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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-25
Ought to Have Said Grace.

In one of Kansas City's religious BAPTIST fam
lies where blessing is asked before every meal
there is bright little four-year-old girl She is
one youngster who has the distinction of nearly
breaking one of great actress strongest scenes
and now that the story is ancient history with
them the family are allowing it to circulate.
When Mrs. Patrick Campbell playing here
last winter, the eldest daughter Of the family
wished TO see her. and. not having any one else
with whom to go. she took the younger sister
The little girl stood up during the entire play
watching excitedly. yet wonderingy. 1t was the
last act and the great actress was reaching the
climax where she sits at the table and drinks
poison The child watched the people gathered
about the table intently then she saw Mrs. Pat
take the glass in her hand and raise it TO her
lips That was too much for the little girl
brought up in religious family.
Sister Jessie. Sister Jesse she fairly
screamed. why. they amt said no grace-when
are they going to say grace?'
Sister Jessie clapped her hand over the little
girls mouth but the soemnity of the scene was
spoiled.-Kansas City Journal
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from one dry district 10 another as seemed
to be necessary TO overcome the temper
ance majority, that Ii would be Unfair ana
unsafe in a republican government 20 have
an expression of the will of the people hold
good for more than thirty days
Fourth-Your statement that the theory
OF state legislation on the subject mas al
ways been that in the absence OF protest or
remonstrance an applicant for a hquor IL
cense was entitled TO have II, PROVIDED ne
complied with the law. In the eye OF the
while that of the people 10 demonstrate Is
secondary" is. TO a great extent, true Inc
laws Of 1885 and 1873 are exceptions
This is where our Legislature has falled
TO keep pace with the decisions of the In
diana Supreme Court and OF the supreme
Court of the United States. Our Legisla-
ture has usually assumed that the right 10
sell liquors is an inherent one, the same as
the right TO sell dry goods and boots ana
shoes, but the decisions of our own SUI
preme Court have frequently gone con-
preme Court has specifically said there is
no Inherent right in citizen TO thus sell
Intoxicating liquors by retail; il is not
privilege of a citizen of State of
citizen of the United States" We are only
asking that our Legislature shall bring our
laws up to correspond with advance
ground taken by our Supreme Court
which surely is not unreasonable or fanati-
cal. We can hardly believe that any con-
siderable number of the Journals readers
are willing TO admit in this opening of the
people is secondary TO the right of a sa-
loon keeper
Fifth was extremely glad to have you
point out so distinctly that the Nicholson
law remonstrance is against the individual
saloon keeper rather than against the bust
ness itself when you say that personal
objection might lie against the original APP
plicant which would not lie against another
one
Under the Nicholson law as it at present
stands, the people of the State of Indiana
have absolutely no opportunity to express
themselves on the desirability of saloons or
no saloons. They can only express them
selves on the desirabilty of certain in
dividual applicant. We believe that the
citizenship of Indiana is as far advanced
as that of Kentucky. Tennessee. Georgia
or Texas and that our people ought TO be
gwen an opportunity to express themselves
on the liquor question itself. and not SIM
ply on the character of some individual APP
piicant for a license to conduct saloon.
c. L. NEWLIN.
indianapolis May 23
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Inc conversation had turned to the queer say
ihgs and doings of children. and the German
town woman told this one My washerwoman"
she said. has little girl who is five years old
and another about two. The older child is grow
ing rapidly. and some time ago she was obliged
TO oisca-da pair of shoes that not worn out.
ana yet which too large for the younger
child. The shoes were put away by the econom-
cal mother until the baby should have grown
into them. and nothing more thought OF the
matter until he other day, when the mother
was digging In her kitchen garden preparatory
to planting some seeds. She unearthed the pair
OF forgotten Shoes and the child began
10 cry. The mothers establishment at finding
the shoes was mixed with wonder at the little
girls outburst OF grief. What are you crying
about? she demanded What did you dig 'em
up Tor? screamed the child. Il planted EN-.
ana IL you had only let 'en alone they soon
would have growed big enough for me to wear
again" "--Philadelphia Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-25

1t is increasingly evident that the farmer
is getting the benefit of a higher range of
prices for his products. due to the develop
ment OF home industries and consequent
increase in population OF the United States.
While our cotton exports continue to grow
in volume, their relation to the total crop
is a decreasing percentage, due to the
fact that the home consumption is growing
more rapidly than the consumption abroad
In wheat the figures show an actual fall
ing off of exports. while at the same time
a higher price level is reached, just as it
has been reached in cotton. The home
consumption of breadstuffs has increased
amazingly.
Time was when Liverpool made the quo
tations for both these great American
staple products of the soil, but that time
is past. While Liverpool is still the taker
of larger amount of American cotton
than any other port in the world, the
prices are made in New Orleans and New
York. The feeling of the Liverpool ex-
change is still something of a factor. but it
merely contributes to the quotation; it
does not make il as of old.
In wheat, corn and all other American
cereals. Chicago makes the quotations for
the world, and Liverpool, which once die
tated them. is no longer a particularly
important factor. A market quotation is
. always seesaw between conditions at
the point of production and conditions at
the center of distribution but in all the
great cereals. except rice. Chicago is the
center of both production and distribution.
and makes the market. And it is worth while
to remember in passing that the purchas-
ing power of bushel of wheat or pound
of cotton was never so great, even with the
nominally high quotations of war times,
as il has reached this year.
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Hadn't Room for So Many.

certain young Washingtonian. a graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania of the class of
'9S. recently attended meeting in Philadelphia
of his classmates. 1t appearing the young
that it would be pleasant trip for half
dozen so of his comrades to spend the week s
end at his family's country seat just outside
Washington, he telegraphed home. in order that
every thing might be in readiness for the ex-
pected visit of the party, in these words:
'Will bring party OF 9S men over to stay till
Monday.
Now the home of the family in question is an
extremely large one and is noted for its hospital
ity. Nevertheless the father of the young man
evidently considered that even the capacity of
his house had its Limitation. for in reply to his
sons wire he sent the following
Can take care of twenty-five or thirty, but
not enough room for ninety eight.'-New York
Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-25

Massachusetts. usually a little in advance
reform, has just taken another step of far
reaching Importance. The Legislature has
enacted law declaring the giving and TAX
ing of gratuities and by servants for
the purpose of influencing their action for
their employers. or on account of such ac-
ton already taken, to be a crime and pun
ishable as such. The law is sweeping in
its provisions, and seems to cover all cases
of gratuity in the nature of the corrup-
ton of a servant employee.
Let us see what this means. in part, at
least. II will be a crime to Zip waiter.
in order that one may get better service
than is accorded those patrons of the hotel
or restaurant who do not bride the waiter.
1t will also be crime for the waiter to
accept the tip. The same rule will apply
TO chambermaids. bellboys and all other
employees of the establishment. 1t will
also apply TO that pioneer and past grand
master in the gentle art of holding up. the
sleeping-car porter. All this seems, of
course. trifie ocular but If one will fol-
low the law a little further. he will note
how bribery. passing on from the small tip
to the mental, takes on the form Of more
serious corruption as it goes higher.
The law will mean that the grocer, the
butcher. ETC.. win be committing a crime
when they pay a commission to the butler
or any other servant that may do the buy
inG for the household or influence such
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-25

The Methodist Conference at Los Angeles
sang with much vigor a missionary hymn,
entitled Ion to Thibet," whose last stanza
runs thus:
Gates fling wide cast down the bars,
On to Thibet; On to Thibet!
Storm the heights that pierce the stars,
On to Thibet,
Marching on with shouts of praise,
Satan's strongholds we will raze;
Lead thou on, Ancient of days,
On to Thibet.
Somehow this suggests to the unsancti-
fed reader the mission" in which Great
Britain is now engaged in Thibet. But in
this case, as it happens, the Thibetans are
doing some of the storming and razing.
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ANOTHER Observation-Disclosures"
SCHEME

About a year ago considerable interest
was excited by the exposure Of a get
rich-quck" scheme which was operating
in New York under the name of the E. S.
Dean Company. 1t professed TO be operat-
ing in stocks and to have exclusive inside
information by which it could make ex-
traordinary profits. 1t guaranteed investors
dividends of 3 or per cent. a month, and
issued carefully-prepared statements pre-
tending to show such payments. It's finely
Autographed letterheads and plausible
statements were well calculated to deceive
the unwary, and the company did an enor-
nous business. The exposure of it's opera
so broadcast that one would have thought
it would be long time before another such
concern would find new victims, but 1t
has happened within a short time.
There has just been exposed at Chicago
a precisely similar scheme under the name
of the Baldwin Cotton Company The po-
lice believe the managers of the concern
are the same as those who operated the
E. s. Dean Company, but that is not GER
tain yet. The methods are the same. The
Baldwin Cotton Company has not been in.
operation three months. yet it processes to
have been paying dividends since March,
1903. A statement issued April /. 1904. gives
a list of alleged dividends paid from March
2, 1903, to Feb. IA. 1904. at the rate of two
every month and ranging from to per
cent semi-monthly. The total alleged div
iGends for twelve months were l12.56, max
ing an average of 93S per month. Although
the company had only been doing business
three months before 1t was exposed, its
books showed receipts from investors" of
over $4,000. among whom were six citizens
of Indiana. who showed their faith in the
scheme by investing sums ranging from 500
to $500. Three of them went in $500 each.
The exposure of such schemes seems to
have about as little effect as the exposure
of the gold brick and other similar schemes
for robbing credulous and greedy people.
Such schemes as this. however. appeal to
men of little higher order of intelli-
gence, since a mar who has from 500 to
$500 cash to invest in a get-rich-quick
scheme must have some business capacity
and experience. The wonder is that such
a man could be made TO believe that any
legitimate commercial business would yield
such profits and dividends as those prom
ised by these concerns. They bank upon the
greed of the average American and his in
ability to see straight when extraordinary
profits are promised. and it looks as if
they sized up the average American about
right.
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buying-a practice that has become almost
as general in our Eastern cities as it is In
Paris. where every servant is on the look
out for commissions of one kind or another.
1t will mean that the architect or engineer
taking bride or gratuty CT any kind from
the contractors and manufacturers whose
goods he specifies for his client is a GRIM
inal. 1t will mean that the purchasing
agent of a railroad or big industrial con-
Germ must be free from the faint or be LA
bic TO punishment and disgrace. 1t will
mean that music teachers shall not pocket
commissions on pianos and other instru-
ments purchased for their pupils. that ste
nographers shall not be paid commissions
on typewriters nor bookkeepers on adding
machines. and so on all along the line.
Few people have any notion TO what ex-
tent this sort of corruption exists in bus
mess and domestic life. The political
arena is not the only nor yet the largest
field OF corruption. If the movement start
ed by Massachusetts, can weed this out or
even modify it, the effect upon public and
private morals. and at last upon our ma
tional character, will be very great. And 1T
will undoubtedly help. Stringent laws
against corruption of the franchise have
not altogether eliminated the business of
vote buying. but one does not hear nova
days boasts by nell of prominence and re-
spectacle standing of the votes they have
bought. Such law as Massachusetts has
passed will not altogether eliminate tipping
and bribery, but 1t would very greatly
diminish it by giving the givers of such tips
and brides a reasonable excuse for keeping
heir
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-25
An Offensive sunday Programme.

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal
Allow me to express my appreciation of
your excellent editorial of this morning
touching the ''Regrettable Blunder'' perpe-
trated in not having his Imperial Highness,
Prince Pu Lun, attend Christian worship
while in our city on the Sabbath, and for
the greater offense of his official visit be-
ing used for so fragrant a misrepresenta-
ton of our American Sal Jath day.
1t is no justification to say that his
Highness was not invited by any Christian
minister to attend church; all our churches
are open on the Sabbath, and ave an in
tegral and important part of our national
life; and 1t is, indeed, to be regretted if
no member of the committee someone
near to the distinguished visitor thought
TO invite him TO attend Christian worship.
Certainly one holds the Prince as in
any wise responsible, and there is no
thought in the mind of any to reflect upon
HIM: but he the city's guest and in
no city in the Union could he have seen to
better advantage the product of Christian
lty in cur eleemosynary institutions our
schools for the deaf, the blind. and in our
hospitals for imbeciles and insane, etc: and
while all these and the educational and
material products of our Christian ity were
properly set forth by the committee and
while, further. there was this strange over
sight of high opportunity of the Sab
bath, yet, surely the committee should not
have given official status to the programme
of Sunday nor in any wise sanctioned the
ARRANGEMENTS.
Whether the prince attended church or
not. ii should. in all justice to him and
to our city, have been said: Your Highness.
Sunday is our day of worship and of rest
ALI our factories stores and places of bus
mess are closed, and our people Worship
God. visit in each others homes or take
such quiet outdoor recreation as they deem
best; so that your Highness may be ex-
pected TO spend this day in rest and quiet
There will be no public function as this
is the Sabbath day
The matter OF church attendance was
evidently oversight. for which all con-
cerned are justly sorry. but the Fairview
Park programme was a cenSurable pro-
cedure for a city like ours that so Justly
prides ..self upon its Christian intellf-
gence and morality. The sordid mark OF
the street-car dollar was most manifest
and the sanctity of the American Saba In
and the good name of our city were alike
trampled upon by the moloch of greed
The omission of worship there need be
little said about-presumably an unwilling
omission-but the other was q positively
planned Sunday programme, at which the
moral sense of our city is justly shocked.
and il is gratifying that the feeling has
found intelligent expression through both
preachers and press.
There need be determinations against
a public-spirited committee that. in the
main, has done so magnanimously; rather
as devoted citizens. we may all be glad that
the marked omission and the censurabls
error find some compensation in the ex-
pressed moral sense of the city.
JOSHUA STANSFIELD.
I-sianacolis. May "a.
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Prince Hohenlohe. in course of his recent
visit to New York. commended the wines Of
America. He praised especially the California
red wines, which seemed. he said, to be exceed
ingly pure.
Then. apropos of wines purity, the prince
rated a recent happening in Berlin.
"A Berlin vintner.' he said. was accused of
selling wine made of chemicals. He was
brought to court. found guilty and fined.
after he had paid his fine he approached the
chemist whose testimony had convicted him.
- How did you know, he asked, curiously,
that my wine manufacturer?
:" Because it contained no bitartrate of potash
said the chemist In natural wines btartrate
of potash is always found
% Thanks said the vintner, in tone of re-
lief. 1T will be found in my wines hereafter I"
New York Tribune.
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STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.
Simplifying Geography.

Morgan Robertson, the writer of sea stories.
was illustrating the impossibility of man
knowing all there is TO know.
II used to sail with skipper he said. who
was good seaman but he what you might
call all at when he was on land. He was
driving che day along a country road in England
when he came TO a signpcst. An index finger
pointed in the direction from which the skipper
had come. and the inscription read. 'Selkirk. Il
miles
Now. Sekrk the town for which the
skipper was bound He did not want to turn
around. he climbed the post. tore the sign
loose and nailed ii to post on the other side of
the road. so the hand pointed in the direction he
was going. Then he climbed back into the buggy
and drove on.'-New York Times
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THE NICHOLSON LAW.
Chairman Newlin Criticises Recent
Utterances of This Paper.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
Since you have taken issue with my posi-
ton on the Nicholson law, beg leave that
you will give me an opportunity TO say
word in reply in the columns of your pa
per.
First-I cannot understand what you
mean by saying, THE Nicholson law has
been in force longer than any other the
State has had" The license law of 1875
has been in force ever since it went into
effect on March II of that year, and is still
in force.
Second-Your statement that "the advo-
Gates of restriction err in supposing that
the same law can be enforced with equal
success in large cities and in small towns
or rural communities is a most interesting
one. Your argument. carried to it's logical
sequence, would lead us to enact one kind
of law relative to the liquor traffic ap-
plicable to rural communities. another to
towns under a certain population, and an
other TO cities over certain population.
Is this what you intend to imply? or do
you intend 10 intimate that a republican
form of government. as exemplifed in the
United States, cannot enforce its laws, and
that they do things better under mon
arches?
In your editorial of May 10 you said. 'In
England and on the continent law is en-
forced TO the letter. because IL is law and
because officers sworn TO enforce it,
One no more thinks of showing a law aside
because il is unpopular or inconvenient
than he would think of disregarding the
weather" Which one of your editorial ut
terances do you wish your readers 10 take
as your settled belief?
Third-You say the local option prin-
cipie is the underlying feature of the pres
ent law" Let me ask you If you know of
any distinctively local option law in the
United States in which the will of the peo-
pie when expressed in a local option cleo
ton. is not good for at least twelve
months? In most States a local option law
. on this or any other question is good for
from two To five years. and l know of no
instance in the United States. except in the
Nicholson law. where IL does not hold good
for at least twelve months. If the citizens
of Indiana are 10 be compelled TO take the
affirmative side OF this fight against the sa-
loon, the only thing that we ask is that
their decision shall hold good for reason
able length of time. The thirty-day local
option law is ridiculous its face. Your
argument that the character of the popu-
lation of a ward or township might change
within two years so as TO make the will
of the people expressed at one time unfair
at another would indicate that you would
argue that II the floating population of
LIQUOR advocates should arrange to drift
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There is no need OF your working a lick"
protested the campaign manager. You've al
ready got the other fellows licked to stand
still. Do you want the earth?
NO" said the popular candidate. with grin
that showed a of fine teeth. ''rn be salts
fed with a landslide. Chicago Tribune
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thrown single straw in the way OF
the Democratic mayor, but has. on the
contrary. worked conscientiously for the
success of the city government. with full
knowledge that whatever of good may be
accomplished will be accredited to Demo-
cratic administration
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THE FUNNY YOUNGSTERS.
Quick Work.

little Boston girl found it difficult to master
stitch In knitting. and her aunt thought 10
ENFORCE patience by reminding her that Rome
was not built in a day. To which came the
quick response: ''Oh. aunty, how can you talk
soY Don't You know that it took God only six
days TO make the whole world. and don't sup
pose he spent more than half an hour on
Rome New York Tribune
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Mrs. wayupp-Don't invite those Highupp girls
again Their father has disgraced himself
Miss Wayupp-Impossible. He is noted scien-
fist and president OF college.
Mrs. Wayupp-Yes. but the vulgar fellow has
recently been making a study of the trade
winds. It's in all the papers. too.-New York
Weekly.
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{ Hearst has probably learned a whole lot.
One thing he could tell US. If he would. is
twhat Democratic committee officers are
worth He had among his following nearly
sall of the officers of the national committee
land many of the state committees.
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