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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
THE PROPOSED FRANCHISE.

The time TO make a corporation franchise
right is before the privileges sought by the
corporation are granted Then is the only
time the authorities in charge of the inter-
ests of the people can successfully adjust
the relations the owner of the franchise
will bear toward the public and protect the
public's rights.
The Journal wants to see the Indianapo-
lis. Logansport & Chicago road obtain a
franchise. AS general proposition, the
more railroad lines the city can have the
better, and 1t would probably be best for
all concerned for the Pennsylvania Com
papy to have a direct line of its own from
shall be permitted to lay surface tracks
through the city the abolition of the
grade crossing will be just that much
farther away. just that much more difficult
of accomplishment. The granting of the
franchise will mark the beginning of fac
will be sites to be had more cheaply than
along the railroads already in operation.
If the tracks are TO be elevated or de-
pressed the factories will be built and their
switching facilities arranged with that fact
in view. If they are to go on the surface
this fact win determine building and
switching plans. Then. after the factories
are built and switches laid the question of
changing the whole thing by a radical
change Of grade Is one in which a great
deal of expense and loss of time and
money is involved.
The authorities should grant the fran
chise, but it should be for a grade that
does not involve the danger of the grade
crossing and for a route that will do the
least possible damage to residence prop
erty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

pretense of being reformer, but is
rather practical, everyday sort Of citizen.
AS a member of the Legislature he was
very active in procuring. legislation for the
benefit OF his district. and had no hesitation
about going into log-rolling deals in order
to obtain such legislation. His first motive
in this fight with the saloon keepers was
perfectly matter of fact one The city
needed the money. and the easiest way to
get it was by higher license. But when
he got into the fight he neither asked nor
gave quarter, and all the threats in the
world could not move him. 1t is usually
the quiet. businesslike people that accom-
plish things
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
A Cheap Fuel Gas.


Philadelphia Record.
Dr. Mond who fatty contradicts the
cabled announcement of his death. is the
inventor of a process for making a fuel
gas which it was testified before a Parlia-
mentary committee could be sold for four
cents per thousand feet after allowing for
the sale of the by-products. anu the chemi-
Gals were pecuniarily the more important
results of manufacture. In the production
of the gas coal dust, the absolute refuse OF
the coal heap, Is used, and the greater part
of the gas is the result of d.sintegrating
steam. The gas is used i'm some large
works in England. and in one large estab-
lishment I'm this country. in Detroit. The
hearing before the Parliamentary commit
tee referred to was on the application OF
the company controlling the patents for
permission TO lay its mains to several Of
the more important manufacturing towns.
Opposition was offered by some municipal-
titles which owned gas works and were I'M
willing TO have competition. though a very
cheap fuel gas is one of the greatest boons
a manufacturing district could have. OF
course the nominal price named depended
on the market for the chemicals produced
in the process.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
BOARDS OF CONTROL.

Chicago News.

chicago news.
Governor Van SAINT, of Minnesota, makes
the interesting statement that Minnesota's
Board of Control, during the first year OF
its existence, saved the State $4,000 in
expenses, while still greater economies are
expected in the future. Governor Van SAINT
is of opinion that Illinois could benefit
greatly by establishing similar board.
Instead of having separate boards for
each institution, as in Illinois, Minnesota
vests the control of all State institutions
in a single board of three members. In this
way the different institutions can be cor
related and made to work to the COM
mon advantage of all. Economies can be
introduced in the purchase of supplies and
in other ways Where one institution man.
ufactures goods used in another, for in
stance, the transfer can be made from one
TO the other without employing the serv-
ices of any middleman. At the present time
in Illinois one institution may be making
goods of certain kind and placing them
on the market at low price, while an
other institution may be purchasing goods
of the same kind at a high price.
Illinois is much in need of a civil service
law for State institutions. When a thor
oughly effective and comprehensive merit
law has been secured, so that efficient and
honest management of these institutions
be maintained, il will be advantageous
to take up the question of establishing a
board or cOntrOl. Inc OBJECT sought IN pro-
viding for such a board will be to secure
wise and economical business administers
ton, and If the desired end is TO be OBJ
tanned the members of the board must be
absolutely freed from political influences
Doubtless plan for the unification of con-
troll over the State institutions would be or
signal benefit under these conditions.
though ii is doubtful whether in one par
ticular the plan adopted in Minnesota does
not go too far. There the State university
is held to come within the purview of the
controlling board, although IL is not certain
that such was the intent of the legislature
at the time the law was passed. There IS
force in the contention that the State uni
versity should remain separate and that its
mana cement should rest with the regents
Both economy and greater efficiency or
MANAGEMENT however should result from
placing all other institutions under sim
gle board of control when once the proper
civil service conditions have been estab-
liShed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
OUR CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR.

According TO a report Of the United States
Bureau of Statistics. which. by the way,
is now attached to the Department of
Commerce. the sugar imported into the
United States during the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1903 amounted to 5,217,077 034
pounds. In an aggregate Of over five billion
pounds a few pounds more or less would
proximately correct. Yet this enormous
quantity does not represent all the sugar
We consumed. for between Louisiana cane
sugar and the beet sugar production. of
different States the domestic production
was about 600OOO,OOO pounds. Adding this
supply or $751;, 100000 pounds for the year,
or enough to furnish an average of "
pounds for every man, woman and child in
the United States. estimating the popula-
ton at 100000. Few persons, after an
ocular inspection of such a quantity of SUI
gar. would be willing to engage to consume
it in a year, yet when it is remembered
that very young children and very old
persons do not consume the average sew
enty-two pounds it is evident that a great
many persons must consume more. The
largest part goes in household consumption
and in canned fruits, but great deal goes
in candy, sweetmeats. syrups, etc. Statis-
tics show that what might be called the
.sugar-eating habit has grown very decided
ly during the last twenty years. In 1884 the
consumption per capita was only 81 pounds.
1t never got above 60 pounds per capita
until 1892, when 1t reached 81 pounds and
in 1902 it reached 70 pounds. The consump-
ton per capita in this country greatly ex-
ceeds that of any other, showing that the
American people love sugar and are able
to buy it, The consumption by years shows
a marked difference between hard and pros
porous times.
The report of the Statistical Bureau
makes no mention of the beet-sugar in
dustry in the United States. but other re-
liable authorities show that it is increas-
ing steadily, If rather slowly. From six
factories producing 12.O1S tons of sugar in
| 1892, it has increased until in 1902 there
| were forty-seven factories producing 195, 500
tons. During 1902 six factories were added
and five more were proposed for erection in
| 1903. The efficiency of these factories is
constantly improving. and better machinery
and methods of operation are being intro
6uced. Last year California led in beet
sugar production with 10000 tons, Michi-
gan was second with 57.67S tons. and nine
other States followed with smaller out
puts. The industry has got foothold and
seems destined to become permanent one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

one side and none at all on the other The
belief that any demand can be enforced and
any strike, for the most trivial and unjust
cause. be successful conduces to labor
troubles. The knowledge that the other
side is well organized, that Ii will advise its
will back them up in resisting unjust ones
must certainly make for industrial peace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

There has been great deal said and
written as to the duties and opportunities
Of the negroes, but nothing better than
President Andrew Johnson said nearly forty
years ago. In October. 1865, he addressed a
regiment of colored troops about to be mus
tered out in Washington. He said
Will you now. when you have returned
from the army of the United States and
taken the position of the citizen, when
you have returned to the vocations of
peace, will you give evidence to the world
that you are capable and competent to gov
ern yourselves? That is what you will have
to do Liberty is not mere idea, a mere
vagary. 1t does not consist in idleness
Liberty does not consist In being worthless
Liberty does not consist in doing all things
as we please. Liberty consists in
the glorious privilege of work; of pursuing
the ordinary vocations of peace with in
dustry and with economy, and that being
done, all those who have been industrious
and economical are permitted TO appropri-
ate and enojy the products of their own
labor Freedom is not simply the
privilege to live in idleness; liberty does
not mean simply to resort to the low sa-
looms and other places of disreputabIe
mean that people ought TO live In licentious-
ness; but liberty means simply to be In
dustrious, to be virtuous, to be upright in
all our relations and dealings with men.
= He that is most meritorious. and
yirtuous and intellectual, and well in
formed must stand highest without regard
to color
Barring some repetition incident to ex-
temporaneous speaking this address was
well put. 1t was delivered six months after
the close of the civil war and two years
after the emancipation proclamation, but
it's sentiments have not been much i'm
proved on since.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record
The Georgia Legislature refused 10 pass
the bill introduced for the prevention OF
child labor in the mills by the infection OF
suitable penalties upon employers: but 1t
made a halfway step toward accomplish
ing the purpose of the bill by the p0ssage
of a vagrancy act which specified as Grim
inal Migrants "all able-bodied persons liv-
ing off the labor OF their children" The
thorough enforcement OF this law will do
much to abolish some of the worst features
of child labor. Ii is well-established fact
that drunken. worthless and hard-natures
parents are only too ready TO keep their
small children at work in the mills and
mines, and that the poor waits need 10 be
protected from their natural protectors as
well from constituencies employers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The health of j. Pierpont Morgan Is just
now an interesting topic in Wall street, and
the bears never fail to have that financier' 8
kidney or liver doing all kinds of evil
things whenever they wish to send prices
down. "As mater of fact" said a Wall
street man, these fellows ought to leave
Morgans inwards alone. They're all
right. Mr.. Morgan never was better. He
takes the best of care of himself. He has
never even twinges of govt. and is known
to be the most temperate man in the finan-
cial district. He breakfasts late, reaches
con about Ills in his private Office. On Mon
day, Tuesday and Friday of last week his
luncheon consisted of two chicken sand
witches and a glass of spring water. Mr.
Morgan takes fifteen minutes TO eat his
luncheon"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
An Anarchist ON His Travels.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press
There was gathering of the Anarchists
of Philadelphia last evening at the home OF
George Brown and Mary Hansen, at S07
Fairrnont avenue, to welcome Abraham
Isaak, a well-known leader of the Anarch-
lists in this country. whose home is in Chi
cago. The men, women and children who
filled the back room of the Old-fashioned
house were mild and inoffensive looking.
Isaak is quiet and dignifed, about fifty
years old, with mild blue eyes. a strong
mouth and chin, a head rather narrow and
long, with high forehead. The face is in
telligent and expressive. Isaack said:
81 have come simply to visit and learn
to know my brothers who think and feel
as / do. / am not on my way to Germany,
as some of the papers have announced.
to kill Emperor William. / have no desire to
see him dead, and he Is welcome to live as
long as he wants to.
Il shall go from here to New York, and
from there to Boston. probably stopping at
Fall River, Providence and some other of
the manufacturing centers. We have large
circles in some of those places. From Bos-
ton / shall go to Buffalo, Cleveland and
Pittsburg and then home"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
A MOb's Mistake.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
Clergymen who think ii is wise and
righteous thing to invite the mob to revise
the decisions of the courts and to execute
persons whom the courts have acquitted.
or whom the courts will not hold special
sessions to try. ought TO be somewhat i'm
pressed by the report from Savannah that
the negro who was shot to pieces by a mob
In Dodge county never saw the woman
whom he was charged with assaulting. In
fact. the mob thought IL had a negro of
another name. A mob which has started
out on lynching bee Is not going TO waste
much time on trivial matters of identity
q man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

Can be founc at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHIcAGO-Palmer House. Auditorium Annex
Hotel, Dearborn Station News Stand
c1SCINNATI-J- r. Hawley CO., Arcade.
Grand Hotel.
LOtISVILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, and Bluefeld
Bros. AZ West Market street
ST. LOUIS--Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, u. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House, Fairfax Hotel Willard Hotel.
DENVER. CoL-Louthain G. Jackson Fifteenth
and Lawrence streets. and "A. Smith, 1851
Chanpa street
DAYTON, OIL. v. wilkie. 50 South Jefferson
street
COLUMBUS. o-viaduct News Stand. $50 High
street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
A Sickly Joke.

Philadelphia Press.
What is your husbands doctor-allopath or
homeopath?'
'biographer. I"
What does he mean by that?'
well, the doctor is at work upon his life"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

The lynching evil. already a national
scandal. seems to be growing and spread
ing. AS the government appears to be help
less In the matter. it is for the people to
consider the possibility of organizing a ma
tional society for the suppression of lynch
ing with authority and funds TO employ de-
tectives to bring lynchers to justice or
compel local authorities to acknowledge
themselves participants in the crime
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

The new Pope seems to have accepted the
great honor that came to him with real
Vatican. with its great burden of RESPONSE
bility. will certainly be very different from
the freedom and ease he has enjoyed as
patriarch of Venice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

The time when business conditions
throughout the country had a controlling
influence on the stock market seems to have
passed Wall street has degenerated into a
gambling shop whose operations the rest of
the COUNTY may view with little other in
terest tha.l that OF curiosity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

An intelligent correspondent of the Chi
caso Tribune who has been making a care
ful study of conditions in the South has
concluded that the only solution of the race
problem lies in the education of the negro.
IT. he says. the negro is lazy idle, child
ish, filthy. imprudent and grossly immoral
and am fully prepared to admit all that
II Il because of his ignorance Of the ways Of
the world. and that ignorance can be rem
edied only by the blessing of a common
school education" All the bad qualities
above enumerated go with ignorance. and
the way to cure them is by enlightenment.
But the poor whites of the South need edu-
cation fully as much as the negroes do.
The question OF iiliteracy in both classes is
grave enough 10 command the attention of
the national government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

The movement by the government to take
over the bridge across the Mississippi river
at st. Louis may raise some interesting
questions AS the river is a navigable one
the bridge company had. of course, to OBJ
tain permission from the government to
construct the bridge. and IT is said that
among the conditions imposed upon the
company was one that should it pool its
earnings with another company. consoli-
date with another company or have upon
its board of directors officers of another
company. its charter would be forfeited
without legal prosecution. 1t is claimed that
violation OF this condition has worked a
forfeiture of the company's charter. There
seems TO be an opening for a great lawsuit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

1t is stated on seemingly good authority
that Leo XIII was under a promise TO
Cardinal Gibbons not to create a second
American cardinal His death ends the
promise. and the election of a new Pope
may be followed soon by the creation of one
or two new cardinals in the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
Their COurtship.

Young Short was only five feet two.
His girl was six feet one
And. though they Oft would bill and COO,
No kissing Ger was done.
The parting he would ne er prolong.
But hastily would say: $50 longi"
-Philadelphia Record
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

Representative Baker, OF the Sixth New
to the Naval Academy because he is OPP
posed to war and warlike preparations of
any kind whatever. The average American
win hardly appreciate this highly subli-
mated view
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

The Car may invite our squadron to
kronstadt and accept the invitation TO ex-
anime our warships, but he will hardly
extend an invitation to our officers to ex-
anime the famous fortifications of Kron-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

II anything could be sillier than a request
Tor William ]. Bryan to advise indianapolis
Democrats how TO vote in the city election
It would be his compliance with the request
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
A summer work.
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
The girl who pounds out the tunes OF the Span
ish war every evening had driven the young men
boarders frantic.
Let's take up collection to buy her some new
music" suggested one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
YOUR SUMMER VACATION.

II you take one you will want to
keep in touch with home. The best
way to do this is to have the Journal
mailed to you. Leave your order be-
fore starting. We will change the adj
dress as often as you desire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

If it ever becomes generally known that
the conventional tip to walters and other
servants in Mexico is.2 cents, the land of
the Montezumas will be overrun with
tourists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
Liars, Too.

Kansas City Journal.
IL seems that the people OF Danville. H..
are liars well as lynchers- They told the
coroner thar they could not identify a single
member of the mob. although the mob vas
made no attempt whatever ~ conoealmeEG
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

The practice OF putting tramps to work
breaking stone has worked well wherever it
has been tried, and is certainly more ra-
uonal and less expensive than boarding
them in jails
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

The Hon. Armanis +. Knots, mayor OF
Hammond. is winning not little fame by
the way In which he has whipped the saloon
notorious for It's complete submission to
the liberal element. ITO a finish" on the
question OF high license. Mr.. Knots makes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

Mr.. Schwab gave ample evidence that he
was not crazy by fixing up beautiful berths
in the steel industry for his brother. his
brother-in-law and a small army Of collat-
eraI relatives before retiring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

Yes. 1t would te noble summer work."
added another
Summer workT'
Yes. the fresh-air fund, you know
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

Mr.. Reach did not go to Richmond to ask
Mr.. Bryan to make speeches for Hoffman.
And yet the trolley cars run over there
every hour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
A Theory.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THAT new comet discovered by the observers
AT Marseilles has two tails"
Saw IL in the evening. didn't hep
.Of course"
Maybe il had on its dress coat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

New York Sun.
much OF failure.
Jogg-Oh no. It's merely in the hands of
receiver Just separation. you know, not divorce
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

With a set day for everything, the at
tendant at camp meeting in these latter
days has rather strenuous time OF it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
Questions.

They do not cook a tailor's goose:
No clothes horse runs around the park:
A water cock can never crow;
A fredog can never bark.
Why can't they. pa?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

Kentucky's celebrated continuous per-
formance known as the trial of Caleb
Powers. is occupying the stage again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06
THE HUMORISTS.
The Matter.

Christian Science Mother-Eleanor, what is the
matter?
''oh. mamma. got terrible error Of the
mind in my stomach.