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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-01-18

The Samser Hoschnsan vas founded
IN 1860 aud she Erae Soatkron in 1866.
The Watchns1a aad Soaahron now has
the combined circulation and influence
Of both Of Che old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium in
Samter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

mucn more from other sources) and are not
required by any law to make reports. If
lney are private corporations. how can 1t be
constitutional to make appropriations for
same! Why should not otner corporations
pc alSo favored by state taxation?-Nobles-
vile Ledger.
There is no crying need of increasing the
salaries of either the Supreme or Appellate
Courts of this State. They are large enough
to command the very best talent, and an in
crease in salaries would not add a title to
their effectiveness. The people are already
oyerburdened with taxes, and why these
omcerS or any other state or county Off
GERS should have their salaries increased
passes the understanding of persons outside
of the ofhce-holding classes who are much
more literally paid than persons in the or
binary walks of life The Legislature should
set Its face like flint against all schemes
calculated 10 increase the burdens of the
taxpayers and fatten the Golfers of the Of
nce-holders, no matter how insidious the
appeals may be or from what source they
come-Elkhart Review.
The custom of changing an officers SAL
airy during his term of office is vicious in
the extreme and can hardly be justified un-
der any circumstances, yet every Legisla
ture has this same question to contend
with and it is needless to say that the tend
ency. has been upward instead of down in
salaries. In 1895 the Legislature gave the
supreme and Appellate Courts an increase
VI Selid1y anu the former now receives edcn
$4,5OO salary and $500 stenographers allow
ance, and the latter $3.50 and $500 stenog-
rapher allowance. At this salary men emil
nently qualified to fill the high position have
earnestly sought these places and our pres
emit supreme Bench is acknowledged to be
the best in the history of the State One of
Its members stands near TO the people of
our county; his whole official life having
been devoted to the enforcement of the most
rigid economy in public affairs. to keeping
the compensation of public officials within
reasonable limits, and we are confident the
proposed increase does not meet his approx
aL-Winchester Herald.
Just now a lobby of men deeply inter-
ested in leaving the laws as they are, are
busy at indianapolis endeavoring to kill the
reform bills prepared by representatives of
both parties, the purpose of which is to
lessen taxation. County officers, township
officers, bridge sharks. school furniture
sharks, and all who have lived and grown
rat by we'll nigh doubling taxation within
eighteen years, arrayed against these
measures. Numerically, they are as one to
one hundred against the number who are
annually and unnecessarily robbed by tax
alton But they are in earnest, and that
counts great deal. Business men in many
cities and towns have met and passed reso-
buttons 1ndorslng the proposed reforms and
urging their passage. The farmer-the man
taXes-what of him? Does he want his
taxes to go on increasing, year by year, as
II mas, not only in Franklin. but throughout
the State. If you do, then remain silent. If
you do not the time for effective work is
here.-Laurel Review.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

Aguinaldo has made the task of his cham
pions in this country a very difficult one.
now that his purposes are better known.
He knew very well that the administration
was pursuing a conclatory course toward
him. He mstook the spirit of Cancellation
fer irresolution or weakness This was
natural Spain was never conciliatory un-
less irresolute and weak. That is Aguip-
aldo's conception of Cancellation. 1t is not
in the nature of the rulers who hired him
to leave the Philippines, and it is not in the
nature of Aguinaldo and the people to which
he belongs to have power and rot use it 10
be cruel. All the power they have any con-
ception Of is that which puts prisoners to
death and uses victory to plumber the van
quished. Aguinaldo knew how many soldiers
General Otis has shout Manila and the num-
Der of men on Admiral Dewey's ships. The
Spanish had three times as many soldiers
in the Philippines when he was purchased
to drop his instruction and leave the land
Three times as many Spaniards could not
whip him; therefore he could whip one
third as many Americans in and about
Manila. 1t is now known that that was what
he planned to do. His followers in the city
were to slaughter Americans and others
hostile to him. his attack being the signal
for massacre. His attack failed. and his
assasssins, who silently murder with knives.
were intimidated by the prompt action of
our officers. Such was the purpose Of the
George Washington of the Philippines"
The pompous Agunaldo. who has been Is
suing ridiculous proclamations and sending
his rascaily ambassador to the White House,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
INDIANA EDITORIAL OPINION.

Quite q number of people are of the be-
lief that a reasonable reward offered would
soon result in the arrest of at least some
members of the mob that lynched Marion
Tyler. The people of Scott county may be
expected to be blamed unless greater eff
fort is made to discover the perpetrators of
this deed.-Scottsburg Chronicle
Indiana is proud of the fact that one of
her United States senators. with voice, vote
and moral strength, is ready to take up
the white mans burden" That is Senator
Fairbanks. Had Mr.. Beverage been in the
Senate at the time of the vote on the ratifi-
cation of the peace treaty, he, too, would
have been in the same category. Indiana is
in the craftsmanship line with her United
States sena tors.-EVanSVille Journal
Since the people have been given some
figures the past few days, showing the reia-
tive cost of education at the state schools
and the nonstate schools the authorities of
the former have felt called on to explain
They say that the per capita expense at In.
diana University is not so great as the Uni
versity of Chicago or Stanford University
with their millions of endowment. The tax
payers Of the State do not want them to be
so expensive There is no need of 1t. In
making comparisons why do they not cite
some of the great institutions of the coun-
try where economy is practiced we'll as
taughr?-Seymour Republican.
Representative Artman offered a resolu-
ton in the House, Monday requiring the
three state schools 10 make itemized
statement of expenditures to the Legisla-
ture, Feb. 13. and it was unanimously
adopted. In speaking of the resolution. Mr..
Artman said that he was informed by the
auditor of state that one of these institu-
tions had received $4,000. and the other
two had received $65, 600 each The auditor of
state further informed him that the institu-
lions refused his requests for a statement
as to the expenditures of these sums on the
grounds that they are private corporations
III is most remarkable that such a condition
of affairs exists in our State There are
three state schools for higher and special
training drawing from the taxpayers $215. GOO
annually from a direct tax levy (besides as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

One of the easiest bills to be passed by
any Congress is that appropriating large
sums of money for river and harbor i'm
provements, some of which is expended
where it is of no use. 1t has been next to
impossible in recent years to get a bill
through the House appropriating money for
the construction of public buildings. no
matter how much they are needed. Indian
apolis and other large cities are practically
without anything like adequate public build
ings, yet it seems next to impossible to get
an appropriation for one. 1t would be easier
to get a million dollars to waste in an eff
fort to make White river navigable than to
get as much money for public building for
a postoiiiee, the courts and pension and rev.
enue offices. There is no city of 5000 people
in the country where it is necessary to pur-
chase stamps in one building and to mail
the letters in another
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

The state and nonstate school controversy
should occupy no further time of the Legis-
lature beyond voting. The state people have
discovered. if wise, that they can expect no
more of the State, while the anti-state
school advocates-that is, those reasonable
men who desire a differently constituted
Board of Education-must realize that they
would have got more than they will now OBJ
tain if their cause had not been injured by
men who assailed the life of the state
schools. They should have repudiated such
men at the outset The state school men
should learn from the contest that they
must be content with the levy they now
have and not come to the Legislature
asking appropriations outside of the levy.
They must be content with what they have.
Moreover, the friends of the State Univer-
sity must come TO the conclusion that In
diana will never vote the large sums Of
money necessary to make a university like
that at Chicago or at Ann Arbor, because
it is not needed. Legislation must not be at
tempted discriminating against nonstate col
leges, which, to say the least, are as well
fitted to educate, in giving graduates certifi-
Gates to enable them to teach. Both will be
better entitled to the names they bear if
they should not give a degree of any kind
to persons who do not take a three or four
years course. The present need is not more
persons having diplomas, but more really
educated men and women as graduates.
Again, since the levy was adopted there is
no call for the presence of members of state
school faculties as lobbyists. 1t is a practice
which deprives such men of the respect
which is their due as teachers. 1t is proper
to appear before a committee and make a
statement, but button-holing members is
different thing. Lastly, state school men or
their opponents should not attempt to carry
their contests into party conventions, to help
or defeat men who are candidates for offices
not affecting the school issue. That was
charged in the House on Wednesday against
a prominent educator.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
The Kinderenrten NIonthIv

This months number of the kindergarten
Monthly contains an interesting story on
"A Grain of Wheat" by Rev. Frederic E.
Dewhurst. There are extracts from the
paper on "A Beautiful city" which was
read by Mrs. John w. Kern before the
Local Council of Women in January. There
are art notes by Miss Roda r. Selleck and
of this city In addition there are the usual
departments of kindergarten and primary
work, the former being q lesson on Form
and the latter on Arithmetic" There is
also an article on THE Relation of the
kindergarten TO the Primary School," by
Mary e. Rowe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

The Greensburg Review publishes the
constitution of the Decatur County Tax
payers League" recently adopted by a
meeting of the citizens of that county, in
Guiding farmers and business men. The
movement is the outgrowth of a temporary
organization of persons interested in re-
form in township and county affairs. The
preamble to the constitution reads:
Believing that the masses of the people
the taXpayers-do not take the interest they
should in their local government both
county and township. and believing, also,
that there is a growing tendency among
many of those intrusted with the manage
ment of local administrative affairs to drift
more TO the side of selfish gain and partisan
reward than to the conducting of their trust
upon honest business methods, thus impos-
ing on the masses greater taxation than is
necessary.
The organization is declared to be nom
partisan and its objects to bring about re-
forms in local government, to establish a
higher standard of official responsibility,
TO discuss our own economical questions
in their relation to taxation" and Ito keep
a watchful eye on legislation and legislators
and back them in their efforts to legslate
for the interests of the masses" The con-
stitution provides for the establishment of
branches of the league in the different
townships, and the organization was COM
pleted by the election of officers. The move
ment is indicative of the growing interest
in matters pertaining to local government
and is worthy of imitation in other coun-
ties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

From present indications the Legislature
will treat the State benevolent and penal
institutions more literally than the last one
did. and win make needed appropriations
more Understandings. Whatever it may
do in regard to appropriations, the work Of
the commission appointed by the Governor
and the very thorough and comprehensive
report made by Representative Roots has
given it a better understanding of the con-
dition and needs of the various institutions
than any other Legislature has had since
they were established. In view of the great
amount of intelligent labor devoted to the
preparation of the report. the Legislature
should not fail to avail itself of the infor-
nation it contains.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

has learned a few things during the past
week. He mas learned that there is a differ
ence between American and Spanish soldiers.
He has learned what lighting is. 1t seems
that what he has learned has amazed him.
He has discovered that his horde of half
armed, undisciplined men cannot resist the
advance of a small, weIl-drilled and intelli-
gent army The United States will not
probably pay him money to leave the Phil
ippines, as did the Spanish authorities.
General Otis will capture him if it is posi-
bic, and hold him a prisoner while efforts
are made to secure the confidence and good
will of the supplemented Fiipinos and es-
tablish a government which will insure them
security in life and property and break up
the oppression Of the religious orders. Pain
full as is the result, it now seems that it
was necessary to convince the tickle and
ignorant people that the new power in the
Philippines is irresistible in conflict and
mcrciful and helpful in peace
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

A few nights ago a farmer in Hamilton
county had fine flock of sheep ruined by
dogs. which killed nearly two hundred out
right and injured about seventy-five more.
The law of this State gives the owner OF
sheep killed or MANNED by dogs a claim
for damages against the township, which
the trustee must pay out of the dog fund.
This fund is made by taxes paid by the
owners Of dogs in the township. In the
present case the claim viii amount to near
" $1,000. One of the arguments used against
the anti-lynching bin recently killed by the
Legislature was that it was not right TO
make innocent men liable In damages for
the acts OF guilty ones Would II be any
more unjust than II is to make the owners
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
THE CORONER'S BILLS.
L. Il. Nash Allowed $71.6O for Sum
moning Witnesses.

The County Commissioners yesterday con-
sidered the coroner's bill for the month If
January. During the month seven autopsies
were held. The law provides that SIS shall
be paid for each autopsy. One of the bills
allowed was SIS TO Miss Edna castor fJr
services as clerk Another of the bills was
for services as constable in summoning wit
nesses, work performed by l.. T. Nash The
amount asked was $3.50.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

The Minneapolis Tribune hears that Sen
ator Pettigrew could have been induced to
vote for the treaty. 1t is well that he was
not induced. record of complete bad
ness should not have been broken by one
right vote
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

The first man to assail the proposed local
government legislation in print was no
torious agent of supply companies in Shell
by county who had led scores of township
trustees into disgrace and barely escaped
punishment himself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

Of innocent dogs responsible for the depreda-
tons Of few degenerates owned by their
neighhors? If Iaw-abiding citizens cannot
be held responsible for the acts of lynchers
why should the harmless collie the faithful
mastif and the law-abiding pointer be held
responsible through their owners for the
acts of a few sheep-killing ours?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

The fight in Chicago between Mayor Har-
rison and Ex-Governor Altged promises to
be very bitter. AS Altgeld is without re-
deeming quality public man the better
sentiment will be in favor of Harrison. The
fight would afford the Republicans a great
opportunity if the organization could rid it.
self of the influence of corrupt gang and
Tannerism
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

Mrs. Secondtrip-You are just the mean
est man alive!
Mr.. Secondtrip-Well, there is one conso-
lation; presume I may infer that the late
lamented was meaner than / am.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

The Legislature is threatened by evidence
from other States to show that the town
ship council is not successful. It would not
be regarded as successful by those whose
schemes of pilfering are interfered with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
Retail Merchants, Meeting.

The second annual meeting of the Indian
apolis Retail Merchants Association was
held at the Commercial Club last night,
where a banquet was held At the business
meeting a new constitution and bylaws
were adopted. The association has been in
corporated and to-day the directors will
elect the officers for next year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
Unfair Proposition.

Maloney-Oi offered to bet i'm years
wurruk again ten dollars, but divil bit
wud he take it.
Mahoney-Av coorse not. Cud yez expect
the man to give We odds like that?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

II there were county councils county COM
missioners would not contract for supplies
for county officers until the officers had
made application for them. and they would
not purchase until they had advertised as
the law requires. The trouble is that un-
der the pressure of dealers in supplies, and
bad precedents, commissioners in some
counties ignore the laws enacted for their
o4,sdapoo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


Tommy-Paw,, what is a joint snake?
Mr.. Figg-The kind man gets from fire.
quenting joints, / reckon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

For more than thirty years few men IN
this country were so bitterly denounced as
was John Sherman by the Democratic press
generally. Just now some of the Demo-
cratic papers are applauding him as a wise
and patriotic man because, at the close of a
most useful life, he is finding fault with the
party which he has done so much to sus-
tain. Whatever John Sherman may say in
the days of his feebleness. the intelligent
people of the country will never forget that
the part he did in bringing the United
States to specie resumption was as impor-
tant as the service of General Grant which
gave the country Appomattox.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
The Cornfed pbiIosonhcr

THE woman who insists on a right to a
seat in Congress- said the Cornfed Phios-
opher, should not expect one ir street
car"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

81 the city of Manila meant the massacre
OF all those opposed to him The American
George Washington was never guilty of
The rising which Aguinaldo had planned
that sort of thing.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

The country will approve the action of
the President in converting a court of in
quiry to investigate General Miles's state
ments regarding the, meat furnished the
army during the war The matter has as
sumed such a phase that the honor of Cen
eral Miles and of other officers and citizens
Is involved. and nothing short of a thor
ough investigation will answer There is
nothing in the order rejecting on General
Miles personally, and neither he nor his
friends should object that he is to be given
an opportunity to make his charges good.
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Mr.. NOEL.S REMARKS.

Mr.. Noel, who had championed the amend
ment which was lost, said that every name
that could be secured to such petition
was on that paper and he did not hear the
names Of many eminent attorneys whom he
named He said that as well as he knows
the bar of this city there were many on
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-07-26

merce is increasing. Our business
with foreign countries was never so
large as now. With questions con-
corning commerce and many other
matters Gov. Pages experience, abil-
ity, and habit of looking into a
thing, obtaining a thorough under
standing of and then acting upon it
with good Judgment, would enable
him to give his nation and state
valuable service. He would soon be
in the front rank, among the ablest
men in Washington.
The time has evidently come for a
new congressman in the First Dis
trict. Gov. Page is the man. His
name naturally comes to the front.
1t is frequently mentioned for the
position and invariably with the
prediction that he can win.
VIII Congressman Powers he Gov.
Pages strongest opponent? Has he
made record in Congress that gives
him a right to hope for continued
political preferment from his district?
One cannot say that he has. 1t is
even intimated that since the defeat
Of his Pacific Railroad bill he has
practically dropped out Of sight in
most congressional matters. If this
is so it is indeed time for the First
District to make a change. That
district wants man who can do it
justice and Gov. Page is the man.
Congressman Powers, when his
present term is finished, will have
been in Congress ten years, longer
than most men who have represented
the state. He may think his record
makes him worthy of a still longer
service. If so he will probably pre-
sent it to his constituents for ap-
proval,