Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1899 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS .JOURNAL," WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1899

THE DAILY 'JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1809. Washington Office 150-3 Pennsylvania Avenue

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THE IXDIAXATPOLIS JOURNAL Tan be found at the following places: NEW YORK Astor House. CHICAGO ra!mer House, T. O. News Co., JIT Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Tarlnc Hotel. CINCINNATI-J. R, Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine ftret. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering. northwest corner ct Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Uock Co., 256 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON. D. C Rlggs House. Ebbltt House and Willard's Hotel. ' It Is worth while to call attention to the fact that business failures last April were S3 per cent, less than during: April, 1S3S. If Agulnaldo should succeed In establishing a new government he could scarcely do less than make George S. Boutwell secretary of the treasury and Edward Atkinson chief statistician. Ex -Colonel Bryan will not approve of that hundred-dollar-a-plat dinner to Dewey, but then it must be remembered that what is too rich for-the Nebraska roan Is none too good for the admiral. Another Indiana man In evidence is Commander James II. Dayton, of the cruiser Detroit, on special duty at Bluefields, Nicaragua. Commander Dayton's home on e horer Is at South Bend, Ind. Ex-Senator Peffer is said to be 'editing a Populist paper at 10 a week, but $10 a week end enough to do is better than idleness. Moreover, the publishing of Populist papers In Kansas is not a prosperous industry these times. It is unfortunate that the two union labels attesting the work of making Colonel Aryan's last book are the cause of an Investigation by a labor committee in Chicago, and that his publishers have been at outs with the union printers. The Washington authorities may be correct in their view that the Chinese exclusion ect does cot apply to our insular possessions, but if that is so one fails to ee how the Mongolians are to be kept out of the State without additional legislation. Mr. Tom Johnson, single-tax advocate and promulgator of socialistic doctrine, loves the deaf public a gref.t deal, no doubt, but he Isn't going to lose any money in order that the people of Detroit may own their own street-car lines and have -3-cent fares. Like most Socialists, he wants the other fellows to do the dividing. The Anti-Imperial 1st League thinks no Government of Europe, except perhaps that of Russia, would exclude seditious pamphlets from the malls. They are greatly mistaken. In no European country would a class of citizens be found so base as to try and excite discontent and mutiny among Its soldiers in time of war, and if they did they would meet a much worse punishment than exclusion from the mails. Yesterday In reporting a local happening enfi city paper spoke of the Reformatory, Indicating It otherwise as the Reform Gchool for Girls; a second paper spoke cf the Reform School for Girls, and a third If r1itr Pnfnrm Rhrtnl The correct designation of the Institution alluded to, as fixed by the last Legislature, Is "The Indiana Industrial School for Girls." As the object of the change was to relieve girls, many of whom are guilty of nothing worse than temporary waywardness, from the stigma of having been sentenced to a penal Institution, Judges of courts and the press should use the new and legal title of the school. A special representative of the London tatlst. now in the United States, writes that paper that he finds confidence here ully restored, with every indication of prolonged and increasing prosperity. He thinks Congress at Its next session will take vmeasures for putting the currency on a ettor basis than ever, and as there is no probability' of success attending the silver party next year's elections are not likely to create any uneasiness. "Hence," eays "the correspondent, "with the restoration of confidence by the American people in their own currency, and their determination to keep that currency on a gold basis, capital will remain assured and the trade of the country must continue active and progressive". This is the view of all intelligent foreigners who study commercial condi- . tlons. It Is only Americans of the Bryanlte school who insist that prosperity has . not come in the United States and never can under present conditions. If Mr. Andrew Carnegie has decided to administer mainly on his own estate, as Intimated in a published Interview, he will win more lasting and desirable fame than he could In any other way. He hasalready done much in the way of educational, literary and artistic endowments, but the gifts be has made are small compared with what he is still able to make without exhausting his immense fortune. His wealth teen estimated at $100,000,000. If it is Ixalf as much, which is probably nearer the truth, he can do enough good during the remainder of his life to obliterate the memory cf his connection with the Homestead riots i.nd to Invest the name of Carnegie with as pleasant associations aj those which now accompany the once hated name f CrouM. No doubt the daughter of the deceased railroad wrecker and magnate Is actuated by the most disinterested motives In her acts of patriotism and philanthropy, but she may also derive great satisfaction from the thought that she is erecting to her father's memory a monument that he filled to erect himself, and is. day by day, TrJ-ln2 out by her beautiful acts the stigma Tyhich fca, through a lifetime of selfishness r'i crcci, placed upon the frmlly nam. If

any person la now tempted to remember the father vindictively he refrains for the sake of the daughter. Mr. Carnegie Fays he hopes to disprove "the definition, sometimes deserved, of a philanthropist as a man with a great deal of money but very little sense." and he asks the public to wait and see. The public will do It.

WIIAT'ARE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? A city paper. Indignant over the exclusion of Mr. Edward Atkinson's seditious pamphlets from the government mails for the Philippines, says: "A citizen of the United States has been deprived of a constitutional right by an official who has assumed the powers of a despot." The executive committee of the Anti-Imperialistic League, in a consoling letter to Atkinson, characterizes the action of the government as "an exercise of arbitrary and Illegal power which would hardly be attempted by any government of Europe, except, perhaps, that of Russia." There is so much of this kind of talk among American Aulnaldists that it seems pertinent to Inquire what are the constitutional rights of a citizen? In the first place, they do not Include the right to attempt to destroy the government, or to oppose or weaken its efforts to establish and maintain its Just authority. A government that does not possess, assert and maintain the right of self-preservation Is no government at all. The misguided citizens who attempted, in 151, to dissolve the Union, insisted that they were contending for their constitutional rights, but the outcome of the war established that making war against the government was not a constitutional right. The government's right of self-preservation was asserted during the war In many ways besides fighting those who were actually In arms against It. The preamble to the Constitution declares Its objects to be "To form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, andj secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." None of these objects covers the right to afford moral aid and comfort to the enemies of the government during war, or to try and stir up discontent and mutiny among its soldiers. The Constitution does not confer the right to commit any crime against the government or against society, and it is for the government and society to say what constitute crimes and not for individuals. Some people regard the right to coin money or manufacture whisky as a God-given and Inalienable one, but the government says differently and enforces its view with considerable vigor. The right to vote comes as near being a constitutional and inalienable right as any other, but the government does not hesitate to deny it to those who have committed crime. The sacred right of suffrage does not Include the right to commit highway robbery. Conspiracy against the government in time of war Is a higher crime than robbery or arson. A man may sympathize with the enemies of the government as much as ho pleases, but when he attempts to give his sympathy the form of action intended to encourage its enemies the government has a right to say "stop." The right to be a traitor at heart is an inalienable one, but the right to be a traitor In action Is not. The Constitution nowhere guarantees It. No person has a constitutional right to send anything in the malls except what the government says he may send. The Constitution gives Congress power "to establish postofflces and post roads," and the government exercises the exclusive right of carrying the mails and of saying what it will carry. It excludes from the malls obscene literature or pictures, letters and circulars relating to lotteries, poisons, explosive or Inflammable articles, and many other things. The constitutional right to send seditious literature in the mails to the government's soldiers In the field is no more sacred than the constitutional right to send obscene pictures, poisoned candy or infernal machines. If the government may, as It does, deny the constitutional right to send poisonous snakes in the mail, it certainly majr deny the constitutional right to send poisonous pamphlets to the soldiers in the field. Mr. Atkinson has a constitutional right to to the Philippines, but if he should claim that the constitutional right of free speech entitled him to go on the firing line and harangue the soldiers, abusing the government and urging them to stop fighting and go home, he would find himself up against a very different construction of the Constitution from his. Every man has a constitutional right to make an ass of himself, as the American Agulnaldlsts are doing, but no person has a constitutional right to use the government mails in giving moral aid and comfort to Its enemies. Using the malls for treasonable purposes Is at least as great a crime as using them for the purposes of petty fraud, and If the government can prohibit one it can prohibit the other. The Constitution cannot be used as a shield for traitors any more than it can for swindlers. GOVERNOR PINGREE'S FAILURE, It now looks es If Tom L Johnson had used the bumptious Governor Pingree to show that municipal ownership of street railways is quito Impracticable. Governor Pingree has been a strenuous advocate of such ownership and the enemy of Johnson as the street-railway magnate. The Governor had made things unpleasant for the street-railway people, and it was his purpose to make them more so by agitating his hobby of municipal ownership. Mr. Johnson saw this and set himself to "work" the blustering statesman. He represented that he desired to help work out the problem of municipal ownership and management cf street railways. He expressed the opinion that under such management the people could ride without cost as their malls were carried. Governor Pingreo ro?e to the Johnson bait and pushed through he Legislature a bill authorizing a commission to purchase the Detroit street railways. The Governor, who has sought to be the Pooh Bah of Michigan by attempting to hold the offices of mayor of Detroft and Governor of the t State, was made one of the commissioners to negotiate the purchase under the Pingree law. The work was begun. Johnson figured that the plant is worth $17.500,000,, which is $2,500,000 more than the Pingree commission would pay. Johnson has stood out and now the deal Is declared off. The street-railway companies have $12,000,000 of bonds outstanding. They have franchises for which they have paid the city nothing, some of which do not expire for several years, but which they put a rrlce upon when the city desires to obtain control of them. To cover these bemds. the value of the rroperty, Including the franchises. Mr. Johnson wants J17.500.OilO in 4-per-cent. bonds based upon a thirty years' franchise and secured by a mortgage upon all the property. To pay the interest on the bosdi thd read must earn 1700,000 annually

over operating "expense Furthermore, the city mut create a sinking fund with which to redeem the bonds at tho end of thirty years. To purchase the plant at that price a S-cent fare would seem to be inadequate. The Pingree commission would pay $13,000,O"0 regardless of the fact that the plant could be duplicated for about half that amount. It li evident that Mr. Johruvm has demonstrated that municipal ownership by purchase Is impracticable and that he has adroitly used the Governor to prove that fact. Governor Pingree's Fcheme has gone .to pieces, and his enemies must be elated over his. failure, which Johnson has made humiliating because he has overreached him. The owners will continue to run the property and will continue to use the franchises, for which they have paid nothing and ask much, and to hold and receive the profits of the millions of dollars invested in the street railways, upon which they do not pay a cent of tax. APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE SEW Hi: FORM LAW.

Several of the Journal's State exchanges contain the names of members of the local boards appointed by circuit Judges under the county and township reform laws passed by the last Legislature, and in almost every case the appointments are commended. In no case are they criticised. As was to be expected, Republican Judges are generally appointing a majority of Republicans on each board and Democratic judges a majority of Democrats, but as the law permits this It is not a matter of criticism. The Important point is that they are appointing good, rep. resentative men of both parties who are likely to serve the public faithfully and in a spirit of friendliness to the law. As far as can' be Judged the law will have a fair trial. The action of the circuit judges is the more gratifying because so much depended on the first local boards, the appointment of which the law vested In the judges. As it now looks these boards are likely to be better constituted for taking , up an original and untried work than they would have been if the members had been nominated and elected by the people in the usual political way. In at least one case, that of the Thirtyfirst Judicial circuit, the judge, Hon. John H. Gillett. took the extra pains of sending each of his appointees a circular letter explaining in a general way the object of the new laws and the dignity of the offices crea ted by 'them. After expressing 1 Is hope that notwithstanding the small compensation the appointees would consent to serve, the Judge declared his own sympathy with the object of the laws and. named tho following as their leading advantages: First To compel officers to keep their expenditures within appropriated money. This Is in analogy to the administration of the federal and State governments, and tends to cut off nonessential expenditures of money, not only because the particular expenditures may be unauthorized by the board, but for the further reason that each olllcer expending money realizes that he must conserve, at least in a measure, the funds at his disposal, in order that there may be money to I the credit of the particular fund to meet ex penditures inereaner nccoming necessary. Second A further purpose which this law servts is to admit a small but representative body of taxpayers Into a knowledge cf what each officer Is doing, and to give such taxpayer some check upon the officer's action. This is in analogy to the New England town meeting, where taxpayers energetically guard the undue expenditures of public moneys, because they realize that they must personally bear the penalty of extravagance. Cheese-paring methods are not In demand, but appropriations should be mado with a full realization that a moral responsibility attaches to prudently administer the trust. To this were added some comments on the importance of an honest and business-like administration of local affairs, as the source and foundation of all good government, and on the real dignity of such local government. On this point the circular says: Men who have acquired the broadest reputations have afterward served the people In the discharge of the duties of the so-called minor offices. Emerson was a poundmaster. The late governor general of India, who represented British sovereignty in a court more splendid perhaps than that which the Queen herself enjoys, stated as he was about to leave India, upon the expiration of his term of office, that he looked forward to his departure with pleasure, because of his desire to participate in the governmental affairs of his home city. The man who possessed the greatest genius for government which this century has produced Bismarck, stated. In his old age, that he counted as one of his highest honors his selection, by his home people, to serve on a local administrative board. Other Judges may not have taken as much pains as Judge Gillett did to Impress their appointees with the true spirit of the new laws, but It is believed that in every case the appointments have been made with care and with a view of putting the administration of tho laws in the hands of their friends. It has remained for the managers of the Kansas state fair to open a new and lucrative career to the home-coming heroes of Manila. The offer cabled to General Funston that he and a company of the Twentieth Kansas would' be paid $2,000 If they would repeat their swimming act and attack upon the Filipinos at the fair to be held in Wichita in September; provided they are mustered out in time, has great possibilities. The plan Is to arrange a sham battle, to be participated in by a colored company of the Twenty-third Ivans as as Filipinos, Funston and his men to cross the Arkansas as they did the Ragbag and disperse the enemy. Naturally this will attract a great crowd, and the managers will be more than reimbursed for their outlay. The success of the Wichita affair will cause the heroes to be in demand elsewhere, and during the early fall months they can easily accumulate enough funds to enable them to spsnd the winotr outside of Kansas. The effete East may sneer at this form of entertainment, but, if so, it will be the sneer of envy. Wichita, however, is not narrow in its ideas. It Is perfectly willing for the sons of Kansas to go to the Eastern shore after the Kansas fair Is over and show the natives how the Bagbag was cross-sd a feat several degrees more difficult than swimming the Hellespont to greet a ladylove. And they will -offer-no objections if the New Yorkers borrow the idea and Invite Admiral Dewey, for suitable compensation, to take a squadron and repeat the Manila maneuvers In New York harbor. Sampson, too, .might be asked to show what he would have done if he had been at Santiago when Cervera came out. And Mr. Alger's friends would thrill with pride If a company of daring and seasoned veters . 'ould be persuaded to tackle canned -jast" beef in public view. Considering this Kansas plan let no one say Americans do not know what to do with the4r heroes. The exhibition of needlework now being given at the Propylaeum by the managers of the Girls' Industrial School of Indianapolis is said by those who are judges of such matters to be quite remarkable and well worth seeing, specimens of the work of children and young girls from all parts of the world being shown. The school has accomplished a good work and the ladles who have conducted It, almost by their own unaided efforts., from its small beginnings nine or ten years ago until now, when It has hundreds of pupils, deserve much credit. They have taken girls who had not the opportunity to learn the art of sewing in their own homes and who would never reach the Manual Training School, and have trained them with such care that those who take the full course can cut and make their own garments neatly and are sufficiently skilled with the needle to go Into dress r ftbops &4 eaxa their own livlrj.

In view of what has been done with this Important branch of domestic -work it sterns a pity that a similar enterprise has not been undertaken for the purpose of teaching cooking to the same class of girls. Whether they wished to practice the accomplishment irother people's kitchens or not the benefits in their own homes would Justify the labor involved. Evansville has the distinction of inventing a new and fatal disease, namely, "excessive cake walking," two deaths from that cause having lately occurred there. And cake walking is only another name for Delsartism, too. The next thing we know golf will become Ingrowing. With dinners at one hundred dollars a plate being arranged for Dewey the perils of Manila are likely to be nothing to those of home.

The Topeka people who are getting that sword for General Funston must not forget in ordering it that their hero is but five feet talL BUBBLES IN THE A lit. Reverse Effect. "So they finally. froze Johnson out of the company, did they?" "Yes. And I never caw a hotter man in all my life." Awful Thought. He What a fine, fat little fellow baby is! She Y'es, dear, but do you know I read in the magazine that early obesity was a sign of degeneracy? The Lake Oreete Sighed. "Never marry except for love, my dear," said the elder lady. "I never have,- said the younger lady. Meanwhile the lake breeze sighed softly. Stuck to It. "And by the way," asked the old schoolmate, "what has become of Mosely,. who used to talk so much about devoting his life to uplifting mankind? Did he go into the ministry?" "No." answered the other old schoolmate, "he is in the elevator business." VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS. General Miles has been placed in a most humiliating position by the report of the court of inquiry appointed to investigate the charges brought by him with reference to the beef supplied by the army. Frankfort News. If Andrew Jackson had been in the President's chair Atkinson would have done well to escape with fifty lashes, a sentence he pronounced on one who had aided and. abetted the Indians In the Seminole war. Fort Wayne Gazette It may not be tne best policy to annex the Philippines to the United States, but we have them on our hands, and while in the present condition it is the duty of the United States to establish a good government. The McKinley idea is the correct one. Tipton Advocate. We are glad the "embalmed beef" investigation la over and the rinding of the court of inquiry made- public. Of course there will be a difference of opinion as to the methods of the investigation and the conclusions reached. Rut theTe is one thing certain, that the American people have become very tired of the long drawn out work of the commission. Noblesville Ledger. The Issue raised by Bryan, Edward Atkinson and others who are opposed to the Republican policy of President McKinley in the Porto Rlcan, Cuban and Philippine questions is going to be more unpopular In 1000 than was their free-silver Issue lr 1896. The Democratic party in following Bryan m his "will o the wisp chase after the presidency will get so badly mired it will go to pieces and have to reorganize on a new basis and with new leaders. Greenfield Republican. Atkinson's sending a lot of riotous literature to the soldiers in the Philippines shows what a complete fool a man will make of himself when he gets so steeped in prejudice that ho loses his common sense. What Atkinson does at 'home 'no one will object to, because he is too well known for it to have much effect, but most of the soldier boys away in the Philippines do not know Atkinson and consequently the government did quite right in stopping the seditious stuff ho is sending out. Lafayette Call. The attitude of President McKinley gains friends with each successive day. Denunciation of him has been so particularly unfair as to win support for him. Those who denounce his course es tending toward absolutism and assert that he is possessed of a deadly delirium for Imperialism are giving no heed to the real intent of his purposes. He is simply trying to secure peace through a recognition of a sovereignty unquestioned except by the insurgent Filipinos and a disconcerted element at home. Lafayette Courier. The statement made a few days ago that the wheat crop in Allen county, which is ordinarily many thousand bushels each summer, would be near 5,000 this year, is denied by nearly every farmer who was in the city to-day. They say that the estimate is too high and that the wheat yield will be nearer LOOO. The fields which were thought to have been in fair condition) have since proved worthless, as the roots are destroyed. Ninety per cent, of the wheat fields have been plowed under and prepared for corn or oats crops. Fort Wayne News. We have not forgotten with what supreme contempt the boys of 1861-65 received the vile mouthlngs of the copperheads in their rear. Every mail brought to the men who were fighting to restore the Union and to keep the flag in the 6ky, letters and newspapers containing that which was intended to create discontent, and insubordination in the ranks and encourage soldiers to desert the cause for which they were fighting. Men of those days have not forgotten the letters they received from cowardly relatives and acquaintances at home, and they well remember that the only effect these letters ftroduced was to make them more steadfast n their purpose to beat the enemy In their front, or die In the attempt. Kokomo News. The editor of the Tribune is personally well acquainted with Secretary Algerand knows him for a brave, true man, a man of great persistence and energy of character and of large executive ability, to which his large private interests abundantly attest". He knows General Alger also as a man of the strictest integrity, utterly Incapable of any act of corruption or dishonor, a man Eure and upright, as General King said at etrolt in every relation of life. Knowing all this to be true, the editor of the Tribune would despise himself if he joined the depraved, wicked and despised hue and cry against this man, one of the most useful and efficient war ministers any country has ever had. In the manigement of his great trust, with all its tremendous responsibilities thrust so suddenly upon him. he has not failed in a single Instance- He has been more constantly at his post than any other Cabinet officer ami when absent from Washington it was only to follow the duties of his position out to their farthest and smallest details. We cannot join the yelping curs who bark and snarl at such a man and officer of the government. And we should be ashamed to sleep with ourself, if knowing the man as we do, we did not so far as in us lies, repel the slanderous assaults that have been and are constantly being made upon him. New Albany Tribune. Where Roosevelt's Strength Lies. Cosmopolitan Magazine. He has been, up to this time, that most desirable figure in political life, a well-intentioned and perfectly fearless man. Rather a crude thinker and a student of many unimportant problems, he has seemingly neglected the most important those of a social order. Strong of prejudice, but apparently desiring the right, he has been forgiven for his blunders almost as rapidly as they have been made. A warm admirer, who is one of those who feel Just a little anxiety about his future, recently said of him: "You are growing cautious and hesitating. Do not forget that you have made yourself what you are by ruining yourself. Over and. over and over again you have ruined yourself entirely and completely, and each time It has presently been discovered that. you have in some unaccountable way grown still stronger in the public estimation. You have no strength but your integrity. Once begin to be a politician in its strictest sense, a schemer, a planner, a man who takes thought for his political future, and the public will drop away from you in dL?gut. Be fearless, straightforward, determined for the public interest aryi willing to incur the enmity of potftloians when the good of the public Is at stake, and there Is no power in political combinations that. ca place you la retlrontst v .

A CHARGE OF BAD FAITH

STTATE'S TREATMENT OF WHAT ARE CALLED SECTARIAN' COLLEGES. Rev. Dr. T. A. Goodwin Dtscuasen the Question Defore a Methodist Ministerial Association. Ereclal to the Indianapolis Journal. WAV-ERLY, Ipd., May 9. The sensation of this quiet village to-day is the Ministerial Association of the Indianapolis district of the Indiana Conference. About thirty ministers are present. The exercises began last night by a very able Fermon from Dr. Lasby, of Central-avenue Church, Indianapolis, and the sacrament. The business of the session opened this morning at 8:30. The object of the meeting is mutual Improvement through papers and discussions of theological and social questions and problems in church polity. The scope of these discussions may be Inferred from the following topics: "The Bible Doctrine of Depravity," "Heredity," "What Changes are Needed in Methodist Polity," and tho like. Great interest is taken in Dr. Quayle's lecture, announced for to-night, on "Stalwartism." Dr. Goodwin's paper this morning, prepared by request, on "The Bad Faith of the State Towards the Colleges of the State," was listened to with profound Interest. "I need offer no apology," said Dr. Goodwin, "for obtruding upon this association of Methodist preachers a subject that has become strictly a political one, and is destined in the near future to become a dominant Issue, especially in the choice of legislators and Governors and lieutenant governors, for we are here to guard and promote all the Interests of our church as well as to study and maintain its doctrines and polity. A large part of our church machinery, as everybody knows, is our Interest in the cause of education, which ha led to the Investment of hundreds of thousand of dollars In college plant and endowments which is now threatened with practical destruction by the bad faith of the State toward us and others who, under the same necessity and for the same reasons, have engaged in the same work. To understand the situation it is necessary to premise that for thirty-five years under a Constitution that imperatively demanded the encouragement of higher education by the State, never a dollar was appropriated for that purpose, thus practically announcing that if any college was ever built and supported In Indiana it must be done wholly through private enterprise. Driven by this necessity many organizations engaged In fromotlng higher education: some were ocal corporations, others were merely individuals who invested private funds in buildings and equipments, and to. some of whom the Legislature granted special charters authorizing the granting of literary de?rees, and exempting plant and equipments rom taxation, while others were in their scope more general and state-wide, involving larger Investments and contemplating a broader field. With the exception of one of this class, located at. Bloomington upon a township of land given to the State by Congress to aid 'a seminary of learning, and by the State given to that institution, which was first known as "The Indiana Seminary,' later as "the Indiana College and still later as 'the Indiana University those that survived were more or less under the general control of some religious body and wholly independent of congressional or state aid, never seeking either. "Not to be derelict in such a work, the Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana early undertook to do Its part in supplying a want which the fixed policy of the State had created, and our Asbury University was tho result. At what sacrifice of time and money this was done while Indians yet occupied much of the best land of the State and circuits were large and salaries hmall this generation can never know. Out of their small incomes every preacher gave something and many gave largely, and Methodist pioneers yet in their cabins gave liberally, because the neglect of the State to supply the demand made -this sacrifice necessary, and it was practically the same with other churches. "To intensify this necessity and stimulate the friends of colleges In their work, that which had been from the policy of the State only an inference for thirty-live years became an open and avowed purpose in 1S51, when, acting under explicit instruction by the convention, as expressed in a resolution offered by Hon. T. A. Hendricks, the committee on education reported an amendment to the Constitution, which changed the imperative command of the Constitution of 1S1C, requiring the State to provide colleges, to a positive inhibition: for the amended Constitution must be Interpreted In the light of the resolution which demanded that 'the Legislature shall not provide for or establish, at public charge, any school or institution of learning other than district or common schools. EFFECT OF THE RESOLUTION. "The adoption of this amendment, removing, as was supposed forever, the possibility of State competition in the field of higher education, gave a new impetus to voluntary associations and individual enterprise for educational purposes. County seminaries were Immediately abandoned and private academies and collegiate institutions were established everywhere, offering greater or less higher educational advantages. Most of these, but not all, were under some denominational control; in nearly every case all denominations. In any given locality, cordially uniting in the local school, because the ultimate object had no appreciate connection with denominational rivalry, it being only to meet a want the State had forced upon the people, and because there was no other form or organization so convenient as that. So great and general was this movement that twenty-three of this class of institutions were attempted in our church alone in less than ten years from the declared purpose of the State to never engage In any school enterprise above the common schools. , , What followed Is history. The curriculum of the common schools was wisely so extended a to embrace what had been known as academic studies, and the high school became a legitimate branch of the common school system, so that in less than a decade it superseded these private schools. All or ours but the Moore's Hill College were abandoned and our people joyfully accepted the situation, because the State not only furnished as good instruction in these high schools, but it furnished it everywhere it was needed. If one high school in a city was not enough to accommodate the demand, two or more were supplied, so that instruction in them was 'equally open to all.' When it further extends the curriculum of the common schools so as to include collegiate and professional education, and in like manner builds enough colleges and professional schools to make tuition in them free and equally open to all collegiate and professional teaching will become equally a legitimate branch of the common schools, and nonstate colleges will as cheerfully accept the consequences to them as the nonstate academies did, but never until this is done. Meanwhile tha Indiana University essayed to adopt itself to the new conditions. It at once quit begging for appropriations from the State' and went to hustling like other schools of its grade: it tried to sell scholarships like other colleges, but for reasons not germane to this paper It failed utterly in the undertaking. It was simply nobody's school, though it had the largest endowment of any college In the State, was located at one side of the. State, and nobodv would buy scholarships, or so few that selling scholarships was abandoned. Under a wasteful and extravagant business sj'stem that had always prevailed, and which prevails yet. the college was soon in great financial straits, snd though it had for twelve years wholly abstained from begging from the State, not even when its buildings were burned, in 1S53. it was reduced to the necessity of applying for an appropriation In 1S63, but it got none; the State Board of Education, then composed of men elected by the people, would not indorse the application; It .was unconstitutional, they said, and every other college in the State was equally entitled to help. "Nothing daunted, however, and intent on appropriations, it set about reconstructing the State Board, which it did in making the president of the Indiana University and the to-be presidents of Purdue University and the State Normal, then Just being organized, the controlling spirits of the board, as well as to be for all time thereafter the most insatiable de;vourers of state money: but no one suspectad the ulterior designs. However, this became manifest when. In 1&7. these presidents spent nearly the entire session in the lobby, ostensibly as members of the State Board of Education, but really In working up a sentiment in favor of making the Indiana University the head of the common school ssvtero and seeking an appropriation, carefully withholding the bill-which was to accomplish this unconstitutional act until a few days before the adjournment, when it was too late to have it examined in committee or be discussed In either house, and It was hurried through under a suspension of the rules and became a law. Tha appropriation, tht cm ' ml3 to ft cell:; ia th fifty.

one years of the State's existence, was only $.0T but now it is more than $100,000 annually, besides the specific appropriations it secures from time to time and the J740.52S.t which was realized under the act of 1SS3. In the body of which act is the special provision, inserted at the suggestion of the university lobby, and as an express condition of obtaining this endowment, but after obtaining it. no further appropriations shall be made to the said university. What these spcific appropriations are liable to be is plainly Indicated by the fact that in 1S37 the trustees claimed that not less than Z2:'(a) was 'a pressing need' for new plant, adding, 'and an increase In our appropriation for maintenance will be necessary very soon, and more ground is needed for campus.' Is it not one of the horseleech's daughters who forever cry give, give, and are never satisfied. f FOR THE TAXPAYERS. "I propose to let taxpayers settle with their legislators the question of the waste of money In a college where the per capita cost of tuition to the State is within a small fraction of double tho cost per capita in equally good collages in the State, and where the sa.ving to the student Is only 43 cents a week as compared with the expense at colleges that receive no state aid whatever, though 'free tuition' is the specious plea for all this waste of public funds. They must settle with their legislators also for appropriating $o,tk7 47 a year to a man holding one 'lucrative office' under the State, and by the same vote appropriating Pi2.3S to the same man in a second 'lucrative office,' for the presidency of the State University is as much a 'lucrative office as is the superlntendency of the school for the blind or the deaf and dumb, and a member of the State Board of Education is also us much the holder of a 'lucrative office' as is a member of the State Board of Charities or any other officer who receives compensation out of the state treasury. "Besides asking their legislators to explain their votes on these items they should ask also why they appropriated $13,151.21 for 'contingent expenses without knowing what items enter into that budget, well knowing t Mat when the university did specify items it included money paid the lobby to secure an appropriation, and that therefore presumably similar items are included in the budget now; but the university positively refuses to give the items to the state auditor, as the authorities of the school for the blind and other similar state schools do, alleging as a reason that it is a private corporation and does not have to any more thin De Pauw or Earlham or Franklin has to, which means It is a state school for receiving but a private school for disbursing. Let taxpayers look after small matters like these while we give attention to the perfidy of the State in compelling us and others to build and endow colleges or do without, and then selecting the least deserving and making out of it a state institution by a simple act of the Legislature after providing, in the Constitution of 1851. that nothing of the kind should ever be done, and that, too, by an act smuggled through by the acts of a shrewd lobby in the last hours of a session that had been chiefly absorbed in questions growing out of the war, not one in ten of the members suspecting what was meant by the act. "The bad faith of the State towards the) colleges of the State is seen further in its supporting thus lavishly a college that, lowers the standard of education. That students are admitted into classes in this State University on less scholastic attainments than are required for admission into corresponding classes in other colleges in the State will not be denied by any one who Is familiar with college work in Indiana, for it has been going on for years with no attempt at concealment, and that students are graduated with less scholastic attainments than are required at other collegea in the State was practically confessed by the college itself, as far as related to candidates for teachers' license at least, by its appeal to the Legislature of 1897 to exempt such graduates from the examinations that graduates from other colleges cheerfully sirbmit to. The maintenance of such a college at public expense Is an act of perfidy utterly unbearable and unjustifiable. FAVORITISM CHARGED. "Constituting the president of one of the private corporations of the State a member of the State Board of Education, with official rank that practically makes him chief in Influence and backing him with unlimited money is an act of bad faith towards Its contemporaries and equals that every fairminded man should condemn. It Is no secret In educational circles that promoters of that favored school have for many years obtained students for It, especially from the ranks of those who prize a diploma more than they prize the scholarship It Is supposed to represent, by assuring them that a diploma from It would be a better passport to a teacher's license than from a 'sectarian school,' as that state-fed college In derision calls its betters, and that many have been Induced to attend It for this reason, and It Is equally well known that among the first questions asked by the state board, unofficially, of course, is from what college the applicant for license had been graduated. Besides, it is known that many of the questions propounded to the applicant are so formulated that no one is prepared to answer them but those who have attended that college and the State Normal. There has been no concealment of this fact by those Implicated, but rather an open confession of It, for last summer at many, if not all. the county institutes aplacard was conspicuously displayed reading: 'Since the examination questions on grammar are based upon Wisely's grammars be sure to get a copy.' Now, Wisely's grammar Is one which was rejected by the board as atextboak for want of merit, yet it Is used in formulating questions because its author Is a professor in the State Normal School. This is an act of bad faith towards the other colleges of the State that all honest men ought to despise. It is an act of bad faith towards the other colleges of the State that It continues this domineering power in the hands of one of the private colleges to the exclusion of all the others over their vigorous protest, for the Indiana University is no more a state school than Is De Pauw, or Wabash, or Earlham, or Notre Dame, except what claims it has through that act of the Legislature of 1&C7, and it is entitled to no precedence over them, yet that precedence was continued by the late Legislature through an education committee, packed in the Senate by the lieutenant governor, over the protest of the real friends of education In the State, with a corresponding committee in the House, in which was not a pronounced opponent to the great wrong. The pretended concession of the masters to what they are pleased to call the 'sectarian colleges when examined is insult added to Injury, for it concedes nothing. And now they go about saying sneerlngly: 'Didn't we snow you preaching people under gloriously?' And they mockingly suggest that our remedy Is in the courts to test the question of the constitutionality of such appropriations, and of conferring two lucrative -offices upon, the same person, well knowing that there Is no individual or association of individuals that can aJTord to tackle such arrogance backed by the treasury of the State. "The burning question of the hour is, not what we ought to do in the abstract, but what can we do under the circumstances. We ought to test the constitutionality of the act cf the Legislature of 167, which made one of the private corporations of the State 'a charge upon the State in defiance of the action of the constitutional convention of 1S51, which so amended the Constitution of 1S16 as to 'abolish the county seminary system and the State University also. as well as to forbid the Legislature's making any school other than the common schools 'a charge upon the State but who has $10.(x0 to spend in such an undertaking? In its thirty years of usurpation this school trust has so taken the control of politics that it nominates the superintendent of public instruction in both parties and it manipulates the Legislature at pleasure. May I suggest that we request th$ several district associations and tne district and annual conferences of our church to take such action as will call th attention of voters and taxpayers and friends of education to the bad faith of the State towards the colleges of the State, as well as the large expenditure of public moneys for the saving of only 45 cents a week on the cost to each student in the Indiana University, snd that we Invite other churches that have invented in college plants to do the same. It is a large undertaking, but not an Impossible one. A united front of the churches of the State may effectually rebuke the sneers of those who characterize our work es 'sectarianism and who in public lectures advise their students to 'break away from ecclesiastical domination." The Christian people of Indiana are hardly prepared yet to nurture by their taxes that insidious form of Infidelity which brings the church into contempt in the eyes of thflr children by calling it detestable names. We may, at least, be able to elect a Legislature ana a lieutenant governor that will not be at the bidding of a State-paid lobby. QUESTION OF TAXATION. "I leave the matter of expense wholly with the taxpayers. They are abundantly able to pay it If they wish to. after being informed on the subject. We preachers have but little to be taxed, but we have a rlghOo protest against a species of double taxation to which we are subjected. After paying taxes, like other citizens, on what we have, we are taxed nn what rrs and our fathers have given to our unlver.4:y if more than a limited amount of our endowment and plant Is Invested In certain klivls of property. To tax the colleges of the State on their campuses, if they contain more han a limited number of acres, in the Intercut cf ft collect that ht the clict to aair.

the State to enlarge its campus Indefinitely, or to tax the endowment funds of a college If more than a limited amount J invested in real estate, while the beneficiary of ueh taxes has a mortgage on every square foot of real estate in the commonwealth. Is not an act of bad faith merely, it is simply barbarous. "We may have slept on our rights or endured our wrongs to long to ever be relieved ffom the burden imposed upon us by that act of 1517. which constituted one of the private co.lcges a State University, and which has already absorbed more than J3.ooo.000 wrested from unwilling taxpayers, with a prospect of more and more every succeeding year, with nothing to show for It but the saving of barely 45 cents a week to each student, and not even that to those whose traveling expenses are enhanced by going to a remote part of the State, but we certainly can elect a Legislature and a lieutenant governor that will not perpetuate the great wrong of committing the Interests of our schools to a State Board In whose election the people have not a word to say. even through their representatives in the Legislature; the principal member of which, and hitherto the controlling spirit, is where he is through a board of trustees that he and others equally Independent of the people elect an endless chain machine, you see; the president elects the trustees that elect the president to a second lucrative office, that elects the trustees, while taking a hand in whatever affects education in the State. Its lobby in the Legislature of 1S39 would not allow a bill to pass which simply proposed to authorize the taxpayers of Marion county to tax themselves in the interest of a local educational institution, the - Indianapolis University, while it taxes the whole State without asking whether it may or not. The people can endure, if they must, the financial burden this great wrong' imposes: they can appropriate that quarter million as the beginning of enlarged plant that is to cost more than a million; they can enlarge th campus to any size the fancy of the trustees may demand, though the other collies of the State may not enlarge theirs at their own expense, without paving tribute to the octopus on all above a limited number of acres; and they can increase the maintenance fund to any conceivable amount without any loss of self-respect, but they cannot allow a master to dictate that a county may not tax itself in the interest of a local school because that school threatens to Interfere with its domination, nor can they tolerate the bad faith of the State towards the colleges of the State which the unbroken policy of the State for fifty-one years had made a necessity without a sense of shame and abasement beneath any American citizen. Talk .of the Standard Oil Trust, the Sugar Trust, or any other trust! There Is no. trust on earth mre domineering than this school trust, and by so much as the moral and intellectual Interests of a people are superior to the commercial and material It Is more to be'detested than all of them." . On the conclusion of Dr. Goodwin's remarks the following resolutions, offered by Dr. Lasby, were unanimously adopted: "Resolved. That we accept the facts and figures set forth in the paper as substantially true in every respect, and that we request the Indianapolis Journal to publish the paper. "Resolved. That we approve the suggestion of calling the attention of the several ministerial associations and the district and annual conferences of the State to the question, and ask each to take such action as will most effectually correct the wrongs set forth. "Resolved. That we respectfully invite the several denominations In Indiana that are e.igaged in maintaining colleges to cooperate with ug in seeking relief from the wrongs inflicted upon the colleges of the State by the present policy of the Ftate. along the line suggested by the paper, or any other line that may be agreed upon." TO WED AN EARL

M!s Ralsy Letter Snld to Have Made a Brilliant Mnteh. WASHINGTON. May 5. A rumor that Miss Daisy Lelter Is engaged to the young Earl of Suffolk was received in Washington with much interest. Levi Z. Lelter. Miss Letter's father, has been in the city for-several days attending to his large real estate holdings here. Mr. Lelter had not heard anything from his daughter concerning this in-' teresting rumor, and he would not, therefore, either affirm or deny it. Mrs. Lelter is expected here some tlmo next week. Sho will remain for about a week and will then go to Chicago. It is known among the intimates of Miss Lelter that the Earl of Suffolk has been a constant attendant tlnce her arrival at Simla, where the viceroy's court is now located. Her' friends also believe that if the earl proposes he will be accepted, s-'nee the third daughter of the Chicago millionaire is quoted as saying before her departure for the East that she would return the bride of an English nobleman. The Earl of Suffolk Is quite young, being only twenty-three. He but lately succeeded to the title. He belongs to the younger branch of the famous Howard family, of which the Duke of Norfolk is tho head. His family is one of the oldest and most distinguished in the British peerage. The first counts of Norfolk date from the feudal Anglo-Saxon lords holding dominion in &.'A They became first dukes of the realm and earls-nxirshal in 1514. The match is considered here much more brilliant in point of llneagi than that of Miss Mary loiter, now Lady Curzon and vicereine of India. WAR ON FAITH CURISTS. New York Board of Health May Atteinpt to Break L'p the Sect. NEW YORK, May 9. President Murphy, of the Board of Health, reiterated to-day the intention of the department of proceeding against faith cure healers. He said that Dr. Roberts would get a warrant on what he believed was good evidence against Mrs. Miller, who treated the Kranz girl, ia Brooklyn, for a case of gangrene. President Murphy also said that the County Medical Society has been communicated with in an endeavor to procure the aid of the society in one large crusade against faith cure and similar healers. It was stated to-day that the Christian Science Church members of Mount Vernon propose calling a meeting immediately to denounce the action of Coroner Banning and the Jury in exposing their sect to public ridicule. It was also announced by District Attorney George C. Andrews that he will begin proceedings immediately with a view of securing the Indictment by the grand Jury of Mrs. Clarence Fowler and Lester Barquet, Jr., tho Christian Science followers who were held by Coroner Banning last night at Mount Vernon on the charge of negligence in their treatment of Mrs. Charlotte Barquet, who died last Wednesday. The dirtriet attorney has begun collecting additional evidence with a view of prosecuting to the full extent pf the law. . NAUGHTY COLLEGE BOYS. Played a Joke on Girls and Excited the Curiosity of a Tovtn. LINCOLN. Neb.. May 9.-Becaue some naught)' spirits issued flaming, posters announcing a drill of two hundred members of the young ladles' physical culture class of. the Nebraska State University, as a "splendid calf display." the faculty and the many hundred students are all In a stir. The two hundred girls were to appear in the very latest "bloomer" styles. The drill was to take place at the armory and five thousand seats had been engaged" for the exhibition. In the forenoon flaming posters appeared on the dead walls of the city, placed there by some unknown persons. The immediate friends of the girls in the "bloomer" class took in the situation and started committees in all parts of the city to remove or obliterate the obnoxious circulars. The university faculty Joined in the efforts. The city was in an uptoar in a short time. It is known that a committee of two dozen students committed the Joke, but threats and promises have thus far availed nothing in unearthing the guirty ones. The drill was gone through with, however, with cheers. Police Chiefs Entertained. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. May 9 -The sixth annual convention of the Tollre Chiefs Association of the United States and Canada began here in the city Auditorium to-day. Several hundred members were present, all portions of the country being well represented. The convention was called to order by President Jannsen. of Milwaukee. Mayor Watklns, of Cr.attanooga, delivered an address of welcome and the president appropriately responded. After the appointment of a committee to draft resolu. lions on the death of Vice President Moore, of Washington, the meeting adjourned. This afternoon the chiefs witnessed a bloodhound chase and took a boat ride on the Tennessee river. A genuine cegro cake walk and a "crap game." both arranged especially for this occasion, furnished the evening araus menu .