Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1890.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. JUNE 18, 1890. WASHINGTON" OFFICE-513 Fourteenth it. P. 0. Heath. Correspondent. Telephone Calls. Business Once 223 1 Editorial Rooms t2

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PARIS-Amerlcan Exchange in Parts, 25 Boulevard dea Capuclnes. HEW YORK OUsey House and Windsor Hotel PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 2735 Lancaster arenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawley A Co., 1M Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner . . Third and J efferson streets. CT. LOTJ 18 Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. ' OTA HTTT'NfJTON- D. O. TliiTtrm Housa and Ebbltt JIOUSO. One thing appears to bo very certain: the Senate finance committee has not Bmashed the McKinley bill. . It will bo a great and edifying spectacle to see the Democracy rising up as one man to oppose a national election lavr. TnE result of tho voting on the silver bill in the Senate must make the prophets in the reporters' gallery feel that the Senato is a little uncertain except for debate. As the enactment of the McKinley bill becomes a certainty, its opponents are howling more wildly, and yet it puts half of tho volume of tho imports upon the free list. - In 1870 our exports of manufactured , goods amounted to only $47,921,154, while last year they footed up $138,075,507. No nation can show a larger rela tive growth. TnE Newfoundland fishermen are said to bo in a 6tateof commotion concerning the modus vivendi. That means thay want to know whether they are going to fish or cut bait. There will bo no trouble now about the census since Superintendent Porter has directed continuance of the work until it is thoroughly done. Nevertheless eend in your names if the enumerator has not found you as yet. Now when the farmers get a party. and the mechanics get a party, and the merchants get a party, and every class gets a party, perhaps somo people will begin to see how, silly it is to try to found political parties upon class dis tinctions. Senator Vest expressed the opinion in the Senate yesterday that Mr. Cleve land had changed his views on the silver question.' As Mr. Cleveland is writing an average of two letters a week for publication, why does he not speak for himself about silver! The Chicago Tribune learns that, inasmuch as the present secret-ballot law interferes with the traffic in votes in Indiana, those who make it a business to sell their votes will organize and sell their votes to the highest bidder in pack ages. But when will the purchaser know that the goods are delivered? The Governor of California does not Boom to have any appreciation of physical culture and athletic 6port. His blast against this form of prize-fighting as "degrading and disgusting exhibitions of brute force" shows that he is not abreast with the march of progress. Prize-fighting is one of tho national games. ; The national election bill, as agreed upon in Republican caucus, is a wholesome measure, entirely free from parti san features and aiming only at honest elections. No person can oppose the law without openly advertising himself as an opponent of honest elections and an advocate of fraud. The trial now going on in Chicago shows that the ballot-box swindlers in that city have reduced tho crimo to a practical basis. They do not oiler a repeater a specified 6uni for a day's work, but fifty cents for every time that he commits the crime. Such a one is a more zealous repeater than when paid by the day. Of course, the whole crowd is Democratic. The appearance of tho New York Post as a defender of religion would be amus ing if it wero not oflensivo to all who are acquainted with its hypocrisy and lack of moral principle. Its attempts to figure as high moral censor iu tho political field have entitled it to the position of the champion funny paper of the country, but when it essays the sanctimonious role it oversteps the boundaries of decent humor. Senator Wolcott is a young mem ber, and his speech, yesterday, did little credit either to his perception of what is duo from a man in high station or to his political sagacity. His criticism of the President was undignified and un worthy of him, and his statement that no State west of tho Missouri would have cast its vote for General Harrison had his silver views been known in 1888, is too ridiculous to treat seriously. For whom would they have voted! For Cloveland, who was opposed to all silver .legislation? or Fisk? Out of forty-five graduates in tho High-school this year there were eleven males and thirty-four females. Probably thi3 is about the average proportion tf males female each year. 1$

shows that, so far as the public schools are concerned, the facilities for higher

education are improved to a much greater extent by the girls of the period than they are by the boys. Perhaps a few of the latter leave the High-school before graduating for college, but no doubt much the larger number quit school to enter business before reaching the upper grades. The desire to be earning something, often very laudable, but not always, eeems to bo stronger than tho desire for higher education. . GENERAL BENET AHD THE ABSENAL. It seems that General Bcnet, Chief of Ordnance, "sat down" on the proposition to repair and enlarge the Indian apolis arsenal. Several of tho Indiana delegation , made an earnest effort in favor of the appropriation, but it failed to carry, owing piincipally to the oppo sition of General Benet, who, according to our Washington correspondent, "said the buildings were old and useless, that there was no need for tho arsenal, and, besides, it made him a good deal of trouble and annoyance." The request was for an appropriation of SuUOOO, and although it was indorsed by the Secre tary of War, the committee declined to make the appropriation. General Benet is mistaken in saying the arsenal buildings here are old and useless. They aro excellent buildings and as good as new for the purpose for which they were constructed. Whether there is need of an arsenal at this point is a question to bo decided in view of future possibilities as well as present conditions. The arsenal was found very useful during the war and might be again. The grounds are extensive and valuable, the buildings spacious and handsome, and could easily be con verted into a valuable plant for arsenal or ordnance purposes. Military estab lishments of all kinds aro rather useless in time of peace, and perhaps the ordnance department and its head might be dispensed with without serious detriment. But if we are to have an ordnance department and an or namental salaried head, why not also maintain the Indianapolis arsenal? Gen. Bcnet says it "makes him a good deal of trouble and annoyance." We aro unable to imagine how or why this should be so; but supposo it is. We do not un derstand that it is a necessary part of the governments policy to preserve tho chief of the ordnance department from trouble and annoyance. We are inclined to suspect that Gen. Benet has a grudge against Indianapo lis, and that the Journal is partly re sponsible for it. During tho last presi dential campaign tho Journal unearthed and printed a circular issued by Gen. Bcnet, which caused something of a stir. The circular was as follows: Ordnance Office, War Department, ) Washington, d. C, Jan. 4, 1SSG. $ Confidential. To the Commanding Officers of the National Armories at Springfield, Mass., and Rock Island, Hi., And of the United States Arsenals at New York, West Troy, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., Bos ton, as?., uenicia, cai., et j.: Sir Whilo arsenals and the armory are not intended to be converted into political machines, two nolitical parties are recog nized. It is therefore ordered that hereafter, in employing and discharging em--Eloyes of any and all grades, other things eing equal andrmalitications.satisfactory, Democrats will be favored, the object be ing to divide tho force in tho different grades gradually between Democrats and Republicans. This rule . will apply to women and children as well as men. and will be strongly enforced. Respectfully, your obedient servant. to. v. benet, Brigadier-general, Chief of Ordnance IJ. fc. Army. This circular, issued January, 188C, never became public till it was printed in tho Journal of Sept. 29, 1883, and its appearance caused quite a commotion in political circles, as showing the manner in which the spirit of civil-servico re form was being applied in the military branch of the government. General Benet admitted writing and issuing tho circular, and said it was done by authority of tho then Secretary of War. The ex traordinary character of the circular ex cited much comment, and there was talk of a senatorial investigation, but it was never ordered. Perhaps by a sort of reflex action General Benet refers to the Indianapolis arsenal the "trouble and annoyance" caused him by the publi cation of this circular. If so, it is rather a notable instance of a government officer carrying his private grievances into public affairs. A PEW C0MPAEIS0NS. During the last fiscal year of a Republican administration before r. Cleve land's period, which ended June 30, 1885, tho excess of tho value of merchandise which tho people of the United States sold to other nations over that which they purchased was $1C4,GG2,42G. Dur ing Mr. Cleveland's first year the excess of exports was reduced to $44,088,094, and during the second year it fell to $23,803,443. The third year the excess appeared on the other sido of the bal ance-sheet, it appearing that our people had purchased $28,002,C07 more of mer chandise of other nations than we had bought of them. In Mr. Cleveland's last year the balance against us was $2,780,277. When Sir. Cleveland came in the flow of gold was to the United States, to settle tho merchandise balance, tho volume in 1885 being $18,213,804. During the last fiscal year which his administration practically covered, which ended June 30, 1889, the export of gold amounted to $ 19,GG7,827. When Mr. Cleveland came into office in 18S5, our exports of merchandise amounted to $742,189,755 and our imports wero $577,527,329. When he retired from office our exports of merchandise . had fallen in value to $095,054,507 and our imports of foreign goods had reached $723,957,114. That is, from Mr. Cleveland's first year of administration to his last, tho sale of our products abroad had declined $40,235,243 and our purchases of foreign merchandise had increased as much more. During Mr. Cleveland's four years tho sale of foreign merchandise was increased in this country $140,429,785, thus substituting that amount of foreign manufactured products for thoso that could havo been made at home. This was done largely by having tho protectivo tariff laws enforced by men lacking experience, and customs decisions favorable to importers, and stimulating imports by a system of undervaluations which rapidly increased during thoso years. Again, dux-

ing tho eighteen years from 1S13 to 18G0, inclusive, our imports of merchan

dise aggregated $3,60G,CG4,5C5, or an average of 8211,480,252, while tlie value of tho goods we sold abroad was $3,S?2,G54,292, or an average of $192,925,238 an excess of foreign purchases of $18,555,014 a year. During the ten years of protective tariff just previous to Mr. Cleveland's term, our total imports of mer chandise were valued at $5,838,558,507, and our total exports $7,443,200,125 that is, we sold other nations $1,004,07,018 more than wo bought of them, or an average of $100,470,701 a year. The point of these trade statistics is that under a protectivo tariff, when the duties are faithfully collected, the bal ance of trade is in our favor, and the gold and bullion which was sent abroad from 1843 to 1800 to pay merchandise balances is kept at home and in circula tion,, thus assuring an abundance of both gold and silver and placing beyond possible danger such a condition of trade balances as will render it neces sary to send abroad gold to pay them off. They also show by experience- that any system of tariff for revenue only will at onco put the balance of trade against us and draw so much coin from our country that there will not be a stock sufficient to afford a basis for a sound paper currency. HO CAUSE TOB EICITEMENT. Some of the Southern papers aro mak ing a'good deal of wild utterance and bombastic threats because of the proposed federal election law. Hero is what the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is saying: The Republican partv will be guilty of a great crime against thepeuceand good will of the country if it passes a bill to supervise and control federal elections in the South. As the Chronicle has frequently stated, no more pernicious bill could be passed by Congress. It should be called a law to create riots and provoke bloodshed in the South. Our people will not submit A 3 A 4 1 1 1 . a 1 10 it, aim me itepuuncan party snoniu understand this determination before the bill becomes a law. Federal, troops would be required to enforce the law North as well as fcouth: tho reconstruction period should satisfy tho Republican party that federal soldiers cannot be used ellectively tor any tuch purpose. There seems to be no cause for this heat. The proposed law is not intended for the South moro than tho North, but for districts in both where constitutional suffrage has been destroyed. If the protection of federal election laws is requested in any district, the local election officers will not bo interfered with, as the supervision of voting, counting and making returns will only extend to Representatives to Congress, and will not necessitate interference so long as the federal officers can . discharge their duties. If fraud is not attempted, and tho voters qualified under tho laws of the State are permitted to vote as provided by the laws, all will be well. If they are not, the federal election officers will be compelled to hold elections of Representatives in accordance ,with"the laws of tho State which the local officials shall attempt to violate. There "will be no cause for United States soldiers or for bodies of United States' marshals, ' unless those who hate the federal au thority and are intent on fraud interfere with . federal officers in the disQhargo of their duties. If any persons; make a disturbance, it will be prima facU'evW dence of their desire to prevent-1 such an election as the Constitution and tho laws contemplate. Bear this in mind, v The Republican party is weary of! con- ; tinued and increasing frauds in. congressional elections, and it expects tho Congress which it has elected to legislate to stop an alarming evil. Republicans, and, we belioye, all patriotic people, are weary of having a poll of 271,571 votes in Kansas to elect seven Representatives, while in Mississippi- only 44,953 votes elect that number, as was the case in 1888. In 188G, 27,475 votes, in Georgia, elected ten Representatives to Congress, when the smallest district in Indiana polled 30,940 votes. When an average of only 2,700 voters to the polls in a congressional district and vote for the single candidate nominated and the other 28,000 stay at home, because voting is either useless or a "played-out" performance, it is high time that Congress interfero to see to it that such elections are held as will induce the voters of every congressional district to exercise the right of suffrage. WHY THE EXCEPTION? Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa aro States which may be said to have been under Republican control since tho war. Ohio has had a Democratic Legislature once in a whilo when Republican voters became listless or a part of them in cities gave the Democracy a lift, but one such Legislature does for five or six years. "Michigan once tried a 6ort of Democratic rule for two or three years, and Illinois has had nearly a Democratic Legislature several times. -Still,- the general policy of these States has, been directed by tho Republican partyi All of these States came out of the war with considerable State debt, perhaps as heavy as that of Indiana in proportion to their wealth. The three States last named have no. State debt. They adopted a policy at the close of the war which has relieved their people of all such burden. The -debt of Ohio, as reported Nov. 1, 1888, was $3,410,405, and Nov. 1, 1881, it was $4,479,099 a reduction of over one million. In these years tho others named, and more surely Republican States, havo wiped out their bonded debt. Indiana, by reason of gerrymanders, has had Democratic Legislatures tho greater part of the' time for,, twenty years. Those Legislatures have fixed the financial policy of the State, if it can be said to have had one, and what is tho result? Nov. 1, 1881, tho bonded debt of the State was $4,S76.C08; seven years later it was $G,474,G08 an increase of $1,508,000. Indiana is in every respect a good State, and in some respects a better one than its Republican neigh bors to the est, North and East. It has been making as permanent and con stant progress, and it has natural facili ties which the others do not possess, and yet because it is dominated by Demo cratic policy, it has not only a consider able . bonded debt, .but one .which; has been increased nearly one-third during ; the past seven years. Excuses will be made for this and that extra or-

dinary expense, but there is no reason why the debt at the close of the war should not have been extinguished by tho time it became necessary to make internal expenditures, and such would havo been tho case had the control of the financial policy of tho State been in the hands of Republican legislatures. Attention is called to this matter because this is an off year, when State affairs should be considered in the canvass, and these comparisons are made that the voters of Indiana may see that they are yet paying interest on a debt which their Republican neighbors have either canceledor cut down so thatthey are no longer burdens. .

G0VERH 02-GENERAL STANLEY. Mr. Henry M. Stanley's appointment as Governor-general of the Congo Free State marks another interesting stage in his remarkable career. It is a natural culmination of past events, and seems to come in the orderly evolution of Stanley's career and services. The Congo Free State is a direct outgrowth of Stanley's earlier discoveries. It embraces the largest and best part of equatorial Africa, from the eastern to tho western coast, and has an extent of 1,000,000 square miles. It includes the immense valley of the Congo river, with its tributaries and headwaters, draining a region of great extent and resources, with many navigable watercourses, a multitude of lakes, a vast area of fertile land, and a population estimated at nearly 30,000,000. The organization of the Congo Free State was the result of the efforts, first, of the International African Association established under the patronage of the King of Belgium, and, second, of the joint action of European governments recognizing and confirming tho acts of tho asso ciation. Tho entire movement was a direct result of Stanley's explorations of the Congo region in 1874-77, and again in 1881-82. The conference which resulted in forming the Congo Free State was helvi at Berlin in tho winter of 18&1-85. Tht powers represented by plenipotentiaries were Germany, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the .United States of America, France, Great Britain, Italy, tho Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia, Sweden, Norway and Tur key. The ostensible object was to in troduce freedom of commerco in the valley of the Congo and lay the foundations of civilized government. The ter ritorial claims of different governments were to be recognized and a general form of government and code of inter national rules adopted for all. King Leopold, of Belgium, was the first Governor-general, and continued to act as such for some years, appointing his own subordinates' and administrative officers. The establishment of tho Congo Free Stato was King Leopold's favorite project, and he has expended an enormous sum of money in carrying it out. The Belgian government has no power or responsibility in relation to the Congo State, Leopold's connection with it being outside of his royal character. He has endowed tho government with a revenue of $250,000 a year out of his own resources. Stanley's appointment as Governorgeneral of this African state makes him the successor of King Leopold, the official representative of European interests in Central Africa, and the supreme arbiter of African affairs until some other form of government shall bo adopted. It will enable him to carry out his plans of African civilization and probably to become the founder of a new empire. The Sentinel newspaper is in a state of mind because the Journal confounded it with the Sentinel Printing Company in the agency for a patent voting booth on the Australian plan. The mistake was natural, but, the facts being as certained, the Journal corrected it the next day. The Sentinel affects a high de gree of virtuous indignation on tho sub ject, and charges the Journal with habitu ally 6aying and doing all sorts of wicked things and never making amends. The Journal never makes a misstatement knowingly and never repeats one wan tonly. The Sentinel cannot say as much, for it has often charged, repeat ing the charge in express terms the day before yesterday, that the Journal was in the pay of the old school-bock trust, "in partnership" with Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., etc. Tho Sentinel knew this to' bo an infamous lie when it was first printed and at every repetition, yet it repeated the lie knowingly, delibe rately and viciously. Even now it will not have the grace to retract, and will probably repeat the lie the first time it gets . hard up for, a paragraph. The Sentinel i3 the last paper in the world that should talk about journalistic honor or professional amenities. TnE impression may be given by yes terday's telegram that the House has not appropriated any money which can be used for the repair of the arsenal at this point. What tho Washington dis patch says is that the amount appropri ated did not includo $30,000 specially asked for hero. Of the appropriation of $50,000 to be exponded under the direc tion of the Secretary of War, tho In dianapolis arsenal will undoubtedly re ceive a liberal portion, as the Secretary recommended the extra $30,000 asked. It seems strange in this part of the world that an election cannot proceed on the lottery issue in Louisiana without hanging a colored voter and leader, when his only participation was advising the colored voters to taks no hand in the contest. It is claimed that he was a fugitive from justice, having been charged with murder fourteen years ago, since which time he has held office and been quite conspicuous in New Orleans. The Western newspapers have expressed a great deal of indignation over the late filibustering fiasco in Lower California; not because Americans were mixed in tho disgraceful scheme to rob a friendly republic, but because the Englishmen in it tried to freeze the Americans out. .Some of the charitable institutions of Philadelphia are in a curious predicament. The treasurer of the Lutheran Orphans' home was recently fonnd to be a defaulter to a largo amount, his peculations having

extended through a course of years. He. was noted in philanthropic circles for his generous and benevolent disposition, and

for his large donations to various charities. It now appears that the money which he so liberally bestowed upon theso institu tions was abstracted from the funds of the homo 0$ which he was treasurer. He has no means whereby ho can make np the deficit, and the managers of the charities which have pro lite d by his peculations are requested by the guardians of the Lutheran orphans to return the gifts to them. The law cannot compel this restitution, but it is called for by principles of honesty and equity, and no conscientious individual could hesitate in such case to return money so bestowed, however innocent he might havo been as recipient The dutyis equally incumbent upon organizations or societies, but the grasp of such bodies upon funds bestowed is difficult to loosen, and great reluctance is shown in this instance. The controversy is growing warm, and bids fair to et by the ears a great many excellent people who could not be tempted to do a dishonost individual act A recent novel contains the following paragraph: - A woman's tears water the flower of her femininity. They are the dew of parity. They aro the silverv "waves that wash out traces upon the sands of her life. They are tho brine that preserves a memory. They ore to her -what a shower is to summer. Bat to man they are drops of blood forced upward from his heart by the Jack-screw of hideous torture. The book is full of gems as sparkling as this, and yet some peoplo grumble at the conventionality of style and the lack of originality in current literature. It is now stated that tho authorities of Harvard College know tho students who perpetrated the recent acts of vandalism at that institution, but "owing to their numbers or the standing of their families, or both, it has been decided that the most politic Course for the college will be to do nothing and let the matter die out'' We do those things better in Indiana. TnE possibilities of the "original-package" decision seem to be very great. An agent of tho Louisiana lottery in this city claims that he can sell tickets in original packages without violating the State law. This person's mind , seems to be of a legal turn, but perhaps he had better obtain tho views of Chief-justice Fuller before engaging in this business. TnE ship-owners of British Columbia are taking remarkably foolish risks in sending their vessels into Behring sea to poach for seals. There are not likely to be any one-man prize crews this year, and they may depend upon it the British government will never go to war to restore to them their confiscated property. TnE junior Senator from Indiana has gotten his name into the newspapers just once during the past year, and that was upon the occasion when it was discovered that he could talk in seven languages. Seven languages be blamed! He has never proven in the Senate that he can talk in one. The legend in the street-cars, "Gentlemen will please not spit on the floor," would gain in force and significance by the omission of the "please. ' The literary editor of the car company should study the art of condensation. . Who knows but that the . idea of the glorious bird of freedom and the goddess of liberty engaged in a hair-pulling "scrapV may be a subtle original conception, symbolical of civil war? It would bo refreshing to have Sergeant Dunn come around just about now and. repeat that fairy story he concocted two or three months ago about a cool summer. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. TnE board of trustees of Harvard University have concluded that women must not be admitted to the divinity school. Pierre Lorillaud, whose brief career has been most remarkable, is in tho prime of life, with a strong and robust figure and a ruddy complexion. The annual expenses of his stables have sometimes reached the sum of $250,000. Lady Sandiierst has been given the freedom of the city of London, and is tho only woman upon whom this honor has been conferred in .three hundred years. She has made a reputation as a Liberal organizer aud orator. Mr. Labouciiere thinks the Indian editors who printed Rudgard Kipling's doggerel as a mere personal compliment to him had a truer appreciation of its value than the people who are trying to believe Kipling is a genius. Pke'mier Oliver MowATTof Ontario, says there is at present no great desire for a change in the political system of Canada; but if a change ever does come it will bo independence from Great Britain, not annexation to the United States." Theodore Tiltox is described by a lady who recently saw him in the new Salon in Paris. He has grown stout and his long, white hair was pushed behind his ears, and his face had a restful look peculiar to men of leisure. He was sauntering around, seemingly unconcerned about people or pictures, and only caring to while away a moment of ennui. Mlle. Louise Mictiel having been re cently declared irresponsible for her aits. on an official medical report, the examining magistrate ordered her discharge. She was then transferred to the almshouse at Vienne (Isere). M. Constans, Alinister of the interior, has issued instructions to t low her full liberty, so that she may eitht remain in tho almshouse or leave it, as eh think8fit Dom Pedro on ono occasion wished to found a hospital, and, funds being a little low, he hit upon the expedient of ennobling any citizen who would contribute a certain sum to tho hospital fund. Jle soon found that half of Rio' was anxious to possess a title, and money poured in from every side. When the hospital was finished tho Emperor caused to be sculptured above the gates a Latin legend, signifying: "Human vanity to human misery." Miss Ada Hi:atiier.Biggs, Lady Dilke and Hon. Mrs. Jeune have done a good thing in London in establishing what they call a scries of "happy evenings" for tho London board school children. These are the children of the very poor, who, never having a penny with which to purchase pleasure, are to be invited every two weeks to a comfortable room, where they will bo entertained with v music, magic-lantern pictures, games, etc. Alton Angier, of Atlanta, tho newiy-ap-painted consul to Kheims, got through a snug fortune while a young man and applied for a position in a railroad office. Being told tha train-hands only wero needed, he promptly accepted employment in that capacity, and performed every duty, no matter how humble, with a cheerfulness and care that resulted in a series of promotions that landed him in the position of general passenger agent of the Western & Atlantic railroad. . That Thackeray had a broken nose all the world has known, A recent discussion of the fact has caused tho revelation that the organ was "broken in a light at Charterhouse by Venablcs, Q. C, lately deceased." It is certain that Veuabies never had the heart to deny the honor, and when telling of the incident would add that Thackeray called himself "Michael Angelo Titmarsh" from being a brother sutlerer with the greatest of artists. Sir William Eraser also corroborates the story by saying that the circumstances of the tight at school were told him by a woman whose nose was in as bad shape as Thackeray's and of courso she would remember about it

COLLEGIATE CEREMONIES

Laying tho Corner-Stono of the New landcs Library at Wabash College. Paragraphs from lion. John M. Butler's Ad dressMeeting of Alumni and Trustees Commencement Week at Earlham. WABASH COLLEGE. Corner-Stone of the Yandes Library Laid Meetings of 1 rasters ami Alumni Class Day. Special to the IutV.anapolls Journal. Crawfouisvilxe, Ind., June IT. Tho main event of to-day was tho laying of the corner-stone of tho new Yandca Library Hall this afternoon. This building is i,h gift of Simon Yandes, of Indianapolis, and will cost when completed tibout 35,000, including fixtures. It is located north of Peck's Scientific Hall, and faces to the north and Wabash avenue. The cornerstone is located at tho northeast corner of tho building, under the tower. The copper box, in which was placed the articles, was 11 inches long, 7 inches wide and 5 inches high; aud, in fact, was two boxes, tho one turning down over the other. This box was placed in position and the large cornerstone, upon the nnder side being a holo large enough to admit tho copper box, was lowered by means of a derrick into its position. Tho corner-stone is from ths Matthews quarry at Kllettsville, and is oolitic stone. It is 4 feet S?2 inches in length, 1$ inches thick and 25 inches high. Upon the exposed end of the stone are the letters, "MDCCCXC." There were sixty-two articles in the stone, of which sixteen were newspapers. The building is of two stones, with a basement and a tower eighty feet high on the northeast corner. The plan is in the .form of a cross, and the outside dimensions are 110x00. Tho first floor is mainly one room, the larger portion to be supplied with shelves enough to contain 75,000 volumes. The shelves will not have outside coverings with locks, as is tho case in the present library room. Upon the first floor will also be a writing-room, 15x15; the librarian's room, 15x17, and a large hal f-moon-shaped reading-room, SOxCO. The library proper is separated from the reading-room by a high iron railing, aud the only way to get to the books is through the room of the librarian and past his ' desk, where he sits and where ho commands a view of the en tire lower floor. The second story is reached from the tower by means of an easy stairway of thrco landings. At tho head of tho stairway is the reception-room, 15x17, ind the rooms upstairs are soarranged that they can bo thrown together, and will be used for gatheriugs of various kinds. In the center portion of this story is a large opening, 40x25, which serves the purpose of admitting the light from the skylight above to the library room below. Upon the east side is a room, 30x30, to be used for the art collection. Upon the west side is a room, 40x10, to be used for statuarv. At present thero is not a piece of statuary to put therein. Upon the south side i3 the trustees' room. 25x35, from which a door opens into a consultation room, 15x15. The basement rooms aro to be nicely finished off, and will be used for storing and other purposes. There will be an elevator from the basement to the room of the librarian. The building will be fire-proof; the foundation stone is from Putnamville and Greensburg, and the brick used, will be of the best grade. The architect is W. J. Brown, of Indianapolis, aod the contractor is if. V. West, of this city, whose bid for the erection of tho building was $31,000. . Tho exercises were commenced by remarks made by President Tuttle. Trof. J. L. Campbell then read a list of the articles J daced in the stone, and as the stone was owered into position Dr. Tuttle went through the form of mixing mortar. Rev. R. F. Coyle, of Chicago, orlercd the prayer for the occasion. The address was delivered by Hon. John M. Butler, of Indiauapolis, who said in the course of his remarks: Recent explorations in Egret have led to the discovery of immense underground granaries. These granaries were. It is believed, built by Joseph, under authority of Pharaoh, Feventeen hundred years before the dawn of the Christian era. They were constructed with puch massive strength, and exquisite workmanship, and ma- ' terial, as to defy the elements. We are here laying the corner-stone of an aboveground granary for storing thought. The difference between these recently discovered wheat granaries and the thought granary to be here erected is wide. The Egyptian granaries were to store grain for uro in the unknown but dreaded and prophetically foretold ruture. when black-win god famine might brood over the land. But In this thought granary, here to be erected, will bo stored the ripened fruits of cultivated minds from the day intellectual culture began down to tho present time, and, we hope, for centuries yet to come. It will never be rronouneed fulL There will always be room In its alcoves to rarner more thought more ripened remits of the struggles of the intellect, the imagination. ( the heart, tho soul of mankind. It will never be locked and pealed. Its doors will dailypen to those who hunter and thirst for knowledjro. The more the mind fruit here to be garnered is eaten, and digested, the more it grows and Increases. Like the miraculous loaves aud fishes, the greater the number who s't down to the feast the greater the number oi baskets filled with fragments remaining after tho Xeasters are ruled. At one time a favorite legend of one section of our country was: "Cotton is king;" at another time the favorite legend of another section of our country was, "Corn is king.' Neither was right. The true legend of the world, and of all time, is, "Mind la king." Books are crystallized, solidified, concreted mind, made ready for we. Here, with underrating accuracy and certainty, can be traced the growth of thought from the earliest dawn succeeding the long night of the dark ages down to the present time. The struggles between facta and fallacies, between truths and errors, between science and superstition, are clearly lellneatea. defined ana embalmed in type. One can trace the slow but sure change of the useless and visionary alchemist Into the boar and useful chemist and metallurgist and tho soothsaying astrolccer into the far-vlsloned astronomer who plats and measures the starry heavens and charts the pathless ocean. It Is like watching the vorni slowly weave the chrysalis web about its ugly body and come forth tho beautiful butterfly. It is the library that makes the boy the father of the man. The school-boy of to-day knows more than Sir Isaac Newton knew. The boy who has learned that best of all lessons, that the college la a work-shop In which the student 1 to learn to uso the mental tools, lust as really as tfce apprentice to the blacksmith cr carpenter Is to learn to wield the sledge, the chisel, the piano aud tho saw the loy who has iefirncd how to think can step into this library when completed and at once possess himself of the hardearned results of the maturest. most cultivated minds the world has yet j.roduced. Tlut omnivorous, unsystematized, aimless reading, without study or mental digestion, is hurtful rather than helpful, and weakening rather than strengthening, is so resistlessly selfevident that it may rroicrly be termed axiomatic. - The profesilon of Journalism, deprived of the library, would be at sea without chart, compass or even rudder. The average American, if he bo a true American, is a very bnsr man. Ills wits are whetted by his own affair. Ills faculties are concentrated, and his thoughts Intent upon that which immediately interests him. lie is a speciaUst, doing with bis might what his bands find to do In his chosen calling, lie has no time to consult libraries, chaf e down propositions, and harmonize conflicting theories, except when they bear directly upon his specialty: he will find. time, and only time, to know all that Is knowable about that. The result Is that a largo number of persons in every community hare no opinions outside of their own special business until they have read the papers secular and religious. Hence the American press has become an instrument of untold power, and the American Journalist assumes a responsibility eiual to. if not greater, than that of the minister, the statesman or the teacher, in molding the mind and building tko characters of our people. I have said American press, because the daily pre of no other country begins to compare with the American daily press in enterprise, breadth vt reach and research, accuracy of statement, liberality of culture and profundity of view. " " By the munificent gift of a man who learned the value of dollars by earning them, this building is made possible. By earnest, unremitting labor iu his profession, self-denying economy, and the Judicious investment of the results of his mental toil, ho accumulated a fortune which enabled him to dedicate one hundred thousand dollars to tho cause of education. We are glad that Wabash College was chosen as tho beaiUV-