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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE.

1t is a curious fact that the first draft Of
a Constitution submitted to the convention
Of 1889 did not provide for Vice President
Ihis draft was known as the Pinckney
plan, having been submitted by Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate from
South Carolina. Article provided that
THE executive power of the United States
shall be vested in a President of the United
States and his title shall be his Excellency.
In case of his removal death, resig-
nation or disability, the president of the
Senate shall exercise the duties Of his
office until another President be chosen.
And in case of the death of the president
Of the Senate, the speaker of the House of
Delegates shall do So" Under this plan
members of the House of Delegates. as it
was called, were TO be elected by the peo-
pie, the Senate was to be elected by the
House of Delegates and the President of
the Senate by that body itself. This plan
was presented on the 18th of May and the
deliberations of the convention continued
till the 4th of September before a report
from a committee provided for a Vice
President, who should be ex ofIicio presi-
dent of the Senate. The report embodied
the provision substantially as 1t stands in
the Constitution, providing for the election
of Vice President at the same time and
in the same manner with the President
One of the Federalist papers, written by
Alexander Hamilton. comments on this
provision:
The appointment of an extraordinary
person as Vice President has been objected
to as superfiuous, if not mischievous. IL
has been alleged that ii would have been
preferable to have authorized the Senate
10 elect out or their own body an officer
answering that description. But two con-
sideratons seem 10 justify the ideas OF the
convention in this respect. One is that TO
secure at all times the possibility of a def
mite resolution of the body, il is necessary
that the President should have only a
casting vote. And to take the senator OF
any State from his seat as senator to place
him in that of president OF the Senate,
would be 10 exchange, in regard 10 the
| State from which he came a constant for
a contingent vote. The other consideration
is that as the Vice President may occa-
| siOnally become substitute for the PTesi-
| dent. in the supreme executive magistracy.
all the reasons which recommend the mode
| OF election prescribed for the one apply
| with great II not with equal force 10 the
manner Of appointing the other.
A hundred years of experience in electing
their President and Vice President at the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
AS TO FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.

Pedro Esteve, the editor of an anarchistic
organ in Paterson, n. j., was visited few
days ago by some secret-service men at the
meeting hall Of band of Anarchists known
as the Right of Existence" group. Esteve
is regarded as the head Of the Paterson
group of Anarchists, and the police piled
him with questions TO ascertain if ne had
guilty knowledge Of a plot to assassinate
the President. His replies were insulting
and defiant and he declared that the Con-
stitution of the United States gave him
the right Of free speech and guaranteed
the liberty Of the press. He virtually
snapped his fingers at the police and told
them he was safe until he should violate
some law. This shows that the Anarchist
leaders have made something Of study of
the Constitution and laws with view of
ascertaining what they can do and how
far they can so with safety.
The Constitution says Congress shall
make no law abridging the freedom of
speech or Of the press" and Anarchists
construe this as guaranteeing the right 10
publicly advocate the assassination of gov
eminent officials chosen by the people and
even the overthrow of government itself.
III other words, they construe the provision
as license by the government to destroy
it. The courts have never construed the
Constitution in that way. The same article
that forbids abridging the freedom OF
speech or Of the press says Congress shall
make no law prohibiting the free exercise
of religion, but it would be absurd to say
that criminal practices or the public adj
vocacy of such practices could claim pro
lection under that clause. Polygamy was
suppressed in spite of the efforts to shield
it under the free exercise of religion clause
The constitutional guarantee of freedom OF
| speech and Of the press was never intended
to protect the advocacy of criminal prac
tees or of attacks on the foundations Of
society. The propagandists of anarchy
should be made to understand that theil
| construction of the Constitution is not cor
rect and that freedom of speech and of the
press does not mean license to advocate the
murder of rulers the overthrow of gov
| eminent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

All imported reptiles should be returned
to their own country.-Antonia.
You don't know the ferocity Of dull
woman under a grievance.-Sister Teresa.
A man is never beaten, till he has said In
his heart, 81 am beaten. Sir Christopher.
One who spends his life ferreting out
crime is likely to have the soul Of a GRIM
inal.-The Eternal City.
When the law sets out to punish, IL
doesn't stop with the guilty only.-The
Manager of the b. q a.
A clever observer may be too clever, and
see both more and less than there is to
be seen.-Sir Christopher.
1t is a miserable thing to linger on the
threshold. The daring spirits pass across
and close the door.-Sister Teresa.
Enterprises are profitable to the pro-
rnoter in proportion as their workings are
hidden from outsiders.-J. Devlin-Boss.
1t am de hardest thing in de world TO tell
de difference between what yo really need
an what yo' think yO' need.-Uncle Eph.
You will never do anything strong If you
lose faith in yourself Doubt is enervatng,
it blghts the force and kills the will. The
great rulers of the world had faith.-An-
other Womans Territory.
It's just the worst part of ordinary life
that one is fettered with a ready-made
Identity often a horrible misft, in the
choosing of which he has no voice at all.
The Seal of Silence.
when the lights are out" he said;
when forever and a night the actor bids
the stage farewell; when stripped OF mask
and tinsel. he goes home 10 that Auditor
who set him his part; then perhaps he
will be told what manner Of man he is.
The glass that now he dresses before tells
him not; but he thinks truer glass would
show a shrunken gure."-Audrey.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
GATHERING OF THE ODD FELLOWS.

One need not be a member of one of the
worlds potential and benevolent associa-
tions like the Freemasons, the Odd Fellows
and the knights of Pythias to appreciate
their usefulness. their deeds of charity and
their salutary influences upon society. Such
secret societies have been in existence so
long that intelligent people who are not
members have no fear that, under cover of
secrecy or through regard for members OF
the fraternity, any portion of the mem
bership will be guilty of acts harmful to
the interests OF society. A large and in
fuential church is opposed to secret or
CARNATIONS. probably because, in the long
ago. secret and oath-bound fraternities an
tagonized the church: but to-day such op-
position is an inheritance rather than an
active hostility. Now and then a man is
found who bitterly assails these leading
international organizations. but he can
present no reasons that sensible people
regard as valid
Against all vague suspicious and unreal
soning prejudlces secret organizations like
the Odd Fellows can present three-quar-
tiers Of a century of good deeds. They never
allow their unfortunate to suffer the fate
Of paupers; they care for their sick and
broken in health night and day; their dead
gre not buried in potter's field; the widows
and orphans of their dead are the objects
Of watchful care. Their benevolent insti-
tutions are among the most benefcent in
the land. No great calamity falls upon
any city, no pestilence wastes a locality In
which their assistance is not the promptest
and the most LIBERAL
Beyond the charities devoted to its owl.
membership the Odd Fellows and similar
| secret societies are always and unfalter-
ingly on the side of law, order and sound
morals. Their central idea is the recogni-
ton Of the Supreme Being as the ruler Of
the universe. The man who lives UP to the
moral code of the Odd Fellows must be a
good citizen. IL he is not he falls short
OF the ideals of the oTganiza ton. Such an
association OF men, under such high prin-
! ciples, must be an Unreasonable power for
| good In teaching and restraining the young
men VINO become members. There can be
no doubt that the associations and influ-
ence % the lodge" are educational in
many directions. Many OF the men in this
| State who have served State and Nation
in high and responsible positions became
: active odd Fellows early I'm life. Who will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

The sublime courage and Christian resig-
nation with which the dead President faced
the certainty of death has touched the
heart of the world Goodbye, all; good
bye. 1t is Gods way. His will be done"
These are the words that have flooded eyes
OF thousands upon thousands unused TO
tears. In the grasp of death the late
Presidents poise and courage and even his
cheerfulness did not forsake him. To him
there was no king of terrors;" to him death
was not grim foe" Life was as sweet to
him it could be to any man; yet when he
was sure that he must leave it, he did not
repine His life had been everyway so clean
and sincere, and his faith in Gods wisdom
and justice complete that he could say:
His will be DONE While in the border
land separating the world of sense from the
unseen, it was natural that he should say,
nearer, my God, nearer to Thee" The
world knows now that Mr. Mckinley was
Christian man and led a Christian
life. Not to reprOve those professedly
good who have assailed the late President
on moral grounds, but to enforce the i'm
portance of Christian charity attention is
called to the fact that his life and conduct
were impugned for more than a year
previous to the last election. Spies fol-
lowed him to banquets to see if he drank
wine, and hung about the entrance to his
rooms in a Chicago hotel to see If wine
was not taken thither. Because champagne
was taken to his apartments for Mrs. Nc
Kinley. vindictive zealots proclaimed the
fact in an alleged temperance paper as evil
dence that he was n wine-bibber. Or
CARNATIONS bearing Christian name were
| assailing him on the ground that he was
the ally of the rum power" and prayer
chains were put in operation imploring God
to compass his defeat because he was not
| a Christian man. 1t was the zeal of con-
| scienceless hate that led persons to do
these evil things. Now all see that this
assailed man approached death with the
tranquil faith of a Christian. Should not
the acts in connection with the last days
and the death of the late President lead
us to practice Christian charity which
shall, at least, make us truthful when
| character is involved?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
CHURCH UNION.

Alarm has been sounded in various quar-
tiers against the Christian Endeavor or
ganization because it has become power
Independent of the churches and yet work
ing within them. One fear is that it will
become subversive of the church's author
ity over her youth; it's entrance into the
mission field is considered to be an ''un-
warranted interference" with the work of
the church; and a third danger is consid-
cred to be it's tendency to bring the denomi-
nations together on false basis of church
union. A writer on the subject-one who
sees these 'dangers''-says church union is
too serious a matter to be directed in this
way, but that the movement should be
conducted by the churches themselves
through their highest courts under leaders
of ripe scholarship and mature Christian
experience, by devout and diligent search
for the truth as taught in the word OF
God, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
and not by popular assemblies of the young
people of the church under the leadership
of an outside body" This writer may be
correct as to what should be done, but as to
what will be done In case church union Is
ever effected is probably quite another
matter. 1t is safe to say that it will never
be brought about by the formal and schol-
arly method or by agreement of ecclesias-
tics, for they will never agree. When
church union comes it will be because the
people who make up. the church reach the
point of caring nothing for creeds beyond
the simple which is at he foundation
Of all Christian doctrine, and that condition
| will come through a gradual evolution Of
! thought and feeling, and not through the
| teachings of theological doctors. The Jour-
nal does not care to discuss the faults Of
the Christian Endeavor Society, if it have
| any, as charged but is free to say that
| from an outside standpoint it seems to
have held young people together in a way
the churches have not succeeded in doing,
and that any such influence for good over
| young people should be encouraged and
| supported.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

church and state many years ago; but as
the years passed the church became i'm
bued more with the spirit OF Christ Re-
ligious teachers no longer resort TO the
inquisition, the stake. the prison and the
stocks TO bring men tc the true Ialth-
Some narrow men with little or the hu-
manitarian sympathy of the Great Teacher
in their hearts yet preach forbidding creeos
and denounce in bitterness those whose
lives do not accord with their teaching
Yet on the whole the Christian teaching
Of to-day is the gospel Of hope and strength
10 humanity. The ethics and the spirit or
modern religious teaching have raised the
moral and intellectual standards of peo-
pies that have come under their influence
The best Of civilization is the outgrowth
of Christianity.
The teacher of anarchy in this country is
an importation. He brings with him the
vices and the moral degradation which
make him welcome in the lowest and most
criminal classes in the larger cities-men
who hate religion, morals. social order and
every virtue In such motley circles of vice
and crime the abhorrent theories of the An
archist take quick root. They begin with
class hatred and end with plottings against
the lives of rulers to the end that all gov
eminent shall be destroyed. But a barren
and hopeless atheism is the pervading infiu-
ence.
The one sure remedy for anarchism is the
clearing light and elevating power Of Chris
tianity. No man who is under the influence
of Christian civilization can be an Anarch-
ist. To the human being who accepts as
. truth the elementary principles of the Ser
mon on the Mount the idea OF anarchism
is repulsive. Flood the dark places where
| atheism and anarchism gather with the
| light Of divine revelation and the twin mon
strosities will scatter. Take the gospel OF
| hope and the help Of modern Christian
/ charities into the repulsive spots in large
cities where vice, crime and lawlessness
tester and a new life will be inspired. The
pervasive and uplifting influence of the
| teachings of Jesus Christ is the hope OF
the world And It is a cheering assurance
that while narrow zealots bewaI what they
mistake as spreading atheism, the infiu-
| ence OF the central truths of Christianity
was never more potential than at the pres
ent time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
nth of September, 1901.

Ye sorrowing drums, sound now your mufled
sob,
Ye bugles, lift to heav'n answering strain!
For rest is come TO soothe the tired brain
The heart has givn to life its final throb.
o bards, chant soft the solemn measured bars
Whereof his valor shall be half the theme.
And half the glory of his half-dreamed dream;
The greater conquest that is not Of wars.
Yea, chant! Beat drums! And ye sad bugles.
blowl
Yet 1 do hear another, tend'rer sound
That is not by your stronger accents drowned
The vioIs voice, drawn by a magic bow.
1t tells not of his warrior victories,
Nor lauds his counsel in the Nations halls;
The melody to sweeter minor falls,
And weeps the gentle soul, apart from these.
Its wistful murmurings Of the man
Whose love early givn, enduring long
Long patient, ever faithful ever strong,
Until this hour that the ended plan.
Praise thou the statesman and the soldier praise
weep the lover who shall love morel
Come from out that room and shut the door
Not ours, but hers, is he this day of days
Joseph Traxler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

A Honolulu paper of recent date contains
the following: Mr.. Elshemus, the author
and artist, who has been spending a few
weeks in Honolulu, leaves in the Sonoma
for Samoa, where he hopes to find the
island natives less advanced in civilized
ways than the Hawaiian people" The
Journal is obliged to confess ignorance
concerning Mr.. Elshemus. but assumes that
his wanderings have to do with the pursuit
of material for picture or story. Evil
IDENTIFY he is in search of the raw; he wants
10 get near 70 nature in the person OF the
primitive savage or the race least affected
by civilization. Presumably he is under
the impression that the civilized public Is
more deeply interested in strange and half
savage peoples than II is in its own kind
and that there is nothing worth writing
about unless it bears the stamp of novelty
The writer's Of novels who delve among the
dry dust of history for their material have
much the same idea-that Of getting away
from the familiar and what they are pleased
70 call the commonplace. Both Mr.. FL
shemus and the historical novelists are
mistaken. AS a rule il is safe 10 say that
people prefer to read about what is familiar
20 them. Out Of mere curiosity and for
information they may care TO know what is
said of the inhabitants Of far-off lanos, but
they are the more interested in those the
more nearly their traits and habits ap-
proach their own. And the more the char
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

1t is melancholy to learn from some
statistics recently published that that ex-
cellent religious body, the Friends, is de-
Ginning. Thirteen yearly meetings report
a net loss The loss is attributed to the
younger members leaving the society for
other denominations. The number of
Friends in the United. States by the last
reports is $1,000. No body of Christians
has exerted a more salutary influence in
Indiana than the Friends. They gave the
people excellent advanced schools at a time
when academies and high schools were
rare. Communities of Friends have been
society has given Indiana many able and
useful men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

Talk about charging the White House
will take on a serious character now that
room has TO be found in the old mansion
for big family of children. This family
will bring atmosphere of life and gayety
to the place which it has perhaps never
known before-certainly not for many
years. There were boys in the Lincoln
household, but the death OF one during the
presidential term and the general sadness
of that period remove the thought of child
ish gayety from the time. Neither the
Grant children nor the Hayes children
were small when they occupied the White
House. The two Mckee children were no
doubt, lively youngsters, also the little
Cleveland girls. but none of these house
holds can compare with a family of six or
seven boys and girls of all ages from
babyhood up-all of them, it may be sup
posed, more or less tempestuous, not to
say strenuous. But where will they put
them2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
MR.. WU'S IDEA.
May Have Gathered IL i'm Part from
Southern Lynchings.

Detroit Free Press.
They do some things very thoroughly In
China Minister Wu's cure FOR anarchism
IS certainly the most radical thing that
has yet been proposed. He suggests that
Czolgocz be given 1000 cuts with a sharp
saber i'm the hands OF a government Of
ficer, the last cut 10 be fatal. After that
the family OF the assassin TO be extirpated
No doubt Minister WI makes this sug-
gestion in all seriousness. but IL only
serves TO emphasize how different are the
Oriental and Occidental ways OF thinking
In the East the element Of reVenge-and
revenge means cruelty-mixes itself up
with the idea OF justice. IL Is the vindic-
tiveness of Mr.. Gilberts MikadO. who
rather leaned 70 something slow and lin
gering with boiling oil or melted lead in
H. Minister WI IS only following out hiS
traditions when he proposes this horribls
punishment.
In America. we are glad 10 say. We
haven't a government official OF such fienc-
ish dexterity with the sabcr. II a govern
ment official were given saber 90 use on
some unfortunate wretch he would not
know how 10 slice scientifically 20 the ex-
tent OF a thousand cuts before ne eNtin-
guished life. and the instinct or mercy
would compel him 10 give the coup DC
grace at the first stroke.
Minister Wu Is still an Oriental When
we scratch his veneer OF education We ma
the Chinese nObleman with all the trad
tions and instincts OF his race. The only
excuse for Wus utterance. outside his
he has been reading Of some OF the horri-
bic negro burnings I'm the South. He has
probably mistaken these outbreaks tor
manifestations OF national spirit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

same time and in the same manner has so
familiarized the American people with the
proceeding that it seems strange to reflect
that the trainers of the Constitution were,
for a time, in doubt as to whether there
should be Vice President at all. The rea-
sons against making a president of the
Senate chosen by that body the immediate
successor to the President in case of the
latters death or disability clearly
stated in the foregoing extract. The Amer
lean people should never let a Thanksgiv-
ing day pass without thanking God that
the trainers Of the Constitution builded so
wisely and so we'll
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
THE SURE REMEDY FOR ANARCHIsM.

One of the distinctive features OF the An
archist is that he is an atheist. He denies
with contempt the existence OF a supreme
being; he sneers with brutal jest at the
suggestion OF moral responsibility based
upon a belief in the righteousness Of an
overruling Providence. 1.-The fool hath said
in his heart there is no God" but the An
archist rejects the existence OF God with
the venomous language that he applies to
social order. He cries out in rage against
the moral government of the world because
the morality of divine revelation has no
place in his hideous creed. He is the VIC
tim of a goddess pessimism which involves
the human race in hopeless gloom and
makes him a fiend delighting in deeds that
would undermine social order and every
human virtue or higher prompting which
has raised the now Christian peoples from
barbarism. His creed is: Let US eat.
drink. murder and be merry, for tomorrow
we die"
II may and certainly can be said that
the Anarchist originated in countries which
have state religions and which are called
Christian: and it can be added that before
he became an Anarchist he was an atheist
Doubtless the imperfections OF the things
taught as Christianity and the method OF
teaching them caused men 10 revolt against
Christianity in the first instance In Europe
ecclesiastical authority years ago was
tyrannical and even crude, and the religion
preached had little OF the spirit of the Ser
mon on the Mount. Anarchism is the re-
vengeful protest against the tyranny OF