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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01

Senator Turpie has made about forty
speeches thus far in the campaign. If he
has made the same speech elsewhere that
he is reported as making at Terre Haute,
he has told as many deliberate untruths
about the Monetary Commission bill which
has been offered in the House. When a
man, who is United States senator, tells,
time and again, that it is proposed in that
bill to make an issue of interest bearing
bonds to retire the greenbacks and estab-
fish basis for new national bank cur
rency, he tells that which is absolutely
false. There is not 2 line in that bill which
can be tortured into such meaning. Even the
person who Enthusiastically or dishonesty
signs himself chairman of the "Silver Re-
publican State Committee" being young in
Popocratic work, does not have the effront-
cry to declare that a bond issue is a
feature of the bill which Mr.. Overstreet
offered in the House. and which was pre-
pared by the Monetary Commission. TAX
ing their cue from Senator Turpie, it is
probable that several Democratic orators
are repeating the Turpie falsehood over the
State, thus deceiving people This, how
ever, is Mr.. Turpie's method. For many
years he has been able to keep those who
follow him blindly in ignorance.
The main objection which demagogues
have urged against the present national
banking system is that the notes of such
banks are based upon a deposit of United
States bonds. The objection has been that
it is a great wrong to permit banks to re-
ceive interest on bonds deposited to secure
circulation and notes to loan to customers,
because the shareholder receives double in
terest For years that has oeen the main OBJ
lection to the present national barking sys-
tenn.
One of the purposes of the ". letary Com
mission bill is to get rid of the current OBJ
lection by having bonds cease to be secur-
ity for notes, and to base circulation on the
paid in stock and assets of the banks, as
was the case with all State banks of issue.
The bill was drawn by men of, experience
and ample provision was made in it for the
safety of those who hold bank notes, and
for their redemption in gold.
Mr.. Turpie knows that it would not dc
to say that the natlOnal Dond WOULD not
be the basis for bank circulation, should
that bill become a law for the reason that
such an admission, after denouncing the
bond basis for circulation, would put him
in a place where he might be asked why he
did not vote for such bill and thus put
an end to a system by which the national
banker receives double interest. Evident
ly, to escape such an inquiry, Senator Tur-
pie resorts to falsehood, saying up and
down the State that the Overstreet bill
provides for an issue of Understanding
bonds to support bank circulation and with
draw the greenbacks. 1t is false, and a
man who is a member of the Senate finance
committee should know that. his own asser-
ton is false: and he probably does.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
CLASH In WEST VIRGINIA.
Federal and State Judicial AuthOri.
ties at War.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Oct. Sl-A
serious clash between federal and state ju-
dicial authorities is expected here. May
nard F. Stiles. attorney for Henry c. King,
of New York, obtained from the United
States Circuit Court here an injunction to
inhibit the sheriff of Logan county from
selling land of his client for taxes. Judge
Doolittle of the Circuit Court of Logan
county. issued a rule against Stiles for con-
tempt. After hearing Stiless answer to the
rule Judge Doolittle committed Stiles to
Jail TO remain there till the injunction pro-
ceedingS in the Federal Court were dis
missed. Stiles was placed in the county
Jail and an application was made to Judge
Jackson for writ of habeas corpus, which
Judge Jackson issued and a deputy marshal
was sent to bring Stiles before the Federal
Court. The sheriff and jailer refused, un-
der instructions from Judge Doolittle, to de-
liver the prisoner to the United States Off
Ger. and. the officer having reported TO the
court to-day Judge jackson was asked to
issue a writ of attachment against the
sheriff and taller the effect of which was to
bring these officers with their prisoner be-
fore the court Attorney General Rucker,
Of this State requested Judge Jackson to
DELAY issuing the writ till ne can commune
cate with Judge Doolittle, which Judge
jackson agreed to do If Judge Doolittle
refuses to give up the prisoner an attach
nent will issue and If the United States
officers are resisted the United States
troops may be called on to suppress the re-
hQlliOn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE
POINTS FROM THE GENERAL SUPER
INTENDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Nearly 600 Casualties, in Which Seven
$50 Injured-ReIief Work.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The annual re-
port of the general superintendent of the
railway mail service shows that at the close
of the year there were S,O74 clerks employed,
and that, with the closed pouch and ex-
press pouch service, the grand total of
miles Travelled in the service was 2S5, 500 343.
Matter so illegibly addressed as to require
special attention before delivery could be
effected or which could not be delivered at
all, amounted to 1868, 1856 pieces for the
year, 1866, 5S5 pieces of which We're returned
to writer's or corrected and forwarded to
destination, the rest being turned into the
Dead-letter Office for disposition.
The general superintendent deplores the
fact that the number of casualties last year
exceeded the record Of any previous year,
though the number of fatalities was not so
great. There were 597 casualties. in which
seven clerks were killed, thirty-four seri-
ously injured and 146 slightly injured. 1t
is urged that some provision be made by
Congress for the relief of the families of
clerks killed while on duty and for the Gre
alton of railway mail service relief fund
for the benefit of clerks permanently dis
abled or injured in the line of duty.
The wisdom of appointing a humber of
assistant Superintendents to inspect star,
steamboat and mail messenger routes and
screen wagon service, supervise the weigh
ing of mails. ETC.. it is said, has been made
evident by the result of their work during
the year. An innovation is proposed in the
way Of establishing postal stations in rail-
road depots, and this and other recon-
mendations have been approved by the sec
ond assistant postmaster general
Quite a comprehensive statement on the
part that the railway mail service took in
the forwarding of mails to and from the
military camps during the war just closed
and the dispatching of mails to and from
the army and navy in and around Cuba
Porto Rico and the Philippine islands is
given, and a long list of improvements and
extensions in the service is shown.
1t is estimated that $S,928,11S win be re-
quired for salaries of railway postal clerks
for the year ending June 80, 1900, and 81,
204, 800 for railway pOStoffice cars exclusive
of subsidized lines.)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
THE AMUSEMENT OF THE SENTINEL.

When the readers of the Journal shall
have read the statements of the largest
employers of skilled and other labor in the
city, charging the Sentinel with misrepre-
senting their business and reporting them
as participating in interviews which most
of them disclaim, nothing that we can say
can add to it's chastisement. When the Sen
tinel so far returns to its normal condition
that it can appreciate the force of the
sweeping denial of hundred employers of
skilled labor and the accusations of false
hood which they make it must keenly feel
its self-degradation in the estimation of that
large and intelligent class of citizens.
These employers of labor not only feel
that the Sentinel has misrepresented their
business, but that it has also misrepresented
the city before the country. Men in the
same business in other cities know that
there has been a most marked Improvement
in business and a great increase in the num-
Der of employees and of hours of work in
the week with them, and they will wonder
what is the matter with Indianapolis that
it is otherwise here. They will wonder if
its manufacturers have no enterprise and
IL the OTy IOl lids lOuCHSu IuuldHdpOI1S
Looking over the Sentinel's calamity list
without knowing its animus. business men
in neignboring cities of its class will assume
that it has dropped out of the list of com
petitors and that henceforth values will de-
cline and soon the chief revenue of the Sem
tinel will come from the publication of sher-
ifs sales.
Why has the condition Of one of the most
evenly prosperous cities in the country
been misrepresented by the Sentinel? What
grudge can a newspaper which depends
largely upon the prosperity and the patron
age of a city have against it's people that
it belittles the business and the prospects
of nearly every leading establishment in the
city? None whatever; but the Sentinel inn
AGNES that it can make votes for the silver
heresy and push into power the bogus De-
mocracy of Bryan. Altgeld, Teller and Tur-
pie. 1t hopes that by defaming Indianapolis
and stabbing its interests it can put inteli-
gent voters in a frame of mind that they
will elect legislative tickets which will put
Turpie into the Senate for third term. 1t
hopes that its cry of calamity will drive
the people to the support of the bogus Dem
ocratic combination which includes the
plundering of Taggartism and the anarch-
ism of the Cheadles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
THE MARIA TERESA.
Spanish Cruiser Raised by HObsOn En-
Route to Hampton Roads.

WASHINGTON, Oct 31.-A telegram has
been received at tie sNavy Department
stating that the Maria Teresa passed Cape
Maysi, Cuba, this morning, going at the
rate Of six knots under her own steam; all
well. She left Caimanera yesterday for
Hampton Roads under command of Captain
Harris, who was detached from the COM
mand Of the Vulcan for that purpose. Com
mander Blow assumed command oS the
Vulcan, and his place on the Potomac was
taken by Commander Craven. The Teresa
sailed from Caimanera at o'clock yester-
day morning with the Vulcan and Leonidas
These vessels will escort the Teresa most
of the way to Norfolk. The Cincinnati also
started with the Teresa, but she was to go
only as far as Cape Maysi, and thence
across to Port Antonio. 1t is probable that
with fair weather the Teresa will reach
Hampton Roads about Tuesday next. There
she will be surveyed by the naval board,
which will report to the department the
probable cost of putting her into condition
for naval service. The advices so far re-
ceiVed at the department indicate that this
is going to be an expensive undertaking,
but nevertheless it will be carried forward
more from sentimental than practical con-
siderations.
In the absence of specific order from
Secretary Long to consider the subject the
board of Naval Bureau chiefs have not UNI
dertaken to pass upon the eXpedience of
prosecuting the attempts to raise other of
the Spanish ships sunk July than the
Teresa. Constructor HobSon is now in New
York and he may be called upon later to
explain his views. The majority of the
board appears to favor the continuance for
a short time of the work on the Colon until
it is shown that the vessel can or cannot
be raised and to raise the Reina Mercedes,
allowing the ViZcaya and the Oquendo to
remain on the bottom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
Don't Look for Job in Honolulu.

j. l.. Wheeler, in LeSlieS Weekly.
Dew is so heavy that the stock is never
watered and the walk to every house is
paved with heavy slabs cut from the trunk
of pulu fern trees forming soft and fine
wearing pavement; the wound in the tree
heals at once Bananas, wool and hides are
also exported, while tropical fruits grow in
abundance, among them bread fruit, pine
apples often weighing twelve pounds, aVo-
cado pears, peaches, tamarinds, lines,
lemons, citrons, guavas Strawberries rasp-
berries, ohelo-berrier, grapes, mountain
apples, etc. I would not advise any one
without capital to come to the island; even
skilled labor is n drug on the market, as
many of the Chinese and Portuguese. are
skilled laborers, with whom you would have
to compete in wages. Professional and mer-
camille careers are overdone here, the stores
carrying large modern stocks. and the total
white population only numbering few
thousand; the bulk of the population in
cludes Portuguese Chinese, Japs and ma
tives all of whom trade at Chinese stores.
with which a white man could not compete.
Capitalists can still find safe investments
with large returns in stocks Of plantations,
RAILWAYS etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01

Prof Lombroso. in International Magazine
America has clearly proved that deci-
sive war may be waged without great loss
of life, and that real modern herOism will
bear favorable comparison with the ancient.
In open sitting in Madrid a deputy asserted
that a mercantile people. without stand
ing army of any considerable size, without
bedizened generals without annual maneu-
vers. could not possibly wage war; that at
the first shot the Americans would run like
so many hareS; while. according to the crit
icism of Italian naval experts, the navy Of
the United States was in such q. backward
condition and was so handicapped in every
possible way that it was foredoomed TO de-
struction.
On the contrary, it has been conclusively
shown that the qualities and capabilities
produced by modern industry, by working
with machinery, and great industrial under
takings, are sometimes superior 10 those
qualities which are bred on the drill ground
and in the barracks Two fleets of Spain,
which had been kept up and augmented
steadily year after year at enormous cost,
and which were manned by a personnel
which was certainly not considered inferior,
were simply blown away without having
been able TO inhict any appreciate damage
on their adversaries. Had it not been for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01

Philadelphia Record.

The movement initiated at West Point for
the organization of an association (com-
prising both graduates and nongraduates or
the academy for the purpose of erecting a
suitable memorial to those officers and prl-
Yates of the regular army who gave up their
lives for their country in the late war with
Spain is inspired by the same praiseworthy
motive which prompted the formation or
the Battle Monument Association of the
civil war. AS the heroes OF the sixties have
recently been honored with an imposing
monument at West Point. 1t Is altogether
fitting that the country should spontaneous
" Join in paying a like tribute to the heroes
of '9S. and the new memorial should be
erected at the same place as the old, that
IL may not only serve as a perpetual inspira-
ton to valor but tend to cultiyate the
esprit de corps which is such an important
feature OF West Point training. Both con-
siderations suggest that there should be
more promptitude in its erection than has
heretofore been The rule with respect to mil
itary monuments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
Victim of Too Much Courtesy.

New York Special to Chicago Tribune.
David H. Moffat, the Denver millionaire,
who took Head Waiter Gay, of the Fifth
avenue Hotel, on a tour to Europe with him
because he liked him, no longer stops at that
hostelry He has gone to the Waldorf
dent. When he returned from the other
side he went to the Fifth-avenue and found
that the walters had got the impression
that to comply with the terms of an cleo
ton bet or something like that, he had
sworn to take a different waiter to Europe
with him every year. The walters began
'it." The result was that when MIR. Moffat
took a chair in the dining room eight or nine
glasses of ice water would find their way to
his table and a score of bills of fare would
be thrust at him. Then one day Mr.. Moffat,
taking his trunks, moved over to the Wal
dorf-Astoria. After registering he hunted
up Mr.. Boldt and assured him that he had
no more expeditions to the East in mind.
But the walters there heard the news some
way, and now Mr.. Moffat is thinking of
moving again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01

ness did not come and only for a short
period did money get above 6 per cent.
All the money that came West or South
was that which banks in these sections had
deposited in Eastern banks. There was
never near so much money in the country
and it was never as cheap for the borrower
as now. All this has come about since the
election of Mckinley and the defeat of the
16-to-1 heresy. Confidence and the in
creased exports of the country. not only of
breadstuffs. food and cotton, but of The
products of our manufacturers have brought
the marvellous change in two years. 1t will
be strange if the people do not again place
the seal of condemnation upon the cause of
silverisnn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
GOLD AND SLY ER WAGES.
observations of an Indiana Man Dur
ing "a Visit to Mexico.

observations of an Indiana Man Dur
ing 81 Visit to Mexico.
Noblesville Ledger.
III February, 1897, the junior editor of the
Ledger was in the Republic of Mexico, the
country that Bryan and the silver orators
free coinage of silver. In one of the letters
in the Ledger sooh after his return he spoke
CT the modes Of living and of the wage ques-
ton that may not be out of place at this
time. Prices On some articles have changed
a little, but the totals are about the same
how as then In that article he said:
But now as to the modes of living. Let
it be remembered that the very few rich
live III the height Of fashion and on the
fat OF the land, | desire to speak of the
tenths Of them, Their houses are adobe
houses. Most of them have no floors, no
beds, no stove, no chairs-nothing that the
poorest of our people possess. Their food
for the most part consists of tortillas and
frijoles-which in English means corn cakes
or "slap-jacks' and beans. Meat or wheat
Tread are luxuries. It is said Mexican
can live on three cents a day. They have
no mOdeSty, no ambition, and live like hogs
and with the hogs. At one place | saw three
children sitting upon an old SOW that was
lying down at the front door; at another
saw horse hitched under the front porch.
The wages paid in that country would make
a union labor man in this country sick nigh
unto death. Common labor gets from 1212c
to size day; factory hands, Size; brick
and stone masons, I5c to 81 % q day; college
professors, $50 a month, except in the City
of Mexico, where they get some more. These
wages are paid in Mexican silver, which is
now not worth half what our money is. On
the other hand, the prices of articles such
as Americans buy are very high and out of
the question for Mexican laborers to buy.
To illustrate the difference between the con-
dition and manner of living there and here,
let US suppose the case of the common la
borer or factory hand. We will suppose that
they are employed regularly-not true here
nor there at all times. In fact, it looks like
the whole population down there was out
on holiday jaunt all the time as very few
are seen at work Let the wife of the Ameri-
can laborer go to the grocery Saturday
night with the earnings of the week. (say
$3.50 to buy provisions for the coming week.
The second column represents the Mexican
prices for same articles. The order is about
o fnlIOWc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01

A month ago, in an address before a mill
tary organization, Captain d. F. Allen. of
Frankfort, declared that the United States
must keep all the territory it may acquire
from Spain. He spoke of Uncle Sans
drumbeat around the world" He was
greeted with general applause. Doubtless
Captain Allen spoke the sentiments of many
thousand Democrats in Indiana Now
Joseph b. Cheadle, who has not been a
Democrat very long, and who few years
ago gloried that he had spent four years
killing Democrats assumes to be a better
Democrat that Captain Allen. Mr.. Cheadle
Is against the acquisition of Hawaii and
Porto Rico, and would turn the Philippines
back to Spain He wants no woodworking
drumbeat. no reveille in succession of
lands which will show that ii is always sun
rise in the United States. As the Demo-
cratic leader in the Ninth district Mr.
Cheadle has questioned Captain Aliens
Democracy A week from to-day Republic
ans and Democrats will defeat the Cheadle
Marty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01

If Auditor Harry B. Smith had been party
ing of school funds and Marion county had
been left by him to pay $4,000 because OF
his violation of the law, what a howl the
evening Taggart organ would keep up over
the affair day after dayl Yet that is just
what the records show that Il. NJ. Johnson
did while Taggart was auditor. The guilt
of Taggart and Johnson is so plain that
they make no denial Yet the man who is
chiefly responsible for the Landers irregu-
larity is held up by the News as an ideal
candidate for auditor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01

tory, to proceed to England to inspect the
methods pursued there in the construction
of guns, mounts. torpedo tubes, etc, Wire
wound guns. which have been so success
fully developed for the English navy. will
be carefully examined by the visiting officer.
and. as underwater discharge tubes for tor
pedoes have been adopted for the battle
ships Maine. Missouri and Ohio, he will
learn the method of their manufacture at
the ordnance works of the Armstrong;. The
department has purchased the right to use
the method of manufacture of underwater
discharge tubes from the Armstrong; and
has also bought the right to use the bTeech
mechanism of guns built by Vicker's Sons
& Maxim
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
OMAHA SHOW In LUCK.
About Two Millions Received and q
Million and "a Half Expended.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 5O.-The Transmits
sissppi and international Exposition closed
at midnight. The closing hours of tine en-
terprise were the most brilliant in the his
tory of the five months exhibition. 1t is
estimated tonight that 1900 people crowd
ed the grounds to-day. It was Omaha day,
and everybody was there. Up to this morn
ing 2,552, S9S people had registered at the
turnstiles, so the grand total Will consider
ably exceed 100000. The exposition was a
financial success, something over $400,O00 re-
naming TO be divided among the stock
holders A fraction less than 81, 10000 has
been received and $1,500,000 expended. The
concessions paid the exposition $4,000 and
the exhibitors $4,000 Eighty thousand dol
lars were received from other sources. The
highest number of people in any one day
was the opening day of the peace jubilee,
when President Mckinley spoke. 9S,I S6 per-
sons being present on that occasion. The
exposition owed SEQ 000 when the gates were
opened $4,000 was subscribed for the ex-
position, and all but $4,000 of that amount
paid in. III addition corporations donated
100000. It Is estimated that the subscribers
will receive back about 80 per cent. of their
subscriptions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-01
THE FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES.

1t is not surprising that the President has
arrived at the conclusion that the United
States must retain all of the Philippines as
the result of the negotiations of the peace
commission. Nine-tenths of the intelligent
people of the country are in full accord with
the sentiment expressed by a well-known
Democrat who has been in Congress, in
these words This government cannot per-
NIT Spain to hold the Philippines, whatever
else il may do" If this government had
rot come into possession OF the harbor of
Manila without planning and without ex
pectation, we might be able to say that our
duty TO humanity does not extend to the
uttermost parts of the earth and stopped
with wrestling Cuba and Porto Rico from
the oppression of Spain. but Manila was
ours before Cuba To have called Admiral
Dewey away would have weakened our ex-
PLANTATION for interference with Spain in