Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 November 1900 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1900.

Irtiie new legislature would thoroughly revise, reform anil systematize ..that mess of legal inconsistencies known as the Indiana road laws it would go down in history as a body of great wisdom, besides receiving the grateful tributes of a suffering people.

Dr. ,1. N. Hukty says thai in Michigan. where methods of tuberculosis prevention have been pursued since 1891, the death rate from tuberculosis has steadily diminished, and it can be ascribed to nothing but the efforts of this health authorities in this direction.

Tine preliminary report of the Isthmian canal commission is in the hands of President McKinley, and, as was expected, is strongly in favor of the Nicaragua route, which will be many millions cheaper than the Panama route. This makes it practically certain that the President will, in his annual message to congress, reeommend the necessary legislation for the construction of the Nicaragua canal.

THE extraordinary "bullish" aspect of the market of late, reveals the extent and depth of the ante-eieetion misgivings as to the mere possibility of the public vote resulting adversely to sound money and wholesorre government. The alarm among the business community at the remote chance of such a result was so acute, though not demonstrative, as to induce afar more extensive suspension of investing than wa at the time supposed to exist, and the amount of funds thus kept out of permanent investment has been immense. in Europe, and especially at London, the sama process of postponement., until our people had pronounced on these great national questions, was adopted. Foreigners regarded the election as placing the Republic again under a great crucial test and they had realized upon a considerable amount of American securities pending the finding of the verdict. The overwhelmirjg vote in favor of conservative government carried with it such a weight of assurance and such an exuberance of public gratification that the investing class have concluded that their misgivings had been needless and that their all could be entrusted to the safekeeping of the republic with entire safety.

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TII.K I'lilMAltY EL1CCT ION FOH.M. Both parties in Indiana have made a primary election law prominent in their platforms and therefore it is diflicult to see how the legislature can honorably refuse to redeem the platform promises. But already we see signs of opposition to the reform from the rural districts of some sections of the state where the need for it is less than in the cities. We believe this opposition arises more from confusion as to what primary election reform means than anything else. The members from the country districts seem to fear that they are to be compelled to nominate candidates for all ollices by popular vote instead of by conventions. We have no such conception of a primary election law. Our understanding is that it is merely proposed by such a law to put the samo safeguards around our primaries as around our regular elections, leaving each community the privilege it now has of nominating by direct vote or by delegate convention. It is just as important to have pure primaries as pure elections, and in counties or townships or cities where a party has such a large majority that a nomination is equivalent to an election the primary is the more important of the two, and it is just as necessary to have the primaries honest and decent when convention delegates are to be selected as when candidates are to be chosen direct.

Both these methods of nomination have their advantages but on the whole we are inclined to favor the delegate convention provided of course that it is chosen in such a manner as to really be representative of its constituency.

In case of direct nominations by popular vote whenever there are three or more aspirants for the same office, there is a probability that the nominee will be the choice of a minority of the voters. In a convention the balloting continues until some one receives a majority. Some think that the new law should not only provide methods for a fair election of delegates but also for a system of proportional representa/on by which they contend the conven­

tion will be made representative of all the dillerent elements in its constituency in proportion to their strength.

The new law should also be elastic so that it can easily be adapted to the wishes and customs of the various parts of the state. Let each community decide whether it will nominate by convention or by direct vote, but in all cases let the primaries be open, free and fair.

COLLKGK Ll I SCI LI N K. When Dr. Kane assumed the presidency of Wabash college he faced an unhappy condition existing in the student body. There was a decidedly laxmorality on the part of a considerable percent, of the men. and the fact had become notorious not only in Crawfordsville but all over the territory from which the college drew its stu dents. As a consequence the institution had suffered materially at home and abroad, attendance had been greatly diminished, and severe critics could lie found on all sides. It was pa'ent that drastic measures would have to be employed, and as a consequence Dr. Kane at once declared that any student guilty of gross immorality of any kind by the aet itself severed his connection with the college. Drinking and licentiousness were especially proscribed. Within a few days after the promulgation of the edict, certain students were brought up on the green carpet, for certain offenses and were dismissed from college. Later in the year two of the most prominent students in the institution were summarily dealt with for participating in a hoi iday drunk. The effect on the students was noticeable and likewise pleasing. There was a decided bracing up all along the line, and the stories of wild orgies by the students, always exaggerated, ceased to circulate with their old time frequency and fluency. The reputation of the college became better here in Crawfordsville. and also in the towns from which students are recruited. As a result there was no failing off in attendance when college opened this fall, but on the contrary an increase. College work became better and the students were in better standing about town than they had been for years. But the evil had not yet been entirely eradicated, although no one could deny that there had been a wonderful improvement. A few men still continued to take desperate chances and frequent forbidden places for the sake of munching forbidden fruit. That which always follows such indiscretion has now taken place. On Saturday afternoon six prominent students were called before the president of the college and were told that they were out of college by their own acts. About a month ago these men met in a fraternity hall on east Main street and gazed upon the wine as it gave its color in the cup. They not only looked upon it but they imbibed, and then proceeded to a bar room where they imbibed some more. They kept together and finally wound up at a questionable resort in the north end where they played the piano and sang a song for the edification of the assembled beauties. After the song they left but in crossing the threshold they Had violated the rules of the college and were outside the pale. When President Kane learned of the lark he had no alternative but to call the guilty men up and inform them that they were no longer students. The men concerned were all of them good fellows, popular in college and town alike, and all of them were deeply affected by the disgrace. They were all willing to acknowledge, however, that they had wittingly and willfully violated what they knew were the strictest of the college rules and therefore they had no excuse or defense. Three of the men had been previously warned by Dr. Kane and the fact that one of them was a candidate for the Christian ministry made the fault more glaring. Much sympathy is expressed for the boys connected with this unfortunate incident and some are inclined to feel that the penalty is severe. But is it? The college has a reputation to protect, and mistaken leniency in the past has cost her dear. The cancer which Dr. Kane found on the student body when he assumed control required the knife. The knife has been used and the improvement of the patient is manifest. An institution that cannot maintain some sort of discipline would better close its doors hurriedly. Far better that its use as an educational factor cease entirely than that even a very small per cent, of those young men entrusted to it become morally corrupt through evil association which the college authorities wink at. The young men connected with the present unhappy affair, have committed no offense that they cannot live down, their future is not blighted and their friends are no less friends. In fact the penalty they pay may prove a blessing in that it will recall them to a sense of the situation and convince them of the necessity of making a change of front. While all sympathize deeply with them veryone must realize, no one more keenly than the sufferers, that they have only themselves to blame.

LARGEST assortment of furs ever shown in this city on display Wednesday, Nov. 28th, at the Big Store. Just the thing for a X-mas present.

Louis Bischof.

A TEMPERANCE SERMON.

Extracts From a Sermon Delivered Sunday By the Rev. S. W. Goss.

The following is a portion of the temperance sermon delivered on Sunday by the Rev. S. W. Goss of the First M. E. church:

Amos 11:11. '"The homo is the corner stone of society and government, whatever therefore increases the virtue and intelligence of the home is a good institution and ought to have the support of every good citizen whatever decreases the virtue and intelligence of tho home is a bad institution and ought to have the opposition of every good citizen. Does the school and church increase the virtue and intelligence of the home? I think they do: then let. us have a school house and a church in every community in America. Does the saloon increase the virtue and intelligence of the home? I think no man would say that it does. Then let, us have no saloon upon any hill top or in any valley of America. "The business of the church is t.0 leach the truth that, God has given to sow the seed of a useful and righteous life in the mind of the child to encourage the weak and faltering: to ennoble the home to teach love of country and hatred of demagoguory, to help men find their way to eternal life. "The business of the saloon is to corrupt the youth. One hundred thousand men go their desolate way each year to a drunkard's grave. An equal number must be found each year to take their places or the saloons must go out of business. Whence came these boys? All of them out of American homes some of them out of the homes of our city. The business of the saloon is to debauch men and destroy them. For the sake of the men who are good men when not under the influence of drink, for the men who are weak and not able to stand against the enticements of the rum fiend, the saloon ought to be taken off the street. "The business of the saloon is to send children out into the world depraved and vicious in their tendencies. A taste for drink comes to them as apart of their inheritance. The business of the saloon is to till our poor houses and insane asylums and jails to make home a barren desert: to corrupt politics and to make money. Yet this is the institution that for a price we give permission to stand along all our streets. The saloon keeper is our brother and we should love him, but because his business corrupts the youth and destroys the weak it should be hated with all the intensity of an earnest soul. "'The church and the saloon are working with a different motive, are aiming at opposing ends and accomplishing opposite results. The church is the greatest foe of the saloon and the saloon is the chief obstacle confronting the march of the church. Everywhere the purpose of these two institutions meet in opposition. The battle is on and it will be to the death of the one or the other. If any man doubts that the church will win it must be because he thinks error stronger than truth, and satan mightier than God. 'The church should lead all the hosts that are gathering to fight against the saloon. It should uncompromisingly stand for righteousness. Horace Bushnell said, 'My God, has it come to this that, we must choose between seven devils and ten?' "It was prophesied that tho churches would weaken in their utterances concerning the liquor traffic. But now that the history of the great religious conferences and assemblies of the last

BAD BLOOD,

BAD COMPLEXION.

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To have a smooth, soft skin, free from all eruptions, the blood must be kept pure and healthy. The many preparations of arsenic and potash and the large number of face powders and lotions generally used in this class of diseases cover up for a short time, but cannot remove permanently the ugly blotches and the red, disfiguring pimples. Eternal vigilance Is the price of

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year of the century is written, we find that thoy are stronger than ever before. The most forceful utterances against the saloon ever put forth in the history of Methodism are embodied in the resolutions of the general conference of -last May. These resolutions 'insist that total abstinence is the plain duty of the individual,' affirm that the liquor traffic 'can never be legalized without ruin,' declare that 'no citizen and no Christian has a right in any way to contribute to the establishment or to the maintenance of the un-Godly license policy as applied to the liquor traffic,' assert that 'when tho Christian citizen is as prompt with his rewards and punishments as is tho supporter of the iloon the cause, of civic righteousness will have made a notable advance,' a'id while the conference manifested no desire to dictate the political affiliations of any man, it said in substance that the time has come when Christian men should get together on this question and make themselves felt politically. It matters nothing as to the name of the organization under which they gather, it is imperative that they get together.

Two cries, the church of Christ should now cause to ring over the land: First, 'No more rum territory.' If we are going out to the weak and semicivilized to lift them up, in the name of God we must not take to them the liquor saloon that only blights and destroys. Second, 'No saloon under the Hag.' If we must have it, let it be localized. Let the states authorize its existence if they will, but let the federal government withdraw from it its sanction. Let the old flag, covered with the glory of a thousand battles, that has in every conflict in which it has been unfurled been carried to victory, be taken off the beer kegs and whiskey barrels of the union. "Abraham Lincoln said: "I do not believe this nation can live half slave and half free. I do not believe the nation will die, but I believe slavery will die.' I do not believe this nation can live half drunken and half sober. I do not believe the nation will die, but I believe the saloon will. I have this supreme confidence that nothing can withstand the onward movement of the race. Saloon, nor church, nor state can stand in the way of humanity's march toward God. Tours, Runnymode, Wittenberg, the Bastile, Yorktown, and Appamattox stand for some of tho great conflicts whose issue make it certain that no power is strong enough to withstand the impulse in the heart of man that causes him to move on to a larger freedom and a higher civilization. "It is in the power of the church of Christ to take the saloon out of our civilization and remove this peril from the way of our youth. Because it can it ought to do it, and it ought to do it nOW." ,:.

They Don't Go.

Gov. Mount decided Monday that tho two constitutional amendments before the people at the recent election have not carried within the meaning of the law. This probably sounds, the death-knell to the amendments as fatas the present is concerned, for under the governor's action there is no apparent way of bringing the matter before the supreme court.

The governor looked up the statute, and holds that, as the highest vote received on either amendment is only 314000, which is less than half of the total vote cast at tho election, the amendments have failed. Lawyers were hopeful the governor would hold that th£ amendments had carried, and then the matter could be carried to the supreme court, where it would be finally settled.

Farmers' Institute.

The following is the programme of the Franklin and Sugar Creek townships Farmers' Institute to be held at the South Christian church, Darlington, Ind., December (, 1900:

MllKNUNIi SESSION.

10:00—Opening Exercises.. .Pres. K. C. Harper 10:15- 'Pedigreed or Fine Stock liaising Compared to General Farming for

Financial Success".. .Geo. Harshbarger

11 :00— --Raising, Feeding, and Marketing Cattle. Does It Pay the Small Farmer':"

Kobi. Dunbar and M. II. Waugh

Adjournment for Dinner.

AKTKKNoo.N SESSION.

1:00—Opening Exercises. Miscellaneous Business.

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1:15--Keport 1:45--"TheHomein

of Committee

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Observation.

Character Building" Mrs. Mort Stewart

2:00—"Is Deep Breaking and Cultivating Prolitable':" II. H. Thornburg, Joshua Saidla and

Alex. Buchanan, ..

2 :30— Recitation Selected Miss Hixler, of Canton, O. Box, •Who is the Farmer or Agriculturalist':-" W. N. Bowers

2:45--Querry 3:00

Adjournment.

EVENING SESSION.

-Opening Exercises. -Recitation Miss Clara Hunt "Is the Intelligence of the Farmer

7:00 7:15 7:30

Increasing or Diminishing':" 'V: Ben Paddack -Recitation... Miss Bixler -"Home on the Farm" C. K. Harper

7:458:00

Song--'Only a Dream of the Old Home" b:l.V "To What Kxtent Are We Responsible for Our Lack of Prosperity':"

Rev. A. I.. West

Song—' The Farmer Feeds Them All" Adjournment.

AT the silk waist sale you can purchase a waist cheaper than the making would cost you. Louis Bisc IIOF.

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The ordinary every-day life of most of our women is a ceaseless treadmill of work. How much harder the daily tasks become when some derangement of the female organs makes every movement painful and keeps the nervous system all unstrung

One day she is wretched and utterly miserable in a day or two she is better and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing much the matter after all but before night the deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch —it seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals she goes to pieces and is flat on her back.

Law Providing for Capital Punishment 1 Said to Now Be Inoperative.

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NO HANGING IN INDIANA.

It is not generally understood by the 1 people of Indiana, perhaps, that there! is now no law providing for a placn in which to execute criminals in this state. It was undoubtedly not the in-! tention of the legislature of 1897 to abolish with the law fixing punishment by death in this state, bur, according to a well known lawyer, that is just what the legislature of 1S9T did do in a round-about way when it passed the law creating the Indiana reformatory.

Before the law was passed the statutes provided that criminals under the sentence of death should be executed either in the state prison south at Jeffersonville, or the state prison north at Michigan City, depending on the location of the county where the prisoner was sentenced

When the Indiana reformatory law was passed the state prison south was changed to the Indiana reformatory, and the state prison north was changed to the Indiana state prison, so that we have no penitentiary in which to execute criminals, as provided by the statute, consequently, having no place in which to execute them, as provided by the statute, the law providing for capital punishment becomes inoperative.

Change In School Books.

The spellers, histories, physiologies and grammars now used in the public schools of Indiana are being revised. Frank L. Jones, state superintendent of public instruction, recently returned from Chicago, where he met with the committee having the work in charge.

Goshen, III.

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Respectl'u'ly ymr', A. Jackson, M. D.

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Mr. Jones says the revised grammar will contain at least a year and a hal more work than is found in the present books. The revised histories will b| brought up to date and will contain complete history of the Spanish wal and of important events that have haj pened since then. Decided change will be made in the spellers and physi ologies.

House Burned.

The other night tho house 01 vVil Weir, near the Jim Davis bridge ii Balhinch, was burned to the ground! The family barely escaped in theil night clothes. The cause of the hrj was not learned.

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