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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
THE ADVANTAGE OF DELAY.

This country has nothing to lose but much
to gain by reasonable delay in action in
regard to Cuba and Spain. Every day that
passes gives the United States the adj
vantage of better preparation, and prep
aration in the event of a naval war means
everything. On the other hand, delay dis
closes the weakness of Spain. The fact is.
Spain is in extremity. Spain has attempted
to borrow money in all the markets of
Europe and has failed. Her old creditors
have refused further credit More than
this, they have told Spain that there must
be no war. The Spanish Ministry has APP
piled to government after government for
sympathy, and has found none which goes
to the degree of material assistance. Spain's
agents have made the rounds to purchase
ships, and, while negotiations have been
announced, the report of failure to purchase
has followed. This is because the interests
which control credit in Europe have closed
the markets and made even political alli-
ances impossible. 1t is this fact which led
the representatives Of the Rothschilds to
say few days ago with confidence that
there will be no war. Quietly but surely
the credit interests of Europe are crowding
Spain. Thus is Spain in the desperate con-
dticn of extremity. Gradually the Weylers
will realize it, as. the Sagasta Ministry now
does
On She other hand, delay, if there is to be
war, is in our favor. and if delay will lead
to an honorable avoidance of war, so much
the better. In a month we will be much
better prepared for war if it is to be- we
will have more ships, better manned and
equipped, two months hence than now We
have no troops that could be spared for
war at the present time, and can have none
until Congress shall authorize the President
to raise them. The President cannot de-
clare war, yet there are thousands of men
in the country who are berating him for
not doing what is the exclusive function of
Congress.
The policy of the President seems con-
sistent with his knowledge of the situation
so far as the effect of delay upon the two
countries is concerned. Nothing that he
has done has afforded the least ground for
an assumption that he has weakened in his
declared purpose to bring the war to an end
In Cuba. Before the most of us, the Presi-
dent and his advisers have realized the ex-
tremity Spain is in. When sensible people
understand it as he does they will favor
reasonable delay. The number of men who
want war for the sake of war are few. and
could not be relied upon to fight battle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
SURPRISING THE NEWS
STRICT CENSORSHIP ESTABLISHED
BY SPANISH AUTHORITIES,
Newspapers Not Permitted to Print
Te1egrnmS or Telephone Hessages
Concerning the CrsSis.

NEW YORK, March % "A dispatch to the
World from Madrid says: Instructions
have been given since Friday night to the
press censor TO stop all foreign and domes-
tic press telegrams-and even telephone
messages-containing news unpaIatabe to
the government, Unauthorized details of
naval and military preparations, of the
movements of war vessels particularly OF
the flying squadrons. of the purchase of yes
sells of war and stores abroad are especially
interdicted. Hitherto no step had been
taken to prevent the Madrid press from
publishing frequent abundant information,
The same press censor will also stop tele-
grams sent from Madrid to newspapers in
America, England. France when they con-
tain news which is deemed likely to create
alarm. Therefore the people now are at the
mercy of rumors propagated by word Of
mouth or the post, which is much worse
The Liberal says that on Saturday several
hundred telegraph and telephone messages
Were stopped by the press censor at Mad
rid The governments action has caused
profound sensation, not only in Madrid, but
throughout the provinces. Even the minis
terial newspaper; the Liberal, SIDES with the
majority of the press in censuring vigor-
ously measure which, it says. is calcu-
lated to increase the national anxiety, be-
cause most people 'surmise that the rela-
tions between Spain and the Emitted States
have got into very critical stage indeed
when Liberal Cabinet decides to be more
rigorous with the press than was Canovas,
and worse than the reactonary Cabinets OF
1884 and 1885,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
JACKSON AND JEFFRIES.
Two Heavy Weights Ready for Their
Battle This Evening.

SAN FRANCISCO, March N.-A great
deal of interest being manifested in the re-
suit of the fight between Peter Jackson and
Jim Jeffries, which will be decided at Wood
wards pavilion tomorrow night. jackson
has undergone a six weeks preparation,
and much to the surprise of his many adj
riirers he has shown great form in the last
week or ten days. He is apparently strong,
and so far as boxing is concerned has lost
none of his cleverness or agility, still hav
ing those quick, peculiar blows that won
him so many battles. Jackson will weigh
1876 pounds. He has taken off but ten or
fifteen pounds. A close observer of pugi-
lists has this to say of Jacksons chances:
There is no doubt that the contest depends
in his case all precedents concerning age
and fast living of pugilists do not apply to
him. then he should prove winner. / be-
lieVe that Jackson will endeavor to make
the contest q short one realizing that the
longer it lasts the better it wiz be for JEFF
matters he will find in Jackson defensive
fighter who has no equal among heavy
weights and while Jeffries may 'rought it
a little ne will not rush a la Sharkey.
Youth and strength are the two principal
aids that Jim Jeffries will have on his side.
measuring six feet one inch, and weighs
more by about twenty pounds. He will ELI
ter the ring at 2l5 pounds. AL things con-
sidered, it will be a contest between two of
the largest men in the pugilistic world to-
day, and has been very aptly styled the
Jeffries 10 to s, with prospects of odds even
ing up by Tuesday night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22

The Philadelphia Press, after quoting the
extract from the sermon of the Rev. Low
den in versailleA respecting the acquittal
OF Hughes, comments as follows:
If there are ministers who propose to side
with crime and especially lynching in this
way it is time society knew it and was pre-
pared to protect itself against the new dam
ger. 1t would be unfair; of course, to judge
the ministry in Indiana, or even minority
of its members, by the Rev. Lowden. He is
evidently a demagogue who has mistaken
his calling. His church should promptly
deal with his case and make it plain to him
that his place is in haranguing a mob and
not in addressing a respectable audience
from the pulpit.
There is every reason to believe that he is
a preacher recognized by regularly or
ganized church government which approves
the blasphemy of Lowden; nevertheless, the
authorities of the Methodist Church who
have jurisdiction over this man owe it to
the church / nd to the people of Indiana to
depose him from the ministry as soon as
it is ascertained that he made the state
ments attributed to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
THE OUTRAGE OF AN AposTATE.

The Chicago Chronicle is paper which
was. during the campaign of 1896, the most
intense opponent of the Chicago platform
and the bitter assailant of Ex-Governor
Altgeld. devoting column after column to
efforts to prove his dishonesty as an official.
Only year ago it could not support Mr.
Harrison for Mayor because several mem
bers OF the gang were his friends Early
last summer it turned to the 16-to-1 heresy.
and since that time has been it's most siren
uous supporter. In the pending election of
aldermen 1t is giving cordial support to the
members of the gang whom Mayor Harri-
son would have defeated. 1t has not at
tempted to explain it's fsce-about
AT the same time that the Chonicle re-
pudiated its record it became the most un-
scrrpulous and malignant of the assailants
of President Mckinley. In it's Issue of Mon
day it has long dispatch from it's Wash
ington correspondent, in which the Presi-
dent is represented to be in a state of COL
lapse, broken in health and spirit because
of the responsibilities which the Spanish
troubles have brought to him. In the same
issue appears shameless cartoon which
represents the President as panic-strick-
en-, cringing creature
This is simply infamous. Even if there
were ground for such statements. a paper
published by men who have a Particle of
patriotism and respect for the executive Of
q great nation would not flaunt them in
double-leads and accentuate them with a
hideous caricature. The truth is there is
no cause for such assertions. The strain
upon the President has been great because
such responsibility has not come to a Presi-
dent since Lincoln as has fallen upon the
shoulders of Major Mckinley. Neverthe-
less, correspondents who meet the President
or desire to be fairly informed concerning
him assert that he is carrying himself as
becomes one holding his position. The cor
respondent of the New York Herald, in an
article copied in yesterdays Journal says
that since Congress showed its confidence in
the President by voting the $50, 200 900, he
has displayed confidence and cheerfulness.
1t Is not so much that such lies and Carl
catures as those which the Chronicle pub
hshed Will do the President injustice as
'nat they VIII affect the people. A feeling
that the President Is without purpose at the
present time, on the part of the people,
would create general distrust and very soon
react upon the prosperity of the land
Doubtless this is what the Chronicle de-
sires and is anxious to bring about that its
own shameless apostasy may be forgotten
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22

Demagogues in Congress and in editorial
rooms have undertaken to make the coun
try believe that the President is pursuing a
timid and compromising policy in regard to
Spain because he is surrounded by men of
wealth, manufacturers. bankers and capt.
talists. Senator Mark Hanna has expressed
the opinion that there will be no war, and
Senator Elkins and others who are regarded
as men of wealth have in answer to ques-
tons, expressed. similar opinions, coupled
with the wish that war might be avoided
Several bankers have given out similar
views. Some of these men are the associ-
ates of the President. This is enough for
the ever-ready demagogue. Commercial
considerations are having their weight with
the President" he declares in speech and
editorial THE President would be all
right said another in the House. were he
not surrounded with men to whom CONNER
cial considerations are above patriot
ISM" wall street does not want war"
shouted a particularly vigorous denouncer
OF corporations. ''and the President heeds
Wall street.
These declarations are put forth By these
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
PATRIOTS ARE NUMEROUS.
Another Man Who Would Fight Don
BOmbastes FuriOsO in MasOn's Place.

WINONA, Mimi, March 21.--In response
to the CHI lllenge of Baron Ell Cardo. Mar
quis of Altavilla, Madrid, Spain, to fight
duel with Senator Mason, of Illinois. for
the latter's utterances in the United States
Senate, DIR. George Powell. of La Crosse,
has cabled to Madrid the following accept
ance OF the challenge in Mason's stead to
Baron Ell Cardo:
Through the press dispatches / am in
formed that you have challenged Senator
Mason to mortal combat for words spoken
in defense of his position as the champion
of the patriotism and principles of his coun-
try and its people in the United States.
with usual Spanish generosity selecting
your own weapon. Now as Senator Mason
has spent lifetime in the pursuit OF
most humane calling, and in the walks of a
civilization which has but poorly fitted him
to meet bully at arms, as one who has
admired and now indorses the Objectionable
a plainsman, Westerner, one of a class
known as typical American, typical because
price, because it believes that murder in the
first degree cannot be paid for with gold,
hereby accept your challenge, and name the
army pistol the old forty-four, the agent of
civilization. the instrument with which the
American pioneer measured justice to as
sassins, and while earnestly assuring you
and all your kind that thousands or men
of my type stand ready to step in my
tracks and pick up my pistol. If 1T should
fall l sincerely thank the representative
of thousand years of barbarism for the
opportunity to fire the shot in revenge for
the Yankee sailors who fed the sharks in
the bottom of Havana bay"
The above was sent March IL, but was not
made public until to-day DR.. George +:
Powell is a noted Western plainsman and
Indian fighter who followed the fortunes of
the army for thirty years in the capacity OF
scout and guide in the numerous nlndian
wars, serving with distinction under every
general of the army west of the Mississippi
river during his term of service. So vau-
able had been the services rendered by him
20 the army that he has been the recipient
of many mementoes from his commanders,
notable among 6hem being a magnificent
sver~mounted revolver costing $3.50 and pre-
sented by the late Gen. George A. Custer.
DR.. Powell is about fifty years of age and
well-known physician of Lacrosse. DR..
Powell is a boon companion of such noted
frontiersmen as Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill,
Texas Jack and others of equal note.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY CRUSADE.
Ex-Presidents Harrison and Cleve-
land Write to Chicago Ministers.


CHICAGO, March 21-At the meeting of
the Methodist Ministerial Association to-
day the Rev. John Lee, chairman, read a
report of the committee on religious lib
erty for Protestants in South America"
The report stated that the committee was
greatly encouraged 1t aims to accomplish
three things: s.stf
'First-To secure religious liberty for mis-
scenarios working in the republics of Peru
Ecuador and Bolivia. ss.,y5s,
"Second-To secure religious liberty for
native Christians who dissent from the Ro-
man Catholic faith.
"Third-To secure in the South American
republic the fullest civil liberty for foreign
ers and native-born Professionals especially
by legalization of marriages performed by
others than the clergy of the Catholic
Church." ,
The committee, It was stated, asks moth
ing more for the Protestafits in South Amer
lean republics than Is scheerfully accorded
to Roman Catholics in this republic" Let
ters had been addressed ito prominent men
in various parts Of Christendom stating the
aims of the committee, and q large number
of replies have been received Among them
was one from ex-President Cleveland, who
wrote: Il am an advocate OF the largest
liberty to all people in our own land, and
am strongly in favor of any movement hav-
ing for it's object the perfect security and
absolute freedom in the, South American
states of our citizens sojourning or residing
there. The demand for such freedom, it
seems to me, is only reasonable and just
Ex-Presdent Harrison replied: Certainly
the religious liberty which is now univer-
sally given by Protestant countries to citi-
zens and residents of the Roman Catholic
faith calls for reciprocal treatment in Ro>
man Catholic countries"
The Rev. John w. Butler, of Mexico, in
his reply referred to a conversation he had
had with President Diaz. who said: THE
clergy in my country are not all tolerant
ligiOuS and civil liberty at all costs"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
choxnnki Nay Never Fight Again.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 21-Joe Choyn-
ski who for fourteen years has been one of
the star pugilists in the roped arena, the
hero of fifty fistic battles, probably will
never again shy his castor into the ring.
Joe is suffering from blood poisoning and
the doctors have found it necessary to use
the knife to relieve him They
that he would need six months IF absolute
rest to regain any sort of physical trim.
While his present condition undoubted-
ly FASTENED by the training for his battle
with Sharkey 1t is plainly the result of
sapping of the system by continued condi-
tioning for battle 1t began to tell on
Choynsh about three weeks ago. just pre-
vicus to his last battle He said nothing
about his ailment until after the contest,
when he weak that he could hardly
stand 1t is doubtful if he will ever enter
the ring again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
RECALLS A STRANGE STORY.
Miss Theresa Wales, of Louisville,
Ny, Tells of "a Naval Mufiny.

LOUISVILLE, KY. March 2.--A state
ment given out to-day by Miss Theresa
Wales, a nun, establishes the identity of a
man who was the principal character in a
dark affair in the history of the United
States navy. In 1912, during President Ty-
ler's administration, a mutiny, led by Mid
shipman Philip Spencer. son of Secretary
of War John c. Spencer, was discovered on.
board the United States brig of war Som
ers as the craft was off the coast of Ma
deira W. J. Wales, purser of the boat, in
formed Capt. Sidell Mackenzie. who was in
command, and after a trial, in which he
protested his innocence, Spencer was
hanged on board ship with two fellow-con-
spirators Miss Wales says that Wales. the
informer, was her father. He died here
some time ago. Although it is not generally
known, Wales was discharged from the
navy by Secretary Spencer soon after the
attempted mutiny and the latter pursued
Wales relentlessy. After leaving the navy
Wales drifted from place TO place. secur-
ing employment in many cities. only soon
to lose it. some unknown influence seeming
to be at work against him. Like the wan
dering Jew. he drifted about until ne nnal-
ly shook off his pursuers and lost his iden-
ifx
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22

WASHINGTON, March 21.-Representa-
tive Wheeler. of Alabama, to-day introduced
in the House the following resolution:
Resolved. That a joint committee, con-
sisting of seven members of the Senate, to
be appointed by the Vice President, and
seven members of the House. to be appoint
ed by the speaker. be created to consider
the question of our relations with Spain
growing out of the Cuban question; that all
messages heretofore received or which may
hereafter be received from the President re-
ferring to this question be referred to said
committee; that such committee be author
lied to send for persons and papers, to take
evidence and 10 administer oaths to wit
nesses; that said committee be authorized
to employ a clerk and one assistant, a ste
nOgrapher and messenger, and that said
committee report with as little delay as pos
sible the true conditions which prevail in
Cuba, what portion of the Spanish debt Is
a burden upon revenues collected in the
island. the protection given to Americans
and American interests in the island by the
Spanish government, and the truth regard
ing the inhumanities and atrocities which
have come to our knowledge through semi
official and other sources. The committee
will also recommend to Congress what
action should be taken by this body. The
committee shall have authority to report at
any time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22

was for forty years a slave Before the
war he purchased his freedom for 5000,
overtime and on Sundays He is living
with his NTH wife, and is the father OF
eighteen children.
According to Professor Low. of the Munich
Brewing Academy who has returned to
Germany after teaching four years in
Japan, the national beverage of the Japan
csc, known as sake a rice wine, has been
breWed in that country for more than two
thousand years. 1t contains between IA and
is per cent of alcohol about five times as
much as the Bavarian beer.
Recent litigation among the heirs of Jo-
seph Jencks. who lived in Lynn, Mass, dur
ing the middle of the seventeenth century
has developed the fact that he was among
the first persons TO whom patents were is
sued in this country. One of his inven-
tons. an Improvement upon the old Eng
fish grass scythes, was conceived in 1862
and Is still in use in this country and in
Europe.
Speaker Reed recently wished to see a
political friend on some very important
business and telegraphed him to come at
once to Washington. The friend took the
first train, but a washout on the road soon
he sent this message: "Washout on the
lire; can't come, to which in due time he
received the following reply from the Maine
statesman: Buy new shirt and. come
anyway.
The will of the late Isaac A. Sheppard,
stove manufacturer in Philadelphia, con-
tains provisions for the payment of a sum
equal to two weeks pay to each person who
had been in his employ two years or more
To religious and charitable institutions Mr..
Sheppard beQueathed $4,000. He set apart
81 ,50O, the income of which is to be applied
to the purchase of gold and silver medals
for meritorious graduates of the manual
training schools ae
In Lady Gregory's newly published rem
iniscences she says of George Tvs trip to
Ireland in 1921 1.-THE King arrived after a
good passage, during which much goose
pie and whisky had been consumed. Word
had just come of the death of Napoleon at
st. Helena. The story goes that Sire,
was GREETED with When did she die%
was his response. But the Queen was in
deed also dead
John Burroughs has a sort of hermitage
in a wild locality some miles back of the
Hudson. 1t bears the prosaic name of
"Slab-sides," descriptive of the walls of
the modest domicile, which he constructed
with his own hands. The four or five acres
of ground contiguous to 'Slab-SideS" is
owned by Burroughs and is utilized by MN
in the growth of celery, The author takes
great delight in experimenting the horu-
cultural work on the place, and often passes
weeks at time in seclusion, even cooking
his own meals.