Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1899 — Page 3

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AMUSEMENTS. The theaters are the most comfortable places to be found this sort of weather. They are all warm and bright, and many people escape cold homes for several hours by attending someone of the places of amusement. At the Grand to-night the •tock company will appear in "Too Much Johnson,” and there is so much laughter in this comedy that people will have very little trouble forgetting ail about the cold wave. It is not at all remarkable that "Too Much Johnson" ran for so many months in New York. It is a comedy that seems to have more substance than most of the farcical plays of its type. Os course, the character of Billings, played by Mr. Hansel, will get most of the laughter, but there Is also a comic side to the Frenchman, Mr. Sheldon’s part, as well as to the part of Johnson, taken by Kirkland. The use of Mr. Hansel’s photographs as souvenirs tonight will aid in filling the Grand. The new comedy “'lon. John Grigsby,” which Sol Smith Russell brings to English’s to-night and Tuesday night, was lately produped for the first time on any stage at Philadelphia. It is said to be delightful in Its naturalness and simplicity. The Philadelphia Press says: “ 'Hon. John Grigsby’ is unquestionably the best play Sol Smith Russell has ever produced and adapted to his winning personality and characteristic methods. The scenes are laid in the early forties in a town in Illinois, and the Hon. John Gvigsby is a lawyer whose interests are divided between love and law. He is known as the poor man’s lawyer, espousing almost hopeless cases out of a deep sense of right, but in wnilch there' is very little money for, him. The story has a good deal to do with slave days and has a pretty love story in the affection of his son for the daughter of a rich slave property owner and newspaper editor. The play is beautifully put on. Careful attention has been paid to all the details of stagecraft, which in these days bear so important a part in any dramatic production.” A noteworthy circumstance in connection with James K. Hackett’s production of "Rupert of Hentzau,” whiph will be seen for one performance at English’s next Thursday night, is the great height of the seventeen members of the cast. One notices it almost at the tipening of the play and becomes more than ever impressed as each succeeding scene discloses some new stage figure of heroic mold. In the first place, the Hope romances seem to require tall players. Anthony Hope himlself imbued Daniel Frohman with his views on this subject. Then the star Ilaekett is six feet two and has the shoulders of a gladiator. If his stage fellows were short he would not shine to such advantage as he does under the present conditions. Theodore Roberts plays Colonel Sapt. He is nearly, if not quite, six leet. Arthur Hoops, the company villain, who went to Australia with Nat Goodwin, is a fine specimen of manhood, just five feet eleven. Brigham Boyce (Fritz von Tarlenheim in the play) is a six footer, and Sydney Price is the tallest man in the organization. He has the only comedy role, the chancellor, bowed by the weight of his years, so his great height (he is six feet four) is not so apparent. As for the ladies in Mr. Hackett’s support, they are as remarkable in this regard as the men. Jobyna Howland, the “Gibson girl," is exactly six feet and carries herself so well that she does not look it. Mabel Amber is a plump woman more than usually tall, and beautiful Evelyn Carter, whose real figure is hidden in the disguise of an old harpy (Mother Holf), is taller even than Miss Amber. As one play goer/remarked on leaving the theater after witnessing a performance of "Rupert of

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I Hentzau, ’ That mythological country called Ruritania must have been peopled by giants. The only short person I’ve seen around here is the programme boy." Hyde’s Comedians and Helene Mora, who open their week at the Park this afternoon, will receive their usual Indianapolis welcome. Mclntyre and Heath have anew sketch called "Way Down South,” in which they are aided by the entire company, and Helene Mora’s new songs are of the type that afford the famous singer opportunity to arouse the enthusiasm of her audiences. The bill is high ciass in every particular, and Its numerous attractive features will serve to keep the Park crowded all week. Reilly & Wood’s big show will open this tfternoon at the Empire with one of the trongest companies this management has ever brought together. The engagement is for three days. Seats for Hackett’s one performance at English’s Thursday night will be placed on sale to-day. The advance sale for Jefferson De Angelis in "The Jolly Musketeer" the last two days of the week will open at the box office to-morrow. Miss Maud Hollins, the young actress and singer who created a furore in New York last summer in the portrayal of roles in a series of light comic operas at the Harlem Opera House in that city, will appear this week ■with Jefferson De Angelis in the successful opera "The Jolly Musketeer." Miss Hollins is a niece of Composer Edwards. George F. Nash, now starring in "A Bachelor’s Honeymoon,” was here over Sunday, the company having lost a date in Michigan City, Ind., by the theater water pipes bursting. Nash has been engaged by Joseph Jefferson for leading man in place of Otis Skinner for Jefferson's spring tour of five weeks. Skinner left the Jeffersons in December and took his own company on a tour in "Rosemary.” ‘‘Burt” Dasher and Iloyt. The appearance here last week of Hoyt’s "A Day and a Night,” with so many of Hoyt’s old employes in the company, furnished occasion for discussing the many heartless stories which gossip mongers have been industriously circulating about Playwright Hoyt’s health. Mr. E. M. Dasher, of this city, who is to-day the oldest employe in the Hoyt household, having been Mr. Hoyt’s personal friend and his most popular road manager for eleven years, is plainly more worried by these extravagant tales he has been hearing than he is about the health of his best friend. While in the city he called down a party of gossipers good and hard and then proceeded to tell them more real truth about Playwright Hoyt than they had ever read in the newspapers. “It should be known,” said the genial Dasher, who on this occasion came nearer having tears in his voice than ever before, "that Mr. Hoyt is as strong mentally as he ever was. You seem surprised, but that is because you have been reading these brutal lies which have been put in circulation recently. They started in Washington, because Mr. Hoyt was not able to give the necessary time to preparing his new play, ‘A Dog in the Manger,’ so as to prevent it from being a failure. In all these years this is the first real failure Mr. Hoyt has had, but how many other playwrights can point to such a string of successes? Mr. Hoyt is just as able to write another ‘Midnight Bell’ or ‘Texas Steer’ or ‘Hole in the Ground’ as he ever was. The present state of his health is solely the result of the nervous strain that came with the loss of his beautiful wife, Caroline Miskel, and his little baby, to which he had been looking forward with more joy than to any play he ever wrote. I spent some time with Mr. Hoyt recently and found him much improved. He has personul friends in this city, who saw him recently in New York, and they will tell you that Mr. Hoyt’s brain Is as clear as it ever was. His wit is as crisp, his satire as pointed and his general flow of humor, always a delight in his friendly conversation, is just as refreshing. “Mr. Hoyt has suffered for several months from insomnia, and was being dragged down until he changed his physician, who is now with him day and night, and is having remarkable success in restoring his health. "These brutal and cowardly stories have almost disorganized his companies: Take ‘Big Bill’ De Vere; when he heard a certain story he broke down and cried like a boy. Another member of ‘A Day and a Night’ company came to me with tears in his eyes when I arrived the other day and asked about a story he had read in a Cincinnati Saper. He said he had a beautiful home own East which he owed to Mr. Hoyt’s generosity. A girl in the company, who has substantial evidence of Hoyt’s generosity, received a telegram from her mother asking if another story were true, and she met me with a face looking as if her dearest friend had died. I have a letter in my pocket from a man in another Hoyt company, a man who has a little farm, all he owns in the world, and he says Hoyt lifted the mortgage for him. The world doesn’t know of these things. At Christmas times I have seen Mr. Hoyt and his wife go out and buy $2,000 worth of presents to hang on the stage Christmas tree. He has had as high as 156 actors on his pay roll, and the many people in his companies and in others are being unnecessarily grieved by the lies that are circulated. I want to do my part to head off any more of these ridiculous yarns about Charles Host’s mind failing. I should not be surprised to see him perfectly well again soon, and q-'ekly turn out a play more bitter in satire than anything he has ever done, getting even with certain unfriendly gossips who seem to take a savage delight in trying to wound his feelings and the feelings of the many friends who love him as a brother.”

Note* of the Stage. August Spanorth, critic of the New York Staats Zeitung, has married Amanda Fabria Israel Zangwill’s new work, “Children of the Ghetto,’’ will be given its first production o a any stage next September in Washington. The character which Julia Arthur is to portray in her play of “More than Queen,*’ next season, is that of the Empress Josephine. Paul Potter Is writing anew play for Henry Miller on the strongly romantic order, somewhat after the style of Anthony Hope and Stanley Weyman. Viola Allen will end her long New York run In “The Christian’’ at the Garden Theater in three weeks and go to the Boston Museum for a spring engagement March 6. A daughter of Marie Wainwright has been engaged by Daniel Frohman to play a leading character in the production of "The White Horse Tavern,” which will have twenty-eight speaking parts. “La Belle Helene” will remain at the Casino until Feb. 25, when It will go on a tour. "A Dangerous Maid” will return to the Casino for a week and then the new piece, “In Gay Paree,” will be produced. Anna Held, with “The French Maid,” is being warmly received in the West, and is entertaining lavishly in her luxurious private car. Harry B. Smith has adapted “Papas Wife,” a musical comedy, which she is studying for next season. Minnie Palmer, who has not played in Air erica for the past three years, will make her reappearance at one of Proctor’s theaters on March 6. She. comes direct from England, and brings with her anew play by an English author ar.d a company of live English actors to assist her. New Orleans is likely to enjoy a legal battle over “A Lady of Quality.” Both Miss Juiia Arthur and Miss Eugenia Blair have announced their Intention of doing the play there. Miss Arthur claims the prior right, but Miss Blair says she has the permission of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author. Grace George, a young actress of delicate beauty and artistic temperament who recently wedded Manager William A. Brady, of the Manhattan Theater, New York, has made a great personal hit at her husband’s theater as the wife in “Mile. Fifl.” Her sympathetic work gives promise of a very bright career. “The Turtle” company, headed by Sadie Martinot, drew enormous crowds in Washington, against “The Little Minister,” a fact significant of diversity in public taste. A second organization with Isabelle Evesson and Sig. Perugini begins its tour at Elizabeth. N. J., I eb. 16. “The Turtle” comes to English's for a Saturday matinee and night performance next week. Brady & Ziegfeld will make costly and lavish production in New’ York next autumn of the picturesque comedy “A Court Scandal,” by Aubrey Boucieault, now’ one of the reigning London successes. It is a costume play of the romantic type, and its central figure, is Richelieu, not as the grim cardinal, but the gallant youth of nineteen. Young Boucieault, who is now in “Mile. Fifl ” wiR play Richelieu. Bays Biff Hall in the Mirror:-J’James W. Evans, of Dead wood, S. D., sends me a

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weird tale of an ‘Uncle Tom’ manager who sought to escape personal disaster by skipping out, owing all salaries. Members of the company put the bloodhounds on his trail. They’ caught up with him and he stole the dogs and started another show. That man will own a Broadway theater some day.” Maskelyne's mysteries have for many years made up a London show of iht Heller and Hermann kind at Egyptian Hall. One of them was a box into and out of which he made a person go and come. He kept up a standing advertised offer of $2,500 for a “correct imitation" of the trick. Two boys produced the same result and demanded the reward, but he refused to pay up, his excuse being that the mechanical contrivance was not identical. A lawsuit was brought and a verdict rendered against him. An appeal has confirmed the judge’s ruling that the phrase "correct imitation” was applicable to the result and not the means. Maskelyne now offers ss.(*)o to any one who will "prove that he has discovered the secret of the box.” Alice Nielsen, in "The Fortune Teller,” has just been playing in her native tow'n, Kansas City, where, as a poor girl, she ran the streets barefoot with errands for her mother. The Kansas City papers devoted, not columns, but pages, to Miss Nielsen’s return in triumph as a prima donna star, and the town was worked up to a Nielsen panic with a demand for seats equal to a Mansfield engagement. The Kansas City World started off its two pages of stories and pictures of Miss Nielsen with the following parody on "She Was Bred in Old Kentucky:” "She was bred in Kansas City, Where the Kaw and Muddy meet; ’Midst the hills and limestone ledges, Where the air is pure and sw'eet. She was bred in Kansas City, And, my boy, it is a pity, If you fail to reach the box office In time to get a seat.” Famous actors and dramatists the world over are now paying for what they allege was a sharp trick played upon them at the time of the death of Fanny Davenport. The morning after her death they received prepaid telegraph and cable messages from a Boston florist asking wiiether they did not want to send a floral tribute to the funeral. Th- message was so worded that it was implied that a modest remembrance was all that would be sent. Since then they have received bills for flowers ranging from S6O to $l5O, according to their fame. Miss Elizabeth Marbury, the dramatic agent for Vlctorien Sardou, has received the latest evidence of the florist’s "thrift.” Recently she received a letter from the great French dramatist inclosing a bill he has received for sllO. "I cannot understand this,” the letter ran. "I did give the man an order, but I did not intend to buy out his business. If he has not made it dollars instead of francs dying is expensive in America.” Miss Marbury said: ’That mar, sent the same kind of cable to Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving, Charles Wyndham, Mr. Hare, Mrs. Kendal and Olga Nethersole. Os course they were delighted to send a token of their love to the grave of the dead actress. "Mr. Wyndham received a bill for $75, Mr. Tree for more than a hundred, w’hile Sir Henry Irvmg was asked to pay more than any of the others.” NO QUARANTINE ESCAPES. Merely u. Visitor—No New Cases* of Smallpox. Jerry Collins, of the Board of Health force which has in quarantine the Franklin House, said yesterday that the colored woman who was found buying cocaine in a West Washington-street drug store, and who was supposed to have slipped through the guard around the Franklin House, w r as really not an inmate of the house, but had tried to get through the guard to visit a friend and was turned back. No new cases of smallpox were discovered yesterday. In a few days several of the quarantines first set about houses in which cases of the disease were discovered will be raised. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. G. M. Ballard and Miss Lucile Ballard are in New Orleans. Mrs. W. E. English will spend the early part of this week In Chicago. CITY NEWS NOTES. Gen. Fred Knefler’s serious condition continues unchanged. A children’s recital will be given at the Metropolitan School of Music this evening. On the programme are May Clark, Edith Keegan, Mamie Horn, Eucy Harrison, Charles Craig, John Logan, Muriel Weber and Bertie Kiemeyer. Mr. Beveridge Leaves. Senator-elect Beveridge has gone to Philadelphia, where he will speak to-night before the Union League Club on "For the Greater Republic; Not for Imperialism.” After that he will take a rest, having declined thirty-seven invitations to address clubs over the country.

AX I.MHAXA EXAMPLE. Object Lessons Against Electing Senators by Fopulur Vote. Washington Post. The advocates of the pending amendment of the Constitution providing for the election of senators by popular vote appear to be greatly encouraged by deadlocks and other troubles in some of the legislatures on which has devolved the duty of choosing senators for the term beginning on the 4th of March, 1899. It Is true that, in a few instances, there is vexatious delay, and it inay be that the best possible result will not, in every case, be attained. But this does not prove that the proposed change ought to be adopted. It does not weaken any of the arguments in favor of letting that feature of the Constitution severely alone. We do not propose, at this time, to enter upon a discussion of the merits of the question. for the ground has been traveled over so often that our readers are familiar with every part of it. And, besides, there is little necessity or excuse for expending time in attacking a proposition that has no chance of success. The history of efforts to change the fundamental law of the Republic furnishes an almost absolute assurance that senators will continue for many decades to be elected by the state legislatures. But we find one statement in an alleged argument In support of the proposed change which seems to call for notice. It is to the* effect that in all the States “w’hero there is sharp competition” for the senatorial prize there are “reports of scandalous proceedings.” This is not true by any means, but if it were an established fact it would have little force as a reason for changing from legislative to popular election. The tield for scandalous operations w'ould not be less broad or inviting if a state convention were substituted for a legislative body. In what States is there sharper competition in all things political than in Indiana? In what State are there more competitors for a seat in the United States Senate than were gathered at Indianapolis a few weeks ago? Where is the State in w’hich money has, in times past, been more lavishly or more corruptly used in influencing the popular vote than in Indiana? There is no other commonwealth in which partisanship is so robust and virile, and w'here campaigns are attended by intenser excitement. The election of 1898 gave the Republicans a majority in the Legislature and placed a senatorship at the disposal of that majority. There was no senatorial candidate before the people during the campaign, so that the legislators were uncommitted and uinstructed. There was no one candidate whose special or peculiar fitness had so impressed itself upon the people as to give him a lead. It was. in fact, a free-for-all race, and the conditions were just such as in some other States have, on various occasions, produced shameful scandals. But when did Indiana have a senatorial scandal? Never in the history of that Commonwealth has her fame been tarnished by even a hint of an attempt to buy an election to the Senate. Even when corruption raged in the campaign and culminated in bribery at the polls, it did not show its head in the Legislature. Poverty and wealth have always had an equal chance in competition fo’ a seat in the United States Senate from the Hoosie- State. The election of a senator to succeed Mr. Turpie was the occasion of a more than usually exciting contest. Aspirants for the honor opened headquarters and went to work to win support. But no hint of any dishonorable act. word or purpose marred the proprieties. And the result was as creditable to the State as it was to the Sena-tor-elect, Mr. Beveridge. Without influential connections, without a record as a legislator. with no machine to push his candidacy, and handicapped by the fact that his city is the home of one of the State's representatives In the Senate, this young man carried eff the prize for which statesmen of experience were hopeful aspirants. We can recall no triumph more distinctly creditable than this. And to those who insist on transferring election es senators from legislatures to the voting masses—which means the state conventions—in order to check corruption, we respectfully commend a study of this Indiana example

TOM JOHNSON’S DREAM MILLIONAIRE WILL DEVOTE LIFE AND WEALTH TO SINGLE TAX. ♦ Former Indianapolis* Railway Magnate la a Confirmed Apostle of llenry George’s* Philosophy. New York Herald. Once again Tom Johnson comes before the country as a reformer and single-tax agitator. He is now worth millions and he abandons his railroads and steel works to devote his time to spreading abroad the single-tax philosophy of Henry George. The magnitude of his recent Brooklyn streetrailway transactions is still a matter of public Interest and wonderment. It was a historic event in railroad finance when the Whitney-Flower syndicate closed the colossal deal with Tom Johnson for the seventeen street railroads of Brooklyn. The following tells of Mr. Johnson’s views and his plans for working out the theories originated and so ably expounded by Henry George, the life-long friend of Johnson: This single-tax financier recently had thirty thousand men on his pay rolls. He was born July 18, 1554, in Scott county, Kentucky. His ancestors were the illustrious family of Johnsons of Madison county, Virginia. Robert Johnson, a noted pioneer in his day, was among the earliest settlers in Kentucky Richard M. Johnson, his grandfather, was a distinguished soldier under General William Henry Harrison. Three sons were also eminent soldiers, and young Tom’s father was a colonel and a man of strong personality and character. When only a lad Tom Johnson was living with his parents in Louisville, where he reeieved a common school education. At the age of fifteen he was errand boy, clerk and later assistant in all work in the office of the Louisville Street-railway Company. There he learned the details of the business. It was the beginning of the art of amassing a fortune out of the despised nickel. The boy learned everything about horse railroading, track laying, railroad politics, securing rights of way and getting the good will of hostile aldermen and would-be reformers. Before he was twenty-one Johnson had all the intricacies of country rapid transit at his fingers’ ends. He continually heard of the great need of certain devices for switches and car machinery. He was a healthy, vigorous chap, with a bucketful of brains in his big head, which he stirred up to advantage. HIS FIRST INVENTION. One morning he awoke and found himself a success. His inventions were pronounced wonderful. He invented anew ntckel-in-the-slot box for street cars running in suburban towns without a conductor, where passengers are few’ and dividends invisible. Next he invented an automatic switch, then the patent high heel rail now used on all great lines. The Johnson boys were poor and * lie family had a hard time keeping the Western wolf from their little home. But Tom Johnson’s inventions soon began dropping from the ceiling into the family box. When only twenty-two young Johnson had received enough from his inventions to enable him with the little money he was able to control outside his fund to buy a street railway in Indianapolis. All the street railways in those Western towns are more or less one-horse affairs. In some places a single mule pulled a car’ through the town. Johnson's management was magical. The line was soon put on a business basis. Improved cars appeared. People w’ere not ashamed to ride on the smart line, and money poured in until Johnson was able to buy a broken-down street-car property in Cleveland, O. It was a one-horse affair, while the main system in that city was in the control of Hanna. The boy financier from the West w r as looked on as too insignificant to worry about, but he soon built up a competition that put Hanna on his mettle, and presently there was a fierce railroad fight. Hanna found his match, for Johnson soon controlled the town. His plan was to buy one road after another, then consolidate and blossom out with a system. After he had made a fortune he performed the coup of his life. He consolidated the affections and gdod will of a pretty sensible Kentucky girl, made himself president, vice president and chairman, giving her full power as general manager, of the matrimonial combination, she controlling all the proxies of his heart. Strange to say that although married and rich, Tom Johnson found himself a happy man. He had paralleled Hanna’s monopoly lines and brought the rich men of the city to his feet. He was soon acknowledged king of the streetrailway business. The young man was in the pink of health and, physically speaking, a sort of young god, with a smile that comes of perfect digestion. Ho took his brother Al into business and placed him in charge of the Cleveland lines. The running of the system required the new patent steel rail which Tom Johnson had invented. ANOTHER FINE IDEA.

It was with great difficulty that he could induce tho conservative big rolling mill concerns to turn out rails after his pattern. But they proved such a success that soon the companies were only too glad to make the rails. Meanwhile, however, it had occurred to Johnson that the high price which he was forced to pay for those special rails of his own invention suggested a basis for another fortune. So the young man organized a steel company to manufacture his patent rails and automatic switches for the rest of the world. On another morning the capitalists awoke to find the. well-established firm of the Johnson steel works at Lorain, 0., and at Johnstown, Pa. Everything that Johnson touched turned to thousand-dollar bills. They fluttered into his vaults like leaves in autumn. _ . , Unlike other manufacturers and capitalists, Johnson became an antl-protectionist. His rivals in the iron business were astounded. They could not understand why he opposed a tariff calculated to enhance his profits. His answer was to announce that he was not only a tariff reformer but an out and out free trader. He had read “Progress and Poverty, met Henry George, its author, and. like old Bunyan, had seen a great light. So he became a single taxer. He would have been considered crazy but for his extraordinary success in business. He was courageous and apparently afraid of nothing living or dead. ~ „ _ In Cleveland he boldly ran for Congress on the single-tax ticket, just to break the ice for the new movement. He was defeated, but by so small a majority that the old politicians doubled their closes of whisky and quinine, and wondered if human nature had reversed its record. In the campaign of 1890 he tried it again and was sent to Congress by 3,400 majority. That the Western Reserve wise men were paralyzed did not express the situation of that day. Ohio was then redistricted, and it was thought that it would be the means of beating Johnson by at least 2,000 majority in the next campaign. He was full of dynamite and ginger and went into the struggle with his coat off. It was a memorable campaign. The political air seemed full of patent and automatic switches, red hot and labeled with the Johnson brand. Again the political railroader won. He was sent to Congress with a majority of 3,200. Johnson’s career in the House of Representatives is a matter of history. It has been told how he w r orked for the single tax cause in and out of the House; how he made a great speech on the tariff; and, with the assistance of a few friends, read chapters from Henry George’s “Protection or Free Trade,” incorporating it into their speeches, having it sent out through the country as a part of the proceedings of Congress. HIS TRICK IN CONGRESS. It is estimated that in this way at least a million copies of ‘Protection or Free Trade,” and Tom Johnson’s free-trade sin-gle-tax speeches were circulated between Maine and California. Tom Johnson is declared to be one of the few* men who are sincere and serious, still always self-contained and smiling. He does the work of ten men, yet seems never busy. He appears everywhere except in barrooms, has board meetings down town and up town and business of an important character with many interests at stake, and yet he is never in a hurry and turns up serenely about dinner time at home, where he is the most domestic of men, and takes life as If it were an afternoon jaunt or a pleasant fishing excursion. “What I said at the banquet to Mr. Edward McHugh a few nights since is no sudden announcement of my purpose,” said Mr, Johnson when asked about his new work. "I took occasion to state the fact that my business had been sufficiently wound up in various ways to make me practically free now, and that 1 had no idea of engaging in any more money-making schemes that wmuld interefere with giving practically my entire time to the promotion of the interests of the single tax. The question of taxation in any form involves the discussion of the philosophy of Henry George, which I am

convinced is the only way to remedy the evils which oppress the people and the country. I agree with Henry George when he says: *' 'We do not propose to assert equal rights to land by keeping land common, letting any one use any part of it at any time. We do not propose the task, impossible in the present state of society, of dividing land in equal shares: still less the yet more impossible task or keeping it divided. “ ‘We propose leaving land in the private possession of individuals, with full liberty on their part to sell, give or bequeath it, simply to levy on it for public uses a tax that shall equal the annual value of the land itself irrespective of the use made of it or the improvements on it. And, since this would provide amply for the need of public revenues, we would accompany the tax on land values with the repeal of all taxes now levied on the products and processes of industry, which taxes, since they take front the earnings of labor, we hold to be infringements of the right of property. “ ‘This we propose, not as a cunning device of human ingenuity, but as a contormi;iq of human regulations to the w’il of God. God cannot contradict Himself nor impose on His creatures law's that clash. “ ‘lf it be God’s command to men that they should not steal—that is to soy, that they should respect the right of property which each one has in fruits of his labor—all these taxes violate the moral law’. They take by force what belongs to the individual alone; they give to the unscrupulous an advantage over the scrupulous; they have the etiect—nay, they are largely intended—to increase the price of what some have to sell and others must buy; they corrupt government; they make oaths a mockery; they shackle commerce; they fine Industry and thrift; they' lessen the w'ealth that men might enjoy, and enrich some by impoverishing others. UNCHRISTIAN HIKE. “ ‘Yet what most strikingly shows how ' opposed to Christianity is this system of raiding public revenues is its influence on thought. Christianity teaches us that all men are brethren; that their true Interests are harmonious, not antagonistic. It gives us as the golden rule of life that we should do to others as we would have others do to us. “ ‘But out of the system of taxing the products and processes of labor, and out of its effects in increasing the price of what some have to sell and others must buy, has grown the theory of ‘‘protection,” which denies this gospel, which holds Christ ignorant of politlcdl economy and proclaims laws of national well-being utterly at variance with His teaching. This theory sanctifies national hatreds; it inculcates a universal war of hostile tariffs; it teaches people that their prosperity lies in imposing on the productions of other peoples restrictions they do not wish imposed on their own, and instead of the Christian doctrine of man’s brotherhood it makes injury of foreigners a civic virtue.’ ” Continuing, Mr. Johnson said: "As to when and w'here this movement will finally ripen and bear fruit, that is of minor importance, as it is the question of who leads and who follows. I am convinced that single tax is the only remedy for existing evils, and am willing to dedicate the rest of my life to advocating the cause and in showing that this philosophy is the only solution of our vexed labor problems. I am personally willing to engage in the work in any capacity. I would run for constable if I thought it would help the cause. “Public attention is attracted here to first one minor question and then another, but no great period of time elapses without the question of taxation being brought up for discussion. Each successive step brings more people to view calmly and quietly Mr. George’s simple and beautiful problem of destroying monopoly and privilege by taxing them out of existence. “The cause has made great headway, and in every walk in life you hear expressions of commendation w'here you least expect them, showing that the movement is growing, as the anti-slavery movement grew before 1800, and it will In all probability bear fruit rapidly and will, like that movement, end in completely capturing the thinking mind of this country as well as every other. A PARALLEL. CASE. "As Mr. George so truthfully says, ‘Forty years ago slavery seamed stronger in the United States than ever before, and the market price of slaves—both working slaves and breeding slaves—was higher than it had ever been before, for the title of the owner seemed growing more secure. In the shadow' of the hall where the equal rights of man had been solemnly proclaimed the manacled fugitive was dragged back to bondage, and on what to American tradition was our Marathon of freedom the slave master boasted that he would yet call the roll of his chattels. “ ‘Yet forty years ago, though the party that was to place Abraham Lincoln in tho presidential chair had not been formed, and nearly a decade was yet to pass ere the signal gun was to ring out, slavery, and as we may now see, was doomed. “ ‘To-day a wider, deeper, more beneficent revolution is brooding not over one country, but over the world. God’s truth impels it, and forces mightier than He has evbr before given to man to urge It on. It is no more at the power of vested wrongs to stay it than it is in man’s power to stay the sun. The stars in their courses fight against Sisera, and in the ferment of to-day, to him who hath ears to hear, tho doom of industrial slavery is sealed.’ ” Mr. Johnson grew eloquent as he proceeded, and he concluded by saying that he intended to give his life and influence, his voice and his pow r er to the cause that Henry George had so w’ondrously begun for the salvation of the country and oppressed mankind. “About when do you expect to be entirely out of business?” “I am practically out now'." “Where are you going to live?" “In Cleveland, O." “Make your headquarters there?” “Yes, I vote there and live there and shall never change my residence.” “Won’t you spend part of the year in Fort Hamilton?” “I have no idea, though it’s a place I am very fond of. I can only say this, that I have determined to w'ork for single tax reform and oppose monopoly and injustice of every kind.”

TURKEY’S RICHEST MAX. An Arnienlan Who Gained Wealth Through Two Assassinations. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. The richest man in Turkey is an Armenian, who is a naturalized American citizen, and lived in this country for several years. If the stories told in the diplomatic circle of Constantinople are true, he came by his money in a peculiar manner. It will be remembered that the Sultan Aziz was assassinated in 1876. For several years prior to his death he accumulated all the money and bonds he could obtain, which he stored away in his palace as a reserve fund in case of a war with Russia, which had been impending for some time. The amount of his accumulations h£s been variously estimated at from $10,000,006 to $40,000,000, and was undoubtedy considered in excess of the latter sum. Most of it was in English, French and German securities that drew interest and were easily convertible at any bank in any city of Europe. Although his assassination was a mystery, it is believed to have been inspired, if it was not actually accomplished, by Midad Pasha, the minister of finance, from avaricious motives. He alone was aware of the magnitude of the Sultan’s hoard and the place of its concealment, and after his sovereign’s death, by virtue of his position, he took charge of the fund and pretended to deposit it in the public treasury. But it is beiieved by those most familiar with Turkish affairs that he retained for his own benefit a large part—perhaps one-half of it—which, for motives of self-protection, he intrusted to the Armenian banker 1 have named, and directed him to take the bonds to London and Paris and there deposit them in such a manner that their ownership could not be traced to Midad Pasha. It is also believed to have been the latter’s intentions to withdraw a portion of this propery from concealment as soon as he felt safe in doing so. But not long afterward Midad Pasha was himself assassinated in the boldest and most astounding manner. He was attending a meeting of the Ministry, when he was informed that a messenger was awaiting him in the anteroom with a confidential communication that must be delivered immediately and to himself alone. Midad left his colleagues and entered the ante room, where an unknown man immediately plunged a dagger into his heart. The palace guard, hearing his death cry and the fall of his body, immediately rushed to the room and shot the assassin before he could escape. Although the police continued their investigations for months, they were never able to identify the assassin or associate any one else with the crime, but the knowing ones believe he was a ruffian imported from the mountains by the Armenian banker referred to, and was handsomely paid to commit the deed. On the evening of Midad's assassination the Armenian merchant went to Midad’s palace and informed his widow that there were concealed in a certain strong box certain papers that would connect her husband with a conspiracy against the crow n and would undoubtedly cause the arrest and imprisonment of the entire family and the confiscation of the property if they were discovered. The frightened widow, already beside herself with excitement because of the assassination, begged him to search her husband’s papers and destroy all Questionable or suspicious documents. He spent the night at this work, and among the papers burned that night are believed to have been the evidences of Midad’s ownership in the bonds that have made the Armenian the richest man in Turkey.

COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE Lancashire Insurance Com’y On the 31st day of December, 1898. Heme Office, Manchester. England. C. E. GILBERT, Manager, C hicago, 111. THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY' IN THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOWS! Cash en hand and in the hands of agents or other persons *U-’?ss ® Real estate unincumbered •••••••••* Bonds owned bv the company, tearing Interest at the rate of— per cent., as per schedule tiled, market value Debts for premiums ic! All other securities, special agent balances - i~a.w Total assets ....12.390,389.86 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due Losßec, adjusted and not due, losses unadjusted 127.281.13 Losses In suspense, waiting for further proof 21.683.00 All other claims against the company SO.OO(rwL, Amount necessary to Insure outstanding risks 1,473,208.22 Total liabilities 61.807,058.64 The greatest amount in any one risk, $40,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I. the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above Is a correct copv of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned compary on the 31st day of December, ‘IS9B, as shown by the original statement, and that the saF original statement is now on file in this office. , . .. . In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official peal tula [SEAL.] 31st day of January, 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE Northern Assurance Company On the 31st day of December, 1898. It is located at the Monadnock block, Dearborn-street. Chicago, 111. G. H. LERMIT, Manager. Office, Western Dmartment. The amount of its capital is • • $15.000.000.( The amount of its capital paid up is l,t>no,ooo.w THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOWS! Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $82,336.84 Real estate unincumbered • —; 113,000.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing Interest at the rata of various per centages, eecured as follows: United States bonds, market value ••••••••• State, countv and municipal bonds, market value 642,769.37 Railroad stocks and bonds, market value 347.730.tJ0 Other stocks and bonds, market value 200,000.00 Debts otherwise secured Debts for premiums no,mi..tt Total assets - $2,518,397.32 LIABILITIES. Amount owing and not due, to banks or other creditors " s l 9. B ®A* Losses adjusted and due, losses adjusted and not due $10,450.-> Losses unadjusted - 86,921.40 v $112,401.67 Less reinsurance 5.927.86 106,473.81 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 921,984.32 Total liabilities The greatest amount in any one risk, $25,000. State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. t „ I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1898, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file in this office. .. , ~ , , , ... In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this [SEAL ] 31st day of January. 1899. W, H. HART, Auditor of St*e.

COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia On the 31st day of December, 1898. It is located at No. 409 Chestnut street, In the city of Philadelphia. SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, President. ASA S. WING. ActuaiTThe amount of Its capital stock is The amount of its capital stock paid up is 1,000,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOW’S! Cash on hand Real estate above incumbrances 648,067.08 Bonds, etc., owned by the company, as follows: United States bonds, market value 540,000.00 County and municipal bonds, market value 3,300,811.0 Railroad and other bonds and stocks, market value 13,300,515.00 Loans on bond and mortgage, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 11,458,654.45 Loans on collateral security 1,794,864.03 Loans on policies 3,106.389.96 Premium notes secured by policies Premiums deferred and uncollected 727,409.30 Accrued interest * 381,883.07 Total assets $37,395,017.01 LIABILITIES. Losses in process of adjustment, or adjusted and not due $170,022.75 All other claims against the company 440,182.44 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 31,533,335.00 Total liabilities $32,143,540.21 The greatest amount in any one risk, $50,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I. the undesigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above la a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 3tat day of Deeeml>er. IS9S. as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file in this offfre. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this [SEAL.] 31st day of January. 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE 1 CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE North German Fire Insurance Cos. On the 31st Day of December, 1898. It is located at Nos. 189 and 191 La Salle street, Chicago, 111. Home Office, Hamburg. ADOLPH LOEB & SON, Managers, THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOW’S! Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $105,990.22 Bonds owned by the company, bearing Interest at the rate of various per cents., secured as follows: U. 8. 4 per cent, bonds, registered, market value 223,250.00 Railroad bonds, market value 183,950,00 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and Tree from any i-ior incumbrance 72,500.00 "Debts for premiums 163,610.93 All other securities 5,915.18 Total assets $755,216.33 • LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due $3,753.36 Losses unadjusted 27,006.08 Losses In suspense, waiting for further proof 2,600 00 All other claims against the company 39,398.23 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 294,773.80 Total liabilities $367,430.39 The greatest amount In any one risk, $20,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undesigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above la a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December. 1898, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this [SEAL.] 31st day of January, 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company On the 31st Day of December, 1898. It Is located at No. 15 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y. \ MARSHALL R. DRIGGS, President. FREDERICK H. WAY. Secretary. The Hmount of Its capital is $250,000.06 The amount of its capital paid up is 250,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS! Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $22,538.93 Real estate unincumbered 632,574.13 Bonds owned by the comi>any, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., as per schedule filed, market value 1 960,603.50 Loan., on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same Is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 244.400.00 Debts for premiums 94.883.25 All other securities 11,905.68 l Total assets $1,966,906.49 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due, losses unadjusted, losses In suspense, waiting for further proof $40,706 23 All other claim against the company Ni.M7.39 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 559,110.75 Total liabilities $630,107.37 The greatest amount in any one risk, $25,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned. Auditor of state of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above U a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December. 1898. as shown by the original statement, and thut the said original statement Is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this [REAL.] 31st day of January, 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State.

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