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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MINERS
COMPACT.

The Importance and significance of the
compact of the coal mine operators and
the miners should not be lost sight of. For
years the great industry which may be
said to be the basis of all manufacturing
ard transportation has been much de-
pressed. This has particularly been the
case since 1892, when the closing of factories
and the contraction of transportation
caused the output of the mines to be in ex-
cess of the demand. Then there was one
of those miserable competitions to get
trade by selling cheapest. The result was
"a cut in wages, and then another cut, until
strikes interviewed. Strikes followed. oper-
ators lost, and miners have been on the
verge of starvation in some sections. Dur
ing the past few months contributions have
been made in every State to keep miners
families from starvation. With the reduc-
ton Of wages there has come in some coal
regions lowering of the general character
of the workman. This is due largely to
the vicious custom of introducing an ig-
norant and cheap-living foreign element to
settle strikes and force the native or
naturalized miner TO accept lower wages.
With such forced association, with lower
wages, there has come the degradation in
cident to a lower standard of living. Years
ago the coal miner was regarded in this
State as fortunate man because of his
wages and employment; yet as coal has
become more and more necessary and its
consumption has doubled with the decades,
the miner has failed to hold his own for
causes beyond his control
The result of the long contention and of
repeated conferences is an agreement which
increases the wages of the miner 10 per
cent. and makes his day eight hours. TAX
ing both hours and increased pay into con-
sideration, it means much more than 10 per
cent. While this change is of great inn
portance to the individual, it affects more
men scattered over u larger area, dealing
with more important interests than any adj
vance of wages and reduction Of hours
which has ever occurred I'm this or perhaps
any other country. 1t affects the individual
welfare of 100000 men and more than three
times as many women and children depend
ent upon them. These people are scattered
over the States of Indiana. Illinois, Mis-
StuIts OiiOs CHhSyAtoilets W est NiiStnld
and Virginia. The temporary cut in the
wages of operatives in the New England
cotton mills is of comparatively little inn
portance compared with the betterment of
the condition of the coal miner
The significance OF the movement lies In
the fact that such great advance in wages
and such change In regard to hours in an
x.fa
ton could not have been attempted az any
other period since 1892. If it had been at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

tempted, ii would have failed 1t has sue
ceeded now because the mine operator finds
a largely increased demand for coal, caused
by the general revival of manufacturing
industry Tens of thousands of furnaces
consume coal day and night that were cold
or did not exist two years ago. These are
the agencies which have made the adjust
n.ent of the wages of miners possible.
During the last days of June, President
Ratchford, of the National Miners Assoc
citation, said in an address that now that
business activity and prosperity are in the
lard, it was but fair that the coal miner
should have his share of it. Had he not
seen the awakening Of Industry, wide and
general, he probably would not have sane
toned a strike which had twice failed
Because prosperity is in the land. the
gratifying arrangement for the coal miners
has been made. That is the real significance
of the result, and it is so real that the
41-cent-dolar calamityite cannot sneer or
howl ii out of existence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

The general employment of convict labor
in the coal mines of Georgia and Tennes-
see may prove a menace to the recent
agreement made by the mine operators
with the representatives of the miners The
employment of several hundred convicts in
each state at mines without pay may ena-
bic a set Of operators to undersell those who
pay good wages to an extent that the sta
bility of prices will DE shaken. AS negroes
in those States can be convicted upon the
slightest offenses, it may become an object
in the coal industry TO see that the laws
against chicken thieves are zealously en-
forced. Under the present regime in the
South the enactment OF such laws for the
protection Of labor as exist in the North
cannot be expected. To force the country
10 a silver basis and to get rid of the ne
gro voter seem to be the two things which
commend themselves to the politicians who
dominate the South. The long hours of labor
and the child labor which are permitted by
law in connection with the lower wages
have compelled a reduction of wages in the
cotton factories of New England If lack of
labor protection can endanger one industry,
others. in which large bodies of convict
danger line. Just now the South is the
field for the conservative leaders of labor
organizations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Eastern papers nearly all speak approx
ingly of the defeat of the bill to admit the
remaining Western territories to statehood
basing their comments on the theory that
the population is composed of Indians, Mexi-
cans, off-scCurings from the older states,
half-clvilzed cowboys, all disqualified for
citizenship by ignorance and lawnessness
western men are great travellers and have
q fairly intelligent knowledge from personal
observation of the conditions in all parts
of the country, but the average Fastener
never penetrates tho rather extensive re-
Sion west of the Allegheny mountains. and
has but the vaguest notion of the character
OF the far West. AS a matter of fact New
Mexico and Arizona have a large white
population, equal in intelligence, education,
morality and refinement to the people of
any region. Men of wealth and character
are drawn there by opportunities for in
Vestment and others of smaller means by
the openings that such enterprises make:
many go because of the climate. and with
them they take the accomplishments of civ
ilization Set the SNUG seIf-satished New
Englander down in an Arizona town and he
viii be surprised to find fine hotels. flourish
ing schools, we'll patronized libraries and
elegant society; while in the way of trolley
cars, electric lighting and other modern i'm
provements the place will be far ahead of
his own. Many Western communities are in
fact more strictly and exclusively American
than Eastern cities, where hordes of for
eigners of the poorest class form a disturb
ing element Congress may have been right
or wrong in delaying statehood, but its ac-
ton was governed by political reasons rath-
er than those put forward by the Eastern
press
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
OTHER ADDRESSES.
Remarks of Messrs. Wingate, Coffin,
Waugh. Harrison, Sheridan, Craig.


Following General Wallace came the we'll
known John Wingate, of the same county.
who took the place of A. b. Anderson, of
Charlottesville, speaking on why Wen
Succeed this Year" Among other things he
said:
Il conclue first of all that we will sue
coed this fall because we are right; because
the Mckinley administration with the late
Democratic administration; time to compare
the revenue accruing under the policies of
the Dingley bill with the continuous deficit
under the Wilson bill; time to compare the
ease and comfort of doing business when
money is easy and seeking investment with
the squirming and perplexites of trying to
do business when money is locked up and
credit at q permum. | take it that we viii
succeed this fall because the rural interests
appreciate dollar wheat against 40c wheat.
24c corn against 1Sc corn: pc oats against
15c oats 3i@c hogs against SC hogs; fzc
cattle against 3l2c cattle, and So sheep
against So sheep The good wife of the
farmer who is so important 10 our success.
for a hundred hens for potpie dinners and
one aged rooster for a barrel OF soup We
will succeed this fall because Mr.. Bryan
has visited Mexico and his party will de-
clare for the free and unlimited coinage Of
silver at the ratio of Is To /. The free-silver
people refuse to believe that the times have
changd although bank clearings show as
fonfshing volumes Of business, and their pet
argument in the last campaign that silver
and farm products go hand in hand together
through the markets of the world has been
robbed III al its poetry, and their caisOns
are filled with blank cartridges only, TO fire
al what thes arc pleased to cab the enemy.
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ty meeting indicated that upon the greater
issues affecting national prosperity and ma
tional integrity the Republican party was
never as harmonious and strong in the
faith. The excellent speech of General
Wallace is a clear exposition of the essen
tial features Of the Republicansm Of to-
day. The other addresses. some by the
young men of the party, show that they
are animated by the same spirit of loyalty
to party. and hold it's tenets as convictions.
There should be such meetings in other
counties within the next two months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
THE RESPONSE OF THE HOUSE.

The House has wasted no time giving
the country its answer 10 the Teller reso-
luton. The Republican majority permitted
no time TO be wasted in an idle debate for
the reason that it could not have changed
q vote. Every Republican voted for
the order providing that the vote be taken
at , O'Clock. When the vote was taken
upon the Teller resolution, it stood-yeas
lS2, nays, 1S2-a majority of fifty against the
proposition. Considering that the Repub-
lican majority in the House is fifty-one the
result is most satisfactory, because it shows
entire unanimity. 1t shows, moreover, that
in the legislative body last elected by the
people, upon the issue of sound money
there is an emphatic majority in favor of
maintaining the public credit.
The Republicans in the House have COM
mended themselves to the friends of a
sound currency and of national honor In
no other way could they have made so eff
fective an answer to the Teller resolution.
They have said to the country that any at
tempt to create distrust by an attack upon
the public credit must be repealed without
debate. There is no more in the Teller res
olution to debate, under the circumstances.
than there would have been if. in January
1861. the House had been forced to face a
resolution proposing to dissolve the Union.
The promptness and emphasis of the action
of the Republicans gives courage and
strengthens confidence in business circles
ANY sign OF wavering, any debate, even to
enable Republicans to explain, would have
been regarded as an indication of lack of
courage on the part of the majority to
stand by the implied pledges of the party
it represents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

1t Is in order to remark that whatever
Senator Pettigrew has to say in the way
OF charges about the present Hawaiian gov
eminent must necessarily be sustained by
Substantial evidence beyond his own word
The man who stood before a state conven-
ton and pledged himself il sent as a dele
gate to the ST. Louis convention to stand
BY the sound-money platform and then en-
tered it to walk out with Teller and others
IS not a man to he believed when there is
any incentive for MIN &c depart from the
plain facts. TO derry shaf the Dole govern
ment was not properly established was
more than Mr. Cleveland undertook in be-
half of the Queen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

When a man like Senator Cockrell OF
Missouri, asks in the Senate if any one will
give him two standard silver dollars for a
gold dollar he is either in his dotage or
imagines that the American people are. But
any one having two Mexican silver dollars,
dollar, would gladly exchange them for a
gold dollar. So IL we should adopt the free
silver coinage system of Mexico and thereby
fall to silver, basis. as has Mexico the
owner of two standard silver dollars will be
likely to be willing to swap them for a gold
dollar. The limit TO silver coinage keeps
the standard dollar to the gold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
MADE HIS WILL TOO LATE.
Andrew NJ. MoOre's billions May Not
he Used for Charitable Purposes.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31.-The will of
the late Andrew NJ. Moore, Of the distilling
firm of Moore & Sinnott and owner of the
Girard House. was filed to-day. 1t was not
admitted to probate, as caveats had been
filed by two of the testator's sons. The es-
tate is variously estimated at from S6ouG,-
600 to s1O,OooO00. BY the will the income Of
the entire estate, after deducting u few
small requests, il left, in equal parts TO the
three sons of the deceased. The latter,
however are not to receive any of the prin-
cipal ON the death of the sons the trustees
will have full power to found and MAINTAIN
a charitable or educational institution The
will was executed four days before the teS-
tator's death, and one of the sons said to-
day that it would be imperative owing TO
the law which invalidates bequestS made TO
charitable institutions within thirty days OF
the death of testator
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Now that Mr.. German will net be senator
after March 4, 1892 a number of papers
have been summing up his political career
IN tho Senate. The Milwaukee Sentinel
seems to deny him that ability which is
generally accorded him. The man who
changed the Wilson bill into the German
bin is man of resource and influence. The
New York Times cleveland DemocraD
mercilessly assails him. virtually declaring
among other things that he has been in
the pay of the Sugar Trust There is no
evidence to sustain such an assertion, and
his victory over the Cleveland tariff bill
should not inspire such resentment. But
1Ir. Germans defeat in Maryland goes TO
prove that he is not the adroit and power
full leader he has so long had thescredit of
being. Still. he may be something of a fac
tor in the conspiracy to undo Mr.. Bryan
for the Democratic nomination ins19OO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK--lAstor House.
CHICAGO--Palmer House. y. o. News Co.. 2l7
Dearborn street, and Great Northern Hotel
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley & Co., 15i Vine
street.
LOUISvILLE-C. r. Deerng. northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. IsOuIS-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON. d. C.--Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
There now! which body of Congress is the
conservative branch? AT any rate the
people have now no room for doubt as to
which is the preventative" especially when
the national honor is at stake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
A WINCHESTER "LovE FEAST"
DemOnstrat ton by Republicans Large
~ I'm BEHALF cf a. q. Marsh.


~ I'm BEHALF ~f a. O. Marsh.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
. WINCHESTER. Ind, Jan. 31.-The larg-
est and most enthusiastic Republican mass
convention in the history of Randolph coun-
ty was held. here to-day. After the conven-
ton was called to order Oscar A. White. Of
Ridgeville was made chairman and Prof.
c. W. Paris of Farmland, and the Repub-
lican editors of the county secretaries. Az
ter an earnest and able address by Mr..
White Hon. ]. Frank Hanly made splen-
did address. He was followed by the Hon.
Theodore Shockney of Union City, III a
happy talk. At the noon recess delegates 10
the congressional, state, district and other
conventions were chosen. At the afternoon
meeting resolutions indorsing the admins
tration and approving and commencing the
official record of Hon. Charles j.. Henry.
were passed. Resolutions strongly indorsing
the candidacy of Hon. A. o. Marsh, or TINS
city. were passed, and the delegates chosen
to attend the congressional convention were
instructed to vote solidly for Mr.. Marsh
After the report of the committee on reso-
lrtions was heard Mr.. Marsh was called Tor
and responded in his eloquent and forcible
way Much interest Is being manifested III
the local canvass going on in this county
there being twenty-five candidates Tor the
six offices to be filed. The primary election
has been set for Feb %.
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ronrth-ni.trlct Gnthcring.

special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind, Jan I.-Delegates
are arriving to attend to-morrow's district
convention, which meets here to select ~
district committeeman. Persons mentioned
for the place are AIcNutt of Madison over
street. OF Columbus: Lewis, Of Seymour:
Graenan of Batesville and Captain Low
stuttcr. of Aurora. The convention Will be
composed OF ia delegates, and for the lh-
formation of Congressman Griffith, the dis
trict Is composed OF the counties OF Bar
tholomew Brown. Dearborn. Decatur.Jach-
son. jefferson Jennings, Ohio, Ripley ana
Switzerland Among those present are Hon.
Nj. r. Sulzer and Col. w :. Mcclure, Judge
Bar and Col CARRIER of Madison. and Col
lector a. y NoWlin. Of I.aWrenceburg.
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February.

The old cid wonder OF the lengthenng days
j. with us once again; the winters SUM-
Slow sinking the west when day is done
Each exc Il little longer with us stays,
And cheers the snowy landscape with his rays
Nor Go we notice that he has begun
Until a month mote Of days have run.
When we cxcain. How long the light delays"
So LET some kindly deed. however sghs
&c daily done by rs. That &c the waste
OF seinshness soine light 1t may impaft,-
Mayhap not noticed till feel the night
is less within our souls and hruader spaced
Has grown the cheerful sunshine q tie heart.
samuel Francis Batchelder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Tie Atlanta Constitution declares that
cheaper raw material lower wages, longer
hours per day and freedom from restric-
tions regarding labor which prevail In New
England are the causes which enable the
Southern cotton manufacturer to force the
New England competitor to cut wages. This
Is frank, and, moreover, it is truth. Still,
papers of the same political faith of the
Constitution will continue to attribute it to
the tariff or the lack of 50-cent dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Special to the IndIanapoIls JOulldI.
MUNCIE, Ind, Jan. 3l.-The Eighth con-
Eressional district Republican convention
meets in this city tomorrow afternoon to
elect a member of the state committee, and
tonight several delegates are mere in adj
vance. The prospects are that the meeting
viii b. well attended. NJ. l.. Case. of Dun-
kirk, Jay county, is candidate for re-
election and the only opposition that has
dtvelcped thus far is from the same county,
in the person of &. J. Marsh. editor of the
Portland Commercial. Mar. Marsh arrived
early to-day.
The Republicans Of Blackford county met
in Hartford CITY on Saturday and perfected
q reorganiza ton Mayor a. f. Kinsley was
unanimously reelected county chairman
\ rti-,-r 7 No was chosen secretary, and RoI-
land c. Manor treasurer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

The Republicans Of that stronghold of Re
pubiicanism. Hamilton county, have set
pic in holding mass meeting outside of the
campaign period. If Republicans elsewhere
can attain anything Like the gratifying sue
cess which the meeting held in Mobiles
vile yesterday was, they should at once
make arrangements FOR winter meetings.
The meeting Of the Hamilton county Re-
publicans and their party friends in the
tdjoining counties was large and enthusiast
tic. The addresses set forth the Republican
creed and emphasized the issues which the
party in ali honor is bound TO meet. Minor
differences Of opinion there are, as there
Always have been. bur the Hamilton coun-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
a MAN of NORTH.

Some one, probably heir said the
chief secretary, has written to us to know
how much that last missionary was worth
who was killed in China
Tell him. said the Kaiser. that we
shall value him at about hundred square
miles more or less"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Representative Diversified was paired with
q South Carolina member, who said, when
the vote WIS taken: Il am paired with Mr..
overstreet, OF Indiana; had he been present
! would have voted yes and he would have
voted no., So Mr.. Overstreet is on record
Ter resolution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

The steamship Mediterranean landed 40
immigrants in New York the other day,
most of whom would be excluded by the
immigration bin pending in the House.
Chiefly men who can do only the most COM
mon labor, they will displace labor of the
same grade already here, because they win
accept for the time lower wages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Mayor Taggart will be grieved to learn
that another of those whom he has COM
mended as the promoters of law and order,
after maintaining a kindergarten for in
struction In propriety in his saloon until
midnight, SO far forgot himself as to turn
his wife and daughter into the street after
that hour
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Simmons-That was a pretty severe criti-
cism of your stuff that appeared in the
Bugle.
Timmins-I cannot see why the fellow did
not sign it. II would have gained him some
notoriety-as the man who criticised Tim
Minis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

In the elementary arithmetic classes in
the German schools at present, such prob
lens as these are no doubt common: If the
German empire charges a good harbor and
a few million acres Of land for a missionary
that she would not permit to live within
her borders in peace, how much will she
ask for sailor who was in his Majestys
emDlov2v
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Now that the officers of the State Board
of Commerce have appointed committees
to consider various topics, it may be sug-
gested to the gentlemen who have been
made the committee on local governments
that they agree upon some points and put
them forward for discussion before the
rrleeefinec Of the I.esislatllre
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

Watts-Fm little doubtful about this
Logansport man being able to bottle sun
shine.
Potts-It is merely an advance on the
Southern industry of bottling moonshine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

The constituents of the Indiana congress-
men who are disappointed in not seeing
their representatives at the district conven-
-tions to-day will readily forgive them. con-
sidering the grand work that detained them
at the national capital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01

cyclonic neurosis Is what st. Louis So
ciety people are suffering from, according
to their doctors, numerous suicides and pre-
vaillng ailments having their origin in nerv-
GUS disturbances growing out Of the cyclone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-01
Enmil, Rnn Down hY a Trnin.

COLUMBUS. o., Jan. 8.-7At $50 to-day
three miles from Greenville, Dayton a
Union passenger engine caught G. f.
Young wife and tOur-year-old girl in q
top buggy, killing father and child and ter
ribly injuring the mother. A shed OBJ
structed the view OF Engineer Creagan.
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
The .Cornfed PhiIosopber.

1.-The modern drama" said the Cornfed
Philosopher, lis like mustard plaster. The
hotter il is, the better it draws"