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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

In Washington there are rumors that
Spain has asked. through the representative
Of some other government for the terms
upon which the United States viii agree to
peace. 1t is said the matter was discussed
at the last Cabinet meeting. 1t is also re-
ported that the President looks for an carly
termination of the war. 1t may be added
that such is the impression of men who
carefully study the situation. The reasons
are obvious. 1t was to be naval AL
ready Spain has lost one fleet. another con-
tanning its best ships, which are not in coed
condition, is where it can 10 no harm, and
the third, reported to be at Cadz, is a
phantom, so far as fighting in the vicinity
of Cuba is concerned. This means that the
naval war is at an end so far as Spain
can participate in it.
So far as SPANS land forces are con-
cerned they are in the cities of Cuba. The
aggregate strength of its armies may be
100000 men. If attacked now that army could
fight, but Cuba is so blockaded that in
few months at most it will be on the verge
of starvation. If war shall continue the
Spanish army cannot be reinforced; con-
sequently, surrender is only a question of
time. Successful invasion would hasten the
date, but keeping the Spanish army where
it is means surrender.
Worse than being crippled on the ocean
and hemmed in in Cuba. Spain IS bankrupt.
1t has not $20O00,C1G of the money that is
necessary to purchase supplies in other
countries-gold. 1t has a little silver. but
even silver payments may be said 10 be
suspended. 1t has printing presses, but
Spain has already demonstrated that the
money made by printing presses. unless re-
deemable on demand in coin, loses value
in inverse ratio to the amount. How can
Spain hold on until the end of the rainy
season?
This is the question which many people
are discussing, and the more they study the
situation the more they persuaded that
the war may come to an carly termination
even if troops are not sent to assail the
earthworks about Havana. A successful
campaign against Santiago, followed by a
movement against Porto Rico, would, if
successful, surely bring the war to an end.
If otherwise, failure would lengthen the
war at d cost Oh. ire Oucn DelnS the CdSe'
and such being the certainty of early
capitulation under present conditions. the
authorities should not proceed until they
have the troops, the arms and other con-
ditions which will remove the element of
uncertainty. Let the New York World howl
about humane war and incompetency; it
would be crime to waste two or three
thousand lives in hasty action which can
be saved by careful preparation and await
ing events. Helpless Spain is conquering
herself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

pass it. They were under the impression
that all senators calling themselves Demo-
Gratis would vote for this scheme and that
1t would command such a majority in the
Senate as would enable that element to hold
up the bill and force concessions fl ON the
House which would weaken our monetary
system. 1t is significant that seven Demo-
cratic senators, while generally acting with
their party, refused to vote for the green
back scheme and did vote for the PROPOSE
ton to issue 3 per cent bonds. The several
votes on the propositions designed to vtiate
the currency made it clear that there is not
now in the Senate majority in favor of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
The only advantage, if it can be called
SUCH which the silver senators gained was
the adoption of the amendment to coin the
$40, 100000 of silver bullion in the treasury
to which the term segniorage has been ap-
piled, at the rate of $40OO,OO0 a month. AS
the dollars thus coined are to take the place
of treasury notes, the volume of the cur
rency would not be increased should it be-
come part of the law. 1t is said that even
this mild proposition to increase the vol
uIIio VI SiiNST uOildES Will DE IeSlSleQ py the
House committee in conference and that it
will not become part of the law.
There seems no good reason why tax of
10 cents a pound should be imposed upon
tea, which is one of the Senate amendments
which has been put into the bill Tea is one
of the articles of general consumption and
the luxury of many poor people, the price
of which should not be increased 20 per
cent. A good reason may be given for i'm
posing tax of cents a barrel on flour of
which corn is an ingredient. That such
flour should be branded so that the pur-
chaser shall be able to know what he is
buying is proper but taxing an article of
food made up of two ingredients, neither of
which is taxed when sold separately, seems
to be absurd.
1t may be expected that the conference
committee will come to an agreement upon
the bill without delay, and that it will be-
come a law in the course of few days.
1t will unless the 16-to-1 element interposes
further objections
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06
STATE PRESS OPINION.

According to the reports of the commercial
agencies, the manufacturing interests of the
country are thriving in the face of war
Even the manufacture of war lies by the
yellow journals is on the increase.-Terre
Haute Mail.
Colonel Gunder is everlastingly right on
the canteen question, and it is to be hoped
that other colonies will follow his sensible
example. To say nothing of the moral point
there is only one SIDE to the question when
the physical well-being and discipline of the
troops are to be Standardization Chron-
icle
Our Democratic contemporaries will
doubtless call attention to the fact that
while the l.. & N. proposes to raise the
wages of the employees 10 per cent. it at the
same time proposes to raise the officers 20
per cent. They will forget to say that when
the wages of the employees were cut 10 per
cent. in 1898. the officers got the ak to the
extent of 20 per cent.-Cannelton Enquirer
Chicago and Cincinnati publish evening
papers of one or more editions in the course
of the afternoon, and after all the city
patrons are supplied the publishers take the
last edition, printed usually about 6 o'clock
take out the date and insert the next day,
and then send the paper out to the sur
rounding towns for distribution next day as
a morning daily" The whole thing is a
plain, unvarnished charlottesville Ledger
The Populist papers of the country have
begun to abuse the government for not be-
ing prepared for. war. 1t is a matter of
record that ever since the Populist party
has had representation in Congress her rep
resentatives have solidly voted against any
measure to strengthen the army or navy.
Even now these misrepresentation are en-
CieaVorng to weaken the support the gov
eminent is giving her fighting men by sad
ding an infamous cheap money law on the
land.-Crawfordsvile Journal
Congress will make a great mistake in
attempting to raise war funds in any other
way than by sale of bonds. The collection
of at least $500 100000 year would work an
immediate hardship on every one. while a
bond issue would defer the payment of the
expenses of the war for twenty years. and
give the country time to recover from the
effects of the war. a greenback issue would
impair the credit of the government and rob
our treasury of its gold and there is no
way of safely adding TO our stock of cash
except BY another bond sale.-E.lkhart
Truth (Ex-R Representative Conn's paper)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

Southern Physicians Declare that
"There Amt No sich PussOns."
UvaSbipgto,, Post
Washington Post

washington FOSt.
1t is very true that the Southern troops
will be better able to stand the climate
of Cuba than the Northern soldiers, but
when authorities on the subject OF yell
low fever hear the ideas of the admins
tration on the subject of so-called i'm
mufes' they enjoy quiet laugh at the
ignorance displayed.
"Immunes" exist, but because a person
has had yellow fever once 1t does not
follow that he will never have it again.
He may have had it twice during one cpl
demic and should he be exposed to it the
next year he may have it twice more.
The people of the gulf States are, ac-
but those who enroll their names as i'm
munes' know we'll the risk they run.
Surely these 'immunes' will make noble
soldiers, for they realize fully the danger
of invading Cuba, while the Northern and
Western man can only imagine the hor-
rors of yellow jack
where the air is rank with poison. where
all business is at standstill. where death
reigns supreme, where corps or noble men
band themselves together for the purpose or
caring for the sick and suffering, and each
day when the roll is called and this one or
that one fails to answer the rest look at
one another in despair and ask: VINO
next?"
The Southern troops generally are anx-
ious to go to the 'front.', anxious to heal
the old scar by fighting for odd glory
and willing to run the risk of fever 10 show
their great loyalty to Uncle Sam.
Many Southern physicians of note have
been consulted on the immune question, and
each and all agree that raising regiments of
so-called ''immunes is absurd. Among
these authorities is DR.. j. G. lie Hardy,
health officer at Savannah Ga, who has
written several volumes on the subject of
yellow fever, and who has practiced in
seven eDidemIcs.
When appealed to by a correspondent of
the Post he said The general belief is
that you cannot have yellow fever twice.
This is an error, due to the want of ac-
tual knowledge of the disease.
Some persons never have it, but i have
treated others four times during one epi-
demic three times with black vomit.) I
have treated others three times and many
twice Again, / have treated. in 1854. per-
sons who had the disease in 1920 and 1899.
In 1913 / attended numbers who suffered
again in 1854. In 1876, the last time we had
the fever IN Savannah, / had patents VINO
had been the victims of three previous epi-
denies
DR.. lie Hardy also stated positively that
the yellow fever belt does not include the
gulf States, but extends from south Flor
ida TO South America, and that as long
as the sanitation of any Southern atty is
good there will not be a state of epidemic.
When asked why the natives of the West
Indies rarely suffer second time from
yellow jack, the authorities all agreed
that it Is because they avoid inhaling the
poison by keeping out o. the infected To-
calities at night and early morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The lie which is appearing daily in a class
of Democratic papers in this State is that
the Republican papers claimed the advance
Mckinley prosperity. AS the Journal re-
marked the other day, an increased con-
sumption due to the larger employment of
labor has something to do with the price,
but not much, and no reliable Republican
paper has made such a claim The rise was
due chiefly to a general shortage of the
crop and a small reserve from previous
crops giving supply less than the demand.
Such a lie may delude a class of readers,
but the organs referred to should know that
such falsehood can be overworked and
that there are not so many fools as they
have led themselves to believe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The Senate has finally passed a war reve-
nue. bill which. except in its minor features
and the coinage of the misnamed silver
seigniorage, is not much different from the
bill which the House passed and sent 10
that body a month ago. The interval has
been wasted by the senators who expected
to make political capital by advocating the
issue of irredeemable greenbacks and the
coinage Of As cents worth of silver bullion
into a dollar. The leaders of this element
seemed to expect that they could inject both
these propositions into the House bin and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The tenacity of legal fiction is illustrated
IN the history of what is known to the man
ufacturers of wool as the 'worsted contro-
versy" Ever since 1885, says the Bulletin
of the National Association of Wool Man
ufacturers, sit has been the legal fiction
Of the judiciary that worsted goods were
manufactured of worsted, and therefore
not included in the category of manufac-
lures of WOOL" 1t was not until recently
that the Supreme Court of the United
States, after reversing two decisions OF
circuit courts of appeal, declared that
worsted goods are like wooden goods, man
ufactures of wool Everybody who has
given the matter the least attention knows
that what are known as "wooiens ana
'worsteds' are made OF wool. the diner
ence being In the quality Of the wool and
the processes by which the Wools are
turr ed into yarns In pure worsted there
Is no other material than wool. Neyeffhe-
less. because worsted yarns are different
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

A week ago the knights of Labor in New
York denounced speculation which made
dear bread. and here in Indiana Democratic
organs are delighted at the prospect of low
wheat attributing 1t to the retirement
of Mr.. Letter from the wheat markets. The
price of wheat has fallen, but so far the
fall is speculative being based upon the
reports of a bountiful harvest The pros
pect of the largest crop of wheat ever har-
vested in the United States and good crops
in countries which had no wheat last year
has caused decline.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

from wooden. and because manufactures
of worsted" has been used in the text of
tariff bills the courts have held for more
than sixty years that worsted goods are
not a product of wool in the sense that
woolens are. Thus, in spite of the we'll
known fact that worsted cloths are as
much a product of wool as are wooden fab
RIGS, the courts have held that they could be
imported under a lower duty. The Supreme
Court has just destroyed this venerable
legal fiction
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The Chicago Fribune is one of the papers
which is laboring under the delusion that
the United States has had large and eff
fective army idle these two months 1t will
never be happy because Havana, with 5000
men in the trenches about it. was not at
tackled by the 10000 regulars which the gov
eminent had six weeks ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The executive committee of the Indiana
Republican Editorial Association has unan-
imously decided. in view of the war and the
fact that some members of the association
are now at the front, to abandon the usual
summer outing.
JULIAN d. HOGATE, President.
A. w. HOWARD. Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06
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papers of Indiana which are declaring that
the board of strategy directs naval move
nnents that they are trying to fool their
readers with a falsehood that was exploded
by a statement of the Navy Department
made two weeks ago?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

1t is not often that anything really anus
ing occurs in the United States Senate but
one day last week, when a Populist senator
accused another Populist of being extrava-
laughter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

Bryanite papers still complain that the
President would not give Mr.. Bryan a
chance, when, as a matter of fact, Nebras-
ka has been authorized to raise full regi-
ment that he may have command of it. No
such exception has been made for any other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

If ii could be done it would be very de-
sirable to send back to Europe those hostile
foreigners who, like those in, Pennsylva-
MIA town. jeered at the stars and stripes at
q flag-raising.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

There is one danger that should be guard
ed against on board the blockading vessels
where, in temperature like that which the
IriShman described as ITO in the shade. an
no shade somebody in one of the oven-like
turrets may begin to hum or whistle pop
ular air called '"There'll Be Hot Time. .
Such a break would be signal for civil wal
on board the armor-clads
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

One cannot fail to note that Democratic
papers which boisterously assailed the
proposition to annex Hawaii a year ago are
now Historically angry with Speaker Reed
for his alleged blocking the passage of the
annexation resolution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The principal trouble with the American
army and navy is that when heroes are
called for there are not enough places to
satisfy the hero timber. OF the 1000 men
who volunteered to do the work of the
eight just 1882 feel that they were in hard
luck
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

New York Evening Sun.


Nothing that is done in the course of the
present war will take from the honor that
is due to Lieutenant Jungan and the men
of the tug Wampatuck. They went into
that cable-cutting business at Santiago as
If they We're on monitor and not an un-
protected vessel intended for peaceful tasks.
On the face of il the job was forlorn hope
But so interested were the members of the
party in their labors that they had to be
recalled from under the enemy 5 guns By a
peremptory order from the st. Louis Spe-
cial recognition Is duo here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

If the Spaniards still believe that 1.-The
future is in the hands of God' they must
not be flattered at the miraculous escapes
of the Americans under almost all circum-
stances, by ways and means that. make it
appear that the finger of Providence is in
all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The New York Sun remarks that it would
be just as well to issue 900 of silver
certificates and thus save the expense of
coming the seigniorage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06
The Counted Pb,Iosonher

while it is an historical fact" said the
Cornfed Philosopher, that the skins of ami
mails were the earliest form of money. in
these days it is the man who gets skinned. :"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06
soldier Girls won4 worry.

Denver Times
Our Denver girls need not worry about,
us" says Colorado boy writing from
camp at Frisco. for he girls here are
treating us awful nice" No, o no, of course
the Denver girls won't worry when they
hear that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06
compliments.

He-Women are terribly narrow minded.
She-You are speaking, are you not of the
woman whose mind can be filled with the
image of man?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06
His Own Words

Watts-What right have you to insist that
this war is un-American?
Potts-Your own words prove it. Didn't
you just say there was no politics in it?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

There appears to be a large number Of
persons in this country who are certain that
125,O0O modern rifles were manufactured by
a declaration of war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

1t is understood that not only Cervera,
but even the Spaniards in the United States
Senate, admired the action of Hobson and
his men
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The students at Oberlin College, in Ohio
had night demonstration in which a num-
Der of night shirts are reported to have been
torn. 1t must have been a Bryan parade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

Senator Allen. of Nebraska, still holds the
belt as the senatorial nuisance, but Senator
Butler is close competitor for the posi-
fion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

The Spanish fleet is reported sadly in need
of supplies. They are said to be out of al
most everything except Santiago harbor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06
Complicated Case.

What caused the row between Balsam
and Crown"
They both fell in love with the same
three girls
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

Detroit Free Press
The newspaper board of strategists has
been weakened by the appointment of
Western editor TO brigadier generalship.
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

The sinking of the Merrmac was due to
internal causes
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