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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

property-to give to its people the civiliza-
ton of the United States. AS was evident
long before the writer of the foregoing let
ter was mustered into the service. the
tranquillizing of Cuba is a vastly more diff
fcult task than the expulsion of Spanish
rule has been. Spanish rule has been ex-
PEELED because il is cruel; factional misrule
would be more cruel than Spanish tyranny
because it would be vindictive. To finish the
good work begun certain number of regi-
ments will be needed. To be selected for
that purpose is a distinction, and to assist
in giving good government to Cuba is as i'm
portant and honorable service as men can
be asked to render.
There is another consideration: The ISL
ands for which troops will be required will,
with our rule, enter upon an era of de-
velopment and progress. They will afford
business and industrial openings such as
cannot elsewhere be found. Spain has kept
enterprise, intelligence and industry out of
those islands ever since they came under it's
wicked rule. Now they will be opened to
all, and great opportunities will be pre-
scented. Cuba will be Americanized-who
are better qualified to assist in the work
than the intelligent young men in the In
diana regiments? 1t may be added that
there are thousands of men who would re-
gard with favor a proposition to spend six
or eight months in Cuba. AS for soldiers
in the field, they may be assured that the
service in Cuba will be regarded as the
most useful they can render the country,
because it will conquer peace in Cuba with
out bloodshed, and they will be participants
in events of international Importance. For
these reasons the Journal earnestly urges
the men in the regiments which may be
retained to comply with the orders of re-
tentiOn without protest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

BY Holding Doctors Personally Re-
spOnsibIe He Brought Them to Time.
Irn..l.i.,r.4l... IL.

Washington Times
1t is unsafe to fool with General Wheeler.
He is as full of ginger as the business end
of a hornet, and so the medical staff at
Camp Wikoff found out not many days ago.
The usual method of procedure at that
camp has been to lay the blame on some
body else whenever possible and avoid re-
Sponsibility. When anything went wrong
it was never the fault of anybody that could
Occasionally this excuse was really valid
Without subverting all discipline in the
army man in subordinate position can
not go against the orders of superiors, even
If he knows that the lives of helpless men
are at stake. 1t is proba BILE that the incom-
petence and careessness in the med
ical service will be found to be largely
among the higher officials. whose salaries
are fat and who have not much to do. The
doctors who went into the service. not for
money, but for patriotism usually proved
themselves heroes. The trouble is that there
not enough of them. and that they were
hampered by indifference the part of
their superiors. In the medical service. as
in the army and navy, the private soldier,
the man at the gun, is all right: If there is
a sneak or a Shirk it is the officer, whose
salary is large enough to tempt him to go to
war for that and a title. These men, and
some of their subordinates, have been Grip
ping the hospital service by trying TO show
their little brief authority. They have in
sisted that certain forms should be observed
before necessary supplies could be obtained;
in attending to requests for these supplies.
1t did not take General Wheeler long to see
through this state of affairs. He called the
medical staff together and said, tersely:
This nonsense has got to stop. There are
supplies enough of all kinds right here in
camp. and if the soldiers don't get them
it's your fault. Men are dying for lack of
medicine because of your petty ways of do
ing things. If it is not stopped at once L
shall hold you personally responsible for
every death that occurs from lack of care.
] will accept excuses about lack of medicine
from no one.
Those two little words. personally re-
sponsibe,' are wonderful quickeners TO a
sluggish conscience. 1t is like the way the
revivalist has of stopping in front of half
repentant sinner and saying, Il mean you!'
A good many people have been prodded into
church by that method who would never
have got there of their own volition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06
PATRIOTIC PARTY THE THING.
Suggestion for Those Who VIII Wei.
come the Returning Heroes.
Chicago Times-Herald.

Chicago Times Herald.
The next few weeks will chronicle many
festive occasions for the returning sailor
lads and soldier boys, and the following
scheme for a welcoming party may be of as
sistance:
OF course the heroes are expected to ap-
pear in their uniforms to add to the pic
tuTesqueneSS of the occasion.
A flag must decorate the porch and rooms.
Large flags will make splendid coy corners
when properly draped. The piazza and
grounds can be beautifully lighted with the
new gasoline lamps, which are very power
full, quite like a searchlight. One room,
called for the time 1.-The gallery of heroes.
should be filled with pictures of the war
roted men; fine half-tones of all can easily
he obtained; also cuts of famous battle
ships.
These can be daintily framed by covering
mats with crepe tissue paper in red white
and blue, not forgetting the Maine. Drape
this in black china silk, tied with white rib
hons, with the furled stars and stripes
above it,
These pictures will start conversations,
and will add a pleasing feature to the even
ing.
Drums, guns and swords make effective
decorations. ard tent on the lawn makes
an attractive place for the frappe bowl.
Patriotic music should be played at inter-
walls Draperies of red. white and blue
cheese cloth should take the place of all
portieres. and coils of nice new rope make
fine cushions.
The ice cream will be served in individual
molds such as miniature soldiers, boats.
drums, ETC.. with the plate cards bearing
suitable designs either in water color or pen
and ink.
Red and white carnations and blue corn
flowers. with red. white and blue satin rib
bon make a gorgeous table decoration. The
hostess and receiving party are TO be
gowned in the national colorS. and to make
the evening one long to be remembered each
soldier or sailor guests is to tell brief story
relating something of interest in his expe-
rience.
A toast must be given to the brave boys
who rest on Cuban soil. or, fate has de-
creed lie buried beneath the ocean waves.
That is the sorrow that will mar all these
fetes. but it will add a sentimental interest
that breeds patriotism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Pension Commissioner Evans will get
himself disliked by the medical profession
If he continues to experiment with its mem
bers he reports having done in one case
The doctors doubtless consider it a very
reprehensible proceeding for him to have
sent one applicant for pension before four
different boards of three physicians each to
see how nearly they would agree The cir
cumstance that no two boards gave the
same diagnosis and that the ratings varied
from IS to s24 month will not lessen their
indignation at the trick played on them II
will be very hard on the doctors if they
are required to agree
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

NEW YORK, Sept 5.-General Pando was
feeling well at the Hotel America to-day
and for about two minutes he submitted
to an interview by newspaper reporters. The
first thing he had to say was that misun-
derstanding had gone abroad about his
criticism of General Shafter. He declared
that he thought General Shafter an able
general and he doubted if any other man
could have brought the Santiago campaign
to such a speedy close with such little blood
shed General PandO also took occasion to
deny the story about his duel in Mexico He
said that he did not even know such per-
son as he had been represented as fighting
with. General PandO will sail tomorrow on
either the Lain or the Aurania.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

gestion OF the War Department thet the
early muster out of regiments would be
determined by the expression OF the rank
and file. OF course, it was well intended,
but it is strange that the officers issuing
such statement did not realize that such
course would create discomfort and con-
tentions in nearly every regiment utterly
destructive of that discipline so essential to
an army. 1t may yet be necessary for the
war Department to recall that suggestion
and declare that the regiments in General
Lees corps will be held for duty in Cuba
Already Colonel Bryan's regiment is worry
ing about immediate muster out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Before the war began. and in its early
stages, the flag of Cuba was as popular as
the stars and stripes. On Washington's
birthday a body of students marched
through the streets of this city displaying
as many Cuban as United States flags.
The craze has died out. There is no sale
now for Cuban flags, because reading peo-
pie know more about Cubans. In New York
stacks OF Cuban flags cannot be sold at
any price That absurd fad is dead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

sick men to go home unattended has not
been issued too soon. Such furloughs have
caused the greater part of the clamor about
the alleged criminal neglect of soldiers who
have reached some train penniless and i'll
or been found i'll on trains. The cases of
this sort which have caused such indig-
nant cutlery have furnished the basis of long
stories of neglect. Men should not be dis
charged from hospitals until they have re-
covered. More men i'll with fever are likely
TO die from relapse after being furloughed
than from the fever in the first instance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

General Burt, of the Seventh Army Corps
now at Cincinnati. reports an organization
of officers in that corps which is called
''The Society of the Heroes Whose Parents
Made the Mistake of Not Going to Mich
igan." The secretary of war will find thai
such a reflection does not violate any of the
articles of war
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Injustice.
NnrWich Rullefil

Captain Clark of the battle ship Oregon
made himself sick In his devotion 10 his
country and his ardor to be at Santiago
when the Spanish fleet was engaged. He
was there and did valiant service. His re-
ward is found in detachment from his yes
sci and with the order detaohing him came
a loss of 81 100 per annum in salary Being
in no condition TO remain on waiting orders
he is given sick leave and further reduc-
ton of SEQ per year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The railroads carrying passengers to the
Grand Army Encampment have issued a
circular warning them not to sell their
tickets to solicitors on the cars, as they
would pay for tickets with counterfeit
money or return counterfeit tickets for those
they were permitted to examine. Whereat
the ticket brokers are indignant and threat
en- prosecution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

When the President recommended General
Wheeler to be major general he was ac-
cused Of being led by sentiment to select an
old man who had been a Confederate SOL
der. Thus far few men have made them
selves more generally useful that that
"dried-up old man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The Democratic press is turning itself into
a monstrous magnifying glass, through
which the people are asked TO witness the
suffering of the soldiers. Too many people
are doing So but the fact that it is a glass
makes it more easily seen through.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

1t is to be hoped, says an exchange, that
If we ever go to war again the belligerent
nation will be situated in the neighborhood
of the pole. Well, and if 1t is matters will
not be much better. A lot of people will
be kicking if a base-burner stove is not
furnished with each tent and hot rolls
served to. the men in the trenches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Cleveland Leader.
He-Do you know. when you walk you
move just like a poem? She (blushing)-
All do you really think so? He--Yes; one
foot always right after the other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06
The Veterans Marvel.

HartIord COurant.
One might think this was the first war
we ever had. We had raw-rawer-armies
in camp through the summer of 1861. most
OF them inactive And that was a time
when we had only portion of the country
in which to locate camps. Moreover, sani-
tary and medical science were not so far
advanced, and the governments purse was
rather fiat. The Santiago sickness. per Sc.
aside. veterans of those camps marvel at
what they hear in 1898.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06
Easy Questions Hard to Answer.

Maurice Thompson, in the Ishmaelite.
Is it more logical TO say that Immortality
is improbable than to assume that HE.
whose origin We cannot find our, ends with
organic dissolution. No man can explain
tho beginning Cf The impulse that moves his
finger; can any man tell where ends the inn
pulse of the souls unaccountable aspira-
tons? If we came from God. may 1t the
universal nunar tradition of immortality be
but an hereditary ne mOry transmitted from
Adap9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The man whose dauntless courage and
high craftsmanship brought this country to
specie resumption will occupy too con-
spicuous place in its history to afford to
betray desire to punish the secretary of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The State of Vermont will go through the
motions of holding an election to-day AS
the few thousand men in that always Re-
publican State who vote the Democratic
ticket are every-year voters and the Re-
publicans turn out in full ranks but once in
four years. it will not be surprising if the
Democratic vote should be as large as the
Renublican majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

BALTIMORE Amt rlcan.
The cost of cable dispatches to the gov
eminent during the war amounted TO $3.50
a day The totals for telegraphing will, IT IS
said foot up to half million dollars. Many
of the dispatches were short and in cipher.
We learn a little as we go along Secretary
Seward made known TO the French govern
ment the attitude of the United states on
the invasion OF Mexico by Macmillan in 4
disnatch that cost fifteen thousand dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06
They Make AIger Responsible.
San Francisco Chronicle.

san FRANCISCO Chronicle
Secretary Alger is not being held account
able here for the scandal of Camp Merritt.
but they are using il as campaign material
against him in the East. There is no poll
ties in putting the blame on the military
commanders who picked out the site, SO
Alger has to bear the whole responsibility
in the Democratic prints. The experience
is doubtless trying. but he has the satsfac-
ton of knowing that such charges cannot
either stick or stain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The senseless fury of the attack upon the
secretary of war for sins of omission which
are not his is abating, but the President
should set an investigation on foot that the
country may know better than it does who
is responsible for some things that should
not have been.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06
The Miscreant of the Maine.


IIIIdUtIIIIIId INVOOtU'
Nov that the war with Spain is overall
but the discussion of the terms of peace
there might be morsel of satisfaction.
even for the Spaniards themselves, in dis
covering. if possible, the true author of the
wa. who took the matter of dispute be-
tween the United States and Spain out IF
the hands of the diplomats and put it in the
derous miscreant who fired the sunken mine
that blew up the Maine ought not in jus
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

1t is expected that the National Encamp-
ment Of the Grand Army will put on record
some expression of good will for the men
who fought them thirty-five years ago. The
time has come for such action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Editor Buckley of the New York Chris
tan Advocate, writes fer his paper an arti-
Gle four chapters in length to prove that
the new plan of individual communion cups
is nonsenscal if not absolutely wicked. He
assumes that the only objection to the use
of the common cup is the fear that con-
tagious disease will be communicated, and
virtually defes any one to prove that such
infection ever occurred from this cause.
Perhaps Editor Buckley is so spiritually
minded that when he partakes of this sacra-
ment his soul is so far above earthly
things that he does not heed the obvious
fact that the beard of the saint at his side
is stained with tobacco, or that the one
beyond him considers tooth brush a super
fiuous article. If So he is fortunate 1t is
the people less spiritual than he who cannot
rise above these things and who, though
they may not fear disease, feel that their
peace of mind and consequently their piety
will be enhanced by the ability to disre-
gard the causes of offense which separate
cup will give them 1t is rot fear of mi
crobes but the fastidiousness of daily life
and habits applied TO the Sunday ceremony
that gives rise to the demand for indi-
vidual cups, and so sensible a man as
Editor Buckley should realize the fact and
that it is useless to protest against the
change.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

mark the middle-of-the-road are reported to
favor Wharton Barker. of Pennsylvania. for
President. But Mr.. Barker may change his
politics before 1900.
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So Sarcastic.

Willie-I once knew girl who nearly died
from ice cream poisoning.
Nellie-The very idea! 1 would never
have dreamed of such thing happening
to girl of your acquaintance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Kansas City Journal.
We hardly think Colonel Roosevelt will
take to the lecture field. Colonel Roosevelt
enjoys popularity too we'll 10 trade IL for
gate receipts.
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More Annrnnriate.

81 understand you won the blue ribbon,
so to speak, in the examination for the
| civil service"
"I-ah-would hardly call it that"
answered the mild young man. Let US
| say l won the red tape"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The most Of the volunteer regiments favor
the policy of the Czar-disarmament.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Watts-How do you understand that ex-
preston of Shakspeare's .'go to?"
Potts-It is my idea that it arose from the
printers not knowing the use of the dash
when his works were first published.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

New York Mail and Express.
There isn't a map publisher in the world
who doesn't feel under special obligations
to TrncIe Sam. His revision of the political
divisions of the earth means a boom in the
entire map-makng industry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Andree has been found again, and the
Democratic papers are finding time between
starvation howis to talk about the price of
wheat. The war must indeed be ended.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Kansas City Journal.
What shall we do with our secretary OF
ware" inquiries the Chicago News. Treat
him fairly and decenty. That is what a
number Of journalistic faultfiLders are not
doing at present
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

It seems that Colonel Bryan never in
tended to make a speech on Labor day, the
report to that effect being the invention of
some irresponsible paper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The statement that the Omaha EXPOSE
ton management is getting out of debt is
gratifying. 1t is very excellent show. ac-
cordlng to all accounts. but owing to the
absorption of public attention in the war it
was played to empty benches. so TO speak.
for several months. The end of the war
and the close of a bountiful harvest, COM
ing about the same time. gave the people
chance to think of it again. and farmers
have been flocling in from every direction
in way to encourage the downcast guar
antors. If the present rate of attendance
continues it is likely to come out even. If
not to be financial success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

1t is the things we are going to do that
make life worth living.-Puck.
Nay it is the things we are going to do
that make it possible to live.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Now there is trouble. The war tax law
is bringing in more money than was an
ticipated, and the war will not cost half as
much as estimated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Bede's Bulge

Bede's Budget.
Most Of the fuss about the conduct Of the
Cuban campaign comes from a cheap lot Of
newspaper fellows who took Wallets with
them and couldn't find a place TO put on
their night shirts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

no personal feeling against Secretary Alger;
but this cannot be proven by his words.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

ST. LoUIs-Unon News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The attempt of Ex-Governor Altgeld to
boycott Chicago's proposed peace jubilee
was a dismal failure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

1t does not appear that Eugene ". Debs
was invited to address any assembly Of
laborers yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

The calamityite did not figure largely in
the exercises Of Labor day this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Bede's Budget
We notice In the daily press hotel adver-
tisements for vegetable girls but suppose
none need answer unless they are some
nnnn6inS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

Friendly Comment.

He-Yes, he called me blooming idiot
Him-As if any one could not see that you
had gone to seed.
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PerhapS So.


Kansas CITY Journal
Those Indiana Populists who nominated
Lieutenant Hobson for President in 1909
were perhaps impellsd by a praisewortht
desire to keep him humble.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

When he horrors OF peace nre removed
the horrors Of thu money question Will ne
out on the political circuit fos the fail run
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moistness furred over by sand. But that is
Tomorrow
For tonight you have thirsted and you
have drunk. And tomorrow will have
evening also.
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No more effective scheme could have been
devised to spread discomfort among the en-