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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
Mr.. HANNA'S AMBITION
One of the Hopeful Economic Signs
of the Times.
Brooklyn Times.

Brooklyn Times.
There is no more hopeful sign of the
times in the United States than the number
of men of weight and influence in the COM
munity who are devoting their best thought
toward the solution of what is known as
the labor problem-the adjustment of the
relations between employers and employed,
so that strikes may be abolished and labor
and capital shall receive each its adequate
and just proportion of the profits of pro-
duction. Last week Abram s. Hewitt took
advantage of his eightieth birthday to
make a valuable contribution to the dis
cussion OF this question. and yesterday at
Crbana, o., Senator Mark A. Hanna de-
livered an address on the same subject,
which is full of valuable suggestion. Sena-
tor Hanna is one of the organizers and
most active workers of the Civic Fedora
ton. which is devoted to the promotion OF
arbitration for the settlement of labor dis
putes, and although he admits that il failed
10 prevent the anthracite coal strike
through the refusal of the operators TO
consider mediation, he claims that II has
been successful in every other instance in
which 1t has interviewed. i admit, ne
said, that il failed in its efforts there. II
is hard to conciliate. il is hard to arbitrate
a question where only one side VIII con-
SlueT II. MT. hanna Sldlcu lUdl lHl y
years ago he participated in the strike or
the miners in the Tuscarawas valley, where
much blood was shed and property de-
stroyed before a settlement could be
reached, and he made up his mind that
there was a better way TO settle such DIS
puteS than that. From hat hour until
this" continued the senator, lit has been
the thought and theme uppermost in my
mind"
There is no doubt of Senator Hanna's
sincerity in this statement, for ne mas
proved his sincerity by many years OF work
in that direction. No man is better equip
ped for such work than Mr.. Hanna, ana
there is no nobler or more useful work
to which a man of s"tatesmanlike caibre
could dedicate his life. But Mr.. Hanna
has been and is handicapped in this work
by his political aspirations, by the sus-
piciOn that he works in this matter with
an eye constantly fixed upon the White
House. He can afford to free himself
from this suspicion and to increase his
usefulness by cutting himself loose from
active politics and consecrating the years
yet remaining to him to the solution OF
the labor problem. The woods are full
of men capable of running the political
machine; there is no lack of men capable
to fill the senatorial chair or the presi'
dency with dignity and credit. But the
solution. of the labor problem is a more
important task than anything that is likely
to CONF before Congress, and there is NJ
man in the United States who is so wei
equipped TO deal with that question from
the standpoint alike of employer and EN-
ployed, who so fully commands the con
as Mark A. Hanna. If he is ambitious t
serve his country and his race, as he is
there is no other direction in which h,
could do such useful work as this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
Good Thing for the Army.
Minneapolis Tribune.

MinneapOlis ribune
If General Chaffee is made lieutenant
general after the retirement of General
Miles in August of next year, and a brief
service by Gen. S. b. NJ. Young in that
position until February, 1904. he would still
have about five years TO serve. 1t is sup
posed to be the intention of President
Roosevelt ultimately TO give General
be hailed by the well-wishers of the army
as insuring just the Intelligent and efficient
Administered ion-prOvided his position is
made something more than a mere sine
~cure-that would place the American army
upon the high plane of effectiveness that
the American people would like to see it
OccuDV.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
ELIMINATION OF BRYANISM.


Atlanta journal.
If there have been those within the ranks
of the Democratic party, scattered here and
there, who have chung to the idea that
Organism or silverism would again be fac
tors in another national campaign, the
action of numerous state Democratic con-
ventions, already some half dozen or more
in number, must surely have brought them
to their senses.
And of striking interest and Importance
is the fact that in proportion as the va
rious States eliminate Mr.. Bryan and his
views from the situation the feeling grows
that the chances for Democratic success in
the coming fall elections grow brighter
AS a matter of fact, expressions from
the most conservative party leaders, and
even from independent thinkers and OBJ
servers, are constantly growing in number
to the effect that the Democracy is once
more getting in a position to grasp the
banner of victory.
The extravaganza of the past six years,
for which the Republican party alone is re-
spOnsible, together with its direct COM
plicity in the fragrant robbery of the peo-
pie through the trusts, have put not only
the masses but men whose patriotism out
weighs their. desire for gain to thinking
and casting about for relief. Naturally
they have not been willing to intruSt the
affairs of their country TO a party that
stood committed TO such radical measures
as Organism involved. and of which that
party itself felt half-doubtful if not actu-
ally ashamed.
But with a return TO that conservatism
which up to a few years ago had ever in
fuenced and guided the Democratic party
public confidence in ii and those of its lead
ears who represent that conservative spirit
is being restored, and those do not speak
idly who assert that the Democracy has
good reason tor expecting TO greatly in
crease its strength in the next national
Congress, even If il does not actually con-
troll that branch of the government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
CHAFFEE SHOWS CLEMENCY.
Murderer's Sentence COMMITTED TO
Ten Years mprfsonmen
Washington Star.

Washington Star.
The War Department has received the
record of the trial by court-martial Of Pc
dro Jalili, a native Filipino, charged with
the murder of Private Harvey L. Bradley,
by the record that Bradley was beaten with
a bolo until he died. The prisoner made a
statement in his own behalf as follows:
Il have a house about 300 yards from
my brothers house and Tiburcio Gambia
told me that an American soldier had gone
to my brothers house and that the Ameri-
can soldier vas beating my brother. AS
soon as l heard this L went to my brothers
house with a stick and a bolo in my hands.
When / was near the house of my brother
the American soldier fired three shots at
me. AS the shots did not hit me | APP
preached the American soldier and struck
him with a stick. As soon as | struck the
American soldier he hit me in the face with
his hand. l made two steps back and drew
my bOlo and hit the American with ii on his
head. Then the soldier fell down on the
ground and TiburciO Gambia came and
struck him with the bolo on his back. After
kill him by stabbing and cutting him more
When we saw that the soldier was dead we
got a sled and put the dead body of the
American on il and hitched a carabao to if
and hauled it TO the river and then showed
the sled with the body on il in the river
From the river we went back to the house
of my brother and took my brother away.
From that time we stayed in the field with
the insurrectOs till June, 1901"
Jalili was convicted and sentenced tC
death by hanging. General Chaffee com
muted the sentence to ten years imprison-
ment at hard labor, mainly on the showing
that deceased was engaged in unlawful
acts at the time of his death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
HANDY POSTAL CURRENCY.
Growth of the Mail order Business
Has Made One Necessary.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta constitution.
Every business man in America is inter-
ested in the movement to secure from the
government a system of postal currency.
Indeed, every citizen who ever has occasion
to transmit smaller or larger sums through
the mails for any purpose needs a sure and
easy method of doing so without recourse
to clumsy coin-mailing cards, money orders
or actual risking of national bank notes,
registered or unregistered.
The growth of mail order business in the
United States in recent years has been
wonderful. It's magnitude and Importance
is signified in great catalogues of priced
goods mailed postpaid that are circulated
by millions Of copies and by special period
icals printed regularly TO promote such
merchandising through the postal facilities.
The rural free delivery is daily increasing
the volume of traffic by mail in periodicals,
books and lightweight goods.
These expansions of business have pro-
duced the demand for an easy method by
which money can be transferred by mail.
No device yet offered has received the ap-
prevail of the postal authorities and con-
gTessional committees, but it is sincerely
desirable that they shall invent some form
of postal currency that can be purchased
at any postoftice, or from any mail carrier,
in city or country, and used for cash remit
tances by ordinary mail.
The accommodation of millions of peo-
pie is a consideration that the government
should not longer ignore. That which the
express companies have done so we'll TO IA
cilitate small and safe remittances, but
which reaches only those accessible to ex-
press Offices, should be possible TO the
postal department and become a function of
every postofice in the land.
The merchants and people generally who
need this great agency for safe and easy
remittances of money should make the fact
known to their member of Congress, so that
when he returns to the next session he will
know what is expected of him in relation
to this measure. 1t is a good measure and
should be made law at the earliest prac-
ticable day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
CLEANED UP SANTIAGO.
American officers Forced Cubans to
Accept cleanliness
Wilmington Star.

Wilmington Star.
Major George NJ. Barbour, the American
who cleaned up Santiago. stamped yellow
fever out of that end of the island Of cuba
and worked four years without losing a
day, is a guest at the Army and Navy Club,
having just reached this city from the
tropics. A delightful person to meet under
any circumstances, Major Barbour is
doubly interesting because of his interest
ing work among the people who did not
know the meaning of the word sanitation
until it was driven into them at the point
of the bayonet.
Il was the first off appointed by Cen
eral Wood said Major Barbour this morn
ing. 1--WE took hold Of the island in July,
1898, when the deaths from yellow fever
numbered about 1000 a day. There has not
been a death from yellow fever in the ISL
and since October Z, 1899.
In other words, we accomplished in six
teen working months what no one else had
accomplished in 400 years. In my district
the deaths from yellow fever at first ran as
high as 26S in one day. l have burned as
high as 1S6 bodies in a day-victims Of yell
low fever. Now there is no yellow fever
there. and the people are delighted with
what we have done. Formerly they drove
us out of their houses for commanding
them to clean up their premises. My men
nave been beaten and have had water
thrown on them, and have been forcibly
driven away from dwellings. | have had
water thrown on me.
What Gid we do? Wen. we simply
handled them without gloves. | divided
Santiago into districts at the start, and ap-
pointed two or three inspectors for each
district. They went into every building,
and whenever they found unsanitary con-
ditions ordered the place cleaned up.
IF the cleaning had not been done when
they returned they would report TO me.
would go to the house and say: L want
this cleaned away in one hour. Start now
Immediately If they refused / would give
IL to them, right in the face. I carried a
whip with a hard handle. and | would
drive right at them. Knock them down
II was the only way to accomplish any
thing. and the city simply had TO be re.
lieved Of a filthy condition.
My men pursued the same tactics, and
soon the natives saw we meant business
Ii was a hard system, but II was absO-
lutely necessary. Inside of a few months
they began TO see the good effects. anC
then If a man didn't clean up his place M:
neighbors would get after him.
You sec. they knew nothing about sani
tation. They had lived in Nth for genera
tons and generations, and had died of vel
/ low fever by the thousands. They had go
TO taking IL all as a matter of course.
"'No III not clean UP this place. Tnii
is my house. they used 10 say. If | wan
to leave IL this way it's nobody's business.
"'Oh. but Ii is. l would tell them. Pub
lie health demands that you clean up YOU
property.
After a time / pounded into them. lit
orally. the idea that even If they didn'
care how they lived hey were under obi
cations 10 their neighbors.
The unsanitary conditions of Santiag'
! cannot be described, because Of their char
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

Nebraska State Journal.
Mrs. Helen L. Grenfen is Colorado's
state superintendent of public instruction.
Miss Emma Herey occupies a like position
at the head of the schools of Arapahoe
county. Mrs. Grenfell wants to succeed
herself and Miss Herey seeks promotion.
Both are after the Democratic nomination
and are putting up a fight for the delega-
ton from Arapahoe county and the city Of
Denver which discounts I'm bitterness any
political scrap ever seen in that section
since the state was admitted. 1t. has be-
come so thoroughly indecent and disgusting
that the male members of the Democratic
party, who are supposed TO be more or
less hardened to bum politics, refuse to
take any hand in the settlement of the con-
troverSy. This is how woman suffrage
purifes society and eanobles and uplifts
the weaker sex. Lord forbid that such a
fell calamity should ever blight our beloved
state. Stand up for Nebraska.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

Telephones, rural mail routes. interurban
and trolley lines have had the effect, it is
said. OF making small villages more quiet
than formerly. 4 little crossroads settle
ment. with a general store. a postomce. a
blacksmith shop and a doctors office as it's
chief business establishments is not at any
time a very lively center. but the coming
and going OF the persons with affairs to
transact at these places create whatever
stir there is. and at times bring about the
appearance OF considerable activity. But
now that the farm telephone has come into
use its owner does not hitch up" and go
TO the village as formerly TO do his err
rands. He telephones 10 the stOrekeeper
his order for goods and asks him to send
them out by trolley or by the first man
travelling that way; he c~onsults the doctor
over the telephone and talks with his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
Mud Cure Reversed.
Philadelphla Record.

Philadelphia Record.
There is nothing so ging. said
a man who had just recovered from a
severe illness, las 10 have people tell you
how badly you are looking. when what
you really need is a cheerful slap on the
back and a hearty greeting. Since I have
been mp and about, the Jobs cOmfOrters.
with their incessant comments upon my
appearance. have nearly driven me back
10 bed. But now | Am taking a hendish
delight in getting back al them. GestcT-
day a friend OF mine gazed at me sorroW-
fully and said: Great Scott. old man. YOU
are certainly looking badly. 1 would scarce
~ have known YOU. oh. 1 feel first rate
/ replied. but what's the waiter with your
/ don't think I've ever seen YOU look so
thin and run down. You ought 20 see a
doctor To tell the truth he said. L
haven't been feeling well lately Before
! got through with him / had him
thoroughly convinced that he was a very
sick man. To-day | tried the same tactics
on two or three other fellows who at
tempted 10 commiserate with me. and 10
worked like a charm. Before / get through
IN be getting a commission from the doc
tors
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
A WORD OF CAUTION.

While the Cuban reciprocity bill was
pending the few Oxnard organs denounced
those who passed the measure as secret
promoters of free trade. and one of them
stigmatized the senators advocating the
measure as the dowagers of the Senate.
Now that a large majority of the more
prominent Republican papers have APP
proved the clause in the Iowa Republican
platform favoring a change of tariff sched-
ules whenever it can be proved that they
shelter monopoly the same papers and a
few uItra-protectionists accuse them of Sc
cretly advocating free trade and being
tariff tinkerers." 1t has it's origin in
the assumption Of a few men that those
who favored reciprocity with Cuba favor
the destruction of the beet-sugar industry.
This is a false assumption. There is not
a Republican in the country who would
break down the beet-sugar industry, but
there are millions who would not have
general interests sacrificed to it's demands.
The general Republican press has had
enough Of these ill-tempered and dogmatic
criticisms, which are already aimed at the
President. Mr.. Oxnard, his organs and his
lobby. did not originate the doctrine of
protection. Washington and Hamilton ad-
vocated it, and it has had able advocates
ever since. The year that Mr.. Oxnard
was born, in France, Abraham Lincoln
was elected President upon a platform
which advocated protection by requiring
'tSICh an 16inSfmpnt of tariff Duties Nc
to encourage the development of the in
dustrial interests of the whole country
and commend a policy of national ex-
changes which secures to the working
men liberal wages, &c agriculture re-
munerative prices, to mechanics and man
ufacturers an adequate reward for their
skill" One of the first measures of prom
inence which a Republican House under
took to pass, even before the election of
Mr.. Lincoln, was the Morrill, tariff bill.
The Republican party, to use the language
of the Iowa Republicans, stands by the
historic policy of the Republican party in
giving protection to home industries" and
also Endorses the policy of reciprocity
as the natural complement Of protection. >
The mass of the Republican party does not
believe there is anything sacred in the
schedules of the Ding1ey tariff. So far
from that, if the modification of any of
them can promote the industrial and gen.
eral interests of the United States, it
should be done, always being careful not
to create distrust by such changes.
The Journal begs to add that all these
insinuations Of the beet-sugar coterie to
the effect that all who favor reciprocity
with Cuba are false to the principle OF
protection will do their cause no good
much less defeat reciprocity with Cuba
That is sure to come when Congress shall
reassemble. To papers and men that were
fighting the battle of protection before any
OF their accusers were writing for or.
gans this accusation of tEeachery to thai
policy is an inexcusable impertinence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

Those alleged treasury experts who tel
e~graphed the Oxnard organs that the def
cit OF 100000 during July would prevent
any tariff tinkering. now that the Demo-
Gratis became happy over it. explain that
there will be no deficit at the end of the
next fiscal year. The State claims. which
were paid directly upon the adjournment
Of Congress. were more than half the def
cf of IuIv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

1t has been suggested that. to relieve
Cuba of the necessity OF issuing a loan, the
Senate be called to ratify a treaty involving
the features of the bill which was defeated.
1t takes a two-thirds vote to carry a treaty.
vote against it they could defeat it. I'm
less it can be ascertained that most of the
Republican senators reported to have been
hostile to the proposition have learned so
much as to cause them to change their
vote, it would be useless to try to ratify a
treaty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

The late Senator Mcmillan must not be
IN the Senate because he rarely addressed
that body. He was. on the contrary. a very
effective man on the important committees
OF which he was a member. lie was chair
man OF the on the affairs OF the
District Of Columbia. and a member Of the
committee on appropriations. Because OF
his sound Judgment he exercised a silent
but effective influence with his party in the
Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

The Minneapolis Tribune does not think
that the Republican members of the House
who voted against Cuban reciprocity will
be defeated, but it expresses the opinion
touch of the wholesome discipline which
American constituencies are so ready to
administer to their representatives when
the latter grow too confident of their own
power and too arrogant in the pursuit of
their particular purpose The Tribune
was not a pronounced advocate of Cuban
reciDrocitv.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

Philadelphia has long been fortunate in
having a number Of excellent newspapers.
One of these was the Times. Though oc-
casionally erratic in a political way, IL was
a clean. enterpTising sheet. not addicted
10 sensationalism and characterized
by a number of admirable and dis
tinctive features. If the Ledger into
which il has been absorbed, adopts all these
features. it will no doubt add to it's al
ready great popularity. The Times will be
missed from the exchange list.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
MIR. Cannon's story.

Portland Mo.) Press.
Representative Joseph CT. Cannon, of
Illinois, does not take seriously the claim
of the Democrats that they will carry
fourteen congressional districts in Illinois.
and by way of emphasizing his disbelief
drops into his old habit on the floor of the
House and tells a story. The Democratic
claim" says Mr.. Cannon. reminds me of
the Sunday-schoo boy who was reading
the story of David and Goliath. He was
deeply immersed in the description Of how
Goith was Dragging of what he would do
10 the little fellow. when his teacher inter-
rupted with 'Th8t'll do for that part.
Johnny. He's only bluffing. Skip down to
where David did things to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

If the anthracite mine owners could be
imbued with a little of the good sense and
spirit of fairness expressed by Senator
The operators seem not to be able to an
swer the senator's question. namely. if the
bituminous operators find it profitable and
satisfactory to recognize the union, why
should not the anthracite operators?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
Brought Trouble on Themselves.

Boston journal.
1t is stated now that every school con-
Quoted by the religious orders in France
was informed that it must apply for au-
thorization under the associations law. and
that assurances were given that authorize
ton would be generally granted 10 educa-
tional and charitable institutions. The
thousands of religious establishments
which refused or failed to apply for author
iZation within the specified time seem TO
have brought their trouble upon them
selves, and in Paris, at least, & looks as il
some of them had done it with political
motives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12

A New York scientist who has been
studying microbes Of the domestic variety.
says that a carpeted living room in a
tenement furnished seventy-five bacteria
and one mould. during five minutes be-
fore sweeping. When the room was still,
Immediately after sweeping. a similar test
produced ?, 700 bacteria and six moulds. The
obvious significance of this is. he declares.
that busting should be done with a damp
rag. Not at all. The obvious conclusion
is: Don't sweep.