Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1898 — Page 7

The Indiana Trust Cos. OPPICESI Indiana Trust Building. Capital $1,000,000 With a board of directors and officers se- * le< ted because of sound experience in business. tested knowledge of values and tried familiarity with tho various channels of investment, such as a corporation, like the INDIANA TRUST COMPANY has, the ad vantage it presents at all points over any Individual as assignee, guardian, trustee or agent in the management of estates, real or personal, is manif at. The officers and directors of the INDIANA TRUST COMPANY are as follows: OFFICERS. J. P. FRENZEL, President. FREDERICK FAHNI.EY, First Vice President. E. O. CORNELIUS, JOHN A. BUTLER, 2d Vice President. Secretary. DIRECTORS. E. G. CORNELIUS, \LBERT LIEBER. EDWARD HAWKINS. HENRY W. LAWRENCE. HENRY JAMESON. FREDERICK FAHNLEY, F. G. DARLINGTON, O. N. FRENZEL, WILLIAM F. PIEL-. SR., JAMES F. FAILEY. J. P. FRENZEL. THE L A. KINSEY CO., INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, 925.000-.fi;LL PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions, New York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone, 1375 and 1502. 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office. Room 4, Carlisle Building. W. C. ATWATER, CUSTOMERS’ BROKER. Place trades with responsible firms—see that orders are executed promptly and at favorable prices, 'mat you the lowest commission rates going and that you get the best advice: •'.vestigate the manipulative situation of the grain and {irovision market as nearly as possible, in fact, ook after your Interest in every way. Stock and Investment Securities Examined Free of Charge. Traders* Building, : ; Chicago THE TRAFFIC OF AUGUST THE LOADED CAR MOVEMENT WAS HEAVY BEYOND PRECEDENT. - - The Vandalla’s Beat Day In Freight 'Business—StatiHticN of Interest Regarding Freight R.ites. . ♦ In the month of August there were received and forwarded at Indianapolis 119,832 cars, 94.268 being loaded,'surpassing all former records. In August, 1897, there were handled at this city 87,504 loaded cars; in 1896, 79,428; in 1895. 80,273; in 1894, 84,285, in 1893 , 69,397; in 1892, 91.880, the business of August, 1892, being the heaviest known up to that time. The larger gains last month were shown with the Pennsylvania lines, the Vandalia and the Big Four; still, every line did a better business in August than in the corresponding month of 1897. There are some remarkable things concerning the business of last month. The grain movement for export was much lighter than last year, while the shipments of flour and cerealine products were the largest in any August of -years, and the shipments of provisions were large. West-bound business was fully 30 per cent, heavier than in August of last year, but the most remarkable gains were in the immense quantities of fruits, vegetables and other perishable articles. The business of the refrigerator cars was far in excess of any month In years. At the city freight depots 25 per cent, more package freight was handled this year, and on the bulk tracks 50 per cent, more business was done. Against Wisconsin Railway. T. Jefferson Coolidge, Charles R. Batt and William Pratt Lyman, of Boston, the improvement committee of the Wisconsin Railway Company, yesterday filed a bill, of complaint at Milwaukee against the latter company, the trustees under the two mortgage bond issues and the receivers in the United States Court, praying that the first and second mortgage issues, amounting to nearly $8,000,000, be treated as if retired until the improvement bonds are fully paid. The complainants further petition that the alleged indebtedness said to be evidenced by eleven promissory notes, aggregating sl.KauXKj, be also retired; that the trustees and receivers be enjoined from collecting or leceiving any interest or part of the interest due or to become due on the principal due or to become due on the first or secona mo Jt hQndß< registered ln the name fi Co i )y ’.. Abb °R & Hoyt. The allegation Is made that when the Wisconsin Central , were for med the issuance of $12,000,003 stock was paid for with that of the roads incorporated in the aggregah A V.V. registered in the name of Colby, Abbott & Hoyt, and should now be void. The prayer continues by asking fi a iL P h ocee i Ul u ngs the supplemental b Y J ] obn A - Stewart be stayed. This bill asked for the foreclosure of the road under the two bond issues. Finally a preliminary injunction, restraining the defendants from taking any further proceed--ITHL2= d .rec e te I 8 them any moneys, is asked. The complaint allows that the company or its officers had no power to mortgage or convey stocks and bonds; that the mortgage is void in law and ineffectual to create a lien in equity upon property subsequently acquired, and cannot be sustained by an executory claim. Heavy Traffic In Sight. A Pennsylvania Railway official is quoted as saying: ’'No line of railway in the central States so well depicts the general state of trade as the Panhandle, which handles all classes of traffic .aid reaches so many of the commercial and industrial centers of the middle section of the country. When traffic is light on the Panhandle it is. generally speaking, light everywhere, and on the other hand, when business Is good on that system it is beginning to be so almost everywhere else. At present the system is experiencing a tine revival in business, and there Is no better Indication of this than the fact that the road is now 1.500 box cars short in filling orders for the movement of grain and merchandise. Men in the freight train service have had to work as they have not had for several months. In the West the traffic in small grain is enlarged. and officials of the Western lines report a material increase in business. We expect that there will be a steady growth from this time forward, as new grains will be marketed. From the Northwest come reports from the largest elevator men there that within a fortnight the movement of wheat will only be limited by the ability of roads to furnish cars. There is a marked improvement in the merchandise movement, and from the way merchants from the West have been buying goods it is evident that there will be an unusually heavy traffic to the West during the fall and winter.” Great Reductions in Freight Hates. A timely pamphlet issued by the Agricultural Department exhibits exhaustively the changes in rates for transportation for ail kinds of freight on a great number of roads. For some roads the reports go back to 1859 or earlier, and for twelve the reports go back to 18(50. On four Eastern roads the average rate for all freight was 3.969 cents ln 1860, 3.033 m 1872. 2.029 in 1878, 1.601 in 1887 and 1.194 cents in 1897. But on eight trunk lines between Chicago and Atlantic seaports the average rate for all freight has declined from 2.468 cents in 1805 to .57’ cent in 1897, a decrease of more than three-

quarters. On five great Western trunk lines from Missouri river points to Chicago the rates in 1872 averaged 2.053 cents and in 1897 only .924 cent, showing in that period a decline of more than half, but much less than the fail in Eastern trunk-line rates during the same time While the rates on the trunk lines between Chicago and the seaboard have declined 56 per cent, on all classes of freight, the rates on lines west of Chicago have declined but 29.5 per cent. The grain rates from Kansas City and other Missouri river points to Chicago have been reduced, it is true, but from the figures given it is evident that the reductions have by no means been in proportion to the decline in rates with the trunk lines. Trouble Over Templars’ Rates. Western roads are having difficulty in reaching a satisfactory arrangement with respect to rates for the Knights Templars conclave at Pittsburg in October. The Central Passenger Association roads have announced a rate of one fare for the round trip, and a similar proposition was submitted to the Western roads at Chicago yesterday, after they had refused to agree to a rate- of one fare, plus $2, for the round trip. In the proposition submitted It is proposed to make the selling dates Oct. 7 to 10 in territory east of Utah and Oct. 6 to 9 from Utah. The return limit proposed is Oct. 17, subject to an extension on deposit of ticket with the joint agent and the payment of a 50-cent fee. Meantime the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road has given notice of its intention to take individual action by putting into effect over its lines the arrangements adopted by the Central Passenger Association. This will probably force the adoption of the proposition submitted at Chicago yesterday. C. N. Haskell Sells Oat. Colonel W. C. Brown, treasurer of the Detroit & Dima Northern Railroad, admitted yesterday at Toledo that the entire interest of C. N. Haskell, of New York, in that road has been disposed of at a handsome figure. The name of the purchaser was not given. Personal. Local and General Notes. W. F. McClurd has been appointed general traffic agent of the Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad. Charles C. Curtice, formerly of this city, now city passenger agent of the Vandalia line at St. Louis, was in the city yesterday. The hospital car of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, which cost complete SIO,OOO, will be put in service on the road next month. It Is said to be a model hospital In every respect. N. W. Taylor, general freight agent of the Vandalia, was in the city yesterday. He reports that on Friday there were handled on the Vandalia lines 2,174 loaded cars, the heaviest movement of any one day since the road was opened for business. The annual meeting of the Illinois Central will occur on Sept. 28, at Chicago, and free transportation has been sent to every stock holder and an earnest invitation that they attend in person as far as possible A. H. Egan, the newly-appointed division superintendent of the Illinois Central, has decided to move his offices from Henderson, Ky., to Evansville, Ind. He was in Evansville yesterday selecting rooms for offices. The directors of the Grand Trunk have increased the salary of General Manager Hays to $35,000 a year as a mark of appreciation of his services since he left the Wabash lines and accepted his present position. The estimated gross earnings of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad and leased lines (Yandalia) for i.e month of August were $400,151.97, an increase of $51,355.99 as compared with the same month last year. Engines are now being transferred to the Panhandle from the Pennsylvania road East to help handle the enormous business crowding the line between Columbus and Pittsburg and largely from the Southwestern system. The railroad shops of all the local lines were closed yesterday on account of Labor day. Employes of shops at this point have no room for complaint, as at no railroad center have they been kept better employed than at Indianapolis for twelve months past. There is the best of authority for stating that the Merchants’ Dispatch fast freight Vine will not be disturbed by the Vanderbilt changes. William Geagen, who has been traffic manager of the line for many years, will be continued in his present position. Next Monday the fourteenth annual convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen will convene at Toronto, and the attendance promises to be unusually large. A good deal of interest is taken in the selection of a grand master to take the place of F. P. Sargent. Both passenger and freight business is very heavy with the Big Four. William Garstang, superintendent of motive power, is hurrying up the Schenectady locomotive works for the passenger engines now building and the Richmond locomotive works for the freight engines. Since 1862 the capital stock of the Illinois Centra] became full paid, and since that date a cash dividend ranging from 4 to 10 per cent, per annum has been paid semi-an-nually to every holder of stock. It is now twenty years since the company has paid less than a 5-per-cent, dividend. The export traffic of the Grank Trunk has so increased since the Wabash begun to send business over it that the company has considerably increased the number of its steamships to sail between Portland, Me., and Liverpool. The Grand Trunk is now a more formidable competitor for export business than at any former period. L. W. Landman, secretary of the Traveling Passenger Agents’ Association, was in the city yesterday, having been in Crawfordsville to spend Sunday with friends. Mr. Landman states that the prospect for a large attendance at the annual meeting at Lake Chautauqua is encouraging. Over three hundred delegates have askpd that accommodations be reserved for them. The official report of John Ferguson, general baggagemaster at the Union Station, shows that in the month of August 83,106 pieces of baggage were handled, which was 23.105 more than was handled in August, 1897, and really the record-breaking month, as in September, 1893, the month that the Grand Army of the Republic was here, but 71,064 pieces were handled, the business of August this year being 12,042 pieces ahead of that of the G. A. R. year. Presidents of the roads in the Joint Traffic Association have reached a special agreement that no commissions shall be paid ticket agents on account of business coming to their roads from the West and Northwest at the low rates in e.iect on account of the Canadian Pacific competition. Imperative notices to that effect have been sent to all general passenger agents. The paying of such commissions as have been paid of late years would absorb the sum total paid for the tickets at present. The following general passenger agents have been appointed a committee to reorganize the Western Passenger Association: D. B. Caldwell, chairman; J. Sebastian, of the Chicago & Rock Island: G. T. Nicholson, of the Santa te, and H. H. Heafford, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The aim in the reorganization will be to draft articles of agreement which will bring every Western line into the association, and in that case the formation of the Transmissouri Association will probably be headed off. “Before many days,” said a freight official, "the question will be, how can we get cars to handle the business? Not in many years have the conditions been the same as at present. Last year we had immense quantities of grain to move, but in all other classes of freight the traffic was exceedingly light. This year we have large quantities of grain to move, and at present it is moving slowly, but other classes of freight are moving in such tonnage that it requires all the cars we can command to take care of it, and where the cars to move the large quantities of wheat and corn being held back are to come from is difficult to foretell.” THE MILLISONS REMARRIED. A Celebrated Divorce Case Recalled Thereby. A marriage license was granted yesterday to Tteophilus R. Millison and Jennie Millison. This is the happy reconciliation of a husband and wife who separated a little over a year ago. The Millison divorce case, which dragged through the Superior Court, is rememhered as a sensational one. It was charged by the wife, who was the plaintiff in the case, that her husband had become infatuated with a blonde woman of the South Side. Mrs. Millison was granted a decree of divorce, and within a short time Millison was married to the South Side woman. It appears that he was not happy with his new wife, and a few months ago he secured a divorce from her. County Teachers’ institute. The Marion County Teachers' Institute began its session In Room 2. Superior Court, yesterday morning. County Superintendent Landis is chairman and Miss Flora Hoover is secretary. Yesterday morning W. W. Parsons, of the State Normal School, lectured on “The Relations Between the Scientific and Artistic Sides of Presenting Subject Matter to the Pupils." In the afternoon Miss Kate Moran talked on "Language.” J. L. Orr, cf Toledo, gave the teachers a lesson in the elements of music during the afternoon.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1898.

MISS FOSTER WILL DIE WELL-KNOWN YOUNG WOMAN RUNDOWN WHILE BICYCLING. • • John Ma**ey, Driver of a Bird Transfer Wagon, Released by the Police. Miss Rose Foster, daughter of General R. S. Foster, living at 704 North New’ Jersey street, was knocked from her wheel at the corner of Pennsylvania and New York streets yesterday morning, by one of Frank Bird's transfer wagons, and suffered injuries that are pronounced fatal. The wagon was driven by a colored man, John Massey, who waited until the police investigated, when he was allowed to go. From the story given by the police it is apparent that the affair was a sad accident. Miss Foster was riding west on New York street and attempted to turn south on Pennsylvania. The big wagon was going north on Pennsylvania and turned at New York, to go to Delaware street. Miss Foster, it i9 said, attempted to pass ln front of the wagon, when she saw that it intended to turn, but there was not sufficient room. Massey did not at first see this action and when he did, it was too late to stop his horses, even though they were going at a moderate speed. Miss Foster was struck and knocked from her wheel to the pavement, where she struck her head and was rendered unconscious. One of the heavy horses stepped squarely upon the side of her head and fractured her skull at the base of the brain. There was another severe concussion near the temple. A crowd soon gathered, among them Patrolmen Holtz and Wallace, who investigated the affair. Witnesses claimed that Massey was not driving fast and that he was on the right side of the street. Frank Bird and his manager soon came to the scene and assisted in every way possible. The young lady was removed to the office of Dr. Morgan near by and Dr. Wilmer Christian was called and assisted in attending her. It was deemed advisable that she be taken at once to a hospital and the ambulance soon removed her to the Protestant Deaconess Hospital, at the corner of Senate avenue and Ohio street, where the injuries were pronounced fatal. At an early hour this morning she was still unconscious and in a very critical condition. Miss Foster is a graduate of Vassar College, an active worker in the Flower Mission of this city, and a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Her father General Foster, was in Cincinnati attending the G. A. R. encampment when the accident occurred, but was telegraphed immediately. From others who saw the accident, a different story is obtained. Several men were loud in their denunciation of the driver who they claim was going at a rapid rate of speed. One man who was at the corner when the young lady fell, says Massey attempted to drive away without learning the extent of the damage he had done, but was stoppped by witnesses, who grabbed the horses’ heads. When he did finally climb down, he said that he was in a hurry to get to a train and gave this as a reason for his fast driving. It is probable that he will be arrested and held, at least until the coroner or other proper authorities, investigate the case thoroughly. G. W. SNIDER’S PHILANTHROPY His Will Leaves SIO,OOO for a Home for Working Girls. The will of George W. Snider, executed June 29, 1893, contains a bequest of SIO,OOO to be used in the maintenance of a home for working girls. The institution is to be known as the Lillian Snider Home, in memory of his little daughter. The will contains a bequest of $3,000 to the Third Christian Church, it being provided that this amount be used to help erect anew building in the event one had not been built at the time of his death. In providing for his wife and son Albert it was the wish of Mr. Snider that, should they not be living at the time of his death, $5,000 additional should go to the Lillian Snider Home $2,000 additional to the Third Christian Church, an additional SIO,OOO each to John W. Elstun, James B. Sidener, J. A. Arnold, P. H. Clifford and Frank H. Goheen and $5,000 each to Frank Beckman, Jacob Kunkle and Bates Secrist. Under the same provision the property of the Hide, Leather and Belting Company was to go to the board of churdß extension of the Christian Church of Kansas City, Mo., and the remainder of the estate to Jarqes P. Sidener, Amos Clifford and Howard Cale. The latter bequests were to be expended in charitable purposes. According to the will the fund for the establishment of a working girls’ home is to be placed in the hands of Mrs. Alice E. Snider, James B. Sidener and Amos Clifford, who will constitute a board of trustees. The will says they are to buy ground and erect a building “furnished and prepared as a memorial to my beloved daughter, Lillian Snider.” A condition of the bequest to the Third Christian Church provides for a memorial window bearing the name of Lillian Snider. Many of the beneficiaries mentioned in the will are employes of the Hide. Leather and Belting Company, of which Mr. Snider was proprietor. In addition to the bequests mentioned above several other employes are to receive smaller amounts. The will contains a codicil which says that the property bequeathed to the wife and son shall go to the wife and is not to be divided except as she may desire to use the funds for charitable purposes. WROTE “CHRIST IN ART.” So the Letters Found on a Street ••Hugger” Would Indicate. A young man giving the name of C. W. Clifton, and claiming Annapolis, Md., for his home, was arrested last night by Sergeant Corrigan and charged with assault and battery and offending people on the street. It is said that while walking on Washington street he suddenly turned upon a respectable woman and threw his arms about her. She fought him off and was leaving the street when the sergeant arrested the man and asked her to wait and identify him. Though he gave his home as Annapolis, it is thought that he lives in this city, and that he gave his real name. Jn his pockets were found letters which recommended him highly as a worthy young man, who had worked his way through school and was preparing for the ministry. This was signed by Rev. I. D. Worman, of the Second English Evangelical Lutheran Church of this city, and referred to a book entitled “Christ in Art,” which the young man had written. HIS BOOTY IN HIS MOUTH. Alexander Phillip* Searched Again at the Workhoutte. Alexander Phillips was sent to the workhouse yesterday with time and costs enough against him to amount to about seventy-five days. He had been arrested for loitering in the neighborhood of 511 Blast Washington street, where he insisted upon sleeping in the rear of the house. Concealed in his hat when arrested was found a child’s stocking, from which the police drew a silver dollar. Yesterday morning the woman who had harbored him for a few days reported to the police, that a stocking containing about sls had been taken from her house. The find, when they searched Phillips, was remembered by Patrolman Lancaster, who had made the arrest, and suspicion was at once attached to Phillips. They telephoned to the workhouse to search the man more thoroughly, but in the cell nothing could be found on him. He was later taken down stairs and two $5-bil!s were found warded in his mouth. with Forest Fire. Herbert Mcßride, son of ex-Judge McBride, writes to his parents in this city from QuenelJe Forks, British Columbia, where he is prospecting for gold in the interests of a mining company. His last letter, which was begun on Aug. 13 and concluded on Aug. 26, tells of an escape the writer, with some of his companions, had frem forest fires. During their flight from the fire they lost all their horses but one,

and most of their valuables. Young McBride-, in speaking of his own loss, writes: "Nothirg left but guns and clothes on my back. Lost *2OO in money and outfit worth nearly S4OO. Warner and Hill lost over three thousand dollars' worth of books and papers." The writer thinks he ha3 had his share of trouble for one year, but hopes his luck will change and proposes to stay where he is until the change comes. PROWLED IN BARNS BEFORE. Two Negroes Caught in Rear of 1508 Park Avenue. Eieycle Patrolmen Lancaster and Schroeder were notified last night that men had broken into a barn ln the rear of 1508 Park avenue. They surrounded the place and finally caught two colored men as they attempted to leave through a back window, from which they had removed the frame. A bunch of skeleton keys was found on them, but nothing else. They gave their names as James Jordan and Dan Kaufman, and both were charged with loitering. These are the same men who were caught in the stable of Dr. Bigger about two months ago. At that time the doctor captured them at the muzzle of a revolver and considerable stolen property was recovered about the place, though it could not be proven that these men were responsible for it. HURRY TO GET MARRIED. Thii Man Went to Police Station for a License. A man giving his name as Hensley and claiming that he is employed at the C., H. & D. shops, stepped into the police station last night and applied to Sergeant Hyland, who was at the desk, for a marriage license. He explained that he did not want to wait until morning for the clerk’s office to open and thought that the police department might accommodate him. He said that the prospective bride lived in Seymour and had come here yesterday on one of the excursions. She had been married before, as had he. He was much disconcerted when the sergeant informed him that he could not give him what he wanted, but muttered as he went out that he “guessed” he could wait. Suspected of Selling Stolen Beef. Andrew Hudleson and Alexander Wright were arrested yesterday by Detectives Weible and Thornton and slated for stealing two calves, which they attempted to sell at Sindlingcr's meat market early yesterday morning. These fellows have several times sold meat to this butcher, and their actions lately have aroused his suspicion. The detectives were notified and twice have spent the early morning hours at Sindlinger’s place waiting for the supposed thieves, but neither time they came. Yesterday morning, however, a telephone message was received that the men were there and would be held until the police could reach the place, in ten minutes the detectives were there, but a Merchant policeman had beaten their time, and had the prisoners in hand when the detectives arrived and demanded them. It is claimed that the Merchant policeman was drunk and that he carried his revolver in hand. He refused to give up the men. but they were taken from him and sent in the patrol wagon and slated to Thornton and Waible. Isaiah Webb’* Death in Colorado. Isaiah Webb, son of Edward Webb, a wellknown Marion county farmer, living near Southport, died Sunday at Westcliffe, Colo., of typhoid fever. He was about twentynine years of age, and had been engaged in mining in Colorado for the last eight years. His sister, Mrs. Fields, of this city, was with him when he died, and is expected to arrive here on Thursday with the remains. Burial will occur at Round Hill Cemetery. Freda Holz’n Queer Hallucination. Freda Holz. twenty years old, who is thought to be demented, is a prisoner at police headquarters. She imagines a fortune teller is trying to compel her to become the wife of two men. The girl keeps talking about a "Madam Gross." living on Massachusetts avenue, who she says is the fortune teller in question. The girl claims to have been living with this woman, but no “Madam Gross” can be found. State Committee Meeting*. The meeting of the state committee and subordinate committees of the Republican party will be held at 1 o’clock this afternoon. This will be a conference in which the details of the coming campaign will be discussed. Letters from General Harrison indicate that he desires to take part in the campaign as soon as he is through with the Venezuelan cases in which he is now engaged. Death at the Workhouse. Fred Gebhart, a colored man about twenty-four years old, died at the workhouse yesterday of peritonitis. He had been ailing for several days, but the case was not regarded as serious. Yesterday, when officials went to his cell, they found the man dead. He was from Chicago. The coroner will hold an autopsy. More of the Bungaloo Gang. Carl King and Theodore Hughes, who are said to be members of the w ßungaloo” gang, were fined in Police Court yesterday morning. King received a sentence of ten days in the workhouse. Judge Cox has declared his intention cf breaking up this gang if his efforts fill the workhouse with West End youths. VITAL STATISTICS—SEPT. 5. Births. Ida and G. W. Parker, 2140 East Pleasant street, boy. Alice and George Chatman. 215 Cook street, girl. Mattie and James Mitchell, 42 South Addison street, girl. Annie and Charles Snider, 216 Minerva street, boy. Nora and James Durham, 533 Douglass street, girl. Hattie and John Young. 366 Smith street, boy. Lizzie and Andrew Schoneker, 2929 East Seventeenth street, boy. Anna and August Thurman, 309 North Noble street, girl. Josephine and John Werner, 1103 Lasalle street, boy. Rossie and L. Lotko. 902 Bates street, boy. Corlnne and John Roberts, 2329 Talbott avenue, boy. Nellie and Charles Davis, 340 Keystone avenue, boy. Clara and Austin Sylvester, 118 West Merrill street, boy. Helen and George Reynolds, 932 Sheffield avenue, boy. Death*. Henry Richters, seventy-four years, 709 North California street, paralysis. Nannie King, sixty years, 3315 North Meridian street, sarcoma. Infant Allen, 574 Maple street, marasmus. Mrs. L. M. Pierce, sixty-six years, 242 Woodside avenue, diabetes gangrene. Claude M. Sanford, eight months, 1440 West Ohio street, convulsions. Sadie Wormser, six weeks, 624 South Meridian street, meningitis. Josephine Richwine. fifty-four years, Muncie, lung disease. Marriage Licenses. John Walters and Rcse Peterson. Joseph Holmes and Bertha Harlan. Claude D. Fish and Madeline L. Decker. Theophilus P. Millison and Jennie Millison. William Bach and Anna Mails. Charles O. White and Sarah E. Brown. Charles P. Woodall and Ora Shaw. Joseph Flynn and Cora Hubbard. ‘•Rain Nipped a Bag of Gold.** To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Thanks for the rain of Sunday that "nipped the bag of gold.” Quiet reigned over at least half a mile square adjoining the baseball ground, from 2 o’clock undisturbed by the Comanche yells or violators of law, both human and divine. Gold—lndianapolis, sl.ooo—Columbus, S6OO. Who lost those sums? The managers. Who made? Every one not a lawbreaker. The statutes of Indiana must be amended, embracing not only the players, but the managers. Where the fine applies to the player, it should be increased ten-fold to the managers. Hold them as accessories before and after the fact—players, tine $5; managers, SSO. The quiet of Sunday afternoon. Sept. 4. in the vicinity of the baseball ground was sufficient to inspire the law-abiding people of that part of Indianapolis to sing the long meter doxoiogy. Is Mayor Taggart conscious that he is dtggng his political grave along side of the judge whose rulings have already buried him? Is Governor Mount aware that he has to enforce the laws of the State of Indiana? Claude Matthews will ever be loved because of his devotion to duty. The state needs more of the same kind of men. JNO. W. RAY. Indianapolis, Sept. 5.

GRAIN CROP OUTLOOK THE PROMISES FOR WHEAT AM) CORN WERE NOT FULFILLED. Average Wheat Yield In 15.1 Bushel* an Acre—Corn Showing Lp Iladly—Outs Poor. NEW YORK. Sept. s.—The wheat crop cf 1898 Is not quite up to promise, according to the report of the American Agriculturist, which will appear Sept. 10. This says that in a few States it now appears the promise of wheat was not fulfilled in actual grain by what must seem like a large margin, while in a number of States the rate of yield was even greater than indicated on July 1. But with full allowance for all disappointment the fact remains that the crop this year is the largest on record. The reported rate of yield in winter wheat is 14.8 bushels and in spring wheat 15.4 bushels. The final crop result will appear next month, but the American Agriculturist says that it may not be amiss to note that if the present rate of yield indicated shall be maintained the .otal production of winter wheat will be rather under 400.000.0(H) bushels and spring w'heat fully 300,000,000 bushels, subject to modification next month. The present report of the American Agriculturist on corn places the condition 85.4, as compared with 85.6 a month earlier. The change, while slight, is a distinct disappointment, as it was generally believed the breaking of the drought would advance the condition of the crop, at least to an average showing for this date. Taking the surplus States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, it appears the presend condition of this crop is 78.9, as against 79.1 one month ago, and 80 one year ago. There is an unusually large percentage of healthy-appearing stalks which are bearing no ears at all and a larger proportion which have a single ear and that short and approaching the nubbing condition. The effect of this will only be fully recognized when the crop is husked, and it is easily within the range of possibilities that the final report of rate of yield per acre w’ill present some marked surprises. The condition of oats when harvested is placed at 78.4, or 2.2 lower than on Aug. 1, with the general quality not as good as last year. The same authority says the past morfth has brought further reduction in the promise of the potato crop, the breaking of the drought not being followed by a recovery of condition. ST. LOUIS, Sept. s.—There was no session of the Merchants’ Exchange to-day. Receipts— Flour, 5,600 brls; wheat, 134,000 bu; corn, 59,000 bu; oats, 62,000 bu. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Scarce and Steady—Hogs a Shade Lower—Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. s.—Cattle Receipts light, shipments none. There were hardly enough here to establish a market, but it looks steady at last week’s closing prices. Exports,-good to choice $5.10@ 5.40 Killers, medium to good 4.65® 5.00 Killers, common to fair 4.25® 4.50 Feeders, good to choice 4.20® 4.50 Stockers, common to good 3.23® 4.25 Heifers, good to choice 4.20® 4.50 Heifers, fair to medium 3.60® 4.00 Heifers, common and light 3.00® 4.40 Cows, good to medium 3.75® 4.25 Cows, fair to medium 3.20® 3.60 Cows, common and old 2.00® 3.00 Veals, good to choice 5.00® 6.50 Veals, common to medium 3.00® 4.50 Bulls, good to choice 3.40® 3.75 Bulls, common to medium 2.50® 3.20 Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to medium 20.00®30.00 Hogs—Receipts, 1,500; shipments light. The market opened slow, but later ruled more active at a shade decline, with a few late arrivals left unsold. Light [email protected] Mixed 3.90®3.95 Heavy [email protected] Pigs [email protected] Roughs [email protected] Sheep and Lambs—Receipts light; shipments none. But few on sale. Market quiet at barely steady prices. Sheep, good to choice [email protected] Sheep, fair to medium [email protected] Stockers, common to good 2.50®3.50 Bucks, per head [email protected] Spring lambs, good to choice [email protected] Spring lambs, common to medium 3.25®4.50 Elsewhere. CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Trade In cattle to-day was fairly active at steady prices; choice steers. $5.25 @5.70; medium, [email protected]; beef steers, $4®4.70; stockers and feeders, [email protected], bulls, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; calves, [email protected]; Western rangers, [email protected]; fed Western steers, $4.10 @5.16; Texans, $3.50®5. Business was slow in hogs even under a moderate run and prices were oc off; fair to choice, [email protected]: packing lots, $3.70®3.82Vi; mixed, $3.70 @3.80; butchers, [email protected]; light, pigs. $2.80® 3.70. The run of sheep proved burdensome and most of the offerings dragged until late, when they were disposed of at a decline of 10® 15c; choice Western muttons, $4.25; fat native sheep, $4.30; good to choice lambs, $4.85®*5.50; prime yearlings, $5.70. Receipts—Cattle, 17,000; hogs, 25,000; sheep, 17,006. KANSAS CITY. Sept. 5 —Cattle—Receipts. 3 090 natives and 2,430 Texans. Market strong and active; choice heavy steers, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; lights, [email protected]; stockers and feeders, $3.25® 4.90; butcher cows and heifers, [email protected]; butcher bulls, [email protected]; veal calves. sfi@l2; Western steers. [email protected]; Texas steers, $3.15® 3.75; Texas butcher cows, [email protected]; calves, $2.25 @2.90. Hogs—Receipts, 3.400. With a fair packing demand. the light supply was soon absorbed at steady prices; heavy. [email protected]; mixed, $3.45® 3.50; lights, [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 5,195. Supply consisted largely of Western lambs; prices 10@15c lower in sympathy with Eastern markets; iambs, [email protected]; range muttons. [email protected]; range feeding lambs, [email protected]; range feeding sheep, [email protected]. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5. —Cattle—Receipts, 3,500, including 2,300 Texans. Market steady; fair to fancy native shipping and export steers, $4.60® 5.60, bulk at [email protected]; dressed beef and butchers’ steers, [email protected], bulk at [email protected]; steers under 1.000 lbs, [email protected], bulk at s4® 4.90; stockers and feeders, [email protected], bulk at [email protected]: cows and heifers, s2®s; Texas and Indian steers. [email protected], bulk at $3.20@4; cows and heifers. s2@4. Hogs—Receipts, 2,100. Market steady, but slow; Yorkers. [email protected]; packers, [email protected]; butchers, [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 1,000. Market steady; native muttons, [email protected]; lambs, [email protected]. NEW YORK, Sept. s.—Beeves—Receipts, 3,257. Market slow; prime steers steady; others weak; rough stuff 15@25c lower; native steers. [email protected]; Westerns. $4.70; oxen and stags, $4; bulls, $2.25® 4.40; cows. $1.70@3 40. Cables quote live cattle at 10%<S^llVic; refrigerator beef, S'4@BV 2 c. Exports none. Calver—Receipts, 2,170. Market 15@2$c lower; veals, ss@B; grassers and buttermilks. $3.50 @4.25; no Westerns; city dressed veals, 9@llA4c per pound. Hogs—Receipts, 1,980. Nothing doing and market nominally lower at $4.10®4.40. Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 1,258. Sheep dull at [email protected]; lambs, lower at s4@6; choice, $6.12',2. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. s.—Cotton steady; sales, 1.050 bales; ordinary, 3 la-16c; good ordinarv, 4%c; low middling, sc; middling. 5%c; good middling, 011-I60; middling fair, 6Vc; receipts, 2,637 bales; stocks, 59,525 bales. Batter, Eggs and Cheese. ELGIN, Sept. s.—Butter firm; offerings and sales, 130 tubs at lfc. Stiver. LONDON, Sept. s.—Bar silver steady at 27%d an ounce. The Yellow Newspaper*. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Did it ever occur to you that these same yellow journals that are so exploiting the hardships and sufferings among the troops of the army in Cuba and the various camps of rendezvous are the self-same journals that in years back vilified the Union soldiers as bounty Jumpers, pension grabbers, blood suckers and all such vile epithets, and have fought all legislation looking to the pensioning or relief of the men who endured hardships as great as any endured bj the brave boys at Santiago—men who starved and breathed malaria at Chickamauga, men who lived dn one hardtack and two ounces of blue beef, paunches or hoofs, for six weeks at Chattanooga, or who. in winter’s cold or summer's heat plodded through the swamps around Vicksburg or Arkansas Post, or who. on the Chickamauga campaign, from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga, without tents or knapsacks. were weeks without dry clothing, or in thousands of such Instances endured almost without complaint or a murmur from friends at home? Will these same yellow Journals, when these poor fellows from Santiago, Camps Alger. Tampa or Thomas, broken in health, ruined in physique or mind, champion their cause when they ask for their just recognition in the way of pension, or will the tune change, and will they then be “bounty jumpers.’’ “pension beggars.” "frauds” and the whole category of names of like significance? Let us wait and see. T. R. BRADY. Wabash, Ind., feept. 5. J

lO CENT CIGAR HOOSIER POET lO CENT CIGAR JOHN RAUCH, Manufacturer, Indianapolis.

been run. Both the army and the navy have been run quite too much by rings. 1 Certain officers had their social, more than I political, pulls. Favoritism has controlled ! the best positions, those which detailed a man in Washington instead of putting him j on the distant frontier. The difference be- ! tween the army and navy in this matter is that the navy favorites have usually nad full navy experience and have learned the conditions and needs. This has not been the case in the army. The favorites have rot really been in the army; they hate been detailed for office and bureau work, and j have comparative y lilt e knowledge of armyconditions. They have not had to do with soldiers, rot even with a regiment or two, much less with an army. They have had the soft and easy berths. It is not strange if they have failed. The system is to blame in good pa.’t. RESULTS OF THE WAR. An ArKiiment Favoring Retention of All We Have Won. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: We are now at the beginning of the end in the great struggle with Spain. To all the world, except Spain, the conflict could end in no way. The Dons can’t fight; the Anglo-Saxon is invincible. Asa result we have free Cuba, and on the side we own Porto Rico, a lot of smaller islands, one of the j Ladrones, also as a partial result we are in possession of Hawaii, and we can and should control the Philippines. Had the world made r.o progress in the last three hundred years, Spain to-day would have been a formidable antagonist, but war is net now what it was then, and Spain is just that far behind. Back of Sampson and Dewey and Shafter and Miles are hundreds of years of education and drilling, and they win. Back of Montejo and Cervera and Toral and Macias are hundreds of years of inaction, dense ignorance and national debility, and they lose. Dewey and the men under him did not learn their lesson before breakfast on that memorable May morning. Their preparation began years and years ago, back of ’6l and back of ’76, but it began in time and continued, and when the trying hour came the men and means were at hand and victory was the result. But there is glorious victory all along the line. To the very front is our noble President. Slow’ to begin the strife; anxious to avoid a clash of arms; seeking earnestly to persuade benighted Spain to do right by her colonies; yet, failing in all, his great heart throbbing in patriotic unison with 70,000.00) libertyloving Americans, he demands that Spanish control in the western world cease. His wisdom w’as shown in gathering around him as commanders and leaders, in every instance, the right man for each place. Deliberately and carefully he went at the great task, and to-day the world looks in wonder at the splendid achievement. President McKinley, known to he a gallant soldier, admittedly a pre-eminent statesman, will also be written down in history as a diplomatist of highest rank. He has faced complications as serious as were ever faced by man. and. being the leader charged w’ith all responsibility, these questions, fraught with interests of such magnitude, he has met them and alone has decided them, and in all this trying ordeal has made no blunder. So just has been his course, so manly, so well tempered, so fearless yet so equitable, that he has the commendation of the civilized world. Best of all is the indorsement at home. A few- are afraid some violence may be done to the Constitution if w’e add a few islands to our possessions, but the great body of our people are not frighterwd by this bugaboo. This organic law was made more than a hundred years ago and answered the purposes for which it was constructed. Conditions are different now. The world moves, and America must fit itself for the class to which it belongs. The Constitution is not to-day what it was years ago, nor in a hundred years will it be what it is now. If laws are not right fit them to conditions now as thev fitted them a hundred years ago, and will fit them in all the future. Conditions have so changed that America must step into anew position. We cannot check the march of progress. Spain was/the lawful owner of Cuba and entitled to undisputed control over the island and its inhabitants. To interfere with her rights, under ordinary conditions, would have been most reprehensible, but this government did interfere and bodly ordered Spain to withdraw from the island and relinquish all control. Why this unheard of act? The story is familiar to all and needs no recounting. Hundreds of years of vicious, brutal atrocities, robberies and murder. Knowing the utter unreliability of Spanish contracts, we assumed the responsibility of the act, and have wrested these outraged colonies from their legal owner on the high ground that the end justifies the means. Our conscience is clear on that score. The most enlightened nations of the earth applaud our decision. We have no thought of conquest. We started out to free Cuba, and. technically. claiming all these fruits of our victory, might be said to be in the nature of a conquest. yet it is the result of war. Spain would not yield until she had lost all. Had she cried enough in the start or immediately after Dcwev's great vletorv, she would today own Porto Rico and all the Philippines unless it might be a small coaling station, but she chose to continue the conflict. But it is the victory that brings blessings. The transformation of the jungle into the fertile field or the beautiful garden, Is a blessing. The changing of the Ignorant, murderous cannibal Into the industrious Christian, with a heart tilled with love for humanity, is a blessing, and it is the business of our civilization to hring such results to the territory we acquire. Imperialism and conquest are not in our alphabet. Imperialism does not travel with and alongside of liberty—the liberty of this country. Imperialism and republicanism are opposite conditions, and will not mix; nor can they exist at the same time in the same place. To-day the English-speaking people are standing together shoulder to shoulder. Whence came this grand coalition? When did it begin? No man can tell, but England and the world is glad and reloices because Washington won at Yorktown. and this we know—this condition is the legitimate outgrowth of Bible truths and the school book and to-day England and America are one and inseparable. No national joint high commission has fixed the terms of union It Is a higher union than that would be We stand together because of an unwritten oneness of purpose; a pact stronger than treaties; higher, nobler and vastly more effective than documents signed, sealed and delivered; an irresistible force, impelling us onward to conquer so that man may be elevated; not to make serfs who shall pay tribute to tyrants, but to elevate humanity to the dignity of equality and our magnificent victories are but the composite outgrowth of the goriru* of truth planted and nurtured along life’s weary way. We do not believe In the "divine right of kings." but we do most earnestly believe in that higher "divine right” of man. the divine right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This is the one sentiment that actuates the Anglo-Saxon. In It we recognize the cornerstone truth that all men are. by creation equal and entitled to “life.” unless that life be taken away “by the due process of law;” to “liberty”—the right to absolute freedom, with no man. high dV low. to molest or make afraid, to be where he wishes and to do as he desires, as long as he does not interfere with the rights of others unless he be deprived of this liberty by the “due process of law:” and that other' Ondgiven right, the “pursuit of happiness”—to co when he will, do what he may. labor as he pleases and keep anil enioy what his toil end brain brings, all for his own happiness and for the comfort and enjoyment of others. All these rights are God-given, and they exist and ere fostered where there is a free Bible and in lands dotted with free church spires and schoolhouses. These are the forces that have been and are silently bird'rg together the Anglo-Saxon—the hand cf the Eternal—commanding us to succor the oppressed, drive out. the oppressor and the tyrant and the robber, whether he be king or priest; take light to the dark places; help the helpless: not to enslave them hut rather to loosen the fetters of priest-ridden ignorance that bind them, and then to lift them up and help them to stand alone. The fittest is going to survive. This fact is irresistible. The leaven brought over in the Mayflower, from somewhere will leaven the whole loaf, and out of these tribulations will the nations of the earth be blessedsuch is our iustlfloation for this war. Spain's hundreds of years of atrocities became unbearable. and the appeals from her victims could not longer be resisted. Sh*> was warned, but heeded not the warning. The

SAWS AMI NULL SUPPLIES. E. C. ATKINS & CO. C #I V I/C Manufacturers and Re- \\ pairers of all kinds of Office and Factory, South and Illinois Streeta 1 iilinnupoli*. Ind. o t IA7C. BELTING and DA W D EMERY WHEELS SPECIALTIES OF W. B. Barry Saw and Supply Cos. 132 S. PENN. ST. All kinds of Saws repaired \ ptuhA. - c^>) V -rWH.PENN.ST. DEMISON HOUSE. f ' INDIANAPOLIS-IND. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. ON and after Tuesday, Aug. 16, IS9B. trains will run as follows: (Central Standard Time.) All trains enter I NI4>N RAILWAY STATION. Trains marked thus: Dy—Daily. S—Sleeper, P—Parlor Car, C—Chair Car, D— Dintng Car. CLEVE.. FIX., CHI. A ST. LOUIS K*Y. Cleveland 1)1 vision—Big Fonr. DEPART ARRIVE New York ex. dy s. 4:25 U City & W qc, dy. 9:25 Muncie & B 11 ex.. 6:35 S’wst’n llm, dy, and s.11:30 Cleveland mail 10:50 B.H. & Muncie ex 310 And’on & B H ex.. 11:15 Cleveland ex liiOit U C & W ac, dy.. 4.St* B.H. & And'n ex. 5:43 Knick'b'r, dy. (Is. 6:25 N. Y. ex. dy, 5...10:50 St. Louis I)i\inioii—llig Pour. St Louis expr 7:30, New York ex. dy. s. 4:05 S'wst'n lim, dy, ands. 11:45 Mat ,V T H arc. ...10:30 T. H. & Mat. no.. 4:30 St. Louis express. .5: lO T H & Mat acc, Kn'ko r sp, u s.ay 0:10 Sunday only 0:15 NY & StL ex.dy si l l2tl Cincinnati 1)1 vl*ion—Big Four. Cincinnati f l. dy s. 3:45 Greensburg arc 9:06 St L & Cln f 1. dy, s 4:15 Cln’tl acc, dy 11:15 Cincinnati accom... 7:0o C & St L mall, dy Cincinnati acc0m...10:50 and sand p 11:40 Cincinnati d.v p....2:45 Chi. Lim., p —4:ls Greensburg ace... 5:30 Cln & Index, p... 0:40 C'tl & Wash, F. L, C IfcStL ex, dy s. 1 1 :t*s dy, and, Bundp... 0:340 Chicago dy s 11:5V Loniavtllc Line. Loulsv f 1 dy 5... . 3:45 Louiav f 1 dy 5... 11:50 Louisv day expr...34:45 Loulsv day expr...11:40 Chicago Division—Big Four. Lafayette accom 7:10, Cln f 1, dy, s 3:30 Chi fm, dy. and p 11:45 Lafayette acc0m...10:30 Chi. Lim, and p 4:15 Cln. mall.p and, dy. 34:35 Lafayettecc 5:15 Lafayette acc 5:45 Chi F L, d.v s 12:05 C’ti & Wash, dp. 0:10 Michigan Division—Big Four. Benton Harbor ex.. 6:35, Wabash acc. dy.... 9:25 Mich mail and ex..11:15! B.Harbr m'l ex... 3:10 Wabash acc, dy.. 4:50 Michigan expr — 8:45 Peoria Dlv„ Went—Big Four. Peoria ex and mail. 7:25j Col & Ctn ex. d.v, s. 3:30 West' rf ex, dy. p.. .11:45 Champaign accom..lo:2o Champaign acc... 4:35 N.Y. ex & ma 11... 34:43! Peoria ex, dy. s.. 11:15 Peoria ex. dy, p.. 6*141 Peoria Dlv„ Emit—ll:g Four. Columbus express.. 5:10 Springfield expr 11:35 Su’field &. Col. ex.3:20 Columbus expr...10:40 PITTS., CIA’., CHI. A ST. LOUIS ICY. liullunnpoll* Division—l’ennn Line. Eastern ex. dy. 5... 5:50 Lim'a mail, dy & d.8:05 Columbus accom 8:30 Richmond accom... 9:00 Richmond acc.... 1:30 St L cx, dy, and 6.12:25 Atl’c ex, dy. ands .2:30 Ind'p’ls acc 3:15 Day ex, dy 5:00 Mail express, dy.. 6:50 StL&NY, dy 8 and.. 7:10 Iwest’n cx. dy, s..10:00 Chicago Division—Pen no H. B. Lou & Chi ex. dy p.11:35| Chi & Lou f ex,dy 5.3:20 Lou& Chi f ex.dy b 12:05!<’hi & Lo ex. dy p. 3:45 Louisville Division—Peunn It. H. Lou & So spi, dy. s. 3:30, Mnd & Ind acc 10:20 Lou & Mad nc. dy s 8:15; St L & C f 1, dy, p.11:25 Ind & Mad accom. Mad, & Ind. acc..5:33 Sunday only 7:00 Ind & Pitts, dy, s 7:Ot> Ind. & Mad. ac... 3:35' Mad. & Ind ac., L. & At a, dy, p..4:00 Sunday only 0:10 ixiuisvilie acc 7:10 I, & Chi ex, dy s. 11:40 YANDALIA LIVE. Terre Haute ex. dy. 7:20: New York ex. dy s. 5:10 N Y &■ StL. dy sand. 8:10 Effingham accom...lo:oo PtL ex. dy, ad p. 12:35 T. Haute ex, dy. 1:20 Effingham acc... 1:00 Atl’c ex. dy, ands p.2:25 Fast Mail, dy 7:05 Fast Line, daily. 4:45 Western ex. dy til :20 StL & NY. dy. sand 7 :U5 INDIANAPOLIS A VINCENNES It. R. / C’ro & V'nes ex, d.v 8:15 Vincennes expr 10:4®' Vincennes expr....4:20 Cairo expr. dy 4:50 CINCINNATI, HAMILTON .V DUTY ICY Cin ex. dy, s c 3:55; Cin, Ind & Chi ex. Dally fast mail.' s. .8:06 dy. s 12:45 Cin & Detroit ex..10:45 Daily fast mail, 5..6:50 Cin & Dayton ex, Cin A- Roaehdale p 2:45 ex. dy. p... 11: <5 Cin & Dayton, dy, Cin & Dayton, and, and p 4:45 p 3:20 Cln & Detroit ex. Cin Dayton acc.7:so dy 7:07 Cln daily ex, s c.10:35 LAKE ERIE A WESTERN It. It. Mail and expr 7:00| Ind’pls ex, dy 10:20 TANARUS, D & M C ex. dy 1 :20 Mail and expr.... 2:35 Evening expr 7:00 Toledo expr 4liOO INDIANA, DECATUR A WESTERN ICY. Mall and expr 8:151 Fast expr, dy. s c.. 3:5* Chicago express 11:50 Tuscola acc 10:40 Tuscola accom 3:45 Chicago expr 2:10 Fast ex, dy, b c.. 11:05 Mail and expr — 4:40 I. A L. ICY. (Motion Route.) Chi night ex. d.v, 8.12:551 On vest, dy. s 3:36 Fast mall, dy. s 7:00 Fast mall, dy. s— 7:55 Chi expr, p 11:50 Ctn vest, dy, and p. 4:37 Chi vest, and p 3:3s.Chicago expr 2:44

civilization of tho world said she ought to cease her work of butchery, and conditions pointed to us the duty of forcing what should have been secured without a resort to arms. History will not say that we sought the quarrel, but it will say that we were amply justified in our final conclusion to drive the Spaniard out of this hemisphere. If the Constitution was in the way, and it was not, what matters it? If the “Monroe doctrine” was in the way, and it was not. what matters it? This is an age of progress, not of ruts anti Medes and Persians. A man would be counted much out of date who would invest his capital in a company proposing to build ox carts to haul corn from Indianapolis to New York. Thrones have crumbled and crowns have been jostled off since the landing on “New England’s stormy shore,” when the “rights of man” first saw' a gleam of hope. What will we do with the fruits of our splendid victory? Cuba, by its position, is naturally a part of tills country, and should not be controlled by any other nation, friend or enemy, it is closer to the center of our population than either Maine or California. In the natural course of commercial transactions it will be a part of us, as much so as either Maine or California, or any other State. We should dictate its form *>f government, and in due time it will be an American State. Spain's stubbornness gave us Por.o Rico and everything else in sight. It is the guardian at the gateway to the Nicaraguan canal, which we will build and cwn. and we should hold it forever; and, as Spain has no cash, we think it more valuable than Spanish securities. In time senators and congressmen will be sent to Washington from the State of Porto Rico. We have the Philippines, and what shall we do with them? Hnali we turn them over to England? Germany, France, Russia, Japan and all the others over there say '‘No." Shall we han i then over to Russia? The rest loudly say “No.” So it goes all around. No one of the powers can take them, because all the others object. The difficult problem comes simply to this; We must Keep them or turn them back to Spain. But who wants to put those defenseless people back under tile care of brutal, ignorant, priest-ridden Spain? Look at the" situation. Wit.i all her other colonies gone and Madrid full of hungry, idle military officers and grasping hangers-on, who, with the whole nation full of venom at the poor Filipinos and thirsting for revenge and appropriations. a large army w mid be sent to Manila and thor* would simply be on unending reign of terror, jobbery and bloodshed. The heart of this great nation of ours says “Never!” It nothing better can be done, let this at least and by all means be done: Shut Spain out of the Philippines. Humanity demands it. Civilization, equity, Justice, right—everything demands it. Twenty years of American control would make those islands bloom and blossom as the rose. They are the gateway to the millions in Asia, and wonderful and immeasurable will la* the advantages, not only to the Filipinos, but to this whole country of ours, by opening up better commercial relations with tip* far East. The Pacific is the field for our future, but above it all is the humanitarian question involved. Let us fearlessly step on to tin* platform and not quail before the responsibilities that the hour presents. They may be grave, but we can be equal to the demands of the occasion. Anglo-Saxon vin and energy and intelligence and love of right and justice will win those people. They will step train bondage into free air; have a right to enjoy the fruits of their labor a right to live. Opposition to our rule will vanish like mist before the morning sun when they realize the blessings of a free church ard a free school and the complete protection of their property rights. We have a glorious opportunity. We owe it to ourselves, our posterity and to the world that we measure up to the magnitude of the hour—to its greatness and its grandeur. ISAAC H. FIIARE3. Indianapolis, Sept, ii.

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