orators, started from Kansas City, Kan,
Saturday, on tou" East to preach the de-
liverance Of the free coinage of 50-cent dol
lars. This IS new device of the apostles
of loud voices and exploded heresies.
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chronological.

Among the bureaus of the national gov-
eminent, which pursue scientific investiga-
ton without seeking or receiving much at
tention from the general public, is the Bu-
reau of American Ethnology, in the Smith
sonian Institution. The head OF the bureau
is Major j. w. Powell a Western man with
a military record and known throughout
the scientific world as an explorer. scientist
and ethnologist. The bureaus particular
field of work, as indicated by the act Great
ing it, is ethnolegic researches among the
American Indians and in the prosecution
of these researches it has accumulated q
great mass OF original information con-
corning the various aboriginal Indian
tribes their probable origin, their racial
relationships, their physical works, their
customs, religions, mythologies, etc. Some
of the earlier publications of the bureau
are out of print, while many of the later
ones are found in public libraries or special
book collections The latest one, being the
fourteenth annual report of the bureau, has
been received by the Journal. 1t makes
two large quarto volumes of 100 pages as'd
is a mine of original and curious informa-
ton concerning different Indian tribes The
three principal papers are: hrst one IN the
Menomini Indians; second, a translation or
the only authentic copy known of Castan-
eda's account of the Coronado eXpedltlon
through the territory now included IN
northern Mexico and southwestern United
States; third an extended account OF the
so-called ghost dance religion which
prevailed widely among the Indians of the
United States during the winter OF 1912.
The last named paper, was prepared after :
thorough and exhaustive Investigations by
Mr.. James Mooney, an Indiana man who
is making record as a valuable worker
in ethnologic science. To call these three
treaties papers is misleading, Tor each
one would make a good-sized volume. The
first occupies 1928 large pages; the second,
PSI pages and the third one 4S2 pages All
that has ever been written concerning the
ghost-dane religion, its mystic significance,
its weird ceremonies, and its widespread
influence, if collected together. would not
begin to approach the contents Of these
pages in thoroughness of investigation ana
"Reminiscences of treatment Each of the
other papers is as perfect in its lay ana i
Illustrations of great interest. Such govern
ment publications as this are not for gen.
eral distribution, and would scaicely m
terest general readers, put hey should
make Americans proud Of the work the
government is doing on scientific lines ana
of the liberal fashion in viii N the results
are published in permanent form. -~a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

Freedom of speech should be protected,
but on the glorious Fourth the orator who
devotes himself to charges of degeneracy
and doleful prediction should be repri-
manded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

Secretary Sherman's answer to the pro-
test of Japan against the proposed annexa-
ton of Hawaii is a clear and forcible pres
entation of principles which seem to be al
most self-evident The protest was based
on the ground that the Hawaiian govern
ment had no right to go out of existence
while it had treaty obligations to Japan and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

IL the owners and operators of coal mines
could get together and make a price for
coal based upon fair price for mining and
a reasonable profit, they would form a
trust that would be popular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

Our South American friends, of whom we
purchase 81 worth of merchandise as often
as they take 81 worth of ours, not in
position to find fault about our tariff.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

British empire in India is very extensive,
very impressive and all that but it is built
on quicksands, and there is always liable,
to be trouble when the piles give way.