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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.


Washington Letter in Brooklyn Eagle.
An examination of the paper strength of
the armies of Japan and Russia shows that
the former is outclassed by the military of
the Car. On a peace footing Russia has
eight soldiers for every one in the army of
the Mikado Both have comparatively large
reserves. but here again the Russian out
numbers the Jap five or six to one. In naval
strength the situation is different. Russia
has more vessels than Japan has. but the
superior equipment and efficiency of the
japanese navy. it is generally believed here,
would enable the smaller country to whip
the bigger. Our naval officers say that the
Japanese sailors are far better fighters than
are the Russians.
According to the last Information avail
able at the War and Navy Departments.
the japanese army consists of something
like 145, 900 men. divided as follows: Officers,
SIG; enlisted men, 1858; horses, 1880;
guns, 456. The organization is as follows:
f1fty-two regiments or infantry, seventeen
regiments of cavalry, nineteen regiments
of field and six regiments OF fortress artil-
lery, together with the usual accompani-
ment of engineer corps and train battalion
The figures covering the Russian armed
strength are impressive The normal peace
footing is as follows: Twenty-four thou
sand officers of infantry and Coz 0OG enlisted
men, 5000 officers of cavalry and 1270OO en-
listed men. 6,000 officers of artillery and 160 :
0co enlisted men. There is a corresponding
complement OF engineers. hospital corps,
etc, making total of 3, ,zl2 officers and l.
07s.00 enlisted men. In addition there are
375, 900 men who go to make up reserve.
The annual appropriation for the support
of this army Is something like $l62, ,000,000
Authorities differ in giving the vessels of
the Russian navy. both as to names and
numbers in the various classes. This dis
crepancy Is largely due TO the troublesome
habit of the Russian admiralty of changing
the names of its ships every few months i'm
order TO confuse the naval attaches on duty
at st. Petersburg in search for news re-
garding the Russian navy. However. ac-
eording TO the best authority. Russia has
the following battleships: First class, eight
built and seven building; second class. ten
built third class. four built and one build
ing: cruisers of the first class, three built:
second class, ten built and three building;
third class, four built and four building.
Japans vessels of these classes are: First
class battleships. six built; third class. one
built; cruisers Of the first class. six built;
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
A COMMENDABLE CHARITY.

Persons familiar with the benevolent
work of the city know that one of the most
useful and important institutions is the
Rescue Mission. Proof of the estimation
in which it is held by those in the best
position to know its character was given
yesterday when the superintendent, Mr.
M. V. Wheeler, read to the assembled drec-
tors letters of approval and commendation
from the police judge, superintendent of
police. superintendent of the workhouse,
superintendent of the City Hospital and
others. The detailed report of the work
shows its extent and nature. 1t is probably
the general impression that the sole pur-
pose Of the mission is to look after unfor-
tunate women and to attempt their reform;
but. important though this is. it by no
means confines itself to this form of effort
Men are its beneficiaries also-men Just out
of Jail or workhouse or hospital, without
friends or home or money. 1t looks after
the sick and suffering; it answers pleas for
help of every conceivable kind; it buries
the dead when necessary. sixty-seven funer-
ais having been conducted by 1t during the
past year. 1t makes ITSELF in short. a
friend of the needy. whoever and whatever
they may be. The opportunities are great,
but the management suffers the limitation
of insufficient funds and narrow and insult
able quarters. more commodious home
in better location is greatly needed and
aid should not be lacking for a charity
which has proved its practical value in
combining with its religious work incentives
to industry and reform. Superintendent
Wheeler. who long since proved his fitness
for the work, should be met with encour-
agement in his efforts to enlarge the scope
of his institution and TO make 1t of even
greater service to the community.
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FRUIT OF PORTO RICO.
Island Oranges to Play a Part in
United States Market.

Washington Star.
Porto Rico will be the orange island of
the world, its coffee will come to have the
same vogue in the United States it one
time had in Spain, and its people will be
lifted out Of poverty and ignorance" This
prophecy was made to reporter for the
Star by Mr.. James Struthers, orange ship
per and grower. of Bayamon, Porto Rico.
Mr.. Struthers, who is stopping at the st.
James, lived in Washington from 1885 to
1895, for part of that time being engaged
in the produce commission business.
Porto Rico." continued Mr.. Struthers,
will become a sea-girt garden. The peo-
pie there are going to find gold in the
golden fruit. just as the people of Florida
did, and as the orange growers of Cali
fornia do. Cold, which overwhelmed the
Florida growers in 1894 and which threat
ems them in the peninsula State every win
ter, is not feared in Porto Rico. The hur-
ricane danger is a small one, because the
orange lands are in the upland valleys,
wind-sheltered by great hills The late
hurricane in Porto Rico did greatest dam
age on the low sugar lands of the coast
and along the water courses. Comparison
between central and southern Florida and
favor of the latter. A high percentage, if
not a majority of the American orange
growers in Porto Rico are from Florida.
1.-The orange districts of Porto Rico have
a self-evident advantage over southern
California for the production of citrus
fruits. Frost in Porto Rico is such a re-
mote possibility that it is not TO be con-
sidered The islard is well watered and
has a bounteous rainfall. 1t is nearer to
the markets of the Atlantic States. both in
the matter of time and charges than Cali
fornia 1t is four days sail from San Juan
to New York, and IL is an event when a
fruit train crosses from California to the
Hudson river in seven days. Porto Rico
has plenty of cheap. faithful and willing
field labor. 1t is not efficient labor as yet,
but 1t will become so under American in
struction, and with the application of
American field machinery and Implements
The natives in the interior of Porto Rico
are weak because they are underfed, but
the main reason for their inefficiency is
that there is no method in their work and
the only tool they know how TO use is the
machete. Californias only conspicuous ad-
| yantaSe over Porto Rico Is that OF daily or
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

Surprise and regret will be felt in the
community over the announcement made in
yesterdays Journal that it would be neces-
sary to close the Katherine Home on ac-
count of lack of funds. Excepting the
needs of helpless orphans. no wants so ap-
peal to people generally as do those of
aged and homeless men and women, and
the establishment of refuge for such al
ways meets with approval. The Katherine
Home was founded for the use Of women
not necessarily entirely destitute, but with
out sufficient means to provide for them
selves and without families to care for
them-women accustomed to the refine
ments of life and to whom the thought of
the almshouse is an unspeakable horror. 1t
provided comfortable accommodations for
twelve such women and all its rooms have
been occupied from the beginning. Many
have been the appeals, besides, of anxious
applicants, for whom no place could be
found Had the home been ten times as
large 1t would have been crowded. Having
no endowment fund, it has been kept open
solely by the personal efforts of the ladies
interested, but the struggle has finally be-
come too difficult and the decision to close
has been reached. 1t is great pity that
this is so. Among the many useful and
beautiful charities of Indianapolis surely a
home for the aged should have place. Is
there no one who can give the institution
help at a critical moment and prevent its
abandonment
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
COXEY REDIvIvUS.
The Ex-COmmander of the Ragmuf-
fins on Labor Unions.

Pittsburg Gazette.
Gen. Jacob S. Coxey, who came into
much popular attention nine years ago
as the commander of the army of the un-
employed marching on Washington, be-
lieves that the present labor trouble with
General Confidence is due mainly to the
labor organizations of the country. He
also believes that the banks of the country
at large have not been doing their full duty
by the industrial enterprises whose stocks
were not listed on the exchanges.
Gen. Coxey was in Pittsburg yesterday
on business in connection with the big steel
casting plant he owns at Mt Vernon, O..
He employs about 200 men there and main
tains an "open shop. He expresses his
views on the present situation as follows:
1.-The prime cause of the collapse is
found in the fact that nearly 100000 men
engaged in the structural trades in New
York were on strike and therefore out
of employment almost all the summer.
This cut off the demand for structural
material and nearly everything else that
went into the building in New York. This
strike, with many others in the principal
cities, destroyed the confidence of the peo-
pie who had money to invest In almost any
thing.
'T have just returned from a ten-day
trip to Chicago, where / found a most bit
ter sentiment against labor organiza tons,
and men with means will not invest a dol
lar where they must come In contact with
labor organizations. 1t seems to me that
a sentiment is being created and a move
ment started that will end in the destruc-
tion of the labor organizations of the
country. This sentiment has been much
stimulated by the stand President Roose-
welt has taken in the government printing
office case.
1.-THE banks of the country at large have
also learned a bitter lesson on what they
call quick assets, meaning securities that
they thought were convertible in a few
minutes time on the Stock Exchange. In
the past three or four years ii has been al
most impossible for legitimate enterprises
the stocks of which were not listed on ex-
changes, to get a dollar out of the banks
for the reason that the banks did not con-
slider them quick assets These bankers
are now brought down with thud when
they commence to convert their quick as
sets into money and find them melting
away like ice in the July sun. 1t looks now
as If enterprises that have merit in them
will be able to obtain means to carry them
n
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
THEN AND NOW.

Evidently it makes a very great differ
ence who is doing things. A month or six
weeks ago the Board of Public Works asked
that a sum be transferred from the bridge
fund to the street repair fund. and dread
full howl went up from the Democrats, the
News and all the allied forces marching
under the Keach banner. There was no need
whatever of the transfer, they declared.
The only possible use for it would be to put
a swarm of men on couple of weeks be-
fore the election and thus buy their votes
for Bookwalter. They said, with a great
deal of truth, that this was an old trick
in city politics, for one can recall a
Democratic administration in years that
has not used the city's money in this way
previous to election. Possibly it was this
Democratic habit that made our Democratic
friends so suspicious and the News so posi-
tive in it's statement that the money was
not needed for street repairs.
But the very first official act of Mr.. Holtz-
mans new Board of Public Works was to
request the controller to introduce an ordi-
nance transferring $1,000 from the bridge
fund for street repairs, and the ordinance
was forthwith introduced and will, doubt
less, be passed by the Council without OBJ
lection. 1t is small episode. but it serves
to illustrate two fairly prominent national
traits. The one and the most dangerous
one, is disposition to let our passions and
prejudices run away with our Judgment
at all times. When the Bookwalter admin
istration found this transfer advisable its
opponents, whether knowing the truth of
the situation or not. Immediately announced
that there were improper motives behind it,
and doubtless everybody that did not like
the Bookwalter administration believed that
a wrong was contemplated.
The other trait is distinct lack of moral
courage in public officers. The transfer was
defeated in the Council by votes of Repub-
| lican members who knew or might have
known that it was necessary. But, rather
than offend a powerful newspaper and be
compelled to make explanations, they voted
| it down.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

Chicago has always taken Mr. Dowie
more or less seriously. While not approv-
ing of him or his methods II has treated
both with a good deal of consideration and
has manifested for him a degree of the ad-
miration that even a successful fakir can
command. 1t has not always been at peace
icule. open and direct, he has encountered
little of until his visit to New York, and he
adjusts himself to 1t with difficulty. In
fact. II fills him full of wrath and he gives
way TO unseemly temper. New Workers in
sist upon regarding him as an exhibit
brought there for their amusement and
come and look at him just as they look
at the elephants in the zoo. Having satis-
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

fed their curiosity they pass on to other
things. Also, the papers publish funny
cartoons showing him with halo fastened
above his silk hat by a rod, and they say
light and fippant things about him and
persistently refuse to regard him with the
serious respect due to sure-enough visit
ing prophet. The head Of Zion is not used
his liking because then he could pose as a
martyr and win friends. but to fight indif-
ference and laughter is another matter.
There is reason 10 fear that "Elijah H.
will go back to Chicago without making
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
yew York Evenlng Post.

New York Evening Post
workman In big building company's
yards nearly died Of fright few days ago.
The foreman heard yell and much COM
motion among a lot OF carpenters in the
yard and rushed TO the scene. He found
one OF the men on the ground with a two
inch bit apparently sticking through his
side. white as ghost and practically out
OF his mind. His fellow-workmen had sent
for an ambulance and were about as badly
frightened ne. The foreman took out
his knife and slit the mans jumper and
shirt down the back. The bit came away
with the shirt. tightly rolled up I'm Il and
the man was absolutely unscTatched. IL
appears that he lad been standing against
an unfinished caisson In which two-inch
holes were being bored The bit was run
by compressed air and when n came
through the pianking very hot. IL was
the heat from the bit which made the
workman think IL was In his body.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

A Chicago officer of the Gould railroad
lines is reported as saying: People down
East do not seem to know what kind of
prosperity we have out here. or else they
simply do not care to know. All of the
pessimistic reports about Western condi-
tions emanate from the East. and they are
far from being correct" Every Western
railroad official could tell what kind OF
prosperity the West has when he looks at
the crowded freight trains and considers
the demands for more cars than his road
can supply All over the West it Is the
same story-more business than the roads
can handle. Prosperity Is not built up on
a basis of water out here. whatever IL may
be In New York. II Is the real thing that
no Morgan can take away.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
Faulty Diagnosis.

Kansas City Journal
Doctor-The trouble with your husband, Mrs.
Casey. is that he has not been eating the right
kind of food; he has been putting too much
starch into his stomach.
Mrs Casey-Ach. be off wild ye! It's thrue we
be pore folk an don't be havin' the dainties an
the foine puddings, but ant hard
run thot We must ate starch. We hov praties
an nanny other things.
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Addressed to Him.

Philadelphia Press.
Il never heard a more disgusting iLcendiary
speech than old Brown made this morn
ing"
WHO'S old man Brown?'
1.-The old fellow 1 work for. He said: See
here. IL you don't do better I'll fire you!' /"
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And still no word from our whilom indig-
nant contemporary, the News. about that
horrible crime. the Reach forgery. over
which It threw ft'' election day Is
not the rascal or rascals to be hunted down? ?
Mr. Keach is now practically in command
OF the police and detective force of the city
and surely there is opportunity to bring
the author OF this villainous forgery to
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

1t may be remarked in passing that 1t is
no part of the business of bank or trust
company to build railways or engage in
other Industrial or speculative enterprises.
The profits of conservative loans on gilt
edge collateral may not be exceeding large.
but they are safe.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

No ante-election promises were made by
MIR. Holtzman; he says SO. Nevertheless.
some of the appointments have much the
ical debts. Boss Keach's obligations, per-
ba
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

Having made up its mind that it wanted
q big slice OF Alaska, Canada laid claim to
II % earnestly that 1t almost came to be-
heve thai its demands were based on right
and justice. Now that the commission has
decided otherwise it suiks and walls and
otherwise plays the baby act. Canada is
old enough to know better
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

The Journal very willingly gives the new
city administration credit for an excellent
selection in the appointment of Captain
Kruger to be superintendent of police. He
has sufficient character and ability to prop
erIy handle the excellent force bequeathed
10 him by his predecessor. and. If not
hampered by his superiors. he should be
ahle TO properly enforce the laws.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

The new Board of Public Works Is COM
who was the Taggart Board of Works for
four years and is at present the partner
OF Sterling r. Holt in the ice business and
other enterprises. 1t is easy TO understand
Mr. Hollis renewed activity in politics
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
Easy for Sisyphus.

New York Tribune.
Sisyphus smiled as he worked at the stone.
I'm glad they gave something easy to
do he chuckled. IF they had only seen me
pushing my automobile up hill last sumner"
Hastily wiping the perspiration from his brow,
he went at it with renewed energy.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

Charleston News and Courier.
when a man murders another in cold
blood in south Carolina says the Green
VILE News. .'he escapes. as a rule. without
punishment, yet If railroad kills a man
by accident ii is sued for $500 damages.
Then kwhy not sue the murderer The
suggekion appears 10 be very good one.
but. OF course, there Is no chance that il
will ever be made the law In this or any
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THE HUMORIsTs.
This May Happen.

Dowie built a mammoth tank
To baptize all his flock
Couldn't get the water. though:
1t was in Wall-street stock.
Chicago Tribune.
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The "reformers'' are trying mighty hard
to be happy, but the more they think of
some of the appointments of the new ad-
ministration, and especially some of the
minor appointments. which are altogether
indefensible.' the harder it is for them to
look cheerful. 1t is really too bad.
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And Now the Cards Are Out.

Baltimore American.
He-once for all. my hearts idol. will you
marry me?
She (sadly)-No.
He-I demand to know why.
She (more sadly)-Well, to tell you the truth,
1 am unworthy of you. 1 have noted in you so
many noble traits that contrast strongly with
my many defects. For instance I cannot say
NO and stick to it
He-Oh, my darling my darling,
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

That was a mean trick of the 'hold-up'
people TO waylay a man and rob him of
even his clothes just after the new adminis-
tration had taken hold. Do not they know
that all crimes must cease right away?
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

A careful review of the appointees of
the new city officials shows some respect
atle men among the number. but does not,
somehow. leave the impression that they
will lie awake nights devising new methods
of municipal reform
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

1t Is a rather notable fact that since the
Evansville and Danville affairs there has
been very distinct cessation in the mob
business. Quick and stern justice has had
IA affect
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arbitration board appear to be acting like
children. Their medicine is not so bad
that they should make such horribly wry
face over it,
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Her Impression.

Washington Star.
Does your daughter play Mozart?' inquired
the young man with gold glasses.
II think she does" answered Mrs. Cumrox,
afably. But l. think she prefers bridge whist"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

Can II be that the genial Pat Ryan is
going to fall without the breastworks after
all the heroic work he did following the
truly good Mr.. Reach about during the
campaign9
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what Manner of Man,

The Smart Set.
Mrs. Browt-How you getting along?
Mrs. Jones-Splenddly. Charles has two
schemes that can't bring less than sl,000,0o0
each and sl0-a-week job.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

Mr. David Wallace, of the new Board of
Works, is a truly good Republican. as
everybody knows. but can even he leaven
the whole Democratic lump? 1t is a great
responsibility that David assumes
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21

The obvious way cut for disgruntled
Canada is to become annexed to the United
States. Then all the coveted Alaskan ad-
vantages will be free to her.
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way 1T looks now the ravens are going to
feed on Elijah.
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other Southern State. where corporations
are regarded as fair game for damage suit
lawyers and human life is held in con-
tempt
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Elijah Dowie expected to be fed by the
savens when he went TO New York. but the
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