Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUllNAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1895.

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TERMS OF slilscriptiox. KAILT Br MAIL. I:iTiiir, ne month , $ .0 I ;! or.lv, three tuombs... Is.i: lIv. i jf ar fe.0 IuiT, tc billing .Sunday, one year 1D.W nuD&y cult, one j far z.w wiikx rrr.Mntu by akkxtm. Daily. rr wik. by rarrte.. 15 ct uulay, it:l cupy rts PaiJy a'j.l tsuuda), per wrex, by timer 1W ct WtkKLT. rer rear fl.OO Red nerd llntea to Club a. t-utv-ru with id) ot our numerous agtuta or eud subu-nptlous tv the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, ludlnimpollt, Ind. I tk.u fiidlig the Journal thronzh tt mafla In th t iii;rl htatPH u;4 prtt on an i,itit-ii? rpe" a ojh kxt -nta t-iitj: on a twehe r uite-n-a-iajtraTwiM:i-.T -tajj4 umyi turcica potago u bkuaiiy doable thet rale. ryAU com mnnir&t Ions intended for j-nbll'-atloa In Hi paper must. In onlr to reef-ire attention, be acceDtjtnetl by tht name aiwl aJ'IrrM of tl writer. TUB IXDIAXAPOLI9 JOIRXAL Ci.-n Ym (mid at thm following r.Jare I A i::s-Ameri an txciiaujft in Varl, 26 ftoclerard da (aptKltiM. XKW YOKKGusey Houie, Windsor Hotel and Aator House. PHILADELPHIA A. P. KeTnbla, ror. Ianraater are. and Faring st. 1 1! ir ai;o Palmer lloni, A tentorium Hotel and ir. o. w Co., VI Ailaint tlreeC CINCINNATI J. R. Hauler Co , 154 Vina rtrwt. LOUISVILLE C T. Deerirs. northwe-t corner of 1 bin! and Jafteraon sts.. ana LouiYllie Uook Co., CJC rowrtn ave. - LT. LOUIS Union Sti Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON. D. C K!nr non. Fbbttt Han w i:iarU'i Hotel and tbe Wattin2Um S'ewi txenange, Rta ttreet, bet. X'enn. are. and f street. CAITTIOX. Word reaches the Journal that there Is a man giving his name as Hlbben, in the neighborhood ot Rushvtlle, who Is passing himself off as our representative, and is attempting to collect money Tor subscriptions, lie Is a fraud, and all persons are warned not to pay any money to him. The third-term Cleveland chittar hus tcorae as wearisome as the stuff printed daily about Corbett and Fitzsimmons. With the British stamp tax. the Cleveland administration might recommend the window tax once Imposed in Great Britain. After all. Senator Vest will vote the Democratic ticket In 1896, no mitter If the platform Is hostile to silver and the candidate a Cleveland goldite. Th absolute silence of Senator Turp!3 arouses a suspicion that he .'topes that his free-coinage fiasco in Memphis in the "early summer may bo forgotten. The Nashville Banner says that Tenr.ezcce has1 three fiddling statesmen the Taylor brothers and a member of the Legislature named Duncan. Tennesr.ee alzo has a Governor who was not elected by the people. If, by any mishap, Governor Matthews Chculd put th wrong silver speech in his vallr when he goes to Ohio and repeats tho demand for free-silver coinage which his remarks to the last Democratic ci nYcr.ticii contained he would create a censatlon. Dowler. the Controller of the Treasury,, TYho.hs; assumed" the functions of the, Cupreme Court, had not landed on American soil when that tribunal assembled. Had he been in Washington- he mijht have dismissed the learned gentlemen who constitute the Supreme Court. The American-built steamsh'p St. Paul, ciilns" under the American flasr and carryir.iT the United States rnai's to Earoyc, has proved herself a mo 11 thip. ArA I'zt there will continue :o be th?s v.'ho Trill demand that Anvdcans be permitted to purchase ships in Kurorf of inferior quality. A report comes from New -York that c-Cecretary Whitney Is getting out of electorships In corporations preparatory for the Democratic candidacy for the rrcildenev. Ho has been ?o close in his relations to the, Standard Oil Trust that It will take. him four years to get the crr.ell of it out of his clothes. Cir Robert Griffin, cne of the oontro'iera cf the British Board of Trad, presents rtatistics which show that I! I ivr vi;t. cf all the me'"l employed In i.iu- leading Ilnlish Industrie's Iron, machinery, carriage building, pr:rtln.7, etc. r c jive lets then 3 a week, and that the general 'vtrr.e of all workers In about $7 a week. A London paper says that "the United Ct-tes, as a vfreat power, is coming into Xcrcirn politics, and Is coming to stay." That depends upon what is called fordcrrt politics. An American administration will not meddle with European comr'ications in Europe. Asia or Africa, but it will not permit European land grabLlnsr on this continent. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, a Cleveland admirer, declared In his speech to the bankers at Atlanta that the tnanury notes of 1W0. when redeemed, should ! ve been destroyed. Mr. Atkinson is ;rcl-ably right; but If Mr. Carlisle had Cmtroyed them how would he have got t:.5 money with which to pay the current expenditures of the government? An to the right of the United States to build war ships on the lakos it is said that an exhaustive examination of the cubject by . the State Department Fhows t!;r.t, wh'Ie an international agreement r, ith GreiL! Britain prevent the povernrr.ent from maintaining a navy tn the !.!;cs, there Is nothing to prevent the Lullilng of war ships there, to be dellvcrrd and armed at the seaboard. The New York Herald remarks edltertally that the reason that torn is not u:ed more as human food Is that the rrlnding of corn is a "lost art." If the erald would send a correspondent to t; .a West ami have him carefully note 2 comparatively recent processes for c "vrrtlns: com Into appetizing and even t:eate foods It would find that the cern pone" of Its forefathers la noere. ITd political or general mas. meetings l.ve been permitted frr years on Boston Common, and President McBride as- : :t3 that labor has l.s rights than Ihir-t-years ago, because, with a'l ct!iei-, a ' r mru;s xnejtlnar was not iermitted c i the Common. Inasmuch as labor can -.vs Faneull Hall for nothing, fi"ee ::;h cannot be said to be denied to zy, showlns that the president of federation once In a while wanders ' ") tr.? fact.

c:m estimate for the season put in t!:? it of , producers, r r!:!3 cf ItSljCC

bushels. Iowa leads .with 2G?.S30.000 bushels, and Illinois follows with 23S,410,000 bushels; then comes Missouri, with 220,849,000; Nebraska, with 1G3.026.0OO, and Kansas, with 167,909,000 bushels. These are the only States having over 100.000,000 bushels. Last year the yield of these States was as follows: Iowa, 81,314.000 bushels; Illinois, 1C3.121.00O; Missouri. 116,000,000; Nebraska, 14.000,000; Kansas. 42.000,000; Indiana, 97,000.y)0. The year was one of general short crop3, and Indiana was third in the list. . When the area of the States Is considered Indiana comes well to the front as a :orn producer, its area of 36.300 square miles putting It. ahead of Missouri with M.413 square miles, Kansas with 82,000, .ind Nebraska with 76,85.1 square miles. IICEil AM) IlAMw CIIIXKS.

While Secretary Carlisle's hopeful but Inexperienced subordinates In the Treasury Department insist that the present tariff and Internal-tax act will presently afford the government all the money required to meet current expenditures, it is stated that the President and the Secretary have come to realize the importance of raising $00,000,000 more of revenue, and that they will propose to obtain half of this amount by adding $1 a barrel to the tax on beer and derive the other half from a stamp tax' on bank checks. Those who advocate stamps for bank checks urge that such a tax will fall upon the rich rather than the poor. As a large part of the payments made in this country are by bank checks a stamp may be said to be a tax upn business rather than upon property. The man whose business requires him to issue the most checks will pay a larger share of the tax, regardless of his property. For Instance, a large part of the wheat and com marketed In towns where there are banks Is paid for in checks.. Either the purchaser must pay this tax or the producer who sells a wagon load of wheat or corn. In many cases the purchaser will compel the seller or producer to pay for the stamp on the check by deducting the tax from the price of the grain and writing the check for the amount less the stamp. As a rule, those who can keep any i rt of a bank 'accoun do so because the do not desire to carry money with them. They make the most ot their payments to- the grocer, the drygoods dealer and the like with checks. The extent that checks, drafts, etc., have taken the place of coin and paper money , in the general business of the country appears In the consolidated reports of all the national banks at different dates. July 1, 1890, the Controller of the Currency requestedj all the national banks to report the nature of their receipts. Of the $421,824,726 received on that day only 7H per cent, was in coin and paper money, 92H per cent, being checks, draft, bills of exchange, etc., which Included clearing-house . certificate?.1 A similar report was required hy the Controller Sept. 17, 1S90, when It appeared that 8.06 per cent of the receipts were in cash and 91.04 per cent. In checks, drafts, etc. The foregoing figures show how generally a stamp tax .would reach the business of the country- It would fall upon the makers of checks unless they should be shrewd enough to transfer It to those to whom they are made payable, , which a large part of those who write them would do. It may be said that many people w'ho settle debts with checks would not feel the amounts they will be required to pay. This may be generally true, but $30,000,000 a year taken out of the business of the country as taxes Is $20,000,000 taken from Jhe annual increment of wealth orjthe spending money of the people. There is a better way to get $30,000,000 than the stamp-tax device of the free-traders. POLITICS A.D 31 ETK O ItO LO f V. Those who followed the proceedings of the recent convention of State weather observers In this city must have been somewhat amused at the outcroppings of what, for want of a better term, may be called political science. By this Is not meant political economy, which has been called the dismal science, nor yet the science of politics, which is said bv those who understand it to be a very fine system. But there is a kind of political science which results from the mingling of science with politics, and which Is a sort of hybrid cross between the two without the good qualities of either. The Weather Bureau is one of the distinctly scientific branches of the government. When it was transferred from the War Department to the Department of Agriculture Prof. M. W. Harrington was placed at the head of it. He had been professor of astronomy in the University of Michigan, was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, had established the American Meteorological Journal, and was a recognized authority in that branch of science. Under his direction the operations of the Weather Bureau were as satisfactory an they had been at any time during the twenty-five years of Its existence. Secretary Morton had not been long at the. head of the Department of Agriculture before he discovered that Professor Harrington was not the man he wanted as chif of the Weather Bureau. Perhaps the Professor thought he knew more about meteorological science than the Secretary did, or perhaps he was not zealous enough in exploiting the Secretary's greatness. Anyhow, he became persona non grata and had to go. He was succeeded by Mr. y. I,. Moore, a weather observer in the Chicago office. He has the record and reputation of a skillful observer and forecaster, but none as a scientist. His record as chief of the Weather Bureau Is yet to be made. He has his spurs to win. His project for taking weather observations In the upper air by means of a combined aeroplane and balloon seems chimerical, and his attempt to differentiate "sensible" from tbermometric temperature Is neither practical nor scientific. Both suggestions savor of that kind of fidgety executive ability which seeks to Improve on established methods by fanciful experiments. The outcroppings of political science In the recent convention appeared in the speeches of .the chief and assistant chief of the bureau. Both were confident. that the present Secretary of. Agriculture was the right man in the right place. The chief assured the convention that the Secretary was determined to make the weather service of the United States the best In the world, as it is already, by the way, and that he was an enthusiastic believer in and practlcer of the merit system in appointments and promotions. Major Dunwoody, assistant Chief, was even ctro-er In his pralte of

the Secretary. The scientific work of the

Weather Bureau, he said, had not been crippled, but encouraged by Secretary Morton, as if the displacement of a rec ognized scientist like Professor Harring ton was really in the interest of science. He assured the convention that Secretary Morton had the ability to see at a glance what may be useful in the expenditure cf money, and that any criticism of the Secretary's administration must be based on unworthy motives. Neither the chief nor the assistant said anything about the Secretary's little presidential boom which some of his admirers are. trying to get on Its legs, but one could easily see they thought so great a Secretary must make a good President. The usefulness of the Weather Bureau was demonstrated long before Secretary Morton was heard of, and the service was already the best in the world when he came into office. The loyal confidence of his appointees that he is pre-eminently. the right man in 'the right place shows there is sometimes politics in the weather. ax i.Tnni:sTixci ixqiihv. It is a curious fact, but yet a fact, that in this State those who find an act of the Legislature in their way set themselves" to proving that It Is unconstitu tional. During the past eight years the constitutionality of several of the more important acts of legislatures have been assailed." The tax act of 1S91 was vigor ously assaulted, but was sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States. The fee-and-salary law of the same Lega Islature was assailed on the same ground. and successfully assailed, because two or three salaries in one county were omitted from the enrolled act by the carelessness or dishonesty of the enrolling clerk. Technically the court was undoubtedly right, but the decision made a precedent by which the enrolling clerk can undo the work of a whole Legislature, thereby making that servant "of the legislative department of the government superior to it. It would seem that in a case like the fee-and-salary law of 1891 the Intent of the Legislature, which was clear, should be taken into considerationwhen its validity is being considered and the question of validity turns upon what is the blunder or the crime of a servant of the law-making body. Several of the important acts of the last Legislature have been or are now before the courts to test their constitutionality. ' Already one important act that changing the time for the election of county school superintendents by township trustees has been declared unconstitutional because of some defect in a tediously long and involved title. The. fee-and-salary law . has been or was to have been attacked on the ground of technical unconstitutionality, and va rious features of the Nicholson law will reach the Supreme Court in the course of time. Thus three of th most important acts of the last Legibhture have been assailed on the ground of unconstitutionality. It, however, has as good a record in that line as Its predecessors. The question which n&tui filly suggests itself In connection with these facts Is, why is this so why ire the a:ts of Indiana legislatures so much :noie open to attacks upon their, constitutionality than those of other States? There is no lack of experienced lawyers in th? legislatures of Indiana, and the most important bills are either prepared or consul ted by lawyers. Is it due In part tit Vie constitutional requirement regarding the titles of laws, or to the exacting requirements of other sections of the Constitution? Is it because, by precedent and practice, the highest court has' followed a technical and narrow construction of the Constitution In considering the acts of the Legislature? The Journal would not cast any reflections upon the courts and the legislative bodies of Indiana, yet the facts make the questions here suggested highly Interesting. , Washington correspondents are beginning to foreshadow the character- and contents of the President's next annual message. One says he has begun to prepare it, but "the work, thus far. Is practically all mental," adding: "He will not commence writing it until he has outlined It entirely in his mind." The correspondent has had a peep into the President's mind, and gives some of the sallent points of the message as he discovered them. Another says the message "will be the most important state paper ever launched by the President." "Launched", is the proper word in that connection much better than hoisted. The President seems to have taken the boys Into his confidence. A. W. Clark, chairman of the Indiana Silver League, has reached the felicity of having himself Interviewed in St. Louis In regard to the political situation of this State. He informs the Post-Dls-patch. of that city, that "If the Indiana Democrats adopt a stralghtout sliver plank they will carry, the State by 23,000 majority," and that the only danger. to the party is that some straddle will be attempted. Mr. Clark does not seem to be aware that the sliver egg Is addled. Tho United States consul at Funchal, Madeira, sends his home paper at Frankfort, Ky the following translation of an editorial on. the political situation In this country which appeared in a recent issue of the Portuguese Daily News of Funchal: The presidential term cf Fenhor Cleveland Is drawing to a close. Th political parties are already preparing for the election of a new President for the Republic of North America. Already the forces are marshaling la their State conventions. These are political congresses that serve as a base for the school of candidates, wherein certain principles and guarantees are set forth In what are denominated "platforms." From our present Information the Democrats are .tronspr than the Republicans. The Democrats are happy in their strong representation of tho Monro doctrine, which they now find endangered by the Anglo-Venezuelene . conflict. Fenhor MacKinley counted on the patriotism of hl9 compatriots whn he launched the first time his protective system. To-day his formulas have lost favor. Ills forces are divided and gone to pieces. His fellow-citizens charge all to his excess, and with that exaggeratory born of the multitude the urave economic questions of the day are charged exclusively to his Mil. The name of the Ohio Senator has lost its prestlpe. Sennor Cleveland will be presented again for the suffrage of his people. Senhor Cleveland is distinguished for his granj popularity, his moral authority is incontestable. If his administration has not been a success, the fault docs not lie with Senhor Cleveland. The success of the approaching presidential election seems guaranteed to Senhor Cleveland and the Democratic party, which party has secured for itself a grand future in the politics and in the administration of the government of the Jtepubllque de Americo do Norte. A careful reading of this will disclose some inaccuracle. To a man in Madeira It may look as If "the Democrats are happy In their strong representation of the Monroe doctrine," but there 1 reason to believe the editor had his information through untrustworthy channel. Aa for Senhcr

Cleveland, it may bethat from a Funchal point of view "hia moral authority is incontestable," but it Is rash to predict his re-election before he in renominated. Perhaps Senhor Cleveland's friends are trying to reinforce the third-term idea by a flank movement from , Madeira. A Cincinnati court . has Just decided a curious case under the naturalization law. A young man who was born in this country of German parents had .returned with them to the old country when he was two years oil. When the civil war broke out his father came back to the United States, enlisted in the Union army and sered during the war, his family remaining In Germany, and finally died here. At the age of twen-ty-two the young nAn-was called upon to serve in the German army, but claimed American citizenship, 'and was excused. Then ho came to Cincinnati, where, on his offering to register, the question of citizenship again came up. The court held that whether the father, who is now dead, had been naturalized or not, his military service and honorable discharge from the army established his citizenship, together with that of the minor son, and that the latter had a right to register aad vote without taking out papers. The surprising feature of the 'case Is that the German government fhould have recognized the young man's claim to American citizenship after his father had voluntarily 1 returned and resumed his German citizenship. Under the circumstances the yeungman was In great luck to escape military -service In Germany. A huge cargo of 'Mexican hemp has arrived at Boston. There is not fo much hanging done In this country as t6 seem to require the importation of hemp. At least, not so much legal hanging. The newly formed trust In clothes-pins ought to be split wide open. nritiiL,cs ix the air.

Slto Warn tho Loser. He And now what, are you crying about? . She Be be because , you don't love me any more! . He But you don't love me, either. 'I know I don't; but, then. I never did!" Xot Synonymous "Thought you were1 billed to address a PopulUt meeting this evening. Major?" "I wa, but the blamed idiot expected me to speak for nothing. I let them know pretty sudden that the aivocay of free silver was utterly different from the free advocacy of silver." . The Only Defense. Visitor You must have a mighty queer Board, of Works here This is the first town I ever saw where the streets were so much smoother than the sidewalks. Citizen We gotto keep the sidewalks roug'ii, friend, to keep the bicycle fiends from running over our children. Irony of Fnte. "It ain't the pioneers, ii a great cause that gits the fame." . said the pesslmlstio gentleman with the long whiskers. "No?" said the man with the Idle mind. "Naw. Look how these theayters is coinin money on these here Trilby dances, while pore Jerry Simpson has dropped clean out of notice." . IS NOW $11,122,529.12 YESTERDAY THE TREASURY DEFICIT REACHED 1IIGH-AVATER MARK. Expenditure for . the Month Over Eleven Million CSrealrr tln. Recelpta Cnrllale's oiVilng Report. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. The treasury deficit reached the high-water mark for this month to-day, being, according to the official statement. $11,122,539.12. The process of reducing the deficit will be begun to-morrow, and it is the programme to cut today's deficit of more than $11,000,000 down to between $5,C00 000 and $6,000,000 by the end of the month. The deficit for the fiscal year is now over $21,000,000, but it will be so artfully nursed hereafter that it may not surpass $25,000,000 by the end of the calendar year. All .umors of recommmendatlons for raising additional revenues 'which Secretary Carlisle will make ty his. annual report to Congress are premature. Mr. Carlisle is loath to admit that alt his previous experience of the present tariff law as a revenue raiser have been erroneous, and he will bo slow to concede the necessity for any additional taxation. It is stated at the Treasury Department that, those paragraphs of Mr. Carlisle's reporti.dealing with the estimated receipts and expenditures of the government for the next year will be left unwritten until the very, last moment. The Secretary does not expect to send his report to Congress until the; 7th or ith of December, and he has the highest hopes of a favorable aspect of treasury affairs at that time. It can be set'.' down as an absolute certainty that whatever modes of raising revenue may be suggested, If, Indeed, he suggests any methods at all, the alleged increase of the beer tax 'ill not be one of them. The secretary of the National Association of Retail Liquor Dealers, which body has been holding its. annual meeting in this city for the past fev days, announced in an interview yesterday tha any increase of the beer tax would fall on the "retail dealer," a euphemism for the "saloon keeper." The Importance of the-saloon keeper as a factor in practical politics has Just been shown in Indianapolis. Observant politicians here ascribe to the saloon keepers of Indianapolis the responsibility for the recent Democratic victory, and the attitude of the DemocratI party toward the saloon Is too well known to permit the suggestion that a Democratic administration will ever recommend legislation hostile to its ally. A tax on checks and rosslbly on proprietary medicines may come well vlthln the bounds of possibility, but the saloon keeper need hae no fear. TO SAVE THE SEALS. Cupt. Hooper Thinks Females Should Xot He Killed In Anut. WASHINGTON. Oct. 18. Captain Hooper, who commanded the Bering sea fleet during the last season,, has made his report to the Treasury Department. lie recommends that the killing of female seals during the month of August, when tho d?ath of each female more than two yean old means the loss of three seals the mother, a young and helpless pup on the Islands, which dies of starvation, and an tinhorn pun should be prohibited. "Tho seal herd Is decreasing yearly," he says, "and will soon be a thing of the pat. In the absence of more stringent laws than at present exist for the prevention of pelagic sealing, I see no remedy." In regard to the operations of the fleet he reports that the vessels of the fleet cruised over thirty-six thousand miles In Bering sea and hoarded and examined sealing vessels 171 times in those waters, while over sixty-two thousand miles were cruised during the season within the area of the award. Thirty-one thousand two hundred and Klxteen sealskins were examined, of which 12,247 were males, 18,808 females and lui the sex of which it was impossible to determine. A few seals were probably taken by some of the sealers after they were last boarded, but It is estimated that the entire catch will not exceed 25,00) for the season. STOLEX II Y 1LLIXOIS. World' Fair Ilattle Ship Sold and the Proceed Pocketed. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. The Navy Department is very much concerned at the action of the Illinois authorities in selling the brick ship Illinois and keeping the proceeds In the State treasury. It has been the uniform rule heretofore to regard all prcperty obtained by a State from the national government for the use of the State naval militia as a loan In trust, the property to be returned to the national govern

ment when it Is no longer used by the militia. While the conditions under which the State of Illinois became possessed of the brick ship differed In some degree from those under which ships and equipment are Issued to States generally, the naval authorities are disposed to believe that in this case there was no legal right In the State of Illinois to sell the brick ship and its fine equipments, and therefore it is taking steps to ascertain the rights of the national government in tho matter.

Alleged Fraudulent Will. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. Shellabarger & Wilson, on behalf of the heirs at law of the late Joseph Holt, to-day filed a caveat in the Probate Court stating that the heirs do contest the alleged will filed by Luke Devlin as executor. The caveat asserts that the paper is not the last will and testament of Joseph Holt, is a forgery, and never was signed by Holt nor witnesses. It Is further alleged that even if the will was genuine it is of no effect, because it does not appear that the witnesses ever subscribed their names in the presence of Holt. It la also alleged that, even If the will was made by Holt, that it is not his last will, as he had attempted to, and did partially destroy the same by tearing his name from it and burning the paper, and, further, that It was not In the papers or possessions of Hoit, or in tho custody of any one authorized to have the same, but, after the late attempt at destruction,' was procured and fraudulently sent to the registrar of wills, having been pasted together in a maner to render It legible. It is also alleged that the signature of Holt, if procured at all, was secured by fraud and undue Influence Ly persons unknown. In fact, the caveat is a general and specific attack on the validity of the 'will. One Hundred Three-Ineh Gun. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. The '.Naval Ordnance Bureau is about to begin at once the manufacture of about a hundred threeInch field guns at the Washington gun factor'. At first the department contemplated having these guns constructed by contract, and to that end the two firms, the Hotchkiss and the Drigg companies, were invited to submit proposals for making the guns, the Hotchkisa make to embody theiFlaheer breech' mechanism and the Drlggs to have Its own pculiar breech. When the bids were received the, Ordnance Bureau found that, while they. were reasonable, they were still higher than the;cost of the guns if built at the Washington gun factory, and. as the department has the right to use the Flaheer mechanism, and it was felt to be highly expedient to hold together the fine force of expert, workmen at the Washington yard, which would otherwise have to be dissipated owing to lack of other work, the last Congress having reduced its appropriation, it was decided to undertake the manufacture of the guns there. - Snd New for Xnslivllle Mnyor. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. A telegram was received at the Navy- Department this morning from Mr. Orr at Nashville, stating that William Guild, son of the Mayor of Nashville, had been accidentally shot and killed there last evening. The sender of the telegram requested that the sad news be broken to the Mayor, who. with -his daughter, was en route to Washington to Join , the party going to Newport News, where the young lady was to christen the gunboat Nashville when she is launched to-morrow. The telegram was forwarded at once to Harper's Ferry. to catch the incoming train. The entire party turned back at Harper's Ferry to return to Nashville on receipt of the dispatch. It has been arranged the.t the gunboat Nashville will be christened tb-morrow by Miss Emma Thompson, of Nashville, who will come direct to Newport News with a party of Tennesseans, and that Congressman Washington shall represent . the Mayor of Nashville In the ceremonies attending the launching. Heavy Tax on Foreign Liqnor. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. The Nlcaraguan government monopolizes the sale of the native spirit "aguardiente" and has now by decree sought to protect it from the competition "of foreign liquors. which are largely used In the Mosquito country, by Imposing upon the latter a tax Of $1.H0 per liter of fifty degrees strength. According to United States Consul O'Hara at Greytown, the measure has caused great dissatisfaction in the Mosquito country, where rhe price of drinks Jumped In one day up to 30 and 50 cents, and the government has been memorialized to relieve tho people. Snnp'' for Peter Pemot. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. Peter H. Pcrnot, of Indianapolis, a well-known newspaper man, has been appointed by President Cleveland to examine and classify landswlthin the land granU of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, In ' the Bozeman land district of Montana. ; General Xotcs. ' Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. William Cassiday was appointed postmaster at Apalona, Perry county, to-day, vice J. C. Lanman, resigned. All of the members of the Cabinet were present to-day at the first regular Cabinet meeting since last May. The session lasted about two and a half hours. The President has appointed F. Glenn Mattoon, of North Dakota, to be Indian agent at Fort Berthold agency. North Dakota. The Treasury Department to-day reached a decision to take the Hand-McNally building in Chicago for temporary quarters for the offices now located in the public building In that city. The present structure Is to be demolished and a new one erected. WEATHER BUREAU FIGURES. Muilmnm nnd Minimum Temperatures mid Observation at 7 P. M. The following table of yesterday's temperatures Is furnlslfed by C. F. R. Wappenhans, local forecast official: Mln. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta S2 72 64 Bismarck. N. D 40 r,8 Buffalo 3$ . 2 M Calgary. N. W. T 30 r Cairo 40 72 62 Cheyenne 4 4S r.8 Chicago 41 C8 6i Concordia, Kan 52 70 W Davenport, la 4i 74 M Des Moines, la 4i US 52 Denver Dodge City, Kan h) 74 53 Fort smitn, atk Galveston 7o Helena. Mont 3 Jacksonville, Fla f8 Kansas City, Mo IS Little Rock. Ark 41 Minnedosa, Manitoba Marquette, Mich Memphis 4t Miles City, Mont 3$ Nashville 38 New Orleans tt New York 42 Oklahoma, O. T 4 Omaha 52 Pitt sourr 4i 7$ 48 82 80 7$ 34 GO 74 76 so 64 K0 74 42 70 GO tt'J 21 46 m 70 r2 70 i 64 40 RaMd City. S. D 4b Santa Fe. N. M 41 Salt Lake City 42 M St. Louis 4 Tfi Sun Antonio, Tex 60 Shreveport, Li 4$ Springfield. Hi 42 72 Springfield, Mo W 71 Virkshurg 4$ 7S 65 62 PS Washington- - 42 G4 52 Wichita, Kan 4$ Friday Local Observations. Bar. Ther. R. H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a.m. .30.17 44 63 South. Clear. 0.( 7 p.m.. 20.94 61 27 S'west. Clear. C.tO Maximum temperature, 71; minimum temperature, 39. Following Is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation on Oct- IS. Temp. Prec. Normal .10 Departure from normal 2 .10 Departure from Oct. 1 P2 1.02 Departure since Jan. 1 35 13.63 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Forrcnut fur Sntnnlny. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. For IndianaFair and colder; decidedly colder Sunday morning: winds becoming northwesterly. For Ohio Fair, colder towards evening; southwesterly winds, shifting to northwesterly. For Illlnoi Fair and decidedly colder; northwesterly winds. Two Detroit Firm In Strn.lt. DETROIT. Mich.. Oct. IS. Kutthauer, Rosenfield & Co., wholesale clothing dealers, and Louis Kuttnauer & Co.. wholesale leaf tobacco dealers, filed trust mortgages to-day aggregating nearly $200,000. Two mortgages oa the clothhrg stock and book accounts run to Herbert W. Noble, trustee, and are for $2,000 and $lo,oou, respectively. Two other mortgages, given on th tobacco utok and book account, run to Wr. E. Reilly, trustee. They are for $110,000 and fCO.CK). respectively. The mortgages are given to secure paper held by a lar- number of creditors. Including banks In Eastern and Western cities.

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REVIEWED BY 3IISS Fit AXCKS, MILLARD IX HER A.tTAL ADDRESS, What the "White Itlliboner Are Do. lng Towards Lessening Intemperance and Other Great Evils. UNION OF REFORM FORCES POLITICAL SCSI EM K COMMKXDED TO TUB GOOD WILL OF TUB AY. C. T. I. The Social Purity Question Dlruaed ut Length Reports of Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. BALTIMORE. Oct. lS.-The twenty-second . annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union began here to-day. The morning prayer meeting was led by Miss Elizabeth W. Greenwood, national evangelistic superintendent. The delegates to the convention took, seats by States in Music Hall. The stage was festooned with evergreens, and the national flag is everywhere displayed. Oha of the features Is an Indian ba nner made bv the women of the Indian Territory' out of furs J uu au aooui tne Daiconies are sus pended the banners of the various States.' At 10 o'clock Miss Frances K. Wlllard called the convention to order. Mrs. Monroe, of the Ohio W. C. T. U., offered a prayer. Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, of Missouri, the recording secretary, began the calling of thj roll. Many of the delegates complained that they could not hear Mrs. Hoffman, to which Mrs. Hoffman replied that she had great difficulty in hearing the delegates as they answered to their fcames. At the conclusion of the roll call the minutes of the executive committee were read. Committees were'next appointed. ' Ml Wlllard Addren. Miss Willard then read her annual-address, which was long, but interesting. Speaking of the spread of the temperance movement, she said that all the States and Territories except two (Georgia and Arkansas) now require the teaching of the laws of health to all school children, beginning with the youngest. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt heads this movement as the representative of the W. C. T. U. Four times a year the Sun Jayschool lesson explicitly teaches total abstinence. This is another point gained by White Ribboncrs, who worked ten years for it. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church has this year declared in favor of non-alcoholic wine for sacramental purposes, in the widening field of athletics all stimulation is discountenanced. The bicycle Is the most influential temperance reformer of the time, and milk is the favorite beverage of those who ride to win. Men who drink take less, and more men do not drink at all than In any previous. year. This is the testimony of raJway managers, life insurance agents, police captains and the general public. Steam and electricity have put level head3 at a premium, and the trend of invention lies parallel with the white path of personal purity In all the habits of life. Legislation follows on after lndivdual progress. The Canadian Parliament this year declared by an overwhelming majority in favor of prohibition; in South Australia and Utah women have been admitted to the full rights of citizens. Five Legislatures last winter voted to submit this question to the people. In New York city reform has forsaken the line ot least and sought that of greatest resistance. Municipal politics in that metropolis and many others turn on the temperance question. The enforcement of law, by Commissioner Roosevelt and the renewed war upon Tammany, Jed by the redoubtable Dr. Parkhurst, are the salient features of the time. The constantly Increasing participation of women In all the affairs of the world is of the utmost significance for good.. When woman is transplanted from the conservatories of seclusion Into the rreat open garden of common life the culture of that garden must become more refined and its purpose more protecting. Mother and child are rapidly taking- their rightful place as the central figures of the great world problem. Peace In the government and purity in the home must be their guardian angels. But what the world waits for 1 not the new woman alone, but the new man. "One swallow does not make a summer," and one parent by the hearthstone does not make a hpme. We need to stop singing the old ditty, "What Is Home Without a Mother?" and to put In Its place, "The Father Alone Can Make the House Home." If he spends his leisure time In what is now popularly known as "The Workingman's Club," a disguised name for the dram-shop, and his wages are levied on by the proprietor, a New Woman will be necessary to keep the home together, unless he himself becomesa New Man. PROPOSED UNION OF FORCES. A union of reform forces Is contemplated, and the leaders have agreed to the following basis, which Is commended to the good will of all White Ribbon women: First-Direct' legislation; the initiative and the referendum in national. State and local matters; tho Imperative mandate and proportional representation. Second V hen any branch of legitimate business becomes a monopoly in ti.e hands of a few against the interests of the many, that Industry should be taken possession of, on Just terms, by the municipality, the State or the Nation, and administered by the people. Third The election of President and Vice President and of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, rnd also of all civil officers, so far as practicable. Fourth Equal suffrage without distinction of sex. r Fifth As the land is the rightful heritage of the people, no tenure should hold without use and occupancy. Sixth Prohibition of the Mquor traffic for beverage purposes, and governmental, control of the sale for medicinal, scientific and mechanical uses. . Seventh All moneypaper, gold and slivershould be Issued by the national government only, and made legal tender for all payments, public or private, on future contracts, and In amount adequate to the demands of business. . Eighth The free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio cf 16 to 1. The labor movement is the natural ally of the White Rlbboners. The "working class" are the only true aristocrats. The time Is net distant when those who do not work will be drummed out of the camp and stung out of the hive, and will learn by what they suffer that it Is a law of od written In our member that "He who will not work, neither shall he eat." We are confronted by a vegetating aristocracy on one hand and an agitating, democracy on the other, and If the Federation of Inbor and the trades union will, throughout their entire membership, dtcree that strong drink shall be left tectotally alone, it will, within ten years, become the arbiter of destiny. SOCIAL PURITY. Miss Willard quoted the resolutions adopted by the world's W. C. T. 17. convention on the social purity question. anJ said the legalizing of crime might do for other times, but not for tho twentieth century. It might be tolerated in continental countries, but not by women of the Anglo-Saxon race. An equal standard of purity for man and woman, or what is called "a white life for two." is the demand of modern civilization. English Is now the language of well nigh one-half of the world's progressive peoples, and they buy three-fourths of all the railway tickets. Christian books are largely written In our native tongue. Tne" balance of literature relating to discovery and Invention belonjs to us; In works of science we are at the fore, and no writers can compete with u in novels of the home, hymns of the sanctuary and pfiems of the heart. The greatest empire and the foremost republic of the globe are English-speaking nations. The two countries in which thj largest prcyortlon of the people vote are our: the great human question of temperance and labor, woman and purity, freedom and peace, have been cradleJ at our firesides, guided by our reformers and crystallized in law by our statesmen. They are uppermost In the people's purposes alike In America and England. Australia and Canada. South Africa and Scotland. The agitation ajalnst low theaters and Impure 'livinar pictures." which bean In London lat autumn, has apread the world around. Mr. Laura Orrtlton Chint. rrho conducttJ th? cc?a cn t:ulf cf the White

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good pvople. Every nonconformist pulpit In England is open to hr. and her pun- Iji liberal views on the amusement uwitr: arc doing much to broaden the ouilock of the home folk. The World W. C. T. U. has estahilshcc m. department of amusements, and U 1 Ul3g

perceived that until men and worrun tvcether determine what amusement re helpful to the public, the grpat- domain of f recreation must remain cn a lower Iel Y than the sjciety It claims to r?-re-nt. Ta" fact Is. we can only purtfv art by pjrlfyisg j the artist. The ante; palr.ts and acts oit what he see and fels. "The puie In hcrt ' see God." Out of the abundance of Br , , heart" the r-n and pone!!, ai well u tre J mouth, must spk. . ? To tho reformer the most discourarrirg feature of current criticism alout tl-c strife is that it is made by those whose furnntndlngs. education and rffjudices have prevented them from giving so Ir.ttKutc a ru- i ject any personal observation. It is wfil known by students cf history that a dlanosts of a nation's health can be most cor- , rectly made by those who study its amue- : ments. The bloodthirsty exhibitions cf the . arena in ancient Rome, the wanton 1 geants of the later mediaeval tims. the . bull fights of Sialn-all are significant or the moral malady under which the nation suffers. Let any Impartial oli rver . the music halls, varitty theaters and the aquariums of London and report the tone existing there and. he will have revealed tne true reason for the epen sore of the world s great metropolis the nbjsht fride of the London streets. DEGRADED WOMANHOOD. Thoso who form the drend procession of degraded womanhood are chiefly the daughters of that class whose first lessens concerning the most sacred facts of life come to them with their earliest recollection in waj-s the most debasing. It Is time that the children educated by tho nation were taught, through channels pure and wholeseme, the scientific truths of their own being, based on the divine laws "written lu our members." It is time that those who i church. Sunday school and mission hall are trying to protect the tempted one should tecognlze more generally the perfectly natural and harmless desire that young people have for each other's company, and we should replace the casual meeting on the street corner or the appointment at tlm concert hall by reputable places of wholesome entertainment, where young men and women can meet each other openly, surrounded by the safeguard of helpful friends. There are hundreds of young men who come from respectable country homes to study a profession or enter houses cf business in London and New York who. durinr the struggling years of their probation, have no means of forming the acquaintance, of any respectable woman whose Influences, might in part replace that of the mother and sitters whom they s greatly mls. What wonder that from the ranks of these are recruited the constantly enlarging army of deteriorated manhood that forms the chief menace of the homes of the future? It ! my deliberate conviction that until women are associated with men In the superlslon of pubile amusements there is practically no hope of. utilizing this mighty force for the purification and uplifting of humanity. We forget that since time began these amusements have been regulated by . men, and tho tendency has been constantly to degrade women for purposes of gain; but If women had a voice in determining what spectacles should be put before the people, they would bring their hlrner sense cf reserve and modesty to correct the low standards uhlch even well-intentioned men have learned by long familiarity to -accept as a "necessary evil." It is the province of good women to deepen In the minds of men the perception that it is Impossible to degrade one class of women without diminishing the public respect for all: and that tho disgraceful exhibition of the woman who caters to the degraded taHe of tho men In the audience can but lower the standing of every man's sister and sweetheart. For God has so "fitly framed together" the different classes of the human family that ""when one member suffers alt -the members suffer with" her. PRURIENT LITERATURE. - No feature of this year Is so encouraging as the pronounced reaction against the decadence In literature and law.' The famous1 and Infamous litterateur wiio Is now serving out his sentence in prison was the centerof a school that Is so thoroughly discredited that the practical proof of the blight that has fallen upon It is found in the fear of publisher to bring out the works of anymember thereof, either their ao-called "art for art's sake." their "sex novel," or their' prurient "poetry." Tne W. C. T. U. of New York deserves great credit for the brave atand It haa taken in preparing a bill, presented by Sen

ator Mullin. which provides that any woman who makes a public exhibition of 'herself the tendency of which is to arouse impure thought, and any person who employs her to do Jhis, and who. by bills, posters and literature, corrupts the morals of the people, shall be, heavily fined and Imprisoned. Mis Willard closed her review of th woman question with these words: "In primitive days we had the matrUtchate. which means the rule of the mothers, and now for a painfully lengthened period we have had the patriarchate, or the rule of the fathers; but e begin to see the dawn of the amphiarchate. or the Joint rule of a Joint world by the Joint forces of its mothers and Its fathers. Happy are they who put their sturdy Moulders to the wheels of this white charict of the sun.". Miss Willard hold touhc idea sne has advocated so long, namely, mat the Prohibition party should change Its name to Homo Protection party. She rays that the use of the word prohibition as the name of a party has given an excuse to the pulpits of the. land to cease from advocating the principles of prohibition. We have no right thus to diminish the total amount of instruction aud arousing of the people that must be done before prohibition can ever become successful In politics and law. The word prohibition l wholly a negative term. . and distasteful to Americans, but the word "Home Protection" Is positive, attractive-, and contains an argument In itself. We urge our brothers, betide whom we hor ere long to stand as voters at the poll, to heed our earnest request, repeated for so many years through our publications an addresses, and to adopt tne name praved for by their most loyal and devoted allies and call ours the Home Protection party. Reports of Other Officer. The annual report of th corresponding secretary. Mrs, Katherlne Lent Stevenson, followed Miss Willard' address. Th report saya In part: "Last year at Cleveland, we made organization our. watchword. From the itemized reports which havebeen received I glean these salient points, leaving the organizers to tell you of their Individual work: 105 unions' organized, with 2,794 active and 509 honorary members. The total of new members secured by these organizers. In both new and old unions, as recorded In official blanks, is about five ; thousand. This by no means exhausts the record of new members secured. . Many States have carrii on this work through th?ir general officers, or State organizers. Mrs. Mollle McGee Snell. of Mississippi, national' evangelist, then JM services through' the evangelistic hour" and "noontide . prayer" followed, after which the convention listene-d to the annual report of the treasurer. Mrs. " Helen M. Barker, or Illinois. Her report shows an Incrcare in membership over last year, although the present fiscal year onlr covers ;!f7n months against thirteen months Included In last year' report. Pennsylvania is th banner State, uhowing a gain of trro thousand; New York over one thousand, while Iowa. Ohio, Oregon, Southern California. Connecticut. Main and Louisiana show ach a 'gain of five hundred and. over. North Carolina. South Carolina. ' Indiana. District -of Columbia. Jrf01-, .rW Hampshire, New Jersey. Rhode Island. 'Vermont. Virginia and West irginia all show. Ing a gain over last year. The total receipts of thin y-nr are IB..GS.W: total expenditures. 18.(?-34. eaylng n, balance in the treasury, after all bills are pa'.d. 'f $1.3T9.nD. Itecetved for due. XI !....... MAY KXCEKD G200.U00. Extent of the Forgeries of A. K. Want, the Memphis Knaltlve. MEMPHIS. Tenn., Oct. IS. A. K. Ward, rhe absconding treasurer and manager f the Memphis Barrel ard Healing Company, left here with hi wire on the Fouih-bourJ Illinois Central train. Tuesday, afternoon, and it is thought he took passage for Honduras on the steamer Breakwater, which lft New Orleans yesterday. It la now believed that Ward's forgeries . will exceed ISJO.OOO. It Is not yet known Just what banks hold the forged paper, -or to what amount, but it 1 report that the Mechanics' National, of New York, held P.t.tVO of it in August last. Another dispatch says Ward's stealings thus far traced out amount to about fill.000 and a latce portion of thla amount 1 hld by widows and orphans whoM money -was Invested in the piper. Memphis bunks hold about fTS.O'X ff the paper ail the remainder is scattered bredca:. IicUze. wrnre. Ward U irore to. !s trrHilria ncr.duro. with which ocurtrr Cr f it: I Situs h?.i r.a rstrcii:!n treaty.

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