Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1900 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1900.

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Hawley & Ca, 134 Vine street. LOUIS VTLLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner of Third and Jefterson streets, and Louisville Book Co., Z'Ji Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. P. C.-Rlggs House. Ebbitt House and Wlllard's HoteL Great la Tammany, and Croker Is Its prophet! William Jennings Bryan. Really, the enslavement of 73.000,000 people by C5.000 soldiers does not teem very Imminent. Will Mr. Bryan give us all $12 dinners, exclusive of wines, If he should be elected, and three weeks at the seashore and In the mountains? One of the platforms on which Mr. Bryan la running demands the establishment of "the referendum.", lie would like to be the referee. The best rule for the marking of a ballot Is to make the X inside the circle just tinder the picture of the eagle. Then there can be no mistake. Republicans regret that Mr. Bryan Is not going to return to Indiana, as was announced a few days ego. Hla help the last week would have pushed up the Republican plurality two or three thousand votes. If any one attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot. Gen. Dir, 1S1. If any one fires on the American flag haul it down. William Jennings Bryan. The Sentinel's cry about "Republican boodle" is accepted as an angry howl at the prospect of defeat. As a matter ol fact the Republicans are forced to be frugal with the small amount of money they have. SBSSBBSBBBBBBBSBBBBBBSBBBSBBBBBBSSSBBSBBBBBBSBISBBBBSBBBBSBBBBBBJ So long as all man-grown voters admit that Eugene Saulcy has discharged the duties of every official position he has held with Intelligence and Integrity the hostility of a few persons for whom he could not find positions will not count. Some persons seem ta think It would be a happy state of affairs to have the federal Judiciary filled with men who are opposed to "government by injunction" and whose minds have not been narrowed by the study of law. Perhaps they are mistaken. Mr. Bryan has had the prudence not to assail what is called the linseed oil trust for putting the price up 10 cents a gallon recently for the reason that flaxseed, which ha3 crawled up from 11.14 a bushel to 51. S3, Is a leading product of Nebraska and Kansas farmers, and the advanced price means $6.000,000 to them whatever it means to others. a The British protest elicited a year or so ago by th award of large bridge contracts In th? Soudan to American manufacturers Is likely to be revived by a similar award for the reconstruction of railways and bridges n South Africa. The plain truth is that American manufacturers are beating the British everywhere, and they are doIr,g it under the gold standard and McKinley prosperity. Th pay rolls for street labor have been nearly doubled since July. The increased expenditure Is just so much money taken from the city treasury to hire men to work for and vote the Democratic ticket. This wck the amount will be larger, and the weelr before the election it will be three times the average of the other months of the year. It woulJ be no more a theft of the people's money to take It outright than lo use it to purchase votes In this manner. i The New York Herald's forecast of the electoral vote, published yesterday mornins, gives McKinley 2S1 and Bryan VA votes, ornpared with 271 for McKinley and ITS for Bryan In IWk It estimates the plurality cf Bryan In Greater New York city at r".T:0 end McKinley' plurality outside of t" ? c'.tr t lll,r. or U3.5S0 in the State. '." :' rr'rrs crrimats cf the ntrt llouco

is 1S3 Republicans, 1ZZ Democrats, 3 fusion, 1 Populists and 13 in doubt. The Herald Is a strictly nonpartisan paper which holds , Its ability to make accurate predictions to be of value as a newspaper asset. HKPl IILICAX STATU ADMIMSTUATIOX. The greater interest in a national election should not lead the people of Indiana to forget the importance of state issues or to ignore the far-reaching reforms which Republican legislation and administration have brought to the State. As a minority in the Legislature of 1S03 the Republicans assisted Governor Matthews's majority of Democrats In wresting the appointments of state boards from the Democratic legislatures under which the administration of the State's Institutions had sunk to the lowest level. It was an era of wastefulness and Inefficiency. Scandals were rife and institutions were run as political dependencies. Several state offices, by Democratic legislation, had become very profitable, and little party men were attached to hospital and other boards as paid attorneys. Wherever a Democrat could be grafted upon the treasury the grafting was done. The Republicans came into power in the Legislature of 1S00. They proceeded to make good the party pledges. The fee system in state and county was overthrown, the charitable and reformatory institutions of the State were put under the direction of nonpartisan boards composed of reliable men of both parties. The revolution in methods which followed was so marked that in three years Indiana was pointed to as a model. Because the Democrats would not assist, the Republicans In the last Legislature passed laws under which counties and townships have legislative bodies the same as States and cities. They are generally acknowledged to be most important measures of reform. The friends of intelligent and clean government should not forget these important achievements of the Republican legislatures and executive officials when they go to the polls. If the Republican policy should not commend itself to the intelligent voter in all things. Republican management of state affairs must meet his cordial approval and should receive his earnest support. If the Republican state ticket, headed by Winfield T. Durbin, shall be elected this clean .nd business-like management of state affairs will continue as the established policy of the Republican party. If the Democratic ticket should be elected, Taggartlsm will be enthroned in the Statehouse and the old methods of tapping the treasury which characterized the Democratic administration of Indianapolis will be transferred to the State. Henchmen without vocation will be put into the public institutions and a new era of wastefulness and inefficiency will be begun. SEXTf The Kentucky saturnalia has made another step, and Henry Youtsey has been found guilty of the crime of killing "William Goebel, and his sentence fixed at life imprisonment. A motion in arrest of judgment was entered, and Judge Cantrill, who had railroaded all the preceding stages of the trial, fixed the dato of the hearing thereon In February next. The Inference is easily drawn that, the political ends having been served by the Indecent haste which produced so speedy a conviction, It does not matter that final action is deferred in the case of a man whom even Tom Campbell and Arthur Goebel do not expect to be further punished. Two questions naturally arise in connection with these trials. One is, "Is there a web of evidence Involving the men heretofore tried and those under Indictment?" or. In other words, "Could any set of public officials and their followers be so foolhardy as to enter a widely diffused conspiracy to retain public office by whatever desperate means might be necessary?" The other is, "Are the leaders in the Goebelito oligarchy so blinded by partisanship that they have lost sight of the inevitableness of retribution, be it soon or deferred?" Blind partisanship will find it easy answering these questions, according to the bent of Its allegiance. But the answers of partisanship are not conclusive, nor are they often based on the evidence. But there Is an answer, and a true one, to each of these questions, and It is found in the conditions which existed prior to the election of 1S90. There was. at that time, a conspiracy headed by Mr. Goebel and his coadjutors to seize the Governorship. It had been born before Goebel framed the election law which bears his name. It is not. likely that in the beginning even Mr. Goebel contemplated the death of whosoever might be his opponent. But after the Music Hall Convention, In which he realized the length and breadth and depth of his own party's opposition to him, and after the Lexington Convention, when he came to a realization of the harmony and strength of the Republican organization, he saw that the machinery he had set up was not sufficient to serve his ends, and step3 were taken to relnforco the weak points of the line. Conferences were held at many points, including Louisville, Lexington, Owensboro and Cincinnati. The power of the Weaver machine in Louisville and the Goebel machine in Covington was invoked to create disorder, to intimidate voters by police brutality, and thus force the calling out of the militia; then. If all that failed, even assassination was not to be Ignored. That this i3 true was borne out by verbal and material testimony. Men "who knew" said, calmly and dispassionately, "Taylor may be elected, but Goebel will be Governor, even if it Is necessary to kill Taylor and his gang." The editor of National Democratic Committeeman Woodson's paper, the Owensboro Messenger, himself an ex-office holder in the State, said to the writer: "Goebel will be Governor if we have to kill every prominent Republican in the State." Later in the same day he said: "If Taylor is elected, keep away from Frankfort on inauguration day. It will not be a healthy place for Republicans." Woodson's paper and the Louisville Times, reinforced by the Cincinnati Enquirer, urged . .the Goebelltcs to arm themselves on election day. "lest the Republicans gain an undue advantage." Goebel spoke at Versailles the latter part cf September, the day Mr. Blackburn's wife was burled. He was armed with revolver and dagger, and South Trimble, who was his warm supporter, and is running for Congress in Henry Clay's old district, exhibited a revolver in the barroom of the hotel that afternoon, with the remark that "Me and Goebel are ready for em, which ever way they come." Goebel's last proclamation to his followers, the nlsht before the election, was to cna t-emstlves, and "go to the polls pre

pared to defend your rights with your blood, if necessary," and only a day or two before the Louisville Times advocated a "hemp and lamp post treatment" for General Basil Duke, the distinguished Democrat and ex-confederate soldier who was leading the antl-Goebel Democrats in Louisville. Taylor was elected. He was seated. Mr. Goebel weakened, and Frankfort was not particularly inimical to Republicans health on Inauguration day. Mr. Goebel weakened still more. He was about to give up the contest. James B. McCreary, chairman of Beckham's campaign committee, is responsible for this statement. "But Blackburn came to town," says McCreary, "and he held fast to Goebel until the latter promised to renew the contest." Then Goebel was killed, instead of Taylor. It was a great Democratic opportunity. And right here lies the answer to the ovestlons outlined above. They had planned assassination. What more natural, now that their leader, and not their opponent, was killed, than to fasten the evidence of their own guilty intentions on the Republican leaders and thus "damn the Republican party?" In all the campaign, in their public utterances, they had admitted the personal worth of the Republican ticket; the probity of Its members, the purity of their lives, their worth as citizens. But the lust for office was upon them, and even such men as these, elevated by the suffrage of the people to their high places, must make way for the beneficiaries of the country's greatest political crime. They had feared to dip their own hands In blood, but the opportunity of Goebel's death gave them the tools of a pliant judiciary, backed by a partisan legislature, and fortified by the most blood-thirsty criminal lawyers that ever disgraced the American bar. Blood could be made to flow under the forms of law, and the procession is passing, with Campbell as master of ceremonies, Arthur Goebel as the chief oiler for the already well-greased machine, and Judge Cantrill the judicial Jester In the court wherein Is to be made sure the political damnation of the people of Kentucky. Next? FACTOIHES AS CI VILIZKItS. A convention has Just been held at Washington composed of men whom Mr. Bryan calls plutocrats, monopolists, enemies of labor, etc. It was a convention of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, and the hundred members present represented capital amounting to nearly $30,000,000 invested in the great textile manufacturing establishments of New England. Many If not most of these concerns are incorporated, and therefore come under Mr. Bryan's denunciation of all corporations. Of course, everybody of ordinary intelligence knows that the proprietors and managers of these great establishments represent brains, capital, labor. Industry, thrift and all the best elements of American citizenship and are not public enemies, as Mr. Bryan paints them. At the meeting in Washington Hon. Carroll D. Wright, chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, read a paper on "The Factory as an Element in Social Life," in which he advanced some interesting views. Mr. Wright, it may be remarked, has made a study of social and economic conditions for thirty years, and is the highest authority in the country on such questions. The central idea of hi3 paper was that great industrial establishments, instead of exercising a deteriorating Influence on communities and people, as is commonly supposed, operate exactly the other way, and are really agents of advancement and civilization, lifting up the social life of the people. The establishment of the textile factory in the South, he said, led to the employment of a body of native people, born and bred in the South, popularly known as native whites, who had lived a precarious existence, always in antagonism to the colored people, looking upon work as degrading, because of the peculiar institution of the South. To-day these people were furnishing the textile factories of the South with a class of operatives not surpassed in any part cf the country. The experience of the South was simply that, of other localities. The factory meant education, enlightenment, and an Intellectual development utterly impossible otherwise to a class of people who could not reach these things in any other way. It was an element in social life, and was, by its educational influences, constantly lifting the people from a lower to a higher grade. This is a rational view of the case. All honest labor is elevating. There is no progress in idleness. It is the army of employed that makes a country prosperous, happy and progressive, not the army of unemployed. Protection for American industry means also protection for American civilization." The policy that establishes factories and mills and gives the best wages to the greatest number of workers contributes not only to the material prosperity and wealth of a people, but to their moral elevation as wclL This cannot be said of Bryanism. THE SEW JEFFEHSOMAN PARTY. In his patriotic speech at Shelbyville Saturday night Hon. William E. English said that, although this was the first time he had ever spoken in that city in behalf of the Republican party, his speech would be along the lines taught and maintained by Thomas Jefferson, the organizer of the Democratic party. "It Is no great step," he said, "from the old Democratic party to the present Republican party." These remarks emphasize the fact that the present Republican party comes nearer representing Jeffcrsonlan ideas than the present Democratic party does. In this connection It is worth recalling that the party which Jefferson founded and led was at first called the Republican party. Its first platform was adopted at Philadelphia in 1SO0. Jefferson was first nominated for and elected President as a Republican. The term Democrat was not adopted by the party until 1S05. During the period that he and e " his party were called Republicans he adopted the name freely and with pride. It is a curious Illustration of history repeating itself that the Republican party of to-day comes nearer representing Jeffersonlan ideas than the so-called Democratic party does. Jefferson was a profound believer In the United States. He was for the country and the flag first, last and all the time. He was no little American. He was a protectionist, an expansionist and a sound-money man. He was the first American to suggest the acquisition of Cuba, end be favored It to his dyins day. He did

acquire Louisiana, the greatest single acquisition of territory the United States ever made. He believed In a great Republic. In 1733 he wrote: "I suspect that the doctrine that small States alone are fitted to be republics will be exploded by experience." In 1S01 he wrote: "The late chapter of our history furnishes a new proof of the falsehood of Montesquieu's doctrine that a republic can be preserved only in a small territory. The reverse Is the truth." Jefferson did not believe that republican government would spoil in the tropics. And the record of his two administrations as President shows that he believed in enforcing its authority over the Indians without their consent. During his life he urged the extension of the United States government to the Pacific ocean, and one can imagine hlra now rejoicing at the sight of the flag floating over Hawaii and the Philippines. Gen. John A. Dlx was a Jeffersonlan Democrat, and he expressed Jeffersonian Americanism In the Immortal message, "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot." Jefferson was, during his active political life, a strong protectionist. He advocated what he termed "that policy which plants the manufacturer and the husbandman side be side." He deprecated the policy of sending American materials abroad to be manufactured and then paying .to have them sent back. In 1S0S he wrote to a friend in Connecticut asking htm to send him a coat pattern of the best Americanmade cloth. To Jean Baptiste Say, the political economist, he wrote commending "the patriotic determination of every good American citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves." Mr. Bryan would repeal all protective duties and throw the door wide open to the Introduction of foreign manufactures. Jefferson was a sound-money man and opposed to repudiation in any form. He regarded the maintenance of the public credit as a sacred duty. In his first inaugural address he stated as one of the cardinal rules of his administration "the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." Bryan would pay debts in 4S-cent dollars and bury the public credit under free silver. Jefferson believed that the coinage ratio between gold and silver should conform strictly to the commercial ratio. Bryan would ignore the commercial ratio entirely. Jefferson abhorred Irredeemable paper money; Bryan would flood the country with it. And so on all the main Issues of the day Bryanism is the reverse of Jeffcrsonlanlsm. Captain English was right when he said: "It is no great step from the old Democratic party to the present Republican party." The present Republican party is the new JeiTersonlan party. Mr. Bryan has sometimes been called the Jack Cade of American politics because, like that English agitator, ho makes all sorts of wild promises to secure a following. But there is another reason why the sobriquet Is an apt one. Almost everybody is familiar with that closing sentence of Bryan's speech at the Chicago convention in 1SDG when he said: "You shall not press down upon the brew of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." ,Jf this had been original it would havo been a pretty smart figure, but It seems it was stolen. In an old play entitled "Jack Cade, or the Bondman of Kent," the dramatist puts the following language into the mouth of the hero. Jack Cade himself: "Upon the brow cf toll thou shalt not place tho crown of thorns, and the bondman of the soil shall not bo crucified upon mammon's cross." Can it be possible that when thinking of going on the stage Mr. Bryan studied this part? There have been so many proofs of late of the increasing recognition of the United States as a world power that they have almost ceased to attract attention, but that furnished by Sir Robert Giften, the noted British statesman, is remarkable. Sir Robert was for several years controller general of the commercial, labor and statistical department of the British Board of Trade and was also president of the Statistical Society. In an address at ManChester he declared that the growth of the United States compelled its recognition as the most powerful state in the world, and that the four great world powers now were the United States, Great Britain, Russia and Germany, with France a doubtful fifth. Such a statement as this from high British authority confirms all the claims of American supremacy and should make every American feel that he is part keerer and guardian of his country's honor and greatness. Such a country should not have a demagogue for its chief executive.

A new proof that all roads lead to Indianapolis is the fact that in the midst of a heated presidential campaign and following close after many political conventions it should be the place of meeting for a strictly scientific body like the American Public Health Association. All science Is cosmopolitan, and none more so than medical science, which acknowledges no limitations but those of tho human race itself. There is no broader humanitarianlsm than that which devotes itself to the promotion of public health, the prevention or mitigation rt disease and the discovery and removal of the causes that lead to it. The attendance at tho convention, which meets today, will Include eminent physicians and scientists from various parts of the United States and from Canada and Mexico, and the Journal feels sure it voices the sentiment of the community In extending them a cordial welcome. The fact that Democrats who are Inclined to back their judgment with their dollars will not take anything like even money on the result of the presidential election shows that they have no faith In the predictions of the Democratic national headquarters, which give Bryan 257 electoral votes, make New York Democratic and put Illinois, Michigan and Ohio In the doubtful column. It Is about as bad as it can be when the rank and file of a party has no faith in either the Judgment or the honesty of the men charged with the direction of the party organization. Mr. Bryan said, in a recent speech: We will soon find the army here demanding the punishment of at Innocent man as the army in France demanded the punishment of Dreyfus, a man so innocent that the President felt that he must pardon him as soon as he was convicted, because of the outraged sense of Justice expressed throughout the world. Not many Americans will believe that tho United States army, composed of American

citizens, would ever bend itself to do anything so infamous as the anti-Dreyfus movement.

The last fortnight of the campaign opens with an assurance almost positive that Indiana will give McKinley as large a majority as it did in 1S06 if not larger. This, however, is no reason why Republicans should relax their efforts. The defeat of Bryanism should be made overwhelming and final. Having doubt as to the assertions of the Democratic newspapers in regard to the many traveling agents supporting Bryan and Stevenson in this campaign the Brownell Hardware Company, of Bath, N. Y began a traveling men's register on July 4. This register to date is as follows: McKinley and Roosevelt, 140; Bryan and Stevenson, 13; Woolley, 2; "on the fence," 4; total, 159. Two hundred thousand pink carnations have been ordered for use in the New York sound-money parade of Nov. 3, and the flowers will be ordered from as far West as Wisconsin. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. An Unanswerable Argument. "You haven't one real good, sound reason why Bryan shouldn't be President." "Yes, I have; he shouldn't bo President because he's Bryan." An Opening to Shnn. "Is the new clerk conversational?" "Conversational? Well, don't say 'good morning' to him unless you have an hour and a half to throw away." The Fashionable Front. "Madge Mizzle Is awfully conventional." "She is?" "Yes; she will have a gold monogram on her note-paper even If she hasn't got shoes." An October Abduction. "Mr. Tubbo, have you any excuse to offer fo? not coming to work yesterday?" "Oh, yes, sir; an overwhelming majority cf my friends came after me to go hunting." . Partisan Persiflage, Bryanite Is It so that the White House is in bad repair? Republican Don't you worry about that; tt will collapse of old age before your man gets here. . A Bail Misfit. "Then you don't believe that Lincoln's mantle fell on Bryan?" "Oh, gracious! Why, if Lincoln's mantle had fallen on Bryan be couldn't crawl out from under It until the election had been over threo months." INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. As long as Mr. Bryan looks for imperialist texts on Spanish cannon, trophies of American valor, he will appeal in vain to American voters for support of his scarecrow theories Evansvillo Journal. Captain Crary, of Martinsville, who left the Republican party four years ago, is claiming that he is going to vote this year as he shot while serving in the rebellion. The captain certainly has softening of the brain. He served in the Union army, and there were no Republicans on the other side Worthlngton Times. Can the Bryanltes get any comfort from ex-President Cleveland's reiterated opinion that his views have not changed on the necessity for a sound currency? Last week was remarkable in that it called out statements from our only living ex-Presidents in discouragement of tho doctrines advocated by the Nebraska candidate. Lafayette Courier. Senator Jones cheerfully denies the allegation and defies tho allegator that his cotton-bale monopoly is a trust. If he will remember that the American Cotton Bale Company, in which he is a bloated stockholder and a director, was organized by the absorption of four companies, he will perceive that it is the kind of a combination which Bryan calls a trust. Terre Haute Express. The South Bend Times makes current the report that the Union Loan and Trust Company of Sioux City, la., that failed in the Cleveland panic In 1S93, has put its affairs in shape In this era of Republican prosperity to meet all of Its obligations, and that about 540,003 lost by South Bend banks will be recovered. That paper was not chronicling any such reports during the last Democratic administration they were all reports of failures then. Goshen Times. Bryan announces that if he Is made President he will put upon the free list all goods that enter into the manufacture of commodities produced by trusts. Mr. Bryan must be an imperialist when he assumes to himself the power arbitrarily to determine what goods shall pay duty and what shall not. Tho fallacy and folly of Mr. Bryan's promises are tho best evidences of his insincerity or ignorance, or both combined. If he is as all-powerful as he thinks he Is then the only danger of imperialism lies in his election. Elkhart Review. When Richard Croker, the Tammany Ice trust magnate and Bryan's New York manager, came to select the chairman for the great Bryan rally in New York cllv. he very naturally hit upon Edward M. Shepard. the brilliant lawyer, who is the most successful organizer and attorney of trusts there is In the country. He Is counsel for the Standard Oil trust at a very large salary. This is not the first time In this campaign that Bryan meetings have been presided over by Standard Oil magnates, either, and they know just what they have to fear from Bryan, the implacable foe of all corporations. Muncie News. PROSPERITY POINTERS. Roley Smoker had one of the best sales of the season on Thursday, Oct. 11, everything selling high. Horses from $73 to $103 per head, milch cows at $50 to $37.50, $$-, $(5 and $S0 per head, spring calves at $23.50 per head, yearling steers at $02.50 per head, cnu male calf at $o, brood sows from $22 to $00. He expected about $2,200, but realized $3.430, and to say he was well pleased is expressing It mildly. V. D. Clyne was the auctioneer. The church took In over $TJ) at the lunch counter. Montlcello Herald. On the 25th of September Harvey Shlngley, of Clay township, had a public sale. Among the property sold was a horse which Mr. Shlgley had bought four years bgo from a man named Migrant in Cass county for $52. Migrant attended Shigley's sale last week and was one of the bidders on the same horse. In fact, he was the successful bidder and his bid was $164. Shlgley had four years' use of the hor?d and sold It at an increase of over SOU per cent. Migrant is a Democrat, but he had to admit that prices at Shigley's sale were strong indications of prosperity. Delphi Journal. A table in the Express Sunday morning showing the falling off in the number of tramps and transients reported in Terre Haute from 15fl4 to 1S19, inclusive, was a little prosperity lesson, as it showed a decline from 1,57 in 1S06 to 591 In 1SW. We can find In Terre Haute much to show tr.at every Interest has been in better shape for the last three years than it was during the preceding Democratic administration, and to prove that when Mr. Bryan prophesied that If Mr. McKinley should be elected everything would fall below tho 1SD6 standard, he was a poor prophet. The only decline noticeable is in the number of t:amps. Terre Haute Express. Living In Knightstown is one of the most peculiar men of this prosperous age. He basin his possession probably ten or twenty thousand dollars. Because of his inability to loan his money at 6, 7 or 8 per cent, he swears that he will not vote tho Republican ticket, nor will he vote for Fryan. He clashes Bryan as a demagogue and a most dangerous man. He believes in McKinley, but because of the prevailing good times of plenty and prosperity, thus compelling him to carry his money on deposit in a bank of this town, this man is against the administration and will only vote for David McKce, Democratic candidate for congressman. He wants free silver legislation and a hlshcr rate of Interest. Iinirhtstown Einner.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Recollections of n 3IIsIonnry In the

Grent West. The author of this work, the Rev. Cyrus T. Brady, has had a varied experience. After a short service, when a youth, as a cadet-midshipman in the United States navy, he became a railroad official, then studied and was ordained as an Episcopal minister, and afterwards did mlssionary work for several jears In what was then far Western States. He is the author of "For Love of Country" and other successful novels. ae present work consists of personal reminiscences and sketches relating to his experiences as a missionary In the West at a time when the country was sparsely settled and its present great civilization was in its infancy. These recollections are interesting in themselves and are related In a very pleasant manner. Without much attempt at consecutlveness they have somewhat the character of a continuous narrative of a very active, strenuous and sympathetic worker. The book abounds with interesting anecdotes and humorous touches, as Instance the following character sketch of a broncho: "I said that the broncho was the best possible horse for missionary journeylngs. and so he is. He Is an ugly, ill-tempered, vicious, cross-grained, undersized, halfstarved, flea-bitten abandoned little beast, and he gives the missionary abundant opportunity to practice the sublime virtue of self-restraint. As a horrible example of total depravity he beats anything that I know of. He is apt to do anything, except a good thing, at any moment.. When he appears most serenely unconscious, look out for him. for that is the hour when he meditates some diabolical action. He bucks when he is ridden and balks when he is driven, but once get him going and he shows his mettle. He can go, and go like the wind, all day, and live on one blade of grass and one drop of dew, and keep awake all night and keep you awake, too and go again all next day, and keep it up until he tires out everything and, everj-body in competition with him; for when you get him started ou can absolutely depend upon him. He never gets sick nor breaks down, and I do not believe he ever dies. But it is awfully hard getting him started sometimes. I never shall forget the first time that I ever threw my leg across the back of one of these animals. He bucked Just one buck. I did not stay with him more than a second, but the Impression he made in that second was a lasting one. I can feel it yet." In a somewhat different vein Is the following: "I did not always meet with pleasant receptions at new places, and 1 was warned on one occasion that no services were desired and that none would . be permitted, and that If 1 consulted my own interests and the interests of peace and harmony, which I was supposed to promote, 1 wouid stay away. Of course, after that nothing on earth could keep a man from going to Just that place. On my arrival I was met by a large body of citizens who had no interest In me or in religion, but who were determined to have fair play. They escorted me to a . hotel, had secured a vacant store building, and were all ready for trouble, if those whom they calle-d the anti-religious faction desired to make any. In fact, I think they were thirsting for trouble. There were no women at service that night; nothing but men and guns. I did not feel particularly cheerful, but managed to get through some way and tried, somehow or other, to win over the opposing faction, so that In subsequent visits guns would be laid aside. But we had no trouble, and I managed to get hold of them all. eventually, so that my escort was dispensed with in future visits, and the women came to church. When once you get the friendship of those frontiersmen you are all right; you can say anything to them. But they are so very hasty with their weapons that frequently you do not have an opportunity to get properly introduced." At one frontier cattle town the preacher stayed at the Grand Hotel. He says: "The magnificence of the name and the comforts of the hotel were in an inverse ratio to each other. I asked for toast at supper and had the pleasure of hearing the cook say, 'What in does the dude preacher want toast at night for? Tell him he can't have it. I can't be gtvin out no toast to nobody at this hour.' If I had known how he would take it I would have starved before I asked for it." The book abounds with anecdotal passages of this kind interspersed with more serious ones and with graphic descriptions of odd people and queer happenings written in a style that makes pleasant reading. New York: Charles Scribners Sons.. Protection and Progress. This work, by John P. Young, Is a profound and philosophic study of the economic baseS of the American protective system, and incidentally it Is a history of the long struggle, covering some centuries, between free trade and protection. The author's objective point is to combat and overthrow "the erroneous idea that tho only useful function of the system of protection. Is to assist in the establishment of domestic manufacturing industry." He holds and argues with force and clearness that the chief function of a protective tariff is to guard against the lowering of the standard of living among a people and thus cause a lowering of wages and the reduction of workers to a common level of degradation. Beginning with the first attempt at protection in England, mora than five hundred years ago, the author traces the conflict of protective legislation with free trade . opposition down to the prevailing business conditions in the United States in the closing years of tho nineteenth century. In a snasterly and convincing way he arrays the logic of indisputable facts and figures in support of the proposition that no permanent business misfortune can hinder the career of a nation which steadfastly adheres to a policy of self-development and self-efficiency. "The development." says the author, "of a protectionist country with manifold resources results in the accumulation of vastly greater stores of wealth than could possibly be gathered in a dependent country, and, when created, the wealth of a protectionist nation is practically invulnerable. The great manufacturing plants of a country of the magnitude of the United States are subject to certain economic vicissitudes, but they can never be brought to a standstill by a blockade. The iron and steel mills, the textile factories and all the great staple industries of this country would flourish if the seas Were alive with the craft of enemies. No fear of empty granaries or apprehension of a cotton famine would conspire to prevent the assertion of national dignity. And while no American statesman would court a war with a foreign nation or nations which would interrupt external commerce, there is none who would, feel it incumbent to submit to national insult to save the whole of our ocean borne commerce. "This security has been obtained by following the precepts of Washington, whose views respecting the development of the notional resources were snared by all thoughtful men of his day. By adhering to the principle of self-sufficiency the United States has made itself the wealthiest nation on the globe. Judicious protection and by that we mean well conxidered efforts to promote and maintain domestic Industries in countries with abundant resources must necessarily work as described in these pages. It cannot help calling into existence manufacturing industries and assist in maintaining them after they are created. By so doing It afford! opportunities to the people of a country to find profitable employment and to accumulate wealth. But above all things it is a minimlzer of waste energy. By bringing field and factory together it tends to the elimination of all superfluous hauling to and fro. and thus cheaiens products and makes them more accessible to the masses than they could possibly be under a system which practically elevates trade above production. Cobdenism has this Inherent defect that It considers the exchange of commodities as more important than their production. The aim of protection Is to promote production a-d avoid waste, therefore It is the economic If Hey that must endure." These sentences will sufficiently Indicate the scope of the author's argument and the clearness of his style. The look Is a strong exposition of the philosophy and ethics of protection. Chicago: Rand. McNally & Co. : Prehistoric Implements. This Is a pioneer work in a new and Interesting .Held. There have been many books written and published eoncern'.nif th cr-drnt IniatlUuxU of America, com-

rr.only called the Mound Builders, a a people, and of tholr monuments, but this Is the first one devoted exclusively to a description of their Implements, Including the stone, clay, bone and shell objects of ancient America. The author, Warren K. Moorchead, has done his work well. Assisted by several -x-ierts and many correspondents he Ima by much research and travel and extensive correspondence colli cted specimens or orawinss and descriptions of no less than Z.MS varieties of stone and flint ornament, utensils end Implements of the American aborigines of the pre-Columbian era. Tno specimens illustrated and described were found in different parts of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. They include almost every conceivable sort of implement for use in peace or war. lor domestic purposes or for ornament, thus throwing a flood of light from a new quarter on the habits of the mysterious people about whom so little is known. The work is a monument of industry and labor, and as an original work in a new field it will command the admiration of archaeologists, students and collectors. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company. The Wedding Dy. The plan of this book is novel and it is well carried out. It is made up of a collection of the best descriptions of weddings from the works pf the world's leading novelists and poets, illustrated with reproductions of famous paintings of Incidents relating to the nuptial day. By general consent the wedding day is considered to be the happiest episode in life. An event so rich in human Interest, u day so universally filled with feasting and merry-making ought to furnish a subject that would call forth the best efforts of the poet, the painter and the novelist. It has not been as widely treated by authors and artists as might be supposed, yet literature and art furnish many wedding-day masterpieces by eminent authors and artists. The illustrations represent no less than thirty-four paintings by noted artists, while the text includes descriptions of the wedding dramatic, the wedding romantic the sentimental wedding and the liumorous wedding in England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway. France, Italy and other countries. The passages quoted represent scores of different authors English, American und continental European. The editor or compiler of the work, C. F. Carter, has carried out his novel idea with great ingenuity and success. The book Is published in attractive form by Dodd. Mead & Co., New York.

Attrnetlve Juvenile. Among the attractive children's books suitable for the holiday season are "Little Folk of 7C," a collection of fchort stories about little children of the revolutionary period, written by Maud Humphrey, illustrated by Mabel Humphrey and published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. From the Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron. O., comes "Mr. Bunny Ills Book.' a collection of original funny verses with, unique and nrtlstlc drawing in three 'colors, the verse by Adah L. Sutton sind the illustrations by W. 11. Fry a high class picture book. Messrs. Ialrd & Loo, of Chicago, publish "Baby Goose His Adventures." the Joint product of Miss Fannie E. Ostrander and Mr. R. W. Hlrchert. who. between them, have made one of the brightest picture books of the season, and, with the aid of the publishers, one of the most attractive. A title suggestive of Christmas is "The Home of Santa Claus." a story of a little boy's visit to Kriss Krlngle's home and of the strange sights he saw In tho town of toys, the story by George Best and the Illustrations by Arthur Ullyett. The illustrations are fron photographs and quite unique. . Electricity and Resurrection. This book adds another to the great number that have been written In the effort to answer the question, "If a man die shall he live again?" It is an attempt to define the soul and to establish its connection with science as an ethereal essence akin to if not Identical with electricity. In other words it Is an attempt to demonstrate the nl and objective existence of the Apotle Paul's "spiritual body." The author holds that In order to find the one religion the human race must abandon a metaphysical God and a metaphysical soul for a Gol and a soul that are connected with science. Proceeding upon this postulate he searches lor the material substance or organic essence of the soul, and reaches the conclusion that there is no other than the luminlfcrous ether, the motions and phenomena of which are known as electricity, and which, he maintains, is the secret of life. The book is an ingenious attempt to substitute for the orthodox Christian faith a eclentlfic soul, an electrical resurrection and an etherlc immortality. It is written by William Herostreet, and published by the Universal Truth Publlshinj Company, Chicago. The Life of Lives. This work is designated In a subtitle as "Further Studies in the Life of Christ," and Is a sort of continuation of that celebrated work by the same author. Dean Farrar. Farrar's "Life of ChristV first published more than twenty years ago, has proved to be one of the most widely read religious books of the present generation and the present work on tho same subject Is equally as striking. In it Dean Farrar has not attempted to traverse the same ground as before, but has treated the subject in a topical rather than In a consecutive manner. A partial list of contents is: "Our Lord's Human Aspect," "The La.-, guage He Spoke." "The Age in Which He Lived," "Lessons of the Unrecorded Years," "Judaism," "The First Anecdote." "Methods of Evangelization," "Forms of Teaching Their Uniqueness." "Jesus and Children," "The Gladness of Jesus." "The Apostles." New York: Dodd, Mead &. Co. Flrenlde Battles. The r'ot of tnIs ctory reflects a not unusual phase of real life. The sudden death of the head of a Southern family leaves it without any provision or mean of support. The mother is lovely, accomplished and helpless; a beautiful daughter, I? all that. too. but possessed of heroic nerve and ambition; the son is manly, but full of Southern pride. Their neighbor end friends are typical Southern people. The fireside battle, which give the story Its title are the brave struggles of th9 family to do for themselves and keep their home, it is a wholesome domestic story with a romance running through It which has a pretty ending. The author, Annie G. Brown, has a gift for telling a. tory. but she should study condensation. This story Is too long, but it is written In a simple. natural style that makes it. reaJable. It Is published In attractive form by Laird & Lee, Chicago. Some Pretty Books for Children. The holiday season is still somewhat distant, but that Christmas is coming is evidenced by the beautifully decorated and illustrated books for children which enterprising publishers are getting out. Among those received by the Journal from R. II. Russell. New York. Is "The Folks In Funnyvllle," a very amusing book of pictures and verses by F. Opper, which can b enjoyed by adults. Also. "A Vagabond Huntsman," the word! of which In vcre are taken from one of Charles Lever's novels and the pictures furnished by William A. Sherwood. Also, from the same publisher, "A Handbook of Golf for Ilears." a collection cf alphabet rhymes grotesquely illustrated and taking oft golf In a very amusing way. The publishers have made these books very attractive. Meaty Books. T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York, are issuing a series of books under the title of "What is Worth While" sirles. It comstits of small volumes, each one containing a brief essay by some writer of note on some topic of interest. They arc hlfh-cljiss essays. The latest volumes ncelved are "The Fortry of the Psalms," tr Rev. Henry Van Dyke; "The Art of OptlmNm as Taught by Robert Browning." by William Dewitt Hyde, president of Bowdoln College; "Some Ideals In tl'.'J Education of Women." rr Caroline Hazard, president of Welles ley College, and "8pintuul Lensona from the Brownings." by I v. Dr. A. H. Bradford. Though small !oks. they are meaty ones. A Fairy MghC D renin. From the press of Laird I. of Chicago, the Journal has revived "A Fairy Night's Dreuia; or, the 1jrn of OtioM. bv Katharine Elise Chap::n. It 1 a f; .rv