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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-12-06
IT. tten for The Prison Mirror.
Benefit of Experience.

AS Thanksgiving has come and gone,
as sit in my cell and mediate, I feel
that we have many things to be
thankful for; not only for life and
health, but all comforts of life. 1t is
true that many of us are deprived
of the social surroundings dear to US,
but can truly say as perhaps many
others can that being confined in a
penal institution is not total loss to
us if we are ready to profit by our
past experience. | do not want it
understood that 1 love life of con-
finement any more than anybody else,
but l do want it understood that my
being confined in this prison has served
to cause me to stop and think; and
if being confined in penal institution
will cause a thoughtless man to stop
and think, then surely it is not the
worst thing that could befall one.
AS have been here over four years
and the time has now arrived for me
to enter into society again, l want to
drop few thoughts to those who are
now commencing their term of i'm
prisonment. What I have experienced
with an honest heart, may be of some
profit to others. In the first place, in
order to profit by our being confined in
prison we must examine our own
hearts and learn what has caused us to
be here. Our next step is to learn to
profit by our past experience. If we
vii! do this under the present admin
istration that we are blessed with am
sure we can leave this place better and
wiser men.
1t may be true that we don't gain in
dollars and cents, but if we will try we
can gain that which is more to us than
dollars and cents. can truly say that
money could not buy of me what
profit l have gained by my imprison-
ment. Stop and think this matter over
and at the same time seek for better
and higher knowledge. O.B.V.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-12-06

dSkoO IOr one OF his best officers as a
scout, and forty picked men, and he
hoped we would prove worthy of the
trust. We of course put on bold
front and told him we would carry out
whatever orders Gen. Marmaduke gave
us or die in trying to do so.
We then reported to Gen. Marina
dukes headquarters and he called me
into his tent. After complimenting
me and speaking of my father and
grandfather that he knew we'll, he told
me he had news that led him to be-
lieve the federal army at Little Rock
was preparing to move against Cam
den, Gen. Homes headquarters, and
that he would break camp that day
and start for Camden where the Con-
federate forces of Arkansas we're to
concentrate and he wanted to send me
to all the outposts taking in Col.
Kitchens command on the Mississippi
river above Grand Lake, then north
and to run in the pickets at Pine Bluff,
then west to as near Little Rock as
possible and find out if possible the
plans of the federal forces at that
point and swing around the circle by
way of Hot Springs and report to him
at Camden.
L was authorized to stop all couriers
or scouts with letters to us from him
and read them and be guided by them
as myown judgment thought best. will
not go into details only to say we made
the trip successfully with the loss of
two men killed and four slightly
wounded; I being one of the latter.
Now when we struck the pickets at
Pine Bluff southeast of the city and
run them in, we then fell back.
scattered our trail, then made circuit
around to the west of the bluff where
we struck the Pine Bluff and Little
Rock road. Here we captured several
wagons and one hack. A federal
officer and a few privates had just
past, but they saw us as soon as we
came into the road and they put spurs
and went for Pine Bluff in a full run
and in less than mile they overlook
Senator Davis and party of half a
dozen who were on their way to Pine
Bluff from Little Rock.
AS we'll as L remember, Senator
Davis told me they were going there
on some business in connection with
the Advocate-General's office. [ re-
member he said "what a little thing
might change mans whole life"
told him yes, and for his sake [ was
truly glad they did not fall into our
hands; but for my own, 1 probably
would have living witness that was
not so black as had been painted
The kind words he spoke and his
kindness since, will ever be remem-
bered with grateful heart, and 1 hope
his spirit has gone to the brightest and
happiest surroundings in that better
world beyond the grave, and may God
give his devoted wife and parents
strength to bear up under this great
loss, is the wish of the writer of this
article. COLE YOUNGER.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-12-06
There's Dollars in the dob!

Pile on the brown mans burden;
And, if ye rouse his hate.
Meet his old-fashioned reasons
With Maxims up to date.
With shells and dum-dum bullets
A hundred times make plain
The brown mans loss must ever
Imply the white mans gain.
Pile on the brown mans burden.
Compel him to be free;
Let all your manifestoes
Reek with philanthropy;
And if with heather folly
He dares your will dispute.
Then, in the name of Freedom,
Don't hesitate to shoot.
Pile on the brown mans burden;
And if his cry be sore,
That surely need not irk you;
Ye've driven slaves before.
Seize on his ports and pastures,
The fields his people tread;
Go, make from them your living.
And mark them with his dead.
Pile on the brown mans burden.
Nor do not deem it hard
If you should earn the rancOr
OF those ye yearn to guard.
The screaming of your Eagle
Will drown the victims sob:
Go on through fire and slaughter,
There's dollars in the job.
Pile on the brown mans burden:
And through the world proclaim
That ye are Freedoms agents,
There's no more paying game.
And should your own past history
Straight in'yOur teeth be thrown.
RetOrt that independence
Is good for you alone.
Pile on the brown mans burden,
With equity have done;
Weak, antiquated scruples
Their squeamish course have run;
And, though it's Freedoms banner
YOU'RE waving in the van.
Reserve for home consumption
The sacred "Rights of Man.
Henry LabOuchere
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-12-06

Health is the second blessing that we
mortals are capable of; a lesson that
money cannot buy.-Izaak Walton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
A COAL ROAD FOR THE CITY.

From an item in the railroad column of
yesterdays Journal it appears that some
of our business men are discussing the
project of an independent coal road from
this city to the Indiana coal fields. to be
operated and managed with the sole view
of furnishing cheap fuel for manufacturing
purposes. The suggestion is good one and
ought to be carried out, but it is not new.
Thirty years ago, when Hon. John Caven
was mayor of Indianapolis, his two pet
schemes (they were his hobbies them, were
the construction of a belt railroad and a
coal road to supply Indianapolis with cheap
fuel. He was the father of the Belt road
and the originator and promoter of the
plan by which the city lent its credit to the
completion of the enterprise. There were
those who opposed the project from the
beginning and fought it at every step, but
1t was carried through and has been of un-
told advantage to the city. The coal road
project passed through various stages of
preliminary agitation and incipient action.
but did not mature and was finally dropped.
If ii had been carried through no one can
tell how much further the manufacturing
interests of Indianapolis might be ad-
vanced than they now are They have
made great progress. but they might have
made much greater. The era of natural
gas has come and gone, so far as manu-
features are concerned. and hereafter they
must rely on coal or some substitute for
one consummation or achievement as de-
sirable for Indianapolis as an abundant
supply of cheap fuel for manufacturing.
The advantage of a coal road. constructed,
or at least controlled by local capital, would
be that it could be operated perpetually in
the interest of Indianapolis alone and to
the single end of furnishing cheap fuel.
There are several railroads from the city
penetrating the coal fields. but they are
parts of different systems and are not oper-
Independent coal road would. it is believed.
be a paying enterprise, and check on the
other roads besides. Controlled by Indian
apolis capital. 1t could be made immensely
beneficial to the city. The time is not far
distant when some of the manufactures
now located In the gas belt will be looking
for new locations. This city already offers
great advantages, but il II could offer the
additional one of an independent coal road,
pledged to be operated perpetually in the
interest Of local manufactures. 1t would
easily outrank all other Western cities as
a desirable point for manufacturing indus
tries. The undertaking is the most impor-
tant thing in sight for the city. and the
time is ripe for our commercial organiza-
lions to take IL up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
MUCH WORK NECESSARY
TREASURY OFFICIALS BUSY CARRY
ING OUT NEW FINANCIAL LAW.
for Exchange Of Old
Bonds for Two Per Cents. Already
Amount to $27,OOO,OOO.

WASHINGTON. March 1s.-The officials
of the treasury are overrun with work as a
result of the passage of the new financial
bill, which involves the funding of the old
long-term bonds into new gold bonds bear
ing per cent. interest. The applications
for the exchange of old bonds for the new
up to the time of closing the department
to-day amounted to about s27. o0o 900. all but
100000 coming from national banks. The
clerical force in the office of the controller
of the currency is busy examining applica-
tions for authority to establish national
banks under the new law. Very many Of
these come from small towns which hither-
TO were debarred from national bank privi-
leges by the national bank act. About two
hundred of these applications have been
received, and to-day favorable action was
taken a number of them. A consider
able number Of state banks have applied
for authority to convert themselves into
national banks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
AN IMPORTANT MEASURE.

The following amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States has been intro
duced in the House by Representative Ray.
OF New York. chairman OF the judiciary
committee and of a special subcommittee
on trusts:
Article L. The Congress shall have pow
er TO regulate and repress monopolies and
combinations; to create and dissolve cor
porations and dispose OF their property; to
make all laws necessary and proper for the
execution of the foregoing powers. Such
powers may be exercised by the several
States in any manner not In conflict with
the laws OF the United States.
Among all the amendments to the Consti-
tuition that have been proposed I'm recent
years the Journal believes this the best.
In view of present and prospective condi-
tons the need of such an amendment is
obvious. AT present the Constitution con-
tains no provision regarding the creation or
control of corporations or trusts. They
can only be reached in an Indirect way I'M
der the provision giving Congress power
to regulate interstate commerce. and this
Is very inadequate power. The trainers
OF the Constitution did not foresee present
commercial conditions. nor could they
have been expected to. When the consti-
tuition was framed there were not more
than two or three business corporations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
WOMAN SENT TO JAIL.
Mrs. Duell Refuses to Account for
Goods She Bought on Credit.

KANSAS CITY, March 16.-Judge John
F. Phillips. in the United States Circuit
Court, to-day issued an order committing
Mrs. Charlotte A. Deull, OF Garden City.
Kan, to Jail for contempt of the referee OF
bankruptcy. The courts order instructs
that she shall remain in Jail until she ac-
counts for 5000 worth of goods which she
secured on credit for her general gner-
chandise store at Garden City. Mrs. Deuil
bought $4,000 worth of goods for her store
between July and December. 1899. In De-
cember last she failed in business and took
advantage of the bankrupt act. Ex-Governor
I. 7. Crittenden was appointed referee ard
required her 10 make a statement OF what
had become of her goods. In her state
ment she left 5,106 unaccounted for Mr..
Crittenden could secure from her no clear
statement of her case. and was forced to
have her taken before Judge Phillips FOR
contempt.
Mrs. Duell would make no definite an
swer to the questions of the judge. She
denied that any of the goods had been
spirited away. She had deposited no money
in the bank. She kept no book accounts.
and she would make no explanations. Mrs
Deull was ordered to be committed to jail
in Bates county, Missouri
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17

Quite number of papers make haste to
declare that the passage of the currency
bill eliminated the silver issue from the
next campaign to an extent that it can
not be revived until there shall be change
in the makeup Of the majority in the SEN
ate. This seems absurd not only to Repub-
licans, but TO those gold Democrats who
met in this city few evenings ago. So
long as one of the leading parties which
polls a large vote and hopes to elect it's
candidate for President declares I'm favor
Of the free and independent coinage of
enough in the issue to make it a danger.
or at least menace. The silverites forced
the issue upon the country in 1896 Mr.
Bryan has declared again and again that
he will not cease championing the issue
that has given him all his prominence I'M
til 1t shall become an accomplished fact.
Let it be supposed. for the sake of argu-
ment, that Mr.. Bryan should be elected
upon the Chicago platform. including the
declaration in favor of free and independ-
the party could not, If 1t would, ignore the
pledge IL 1T were successful at the polls.
Even II discussion of the silver question
were avoided as much as possible in the
campaign, that would not change the stu
alton. To put it in the platform to draw
votes with the tacit understanding that
16 to is simply device to delude voters
would be a shameless piece of trickery
of which even Mr.. Bryan's party would
not be guilty. The certain result of Mr..
Bryan's election would be that every sill
yer organ would declare that the country
had repudiated the gold standard and
demanded free and Independent coinage of
silver dollars. A crusade against sound
money would be begun at once, and Mr..
Bryan, to keep his pledge would demand
the repeal Of the currency legislation estab-
fishing the gold standard. and new and
vigorous crusade would be organized to
capture the Senate to the end that the
silver heresy, of which Mr.. Bryan is the
exponent. should be given the force of law.
Silver will be an issue, causing more or
less trouble until the Democratic party
sees fit to drop it. 1t may not be made as
prominent as it was in 1896. indeed, it can
not be. but so long as one of the great
parties makes it an issue the triumph of
that party would bring the same dangerous
heresy to the front.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
WILL FIGHT FOR A SEAT
GENERAL WHEELER DETERMINED
NOT TO BE SHUT OUT OF HOUSE.
Says He Will Make a Demand for Rec
ignition When His Resignation
from the Army Is Accepted.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Gen. Joseph
Wheeler arrived in this city to-day. He is
stopping at the Arlington. In the absence
of Secretary Root he reported formally to
Adjutant General Corbin, thus complying
with the order from the Department which
brought him from Manila to Washington.
The general was in the uniform of briga-
der general of the volunteer army. He
looked the picture of health; better than
when he left Washington for Manila. He
gave General Corbin a brief description of
the conditions in Luzon when he left. He
insisted that the war was over and that
nothing more was to be done except to run
down few guerrillas and irregulars. There
was difficulty in this work. he said. and
there was danger. too. but its prosecution
was not war" Ambuscades were frequent
and annoying. and it was not easy to tell
whether the hidden force was strong or
weak: three men had been taken for a COM
American troops are doing splendid work
there. They are sound and healthy and in
quite as good shape as they would be at
home, engaged in similar service. This was
owing, in measure, to the excellent care
for their men exhibited by officers and to
army.
General Wheeler said that as soon as his
resignation had been accepted by the Pres
ident he intended to make the issue to
his right to seat in the House as rep
resentative from Alabama. He says the is
sue will not be one for the decision Of
Speaker Henderson. He will present him.
self at the bar of the House and ask to
be sworn in. AS he understood the rules,
the speaker will have no option. but must
submit the matter to the House. General
Wheeler was confident the decision would
be in his favor. though he realized there
might be some delay, owing TO reference
of his case to the committee on elections.
At the conclusion of his interview with
General Corbin General Wheeler went over
to the White House, his purpose being to
secure speedy action on his resignation. 1t
is learned that such action has been with
held by the President only to legalize Gen.
wheeler's travelling expenses and per diem
up to the moment of his arrival in Wash
ington.
General Wheeler was with the President
some time. On leaving the White House
he said his resignation had not yet been
accepted, but he expected a decision would
be reached within few days
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
A Defense of the Bill.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
AS rule, the average mind, with all
the reading and thinking 1t is able to do,
is wholly unable to understand why there
is such hue and cry about the Porto
Rican bill. 1t understands that correct
and proper Interpretation and construc-
ton of the Constitution demands good and
inhibits bad legislation. With the very
best information ii has obtained of the
condition Of the people of Porto Rico,
1t would seem that they need schoolhouses,
roads and other material improvements
badly, and as the purpose of the Porto
Rican bill is to furnish revenue for that
purpose, 1t does seem to be good legisla-
ton in that particular. 1t also under
stands that the people of every portion Of
our country are required to pay the ex-
penses of their own political dominion
of the country, as well as their proper
ton of the revenue to support the gen.
eral government, and can see no reason
why the Porto Ricans should be made an
exception. Here in Indiana we are re-
CURED to pay our taxes for the purpose
of defraying our State and other munich
pal expenses, on the actual cash value of
every cents worth of our property, as
well as our share of the expenses OF the
general government, and our courts hold
that 1t is right. For the Porto Ricans to
pay their municipal taxes on the cash
value Of the property they sell to and buy
of the other portions of the country is
certainly no greater hardship. To call 1t
a tariff sounds unpleasant, but as the aver
age mind understands tariff it is no such
law. To such mind, 1t is simply local
tax, the same as the taxes are that are
paid for every municipal division of our
country. Thus, wherein the people of Porto
Rico are Disseminated against, or the bad
precedent such a law would set, the COM
mon mind, in its honesty, fails to see.
have seen and talked with a great many
people, and almost unanimously they seem
to think the Porto Rican BILL il enacted
will be an honest. fair. just. good and
wholesome law. / am postmaster, but
am Republican and believe in honest,
good laws and believe that the effort to
make a mountain of wrong out of the
Porto Rican bill will prove a failure.
VIM. II. TRAMMEL.
Huntington, Ind, March 16.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
Warning to Congressman that the
People Understand the Issue.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
AS far as 1 have been able to ascertain
the sentiment of the Republican party in
this community, and / have been at con-
siderable pains to do this, the attitude of
the Journal on the Porto Rican tariff ques-
ton is strongly commended. The Repub-
lican party has never been so thoroughly
united in its opposition against a measure
as against this pending Porto Rican tariff
measure.
Our congressman are evidently hugging
the delusion that the people do not under
stand this question, and that when they
do understand the question all opposition
will subside. Fatal delusion! The metro
politan and the rural journals, as we'll as
a large majority of the Republican party,
understand the question as fully as the av-
erage congressman, and the congressman
who persists in his course of opposition to
a very large majority of his party may
find in the day of reckoning, which will
shortly come, that the people do under
stand this Question Let our Republican
congressman get in line with their party
on this question, and then all will be we'll.
If an error has been committed the party
alone will be responsible, and not the indi-
vidual congressman. s. B. BESHORE.
Marion, Ind, March L.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-17
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY. MARCH H. 1900

i'm the United States, and such a thing as
a trust or combination in restraint of trade
or competition was unheard of. In colonial
times there was not a single corporation
for business purposes in America. The
Bank of North America was incorporated
in 17S1 and the Massachusetts Bank and
the Bank. of New York in lisa. 1t is be-
lieved these were the only two corpora
tons for business purposes in the United
States when the Constitution was adopted.
In those days there were no railroads, no
telegraphs, no manufacturing, mining or
constructed in the United States was the
Baltimore 6, Ohio. of which twenty-three
miles were opened for use in 1880. more
than forty years after the adoption of the
Constitution. II is not surprising that the
trainers of the Constitution made no pro-
vision for condition which they could
not possibly foresee. The multiplication of
corporations in recent years and the
growth of their wealth and power is one
of the most remarkable things i'm history.
factor in the development and progress
of civilization, but they have also become
a source of some abuses and evils which
should be controlled and abated. Recent
decisions Of the Supreme Court show that
under the Constitution as it now is this
cannot be done effectually by Congress, if
indeed it can be by the Nation and the
States combined. A new and express grant
OF power is needed, and that is what the
proposed amendment gives. 1t is brief,
comprehensive and explicit. broad enough
to cover the whole ground and directly
to the point. If adopted Congress could
pass an effective antitrust law against
which no constitutional objection would
lie. and, in connection with the States, it
could exercise complete control over
monopolies and combinations of every
kind. The amendment is one of the best
that has ever been proposed to the Con-
stitution. and 1t should be adopted by Con-
gress and submitted to the state legisla-
lures for ratification.