Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 September 1899 — Page 2

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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1899.

MB. BBTAN first attained prominence by posing as the savior of the working class. This is like the story of the pin which saved a man's life by his not •wallowing it. Mr. Bryan saved the people from hard times by not being elected.

THE claim being constantly made that the war to suppress the uncalledfor rebellion of the Filipinos is unpopular, is refuted by the fact that every call for volunteers has been met by many times the number required— men anxious to undergo the hardships of a tropical campaign and the dangers of active fighting, to sustain the honors of tbe flag.

IT seems that the evidence brought out by the industrial commission has convinced the Kansas farmers that the money devil is a good thing. Theyi themselves, have grown tired of being drained by the octopus, so they are raising a capital of

820,000,000

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control the farm products of the state and increase the price of shoats.

THE agriculturist who would rid his farm of weedB by burning up his manure and refusing to cultivate the land on the theory that the only way to kill the weeds is to make the land so poor that it will not raise anything— not even weeds,—is in exactly the same class with the Democracy on the trust subject. Kill the trusts, tbe Democrats howl if it is necessary to destroy the country's prosperity to do so it is all right only kill the trusts.

SENATOB PETTIGBEW, of South Dakota, is suffering from insomnia and disappointment brought on from his fruitless trip to Japan, where he expected to discover why that country abandoned the silver standard. How much easier it would have been, and how much more satisfactory to have accepted Senator Stewart's explanation, which is that the country was "bought." A little credulity iB not nearly so weariEome as a search for triivlj and it is vastly more convenient.

PEOPLE have become used to surprises in the commercial activity of the country. The foreign commerce of August, 1899, was the largeBt of any August in the history of the country. The exportB were nearly 25 per cent higher than those rof August of the phenomenal year 1898 and 33 per cent higher than the average of August in the years 1894,1895, and 1896, while for the eight months of the calendar year ending with August they are the highest in our history. The total exports for the eight months ending with August, 1899, were 8792,595,332, against 8778,632,207 in 1898, 8641,979,330 in 1897, and 8602,298,472 in the great export year of 1892.

THE per capita circulation of the United States on July 1, 1896, just prior to Wm. J. Bryan's nomination was 821.18 on July 1, 1899 it was 825.38 making a difference in the total circulation in the country, according to the director of the mint of $425,049,273. Yet it is distinctly remembered that Mr. Bryan positively assured his audiences and readers that without free coinage the circulation could not increase. Now he lamely states that the country's prosperity 1B due to the increase in gold brought down from the Klondike. The following periodical table shows the steady increase in the money circulation of the United States ever since free silver and Bryan were rejected by the American people: July 1,1896, 821.18. Jan. 1,1899, 825.19. Jan. 1,1897, 28.05. July 1,1899, 25.88. Jan. 1,1898, 23.42. Sept. 1, 1899, 25.41.

DEMOCRATIC and mugwump papers do not, for some reason, attribute the present prosperous condition in the New England cotton mills and allied industries to the effect of the Dingley protective tariff law, although they were quick to attribute the depression of last year in theBe industries, before they had felt the glow of the present prosperity, to the effect of the same Dingley law. Even the great Bryan, a one time expert on tariff matters, took thia view of the situation and made speeches to New Englanders, telling them that silver, not tariff medicine, waa what they wanted. But »I«IM the hard times have left New England. Mr. Bryan has kept himself •earee about cotton mills and as a matter of fast there has been no really •verwhelmlng demand (or him there.

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THK VAUDERBII/T WEALTH AND SOCIALISM. Ghmton's Magazine'. Suppose all this had been transferred to the atate. Would there have been any per capita division of the Vanderbllt wealth, as the envious and Blmple-minded imagine?* Not unleBs the railroads themselves had been torn up and the old iron parceled out. Division of the surplus income actually consumed by Mr. Vanderbilt would have reduced it to insignificant atoms. Most of the regular income from all large properties is of necessity reinvested all the time in new lines of productive industry, and becomes a straight contribution to the growth of public welfare and prosperity. In no other way doe6 the community's wealth materially increase.

Oould any state official have managed interestB of Buch magnitude with greater ability, faithfulness and integrity? Oould any state official, in justice, have been paid for such quality of service lesB than Cornelius Vanderbilt retained and used? Could any IBBS inducement, indeed, have called out equal ability or inspired such sense of personal responsibility?

Mr. Vanderbilt was a public servant, evolved not by political caucus but by nature's own infallible selection. He survived by fitness, and with him the wealth he administered. His reward was not disproportionate. In no solitary particular, from the sole viewpoint! of public-welfare, could a socialistic rearrangement have improved the status and public usefulness of these] properties, or his relation to them.

FABMEBS are not complaining about the action of the Dingley tariff in curtailing the exportation of farm products. The figures of the treasury department show the August, 1S99, exportation of breadstuffs 825,580,352, against 819,909,329 in August of 1898, 825,513,491 in August of 1897, and 814,618,733 in August, 1896. Of provisions the exportation of AuguBt, 1899, was 815,584,755, against 813,489,098 in August 1898, 812,400,566 in August, 1897, and 810,489,153 in August, 1896 Taking the four great articles of domestic products—breadstuffs, provisions, mineral oils, and cotton—the total exportation for the month of ^August was 853,925,488, against 844,558.510 in August of last year, 848,305,066 in AuguBt, 1897, and 836,631,485 in August, 1896.

Do tbe conservative Democrats really believe it possible|for Col (Bryan to drop the 16 to 1 plank of his platform, or are they joking? It was onthat he gained what fame he has, and the contributors who greased the wheels of party machinery were the men interested directly in its success—the silver mine owners. As they have* refused to contribute further if this plank is eliminated what can the gallant colonel do?

EUGENE V. DEBS, anarchist, having failed as a pay lecturer, is now posing as a *.oe lecturer. This gives rise to a suspicion that some one with a pile and a purpose is back of this professional labor agitator who never labors.

REPOBTS about DreyfuB' physical condition are becoming as varied and contradictory as the Dewey health bulletins sent out from Manila and during the admiral's stay in the Mediterranean.

THE Atlanta Constitution remarks that while a Democratic paper, it "has no bulletB to fire into the backs of the men who are awaiting Aguinaldo's attack."

IT required two' marriage services to tie Miss Grant up to a Russian prince, but one divorce will be sufficient to undo them both.

Invitations Issued.

Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lee have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Grace, to Mr. Ernest Louis Oberg, of St. Paul, Minn. The ceremony will occur on Wednesday evening, Oct. 11, at half past eight o'clock in tbe First M. E. church. After the marriage there will be a reception at the home at 601 south Green street. The bride and groom will be at home at St. Paul after November 1.

The Ideal Excursion

Of the season will leave the Monon station Sunday at 7 a. m. for Ohicago. No dust, no heat, good accomodations. Take your family and see the greatest city on earth while you can," only 81 for the round trip. No tickets will be sold after the seating capacity of the train is engaged. Get your tickets in in advances

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THE last ar excursion to Chicago this year will be run by the Monon, Sunday, Oct 1.

P1¥ET ts ion

After •Twonty-Threa Month's Cruiso During Whioh He Captured Manila.

TWO DAYS AHEAD OF TIME

Was Sorry to Disappoint His Friends but His Good Ship Olympia Needed Dressing Up—Has Kind Words For

His Men—Thinks Otis Tries to Do Too Much. New York, Sept. 27.—Admiral George Dewey arrived off New York yesterday and the Olympia is now anchored in American waters in tlie light of Sandy Hook.

The first shout of welcome was from the pilots and crew of pilotboat No. 7, 10 miles south of tha hook lightship. It happened to be Pilot John Peterson's turn, and he was put aboard the Olympia and brought her around the hook and into the lower bay.

The shore batteries of Fort Hancock let loose 17 guns. The flagship roplied with SI, and let go her anchors not far from where the oup challenger Shamrock is moored. The admiral was in his country again, alter 38 months' absence. He had returned "great with the arduous greatness of things done," and he scarcely seemed to realize it. The pilot had brought aboard the oity papers and a reporter of the press was reoeived by the admiral in a cabin littered by the illustrated Dewey editions, whioh together made hundreds of pages in black and white and in colors, all concerning the great admiral and the preparations made to receive him.

ADMIRAI. DEWEY.

"It almost saddens me," he said, "to see what my people are doing for me. The pride and gratification is immense, and I cauuot express the appreciation I feel. "I had not comprehended before the splendid welcome that my countrymen intended giving me. The governors of many states are coming to see me, and troops from Florida, Georgia and other far away states are on their way to take part in receiving me."

The admiral stroked the head of a tawny-haired dog, the Ohow dog of a Chinese breed that appears thy lllustrated interviews with the admiral. "Bob, here," he said, "is not well. He yearas to be ashore. He is sick to

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a little grass and to soamper around. feel a good deal that way myself. I am mighty glad to get home. It is not good for a man any more than a dog«to live on shipboard for 28 months."

The admiral said that he felt tired, but he did not look so. His complexion is a clear bronze, his hazel eyes bright, his bearing brisk and jaunty. Some deep lines are under his eyes and around his mouth, but his voice is Bingularly dear and pleasant.

The admiral's whole presence is that of a man in his fullest powers. His manner is gentle and kind, but he is exceedingly wary and did not permit himself to wander off into politios or to express those positive views he no doubt holds abont the Philippine and American affairs.

Alluding to his arrival two days ahead of the time be was expected, Admiral Dewey said: "I am sorry that I am ahead of the schedule. Several days ago we knew that we would arrive be* fore Thursday unless we moderated our speed or went some where out of our course. Captain Lamberton, Lieutenant Brumby and I held a consultation. "The propriety of running into Hampton roads or some other port in the south was spoken of, but we concluded we ought not to touoh land first any­i where except at New York. The weather looked a little squally, and it seemed better to be inside the hook than outside. But the consideration that really decided us to come into port was to give Captain Lamberton a chance to clean up the ship before our voyage up the harbor. Captain Lamberton and I are •ery proud of the Olympia, and we wanted enough time at our anohorage to rub her down and make her look •pick and span."

Last evening Admiral Dewey returned a visit made by Sir Thomas Lipton of the Shamrock. The admiral remained on board a half hour and then started ior his ship. The Erin's crew began to

led by Sir Thomas, with a hip, hip, hip,

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three honest oheers, the Una that admiral heard from the British warships in Manila bay. Admiral Dewey wared hie gold bound can lilw a school toy, as he stood on the rail of hie little white eanopied launch, over being given A hearty Weloome in hie own nomu waters by 100 foreigners.

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Manila—General Oct*.

New York, Sept. 87.—The Post prints an interview with Admiral Dewey, in part as follows: "They are a splendid lot," the admiral said, speaking of his men. "The very piok, the finest in our navy, and that means best in the world. Before I got to Manila the archbishop, with whom I afterward became very intimate, said that the American sailors were the scum of the earth, a bloodthirsty lot of out throats who would destroy everything in their path. "Later on, when I did get there," said the admiral, with a knowing smile, "the archbishop came on board one day while I had a battalion at drill, the very same battalion that will parade in New York. The archbishop went on the bridge and watched them olosely. I knew ho was admiring them, and I said to him: 'Well, what do you think of our American sailors •They are splendid,' he said, 'I have seen the men of most navies, but never anything like these. They ore magnifioent. I cannot understand it—«uoh splendid young fellows. How does it happen?' 'Well,' said the admiral, *we look for the best men, we oome oloser to our men, we treat them better than other oountries do, and we pay them better.' "Then I called a man and said to him, 'How muoh do yon get a month?' He saluted and said 'Eighty dollars, sir.' The arohbishop was astonished. You know 180 would pay a whole shipload of Spaniards. After that the arohbishop had a very great respeot for us and became very friendly."

"I thought," said the admiral, "that this thing in the Philippines would be over long before this, as it should have been. I can't imagine how they have stood out until now. Of course, there was the rainy season, and I suppose little was done. One great trouble out there has been that General Otis has tried to do too much. I told him so. He wants to be general, governor, judge and everything else, to have hold of all the irons. No man can do this. This is the great trouble. It is enough for a man to do one thing, to be one thing, but when a man tries to do everything and to be everything it is easy to imagine the result.

"Do I think the Filipinos are fit for for self government? Well, no not just now. They probably will be in a little time. They area queer people—a very queer mixture. Many of them are quite olvilized and good people, but I do not think they are fit for self government just yet. But when I say that, I must odd at the same time that it is my candid opinion that they are more fitted for it than the Cubans that they are a better people than the Cubans in every way. I do wish, however, that the whole business was settled, and I think that after a little the Filipinos will take kindly to us."

It was suggested to the admiral that the Demooratio slate hod been settled with Admiral Dewey for the presidenoy

Sency.

nd General Wheeler for the vice presi-

Well," said the admiral, "we should :e a pretty mess of it. General eeler, of course, has had some training in the politioal school, but then he is a West Pointer. I had forgotten that, fie would want to run everything as he would a regiment, and, of course, would make a splendid mess of it. You cannot run a government as you would a regiment.''

Independence Bell Tolled a Salate. Philadelphia, Sept. 27.—The big bell in the tower of historic Indeperience Hall rang out a salute yesterday afternoon in honor of Admiral Dewey's arrival home. When the news of the admiral's arrival in New York was reoeived here Mayor Ashbridge ordered the ringing of the bell, and 17 strokes, the admiral's salute, were tolled.

JUDGE SHIRAS

Establishes a New Precedent In Bankruptcy Law. Dubuque, la., Sept. 27.—Judge Shiras established a precedent in bankruptcy law yesterday. He held that one member of a firm can file a petition and have other members deolared bankrupt *if good and sufficient cause is given. If the party alleged to be bankrupt does not cQntest, then the prayer of the petitioner will be granted.

$50,000 Blaze at Marion, Ills. Marion, Ills., Sept. 27.—Fire destroyed a large portion of one of the best business blocks in this city yesterday, entailing a total loss of $50,000, including the postoflloe. Among the heavy losers are O. H. Denison, owner of the building, and Trever & Payne, general merchants.

SHORT TELEGRAMS Forty-six nev. coses of yellow fever at Key West yesterday.

Miss Helen Gould of New York has given $1,350 to the Dewey home fund. Yiee President Hobart's physiolans announce that his health is steadily iinprov-

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