Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 September 1899 — Page 10

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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1899.

THESE are sorae people inclined to sneer at the idea of boycotting the PariB exposition on account of the Dreyfus affair. Let tbem sneer. We feel safe in declaring to the world that at leaBt nine-tenths of the people of Crawfordsville won't go near the show.

THEBE are now on file awaiting action, applications for commissions sufficient to supply officers for at least 500 regiments. The large majority have endeavored to bring political influence to bear to secure appointment, and are bound to be much disappointed when they find that only merit will be considered.

PBESIDENT MCKINLEY'S speech to the Methodists at Ocean Grove had the right ring. He explained his Philippine policy aB comprising, "peace first, then with charity for all, establish the government of law and order, protecting life and property, and occupation for the well being of the people who will participate in it under the stars and stripes."

WESTFIELD Neivs: If Hamilton county fails to get the next congressman for this district, all things terrestrial would speedily come to an end, there would be no further need of a congress, and the vile Democrats might as well have it. We want it distinctly understood that if Anderson Semans fails to receive the unqualified support of'the convention we shall have nothing further to live for and will welcome the universal dissolution which may be confidently expected.

DEMOCRATIC vaporings concerning a secret alliance between the administration and England fool nobody. They are for the sole purpose of catching the votes of foreign born citizens who are unfriendly to England, but TffleUigent men will not be misled by such clap-trap assertions. Nothing could be more ridiculous than to allege a secret alliance between the administration and England because such an alliance would be entirely worthless to either power. The President, in fact, is utterly powerless even were he desirous to enter into such an alliance with any country.

THE state department has been informed that Governor-general Otis has applied the Chinese exclusion laws to the Philippine Islands, for the present. The Chinese government has acted as if it was not altogether pleased, but there is no disposition to interfere with the discretion of the governorgeneral, who being on the ground, must necessarily know the situation best. A recent letter from Mr. Williams, our former consul at Manila, Bays that the native Filipinos are strongly opposed to Chinese labor, and in his opinion the exclusion of Chinese from the islands would aid materially in hurrying the war to a close.

MB. BRYAN now accounts for Mc Einley prosperity by crediting it to the influx of gold from the Klondike. We didn't know before that Mr. Bryan acknowledged any prosperity, yet BB he actually does it is gratifying to know what has caused it. But at tributing the present increase of busi ness over 1896, the increase of nearly $500,000,000 in the country's circulation, the employment of fully a mil lion idle workingmen and the other indisputable indications of vaBt im provement to the very few millions comparatively which have come in from the Klondike, is about up to Mr. Bryan's usual high water mark of sophistry and demagogy.

UNCLE SAM did pretty well for a Bummer month, in August, which is usually dull in official as well as in private business. The treasury receipts were 98,150,000 more than they were in August of last year, and the surplus for the month was $4,455,861. The amount of gold in the treasury is larger than ever before, the exact fig ures being $248,757,971. These figures tell their own story of the prosperous condition of the government and of the country, and in the face of Buch a story, how ridiculous is the claim now being made by some Democrats, that the Democrats have a chance to carry the country next year. To accept such a claim is to impeach the intelli gence of the voters of this country who have too vivid a remembrance of Cleveland times not to fully appreciate a good thing when they hgye_itj and to vote for its continuance.

THE recent Ohio Democratic state convention reaffirmed the Chicago platform without modification. The Chicago platform declared that the business interests of the country were prostrate, that the industries were motionlesB, that labor was unemployed and that want and desolation were stalking throughout the land. The supposition is, therefore, that the Ohio convention expects people to believe that the country is still suffering from this state of affairs. The Ohicago platform alBO declares against any further tinkering with the tariff. At that time the abortive Wilson low tariff law was in operation, but now the Ohio Democrats by their action unreservedly endorse the protective DiDgley law. The members of the Ohio convention are thus to be congratulated for making this public acknowledgement of their former error on the tariff question and of the wonderful success of the Dingley law. They also deserve great credit for their plank which says that "We stand in line with Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, and other American patriots, living or dead, in desiring the perpetuity of the republic." It has been rudely hinted,.however, that when American citizens feel the necessity of proclaiming themselves in this fashion they iriuBt be laboring under some curious hallucination or fear that their loyalty is suspected.

On the whole, the Ohio platform contains so many inconsistencies and incongruities from a Democratic standpoint that it has been questioned whether the job of editing it was left to the office boy or whether the printer who set it up got hold of the wrong copy. ./

THE most-talked of event in political circles, just now, is '.be buying of the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, by Mr. John R. McLean, whose actual residence is in Washington, but who has large property interests in Ohio corporations, and who is also the owner and nominal editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Republicans, including President McKinley, do not regard the nomination of McLean as an important factor in the gubernatorial campaign, because they believe that it has been from the day of the nomination of Judge Nash by tbe Republican convention of Ohio, only a question of how large a majarity he would be given—there has never been and is not now the slightest doubt of his election. But the Bryan Democrats are in almost a state of panic They do not trust McLean. They believe that he has secured this nomination as apart of the plot to defeat Bryan for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. They are too badly frightened to talk publicly, but among themselves they are talking as hard as they can, and the wires have been kept hot with messages to the Bryan leaders, and to Mr. Bryan himself, containing plans to head off McLean's ambition. That Mr. McLean Is a multi-millionaire everybody knows, but why he should be willing to spend any portion of his millions to get the empty honor of a Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, the vice presidency, or even the presidency, is something beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals. But he has already made a start in lavish expenditures for a very empty honor, and that is what is worrying the Bryanites.

THERE seems to be no doubt in Washington, among the President's advis ers, that the house will sustain the expansion policy of the President and endorse the gold standard. Senator Spooner, who is by no means an ex panBionist but a Republican to the backbone, was in Washington recently, and before leaving town said: "So far as the situation in the Philippines and the annexation of these islands is concerned, the President is not re Bposible for it as is claimed. When Dewey asked for troops to reduce Manila, the whole country wanted them sent at once, and even severely criticised the President be cause they could not be shipped imme diately. Not a voice was then heard against sending these troops. No one seemed to foresee thatBuch occupation as then contemplated would necessarily mean more than the simple reduction of Manila, Our troops could not sail away after the city had been taken, because it transpired that the foreigners and even the citizens* there needed our protection. There has been no time since when we could have withdrawn from the islands, and all that remains now IB to fight the

Filipinos to submission as quickly as possible, and then it will be the duty of congress to provide for their gov ernment.

THE imports of the United States in 1796 were 8 1-5 millions in 1897 they were 764 millions. Our exports in 1796 were' 40 millions in 1897 they were 1,051 millions. The straits of our inland lakes, navigated in the earlier time only by the canoeB of hostile savages, now carry commercial fleets annually exceeding in tonnage the commerce of the Suez canal. The small vessels in which our early Atlantic trade was carried have given way to massive steel steamers and ocean greyhounds. Our domestic water commerce, coastwise, great lakes, rivers,

and canals, is by far the largest in the world, and is two and a half times greater than that of the United Kingdom, second on the list. In place of the stage coaches and wagons plowing through muddy pioneer roads we now have a network of 179,000 miles of railroads, against Europe's 151,000 miles. A century ago we were producing little or no iron or steel, no silver at all, and only a trace of gold from some Virginia rivers. To-day the United States furnishes one-third of the world's gold supply. How long do those who insist that we are still "a debtor nation" imagine we shall remain so—if we are?

IT IS interesting to see one- after another the old states' rightB advocates who have always been vigilantly jealous of any surrender of state authority to the central government, now whip into line and oppose the proposition for state investigation of trustBand insist that the work shall be done by the national government. Of course it is simply a coincidence that several of these fiop-abouts are governors or other high officials of their BtateB and it might be prejudicial to their future political ambitionB to be compelled to investigate the trusts doing business under their laws.

Now that the western and southern Democrats Are reaffirming the Chicago platform and demanding free Bilver coinage at the specific ratio of 16 to 1, the opinion is growing in Washington that the Republican party will show good political judgment by pushing through congress at the present session, a measure making gold the standard, such as is advocated by the President, and this, it is believed here, will surely be done.

RUSSIA is one of the chief wheat producing countries in the world. It is the chief competitor of the United States in wheat, but there comes a report that twenty million of Russians are starving for bread. There is something wrong when this state of affairs exists.

THE sensational announcement of David Bennett Hill's paralysis of the mouth is vigorously denied. Mr. Hill is simply resting.

CURED BY LEOPARDS. Si

Tlie Dyinp: Mnn Suddenly Recovered His Health and Speed.

In "Lumsden of the Guides" there is an interesting story, says the London Chronicle, of the rescue by Lieutenant Peyton of her majesty's Eighty-sev-enth of a young Pa than who had fallen into the Kabul river. The lad's fattier, in his gratitude, came down from his home in Independent Territory, and as a thank offering presented Peyton with two young leopard cubs. Peyton, being an executive engineer and constantly on the move, could make no home for them and gave them to Lumsden, who himself told me what follows, and it seems to me worth preserving, as leopards seldom have an opportunity of assisting in a criminal investigation. The animals were too young to be dangerous and were allowed their liberty.

One day Lumsden was holding his court in Yusufzal, when in the middle of a case there was an uproar, and the two sides in an affray case poured Into the court, and, as always happens, each side accused the other of being entirely in fault. One party, to improve its case, brought a dying man on a native bed. A blood stained sheet was remov ed. showing a much belabored man, who appeared to be at the last gasp. Lumsden had the bed put down in court and went on with the interrupted case. Just then the young leopards sauntered in, probably attracted by the scent of blood, and, moving gently around the court, approached the bed and began sniffing at the wounded man, who, miraculously recovered, jumped from the bed and fled rapidly

Made For the Place.

While traveling in a coal mine district, says I)r. Cuyler, I noticed how very dingy the town appeared. 'Tin: coal dust seemed to blacken buildings, trees, shrubs, everything, but as a foreman and I were walking near the mines I noticed a beautiful white flower. Its petals were as pui as if it were blooming in a daisy tield. "What care the owner of this plain must take of it." said I, "to keep it so free from dust and dirt!" "See here." said the foreman, ami taking up a handful of coal dust threw it over the dower. It immediately fell off and left the flower as staiuless_ as before. "It has an enamel," the foreman explained, "which prevents any dust from clinging to it. I think it must have been created for just such place."

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His suggestion seemed, I say, an impossible dream to her that day, but the next day they talked about it again, and it was strangely less impossible. "At first we should take food," said Denton. "We could carry food for 10 or 12 days." It was an age of compact, artificial nourishment, and such a provision had none of the unwieldy suggestion it would have had in the nineteenth century.

But—until our house," she asked— "until it was ready, where should we sleep?'' "It is summer." "But—what do you moan "There was a time when there were no houses in the world when all mankind slept always in the open air.''

But for us I The emptinosal No walls, no ceiling 1"

Dear," he said, "in London you have many beautiful ceilings. Artists paint them and stud them with lighta But I have seen a ceiling more beautiful than any in London." "But where?'' "It is the ceiling under which we two would be alone"— "You mean"— "Dear," he said, "it is something the world has forgotten. It is heaven and all the host of stars."

Each time they talked the thing seemed more possible and more desirable to them. In a week or so it was quite possible. Another week, and it was the inevitable thing they had to do. A great enthusiasm for the country seized hold of them ani possessed them. The sordid tumult of the town, they said, overwhelmed them. They marveled that this simple way out of their troubles had never come upon them before.

One morning near midsummer day there was a new minor official upon the flying stage, and Denton's place was to know him no more.

Our two young people had secretly married and were going forth manfully out of the city in which they and their ancestors before them had lived all their days. She wore a new dress of white cut in an old fashioned pattern, and he had a bundle of provisions strapped athwart his back, and in his hand he carried—rather shamefacedly, it is true, and under his purple cloak—an implement of archaic form, a cross hilted thing of tempered steel.

Imagine that going forth 1 In their days the sprawling suburbs of Victorian times, with their vile roads, petty houses, foolish little gardens of shrub and geranium, and all their futile pretentious privacies, had disappeared. The towering buildings of the new age, ihe mechanical ways, the electric and water mains all came to an end together like a wall, like a cliff near 400 feet high, abrupt and sheer. All about the city spread the carrot, swede and turnip fields of the food company, vegetables that were the basis of a thousand varied foods, and weeds and hedge tangles had been utterly extirpated. The incessant expense of weeding that went on year after year in the petty, wasteful and barbaric farming of the ancient days, the food company had economized forever by a campaign of extermination.

Here and there, however, neat rows of bramble standards and apple trees with whitewashed stems intersected the fields, and at places groups of gigantic teasles reared their favored spikes. Here and there huge agricultural machines hunched under waterproof cov ers. The mingled waters of the Wey and Mole and Wandle ran in rectangular channels, and wherever a gentle elevation of the ground permitted a fountain of deodorized sewage distributed its benefits athwart the land and made a rainbow of the sunlight.

By a great archway in that enormous city wall emerged the Eadhamite road to Portsmouth, swarming in the morning sunshine with an enormous traffic bearing the blue clad servants of the food company to their toil—a rushing traffic, beside which they seemed two scarce moving dots.' Along the outer tracks hummed and rattled the tardy little old fashioned motors of such as had duties within 20 miles or so of the city. The inner ways were filled with vaster mechanisms—swift monocycles bearing a score of men, lank multicycle, quadricycles sagging with heavy loads, empty gigantic produce qarts that would come back again filled before the sun was setting, all with throb bing engines and noiseless wheels and a perpetual wild melody of horns and gongs.

Along the very verge of the outer most way our young people 'Went in silence, newly wed and oddly shy of one another's company. Many were the things shouted to them as they tramped along, for in 2100 a foot passenger on an English road was almost as strange a sight as a motor car would have been in 1800. But they wpnt on with stead fast eyes into the country, paying no heed to such cries.—Colliers Weekly

Lincoln's Joke.

Speaking of the supreme court justices recalls good humored remark by President Lincoln upon the black robes of the justices. Meeting his old friend, Justice Miller of Iowa, at din ner one evening, Mr. Lincoln asked, "How are the justices and their gowns?" "All right, 1 think," replied Justice Miller. "Miller, you were brought up on farm," continued the president, "and remember seeing the breaking up of new land, clearing the ground and burning timber. You have seen the bark fall from a decayed log, and under the bark would come great winged black ants, which would wad die off in the clumsiest and funniest kind of dignity. Well, Miller, I never see one of you justices In your long gowns but 1 think of these funny ants."—St Louis Republic.

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