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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
GOmpers, Right and Wrong.
Minneapolis Times

Minneapolis IlmeS.
President Samuel Gompers spoke words
of wise warning to the delegates to the
convention Of the American Federation of
Labor and was not a whit too emphatic
In picturing the dangers of i%nternecine
strife and in depicting the certain rupture
that would follow the practices of certain
unions on the line of extended and i'm
proper jurisdiction.
President Gompers was not justified in
comparing President Eliot of Harvard
for there can be no question as TO whom
he meant in his epithetical re~mark-to
Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot, and
comparing them to the advantage of the
two last named. Such is not the temper
ance of language that he advises others to
employ, but is the fire-brand speech that
gets applause from the groundlings and
gives to the judicious grief. Upon refec-
ton President Gompers is doubtless sorry
that in starting a wave OF applause he
started a larger one OF disapprobation. He
has been a conservative man on the whole
and a verbal mistake, though serious,
should not be laid at his door in perpetuity.
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fleet meets the fleet Of the Colombian
rebels. The captain has with him some OF
the material which helped TO win the day
at Manila and a Santiago. II they had
only Colombians TO deal with the outcome
would not be In doubt. but we are told hat
Americans man the insurgent fleet also. and
Ii will be American against American
fighting the battles OF foreigners.
That is the situation which confronts
the world with growing frequency now
adays. The American loves to fight. espe-
cially IL he has had an Opportunity al
ready to smell powder. He was found on
the South African veldt. in the amps OF
both Boer and Briton. The American
fought with Greece and Turkey. China
and Japan. but seldom has he made up the
greater part OF the force on each side. as
VIII be the case when the Colombian fleet
meets that of the insurgents. In this
event the Americans will be fighting for
the sake OF the fight. What's Colombia
to him. or he TO m Is IL not just
possible, however. that he will ask a sub
stantial reward when IL Is all over. and
that some American may then teach the
turbulent little republic how 10 govern it
self2
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Enter into His gates with thanksgiving
and into His courts with praise; be thank
full unto Him and bless His name. For the
Lord is good: His mercy is everlasting: and
the truth endureth TO all generations.
Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy
vows unto the Most High.
Let US come before his presence with
thanksgiving.
o that men would praise the Lord for
His goodness and for His wonderful works
to the children OF men. And let them sac
riice the sacrifices of thanksgiving.
1 will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanks
giving and will call upon the name Of the
Lord.
o give thanks unto the Lord; for He is
good; because His mercy endureth forever.
Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving;
sing praise upon the harp unto our God.
1t is a good thing to give thanks unto the
Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name,
Most High.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

j. Pierpont Morgan. while a student at
the English High School in Boston. took
the mathematics prize for three years in
succession.
Thomas f. Walsh. the Colorado million
aire. is having erected for his e~leven-year-
old son, in Washington. a fully equipped
theater. intended to develop the dramatic
talent OF the boy.
T. j. Elinwood, who was Henry Ward
Beecher's official stenographer during the
entire period of his pastorate of Plymouth
Church and who is seventy-two years of
age, has just been married.
One OF the latest curiosities at the British
Museum is a Chinese bank note OF the four
tenth century, which was discovered in
the, ruins of a statue of Budda at Picking.
PAPER money was not introduced into Eu-
rope till the seventeenth century.
1t is not generally known that Henry
Norman, author OF "All the Russias,'' Is q
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The secretary OF war, in his annual re-
port, strongly indorses the views Of a large
majority of army officers in favor of the re-
establishment of the post exchange, or can
teen. 1.-THE restoration of the exchange"
he say "as 1t existed prior to the passage
of the act of Feb. 2. 1901, prohibiting the
sale Of beer, is desired and urged by the
great majority of officers and men. and by
none more than those of pronounced tenn
perance views" Numerous reports to the
department and Investigations made on its
own account show. beyond a doubt, thai
the effect of the closing of the canteen
upon the morality, discipline and health
of the troops has been bad. This is the
testimony of facts against sentiment.
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CRUSH OF BUSINESS.


Atlanta Constitution.
The prosperity of this country is no
myth, and the South is getting a part of II.
Whether it is getting all that il should
have. or would like TO have, is another
story. Nevertheless, she is doing more
business than she has facilities TO handle
with the dispatch and satisfaction de-
manded by those who are feverish with the
lust of enterprise that has taken hold upon
our people.
All of the Southern railroads complain OF
a shortage of cars, and cannot beg, borrow
or steal from other roads enough to meet
the demand of their patrons. There APP
pears TO be nowhere in the Union any sur
plusage of cars and engines. The railroad
companies are fighting for rolling stock and
every factory in the country that manu-
features IL is months and months behind
the orders on file.
The manufacturing Industries of the East
are surcharged with orders for goods they
cannot ship on time for the urgent needs
crops of all the PRODUCTS of the forests,
farms and mines, and is beseeching the
great trunk lines that run to the Eastern
markets and exports for cars 10 carry the
iron, grain and forage that this country
and Europe are begging for. The South
needs cars both ways-for the transporta-
Oa ana IIt Jill Ills
back of the winter stocks of every nature
which the people are anxious to buy. and
for the supplying of coal 10 the hundreds
and thousands of new and old industrial
plants that are making these Southern
States strong rivals of the other manu-
featuring districts of the Union.
1t does not lie in our mouth, of course.
TO suggest how this congestion OF business
at ali radial points may be relieved: that Is
a problem that is giving sleepless nights TO
the experts In charge of the transportation
~ faEnaf ~ tho nrnN- ~
what should be the general spirit of con-
graduation that the business OF the coun-
try is showing this magnificent develop
ment and especially that the South is get
ting that proportional share which is in
dicative OF her growing strength I'm pro-
ductive enterprises. Ii also indicates the
growing ability of the people TO pay their
debts. improve their homes ard exercise a
larger -liberality toward all OF those public
enterprises which will make for the at
Effectiveness. solid prosperity and glory OF
the neW-old South.
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A SLAVE.
Threats of Retirement Beat Down OPP
position I'm England.

OShthO III II
London Letter in Brooklyn Eagle.
A casual observer who reads the daily
reports of the proceedings in the House
of Commons and who knows nothing of it's
methods must surely come to the conclu-
sion that the august body is composed of
no more than three or four members, for
during the past two or three weeks the
ordinary NJ. p. has been almost obliterated
so far as the debates are concerned. All
that is required of him is undivided atten-
ton to the speeches, dull, dreary, uninter-
esting, and his vote cast in the division lob
bies per order of his party chiefs
A visit to the House at these times dis
British member of Parliament means an
approach to slavery which is not dreamed
of In any other constitutional country.
Obedience, blind and unfiinching, Is required
of the private member. Disobedience is
relentlessly punished and the bogie of re-
irement is unreservedly usd as a club to
beat down rebellion.
There are not many members who can
afford to rely upon their personal popu-
larity with their constituents against their
party organization. If it were not so the
education bill, which has now dragged it's
weary length through the better part of
three weeks, would by this time have found
its well-deserved grave In a gloom of OBJ
livion. Sheer party organization, the crack
of the whip and the terror infused by a
strong central have enabled Mr..
Balfour to force his bill as far as he has
got with 1t.
You see down at Westminster dozens of
hollow-eyed men, tired out, wan and weary,
who are brought down to their seats day
after day against their own inclinations
and convictions. They are tired of ii all
and wish they had never been afflicted by
that terrible scourge, political ambition,
for they have found that after all they are
nothing more than the pawns of the Cecil
game. The country might as well elect a
set of dummies to represent it at West
minister, for the present Parliament is MOTH
ing more than an adjunct to Hatfield
House, taking its cue from the middle ages
and inspired by a medievalism truly re-
markable in these modern days.
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The commissioner of pensions says the
Pension Office is weighted down with aged
and incapacitated clerks who, in his opin-
ion, ought to be p%ensioned, retired or pro-
vided for in some way. Discussing the sub
ject in his annual report he says that "if
five hundred su~perannuated clerks could
be retired and one hundred young men put
in their places, I could very greatly i'm
prove the service and augment its speed,
besides saving much money" The secre-
tary of the interior concurs in the commits
sioner's views and recommends that
appropriate legislation be enacted by Con-
gress for the retirement from duty Of aged
employees. A civil pension list is not in
accordance with American ideas, but there
seems to be a necessity for some action
in the matter.
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to be friendly. but the controlling element
in the Cuban Congress is hostile to the
United States.
Such Is the outcome OF the wretched per-
Torrance OF those who opposed the McKin-
ley-Roosevelt policy during the last ses-
sion OF Congress. Cuba has been rebuffed,
OF at least thinks IL has. 1t is daily drift
ing away from US. The valuable trade OF
the island, which should be worth sSO.o0o.ooo
a year to US, is going TO European COM
p~etitors. Such are the conditions which
Congress, on it's reassembling. must face.
Doubtless the President will present a plan
in his message, but will those who defeated
his policy in the last session repeat their
folly7
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Philadelphia Record.

slot machines ought to be licensed"
said a manufacturer of those machines
the other day. They are in the world to
stay just as much as the saloon. Bishop
Potter. you know, said the saloon is the
poor mans club. and 1t may be just as well
said that the slot machine is the poor mans
stock exchange. In California, Washington
and several other States the slot machines
are licensed and under vigilant inspection.
Where this system prevails the machines
pay In check. II a mar puts In a nickel
and makes a strike he is paid IN checks,
which are good at the lunch counter of the
restaurant. the cigar stand or at the bar.
as the case may be. Suppose there are
900 nickel machines operating in Philadel-
phia. Now, ii these were licensed at 500 a
wear there's $4,000 for the city treasury.
and an inspection insured that would pre-
vent the players from being swindled by
skin machines"
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The statement OF the President that he
has not recognized the Addicks faction
In Delaware as the Republican party has
deprived the truly-good newspapers Of a
most valuable topic. They had begun to
use the assumption that the President had
recognized Mr.. Addicks as the leader OF
the Republican party in Delaware. and
that his influence would be used TO make
that remarkable citizen United States SEN
ator. A large number OF editorials crowd
ed with the epithet or indignant righteous
ness have already been published. Some
OF these papers have printed several ed
itorials full OF Indignation at the Presi-
dents course and deploring the gradual de-
cline OF the virtue OF Mr.. Roosevelt. Some
Of these dispensers Of light and sweetness
have not yet attacked the President for
he has not done and does not con-
template doing. but the fact that all such
charges are false should not hinder them
In the exploiting OF their own virtues and
portraying In the darkest colors the po-
litical vices that would attach to the Pres
ident because he will not take their advice
and disrupt the party 10 which he belongs
and In which he believes. II those papers
which aave assailed the President for doing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
AN ENGLISHMAN ON AMERICAN
METHODS.

The Mosely commission of British me-
and representatives of trades
unions arrived in Washington yesterday 10
call on the President and went from there
TO New York, where the commission will
separate for ten days to allow each men,
Der to investigate matters concerning his
own trade. On their return TO England
they will make known their views in re-
ports, pamphlets and lectures. The COM
mission is travelling on the invitation and
at the expense OF Alfred Mosely, a wealthy
Englishman. who organized the trip as a
means of studying trade conditions, meth
DDS OF manufacture and the relations Of
capital and labor in this country. The
commission has visited New York. Albany.
Schenectady, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Chi
cago, Dayton and Pittsburg. The tour falls
far short of taking in all the industrial
centers of the country. but the visitors
nave their eyes open and no doubt they
nave learned a great deal. On Monday at
Pittsburg Mr.. Mosely was asked for his
personal views as 10 how American indus
trial methods compare with those OF Great
Britain. He said he thought Americans
were far ahead in their wholesale way of
doing things and in the modern machinery
they employed. He thought perhaps the
British were ahead in shipbuilding. but in
nearly everything else Americans were In
the lead. He said that as a result OF his
observations he was convinced that British
Improvement must come through their
workingmen. The capitalists of that coun-
try did not seem equal to the situation and
ligent British mechanics to this country to
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American Soldiers of Fortune.

Baltimore News.
America Is up to her ears I'm the CO.
ombian war. Not only are her regular
navy officers acting as referees on Pa
mama, seeing that the rebels do not foul
the government or the government foul the
rebels. but her soldiers OF fortune are ac-
tually making an effort to decide the war.
Capt. II. III. Marmaduke, a former Con-
federate. has assume command OF the Co.
lombian navy. and his flagship Is Offered
by Americans and has an American crew.
Their vessel is well armed and they have
taken pains to see that they can shoot
straight before going to Panama to give
battle.
II 10 reasonably certain that there will
ne a light now. when Captain Marmaduke's
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
RAILWAY POSTAL SERVICE.
Some of the Perfls to Which the
Clerks Are Subtected.

Clerks Are Subjected.
Forrest Crissey, in the Worlds Work.
One clerk was busy throwing mail in a
combination smoker and baggage car. when
suddenly, without an instant's warning, he
felt the car leap from the track and heard
a terrific crash. When he regained con-
ciousness the wreck presented this chaotic
condition.: the two forward cars had been
plunged down a ~seventy-foot e~mbankment;
the combination car landed in an upright
position with the rear trucks on the roof,
every seat in the smoking compartment be-
ing utterly demolished, while on the floor
Of the mail compartment was a huge an
gular stone weighing not less than half a
ton. How the mail clerk escaped unhurt
will always be a mystery.
There is probably no department OF the
government service in which a higher
standard of devotion to duty is maintained
than in this. During a heavy freshet on
the Susquehanna river, in 1890, all bridges
were swept away and the railroad tracks
along the banks practically destroyed.
Four mail clerks remained In their car un-
til the water rising and flowing through the
doors compelled them to take to an i'm
provised raft which consisted of pieces Of
floating sidewalks and other debris of the
inundation. dashed together. On this frsil
craft they put their pouches, and carefully
propelling by poles along with the current,
gained the postoffice, a mile away. They
found this abandoned, with eight feet of
water in the street at that point. They
were almost exhausted and their condition
was precariOus. Finally, however. they
were rescued by boats and taken into
houses through the second-story windows.
The letter mail was all intact and in fairly
good condition.
Some time ago the run" on a Western
road was short a clerk bpcar1ea of o{cL-
ness. An official of the service happened to
be on the train, and volunteered his serv-
ices. For fifteen hours he stuck to hts
work at the letter case. In the journey of
more than five hundred miles he had only a
or two for food. and stood on his
feet without relief. There are other in
stances on record where entire crews have
stood to the work without food for twenty
four hours.
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An Investigation instituted by the knights
of Labor at the recent session at Niagara
Falls brought out the fact that a local
assembly held a large block of stock in
the window-glass trust. and that Simon
Burns. representing Local Assembly 800.
and it's master-workman. is a member OF
the board of directors of the trust and had
a hand in making the agreement that no
factory would be allowed TO begin work I'M
I'll the stock of glass should be reduced to
10000 boxes. Mr.. Burns is sharply criticised.
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Manners and Business.

New York Sun.
Sir Walter Raleigh had just laid his cloak in
the mud when Essex inquired the reason.
Because replied the willy courtier. "I
wanted to raise the dust"
And a subsequent present from the royal
bounty showed it was. indeed. pay dirt.
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Wanted n Man Saturday.

New York Tribune.
Robinson Crusoe had just named his man Fri
day when he was ready to kick himself all over
the island.
What a fool!' he exclaimed. IF 1 had called
him Saturday I'd have had a pay day every dav
of the week.
subsequently. however, the royalties on his
book more than covered his loss.
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Hoped He Might Improve.

Washington Times.
Husband (vituperatively)-I was an idiot when
I married you, Mary.
Wife (quietly)-Yes. Tom, I knew you were.
But what could / do? You seemed my only
chance, and 1 thought then that you might i'm
prove a little with time.
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The annual report OF the superintendent
OF city schools shows that, while the total
than In 1901. the average daily attendance
was 300 greater. The increased daily at
tendance seems to show the operation Of
the truancy law.
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The suggestion of the attorney general
that prosecuting attorneys should be COM
pensated altogether by annual salaries
should receive the attention OF the Legis-
lature. The fee system, always subject to
abuse. is peculiarly inappropriate in the
case Of prosecuting attorneys, whose CON-
pensation is thus made to partake OF the
character OF blood money.
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A fortnight OF so ago II was stated that
Attorney General Knox was waiting for
the pending beef trust to make the first
open step towards an organization to at
tack 1t in the courts. Yesterday it was an
nounced that the proposed combination was
indefinitely postponed. II not entirely aban-
doned. 1t was a wise coon that said, Don't
shoot, colonel; I'll come down."
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Kansas City Journal.
Football is a very old game"
Yes"
was in the rushes?
"Humph! Moses was also in a basket. Per-
haps 1t is basketball you are thinking Off"
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The report OF Attorney General Taylor
makes a highly creditable showing of his
zeal in serving the State. with correspond
and turned into the State treasury the sum
OF s1.5l5.2 go by hard litigation and with
out proiting by 1t himself to the extent
OF a single dollar is a record Of which any
public official may well be proud.
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Arizona had g.. 900 acres and only g.
TO be q State. The objection is too much
land and too few people. No Territory
should become a State until 1t has the popu-
lation required for a representative In any
Of the larger States.
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The anthracite coal commission should
not end its investigation without getting at
the bottom facts relative to the railroads
and the coal-mining business. The public
has a right to know whether they are vio-
lating the law by engaging in mining and
whether they make discriminating rates in
their own favor.
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Senator Johnson, of Charlottesville, who
>dapared that the present law vacating the
Office of any sheriff who permits an accused
man in custody to be lynched, is a vicious
one and also unconstitutional, very fortu-
nately belongs to the minority party-and
IS not the Supreme Court of Indiana.
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While our political opponents enjoy the
general blessings of prosperity, and for
them should be thankful with all the rest
OF US. they have special cause for thanks
giving In that they have been delivered
from their own folly.
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Temporal Mutantur, Etc.

American Tit-Bits.
Miss Longyears (youthfully)-You know / have
been called quite good looking?
Cynicus-Oh! / dare say. You see standards
of beauty change every ten years or sol
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Poor LincOIn!

Philadelphia Press.
1--WE just thought Of a good joke on Lincoln"
You mean by Lincoln"
mo. I mean on him. The town that's named
after him out In Nebraska is the home Of Will
liam Jennings Bryan"
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The necessity for voting machines in this
county has become so apparent and Is so
generally recognized that another session
of the Legislature should not pass without
making their use compulsory.
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THE HUMORISTS.


Harvard Lampoon.
Waitress TAT quick-lunch stand)-Do you want
TO eat this sandwich here or take it with you?
Gentieman-Both.
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that which he has not done. and which he
does not intend to do, would be as fair as
they have been jealous they will at least
attempt an apology.