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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF A MONTH.

We are just entering the second month
since the declaration of war. 1t is well to
note what has been done in that period.
Considering the general lack of military
preparation, it is TO small achievement that
an army of $4,000 men has been got to-
gether. That army is not yet we'll equipped,
but all of it has been placed where the du-
4 ties of soldiers may be taught and where
the men can be hardened for actual service.
In a few weeks more it will be equipped and
armed. In the month the defense of our
sea coasts has been completed, and, begin
ming a few weeks earlier, we have covered
the West India waters with squadrons of
modern war ships. On the other side of the
world we have achieved victory which has
astounded the naval experts of Europe.
This has been done by a nation which had
no navy fifteen years ago, whose fortitica-
tons six months ago were incomplete, and
whose army six weeks ago was a mere skel
eton. Such result in so brief a period is
cause for glorifcation rather than criticism.
1t is not probable that any other nation,
under similar circumstances. could have &C
complished so much in so brief period.
A month ago the government was in
general condition of unreadiness. 1t had no
clothing, no camp equipage and no Quantity
of arms adequate to the putting of more
than 100000 volunteers in the field. Such
supplies cannot be obtained in day; mod
err rifles are not evoked by a military or
der, and .10O,0O0 uniforms cannot be made
and issued in a week. The best we have
has been utilized, and 10000 men are being
prepared for severe service.
Mistakes have been made, and the condi-
ton of unreadiness has made the organiZa-
ton of such an army expensive. If it were
to be done over again there would be less
haste but the haste is the result of an i'm
patience to make a demonstration. If it
were to be done again, the companies would
be examined where raised and no men who
did not intend to go to war would be
brought to the state rendezvous.
1t may be hard to convince some people
that what has been done during the first
month of the war is in the nature of
wonderful achievement, but people who
make it a vocation to find fault are not
amenable to facts or reason.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Sir Henry Irving's income has for the
past ten years been fifteen thousand pounds
per annum. At one time, as he proudly
confesSeS, he was continually solving the
problem of how to live on one pound
week.
w. r. B. Beach. M. p, holds the record
as the silent member. 1t is said that he
election meeting on the ground that dur
ing nearly forty years of parliamentary
life, he had never opened his mouth in the
House.
Admiral Dewey, 1t is said, has never voted
in a political election in his life. holding
as so many of the older men in the army
and navy do that an officer ought not to
dabble in politics, but serve his country.
no matter who is in power" simply up
holding the existing administration with
out comment or question.
IF Mr.. Du Maurier were still alive" says
the London Daily News. ''he would be
tempted to deal with little incident of
recent occurrence. A member of the House
of Commons. having written to make in
quiry about the health of an acquaintance,
received the following answer: In reply to
your kind letter to hand this morning / have
to inform you of the unpleasant news that
our dear brother has passed from earth to
heaven.
All code books carried on warships have
leaden backs, to make them sink If lost
overheard. The letters in the book. more
ever. are printed with peculiar ink, which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
A CoNsCIENCELEss CLAMoR.

Now that it is said to be settled that Cuba
will not be invaded until fall, the news
paper strategists and the politicians in
Washington who critcse and refuse to vote
supplies will make loud cutlery. They can
see no reason for delay, or at least they
will so declare. They do not claim to be i'm
patient but they would have the country
believe that the people are impatient. They
desire to work up such a feeling. Some of
them regard it good politics.
In a month the authorities have collected
an army of 10000 men. OF this army about
% GOO the regulars, are equipped and dis
ciplned Most of the other 125OOO are not
properly armed and equipped for cam
paign They have not been hardened to the
seventies of field service. To be effective
they must be disciplined; to make a cam
paign in such climate as that of Cuba the
volunteers need weeks of gradual accli-
matization.
To rush these half equipped undriled
men from the temperate climate of the
greater part of the United States into the
tropical climate of Cuba. at the worst sea-
son of the year. would be disastrous. Thou
sands would die and tens of thousands
would be broken by disease. There is no
peril requiring that the young men of the
country should thus be made the victims of
disease. If the lives of thousand men can
be saved by taking time to prepare them
for severe service and by delaying the in
vasion of Cuba until the rainy season shall
10 tha ho
men who make up that army come from
the homes of the land, to which they are as
dear as are the lives of those who remain
behind. Their relatives. who have consented
that these volunteers shall serve the coun-
try, have a right to demand that their lives
shall not be sacrificed to an unreasoning
and brutal demand that they be hurried to
Cuba to die of disease rather than by fight
ing the enemy. And the constituencies
demagogues and newspapers that are be-
ginning to clamor ION to Cuba" may under
stand nowlas well as later that the patriot
ic people of the country will not join them
in such brutal demand.
The command of the army Is vested in
military men of long experience and of as
CeItdlheu skill. Inc people can trust the
Mileses, the Merritts and the Lees to de-
termine the fittest time for invasion and the
quality of the preparation necessary to
make that invasion the most effective and
the least costly in the lives of American
soldiers. If these men are convinced that it
is wise to strike with part of the army
at an early day, let it be done; it, on the
loo
unteers in camp until October, let them do
so. Spain can gain nothing by such delay,
and an expenditure of two or three hun
dred million of dollars is not to be thought
of in comparison with the useless and really
wanton sacrifice of five or ten thousand
men
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24

tale. 1t was entertaining and ingenious,
but would not bear critical analysis; there
are. in fact, many inconsistent features in
it-theories he must have known to be i'm
possible of practical application, and that
he would have modified had he meant to
produce anything more than pleasing tale.
The interest taken in the book and it's
great. though transient, popularity prob
ably surprised him more than any one else.
His later work on the same line was no
doubt done with an entirely different mo-
tive, but either the inspiration lacking
or interest in nationalism had worn itself
out, for comparatively little attention was
given it. But, however this may be, and
whatever his purpose in writing the first
book he did his generation a service in
giving it some fresh thoughts on the subject
of its daily life-thought that would tend
to the improvement of its ways of living
even though~the idyllic state described were
not possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24

The late department commander of the
Grand Army, James S. Dodge, in his adj
dress before the Columbus encampment,
made aluson to Representative Over
street when he said:
Recent legislation. through the efforts of
one of lndiana'S brightest young men, and
the son OF veteran, member of Congress
from the Seventh district, has placed the
pension beyond the attack of those in au-
thority, whose greatest desire seems to be
to Wreak their revenge upon those who SO
nobly assisted in compelling a perfect union
of the States.
The legislation alluded to is the bill which
prohibits the dropping of the name of
pensioner from the rolls without his being
notified and given fair hearing before
special examiner at the place of his resi-
dence. 1t puts the pension upon the basis of
vested right the same as a title to real
estate. The National Encampment has twice
Endorsed this measure, and it's pension COM
mittee is now asking it's passage 1t was be-
cause the late commander understands the
Importance of such legislation, and that the
organization of which he was the head in
Indiana demands it that he recognized the
work to which Mr.. Overstreet has devoted
himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
THE NrcAkAGuA CANAL.
senator Dnvis Thinks 1t should BE
Built by the Government.

NEW YORK. May pa dispatch to the
World from Washington says: Congress
will soon be called on TO decide the sues
ton of building canal connecting the At
lantic and Pacific oceans. Chairman Davis.
OF the Senate foreign relations committee.
said: The need for a connection between
the Atlantic and Pacific cannot be oues-
toned. Our interests demand It, With a
canal between two oceans I'm operation now
We would have nothing to fear from an
attack on our Pacific coast AS IL, is. it
would take us sixty days to send our flee
around the horn to the Pacific coast cities
with the canal We could dispatch men-of-
war TO san Francisco from New York in
fourteen days. With a liberal appropria-
ticn-say $4,000 .000-a canal could be con-
structsd through Nicaragua that would he
of value to the United States government
for all time 10 come. The Maritime Canal
Company, which is endeayoring to sell its
interests to the government, started the
canal some years ago and considerable work
was done. when the hard times ~ 9-e2
came along and struck death blow to the
enterprise. This company succeeded in get
ting certain concessions which ID still re-
tains and II is but right that the United
States should buy these concessions and
pay the canal company for the work IL
has already done. / do not know Just how
much II accomplished, but | am told that
considerable excaVating has been done on
the Pacific side of the canal The company
has some dredgers, scowS etc. which we
could well afford to buy -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII.
Senator White Suggests Suspension of
Agitation Till the War Is Over.

WASHINGTON. May 23--The question of
the annexation of the Hawaiian islands has
been revived in the Senate to certain ex-
tent since the Hawaiian resolutions were
reported in the House, and the friends of
annexation have been quoted as expressing
a determination to press the House resolu-
ton in the Senate during the present ses-
sion. in case it should pass the Houses, for
fear that the short session would not af-
ford time to secure it's thorough considera-
ton. The opponents of annexation declare
they will not agree to the revival of the
question in any way in the Senate before
the adjournment of this session, and some
of the Democratic. opponents do not hest
tate to say that rather than have the
Hawaiian question reconsidered they will
debate the war revenue bill indefinitely.
Senator White. who has been one of the
most persistent opponents of annexation, to-
day gave the Associated Press the follow
ing outline of his position on the question:
Before the present Congress assembled 1t
was stated that the treaty would be pressed
This was not done. On the contrary, the
matter was not called up until we were well
into January. The debate was quite active
for while then the subject was dropped
because the friends of the treaty were
short of votes and has not since been re-
Vived in the Senate. If any attempt is made,
now that the time for adjournment ought
to be near, to reagitate annexation under
the resolution theory, the result cannot be
favorable to an early disposition of the inn
portant legislation pending in Congress. but
will keep Congress in session all summer
The power to admit a territory or depend
ency by resolution is doubtful. Texas came
in by resolution, but was admitted as
State under provision of the Constitution
expressly giving Congress the right to adj
nit new States. This and many more
equally cogent arguments will be elaborated
81 sKafr -ha
publicly debated. The sensible thing to do is
TO suspend further proceedings on the sub
iect of annexation until the war with Spain
is over and we face the new problems re-
sulting from our success at arms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
THOSE "MORRO CASTLES"
How 1t Happens that They Are So Nu-
merOus i'm and About Cuba.
Cleveland Leader.


Readers of war news must be struck by
the number of MORO Castles" with which
our forces have to deal. Havana's fort of
that name is the best known building in
Cuba. When Admiral Sampson went down
to Porto Rico to shake up the Spaniards
there the principal fortitication he had to
deal with was another Moro Castle. And
now comes word of an attack by American
war ships upon third MORO Costle at San
tiago de Cuba, the most important port in
the southeas stern part of the island. some
pened that no such castles were encoun-
tered at Matanzas, Cardenas and Cienfue-
gos
The explanation of this recurrence of the
name Moro Castle" is found in the fact
that the word MORO means ''promon-
tory" Many of the harbors of Cuba are
remarkable land-lockedI bays. opening to
the sea through narrow channels usually
long and deep They are shaped somewhat
like a mans hand. with the fingers more or
less spread and the wrist reduced in size.
At Havana. Santiago and some other ports
one side of the channel connecting the inner
bay with the sea ends in bold, rocky head
land The opposite point is lower and less
conspicuous. Where the higher and sleeper
angle of the shore. between the channel of
the harbor entrance on one side, and the
open sea on the other, is crowned by an
elaborate fort formidable in the times when
1t was erected this fertilization is usually
and naturally named MORO Castle. or THE
Castle of the Promontory."
AT Cienfuegos there is no such fort. al
though the harbor is one of the typical bays
of the Cuban coast. with narrow entrance
One reason is that the city is comparative
~ new. and it has become place OF inn
portance since the era when Spain forufed
her American possessions with the massive
and picturesque stone castles which modern
artillery has rendered nearly useless. Be-
sides. the shores are much lower there than
at Santiago. or even Havana. San Juan. the
chief city of Porto Rico. has plenty of room
for a Castle of the Promontory," and it
was natural that there should be a MORO
Castle" TO fight at that port. Matanzas and
Cardenas are rather low parts of the
a,aH he lot = a n
they have no MORO Castle"
This explanation is sufficient to show why
the name made familiar by Havana's pic
turesque old fort is appearing constantly in
the dispatches. and why ii is necessary to
discriminate between the various MORO
Castles" which figure in the news of the
duU
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
Among its violent and hysterical remarks

Among its violent and hysterical remarks
made from time to time on the matter of
the school SUPPLEMENTARY the News has
repeatedly asserted that majority of the
Indianapolis teachers were opposed to the
trusted him. The teachers have a right to
it were true they naturally object to being
put by others in an attitude of direct an
tagonsm to their chief; but, as a matter of
fact, the assertion is one whose truth the
paper making it has had no means of ascer-
tanning. The teachers of the city have
not held a mass meeting to express their
opinions as to the SUPPLEMENTARY; they
have passed no resolutions in regard to that
office nor has a canvass been made by the
School Board or other persons to secure
their views on the subject. Neither as a
body nor as individuals have they discussed
the matter publicly. On the contrary, they
have as a rule, been reticent, and very
properly SO. They knew that whatever their
views might be they would have no in
fluence on the decision of the board and
that it was folly to put themselves on rec
ord one way or another. Where one teach
err spoke freely on the matter to her friends
a dozen were silent. OF those who did speak
not all, certainly, were opposed to Mr.. Goss,
for it is within the Journals knowledge
that a considerable number, and these
among the most progressive teachers, de-
sired his reelection, and believed that
change would not be for the benefit of the
schools. If a majority opposed him they
have concealed their objections very sue
cessfully
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
United States to an irredeemable paper

United States to an irredeemable paper
money basis.
Senator Turpie shows his usual ignor-
arce of recent financial history when he de-
clares that a suspension of specie pay
ments lis the first effect, of war" In the
Crimean war, struggle involving large
cost. neither Great Britain nor France sus-
pended payments; in the Italian war of 1850
France did not suspend specie payments;
in the Prusso-Austran war Germany did
not; in the last mighty struggle on the
continent, in which Germany was VIC
torious, Germany did not suspend specie
payments. Spain, a bankrupt nation has
already suspended payment and as the
suit it's unconvertible paper money lost
third of its purchase power in ten days.
The Lincoln administration succeeded to
an empty treasury and ruined credit. It's
predecessor had failed to negotiate TWEEN
ty-fve-m ilion-dollar loan for less than ~
per cent. With great and uncertain war on
its hands, Secretary Chase urged an issue
of promises-to-pay which were made legal
tender, because per cent. bonds did not
command par. Since that date all things
have changed. The government can sell
3h per cent. bond for more than par in
gold. Instead of a large balance of trade
against us, as there was during the war,
foreign trade has so turned in our
favor that s75O00,0O0 of gold has come to us
in the past three months. The stock of the
worlds money is considerably more than
twice as large now as it was in 1861. In
view of such facts it would be a national
disgrace and crime to suspend specie pay
ments.
Indiana had one great financier during the
period of the war. Under his wise guidance
the Bank of the State of Indiana did not
1t need not be said that this allusion is to
the late Hugh McCuloch. He was secre-
tary of the treasury when the war closed.
and in that capacity began to retire the
outstanding greenbacks to the end that the
country might come to specie payment. He
regarded the issue of unconvertible paper
as a great evil. Hugh McCulloch knew
vastly more about finance and currency
than does David Turpie. The business
world does not desire fiuctuating cur
rency; the labor of the country does not
desire to be cheated of wages by being
forced to accept payment in deprecated
paper money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
MORE TURPIEAN PALACES.

Yesterday attention was called to Senator
Turpie's Justification of the history of abe
issue. depreciation and restoration of the
greenback to par, SCI forth in his re-
markable speech IN the Senate one day last
week. 1t is interesting. if not instructive.
to determine the purpose of Mr.. Turpie in
urging an issue of greenbacks Those who
read his speech will not long be kept in
ignorance of his design. THE first effect of
war" he says, lis a suspension of pay
ments," meaning specie payments. That
seems to be his hearts desire 1t will please
some people whose assistance he desires
this fall to continue him In the Senate to
have the United States forced to an ire
deemabe paper. money. The fiat-money
contingent will be held to the support of the
reelection OF Mr.. Turpie by degrading the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24

fades away when it comes in contact with
the water. To make things still more safe,
the letters are changed every few months
by the Navy Department. Even the
war ships few officers know their vessels
official signal code.
The views of the medical men as to the
injurious effects of hard cycling seem to be
borne out by the fact that in the last batch
of conscripts for the French army no less
than eight well-known cyclists, some of
them with International reputation. were
rejected as physically unfit for service, hy-
pertrophy ard other diseases of khe heart
being the chief causes of these reflections.
which astonished the victims of the con-
scription themselves.
IT'S limited that the powers that be
Are just bit in doubt
What military tactics to
Adopt to best win out
But helps at hand Throughout the land,
In just week or two.
Commencement Day orations
Will advise them what to do
Washington Post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
CONSULAR SERVICE CHANGES.
Several Promotions and New Appoints
menfs hY the Presidenf


ments by the President.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-The President
to-day sent these nominations to the Sen
ate: William Woodville Rockhil of the
District of Columbia now envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary and con-
sui general to be envoy extraordinary and
minister penipotentiary to Greece, Rou-
mania and Servia; Rounsevelle Wildman. Of
California. now consul at Hong Kong, to be
consul general at Hong Kong, China:
George +. Lincoln. of Connecticut now con-
sui at Antwerp, to be consul general at Ant
werp, Belgium Edward d. Winsow, of Illi-
nois, now consul at Stockholm to be consul
general at Stockholm, Sweden; Oliver j.
Hughes. of Connecticut, now consul at
Sonneberg to be consul al Coburg. Ger
At Aaron, sWlfzerland T. George PC '0ni H.
jackson, of Connecticut, con-
SUI at Cognac, to be consul at La
Rochelle France; Edmond H. Brodowski ~
Illinois, now consul at Furth, to be consul
at Solingen, Germany GALL of the foregoing
to take effect July l, 1881 Richard r. Green
er, of New York, recently confirmed as cons
f sui at BOMBAY, TO- be consul at vadisvos-
RADIO, to be second assistant secretary of
the embassy at St. Petersburg. Russia:
Rufus A. Lane, of California, to be secre-
tary of the legation to Nicaragua. Costa
RIGA and Salvador; Charles r. Macrum. of
Ohio, TO be consul at Pretoria, South At
rican Republic nomination of Mr. McC'rlIm
as consul at Tayti withdrawn; Victor F.
Wilson. to be consul at Bergen. Norway.
Thomas Eeedy Rhodes. of Pennsylvania.
and Ralph Thompson Orvis of California
to be assistant surgeons In the navy
Henry Terrell, United States attorney for
the Western district Of Texas John Bower.
Jr. assayer in charge of United States as
Fay office. st. Louis James Jeffreys sur
yeyor Of customs Memphis, Tenn: James
g. Reid, Indian agent. Cheyenne river
agency. in South Dakota; nomination of w.
H. Randolph withdrawn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24

The people of the United States are such
out their individual enterprises with such
expedition that they grow impatient with
what seems the unnecessary slowness of
the government in handling the army They
forget that the organizing. equipping and
training of such a body of men is much
greater than any private undertaking. and
is work of such different character that
its progress cannot be measured by ordi-
nary standards. BY this time next year
they will look back and see that in reality
10 time was lost in getting the troops into
the field. but that all possible haste was
nsed.