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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-13
THE ST. LOUIS CONTROVERSY.

The strikes of the employees Of the street.
railways in st. Louis and Kansas City are
attracting much attention, not so much be-
cause they are in progress. but by reason
of the causes leading to them In most
strikes in the past the cause was demand
for more wages or for fewer hours or some
other feature regarding the rights of the
employees. In the two strikes alluded to
there seems to be no dispute about wages;
the strikes are due 10 demands regarding
the men who shall be employed and who
shall be discharged. The union which has
caused the ST. Louis strike demands that
no man shall be employed by the company
who does not present a card showing that
he is a member; that all men now en-
ployed who are not members OF the union
shall be dismissed; that all men who are
suspended because their service is not sat
shall have a hearing and be reinstated
without loss of pay IL the charges are not
sustained.
These are such radical demands that they
should be considered in judicial frame of
mind. The man who must present card
signed by certain officers OF the union be-
fore he can be employed Is not required to
present any testimonial OF fitness. If the
card should be a certificate of the intelli-
gence. experience and honesty Of the bear
er, much could be said in Its favor. 1t
is no such certificate, but is practically the
order Of men who have no interest in the
property that the bearer must Be employed
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churches. libraries. trolley cars. electric
lights. telephones and all the modern con-
veniences their purses can AFFORD. I'M
provements that come slowly to long-estab-
lished Eastern towns are theirs from the
beginning. The new towns Of the Pacific
slope were operating cable and electric
street cars before they were known in most
Eastern cities. Even to-day New York has
lines of horse cars-a sight that causes
wonder to visitors from "the West"
There is. of course. In every quarter un-
developed wealth. This is a country whose
possibilities have not yet all been so much
as dreamed of. The residents of each Sec
ton will not be slow to direct the attention
OF the newspaper league to these opportu-
mites for enterprise and investment, and If
the knowledge shall be brought to Eastern
readers it may in time bring forth profit
able results. But If the four papers shall
succeed In convincing their readers that
the West is not waiting for tourists TO
come along and build it up, but is building
itself up with great energy and enjoying
the fruits of its labor in ways never
dreamed Of by the slow-going. conservative
residents of the older States. they may
consider that their league has been a sue
cess. When their task is completed. per-
haps in kindly return enterprising West
erners will go East and help upbuild New
England by telling the inhabitants what to
do with their abandoned farms.
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NEWSPAPER PHILANTHROPY.

The Journal is favored with postal
card on which is the announcement that
four Eastern newspapers have organized
league for a tour of the West. This
tour, it is explained. has been undertaken
Sin the interest of the development and
country The four papers which have
joined in this commendable undertaking
are the Boston Herald, the New York Sun,
the Philadelphia Times and the Baltimore
Herald, each a great newspaper and a
power in itself United they can do much,
but precisely in what manner they expect
to develop and upbuild the West is not
known, nor is it of consequence. AS a
matter of fact they will do neither the
one nor the other. What they will do,
perhaps. will be to discover the West for
the benefit Of their down-east readers, and
If they accomplish this great work they
will have made their enterprise worth
while. To the greater number of the
readers of the papers named the West"
begins this side OF the Allegheny noun
tains. or even nearer home. Many Bos-
ton man, in fact, believes that he has
been West when he has visited Albany or
Buffalo. The adventurous spirits who PEN
etrated the unknown as far as Chicago
during the year of the worlds fair felt
that they were widely travelled and that
little remained to be told them concern
heir u-1.1
comparatively few in numbers. however.
and what they learned has had no notice
able effect on the density of the Eastern
ignorance of the West. 1t is true that the
enterprise of these travellers was supple
mented a little later by the explorations
of Richard Harding Davis who, IL we mis-
take not. got as far as Denver and Salt
Lake. The naive surprise expressed by
this young man over his discovery Of I'M
expected signs of civilization in that re-
mote region made his letters far more en-
tertaining to considerable class of per-
sons who had been there before him than
the publishers had anticipated. too enter
tanning, probably. for the tour was cut
short and the young explorer sent across
the water TO investigate the mysteries Of
golf. which had not yet been imported
an assignment much more to his taste.
But no one, even Eastern readers. took
Mr.. Davis seriously. and the discoveries
have to be made over again. 1t is not likely
that the four papers in question. being
edited by intelligent men, expect to do any
developing or upbuilding. They know. or
ought to know, that virtually there is no
longer any West in the sense Of a raw
frontier. Wherever men have settled
themselves all over this land they have
supplied themselves With the latest devel-
opments Of science; thsy have schools.
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Mr.. DOOLEY
on. ALCOHOL AS FOOD.
Copyright. 1900. by R. H. RusssI.l

atm tn sojers III complain that tn Homer
was UNIT to dhrink an theyn be INQUIRE.
TO find out who sold embammin' food 10 n,
ARMY. Poor people II have simple meals
p'rhaps a bucket Nv beer an little crane
de mint. an vel r-read in tn pa-ane-.
about a poor family found starvin' on n.
North Side. with nawtahin TO sustain life
but wan small bottle iv gin. while tn head
iv tn family. a man well known 10 tn
polls, spinds his wages in a low dorgerv
or bakeshop fuddlin' his brains with cus-
tard pie. TIL r-rich II inthrajoose novel;
ties. Prhaps they'll top of a fine dinner
with little hasheesh or prooslc acid. Tn
tlmell come whin ven see me n a white
cap fryin' a cocktail over a cooksthove
while a niger hollers TO me: Dhraw a
stock iv Scotch and holler back: on tn
fire. We will not
''Thats'what 1 thought" said Mr.. Hen
messy.
NO." said Mr.. Dooley. whisky wud-
dent be so much Nv a luxury IL twas mora
Nv a necessity. / don't believe tits a food
though whin me f.fnd Schwartzmeister
makes cocktail all IL needs is a few
noodles to look like billed dinner No.
whisky amt food. 1 think betther iv IL
thin that. 1 wudden't insult II be placin' IL
on tn same low plane as a lobster salad
Father Kelly puts it fright, an years
go by without him lookin' on Il even AZ
Halloween Whisky says he is called
tn divle, because he says. tits wan iv tn
fallen angels he says 1t has its place
he says, but its place is not I'm a mans
head says he. IT ought TO be tn reward
Nv action. not tn cause Nv it, he says. It's
fr tn end iv tn day. not tn beginnin'.' he
says. Hot whisky is good FIR cold heart
an no whisky's good fr a hot head he
says. TIL minyit a man relies on II fr a
crutch he loses tn use iv HIS legs. IT'S a
bad thing to stand on, good thing to sleep
on. good thing TO talk on. a bad thing 70
think on. II it's in tn head in tn morn
in it ought not to be in tn mouth at night.
IL it laughs in We, dhrink; IL IL weeps.
good women, an some women talk Ike bad
men. II is Twin FIR orators an tn death
iv bookkeepers. 1T doesn't sustain life.
but, whin taken hot with wather, a lump
iv sugar. a piece of limon peel. an just tn
dustin Nv nutmeggrater. il makes life
sustainable"
Dye think ye'ersilf it sustains lIfeg'
asked Mr.. Hennessy.
1T has sustained mine f'r many years."
said Mr.. Dooley.
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to take his own time about H. He IS vet
alive and just celebrated his eightieth
birthday.
Secretary Long Is looking forward With
pleasure to his summer vacation at his old
home in Buckfield. Ne. Last year he spent
some OF his time in manufacturing three
rustic chairs He cut the wood and fash
Toned the chairs himself
Senator Jones, of Nevada. is a strong be-
liver in diet which he has himself de-
vised. His breakfast never varies Tt is
always eaten at o'clock, and invariably
consists only of one cup of black coffee and
large piece Of cinnamon bun.
Liverpool is the greatest foreign distrib-
uting point for American apples. and as
high as 100000 barrels OF our apples have
been sold there i'm one week at remunera-
tive prices. London. Glasgow and Hull also
receive immense cargoes of American sp-
pies.
One Of the leading papers OF Toxic has
just done a rather strange thing. 1t has
published the names of 100 school teachers.
all of whom IL declares are suffering from
consumption, and calls on the authorities TO
dismiss them at once, lest they infect the
children under their care.
President Eliot, Of Harvard, is rejoicing
in having procured the appointment to very
high educational positions OF two young
men in whom he has been much interested.
and both of whom have graduated from
Harvard under adverse circumstances-One.
Mr.. Alexis L. Frye, to be superintendent OF
education of Cuba; the other. Mr.. Fred w.
Atkinson, TO be superintendent Of education
of the Philippines.
The estate Of the late Cornelius Wander
bilt is the highest valued property in New
port, it being assessed for $4,000. Next
comes that of Mrs. Oliver III. p. Belmont,
which includes beautiful Marble House.
This estate is valued at $4,000. The prop
erty Of Mrs. Herman Oerichs, which IS
now being improved by the addition OF i
new villa, will rank among the most valu-
able places when all is completed. At
present il is only taxed as lin progress"
Who first beholds the light OF day
In springs sweet flowery month Of May
And wears emerald all her life
Shall be loved and happy wife.
Notes and Queries.
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'If a man come into this saloon" Mr..
Hennessy was saying.
This amt no saloon" Mr.. Dooley inter-
rupted. This is RESTRAINT
"A what?' Mr.. Hennessy exclaimed
"a RESTRAINT" said Mr.. Dooley. Eye don't
know. Hinnissy, that liquor is food. 1t is.
though. Food-an' dhrink. That's what a
doctor says in tn pa-apers, an another
doctor wants tn COVER mint to sind tubs iv
tn stuff down to tn Ph'hpeens. He says
It's almost issintial that people shud dhrink
in thin hot climates. TIL preparation don't
dhry on thin afther a hard pursoot iv Ag-
gynaldoo an tn capture Nv Ginral Panta-
looms de Garshy; they begin to think iv
home an mother sinding' down tn lawn
sprinkler to be filed with book. an they
go off somewhere. an, not bein' able to
dhry thimsilves with dhrink. they want to
die. TIL disease is called nostalgia or
inconsistencies, or thirst.
what we want to do FIR our sojer boys
in tn Ph'lipeens besides KILN thim.' says
tn ARMY surgeon. SIS make tn place more
homelike, he says. Nanny Nv our boys
hasn't had tn deleeryum thremens since
we first planted tn stars an sthripes, he
he says i wud be in favor Nv havin' tn
riggimints get their feet round wanst a
week. at laste,' he says. Lave u.s. he says,
reform tn reg'lytions, he says, an in
sthruct our sojers to keep their powder
dhry an their whistles wet he says.
9TH idee ought to take. Hinnissy. FIR tn
other doctor la-ad has discovered that
liquor is food. a man. says he, can live
FIR months on a little booze taken firm
time to time he says. They'se great
dale Nv nourishment in it, he says. An I
believe him, FIR manny's tn man / know
that don't think Nv eatin' whin he can get a
dhrink. I wondher If tn time will liver
come whin ye'll see a man sneakin' out Nv
tn family enthrance iv a lunchroom hur-
ridly bitin' Glove, People may get so
they'll carry a light dinner Nv a bottle Nv
rye down to their wurruk an a man'll tell
We he niver takes more thin a bottle Nv beer
FIR breakfast. Tn cook II give way to tn
BARTENDER an tn doctor IL ordher people
FIR to ate on'y at meals. Yell r-read in tn
pa-apers that anton Boozinski while
crazed with ham an eggs, thried to kill his
wife an childher.' On Pathricks day yell
see tn DIR. Tanner Anti-Food Fife and
Drum Corpse out at tn head iv tn process
sion instead iv tn Father Macchews, an
they'll be places where a man can be took
whin he gets tn monkeys firm immodhrate
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LITERARY NOTES.

Rudyard Kipling, according TO London
announcements. is 10 visit the United
States next autumn. The author says he
does not lay his former illness against the
American climate.
Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart is writing the
last chapters of novel Of Southern life on
which she has been engaged for several
years. The work will probably make It's
first appearance as a magazine serial.
Barrie the author. has also found that
prohpet is unhonored in his own country.
for the plain. simple folks of his own
Thrums think the ''wee black mon has
held them up TO ridicule in his "havcrs an
nonsense" as they regard his writings
Herbert Spencer always begins his days
work by having the morning papers read 10
him. Then he attends 10 his correspond
ence and reads his proofs. In the afternoon
he reads magazines, listens TO good music
and takes a drive, and at 10 O'Clock ne re-
tires.
In a recent lecture on the heroines Of fc-
ton Mr. w. ID. Howells declares that In
his own heroines he has mot sought any
thing remote or strange in character. 10
suggest the sublimity. the divinity. ths
beauty OF everyday life has been almost my
single aim
In his last book Mark Twain makes the
pertinent remark that men ought 10 begin
to feel sort of respect for their mothers
and wives and sisters by this time IL
takes much 10 convince the average man OF
anything" he observes. '.and perhaps notn-
ing can ever make him realize that ne Is
the average woman's inferior.
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett has sent copy
Of her book. 1.-The Queens Twin and Other
Stories" to Queen Victoria In Offering
the book. which was accepted. Miss Jewett
said that the first story revealed the warm
and genuine feeling OF attachment ana ven
Grafton which exists among the American
country folk toward the Queen
The novel by Mr. William Dudley Foulke.
of Richmond. Ind. soon to be published
will be called Maya" and will tell the adj
ventures OF Spaniard, companion OF
Bilbao who was wrecked on the Central
American coast and adopted by the n
dians Mr. Fouike has studied the Maya
ruins IN Yucatan. and past OF the Meyas.
so that this book is 20 be considered as
still another attempt IN the held OF tho
historical novel.
The original autograph manuscript OF
Gray's "Elegy'' has just passed into the
possession of Elton College. On two occa-
sions II had been, knocked down TO the
highest bidder at Sothcby's auction rooms.
London. At the dispersal OF the Gray coli
lection IN 1854 the "Elegy" went for Elsi.
which was regarded ar that time as az ap-
normally high price; yet In May. 80, y
was acquired az the same place by the iate
Sir W0liam Fraser for go. VINO generous
u beQDoa<hed AZ % Eros coue1&
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when new men are wanted The demand
that men who may have been long in the
service OF the company shall be discharged
without cause Is as absolute an infraction
OF the rights of the citizen as IL he were
arrested and put into prison without war
rant or trial. The demand that men who
have been suspended or discharged shall be
reinstated after hearing Of the charges,
or causes of suspension discharge, with
out loss OF pay. practically takes from the
managers of a street-railway property the
authority to conduct its affairs. Suppose a
violation of the rules Of the company, in
volving loss of property or injury to per-
sons; the managers cannot discharge the
offender until there shall be an investiga-
ton In which the organization behind the
man shall participate and in effect be the
judges of the guilt or innocence Of the &C
cused or the suspended. Now. whenever
any law or order deprives the employer Of
the right to determine whether the services
of an employee are satisfactory or detri-
his business is taken out of his control and
he is deprived Of that authority which is
essential to the proper management of his
affairs. While most employees would render
good service under such conditions, por-
ton would assume an indifference to duty
which would be ruinous. Such PROPOSE
ton, If carried into effect. would transfer
the management of the business Of the
street railway to board Of men selected
by the employees, who have no interest In
the property.
Popular sentiment usually sustains
strikes when the dispute is over wages or
hours, but there is reason to believe that
the intelligence of the country, including
the mass Of wage earners, will not sustain
proposition which takes from the managers
of street railways all authority and leaves
them responsible only for the payment of
men whom they would not employ IL they
were left free to act.
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The second closed season under the In
diana fish law. from May to July 1, finds
most hook-and-line fishermen throughout
the State opposed to the law in its present
form. The belief generally prevalent last
year that the law would prove to be a
good one in the protection 1t would afford
for fish in our rivers no longer prevails to
any considerable extent. The prohibition of
hook-and-line fishing during May and June
affords very little protection to fish COM
pared with the irritation 1t causes among
those who fish for sport or recreation, and
who know that very little harm is done by
hook-and-line fishing during these months.
The destruction Of fish does not come from
that cause, but from SEEMING and dynamit-
ing, which are done by persons who have
no regard for the law. The present law
forbids dynamiting, but it continues never
theless. The law allows SEEMING between
the first day of July and the 3Oth day of
September, but the seiners ply their voca-
ton during six months in the year. SEEMING
is only little less destructive of fish life
than dynamiting, and should be prohibited
altogether. Rod-fishing, hook-and-line fish
ing and trot-line fishing should be allowed
at any time In the streams as well as lake.
as the harm they do to fish life is infinites-
imal. A few honest farmers with a big
seine. on which, under the present law,
they pay the ridiculously small license fee
of 81 for five years, will waste and destroy
more fish in few hauls than all the hook
and-line fishermen in the State would do in
year. AS for dynamiting, 1t is simply
murder, and the law against it should be
strictly enforced.
The present law will doubtless be amend
ed by the next Legislature. Meanwhile,
hook-and-line fishermen who wish to enjoy
their favorite sport during May and June
will either have to visit the lakes in north
ern Indiana, of which there are many in
Kosciusko, Noble, Steuben and other coun-
ties, or they will have to go to other States.
In Illinois hook-and-line fishing is permit
ted the year round. In Michigan speckled
trout, grayling, California trout and salmon
may be taken with hook and line from May
1 to Sept. /, and black, green or white bass
all the year. In Minnesota the trout season
is from May 1 to Sept. 1, and black bass
may be taken with hook and line from
May Is to March 1. For Indiana sportsmen
who want good river fishing during May
and June Michigan is the nearest and most
inviting field. though the Kankakee and
some other streams in Illinois offer good
citing and enjoyable than that in the lakes
of northern Indiana, but the latter is often
very good.
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engagement. when ships are expected to
was perfect at the rest and the impact at
right angles. while at sea on a vessel in
motion or tossed by the waves this would
be quite impossible. The inference from
this statement is that the new invention is
more interesting In theory than it Is likely
to prove important in practice, though in
a last grapple and close engagement be-
tween two warships it might prove very de-
structfve
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The antitrust law of New York is to be
tested this week by an action against the
American Ice Company, which is charged
with being combination In restraint OF
monopoly of the market by advantages de-
rived from the use of the docks belonging
to the city, and has advanced the price to
60 cents hundred. The result of the pro-
ceedings in court will be watched with in
terest by people outside of New York
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At convention Of American stove manu-
facturers held in New York a few days
all over the world it is admitted by deal
ers that Americans are the greatest artists
and scientists in the manufacture of stoves,
yet the only American stove that has ever
gained much approval in other countries
Is the one invented by Benjamin Franklin
and still known by his name. Perhaps that
IS because the old Franklin stove did all
that was claimed for It and made no pre-
tensions TO being scientific phenomenon
or an architectural beauty.
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The health of the young King of Spain
VIII necessitate his leaving Madrid earlier
than usual this year. Accompanied by the
queen Regent he will, In few days. go TO
Covadorga. In Asturia.
Maude Adams finished her season I'm .The
Little Minister last week. and. II Is said.
VIII never play IL again. She has appeared
In Il 81 times. and the total gross receipfs
have been over &.000.0oo
Forty Year, ago the doctors decided that
Heroort epencor must d. The ominent
Wsa&er ecoepee1 - dee1a1on. bit eonclu1o1
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man who never srumbles at the coffee is q
man who Is ageing.
Lazy people serve the wise purpose Of making
us admire own industry.
If you think woman has no power OF concen-
tration start her on her ailments.
In old families the family Bible lasts longer
than the hair-cloth sofas and chairs
As a rule any ten-year-old boy can dig I'M n
garden bed better than a woman can.
The disagrceable person generally prides him
self or herself on not being a hypocrite
An extreme pcssimist makes us feel optimistic.
and an extreme optimist makes US feel pessi-
mistic-
When a woman goes shopping she generally
forgets the spool OF thread which was the only
thing she intended to buy
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In an article in the North American Re-
view Sir Henry Stanley, the American who
presents an argument to sustain his as
sumption that all the human race had a
common origin in Asia and that environ
'nent, climate and other conditions gave
each their distinctive features. The negro
any communication with the rest of the
word, and that exclusion, with the cli-
mate and other conditions. Stanley says,
have given him his distinctive character
istics
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A few days ago Jersey City boy OF nine
teen enticed a younger boy into a cellar
and murdered him, in revenge for a fancied
wrong. and TO secure s. which his victim
had just received. The murderer was ar
rested and confessed his crime. Now a
newspaper has not only discovered that the
slayer is the victim OF the cigarette habit.
but that he was born bad. the inheritor of
homicidal tendencies. His head showed his
deficient humanizing equipment: his eyes
betrayed stiffness of his character. and his
Jaw gave cumulative evidence of his weak
ness of will. while his aunt had committed
murder. All this may be excellent yellow
Journalism. but. IL needed by the officers OF
the law, tends to influence courts and
executives to deal lightly with persons with
the instinct 10 take life.