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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-14
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

Roberts made a charge against the Beers
north of the Zand river, but they proved
an alibi.-Denver Times.
mo! MOI roared President Kruger, "God
will not permit it,'' and the British army
marched on.-Kansas City Star.
From British point of view, it might be
really unfortunate if General Roberts
should eat a Fourth of July dinner in Pre-
torfa.-Chicago News.
The war experts in London could not put
Roberts in motion until he was ready to
move, but then he moved with CELEBRITY.
-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
1t looks as If the Orange Free State
would be subjected to a process some
thing like that which is performed by
emon-squeezers.-Bosto Advertiser.
General Buffers greatest victory was in
declining to doctor his war reports. This
shows that while he may not be a re-
markable soldier, he is a brave and hon.
orable gentleman.-Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
London sporting men are betting that
Lord Roberts will be in Pretoria two
months hence-or about time to celebrate
the one ed-and-twenty-fourth ami
versary of American Observation-Disclosures
Journal
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money at a circus is one of the perils of
prosperity.-Muncie News.
The Philippine republic seems to have
had its existence only in the minds of
dreamers in this country 1t certainly was
never In the mind of Aguinaldo The only
government that he seems TO have toler-
ated In his CONCENTRATIONS was one In
which he himself should be chief head
man.-Marion Chronicle
The indianapolis Sentinel has joined the
Beckham faction in Kentucky, and seeks
to find grounds for suspecting men of
known worth and uprightness of the crime
simple circumstances into discriminating
evidence are ridiculous and unworthy of
the Standardization News.
The New York World sharply says to it's
Democratic friends that there never was
more foolish contention in politics or in
economics than that which insists upon
conducting a live campaign in 1900 upon the
dead and damned issue of 1885, The truth
Is that even truth is regarded with sus-
picion when ii appears in the World.-Terre
Haute Express
If the hard times that the country suf-
fered during the former administration
were not on account of. but In spite Of.
Democratic effort to prevent them, and the
present prosperity is due not to Republican
efforts to bring it about, but in spite of the
same, the only safe thing for the lover of
prosperity to do is to endeavor to keep that
party in power whose blunders make good
times.-Goshen Times.
When Mr. Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, defies the
orders of the court and advises others to
do the same he should be sent to the peni-
tertiary for life When men in such i'm
portant positions in the world become such
bold. outspoken Anarchists 1t is time law
abiding and liberty-loving citizens should
join together for the defense OF our laws
and Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
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the property Of the humblest individual as
quickly as it would to prevent mob. or a
crowd of individuals from destroying the
property or forcibly interfering with the
business of corporation. And it makes no
difference in the eye of the law that the
proposed interference with the right of a
corporation is to be made in the alleged in
terest of union labor or to insure the sue
cess of strike. The law does not recognize
any such motive as Justification for the
destruction of the property of corpora
ton or interference with the exercise of its
property rights and the individual rights
of those who wish 20 work for 1t, and the
courts will always intervene to protect such
rights when they are menaced. Government
by injunction is simply government by law,
without which there would be anarchy.
The order issued by Judge Hook does not
prevent the Kansas City strikers from
quitting work, or going fishing, or engag-
ing in any legal occupation or pastime. 1t
simply warns them not to interfere with the
rights of others.
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The Cambria Mask.

Robert w. Chambers has written some
Interesting stories, and THE Cambria
Mask" his latest contribution. is not less
clever than his previous works. 1t is. how
ever. an improbable story. No sensible
reader expects a fiction writer to deal In
realities or facts. but every reader likes to
believe that the things told of might have
happened. In other words, 1T is the plausi-
BILE. possible story that best pleases the
reading public In his new romance Mr.
Chambers has created an unreal hero IN
Mr.. Sark and a heroine In Miss Ember who
is not a natural woman. Besides the story
gives the impression that II was written
partly to display the writer's knowledge
OF entomology and Greek mythology Sark
who is graduated from West Point Acad-
envy and serves as lieutenant I'm the Sew
enth United States Cavalry. He purchases
a large tract of land I'm the Mohawk val
ley. New York State-land that is covered
with growth of sweet fern-and this fern.
In the story. Sark begins the study of in
sects and Miss Ember assists him. She
displays remarkable technical knowledge
of entomology for a country girl They
fall In love. The girls father Is a menu
Der of a whitecap band that has sworn
to get rid of Sark- The girl is aware OF the
plot. but does not warn her lover until the
last moment Then. when he Is prisoner.
she dons the whitecap disguise and cuts
his bonds. A fight follows, in which three
of the band are forced into a bog and perish.
One of the men Is the father of the girl
Sark chases the other whitecaps and un-
horses one, who proves 10 be his sweet
do. Frederick A. Stokes COMPANY New
York
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SHOTS AT POPULISTS.

Has Mr.. Donnelly yet taken out a license
for his Barker?-Minneapolis Journal.
The middle-of-the-road Populists have
gone to the Barker.-Detroit Free Press.
Is it to be two-tailed presidential kite
again this year?-Omaha Bee.
AS the tail to the Populist kite. Ignatius
Donnelly can unload all Of his pipe dream
tales of woe.-Denver Times.
Candidate Donnelly Of the middIe-of-the-
road ticket. ought to be sure Of the Bacon
vote.-Springield Republican
If matters are really so bad as the Pops
say it is a wonder they don't all trek to
Mexico.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Democratic leaders are already beginning
to fear that the tail of the ticket may do
considerable dog waggfng.-Pittsburg
News.
Bryan was asleep when the Sioux Falls
convention nominated a Populist running
mate" 1t is the campaign that promises
to keep him awake at night.-Chicago
News.
the Democrats would be in principle some
thing like the nomination of Mckinley and
Hanna by the Republicans.-Minneap
Tribune
Wharton Barker will doubtless experience
road, since it is likely that only a few
voters will be travelling either way on his
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Among the middle-of-the-road delegates
at Cincinnati is woman with a baby. It's
father attends the convention also as a
bottle holder. This is a picture of real do
nestle joy and pride.-New York Press.
Ignatius Donnely's remark that if the
Lord had taken an inch off of Mr.. Bryan's
jawbone and placed it between his temples
he might have been President of the United
States, is destined to live in the literature
of the campaign.-Boston Herald.
Tornado Jones, of Illinois, and Cyclone
Davis. of Texas. both stood up and whirled
in vain to stop the stampede to Col. Char
ley Towne at Sioux Falls. but when a hur-
ricane appears the horizon tornadoes
and cyclones stand as little show as a
bob-tailed bull in fiytime. A straight wind
can knock out a dozen twisters in five Sec
onds.-Nebraska State Journal.
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The Injunction issued by United States
Judge Hook against the Kansas City street.
railroad strikers will elicit violent protest
from union labor leaders and cause a new
outcry against government by injunction"
Nevertheless, the order is just and right.
and founded on good law. The street-rail-
road company had a right to invoke the pro-
lection of the court and the court was right
In extending 1t, just as 1t would be In ex-
tending the same protection to any indi-
vidual threatened with destruction of his
property or interference with his right. The
cause of the strike has nothing to do with
the Injunction question, but it may be re-
marked that the Kansas City strike is based
on different grounds from that in st. Louis,
though they are both alike in laying down
an ultimatum and proposing to dictate to
the owners of the property how they should
manage it. Men who have large capital in
vested cannot be blamed for refusing to
submit to outside dictation regarding the
management of their property. and in that
position they are entitled to the protection
of the law against violence and Interior
ence, whether actual or threatened. In the
present case a large proportion II not
majority of the street-railroad employees
are not members of the union. The presi-
dent of the company said few days ago:
1--WE have a large number of men in our
employ who have been with my brother
and myself for fifteen or twenty years. not
one of whom has made any complaint. and
many have given me their personal assur-
ance Of their satisfaction with the treat
ment they have received and pledged them
selves to stand by the company at this
time" The strike was organized and
brought on by national organizer" from
another State. who said few days ago:
1--WE wanted to avoid strike If possible,
but the boys are in good shape to carry 1t
on" So ii was ordered.
The order of the court names the lead
ers of the strike and forbids them or any
person acting with or for them in any
manner interfering with the running OF
cars, from harassing or assaulting or IN
any manner interfering with any person in
the employ Oi TIC SoAhPohys A4ct2s f'~@-~N~--e
or patrolling the carhouses or tracks. or
from doing anything whatever to intimi-
date the companys employees. In plain En-
glish the injunction is simply an order In
the name of the law against the forcible
and violent interference with private right
Tie trouble with labor leaders who pro-
test against government by injunction Is
that they do not know law nor recognize
the fact that 1t is made for the prevention
OF violence. the protection OF all persons
in the enjoyment OF their property and the
exercise of legal rights. This includes cor
porations as well as individuals In the
eye of the law a corporation is person
| and entitled to the same protection as any
other person. A court would grant an In
| junction to restrain corporation IRON
tearing down the fence or trespassinE OF
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The Journal believes that Senator Spoon
er was right when he said. on Saturday. in
reference to the speech of Senator Lodge.
that there is no danger of war with Ger
many or any other European nation be-
cause of our adherence to the Monroe doc
trine He said that there never existed
more cordial relations between the United
States and Germany than prevail to-day.
Senator Hale, of Maine, also took occasion
to criticise the speech of Mr.. Lodge by de-
claring that "the great nation, Germany,
is tied to US by indissoluble bonds in the
name of ten million people Of German ex-
traction. who to-day make some of our
best citizens
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LATEST THING IN "SP1TEs. !"


NEW YORK, May 13-The Herald saws:
There have been spite walls and spite
houses. but this is a story about a spite
shaft w. G. Wendell objects to his neigh
Dor having windows overlooking the back
yard of his residence, at No. Az Fifth ave-
nue.. and is shutting it up with a brick
shaft which is to be twenty-eight feet
high. Mr.. Wendel's two-story brick stable
stands between his house and the house Of
his neighbor Because of the stable the
windows in the airshaft, which is now in
course Of construction, are not visible from
Mr.. WendePs house, except from the top
story. But Mr.. Wendell, in filing the plans
for his unique structure with the building
from the view IAN Objectionable sanitary
projection" The shaft is to be eight by
three feet at the base and one foot thick at
the top.
Mr.. Wenders house stands at the north
west corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty
ninth street. The lot on which the house
stands is 100 by $50 feet. Mr.. Wendell and
his sister live in the house. Samuel I.
Acken & Sons. builders, who are altering
the house at No. West Thirty-ninth
street, and to whose proposed airshaft and
windows the Fifth avenue resident objects,
say Mr.. Wendell will not even allow them
TO suspend a swinging ladder over his
grounds from the roof on the east side of
the Thirty-ninth street house. They want
to put up the walls on that side of the
house and are wondering how they are
going to do II. II is likely they will go TO
the building department with a request that
the wall be condemned, SO that the wall
may be repaired under the citys direction.
Mr.. Acken said yesterday that the house
on which he Is making alterations IL owned
by Mrs Mary NJ. Irwin. Mr.. Wendell said
he understood II belonged to a Mrs. Rode
Mr. Wendell said yesterday that his sister
and he had been much annoyed by the fire.
quent alterations In the Thirty-ninth street
house. For sanitary reasons and for the
sake of the privacy to which he believed he
was entitled. he had ordered that the shaft
be built. / am sorry to have to use such
measures SAL Mr.. Wendell. but after
thinking over the matter 1 have concluded
this is the only recourse"
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While the policy pursued by General Otis
in the Philippines under the direction or
the administration is denounced by a class
of Americans it is Endorsed by Buenca-
mino, who was at one time member OF
Aguinaldo's Cabinet. What this educated
native says has been given before. but a
few lines setting forth his commentator
Of the work of General Otis are worth re-
peating. He wrote:
To-day. in Manila, we see public funds
expended for the benefit of the people in
the construction of markets. and bridges. in
street repairs, in schools, in police force.
You have made a good marriage law. You
have established systems of municipal gov
eminent and criminal procedure more lib
eral and just thar were contemplated by
the Filipino constitution.
Sooner or later a policy which does for
the Filipinos what government has never
done for them before will win. 1t will win
all the sooner If those people in this coun-
try who are giving aid and encouragement
to the deluded natives by assailing the
present administration would desist from
their unpatriotic work.
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Two volumes by Victor Duruy, translated
from the French "Histoire Generate" are
good specimens of the historical multum
In parvo-much information In brief COM
pass. One of the volumes is entitled a
Condensed History OF the Middle Ages"
and the other "a Condensed History OF
Modern Times" BY the middle ages here
is meant the period that elapsed between
the ruin of the Roman Empire and the es-
Establishment of the great modern monarch
ies-a full thousand years between the Ger
man invasion and the capture of Constan-
tinople by the Turks I'm 1853. Although IL
turesque period and one OF great events
which are graphically described I'm the
space of a hundred pages. The Con-
densed History of Modern Times" en-
braces the period from 1855 till 1s4s. IL
covers the peaceable revolution In art
the economical revolution caused by the
discovery Of the new world and the new
route to India, thereby creating vast and
ever-increasin9 commerce and bringing
personal property into the hands OF the
common people; the religious revolution
caused by the spread of the doctrines OF
Luther and Calvin and political and phflo-
sophie revolutions OF like importance. To
condense such a stupendous history In the
space OF go pages means. OF course. 10
merely fix the dates and outline the charac-
ter of great events. but this Is skilifully
done. and both OF the works are master
pieces OF condensation and great COM
teresting maps and good indexes They
are revised and edited In English by Pro-
fessor Grosvenor. OF Amherst College.
New York: Thomas Y Crowell & Co
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TWO OF A KIND.

There Is no reason why those who call
themselves regular Democrats should OBJ
ject to Mr.. Towne. of Minnesota, as Mr.
Bryan's running mate. Mr.. Towne holds
to the same political heresies that Mr.. Bry-
an put into the platform of 1896. when the
Democratic party became the Bryan party.
Indeed, Mr.. Towne was loud advocate
Mr. Kern and Mr.. Green Smith were de-
nouncing it. Mr.. Towne is better Demo-
crat of the vintage of 1896 than are the
Democrats named. AS now led and con-
stituted. the Democracy represents a radi-
cal departure from the Democracy which
made the national platforms of 1883 and
1892. The Organized Democracy may be
said to have been born at Chicago when
Mr. Bryan's platform was adopted. True
Mr.. Towne has called himself a silver Re-
publican, and would be calling himself
Lincoln Republican If Senator Teller and
others had not repudiated his attempt to
rechristen his party of phantoms. Every
body knows that a silver Republican is a
Bryan Democrat of a more malignant
type.
Nor can these Democrats who are in
fear that Mr.. Towne will be Endorsed by
the Democratic wing of the Bryan party
assail Mr.. Towre as Populist without, at
the same time. assailing Alr. Bryan. Both
are the nominees of the Populist national
convention. If the nomination of Mr..
Towne by majority of the Sioux City con-
nomination of Mr.. Bryan by enthusiastic
reclamation by that convention makes the
latter more Populist. To-day Mr.. Bryan
stands upon the Populist platform. and
His silence must be regarded as quasi in
dorsement. If he does not believe in 1t,
why does he not do as General Mcclellan
did In 1864 In regard to the peace-at-any-
which the disloyai Democracy placed him
accept the nomination and repudiate the
platform?
1t is reported that the Democrats In In
of Mr.. Towne favor the nomination of Mr..
Shively If they fear Populism they gain
nothing by the nomination of Mr.. Shively.
who was originally a champion Of fiat
money and has always been more green
hacker and Populist than a Democrat prior
to the Bryanizing of the Democratic party
I'm 1896
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Nelson was thirty-nine when he won the
victory of the Nile Wellington was only
forty when he opened the Peninsular war.
Cromwell was forty-six when he won at
Naseby.
An old friend of Mrs. Hetty Green said
the other day: Whatever may be related
of her economy happen to know that she
never refused legitimate request for char
ity. She is one of the kindest-heartet
women In the world"
Kansas doesn't propose to have any of
help It. For instance the editor of the
Nickerson Argosy says the man who says
there was no Barbara Freitchie Is a liar.
at marched through Fredericktown and
saw her wave the flag" says he.
Mark Twain was in London the other
day. says w. L. Alden. He IL superin-
tending the publication OF two books which
will appear some time this summer. He is
beginning to look quite venerable with his
white hair, but aside from his hair he Is
not the sort of man who can ever grow
old.
Herbert Spencer, In a recently reported
conversation, replied TO the question as to
when he thought society would be perfect
by the statement: when il Is truthful. No
one is now. We all exaggerate: We all use
very when we do not mean ii. Truth is
the one foundation stone possible for per-
lection"
Mrs. George w. Childs has engaged quar-
tiers at the Hotel Darlington. at Richfield
Springs N. Y, for the summer. Mrs. u. 8.
Grant, Mrs. Nellie Sartoris and children
will likewise locate there this summer.
Richfield for years was termed one OF the
most fashionable resorts In America
Moses Ezekiel. sculptor. has completed
q statue of Thomas Jefferson, intended 70
Louisville. The work. cast in bronze !,
Berlin, has been shipped to Amsrioa. Jet
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The Populists declare that Bryan could
not have carried Colorado. Montana. Ne
braska and South Dakota in 1896 without
their votes. and predict that the election of
Mr. Bryan Is hopeless should these States
be lost by the rejection of the candidacy
OF Mr.. Towne by the Kansas City con-
vention. On the other hand. Democrats
are certain that Towne as candidate
would lose the party many votes in other
States. In this contingency why not have
two or three Candidates for Vice Presi-
dent?
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This is timely work. AS all thinking
men are united IN the opinion that the
United States ought to establish In Por-
to Rico and the Philippines civil service
which shall be thoroughly efficient and
free from political pressure OF every kind.
1. appears worth while to see what Tight
can be derived from the experience OF
other nations. Some time ago Mr.. Dorman
b. Eaton. of the Civii-service Commission,
published an excellent work on the British
civil-service system. but the latter has
undergone material changes since that
work was published and there Is no book in
the English language regarding the colo
NAL civil-servfce of Holland and France.
This one supplies that want, being a care
full presentation and discussion Of the
methods of selecting and training colonial
officials in all three of the countries named.
1t shows that there Is nothing hap-hazard
entire policy being based on forced prin-
ciples OF official education and training
quite removed from cratic political infiu-
ence. The manner In which these systems
have grown up through the processes Of
experience and evolution is full OF instruc-
ton for Americans. and II is made very
clear that the United States cannot hope
to succeed In colonial policy that does
not place fitness and training for official
duties above all other considerations II
is not claimed that any foreign civil-servica
system should be adopted as whole by
the United States. but there can be no
doubt that We should adopt the general
principles on which they are based, inciud-
ing especially some Of their educational
features. The author of the work is A L.
Lowell, of Boston. and Mr.. H NJ Ste
phens furnishes an account of the British
East India College at Haileybury. 1t IL Q
work to be studied by every person in
terested in the right conduct OF public af-
fairs New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
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INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

The worst thing the laboring man can do
to win his side of labor fight is to put
himself in the position OF rufdan.-Rich-
mond Item.
Bryan Is telling his audiences that he will
win In November. Inasmuch as he has not
yet been nominated his statement may be a
little premature. But 1t Is characteristic.
-Elkhart Review.
1t is clear that the leaders" Of the State
Democracy don't want Shively as candi-
date for Governor. and it is clear that the
rank and file do want him. 1t is also prob
able that Mr.. Shively In this instance at
least believes that the rank and file should
be consulted.-Marion Chronicle.
With 100 per cent. Of increase in the popu-
lation of the United States during the last
thirty years. there has been an increase of
only 60 per cent. in our total imports or
foreign goods. This shows how the Amerf-
can workman under protection Is acquiring
the American market.-Lafayette Call.
At Newport, KY, the other night cir
Gus was so generously patronized that 1t
became necessary to refuse further ad-
mittance &c the tent. The eager multitude
thus excluded proceeded to lombard the
show with rocks and other missiles, dis
abling the manager and some OF the po-
lice and badly Wounding woman In the
audience. such = determination TO spend