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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
THE OLD DEBT PAID.
Pledge Made by Governor Morton
Sustained After Many Years.
Indiana Baptist Outlook.

Indiana Baptist Outlook.
Indiana is 10 be congratulated on her good
fortune in the national legislative body In
recent months. During the civil war there
was great stress put upon the state and ma
tional government in meeting all the eX-
igencies. II was difficult 10 secure arms
and equipments for the soldiers as fast as
they enlisted. When the national govern
ment could not secure all that was needed
the state governments sometimes endeav-
ored 10 assist in the good work. and no
State. at least no representative OF any
State, was more liberal and energetic IN
the effort 10 secure the desired objects than
was the Governor OF Indiana indeed he
went so far as TO supply many things
needed on his personal responsibility. he
had no assurance of ever being reimbursed
except the personal pledge OF President
Lincoln and the honor of the United States
government. but Governor Morton had
great faith in the American people and in
the citizens OF Indiana. After these long
years and when the one man who was
largely responsible for the Immense eN-
penditure of money for the United states
has been dead many years the sum OF $780,
600 is paid back 10 our State by the ma
tional government. II comes at a time
when the State is quite prosperous and
when IL is reducing its debt. and helps the
officials to make a good showing in more
rapidly reducing the state debt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

Review of Reviews.
1t is plain that there is a good argument.
from the standpoint of the American sugar
producer, against a general lowering of the
tariff on sugar. But it is equally plain
that a reduced rate on the Cuban crop alone
could not affect the level of sugar prices
in the United States. The home producer.
who declares that he wants the benefit of
the tariff. has to-day exactly the same de-
gree of effective protection that he had be-
fore we admitted Porto Rican sugar free
OF duty. And he would have neither more
nor less tariff protection remaining TO him,
whether one policy or another should be
adopted in respect 10 Cuba. The men who
have been telling him things contrary to
this have been either ignorant themselves,
or else have been guilty Of confusing his
mind intentionally. The remission of 20 per
cent. of the duty upon the Cuban crop alone
would have exactly the same effect as the
admission, free OF duty, of one-ffth of the
Cuban sugar crop, while charging full duty
rates upon the other four-ffths. And this
admission. free Of duty. OF one-ffth Of the
Cuban sugar crop would affect the beet
sugar producers of the United States
neither more nor less u~nfavorably than
the addition TO our home sugar crop OF an
equivalent quantity. In other words, the
effect of a 20 per cent. reduction upon the
Cuban tariff would be simply that OF the
addition OF. say 100. 01 tons to the domestic
sugar crop, out of a total consumption Of
considerably more than 1900, 900 tons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

The Postofhce Department has just footed
up its receipts and expenditures for the first
quarter of the year 1902. which ended with
March. The receipts for the quarter were
$50, 400, 900 and the expenditures sS1, 10000. A
surplus of $4,000 in any quarter of the
postal service is a thing unheard Of. More
over. the expenditure was larger than usual
because of the establishing of so many free
delivery routes. II is estimated in Wash
ington that the deficit for the full fiscal
year will be considerably less than s3,0oO,00O.
This is a decided change from a deficit
ranging from seven to twelve millions a
year with a much less diffusive service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
IS THERE A BEEF TRUST?
Other Things Are High Which Are
Not in Trusts.

Leslie's Weekly.
1t is true beef is and has been high. But
to say that any man or combination of men
is responsible for it is absolutely untrue and
silly. If any person or cause is to be
charged with it, it properly belongs at the
door of the Great Ruler Of the Universe,
who, in the year 1901. sent over this West
ern land a drought as devastating and far
reaching as any within the recollection Of
man. Almost the entire country west of the
Mississippi was covered by 1t. and as a re-
suit the feeding of cattle for market. with
corn and other grains mounting skyward,
every day became a serious proposition.
To Illustrate, 1 will give the case of a
friend, an old experienced cattle handler
and feeder. In May, 1901, he bought 1000
steers and placed them on feed in central
Kansas, expecting to crowd them for the
fall market. In July and August the
drought came and the corn crop in the
great contrasting States went glimmering.
He had gone too far in his feeding to stop
and turn the steers out to ~grass-even had
there been any grass to turn hem-so he
decided to keep on feeding and come out
even by the rise in fat cattle. which every
body predicted. Feed went up every week,
Corn reached IS cents per bushel; hay, cot
ton-seed hullS and other forage went up
proportionately, but he kept pluckily at il.
In January and February he marketed the
steers, getting for them all the way from 8
TO Z cents per pound, which was a most ire
mendousIy high price. His steers averaged
over 1900 pounds, gross weight, and yet,
when he had sold the last one and balance
his books. he had lost an average of 1855
per head on the whole 1900 steers, or about
$4,000 on the deal.
Why not a potato trust" for the humble
tuber is about four times as expensive as
ever before? Yet any well-posted man
knows that last years potato crop was al
most a total failure in the United States.
Hence, high prices. AS a matter of fact, |
am satisfied that the great packers and
more money in March, 1901, when the aver
age price of beef in the great markets was
$3.50 per 100 pounds. than they did in March.
hundred
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

1t Is up to- the people of Indianapolis
TO get together the price of the arsenal
grounds if they wish 10 retain that beauti-
time provide for the establishment of an
important educational institution. They
have not had much experience in this form
of giving, but they will never have a better
time to begin. In thus providing for a pub
lie improvement they are benefting them
selves. The proposed industrial and tech
meal school will be Of direct and imme-
date advantage to the city. Public spirit
and personal interest should lead citizens
to unite in the effort to secure this tract
for educational purposes.
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minor reason for English cynicism az cur
talk OF Philippine self-government. But
We need not 90 10 India. nor learn that
there are dark-skinned branches OF the
Caucasian family. 10 appreciate hoE small
is the significance OF color alone In connec-
ton with mankind. Without IN the least
justifying the prejudice against the negroes
In the United States. what possible excuse
does that afford for proceeding on the
"nigger" theory among a people largely
Malayan? The typical Filipino Is every
whit as distinct from the negro as ne u
from the European. Yet IL is the usual
thing among Americans who have been IN
the Philippines. and imbibed a contempt
or dislike for the people. TO betray In their
conversation tho fact that their theories
OF the situation are based upon popular
notions at home as 10 negro shortcomings
and incapacity. They PREJUDICE the peo-
pie before they have even seen them. ana
they come away without ever having made
a single honest effort TO md out what they
really are like.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

Some time ago the Prohibition brethren
fixed on 81. 2o0, 0Oo,O 0 as a good round sum
10 use when mentioning the amount of the
annual drink bill' Of the United States,
and. though they had no basis for such ire
mendous figures, nave made constant refer
ence to them as trustworthy. 1t may in
terest them to know that the exact value
of the liquors sold in the United States last
year. as shown by government statistics
beers. liquors and beverages of every de-
scription. soft" as we'll as hard" drink:
and mineral waters. II is not a triiing sum
TO be sure, but it is considerably less thar
one and one-ffth billions.
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BY other Name.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
why is it," asked a man OF a physician.
that so many people are suffering these
days from appendicitis. and have 10 be
operated upon. when there didn't use 10 be
any of them" MY young friend" the doc
tor answered. this disease has been in the
world ever since Adam was-perhaps that
story of his losing a rib may have arisen
because he was operated on for appendl-
citis. When your grandfather was a boy
his ~neighbors had IL all around him, and so
they did when you were a boy. But they
called it Inflammation Of the bowels, stom-
achache. acute indigestion. liver trouble.
or something OF that sort. The patient got
well or he died. but no one ever opened him
when living 10 see what the matter was
Perhaps il is as well that they did not, for
much of the surgery of those days was
more dangerous than any disease"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Silly and Childish.

New York Times.
70 man in his senses believes that to ac-
cuse a senator in debate of making an "un-
warranted attack is supplementary or
necessarily offensive. How can anybody re-
tain any respect for the Judgment Of a pub
lie man who found that language so insult
ing and intolerable that he had to resent 1t
by a violent assault? 1t is even sillier and
more childish than Ii is %ruffianly. Evident
ly debate could not go on at all if such ex-
pressions as that which Senator Beveridge
employed were TO be taken as personal in
suits. The man who had so little judgment
as to resent them, and so little ~self-re-
straint as to resent them by a r~uffianly as
sault. is evidently not fit, either by temper
or by intelligence, to be a United States
senator.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

distance" the continent will shrink until
its eastern and western coasts are COM
mereially but half as far apart, while yet
20 single acre of it's wide expanse is lost.
Manila. Yokohama and Hong-kong will be
brought close 10 New York. Boston and
New Orleans, while San Francisco. Port
land and Seattle will become neigloors
OF Liverpool, Antwerp and Hamburg. ! can
think Of no portion Of the United States
which would not share in the benefits
isthmian canal, but If I were asked TO point
out the interest which would receive the
most abundant share OF the benefits which
would certainly accrue, / should, without
an instanI's hesitation, name-the railroads
of the Western States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
The INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
AN be found at the following places:

Can be found at the following places;
NEW ~YORK-Astor House
CHICAGO-Palmer House. p. o.. News Co. III
Dearborn street. Auditorium Annex HoteI'
Dearborn Station News stand
CINCINNATI. r. HawIey & Co. IA Vine
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deerine. northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets; Louisville Book
Co. Pa Fourth avenue, and Blaufeld Bros, Az
West Aarke. street
ST. ~IOUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House, Eboitt
House. Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel.
DENVER. C~OL-Louth.an & Jackson. Fifteenth
and Lawrence streets.
DAYTON. o.-J. v. WiIkie. 80 South Jefferson
street.
COLUMBUS. o.-viaduct News stand. sa High
street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

A Catholic authority in Baltimore makes
the surprising announcement that the
Catholic Church is losing ground in the
United States. The number of Catholics in
the United States in 1902 is 1O.O76. 757. which
is 2.675.3OO more h in 1890. but during that
period the number OF Roman Catholic i'm
migrants was 2.7O5.1 S5. Thus the loss in
twelve years. without taking into account
the natural increment from births and con-
versions. has been %. 1874 The loss is at
tributed 70 members dropping out OF the
church into atheism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Bryan and Harmony.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
-sn - -

P%ittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The Democratic party will not be rehabii-
itated according TO the plan laid down by
Grover Cleveland with the advice and con-
sent Of William Jennings Bryan. The
peerless leader" has been thinking IL over
for several days and has decided that Mr..
Cleveland's plan won't do. In fact, any
thing with Mr.. Cleveland in il is promptly
ruled out by Mr.. Bryan. Both OF these gem
tlemen have twice been candidates on the
Democratic ticket for President OF the
United States, but with this wide difference
Cleveland has been elected twice and
Bryan has been defeated twice. And Bryan
appears TO think that his remarkable record
OF defeat makes him the dictator. guide.
philosopher and friend of the Democratic
party. He is an amusing chap.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Ratio of

Total ...........S2 800, 333.s 77 1896. 122,9 $50 ss
While it has been known for a long time
that the combination of plants into one
company has not resulted in giving any one
Of them entire control of an industry so as
to make it a monopoly. the best informed
in a general way must be surprised when
they see the cold figures showing how small
a part the combinations play in the great
industries of the country. The report which
Mr.. Curtis foreshadows will play havoc
with a class of campaign speeches already
prepared for the season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

and his friends are engaged in a movement
TO bring him back to political leadership,
which. with Mr.. Cleveland, according Il
Mr.. Watterson. means nothing but office.
1t is this that has aroused Mr.. Watterson
10 say what he has. And yet the thing that
wrecked Mr.. Cleveland was an honest at
tempt TO carry out the Watterson tariff
theory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Railways should Favor the Canal.

S. a. Thompson. in Engineering Magazine
for July.
States. which has come chiefly in conse-
quence of the building of the locks at the
outlet OF Lake Superior. marvellous though
IL is. is but a faint and shadowy image of
the development. similar, but multiplied a
thousand fold. which will follow fast upon
the completion o. an isthmian canal. Since
IL is mot mileage. but cost OF transporta-
ton, that is the true commercial measure OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

Some Of those papers which assailed the
beef trust as wholly responsible for the adj
lance in the prices of meats have ceased
to discuss the matter. the fact that the in
crease Ct the price Of steers in Chicago
from 81 TO $3.50 June 1, 1898. to $50 to s.
June q. 1902. seeming to nave persuaded
them that the doubling of the price of
steers in the hands of the cattle raisers
may be largely responsible for a large par,
of the advance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Not Himself.

Boston Transcript.
Sister Ann-For mercy's sake. what's the mat
ter with you. Laura?
Mrs. Manhattan (sobbing)-why. didn't you
notice how pleasant Charles was this evening?
It was a sure sign that he had been drinking.
Oh. Ann. it's awful to have ones husband come
home in such a condition.! He wasn't himself
at all. Usually he hardly ever speaks and ne
never Is pleasant and agreeable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
The total interest-bearing debt OF the
United States on June 1, 1902. was ss31.oT.-
$40. After adding noninterest-bearing obli-
cations and other technical liabilities and
de6ucting cash in the treasury. the total
debt is S982, 46S.572. II the Panama bill goes
through $4,000 o 900 2 per cent. bonds will
be added 70 the interest-bearing. debt.
making the total OF that debt Sl,132, 46s.572,
of which $575, $40, 80 will be ? per cent. god
hondG
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

When the Dingley tariff bill became a law
quite a number of wise newspapers demon
strated that the Cleveland deficit would
continue because it would be impossible 10
get more revenue from the Dingley law
than from the German act. Nevertheless,
under the Dingley law the tariff collections
increased from s102. 900. 900 to s165, 900, 200.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
IN Color Line.

James lie Roy. in July Atlantic.
Tha the color line would be drawn by
some Americans who had 10 do with af-
fairs in the Philippines could readily have
been predicted. The extent TO which 1t has
been held in generation is. however. far
from complimentary either 10 the intelli-
gence and general information or 10 the
breadth and charity Of Americans. This
tendency 10 shy at a darker skin. no mat
ter who or what the wearer, is doubtless a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Not N Good Suggestion.
Minneapolis Tribune.

MlnneapCIiS Tribune.
General A. S. Burt's suggestion that the
United States sell the Philippine islands
to japan for $50. 900. 900. is not likely to
meet with much favor in any quarter. We
did not acquire the islands TO sell, but to
civilize. Japan is hardly in a condition TO
raise the money. but if she were. there
would be almost as much opposition on the
part OF the great powers to that DISPOSE
sale TO England or Germany. No. no. It's
up to- Uncle Sam to work out the destiny
of the Philippines, and he will not shirk
the task
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

The Chicago Tribune does not believe 1t is
expedient that the m-eat-packing concerns
should form a single combination TO escape
the charge of being a trust. Without re-
bates from the railroads. rivals to the pres
ent companies would spring up The Trib-
une expresses a very general opinion that a
packing trust with Mr.. Rockefeller at its
head would not commend itself to the coun-
try. The methods OF the Standard oil
Company, particularly the methods en-
ployed 10 drive out competition. are not
popular. and are in restraint Of trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

A correspondent Of the Chicago Record
Herald maintains that profits in manufao-
ture should not be based upon the capital
stock. but upon sales. A company with
10000 capital may have annual sales OF
10000 II its profits are 10000 II is In the
sales and not IN the stock. A 10 per cent.
profit is not large FOR a manufacturing es-
adjustment. but It would look so II called
30 per cent. on the capital employed. Speak
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
That Dinner Invitation.

Washington Post.
The secretary OF the Tilden Club has
produced two postoffice registry receipts
for the invitations sent TO Mr.. Bryan for
the dinner. and Mr.. Bryan says he was
not invited. Evidently the Tilden Club
officials were expecting something Of this
sort from the gentleman. else they would
not have taken such an extraordinary
precaution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Reminded of "A story.
Petoskey LyTe

FetOthey LyIV.
Grover Cleveland's speech before the IT,
den Club reminds us Of a certain physician
who was called TO administer to a sick man.
He took charge of the case and received big
pay, but the man grew no better fast. and
finally died. After he had passed 20 the
other shore the physician. in his most dig
nifed manner, went 10 the relatives and
said:
81 failed TO save his life. but I have a
magnificent process for embalming that VIII
keep him a perfect corpse for years"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Young Orators.

Boston Herald.
Says Senator Hoar: ct believe that a
young man who is TO be a preacher ought
to be in the pulpit by the time he is twenty
four years old; and that a young man who
is to be a lawyer should have an Office Of
his own at the same age; and that a young
expects to rise in public life should have
some opportunity to get practice in ad-
dressing audiences by the time he reaches
the same age"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08
Rising sun of Democracy.
Brooklyn Eagle.

bTOOkINU EdEIt.
Governor Montague, of Virginia. made a
very favorable impression on the Northern
Democrats at the Tilden Club gathering.
He is handsome, cultivated. eloquent. pru-
dent, progressive and straightforward. He
will be in office for four years as Governor,
and he meets well the requirements OF a
Southern man for national honors, mas
much as. being only forty, he is too young
ever 10 have fired a shot at the Union. He
was i'm pinafores when Lee surrendered.
and he has not been a fountain or q factor
Of Bourbonism since.
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ing of the tin plate industry. in which the
writer was once engaged. he says that be-
fore plates were manufactured in this
country the lowest price was s. a box. but
since October. 1900. in spite of the advance
in the price Of steel billets. the price Of
plates has been 81 per box.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

Another table is given showing that the
total amount paid TO wage-earners OF all
classes by manufacturing establishments in
the United States during the year 1901, was
2.222, SS3.s0. of which only s1s5. IL. $50. or 5
per cent, was paid by trusts. The table is
as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

The Atlanta (Ga) Constitution. which
has valiantly supported Mr.. Bryan. does
not want him 10 be a candidate again, but
fession from all those who followed the
party and Mr.. Bryan as its candidate that
they were perverts TO the party. and that
those who stood with Mr.. Cleveland to
aid and abet the enemy possessed the only
true patriotism. party gospel and honest
come TO the party through the efforts OF
those who unload the epithets Of abusive
vomit upon Mr.. Bryan" So the work OF
harmonizing proceeds. witt vigor and a
club.
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Those who are so Jealous in showing that
the produce exchanges in which grain that
does not exist is sold on margins are a
great advantage to the country will find
1t difficult TO point out the advantage OF
rushing the price of July corn to 81 cents.
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Chicago Tribune.
1T seems to me-" objected the shaggy-haired
members of the committee on resolutions, there
amt no need OF lugsin' in the names OF Jener-
son and Jackson"
Darn it," exclaimed the chairman, we've
got 70 have something Democratic in a Demo
cratic platform. haven't we?'
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Frost for Bailey.

New York Mail and Express.
Mr.. Bailey's promising growth as a
Southern statesman is nipped in the bud
by this bullying performance. He has put
himself in the hoodlum class with Tillman,
and postponed the day when his party will
feel like venturing the nomination of a
Southern man for President or Vice Pres
ident. He has not hurt Senator Beverage
at all. but he has grievously hurt himself
and the people he represents.