Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1896 — Page 3

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Established 1853. Special Sales To-day in Dress Goods, Silks, Gloves Laces, Blankets and Flannels, Lace Curtains, Furniture, v Yesterday's papers have full particulars. Didivi you read them V . Pettis Dry Goods Co. MEN'S CALF SHOES, $2.18 and $2.98 In all the new toes. GEO. J. MAROTT, 26 end 28 East Washlagton Street. A. 13. BUCIIANAX, DENTIST, r.:t and aa When Block. Opp. Poitomcr. peoseb Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Hlghe.t ot 11 In leavening strength. I.ateit United State Government Food Report. . . Royal Baking Powdkb Co., New Yomx. , JOHN LOCKE ON FINANCE. In the great . treatise on the value of money by John Iocke (see works of John Locke, London. 1823, Vol. ."),. one of the mom acute ana iogic.ii reasoners iimi any nation or any age has given to the world, he defines money to be necessary to ' all forts of men In trade "both for counters and for pledges." This Is lils quaint and old-fashioned way of laying that it is both a measure or standard of value and a medium of exchange. Money, he tells us, carries with it as "counters" what he calls 'even reckoning;" and as "pledges" it carries "security that he that receives it shall have the same value for it again, of other things that he wants, ,whenever he pleases. The one ot these it does by its stamp and denomination; the other by its Intrinsic value, which is its quantity." The standard money of Locke's day was silver. A given quantity ot silver, whether stamped or unstamped, has a certain Intrinsic value, and this intrinsic value constitutes the "security that he that receives it shall have the same value for it again." The only purpose of the stanip and denomination is to make a given quantity of silver serve as a "counter,"' in order that there may be "even reckoning" in all business transactions. The stamp he correctly declares to be nothing more than "a public voucher of its weight and fineness;" and so little importance does he attach to the denomination that he observes that "here in England there might as well have' beentwelve; shillings In a penny, as twelve pence in a. shilling." ' . 1 leasing his argument, as ho does, upon the fundamental iruth that there, is and can be no difference in value between bullion coined and uncoined, and upon the supplemental truth that the value of bullion' is measured by its weight, he explains to his l eaders tha t "the necessity of proportion of money to irade depends on money, not as counters, lor the reckoning may be kept or transferred by writing, but on money as pledge, which writing cannot supply the place of, because a law cannot give to bills that Intrinsic value 'which the universal consent of mankind has annexed to silver and gold."- This is the very essence of the fatal objevtion to our modern American "greenback" hereby. The Greenbacker regards money merely as "counters," and very truly argues that there is no need that money, from this point of view, shall have intrinsic value. But he overlooks the fact that money is also "a pledge," and that a pledge or security must have intrinsic value. If it has no intrinsic value It will be accepted in trade on trust, as a memorandum of indebtedness to be discharged at some future time, and the moment that confidence is shaken In its ultimate redemption its nominal value begins to decline, until, when confidence in its redemption Is destroyed, It no longer passes current. Concerning the vexed question of the amount of money required. Locke remarks that it is hard to determine the necessary' proportion of money to trade, "because it depends not barely on the quantity of mbney. but the quickness of its circulation. The very Name shilling may, at one. time, pay twenty men in twenty days; at another rest in the name hands a hundred days together." He anticipates the argument of Mr, Bryan and others who advocate the cheapening of the American dollar, and even Mr. Bryan's quaint illustration taken front the "teeter board," in the following words: "There is another seeming consequence of the reducing of money to a low price, which at first sight has such an appearance of truth "In it that I have known it to impose upon very able men. . and that is. thut.th'?. lowering of Interest" (against which he M as writing) "will ralsethe value of all other things In proportion,;- For mency, leinff the counter-bttlancc to all other things purchasable by it, and lying, as it were, In the opposite fcale of commerce, It looks like a natural consequence that as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the jrice of other things that are exchanged for it. ... The mistake of this plausible way of reasoning will be easily .discovered when we consider that the measure of the value of m-jn-iy, in proportion to anything purchasable by it, is the quantity of ready money we, have in comparison with the quantity of that thing and Its vent;" (by "vent" he means demand In its relation to supply); "or, whiqh amounts to the same thing, the , price of, any commodity rises or falls by5 the proportion ot the number f buyers md sellers." Ia other words, the

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ratio which determines prices is not the ratio between money and property, but the ratio between the number of producers and that of consumers of any article in the market. Thi3 ratio is not affected, director Indirectly, by the volume of the currency. "Money," he says, "serves us commonly by its exchange, never almost by its consumption ;' and he adds, in direct contradiction to the theory held and promulgated by Mr. Bryan (that the only honest dollar is a stable dollar): "Though the use men make of money bo not in Its consumption, yet it has not at all a more standing, settled value, in exchange with any other thing, than any other commodity has." The idea that legislation has power to alter the value of money moves him to mirth. "These men," he cays, "have found cut by a cunning project how, by the restraint of a law, to make the price of money one-third cheaper, end then they tell John a Nokes that he shall have 10,000 of It to employ in merchandise or clothing; and John a Stiles shall have 20,000 more to pay his debts; and bo distribute this money as freely as Diego did his legacies, which they are to have, even where they can get them. But till these men can instruct the fcrward borrowers wrere they shall be furnished, they have perhaps dene something to Increase men's desire, but not made money one jot easier to come by; and, till they, do that, all this sweet jingling of money in their discourses just goes on to the tune of 'If all the world we oatmeal.' " This Is all very entertaining and instructive; but the interest for us here and new of Locke's teachings on the BUbject of money culminates in his discussion of the nature and effect of "clipping" or "raising" coin. M0ny is "raised". In the sense which he attaches to the woid, when Its nominal value exceeds its actual value. What he means by raised coin is what we mean by depreciated coin. Whenever coin has two values, one actual and one nominal, wa may of course fix our minds upon either; the nominal value is raised when the actual value falls. Clipping was an unauthorized method of raising coin, closely allied to counterfeiting. Kvery student of English history knows that it was once so cemmon and serious an evil as to demand the severest measures for its repression, so that It was treated as a capital offense, being such ?n encroachment upon the prerogative of the crown as to smack of veritable treason. Any alteration in the legal standard of value which has the effect to depreciate the mint valuation of the coin of the realm is, on the part of the crown, equivalent 'to clipping by private persons. Against this folly Loeke inveighs with a restrained power of logic almost amounting to Intellectual passion. Nearly all that he says about .'t is susceptible of direct application to existing conditions In the United States and to the financial controversy which will decide the presidential election next month. Locke was not a bimetallism nor a believer in the so-called "double standard," as appears from his remark that "silver, and silver alone, is the measure of commerce." There was then little gold in the world; and silver was far less plentiful than now. "Two metals, as gold and silver, cannot be the measure of commerce both together in any country; because the measure of commerce must be perpetually the same, invariable, and keeping the same proportion in all its parts. But so only one metal does, ; or can do, to itself; so silver is to silver and gold to gold. ; An ounce of silver Is always of equal value to an ounce of silver -and. an ounce of gold to an ounce of gold, and two ounces of the one or other of double value to an ounce of the same. But gold and silver change their value one to another; and one may as well make a measure v. g. a yard, whose parts lengthen and shrink, as a measure of trade of materials that have not always,a settled, invariable value to one another." He therefore desired that silver might alone be recognized as the legal standard ot valuation, and gold be treated as a commodity. But he cautioned his, readers that "the value of silver, considered as money and the measure of commerce, is nothing but its quantity" "Nobody," he thinks, "can be so senseless as to imagine that nineteen grains or ounces of silver shall at the same time exchange for, or buy, as much corn, oil or wine as twenty, which is to raise it to the value of twenty." The Just effect, he tells us, of "raising" silver by one-twentieth not one-half, as Is proposed in the Chicago . platform will be to "rob all creditors of one-twentieth of their debts, and all landlords of one-twentieth of their quit-rents forever." The second will be that "men will presently raise their commodities 5 per cent., so that if yesterday 20 crowns would ei.cha,nge for 'twenty bushels ot wheat or twenty yards of a certain sort of cloth, if you will to-day coin current crowps onetwentieth lighter, and make them the standard, you will find 20 crowns will ex. change for but nineteen bushels of wheat, or nineteen yards of cloth, which will be just as much for a bushel as yesterday." Silver will be "of no more real value by your giving the same denomination to a less quantity of it." It is impossible to state this principle more clearly than Locke states it in the words: "So much as you lessen your coin, so much more you must pay in tale, as will make the quantity of silver the merchant expects for his commodity under what denomination soever he receives It;" and again: "If you make your money less in weight. It must be made up in tale" that Is, in the number of pieces paid out. The "raising" of. money "is in effect nothing but giving a denomination of more pence to the same quantity of silver. Whether you call the piece coined twelve pence or fifteen pence or sixty pence or seventy-five, a crown or a scepter, it will buy no more silk, salt or bread than it would before. It is silver by its quantity, and not denomination, that Is the price of things." . Locke meets the familiir objection to this self-evident truth, that clipped coin is accepted, in many transactions, at its face valuation, by observing that "clipped and undipped money will always buy an equal quantity of anything else as long as they will without scruple change one for another." It Is "all one to the seller, whether ho receives his money In clipped money or no, so It be but current." But "i? the quantity of your clipped coin be once grown so great that the foreign merchant cannot (If he has a mind to it) easily get weight money for it. ho will, or else raise the price of his commodity, according to the diminished quantity of silver In yourx current coin." The application of this remark to a silver dollar not worth its face in gold is obvious. The government can float a limited, but not an unlimited, number of such dollars. Locke, moreover, distinctly perceives and emphasizes the difference between past and future contracts. "In contracts already made, if your species (coins or specie) be by law coined a fifth part lighter, under the same denomination, the creditor must take a hundred such light shillings, or twenty such light crown pieces for 3 if the law calls them so. but he loses one-fifth in the intrinsic value of his debt. But, in bargains to be made and things to be purchased, money has, and always will have, its value -from the quantity of silver in it, and not from the stamp and denomination.". Finally, upon the great question of the morality of raising the nominal value of coin, this honest and independent thinker remarks: "It will rob all creditors of onetwentieth (or j per cent.) of their debts, and all landlords one-twentieth of their qultrents forever; and In. all other rents, as far as their former contracts read, of 5 per cent, of their yearly income; and this without any advantage to the debtor, or farmer.

For he, receiving no more xounds sterling for his land or commodities in this new lighter coin than he should have done of your old and weightier money, gets nothing by it. If you say, yes, he will recei-e more crowns, half crowns -and shilling pieces for what he now sells for new money than he should have done if the money of the old standard had continued you confess your money is riot raised in value, but in denomination; since what your new pieces want in weight must now be made up in number. This is at first sight vislbl' , that in all payments to be received upon precedent contracts, if your money be in effect raised, the receiver will lose 5 per cent." Klsewhere he observes: "Mr. Lowndes," who was the English Bryan of two hundred years ago. and who made the same complaint of the rising silver shilling that Mr. Bryan now makes of the rising gold dollar, "says that silver in England is grown scarce, and consequently dearer, and so ts of higher price. This, if It were so, ought not to annul any man's bargain, nor make him receive less in quantity than he lent. He was to receive again the same sum, and the public authority was guaranteed that the same sum should have the same quantity of silver, under the sajne denomination. And the reason is plain why in justice he ought to have the same quantity of silver again, notwithstanding any pretended rise of its value. For if silver had grown more plentiful, and by consequence (by our author's rule) cheaper, his debtor would r.ot have been compelled, by the public authority, to have paiu him. In consideration of its cheapness, a greater quantity of silver than they contracted for. Cocoanuts were the money of a part of America when we first came here. Suppose, then, you had lent me last year 300, or fifteen score cocoanuts, to be repaid this year, would you be satisfied, and think yourself paid your due, if I should tell you cocoanuts were scarce this year, and that four score were of as much value this year as a hundred last; and that therefore you were well and fully paid, if I restored to you only 240 for the 300 I borrowed? Would you not think yourself defrauded of twothirds (one-fifth) of your right by such a payment? Nor would it make any amends for this to justice, or reparation to you, that the public had (after your contract, which was made for fifteen score) altered the denomination of a score, and declared It to be sixteen instead of twenty." Locke's reputation as a philosopher is too great and has been too enduring to be questioned. lie lived and. wrote two centuries ago. At th.lt time corporations, syndicates and trusts were unknown. There is no reference in his writings to paper money. Silver was the standard of valuation. He cannot, therefore, be accused of being in the pay of corporations, or upor. the side of monopoly In opposition to the people, or of being actuated by prejudice for or against bank notes or treasury notes, or of being a blind worshiper of the yellow metal. At that time the modern system of machinery as a substitute for hand la bor had not begun to develop, so that the labor question of to-day did not affect his views. Neither was there then the great expansion of commercial credits which the Inventive talent of tha nineteenth century and the demands of business under the altered conditions of life have created. It must, therefore, appear to every unprejudiced reader of his works tnat a man today, in the United States, may hold the philosophic and economic opinions which were maintained and defended with such perspicuity and force by this apostle of sound currency, without being justly open to the charge of prejudice of any sort, political or economical. Locke said of himself: "I shall never knowingly be on any but truth's and my country's side; the former I shall always gladly embrace and honor whoever shows 't me; and in these papers I am sure I have no other aim but to do what little I can for the service of my country." It is in the same spirit of loyalty to truth and devotion to the honor of the A merican name, as Will to the prosperity of the American nation, including all its members, whether employers or employed, rich or poor, debtors or creditors, purchasers or consumers, buyers cr sellers. Republicans, Democrats, Populists, Prohibitionists, that this brief abstract of his views and the arguments by which they are' supported is given to the public. FREDERICK HOWARD WINES. FORECAST FOR TO-DAY.

Uc-ciiNlonul Haiti. Followed by Fair Mild Cooler Weather. Forecast for Indianapolis and Vicinity for the Twenty-four Hours Ending 11 p., m.. Oct. 12 Occasional rain, followed by fair weather and cooler on Monday. General Conditions Yesterday High at mospherlc pressure prevails, with depressions in the Northwest, over the Mississippi valley from central Illinois southward and off the southern Atlantic coast. No great change in temperature occurred except in Missouri and southern Illinois, where It is quite cool. Rains fell in the Mississippi valley from Iowa southward and near the Atlantic coast. Heavy rain one inch fell at Springfield. III. FORECAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. For Ohio Increasing cloudiness and probably local rains; fresh to brisk easterly winds. For Indiana Showers, followed by clearing, weather; cooler In southern portions; variable winds, shifting to northwesterly. For Illinois Fair, preceded by rain in southern and central portions: northerly winds; warmer in southern portion. Snnday'si Loral OlmervHtloim. Time. Bar. Ther. R. H. Wind. Wea. Pree. 7 a. m..?0.1fi 46 7 East. Pt. Cl'dy .00 7 p.m. .30.0 60 4tf N'east. Cloudy. ,oo Maximum temperature, 67; minimum temperature. 45. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Oct. 11: Temp. Prec. Normal " 0.08 Mean M 00.0 Departure from normal 0 0.M Departure since Oct. 1 ; 37 0.12 Total departure since Jan. 1 4ti4 0.54 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS.' Local Forecast Official. Vm t e rda y Tem pern t a res. Station. 7 a.m. Max. Atlanta. Ga 70 Bismarck. N. D ."2 Builalo. N. V r.x Calgary. N. W. T 4S Cairo, 111 .. iW r.S Cheyenne. Wyo 22 'ft Chicago. Ill 52 "? Concordia. Kan 40 Davenport. Ia ."4 ' Des Moines, la .2 W Dodge City. Kan 24 ft! Galveston. Tex 72 Helena. Mont !2 Jacksonville. Fla 7i Kansas City, Mo 44 ."' Little Rock. Ark ot) W Marquette. Mich . Zifi Memphis. Temi i0 fin Nashville. Tenn r.S t!2 New Orleans. La 7S New York iW North Platte 20 W Oklahoma. O. T 4 Omaha, Neb 44 54 Pittsburg, Pa 44 ;o Qu'Appeile. N. W. T 62 Rapid City. S. D 22 2 Salt Lake City, Utah.... .".2 7u St. Louis, Mo 'OS S St. Paul. Minn s Springfield. Ill ."2 :f Springfield, Mo 4t 44 Vieksburg. Miss H2 Washington, l. C iVJ 7 p. m lii 44 4S 4S ."ill 5 ."; r.s ;.4 70 .M .") r.s ;.o r-4 r.s 72 AS r.t ui CO 4S M M 42 4 Surveying for a Nev Hontf. A corps of surveyors, running a line for an extension of the Big Four railroad from Muncle to Richmond, has reached Wayne county. There are twenty men in all and they are on the Hunt farm, a short distance south- of Williamsburg. They are expected to arrive at Richmond this week. But little information can be secured regarding the work. Some stomachs will not handle coffee. Postum Cereal agrees with the weakest and takes the place of coffee nicely.

SERMON BY DR. H. fl. GOBIN

THE I'HESIDKXT. OF , DE IMI W AT ROBERTS PARK CHI RCH. Spiritualists Dedicate Their Sew Cltureh I!nIliHlS ProjgreM of the College-Avenue Revival. Dr. H. A. Gobin. president of DePauw University, preached nt Roberts Park Church yesterday morning. Dr. Gobin came to Indianapolis with a company of recruits during the early years . of the war. He was licensed to preach from Roberts Park Church by the conference. Dr. Gobin is a man of marked iersonality, with massive features and quiet, but forcible gestures. He was heard with close attention by a large congregation yesterday. For the second lesson of the morning Dr. Gobin read the account of Christ's transfiguration as recorded in Mark Ix, where the disciple tells how Jesus went up Into an exceedingly high mountain, taking with him Peter and James and John, and was transfigured before them and Moses and Elias appeared and talked with the Savior. Coming from the mountain they found a great multitude of people conversing .with the other disciples, who were unable to cast out a dumb spirit with which the son" of one of the multitude was possessed, Jesus, moved to compassion by the tears of the father, cast out the spirit. After reading the lesson Dr. Gobin said that he would preach, not from a single text, but upon the two transfigurations. The first .transfiguration, he said, was when Christ was on the mountain and was made glorious, so that his garments shone like white snow. So closely is mankind engaged In lingering over that glorious transfiguration, the preacher said, the world does not observe the transfiguration of humanity downward. As they descended from the mountain they met the scene where humanity was in wreck and ruin. Christ impressed upon His disciples that he was come on a mission of alleviation, to remove distress and cause of distress and that they were to follow His example. ' "Was that poor boy. a figure of divine inspiration? Was he a creature of God? Was he a representative of humanity? What would mankind .bo if ho were a type? He was transfigured humanity. In his humanity was transfigured downward. That aberration was. a 'consequence of the curse that had become current in the world on account of the transgressions of men." Christ listened to the cry of the father and healed his son, who was himself so debased that he had no idea of his own true condition and might never have been saved if his salvation , had depended upon his own prayers, said the preacher. The work of the religion. . of the Lord Jesus Christ is largely a home-saving work. One glorious thing about Christianity is the fact that it makes people more sympathetic for those who are repulsive, he said. The real transfiguration that comes to those who walk with the Lord is to change the ordinary and make It the extraordinary, to make us love the unlovely. But the workers for Christ, said the preacher, are oftentimes met with Ingratitude. Even so they are themselves ungrateful. "When God lifted you out of the darkness, were you sufficiently grateful? Did you express that gratitude in a proper way? It is a beautiful thing to be with God on the mount, but it is a far more beautiful thing to be with Him-in the valley of darkness. Paul's favorite wordj was redemption. God did not interd me.n to writhe and foam at the mouth, possessed bv' evil, but intended for them to be delivered in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ." REV. II. M. AVHARTOVS SERMON. Revival Services at College-Avenue IJapdMt Church. Rev. IT. M.; Wharton; the well-know evangelist, prcachl -at the College-avenua' Baptist Church : yesterday marning and evening. In the morning he took for his "text Eph. v, 3. "Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children." He said, in part: "I want to emphasize three thoughts sug. gested by thi text the dignity, the duty and the destiny of the Christian. First, the dignity oi thd C.brwtla.i. He is a child of God, and i; is his privilege to' know he is a child of God. , If I were to ask some of you if you are. saved . you would say 'I hope I am. Sometimes I think I am and sometimes I think I am not.' Now, this is no way for a Christian to talk. It dishonors God. My father tells me I am his son, and I believe it', and so God tells me if I repent arid believe in Christ I am His child, and I believe it. "The duty of the Christian, is plainly stated herb to be,a follower of God. What is it to follow dod, , to Walk in His footsteps? It Is a blessed thing when the mother can say to the children, 'You should walk in your father's footsteps. Some Of you fathers, if jour children would walk In your footsteps, would lead them down to hell. When a boy, my mother told me to walk in my father's footsteps, and I thought 1 understood it. One clay, after it had rained. I aw my father's footprints in the mud and I tried to walk In them, but 1 could not, reach them. So God plants His footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm. To follow God is to imitate Christ when He was upon earth. Follow Him in purity. Some of you Christians try to se how much meanness yon can do and yet get. to heaven. You . come to the pastor and you say, 'Brother Han. can I playcards? Can T -dance? Can I go to the theater? Can I do this and that? We cught to be like the coachman who was determined to keen as far from the edge of the pr -cipice as possible. Sometimes parents think their children should taste certalr forms of sin when young so as to know when to shun. it. I would Just as soon think of having a child of mine be bitten by a rattlesnake so th.it it mignt know afterward to shun a rattlesn ike. "Christ has set the example of truth. Lack of truth is the weakness of the church. We hear a good deal about infidelity. I am not afraid of mndelity It can accomplish little. Behoid the man c-v I am going to overthrow the building.' A few persons cry out In fear, but someone says. 'Let him try it.' He bends himself to the task, but fails. The building stands when he goes the way of ail other idiots'. No, I am not afraid of Infidelity, but I am afraid sometime; of the lack of faith of God's children. We need to walk in the footstep of Christ. Imitate His obedience. He was obedient in all thins. See what He endured to do the, will or His Father. And w show ot. love by our obedience in littie things. The mother tells her 'child to pick up a pin. The child refuses The pin is a very insignificant thing, but thh child must nick it up if it is obedient to its parent. It may say. 'Mama, 1 love vou.' but if it persists in refusing to pick up tf.e pin it rtoesn't love its mamma. "There is another footstep of Jesus in which we should walk, and that is jjrayer. He was constantly in prayer. We need prayer during these meetings. We should work like Jesus worked, and the kind of work He was engaged in' was saving men, and that in the kind of work Christians should be engaged in now. Go out after the lost and bring them to Christ. Personal work i what is needed. The laist thought is the Christian's destiny., Whither are we going? We are on our way hcrne." Dr. Wharton Is from Baltimore, and with his gospel singers, takes Dr. Barron's plate in the revival meeting. Last night both rooms were crowded and many persons confessed Christ, Four persons were baptized. Dr. Wharton looks more like a business man than a Treacher. He has great nower with hi5' audience. He is one of the. most, successful evangel'sts in the country. He has just closed a great meeting at Columbia. Mo., where hundreds were converted. Mr. and Mrs. Rush, his gospel singers sang at all the services. The meetings will be continued all week Dr. Wharton will .preach at 4 and 7:30. His subject this- attemooa is "Mother's Prayer." SPIRITUALISTS' EW CHI HC1I. Chapel Dedicated Yenterday by F, A. WIrbIh, of Boston. The chapel of the First Spiritualist Church of Indianapolis was dedicated yesterday afternoon, F. A. Wiggln. of Boston, officiating, The organization has bought the old thurch fbuflding at the corner of New York and Alabama streets, for $i,0oo. Yesterday afternoon the president of the association gave a brief review of the his

tory of the present body. It was organized J l . , c f .1 r i t i .. 1 1 . . W

in 1533. iorraine xiuu was ine ineeuriK place' for some time, and subsequently the meetings were held in G. A. R. Hall. Last spring the movement to buy a permanent church home was inaugurated, and it was successful beyond the expectations of those engaged in the movement. In a short time $2,050 was raised by vopuiar subscriptions, and subseciuently enough more was re ceived to make the total paid on the build- , lng so far $2,700. Besides this, the building ; has been newly furnished and decorated j throughout, and Is an attractive place. There Is now $236 in the treasury, with all expenses paid, including insurance, street improvements, etc. The society is organized on the co-operative plan. Each member Is required to purchase a $20 stock certificate, which is payable in 10-cent weekly installments. There is now a membership of one hundred actively connectetl with the church. In the near future it is the intention to establish a lyceum for the purpose of instructing the young in the beliefs of the sect. The Sunday services of the church are held in the large hall on the second floor. Yesterday afternoon the hall was crowded. At the door sat the treasurer, taking a small admittance fee from those able to pay. Others were admitted free. Such is the custom. The platform and pulpit were tastefully decorated with palms and cut flowers. Music was furnished by an -orchestra and a choir. Distributed ubout the hall were hymn . books containing wellknown gospel hymns. At the opening of the services one of these songs was sung, but that was the only respect in which the services resembled those of the orthodox churches. Mr. Wigtin read a lengthy selection from some wiiter who declared that he had seen evolution and change in all nature, but no death. "The souls of none have died from earth's earliest evolutions, and all live who have ever lived," he read. "Not Christ alone has risen, but all have risen. The stone is rolled from every sepulcher." For a text. Mr. Wiggin announced that he would speak from Job xxiii, 3: "Suffer me that I may speak, and after that I have spoken, mark on." Mr. Wiggin spoke briefly on the rise and progress of Spiritualism in America, where modern Spiritualism was born Just forty-eight years ago last March, he said. He said that modem Spiritualism, like all other religions, had met numerous objections. Every step of science anil progress of any sort, he declared, was beset at the outset with objections. But. in spite of objections, he said, modern Spiritualism is making rapid progress. "Two years ago." said Mr. Wiggin. "plenty of good people In Indianapolis would have looked "upon the establishment of a church and the building or purchasing of a place where the Spiritualists could have a home as a paradox and an impossibility. Even a year ago I was somewhat censured when I declared you ought to have your home, and yet, here you are to-day." Mr. Wiggin stated the cr-ed of the church, if it has anv to be a belief in the continuity of spiritual existence and the belief in the doctrine that the spirits of the dead can and do return to earth under proper conditions. He devoted considerable time to answering objections to Spiritualism. Mr. Wiggin announced that th- evening service would be devoted to making "tests." A COL1MUIAV ANNIVERSARY Observed by Special Services at First IlaptlNt Church. The front of the choir gallery at the First Baptist Church was draped with a large national flag last night, and the services were in commemoration of the four-hun-dred-and-fourth anniversary of the discovery of America. In his; address Rev. Mr. Ellison likened Columbus to Caleb in the fact that Caleb was the discoverer of Palestine, while Columbus m?ide( the discovery of this continent. "Yet in neither sense are those men the first discoverers of this land," said he. "Columbus was, however, the discoverer in the, sensq that he made it possible for the .old,; world's visions to I.ter in upon what has become our country. We know little of -Caleb, ,e"xcept. that he was brave, some of his characteristics and the name of his father-in-law. That's about all.. We don't know very much about Columbus other . than f his , characteristics. Even historians differ in the date of his birth by ten years. They also differ on the date of the discovery of America. Some say it was on Oct. H, others- on Oct. 12. The man may be hid away in darkness or he may be enfolded in light, yet you know that he dil this one great thing. He lived just at . the time wheivmen were .beginning to acquire kncftvledge and the. people were coming out from under the rule of the priests and the power of those terrible monasteries. He lived just at the close of the dark ages. The dissimilarity between Caleb and Columbus was that Caleo would use what he. could get. while Columbus was the biggest finder of oppor tunities and the biggest blunderer as to the way to use them. If we have opportunities we must use them. Whatever comes to us in the way of an opportunity it is ours. If we don't use' our opportunities and allow them to slip by we are failures In this world. "Grant was the wonderful man he was because he Uied his opportunities. He studied them over when they were presented and utilized every part of them. Columbus had a wonderful opportunity to achieve wealth when he discovered America, but he didn't know what to do with his Opportunity. He allowed it to slip, by and died in poverty. I care not what pec. pie may say. we are in the most trying times now since 1S60. 1 care not for whom you are going to vote, and 1 speak without any partisan spirit; unless we uphold our opportunity and do it with God s help our country cannot retrieve itself and succeed. As we proceed, do unto others as you vculd le done by. There Is no ether country like America, rtnd we must do our best for its interests. . The sweetest thing in my life is that I wa born in America." MORAL SIDE OF DEBTS REV. Mil. DEVVHIRST REFERS TO THE PRESENT FINANCIAL ISSIE. . t .. Money a Standard of Deferred Payment Man Mnt Not Expect to Scale Ih ewe Debts. Rev. F. E. Dewhurst last night preached on the subject of "Civic Religion." The main thought of his sermon is that people, In determining how they shall vote on such questions as the present politie-al issues, should do so as citizens of a common country, and not as individuals. They should ask themselves whether their vote Is to be cast for the welfare, of the whole people or for their individual good. He held that It is the duty of the ministers to teach that the people should study to vote for the good of the whole people, and lay aside all thought of whether the vote is cast in favor of themselves as individuals, for, he said, what is good for all is good for one. After reading an extract from a recent article by David S. Jordan on republican government, and a general introduction to his sermon, he said: "I do not wish for a moment to forget that I am not here to make a political address in a partisan sense, nor primarily to influence votes, but rather tc distinguish, so far as we may be able, between the bearing of the Judgment and the bearing of the motive on tins subject before us. So far as motives afreet one's attitude to this question it is, without disguise or apology, a moral tiuestion. A man's judgment cannot very directly affect his motives for pursuing a given course, but his motives will very powerfully color and atfeet his judgment. "if the millions of people in this country were ranged on the diherent siifes of the; present issue with no motives behind their action beyond the immediate effect upon their own individual and temporary lot, the spectacle would be little more edifying than that of a pack of jackals quarreling ami growling over their prey. 1 do not believe that men of noble spirit are so guided, and because they are not it eertainiy puts the stamp of unworthiness ujon the motive of any man who says, 'I make my choice in this contest exclusively upon the ground of my own individual and immediate benefit. "The question, however, now vital and stirring grows out of a function of money entirely separate from the one named: it grows out of the fact that money, beside being a medium of exchange, is a standard Of defined payments, that is, a. standard by means of which obligations contracted today may be settled with equity at some future time. The security of this equity for future payment of obligations rets upon the stability of'the standard, and the present issue is over the methods by which that stability can best be secured and maintained. "As regards the choice between the claims of the two side I have arrived at convictions that are clear enough to determine my own act as a citizen at the polid.

but I am concerned now and here wholly with the tiuestion of motive, that Is. with the moral aspect of the question. If a man says ta his neighbor or to his ow. heart. 1 am going to vote for this charure because it will make it easier for me to pay my debts, because It will scale down my obligations.' then that man's conscience, if it does not need rebuking, certainly needs instructing. If a man with his eyes open compels his neichbors to pay his debts, or a fraction of them, is not that a violation of the most sacred trust a man can place In his fellow-man? Is there any one who will seriously attempt to defend this motive or the political action based upon it? At this point it is no longer a question of judgment, but one of motive. "It is therefore the elouble character of the main issue now before us which makes it a question both of political policy and of ethics, a question for the forum and the pulpit ilike. With questions of mere political expediency the pulpit as such has nothing to do, but it cannot abdicate its risht to assert the moral law. It is then clearly the duty of every man. first of all. to ask his conscience the question. 'Do I expect a larger equity, a sounder economic policy', a financial system which will work injustice to no man. or am I intending to take nilvantage of the power which political success will bring of heeding the advice of the Scripture steward who has always gone by the name of "unjust" and of "sitting down quickly" to write fifty measures for the hundred I owe?' The question of motive needs to be separated Trom the question of judgment, for while the effect of a given policy would be the same in either case, the effect upon the man could not be the same. A man may pursue a mistaken course and walk unashamed, but he cannot do violence to his moral nature and be what he was before. I say again it seems to me quite possible for men to stand uion both sides of te present issue with clear consciences, but I he man whose conscience is clear tnuat pe su.ide himself that the course he contemplates means' mere justice, equity and welfare to the Nation as n whole. There is no principle more sacred than that of trust, the abiding faith of man in man. Our security rests upon it as upon the granite of the eternal hills, and every coin that circulates is a virtual confession of our belief in the essential Integrity of mankind. On the face of many of our current coins is this inscription, 'In God we trust.' If that inscription is not to be a blasphemy and a lie we must see on the reverse of these coins this other inscription, written in blazing letters. 'In man we trust.' and that trust shall receive from our hands no stain of dishonor, no abrasion and no loss."

STIFLED IT BY FORCE POl'OCRATS CAPTURE THE NONCONFORMIST 11Y AID OF POLICE. Editor Maluewn Arrested for Pro. faulty, While Ilia EnemleM Took PonucmnIoii of the Olllce. .There Is a heap of trouble about the office of the Nonconformist, the national organ of the Populist party. The moving spirit in the row is Mrs. Cuthbert Vincent, wife of a professor of elocution, journalist and what-not, who was one of the original founders of the institution. She Is after the scalp of Charles X. Mathews, the editor of the paper, who has been making It, of late, about the hottest middle-of-the-road organ that could well be imagined. Mrs. Vincent get3 her inspiration from Popocratic State headquarters, and has occasional conferences , with Chairman Martin. The net result of the trouble just at present is Charles xl Mathews, arrested on a charge of proranity and out on bail, Mrs. Vincent and her supporters camping out in the office of the Nonconformist, with the doors locked and barred against Mathews, and a certain prospect of an application, for a receiver, by the employes of the concern this morning. The. history of the row goes back to the founding of the paper In 1S88 by Cuthbert Vincent and his brother out in Kansas, somewhere. They removed it to Indiana in JS90 and ran it until after the campaign of 1SD2. It was not a paying concern and they succeeded In unloading it upon Leroy Templeton probably the wealthiest Popu list in the State, who was their candidate for Governor in 1892. Templeton ran the thing at a loss until about the first week In August, when the property was transferred to MeKee & McAllister, a couple of young men who were employes of the concern. Charles X. Mathews, who had been editing the paper under Templeton'a regime, continued in that capacity. Just what MeKee & McAllister paid for it, if anything, does not appear. It has been reported that they paid a small sum for it, and it has been reported that they got it at a purely nominal price, assuming its debts. Since the sell-out to the Popocrats the Nonconformist has been peculiarly bitter against the men who made the deal and has been merciless in its treatment of the Indianapolis gang of Populists. Naturally it has been a thorn in the side of the Popocratic managers. A couple of weeks ago they endeavored to get control of it, but failed. T. E. Johnson (half-breed) has been very anxious that Mathews should be ousted and succeeded in getting MeKee & McAllister OVer to his WHV of thlnklncr Cln 9t.f. i unlay Mrs. Vincent, who ordinarily has not a dollar, appeared at the office of the Nonconformist to take possession. She bore a note from MeKee stating he and McAllister had sold tho paper to her. Mathews asked her if she was prepared to pay him $400 back salary. She said she was not; then he asked if she was prepared to pay the pressmen, and got the same answer. Some warm words ensued and Mathews ordered her out of the office. She applied to the police for assistance in obtaining possession of the office, but they declined to interfere. . About 11 o'clock Saturday night Mrs. Vincent, W. G. Hendricks and one Beadle appeared at the Grand Hovel and wanted to see' Taggart and Chairman Martin, of the Popocratic State committee, right, away. Mr. Taggart had gone home and Martin was out somewhere. The old man was left to watch, while Mrs. Vincent and MeKee went out to scour the town for Martin. They did not find him and returned at 12 to find that he had not yet come in. They seated themselves in the little Turkish loggia overlooking the office and waited until he appeared, at 12:30. They unloaded their troubles ujKm him and got consolation, advice and some cash. Yesterday morning Mrs. Vincent and her friends appeared at the office of the Nonconformist. Mathews, in the meantime, natl hustled out an issue of the paper on Saturday full of pins, pitchforks and bayonets, and had held the fort all night, having his victuals sent in to him. He was not feeling In the best of humor, and when the Vincent crowd turned up the atmosphere was blue and yellow for several minutes. The row attracted the police from the station across the street and Captain Dawson and Siergeant Schwab came to see what was the matter. T. E. Johnson preferred a charge of profanity against Matthews and he was yanked off to durance vile. It only took him five minutes to put up $2.1 bail and te rfleased. but that five minutes proveei fatal. While he was getting out of hock the Vincent crowd took possession of the office, barred him out and have been camping out there ever since. Last night Mrs. Vincent slipped awaylong enot'gh to have a conference at the Populist State headquarters, in the English Motel, with Rosenholme... Hinkerton Smith and other fusionists. In the mean, time Mathews Is yearning for the gore cf Johnson and the people who have fixed up the deal. It develops, that on Friday MeKee and McAllister conveyed the presses, type .met other tangible property of the concern to W. (I. Hendricks. The transfer to .Mrs. Vincent, or alleged tram ti r. Includes only the subscription list and jrood will of the paper. Another Report of OkroixI'd Death. Another report has come from Philadelphia to the effect that William D. Osgood, who was at one time coach , for the Light Artillery football team, had been killed by the Spaniards in a battle In Cuba. A year ago u similar report was received here, but it was disproved afterwards by letters from Osgood to friends. Now the report has it that. Osgood had been promoted to major in the insurgent army and was leading an attack on a fortified position. He was supported but with a f w mn, he was cut off from his troop, and was backed to piece by th Spaniards

TRIO OF BIG , MEETINGS

SOLDIHRV COMBINATION WILL Hfcl HERE TO-MORROW Ml. I IT. A Parade of Veteran to Emcort iht Great (ienera I Reeeptlttii -Committee to to to Lafayette. The local camp of the MoKJnley Soldiers', Sailors" and Sons of Veterans' Club met yestsrday afternoon in the ' sound-money heaelquarters. at IS and 20 North Meridian street, to complete the arrangements . for the reception of the big soldier combination, composed of Generals Alge r, Sickles and Howard, and Corporal Tanner and private Stewart. This combination will be here to-morrow, anil the meeting will be in tho hands of the old soldier. Gen. N. II. Ruckle has been selected as the chief, marshal for the parade, and he will name his own assistants. It was arrangeel that all veterans and sons of veterans who favor sound money shoidd meet at 1$ and 20 North Meridian street to-tnorrow night at (5:4.7 o'clock and form In line at 7 o'clock. This, is important, for it, has been Impossible to make any advance arrangements for the formation of companies, and this will be done after the line- is formed. As the parade will start at 7:30 it is desires! that all who. can possibly do so to be in line at 7 o'clock, so the preliminary work can be completed. It is not desired that any take part in the parade except okl roldlers and sons of soldiers, for tli intention is to make a veteruns' display, and not a display of ' Republicans or udherents to the cause of sound money. Every man In lino will receive a flag to carry la tho parade. Tomlinson Hall, where the principal meeting will be held, will be closed until after the parade, so as to glvt those In line the seats that will be reserved i'rkr tlir.m Tlita Hm.u t-.rt limliijl, Hu tv -i 1 icry, wnicn, except me east siue, win ue of the gallery will be reserved for the ladies. , Tho following reception committee was appointed: George C. Webster, Wi'.liam II. Armstrong, John Coburn, James T. Layman, It. : S. Foster, eieore-e F. Motilnnls. Mosu G. McLain, R. R. Shiel, Daniel W. Howe. D. R. Lucas, James E. Twlname. Newton H. Taylor. Wlliiam H. Coeluan, Smiley N. Chambers, Z. A. Smith, Freel Knerter. Vin cent Carter, Hezekiah Dally, John L. Mcnahan, D. 1'. Krwin, Charies Kuhlo. Daniel M. Ransdel, Kirby Smith, W. J. Harris, John M. Scott, A. D. Shaw. C. L Holstein, RolK-rt W. Martlndale, K. U. Uoaz, Albert Thayer, J. J. Slattery, Henry C. Adams, jr.. R. B. Oglesbee. J. B. Cockrum, James w . Fesler, O. 1". F.nsley. j. w. Noel, Merril Moores, A. J. Beveridge. N. J. MrGuire, W. N. Gerard, Rowland Evans, John F. Carson. August Schmidt. Homer J.. Jones. D. A. Meyers. C. -L. Hogle, Frank E. Matson, S. S. Dickson, J. J. Booze, Ross Buchanan, William R. Ragan, Charles Glover, John Mashbeer, Daniel Thompson, E. S. Pearl. Samuel 10. Crose, alid Holdman Aicijean. . v . j Twenty mehibers of this committee wlU be selected to go to Lafayette to-morrow afternoon to meet the speakers and escert-t them to the city. The train will arrivehere at fi:4.r), and the speakers will be taken to the Denison House, where , dinner will be waiting for them. Immediately following dinner they will review the parade from the Denison House balcony, after which they will bo escorted to the places where they will sieak. ' There will be three meetings. Hie principal one being in Tomlinsem Hall., but the other meetings will have equally as good speakers. English's Opera House has been enpaged for one meeting. The club yesterday voted their thanks to John R. Pearson for his kindness in renting the opera house and placing it nt the service of the club. The third meeting will be held In the Sound-money headquarters, on North Meridian street. This will be one of the greatest combinations of speakers of national reputation ever held la this city. All of them are men who can elraw a crowd sufficient to fill any hall In any part of the United States. - The Indiana camp of the McKinley Soldiers'. Sailors' and Sons of Veterans' Club will have a State rallv hoe Oct. 29, at which time it is expected that more old soldiers will be In the city than at 'any time except during the war or during a national encampment. This rally will' be for the purpose of showing the strength of the sound-money sentiment among old soldiers and their sons. The State already has over .T,(K)0 members in this club. There are now thirty-five camps organized, and as most of them Include a county, they will average more than l.floo members each. The local camp, which has been organized only a short time, now has more than 1,200 members, and there are several in the State with more than that number. With a large per cent, of these members gathered here the last of this month, there will be a gathering of soldiers and their sons such as has not been seen here since A strong effort will bo made to get Genera! Harrison for one of the speakers. When this part of the subject name up for discussion yesterday and President llanna said no speaker had been selected, there was a cry from all parts of the hall for Harrison and it did not subside until President Hanna rapped for order and recognized a motion that a committee of ten Irf flnnntnlMl r. ..all Aa. i t r , son and ask him to address the club st that time. This committee, consisting of Newton M. Taylor. John Coburn. Vinson Carter. Moses G. McLain,. James E. Twlname, R. O. Hawkins, R. B. Oglesbee. D A. Myers. John B. Cockrum and N. J. Mc Gulre. will call on General Harrison this evening, and will present him a letter from the club requesting him to be their speeker on the occasion of their meeting the last of this month. . . General SIrcI I'nable o Come. V The soldier orators making the tour f the States, and who speak in Indianapolis Tuesday night, are Generals Sickles, Howard, Alger, Stewart and Marden, Corporal Tanner, Colonel Hopkins and Major Burst General Slgel was unable to join his comrades, as he expected, and will, therefore not be with them in the State. Their meeting arouse the greatest interest and enthusiasm everywhere. Captain Wm. H, Armstrong and F. M. Mllllkan went to Chicago yesterday to take charge of the party during the tour of Indiana and look after details on behalf of the State committee. THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court. Room 1 John L. McMawter,' Judge. Dora Edwards vs. John Edward ; divorce. Taken under advisement. - - Room 2Lawson M. Harvey, Judge. Jnmes L. Cobler vs. Margaret 0. Cobler; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Mary C. IIenderon vs. James H. Henderson: divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Lee Dehart vs. Judith Iehart; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Minnie M. Russell vs. James 10. Russell; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Anna. C. Daugherty vs. Edward Daugherty; divorce. Dismissed by plaintiff. Room J Pliny W. Bartholome w, Judge. Hussey-Russell Lumber Company vs. Ella F. Flteh et al.; on lien. Dismissed and cots paid. , . George W. McCray et al. vs. L. D. MeKann. Dismissed and costs paiu. - Benjamin Schwankhau vs.. Elizabeth Schwankhaus; divorce. Decree grunted plaintiff, with custody of children. Criminal Court. J. F. McCray. Judge." State vs. Onie 'Willis; lncorriiblev. Evidence heard. . State vs. William Johnson: robbery. Released on personal bonel of $l.inK. State v.. Kmmett Willson; burglary and Brand larceny. Released on peronul bond Of $1,1 KH. Slate vs. Erneft I.udwisr: selling liquor without u license. Fined 12'). State vs. Frank Steed: petit larceny. Trial by court. Defendant, discurcd. New Suits Filed. . . William H. Sehrolueke vs. John Meyer; on note. Room 3. Eletta E. Wttliams vs. Charles W. Wllliaine; divorce. Room 2. Thomas Wallace vs. Minnie Wwlace; divorce. Circuit Court. - Fred L. Kiniutman vs. Daniel W. Marmem: damages. Demand, $40,000- Circuit C liarvev C. Moon vs. Cyrva E. Gray; slander. Circuit Court. Grand Masonic Meeting-. The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Mason will hold its fifty-flmt annual conventlen lm Maonto Temple Wednesday afternoon. Om Thursday afternoon tho Grand Council otf Royal and Soloct Masters will hold It forty-first annual meeting In the same haJI. Reduced rate have been obtain d ou Lb railroads. '