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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
OWNERSHIP OF THE JOURNAL,

Since the recent change of ownership In
the Journal. when the paper passed into
the hands of Charles L. Henry, newspaper
gossips have been evolving from their inner
consciousness various more or less interest
ing theories concerning the transfer. On
one thing they are agreed, namely, that
there is not one owner, but more. Most of
them insist upon making Senator Fair
banks a silent partner in the concern. and
hint darkly at political schemes to be con-
trolled by him through his connection with
the paper. The latest announcement, made
with an air OF authority by an Indiana
editor, goes outside the State, however,
and brings in Senator Hanna, of Ohio. as
an associate owner. Marcus A. Hanna"
says this oracle, sis an aspirant to the
presidency in 1904. Indiana is now regarded
as a pivotal State in national elections,
and to possess control of the Republican
State organ means a great DEAL" This In
formation is edifying, and would be i'm
portant did II not belong among the things
known to ill-regulated editors which are
not so. No doubt either Senator Fairbanks
or Senator Hanna would make an agree
able business associate, but 1t is, perhaps,
time for the Journal to put an end to fool
ish tales Of the kind by saying plainly, en-
phatically, and once for all, that neither
of these men nor any other save Mr.. Hen
ry has any financial interest, direct or in
direct, In the Journal. If for no other rea-
son this statement should be made in
justice to Senator Fairbanks, who Is an
noyed by correspondence on the subject.
1t may be well. too, for the Journal to
say that it Is not any mans personal organ
nor an instrument for grinding the axes
of any man in public or private life, but
that it's chief aim, as heretofore, is to fur
nish the news and to represent public and
party interests to the best Of its ability.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
OCCUPIED MANY PULPITS.
Presbyterian Divfnes Preached IN
Many California Churches.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May administers
I'm attendance at the Presbyterian Assembly
to-day occupied pulpits in every Protestant
Church in Los Angeles and many of the
commissioners occupied pulpits in suburban
towns. Emmanuel Church held large au-
dience this morning to hear DR.. Coyle, the
newly-elected moderator.
In the afternoon a meeting in the inter-
est of the woman's executive committee
or home missions met at the same church,
and this evening a popular meeting at
which Sabbath observance furnished the
theme of several addresses was held.
Perhaps the largest attended meeting was
at the First Presbyterian Church, Pasa-
dena. In the morning the Rev. DIR. Henry
Van Dyke of Princeton University, spoke
to a large audience and in the evening the
Rev. DIR. Calvin w. Natter, the Veneraoie
missionary from Chicago, was listened 10
by as many as could find room in the eGl-
fee.
Business sessions of the Assembly will re
resumed tomorrow morning. Present hl'.i-
cations are that there will be a contest II
the Assembly before the week closes Sle-
cial overtures have gone TO the dommt'es
on bills and overtlres and are construct
by some to be of a bitter and personal ma
ture. One Of the overtures relates 10 rev.
sion and il is generally believed that l.
was sent in for the purpose or opening 80
question again and giving a chance IL
discussion on the floor or the Asseups.
The creed as revised is now prdcliCdli4 q
part Of the law of the church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
The SpOilsmen.

Love and politics are the most exciting
private and public interests in life In
"The Spoilsmen'' the two are blended with
excellent effect The story has nothing to
distinguish it from many other stories
having the same subject-matter, but it is
told simply and directly and with sufi-
cient vigor Of action and variety of plot to
hold the readers attention. The realism
of ward politics in Chicago is SO dealt with
that the wards seem neither especially
noteworthy nor notorious, but quite the
usual type of ward, for political purposes,
in any large American city. This charac-
teristic of the book is worthy of COM
mendation, for, a matter of fact, the
essentials of machine politics are much
the same in all cities. Only those who are
troll politics think they have discovered
something unique when they learn for the
first time the inside workings Of a ward
committee. A few quotations give a hint
as to the authors insight:
primaries are not run on the lottery
plan In machine politics"
I'm politics there Is no friendship but
the friendship of necessity or convenience"
Its sometimes necessary in politics to
do some things you don't want to do in
order to be able to do some other things
that you really ought to do. That's where
the reformer makes his mistake. He wants
to do everything his own way, and he loses
the chance of doing anything at'all in most
cases.
1.-THE thing to do is to put up the useful
lads where you can elect them. and where
you can't, put up the reform candidate and
get the credit for doing the right thing"
There is enough human and sentimental
interest in 1.-THE Spoilsmen'' to please
women as much as the political situations
will entertain men. The writer is Mr.
Elliott Flower. L. G. Page & Co., Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
AGITATORS TO BLAME.
Laboring Men Too Easily Influenced
by SeIf-Seeking Agents.
New York Commercial.

New York Commercial.
1.-The trouble to a great extent, with the
laboring man here to-day, as it is in Eng
land, is that he is too easily Influenced by
the oily talk and schemes for his better
ment poured forth at him by the politically
inebrated class of agitators who permeate
the trades unions and who are at the same
time making an easy living out of the
workingmen's weakness and ignorance"
So said Sir Walter Murton, ex-attorney
TO the London Board of Trade and now of
the British Civil-service Board, who is at
present the guest OF Frederick R. Coudert
of No. 10 West Fifty ninth street
''It is somewhat surprising to me, how
ever" said Sir Walter, that large and
prosperous country like yours should be
so persistently disturbed by labor strikes.
One naturally expects to see the reverse
the case. In England, where work is not
so plentiful and wages very much lower
than here, strikes, nevertheless, are few,
when compared with the number that &C.
cur annually in this country. Perhaps that
may be due in no small degree TO the un-
aggressiveness of English employers, who.
on a threatened strike, generally give way
to the demands OF the unions.
THE labor unions over there have us
now tied hand and foot, and ii would un-
doubtedly mean an irreparable loss to our
trade at home and abroad were the large
employers of labor TO form counter
organization among themselves for the pur-
pose of lighting against the sweeping dlc-
tates made to them and enforced by the
labor unions. The fight would be long
and ruinous one TO beth contestants and 1t
would take the country years TO recover
from the struggle.
1.-The trades unions since the day they
were founded have shown that they care
little or nothing-mostly nothing-about the
interests of the employer. Many an en-
ployer, for instance. who would have been
willing had II been in his power to increase
the wages of his men has been forced to
the wall by the unions making the demand
of him at an inopportune time. They do
not think of inquiring before they call a
strike as to the state of the debtor and
creditor side of his ledger. In both Eng
land and America the higher wages and
more pay are practically all the labor
unions exist for, and they keep on demand
ing REGARDLESS of existing conditions
Every boy. l hold. should be taught
that the keynote TO success is personal
effort, but in these days the apprentice at
a trade Is made to understand In an indi-
rect way that to become a member of a
trade union is of more Importance TO him
than skill in workmanship. Does that
make for social advancement? / think not.
The fact is the unions are eating away
gradually the very basis upon which in
dividual effort and responsibility rest by
encouraging the unskilled workman to be-
lieve-and he does believe-that the union
will look after him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
THE pREsIDENT AT sEArTLE.

President Roosevelt's speech at Seattle
was a striking and memorable one in the
picture he drew Of the future possibilities
of Alaska. The President has shown on
different occasions that he possesses the
high quality of craftsmanship of being able
70 see coming events in his minds eye
and to forecast the future with the conf
exercise of imagination which, when con-
trolled by reason. amounts almost to proph-
ecy. Besides possessing this kind OF imag-
ination in a high degree the Presidents his
torical studies have been such as to give
hin, unbounded confidence in the growth
of the Republic and the uncomfortable
spirit and expansive power Of the Ameri-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

From Nicholson's 1.-The Main Chance"
EVELYN Porter who had come on: for thu
walk she had been taking every afternoon
since the beginning OF her fathers illness.
stopped at the narrow aisle which had been
trampied in the snow-piled sidewalk to
watch an adventurous lineman scale an icy
telephone pole There is a vintage Of the
North that is more stimulating than any
that comes out of Southern vineyards u
brings a glow to the cheeks. sparkle to
the eyes and a nimbeness to the tongue
which no product of the wine press ever
gives II Is a wine that makes the heart
leap and the blood tingle. II Is distilled
I'm the great ice-clasped seas OF the north.
and the pine and balsam or SNOWY woods
add their Quintessence TO II; IL uches no
palate but is assimilated directly into the
blood of the brave and strong; II Is the
wine OF youth, OF perpetual youth. Evelyn
with it: it was a delight TO be abroad in the
pure, cold air. Her coloring was Hesny
accented. The remote Scotch grandma
Their who conferred il upon her, across
wears of migration, would have rejoiced in
il: where the Irish strain maintained IFS
light OF humor in her blue eyes, the gray
mist of the Scotch moors sun hela It's own.
There are women who are dominated by
their clothes, but Evelyn Porter was not
one OF them. Her dark green SKIRT might
have belonged to any other glri; Out II
would not have swayed in Just the same
way to any other step; and her toque and
cane of sable would have lost their dis
tinction on any other head ana shoulders
The New York Sun, commenting on this
after an extended review OF the book, adds:
"a girl as she should be, If there Is any
quality of judgment In US. ana We can at
matter of her complexion. The story Is
full of such wise and graceful care. We
commend 1t for its workmanshlp-ior IT'S
smoothness and its sensible and pleasant
fancies, and for its general charm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

the administration for not having enforced
the law against trusts. The next speaker
was Z. b. Whitney. an assistant attorney
general under Grover Clcveland's admins
tration, and he said he was not in entire
sympathy with what had just been said
regarding the antitrust law. He added;
81 was one of those who for four years tried
TO find the way to enforce 1t, and 1t was not
easy" He declared. however. that 'the law
was proved enforceable under Mr.. Cleve-
land, and President Roosevelt has been act
ing on the same lines" 1t will probably be
admitted that the latter has acted rather
more effectively.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

The detective business does not enjoy a
very high degree of public confidence at
best, and when it is used as a decoy to en-
trap public officials, or to make a case
where none existed before, it becomes Justly
Odious to all fair-minded persons The case
that has just developed in this city is the
first that has occurred here, and it is cred
liable to the popular sense of justice that
public sentiment almost unanimously con-
dennis resort to such methods. The facts
have not all come out, but it is evident that
the man who calls himself James Smith
came here from st. Louis on the invitation
OF persons who employed him to carry out
a scheme to discredit Mr.. Logsdon, member
of the Board Of Public Works. The plan did
not succeed, and Mr.. Logsdon turned the
tables on the would-be trappers by having
Smith arrested. The law makes attempting
to bride a public officer penal offense. and
it does not make any exception in favor of
attempts made by detectives or other per-
sons in the alleged pretended interest Of
honest government. From any point Of
view the proceeding is to be deprecated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

The interference of citizen with the ar
rest of a boy caught stealing Journals from
subscribers doorsteps indicates the curious
feeling many persons have In regard to
such offenses. "a paper" they have been
heard to say, sis such little inexpensive
thing that it is not worth making a fuss
about when a boy who wants to make a
cent or two picks it up ano sells it," Never
theless, paper is property whose import
ance to the subscriber is not to be meas
ured by the money he pays for it, Few
minor annoyances Of life are so exasperat-
ing as the loss of a newspaper at the mo.
rien: it is wanted. business interests some.
times suffer through its disappearance and
the failure to obtain the tilely information
II Contains. Also thief Is a thief, wheth-
CT lie steals a newspaper or a horse and
carriage. ANY one who apprehencs one Of
these paper thieves, whose depredaticns
of late have been particularly numerous,
viii be doing a public service
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

This is Volume 2 of the Porter-Ciarke
First Folio" Shakespeare. When "A MIG
summer Nights Dream" appeared the
Journal explained the nature OF the edi-
ton and especially recommended IL 10
l6vers of the bard. The edition has met
with much favor from Shakspearean stu
dents, so much that its value and the apii-
ity of the editors is beyond doubt. Edmund
Clarence Stedman says:
ct have taken ii to my heart at once,
and. every votary of the greatest or Eng
lish books will do the same. What
fortunate idea-to. have an American
pocket-volume series of these deafness
plays in the text of texts, a trewe copy
of the text in which they first appeared to-
gether. of the reading to which all VINO
have to do with Shakespeare must return
and return L am convinced tnas
these editors are the best equipped among
US all for the beautiful yet arduous labor
which they have taken in hand. The plan
Of this volume, with its preface, text, notes
glossary, variorum readings. ETC., is ma
ture and satisfying; it is what editing
should be. or what. more's the pity, 1t so
often is not"
Hiram Carson, of Cornell, says more Will
be done for Shakespeare by this edition than
has been done by any previous one L.
V. Crowell & Co.. New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

William Eleroy Curtis, the versatile and
nrolific newspaper correspondent, fnds tlihe
TO occasionally turn out a good book His
latest. 1.-The Turk and His Lost provinces
is a timely book because it Is an inteingent
presentation of conditions, forces and In
fuences that are now attracting the at
tention of the civilized world Newspaper
readers are aware that events are now
TRANSMITTING in the Balkan states that may
eliminate in a general European war. Mr.
Curtis describes the scene of the disturb
ances. gives a history and description OF
the neor,le and the causes which have led 10
the present disturbances He tells OF tne
administrative policy, the personal naplts
and the everyday life of the sultan, ana
gives a graphic sketch OF Constantinople-
He tells all about the people OF bulgaria
and their cousins across the line In Mace
donia whose prosecutions by the TURKISH
officials have shocked the civilized world
The circumstances attending the klohap-
ing of Miss Stone and the motive or the
act are explained in detail, and the predic-
tions made when the text was written last
fall have been since and are stun pelng
fulflled Mr.. Curtis describes the dlfncul-
ties of settlement of the Macedonian
oSestion because of the jealousies or the
great European powers The book does not
all relate to political disturbances or gov
arnmental policies. Many chapters are
the people and the customs or dinerent
narts of the Turkish empire, as noted py
the author during a journey through the
country. The book is readable. interesting
and instructive. Chicago: rlemihs n
Reyell Company.
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Current Periodicals.

There are eight short stories in Leslie's
Monthly for June and they cover every
side of life, from athletics to real estate.
The widow Of Philip Gilbert Hamerton,
the eminent critic and writer, and author
of 1.-The Intellectual Life" is a French
woman and will describe in the June Scrib-
ner's, from fullest knowledge, the life, edu-
cation, manners and customs of the mod
ern French girl.
Joseph Blethen is becoming one of the
leaders in the new popular style of Amer
lean fiction. the romance of industry. His
latest story. 1.-THE Salmon Foot" is to ap-
pear in the July Success. 1t is a story of
river pirates and salmon fishers in the
Puget sound waters.
Brigadier General William H. Carter Of
the War Department will contribute to the
June ScrIbners the fifth article in the
series on Government, this one dealing
with Military Administration. General
Carter believes that the new general staff
will correct most CT the defects which
have been found in the organization of the
department.
Arthur Schneider, the American artist
who spent fourteen months trying to teach
the Sultan of Morocco to draw and who
described his experiences in the May Cen
fury, has an article in the June number of
the same magazine telling of the Journey
of the Sultan between his two capitals
great number of illustrations contrib
uted by the artiSt-author will include sew
eral pictures in color.
The publishers Of Casters Magazine
have just issued in pamphlet form the arti-
Gle on the Bonus System, which appeared
in the Machine Shop Number. published a
few weeks ago. This pamphlet deals not
only with the system, but with the method
OF accomplishing what the system aims
TO accomphsh-increased production and
satisfied workmen. Price 10 cents Pub
lished by The CASTER Magazine Company.
West Twenty-ninth street, New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

A national peace monument 200 feet high
has been planned by the National Soup
ture Society. and will be erected on the
Hudson as soon as the $2.5OO.OOO necessary
for the work shall be raised by private
subscription. Assurances that the fund will
be Forthcoming are said to have been re-
ceived by the society, and in anticipation
OF this a model. providing for a browning
figure of Victorious Peace 100 feet high.
has been prepared. What assurance the
optimistic sculptors have that peace will
reign and the monument have any fitness
when IL is done is not known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

1t is probable that conditions in the Amer
lean labor world were never more unsettled
than they are at present. Notwithstanding
the large advance In wages that has taken
place during the last few years, there is a
general demand for further increase. Many
strikes are on and more are threatened,
while employers are almost unanimous in
declaring that the limit has been reached.
Chicago paper OF yesterday gave a list
In that city. involving 1890 men, and many
more are threatened within few days The
situation In New York is much the same.
and more or less unrest prevails every
where. All interests profess to want peace,
and yet all are tending towards industrial
war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
Among the Publishers.

G. p. Putnam's Sons are publishing this
week Modern Civic Art: The CITY Made
Beautiful by Charles Milford Robinson
Ralph Waldo Urine, author OF I'm Tune
with the Infinite" has written a new book
which will be brought out in the fall bv
Thomas Y. Crowell 4 Co.; 10000 comics of
In Tune with the Infinite have so far
shortly forthcoming.
There is promised by Mcclure, Phillips
& Co. a novel that for the first time gives
an adequate picture OF congressional. diplo-
matte and social life in Washington. not
only from the outside, but from the inside
also. IL is said TO reveal the true inward
ness OF the methods OF politics as nroc
ticed at the capital and to reveal with An
astonishing frankness the practices OF the
great American bosses. as they show them
selves by their effect in the federal iegisla-
tive halls.
Frank c. Bostock. the well-known ami
NAL trainer. has written book on ..The
Training OF Wild Animals" which The
Century Company will soon publish. with
many illustrations. Mr. Bostock has had
me assistance OF Miss Ellen velvin in the
preparation of his manuscript; Miss Vel
win having written several animal books
and being one of the few women who are
Fellows OF the Royal Geological Society. !.
Dodd. Mead & Co. announce for the fall
novels by George Barr McCutcheon
Beatrice Harraden. Eden Phillpotts. MAY
Pemberton. Amelia E. Barr. Paul laurence
Dunbar and James L. Ford. They win
also issue biographies OF Philip Schuviar.
Milan. King Of Servia: William Cowper
and Thackeray. as well as Andrew Ians;s
History OF Scotland" and new hisforic.I
works by James schouier and SeorSe
6aintsbury-
1t Is commonly supposed that the books
which are most widely read are nctton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

and new fiction at that. The public lihr.-
les. however, can sometimes tell dire
story From both San Francisco and cstse
cago comes the same report that AZ
Jacob Riis's THE Making OF an American
is one of the most popular books Via
the readers OF those two. cities. being
rivaled In the former city by Hale's "PSo,
collections of a Century" The first nar,eS
of these books is published by the NJ
millans, the latter by Houghton, Mifiin a
Co.
An Unexpectedly interesting book on a
most unpromising subject is 'The GeoV-
raphy of Dfrease.'' by Frank G. Clemox
This volume, which is published in Eng.
land in the Cambridge Geographical
Series" and in New York by the Mac.
milan Company. Is practically the frs,
volume to appear on science that NAV
be regarded as still in Its infancy. TIE
study OF the manner In which disease I.
spread over the earth's surface is a science
of new growth; only within recent time,
has treatment Of the subject In at all J
thorough manner been possible. No au.
thentic materials were available UntI
within twenty years or so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25

A history Of the worlds commerce is
story of much more than international bar
ter and sale. A nations commerce is born
Of its industry and is part Of its struggle
for the necessaries the comforts and the
luxuries of life. 1t prospers in peace and
is destroyed by war. A historian of the
worlds commerce, therefore, has no lack
of material possessing the greatest human
interest. The author of General History
of Commerce" Professor William c. Web
ster, has told the story Of commerce in a
systematic manner that gives the reader
ciear-cut and accurate pictures of the com
mercial growth and decay of separate
nations and an understanding of the
forces, industrial, racial and climatic,
which have contributed TO the steady ex-
pansion of the worlds trade. The arrange
ment of the book makes ii suitable for
use as a textbook in high schools and col
leges. Boston: CHM & Co.