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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

"a bowling wilderness" Similar orders
have been issued in every war when it was
deemed necessary. Our troops made the
Shenandoah valley a bowling wilderness
during the civil war. and they acted under
orders, too. Sherman's army on its march
to the sea left the country behind it more
ike a bowling wilderness than a flower
garden The Filipinos have not made a
great fight, as the Confederates did, but
they have been very stubborn and it was
necessary TO whip them into submission.
If they had recognized the rightful author
ity Of the United States at the beginning
there would have been war, they would
not have had to be whipped into submission
and nobody would have been hurt. There
never was a more righteous war than that
which has been prosecuted for the main
tenance Of the flag in the Philippines. 1t
is pre-eminentiy a war for humanity. but
even such wars cannot be conducted on the
milk and-water principles which Demo
cratic senators are advocating.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

The platform adopted by the Republican
state convention last week has attracted
the attention of the country and received
commendation of the Republican press gem
orally. The Omaha Bee devotes two edi-
torials to different features Of the platform.
placing special stress upon the declaration
in favor of a revision of the tariff from
time to time to suit the changing conditions.
IL calls attention to the fact that fourteen
years ago the Republican convention that
nominated Benjamin Harrison placed itself
on record against all combinations designed
to control the conditions of trade. The
Minneapolis Tribune. after briefly summar-
izing its principal features, says that 'it
is a platform on which the Republicans of
most States can we'll afford to go into the
congressional campaign The Hartford
Comm Courant says that history and
current events constructed the platform of
the Indiana Republicans" The Pittsburg
Gazette, under the caption, True Repub-
licanism Affirmed" calls attention to the
declaration of the Indiana Republicans that
reciprocity with Cuba is a national duty,
and TO that other declaration favoring tariff
revision without injury to home industry.
Indeed, it is a significant fact that about
every Republican paper calling attention to
the platform favors the expression in favor
of tariff revision.
The New York Times, which is a decided
opponent of protection, commends those
portions of Senator Beveridge's address in
which he discussed trusts. The Times OBJ
serves the distinction between the trusts
that promote trade instead of restricting it
and those which seek to be monopolies
with view of advancing prices The Kan
sas City Star, an independent arA free
trade paper. says that 'the demand for
the regulation of trusts is clear and
strong" 1t accepts the declaration in favor
of protection as a matter of course, but
quotes the words of the platform in favor
OF reciprocity and tariff revision which it
says is embodied in the last speech Of
President Mckinley. The Boston Herald
on the other hand. is displeased with the
entire platform. 1t is, says the Herald,
worse than no good. 1t is curious to note
that on the same page with this condemna-
ton of the Republican platform is an edi-
torial criticising Republican senator's for
not remaining in their seats to listen to
Senator Rawlins's three or four days
speech on the Philippine question. which it
compares with those of Daniel Webster in
1850, and of Sumner. Seward and Chase in
later days, and which. it may be added, the
Boston Herald denounced at the time. But
the point to which attention is called is
that Republicans generally approve the
platform and regard it as the keynote of
the campaign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

of those who come to st. giving them a
vague similarity Of ideas whicR makes
unity possible in history and IN literature
that IS the abiding fact In the history OF
Wales. The Inhabitants OF the mountains
FEEL amid all their differences. that they
are one nation, because their land IS unlike
other lands. AS far back as we carr
60 they have a history-the traditions OF
many wandering nations blended into one;
memories coming from lost history,
the sound of the bells of Aberdovey co
from the lost land deep down below
western sea. This belief in a unity OF
and In continuity of language has fh
much truth in 1.-THE mountains absorb ni'
races that come and give them their CHI
acter. As far back as We can e.
nations. ever moving westward aero
plain and sea, reached the mountains ot
Wales standing on the outer edge OF the
world then known. The first race Wa1
called lberian. the next Celt Then came
rome ana AFTER struggle lasting 1hirty-
nve years Its conquest of the mountains
of Wales was assured The persistence Of
Rome in WaleS-in its political thought in
its language and i'm its liter ature-is eX-
planned partly by the fact that il brought a
new civilization to an imp reSSiOna bic peO-
pie, but chiefly because It had 10 defend
that civilization against the growing ag-
greSslon OF heather invaders. The migra-
ton Of nations was beginning anew The
eastern province was conquered between
$50 and $40 by TWO Ereat families of Teu-
tonic invaders, the Angl and the SaXons,
who shattered the Roman power i'm the
southeast of the island. 1t was not until
6l3 that the western tribes were defeated
by the Angle King at Chester. The only
part of the Roman province that was left
unsubdued was the mountainous country
modern Wales. 1t was at this time and
among these mountains that the romances
of Arthur were born They represented
then the spirit of unity and of freedom.
and, dim and distant though they seem,
they still live in all true Welsh hearts.
The annals of Wales for many centuries
were burdened with devastating wars civil
and religious. Poetry and literature found
expression during all these terrible years
and in spite of adverse circumstances have
left their records as evidence of the exist
ence of lofty intellects and noble hearts
among the Welsh nation This book fills
a real want, for a history OF this country
In convenient form has been lacking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

Mr.. Post, inventor of the so-called Post
check money. has had a hearing before a
committee of Treasury and Postofice De-
partment officials. The explanation of his
plan was well received. but il will not be
adopted without careful investigation. The
inventor stated that from statistics OBJ
tanned by writing to many of the large
catalogue houses. publishers or manufac-
turers who do a large mail order bust
ness, he has been able to compute the
amount of money transmitted through the
mails in small sums at approximately ST.
COG, 600 a year. He argued that his sys-
tenn would be great convenience for all
persons who send or receive money in
small sums through the mails, and that the
government would receive a greater reve-
nue. from the stamps Cancelled on bills
than it now derives from money orders.
His plan deserves careful consideration at
least.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28
Principles of western Civilization

In this work Mr. Benjamin Kidd. author
of Social Evolution again shows himself
to be an original and deep thinker, a close
student of the drift of social movements
and clear and forceful writer. The work
is based upon the idea that the great con-
troversies. scientific and religious, which
filled the nineteenth century, have broad
ened out far beyond the narrow boundaries
within which the specialists imagined them
to be confined. The older antagonists in
many of these controversies still continue.
as they will doubtless continue to the end.
to confront each other i'm the same atti-
tudes of opposition as at the beginning.
But the general mind is no longer engaged
with the past aspects of these disputes.
1t is becoming more and more preoccupied
with the larger problems beyond. which
the new knowledge has brought fully into
view, and with the immense social and po-
litlcal issues which are now seen to be
ultimately involved. The operation of the
law of evolution is clearly evident in
the unfolding of great social movements as
in any field of nature or progress. What
we are coming TO see says this author
is that If we accept the law of natural
selection as a controlling principle i'm the
process of social evolution We must. by in
herent necessity, also accept it as operating
in the manner in which, i'm the long run, il
produces the largest and most effective re-
suits. our attention throughout the course
of human history has been concentrated
hitherto on the interests of the individuals
who for the time being comprised what we
call society. Yet what we are now brought
10 see is that the overwhelming weight OF
numbers. as of interests, in the evolution
airy process is never in the present. IL
is always in the future. 1t is not the in
terests of those existing individuals with
which all our systems Of thought and of
political science have concerned themselves.
but the interests of the future, which
weight the meaning of the evolutionary
process in history" These sentences fur
nish the keynote of the whole. work. 1t
/ is an argument to prove that the real sig
nidcance. of all the great social and eco
nOmic movements OF any given period lies
/ in the future rather than in the present
and that the forces which are really shaping
the development of progressive peoples are
much less concerned with the interests of
the existing generation than they are with
those that are 10 come after On these
lines the author has formulated a theory
which is well characterized as Principles
of Western Civilization The work is
! fertile i'm suggestion and is powerful ex-
position of a great subject. New York:
I The Macmillan (fompauN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

The Beet-sugar Manufacturing Associa-
ton of Michigan. at a meeting held few
days ago. adopted a resolution urging the
Michigan senators TO vote against abolish
ing the differential tariff on refined sugar.
and recommending that the Senate adopt
the reciprocal plan of giving the people of
Cuba the commercial relief recommended
by President Roosevelt. Leading business
men of Michigan say that a reduction of
20 or % per cent on Cuban sugar will not
hurt the beet-sugar industry in that State
a particle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

Newell Is chief OF the division OF hy-
biography of the United States Geological
Survey. secretary OF the American Forest
ry Association, etc. and rs one OF the most
caps e writers on the subject I'm the coun-
try long and practical experience CIV
III aala 'ty 10 his utterances. lie Is also
rIFlI aer. For a number or years
ae en- continuously engaged IN
igations OF the extent TO
legions can be reclaimed by
-etua srtaining the cost and ca =
rvoirs measuring the flow OF
er~ Tor power. irrigation and other
e'a-stris purposes and mapping the ar
an 81 underground waters In this
No.f attempts 10 bring together In as
nnical a character as possible the re-
sf of this study and experience. The
poo' Will be found instructive BY all who
an interested in the question Of artificial
igation on large scale or even Tor
arrning or market garden purposes The
book is literally and helDfully illustrated
New York: T. Y. Crowell q Co
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SOME OF THE CAUSES OF COSTLY



The New York Times, while an advocate
of free trade is too well informed on the
subject to say as have other Democratic
and free-trade papers in the East, that the
repeal OF the duties on meats and cattle
would have the least effect upon present
prices. On the contrary, that paper ridi-
cules the assumption that sufficient meat
will be imported to affect present prices.
since the same cause that affects the prices
of meat in the United States prevails in
Canada The United States produces near
ly one-third of the meat of the whole world.
For years we have been making efforts to
open markets in Europe. During the last
four years we have exported large quant-
ties of meats. being able to make the prices.
But in 1901, as in 1881. there was a short
corn and hay crop. The result is high
prices, because those who who prepare
cattle for the market cannot pay the pres
ent price for corn and other feed and sell
the cattle for the prices which prevailed
year ago or two years ago, or any year
when corn in the cattle-feeding regions
was worth from % to 50 cents bushel. An
exchange gives figures showing that there
is an abundance of cattle in the cattle coun-
try. That is true, but there is a scarcity
of fat cattle fit for the market. Sensational
papers and others in the East which i'm
agine they are making an assault on protec
ton will not distinguish between cattle fit
for the market and those which are not.
T.
fattened on corn costing 65 cents a bushel
cannot be fattened as cheaply as when corn
is worth less than % cents bushel
The packers have known that there would
be scarcity of marketable cattle for beef
since the failure of the corn crop. To some
extent they were prepared for it, They
paid a great deal more for cattle and hogs
this year than they did year ago. Having
control of the supply, they have advanced
the selling price to a higher figure than
they would have done if the cattle country
had been full of fat cattle. At time when
prudence should have led them to be salts
fed with moderate prices greed led them
to increase the margin between the cost of
cattle to them and the selling price over
the margin which has prevailed for years.
This is the just cause for the fresh hostility
of the people against the packers. Now
that the railroads have been enjoined from
paying TO the packers rebates OF from 311
to 515 cents a hundred pounds from the pub
lished rates of Is to % cents from Missouri
and Chicago TO the seaboard. they will lose
$500 900 year. The best judgment is that
common beef will be cheaper in July be-
cause grass-fattened cattle will be then put
upon the market. but the corn-fattened
beef to which many people are accustomed
will not be much cheaper until the country
has a good corn crop.
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Playful Bryancsque wit.
Kansas City Star.

hdnSdS lily oAch-
The playful wit OF William j. Bryan Is
again apparent in the following paragraphs
from the last issue Of the Commoner:
THE tobacco trusts are engaged i'm "A war
in Great Britain. American consumers Of
tobacco will have TO smoke up TO make
good the trust losses in England"
The Washington Democrat says: 'Presi-
dent Roosevelt is the Grover Cleveland OF
the Republican party IL will take a COM
mission TO decide which is the aggrieved
gentleman
Someone has defined farmer as a man
who makes his money on farm and
spends IL in town, and an agriculturist as
one who makes his money in town and
spends il on a farm.
With that characteristic modesty for
which Mr.. Bryan is famous, especially
among the Filipinos, me does not claim the
personal authorship Of the distinction here
made between the farmer and the agricul-
turist but many will remember that he
once used il i'm speech or interview, and
without credit. Now it is attributed TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28
Rector Conaty VIII Not Resign.

WASHINGTON. April 27.-Bishop Thomas
lanes Conaty. rector Of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, emphatically denies a
nublished report that he contemplated re-
Signing the rectorship Of the university He
saws there are no dissensi0ns at the unit
versitv and that he had no intention Of
resigning He likewise authorizes the state
ment that there Is no foundation whatever
for reports concerning the financial condi-
tion OF the university. The Catholic Uni
versity OF America. like all other cduca-
tiOnal institutions. he says. needs larger
endowment for broader development. but IL
has received generarous support
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

The report of the Bureau of Statistics
concerning the trade of the United States
and Porto Rico is very instructive taken
in connection with the question of reciproc-
ity with Cuba. The tariff between the
United States and the island has been re-
moved. No industry is harmed here. and
the United States is sending five times as
much merchandise there as it did prior to
1898. We take So per cent. of the exports of
Porto Rico, and the island buys of us 81
per cent. Of all the merchandise it imports
Meantime. under this policy the island is
rapidly attaining prosperity. 1t should oc-
cur to all except the Oxnard beet-sugar
trust that what has been accomplished in
Porto Rico already applies to Cuba in a far
greater degree because it has greater re-
sources, a larger area, and is nearer. With
a liberal reciprocity Americans can capture
a large and growing market for flour, ba-
con. lard, butter, iron, steel machinery,
tools. textiles and thousand other articles
which we make in abundance. A larger and
more profitable trade for farmers and manu-
facturers can be secured by reciprocity
with Cuba than with any other country.
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Irrigation in the United states.

The prominence given by President Roose-
welt in his annual message to irrigation as
& means OF fertilizing large tracts OF arid
lands shows that the subject is growing
in importance. The President said THE
forest and water problems are perhaps the
most vital internal questions of the United
States" OF course he referred TO physical
and not TO moral questions. Under the
title Of Irrigation I'm the United States"
the subject is ably treated by a COM
petent hand. The author. Frederick IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

Someone has telegrsphed the New York
World thousand words about the Indiana
Republican state convention. That part OF
the dispatch which gives a plank or the
platform and the names OF the candidates
is truth. but the portion n which 1t is
asserted that money corruption is freely
charged" and that district committeeman
said that never before WAS so much money
used IN a Republican convention is false.
The story that one candidate put 5000 in
si<szlation IN the convention. and that one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28
wild Life of Orchard and Field.

This book is a revised and enlarged edi-
ton under new name of Friends Worth
Knowing" by the same author, Ernest
Ingersoll. The latter was published by the
Harpers nearly twenty years ago. and the
present volume contains so much new mat
ter that IL is practically a new worF. It's
Illustrations, photographed from lie and
nature are entirely so. The book is de-
lightful study OF wild animals and their
habits, chara cteristics and ways, and OF
outdoor nature in connection with them.
Birds Of many kinds. small deer. moles,
weasels, wild mice, flying squirrels and
many other interesting creatures are treated
in such way that one is made to feel per-
sonally acquainted with them. Under sucn
titles as Our Winter Birds. Birds OF
Passage" How Animals Get Home" etc,
the author takes the reader into his conf
dence and tells great many OF the secrets
OF nature that few persons know. There
are twenty-four Illustrations. all photo-
graphed from life. OF woodchucks. squirrels,
birds OF different kinds in their native
haunts, BIRDS nests goDhers and other in
.eresting creatures their nests and
homes. Nature lovers will find the book
interesting and instructive. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
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Mrs. Hufords Ronk.

Shakespeare in Tale and Verse" by Mrs.
Lois c. Huford. OF Indianapolis. the vol
ume to whose merits the Journal called
its readers attention some time since, is
being well received by the reviewers. es-
pecially those of England. Almost with
out exception they speak OF II with ap-
prevail, though, curiOusly enough few
of them compare il with Lambs Tales
as If il were endeavoring to cover the same
ground, whereas, as matter OF fact. IL
is entirely different I'm scope and character
and is intended for more mature class
OF readers. As a matter OF interest 10 Mrs.
Hufford's friends a number of the COM
ments are here quoted Primary Education
says: There has long been need for
just such book as this. Those who have
not read Shakespeare before will do so now
If they are fortunate enough 20 get this
book 10 arouse their interest and make the
dark ways plain" The Chicago Tribune
says the author has chosen her plays
wisely and done the work with modesty
and success" the Philadelphia Ledger that
she has been faithful 10 the spirit of the
text while adapting her version To the de-
mands of the modern reader the Phila-
delphia Press that the book ought 10 be
of service in awakening the interest OF
young readers In Shakespeare. The Detroit
Free Press thinks that on the part OF her
youthful audience she deserves a vote OF
thanks. The Worcester Spy says: The
work must be declared one for which there
Is d use II is pLepaleu WIN heeia S.>i.l,
is useful and valuable, and is credit TO
author and publisher"
OF the British periodicals the London
Daily News says the author has accom-
plished her task with discretion and good
taste. the Leeds Mercury that the book IS
"a capital piece OF work, and we are CRATE
full TO Mrs. Hufforj." The Pilot says the
author has performed her task conscien-
tiOusly and methodically; the Spectator
that the plan has been carried through
with adequate skill. and IL is a good plan.
Altogether Mrs. Hufford has reason 10 be
pleased with the reception of her book
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Telegraph Operator Accidentally shot

TOPEKA. Kan. April 27.-William w.
Carr aged thirty-seven years. one OF the
best known telegraph operators In the
West was accidentally shot to-day and
instantly killed while visiting his parents
a Eudora, Kan. Carr was allghting from
shotgun He received the contents cf both
barrels over the heart Mr.. Carr had been
connected with the Associated Press IN To-
peka since 1892 and had worked at Kansas
city Omaha. Denver and other points. lie
leaves a widow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28
Father to the Man.

Catholic Standard.
mo more meat" said Willie's pa when
boys start eating they never know when to
stop
when I get to be man like you I'll be diff
feTent won't 1 20
yes; you won't eat 50 much then"
mo. but Iii drink a lot. Aunt Mary just
telling that when you start drinking you
never know when to sop"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

Some interesting questions on military
and civil law might be raised II Generals
Chaffee and Bell should Senator Raw
Inns for SANDER in calling one of them "a
bastard villain" and the other "a brutal.
cowardly beast" Would senatorial cour-
tesy,' be a good defense?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28
stories of crueItie- Exageerated.

SAN FRANCISCO. April H.-Col. Arthur
Wagner. who has been adiutant general
at Manila two years. arrived here en- route
TO Chicago 10 assume the duties Of adJu-
tant general Colonel Wagner. when asked
10 express his opinion as 70 the alleged
cruelties perpetrated by the orders OF Gen.
Jacob H. Smith in the Island Of Samar,
said that the stories OF cruelty n the ma
tives have been largely exaggerated. AS
20 the water cure they lay so much stress
on" he said, there has been more or
that in Imagination OF the people Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

When Democratic senators vilify and de-
fame brave officers in the Philippines. who
have no chance to reply. the names of the
senators who congratulate them should be
given. in order that the country may appOr-
ton the infamy. There is disgrace enough
for all