Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1901 — Page 4

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Tho city election will take place two weeks from to-day Oct. S. There is no way of evading the issue; Voters who have had enough of Taggartism must vote the Republican ticket to be con sistent. Every vote that may be given to the Prohibition ticket by an opponent of the present regime will be a vote to continue the Taggart methods. Candidate Maguire 13 reported as saying that he does not regard speechmaking as effective ia a campaign. From his point of observation he Is right. Every man who votes a Prohibition ticket In the city election not only votes in tho air, but he will be helping the ticket of the party which is assessing saloon keepers to get funds to secure votes. In all tho qualifications essential for the Cfflco of mayor Mr. Eookwalter ir far superior to Mr. Maguire. Mr. Bookwalfer knows much more about municipal affairs to-day than does Mr. Maguire. "When the Board of Safety Ignores the frepresentatlves of an organization who pvculd offer evidence to prove that members Of tho police force failed to do their duty. It ceases to be what its name implies. Tho New York Maritime Exchange gave fis a reason for excluding the New York Dournal from its files that "its general course was subversive of public order and tU doctrines dangerous to tho welfare of fho Republic" Evidence accumulates proving that the police powers of tho city are being used to Xorca ialoon keepers to support the "Meoo" ticket. Saloon keepers who have Shown a rebellious disposition are not allowed to violate the laws. Average men will not fall 'in with the opinion of tho new controller of tho currency that the country needs a United States bank. For all practical purposes, and for the business of tho government, tho presant national bank system is deemed adequate. Tho Prohibition candidate for mayor Is a worthy man, but, a3 he stands no chance of getting over 3 per cent, of the voto of the city, ho should not permit himself to bo used to prolong the administration that enforces none of the laws regarding the sale cf liquor. A very effective city campaign can be made without arousing excitement. If r.ll the men in the city who have hail enough of the present regime will talk with their neighbors, urging them to vote the Republican ticket, it will be elected by a substantial plurality. It is announced that both the Ohio senators will tako the initiative in a movement either to expel Senator Wellington or to declare his seat vacant. Senators of both parties in Washington, during tho funeral of President McKinley, expressed a desire that such action should be taken, but feared that no senator would care to lead off. Since that time It has been learned that the senators representing the late lTesldent's State will bring up the matter as soon as the Senate shall meet. After hearing the presentation of the canteen question by Surgeon Munson, of the army, the American Public Health As ociatlon, at its recent meeting in Buffalo. adopted a resolution asking Congress to restore it in the Interest of temperance and military sanitation. During the first fix years of the canteen the admissions to liospltals for alcoholism steadily dimin lihed, showing a decrease of 23.G per cent. In the avcrago annual number of adm's tions. Delirium tremens fell off C1.3 per cent, and insanity C1.7 per cent. The an jvual average of court-martial convictions for drunkenness was reduced more than one-half under the canteen system, and the desertion rate showed a similar decline. All army statistics show that the era of the canteen was one of the least injury from the use of intoxicants and promoted discipline. In the well-considered address of Judge Dudley H. Chase be fete the Logansport meeting to pay tribute to the dead Pres Ident the following smtence appears: Where law I. uncertain, partial or nrbi trury. wlnre ju.-tiee is not impartially c.dintnistered to all; where property Is Inse cure and the person I liable to insult and violence, without retire by law. the io jlc are not free, whatever be th ir form of government. There U a great deal of truth condensed Into the few lines quoted. Mnt of tht evils from which organized society suffers come from a failure to administer the law? Murder are more frequent because there Is no certainty of adequate punishment; lynching. occur because men have lo.t faith ia tho-o whose duty It Is to enforce

tho laws; ruffians terrorize communities because those who should bring thom to Justice stand In fear of them and the ir friends when election day coms nrouml. It i:? a truthful faying, and worthy of everlasting remembrance: "Whore property is insecure and the person is liable to insult and violence the people are not free, whatever be their form of government."

SHALL THE TAfHiAUT POLICY HE EXTENDED? There 13 but one important question Involved in tho municipal election, namely: Is it wise to continue the policy of the present administration of city affairs two years longer? It is a question to be considered in a judicial spirit by those who have tho best Interests of a growing city at heart. Such citizens can ask themselves what has been done by the Taggart administration during six years to warrant its extension under Charles Maguire. Recall the more prominent features of the six years and see how many of them can now be approved. It is not necessary to attend political meetings to do this. In the lirst place, under the mayor's policy the bonded debt of the city has been increased $717,0), exclusive of the debts of the annexed districts. He has made the city's bonded debt one-third greater than it was when he came into ollice. If the late William II. English had not secured the adoption of the clause in the State Constitution limiting the liabilities of county and municipality to 2 per cent, of the assessed valuation, the Taggart tendency to increase the city's debt would be a grave danger. The limit, however, has almost been reached. Whatever money it may be necessary to expend hereafter for buildings and apparatus for the lire department, the construction of bridges, improvement of the City Hospital and improvement of parks must be raised by increasing the levy upon the proierty of taxpayers. Returning to the 5717.0ÖO which has been added to the bonded debt of the city, howlarge a part of that exienditure can be heartily approved by property owners and those whose business and incomes are affected by taxation? Of this amount ?330t0") was devoted to the purchase of lands for parks. If business men were managing the affairs of Indianapolis upon business principle, would they have purchased the Riverside Park lands at the price paid? Of the remaining $307,000 of bonds $läO,') were issued to build a police station. There rniht be excuse for this if provision had been made for their liquidation by an assessment during three or four years for that purpose. The bonds issued for the construction of bridges and lire apparatus should have been regarded as current expenditures and paid in two or three years. No provision has been made for the payment of these bonds, but their issue has pushed tho Iwjnded debt nearly to the constitutional limit, so that should there arise a great emergency in the affairs of the city it would be helpless so far as borrowing money is concerned. These facts are presented to thinking voters. Do they approve this increase of the public debt and the uses made of the money? If they do not, they cannot consistently vote for Charles Maguire for mayor, because he literally glories in all of tho acts of the Taggart administration and promises to continue the same policy. 3IH. IIAHIIIS'S IIE.1IEDY I'OIt AXAIIC1I V. In this State it Is not necessary to ask the readers of newspapers to consider carefully any article which the Hon. Addison C. Harris may contribute, so high a place does he occupy In the estimation of his fellow-citizens as a man of ripe judgment and as a lawyer in the broadest significance of the term. His article, published this morning, presents an international remedy for tho extirpation of Anarchists. Already several plans have been made public, but the most of them apply only to the Anarchists in this country, and the remedy is deportation. As Mr. Harris says, anarchism is a world-wide organization, created to destroy any form of government by assassinating the head of national authority. Such being the case, the attempt of any one government to rid itself of Anarchists by any plan which would drive them to other countries would not only be inadequate, but unfriendly to the family of nations. Assuming that no remedy can be adequate which is not international, Mr. Harris shows that by international action Anarchists can be declared outlaws by the nations and punished wherever they are caught, as pirates and man-stcalers years ago were outlawed and punished. Anarchy is a. greater menace to the nations than it was posslblo for piracy or the slave trade to be, because neither of these evils assailed tho foundations of government and social order. Anarchy Is the foe of government the world over, and as such towers infinitely above the crimes whose victims were limited. If, years ago, before the present close relations between the governments of the world existed, international action was invoked to suppress a few offenders against persons and property, it is now an imperative necessity that the nations unite to destroy the men who arc engaged In an attempt to destroy all government. IX EAVOlt OF RECIPROCITY TREATIES. President McKinley's speech at Buffalo the day before he was shot has been widely quoted and commented on as foreshadowing bis future policy on some Important questions, as it was doubtless intended to do. One of these questions was the tariff, or. to put It more broadly, that of commercial intercourse with other countries. On this point Mr. McKinley said: Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth e.f our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. What we produce beyond nur domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. Th? excess must be relieved thrum: h a foreign outlet, and we should sell everywhere we an. and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and proeluctlons. and tiieieby make a greater demand for home labor. The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade ami commerce is the pressing problern. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not. If. perchance, some of our tariffs are no longer needed fir revenue tr to entourage arul protect oar industries at home, why should they n- t be employed to extend our markets at rend? This showed that Mr. McKinley was ready t mak concessions on the tariff question by substituting reciprocity for protection where protection was no longer necessary. The expression of these views at Buffalo did not, ns generally construed, indicate ft now departure by Mr. McKinley. He was simply emphasizing what he had aid before. In his last annual message to Congress, that of December, IL), after deprecating the failure of the Sonate to ratify

certain commercial agreements with other countries, he said: The policy of recinrocitv so manifestly

rests upon the principles of International equity and has b.en so repealed I y approved by the people of the United States that there ouxht to bo no hesitation in either branch of Congress in giving to it full effect. This government desires to preserve the most just and amicable commercial relations with all foreign countries, unmoved by the Industrial rivalries necessarily developed in the expansion of international trade. The views expressed in the Buffalo speech were simply an amplication of those above quoted. They showed progress rather than change. Construing the two expressions together they show that Mr. McKinley deprecated anything like a commercial or tariff war with any other country; that he regarded tariff duties as a means of protecting and developing American industries, and that when they were no longer needed for this purpose they should be reduced or abolished; and, finally, that he regarded reciprocity treaties as one of the most promising agencies for developing our foreign trade in the future. There is reason to believe that these views will be presented by President Roosevelt in his first annual message to Congress. THE JESTERS. Hit IN Funny Rone. Chicago Tribune. "Sandle, did you see anything that amused you In France?" "Wetl, in Dunkirk a' saw a half-done kirk." ' "Well Ilred. Punch. Gentleman Thit looks a well bred dog. Owner I should think he was well bred. Why, he won't have a bit er dinner till he's got his collar on! Ill Love (eutiine. Crooklyn Life. Father Then, I have but one more question to put to you. Have you seen my daughter play golf? Lover I have, sir; but I love her still. ot Attirmil. Puok. First Citizen Rut if Europe should combine against us In a trade- war? Second Citizen All riht. If they want a trade war we'll sell hern all the ammunition they ne d. Sound Ad vi re. Tit-Dits. "Rave you ever read the article on how to tell a bad ess?" "No, I haven't; but my advice would bt If you hae anything important to tell a bad egg, why, break it gently." Unfortunate. Heitere Welt. "You are looking handsome to-night, Miss riite," IJagstcr remarked in the pauses of the darce. "So Mr. Smythe told me a few minutes ago." Ragster (only remembering that Pmythe is a hated rival) "Well, you wouldn't believe anything that idiot said, would you?" H'KINLEY'S KINDNESS. How Ho AVent Ont of Hi Way to He. friend tin Oltl Enemy. Washington Post. Many stories illustrating the statesmanship, the courage, and other attributes that make a man a leader of his fellows have been told of William McKinley. There are also stories proving his more tender virtues, and few better illustrate his Christian forgiveness, charity and brotherly love than the one a watchman in one of the public buildings in this city has to tell. This watchman, now growing old and somewhat broken by misfortune, was an editor of prominence and power years ago in the district Mr. McKinley represented in Congress. He was at the head of a Republican paper, but, suspecting McKinley of instigating a libel suit against him. he fought Iiis party's choice fur Congress with all the strength and power at his command. For years he held McKinley his bitter enemy and did his utmost to prevent his rising. Then it was disclosed that McKinley had no part in the libel suit and had never attempted to wrong the editor. He was overcome with remorse, and went to McKinley and begged forgiveness. McKinley forgave not in word only, as time was to show. The editor met reverses. His paper and all that was his were swept away, and as a last resort he came to Washington and went to work as a laborer. He is a religious man and attended the late President's church. It was during the first administration of President McKinley that the editor became the laborer. The i resident always recognized him at chvrch with a nod and a smik. Later tho President made inquiries, learned of the man's position and sent word for him to visit the White House. But the laborer's pride forbade h!m. "No." he stubbornly told his friends. "McKlnley's tip and I'm down now. He was always gGod to me. and I treated him shabbily. I'll not seek more favors." The laborer stayed away. His impulses, however, led him to attend the last New Year s reception. McKinley recognized him at once and extended both hands. The line was delayed while tho President of the 1'nlted States urged a humble citizen to visit him. and then the laborer went away, proud, but troubled. "You se," he explained to his friends, "it's not only that I acted wrong years ngo; It's this I'm not with McKinley now. I am for free silver. I have no right to accept favors from him." The laborer was getting old. His work was growing too heavy a burden. Many friends pressed him to visit tho President, and so. at last, he went. Just what happened thoro Iihs not been told. Rut one thine is certain, the exeditor ceased to be a laborer from that day. He has a comfortable berth for his declining years. And during the services held for two weeks past at the Metropolitan Church one bowed, grav-headed man near the "President's new" has sent many n fervent prayer for the martyr and has wept many bitters tc?.rs for the man he once fought so fiercely. Ex-President Cleveland on TnsprnrtItn. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: It Is eminently unjust to regard the present municipal campaign as in any sense a political one. though on its face It seems to be. In his letter of acceptance Mr. Maguire wholly removed it from tho field of party politics to a question of indorsing or rebuking the distinctive characteristics of Mr. Taggart's administration. As the marked increase of anarchism during that administration is its most striking feature, and as Mr. Maguire promises to enforce only such laws as he thinks are "just," he promise s to continue that disn garei of law which is in itself anarchy, ami, disguise it as we may, that is the supreme question be-fore the poeqde of Indianapolis in the canvass. Whether Ex-President Cleveland, in his Princeton speech the other day, had Mr. Taggart's administration in Iiis mind or not I cannot say. but he could net have administered a htronxer nbuke if he bad delive red it in Tomlinson Hall to the voi' -'s of Indianapolis. He said: "Nothing can guard us against the menace of anarchy except the teaching and the practice of the Inst citizenship; the brave enactment and execution of repressive laws." We have enough brave laws, but how they are executed let the unieir lined gangs of letiant lawbreakers testify. Does anyone believe that Mr. Cleveland, if a voteV of Indianapolis, would vote for Mr. Maguire after his pledge to enforce only such "restrictive laws'' as piease hirn? The fact that the machine had made him the Democratic nominee would not neutralize his pledge to countenance anarchy. There are PK) re Cleveland Democrats in this eity than the machine has counted on. The men who "disrgard gove rnment" will all vote for him, for he has promised to not enforce law against them any more than Mr. Taggart has done, but Cleveland Democrats, who believe in "practicing the best citizenship and bravely enacting and executing repressive laws." will not. There Is a world of meaning in the word "brave" In this connection. IT. L. SEE. Indianapolis. Sept. 23.

THE ANARCHY PROBLEM

A UlESTIOV "WHICH IS OW I!EIG DISCUSSED IX ALL LANDS. How Can the Civilized World Proteet Itself Agrninst the; Advocates of Mnrder mid Aninnt Ion f VIllWS OF ADDISON C. HARRIS THE CONSTITITIOX AM) STATUTES OF THE LMTED STATES, Lnus of ation nnd Action of The HnKue Conference Furnish Ital for International Treaty. At this time thoughtful men all over the civilized world are eliscussing anarchism, its monstrous evils, and seeking methods of curbing or extirpating this doctrine of assassination. At the request of the Journal the Hon. Addison C. Harris, late minister of the United States to Austria-Hungary, and a lawyer of great ability and wide reputation, prepared the 'appended statement, which is worthy the careful attention of men who desire the welfare of society in general and the continuance of stable government. Mr. Harri' SuggveMt ions. Anarchy is the absence of government. An Anarchist advocates the destruction of all governments. His purpose is to overthow civil society, whether in the form of a democracy or monarchy. He holds that anarchy must be brought about by the destruction of the rulers and the governors of all nations. The Anarchists associate internationally and advocate assassination of the chief officers of state, alike in this country and abroad. This is not political revolution, but cold murder. They killed the President of the United States, the King of Italy and the Czar of Russia. They have a world organlzationand a common literature to promulgate and advance their heinous purpose. They advocate and practice the use of the pistol and the bomb. It goes without saying that anarchy must be extirpated. It must be torn out by the roots and burned out with tire. The question is, how to do it. It is evident that it will bo hard to do this through local State laws and local police. No single nation can dö it without the help of others. It will require the united action of the strongest and most comprehensive powers to put down and destroy this crime against society. It is believed that the Constitution of the United States confers ample power on this Nation to do its part. One clause thereof gives to the President power to make treaties which become the law of the land when confirmed by two-thirds of tho senators. Another clause declares: "The Congress shall have power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on high seas, and offenses against the law of nations." A pirate has no country. Ho Is the enemy of all mankind. He hies the black Hag. The Anarchist carries the red flag. A pirate robs and murders on the ocean. An Anarchist assassinates the rulers of his own country with the same horrid motive that he kills the rulers of other nations, lie defies law as boldly as the pirate. By the law of nations any nation may arrest and execute a pirate, wherever found, without proof that he has injured the person or property of any citizen of such nation. It is enough that he is a pirate. Under this clause, Congress long since enacted the following statute: "Every person who, on the high seas, commits the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into, or found in the United States, shall suffer death." It will be observed that the statute does not require that the crime shall be committed within, or against a citizen of the United States. It is enough, under this statute, that the crime has been committed somewhere in the world, and against a citizen of some nation. Such was the law of nations before our Constitution was adopted; and Congress, by this act, slnply provides for the punishment of piracy, as defined by International law. THE SLAVE TRADE. Man-stealing was not an offense against tho law of nations when our Constitution was adopted. The citizens of many nations were then engaged in stealing black men from Africa and selling them in their own colonies or elsewhere as slaves. At that time it was lawful. A few years afterwards tho nations, by treaties, made man-stealing an international crime, like piracy. Speaking of this crime and its history, in a recognized authority, it is said: "Our (United States) admiralty courts have jurisdiction of prisoners accused of this crime and brought before them, though the offense may have been committed in a foreign country, for the reason that the offense is against international law and against all mankind, and may be punished by any nation. The trader may be condemned and his vessel confiscated anywhere. The jurisdiction of all nations is concurrent. All the great powers have recognized this jurisdiction. Eight nations united in the treaty of Paris to suppress the slave trade. Its suppression was declared to be authorized by public law in the congress of Vienna, in 1S15; and three years after this was reallirmed by the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, and four years later (1S2J) in the congress of Verona, and is now generally held by civilized nations. Slave trading Is deemed piracy, and has been declared such in international conventions." It will be seen that man-stealing was made an international crime since the adoption of our Constitution. Thus it is demonstrated that our Nation may, under the clause authorizing ths lawmaking power to "define and punish offenses against the law of nations," join with other nations in defining and punishing a crime under international law, not known at the time the Constitution was framed. The phrase, "law of nations," as used In the Constitution, Is synonymous with international law. Vattel's great work on "The Law of Nations" was published in 17S. It was the leading authority on international law at the time our Constitution was written, and the framers and statesmen of the time were familiar with it. In this great work it is clearly shown that international law may be established at any time in two modes: First, by the long and ordinary practice of nations, showing a general custom in force and obeyed. Piracy is an example. Second, by treaties between the leading nations on any subject. The treaty creating the crime of man-stealing Is an illustratlem. PROVISIONS OF STATUTES. The Revised Statutes of tht United States provide for the suppression and punish mer.t of this crime. It follows without question that the United States may join with other nations in defining and punish ing other international crimes. Modern diplomacy furnishes other In stances, but the above is enough to prove that the grants of power above quoted are not limited tr international offenses hs de fined by custom or treaties when the Con stltutlon was adopted, but vest the treaty making ami legislative powers with au thority.to de fine and punish any act which

is found to be an International offense. Speaking to the meaning of the phrase, "Offenses against the law of nations," Mr. Pomeroy, in his lectures on "Constitutional Law," says: "The grant Is. full and comprehensive, and any measures may be adopted under it which are demanded by the exigencies of our international obligations." It cannot bo doubted that Congress has power to define and punish any crime that is leveled against the reace and existence of this Nation. But we are not a hermit Nation. We are but one meml-er of the great family of nations. There is no parliament of nations; no general international criminal code. Our laws defina and punish international crimes of piracy and man-stealing. Anarchy, as now practiced, is a crime not less heinous, but more destructive to the peace and stability of governments. It is international in its organization and operation, and its aim is to overwhelm all civilized society. ALL NATIONS INTERESTED. It is, therefore, the gravest matter, in which all the nations have common concern. It would seem, therefore, that they should speedily co-operate to extirpate this crime. International conferences and congresses are of common occurrence. Through the international tribunal of The Hague, or some other international convention, the nations should speedily, by treaty, define the crime of anarchy throughout the world, and provide for its sure and uniform punishment. They could well adopt uniform rules and practice for the arrest, extradition, trial and conviction of all persons guilty of this crime against the law of nations. As near as may be anarchy should be treated as piracy. By common accord and co-operative action that crime and mah-stealing have been exterminated. With the modern means of Intercommunication by telegraphs and steamships the world is now in close neighborhood. The machinery for the arrest and punishment of international criminals is already in existence. A murderer of one of our soldiers was lately arrested in South Africa and brought to the United States for trial and execution. Every nation has competent tribunals in which to execute international laws.

It remains for the nations to define the crime of anarchy and provide the punish ment. This Is matter of mere detail not difficult to frame. An international treaty, when made, becomes the law of all nations joining in or adopting it. . When anarchy has been made an offense under the law of nations, let any one committing the crime, or aiding, abetting, counseling or advising the same, .be made amenable and subject to arrest, trial and conviction, un der such provisions as may be incorporated in the treaty. Such a treaty, made by the President and confirmed by the Senate, becomes at once the law throughout the United States. Thereupon Congress can support it by providing the tribunals in this country having jurisdiction of tho trial and punishment. ' WHAT WAS CAUSE OF DEATH? Medical Theories Accounting; for the Fntnl Itenlt of McKinley Wound. American Medicine. At the autopsy there were found no signs of inflammation, no peritonitis, no pus. There was simply nonhealing, and a necrosis of all the tissues In the neighborhood of the track of the bullet. This nonhealing extended to the operative incision in the abdominal wall, around the bullet wounds in the stomach-wall for a space of about the size of a silver dollar, and for a larger area about the head of the pancreas and adjacent tissues beneath and beyond. The attempt to account for this extensive gangrenous process brings one face to face with the mystery which no theory seems adequately to clear up. So far as we are able at present to set these theories forth we may classify them somewhat as follows: First Death was due to an absorption into the circulation of the morbid products of the extensive necrosis, the intoxication finally overcoming the vitality of the heart, naturally weak, and further lessened by disease. Second Death was the result of a kind of shock through the injured solar plexus superinduced by the injury and subsequent necrosis of the tissues in its neighborhood. Either -theory is simply a method of pushing the mystery a step further back anj of asking the question, what was the cause of the extensive necrosis? To this there are several answers: First It was due to septic matter carried in with the bullet, either from the clothing or from some other accidental source. The absence of inflammation or of pus makes it difficult to understand how the result could have been thus brought about. Second It was due to a cunningly poisoned bullet, but no substance is known which could produce such a widespread necrosis. Third It was due to a strange and rare, but by no means unknown, absence of healing power in some diseases and persons. Dr. Phelps, of Buffalo, recently had a similar case. The extension of the gangrenous process to tissues but distantly and slightly interferred with as to nutrition, might be held as merely an extreme loss of such healing power. This devitalization of the structures, it might be added, would be very natural in a man who, at the President's age, had long led a sedentary life, and who had borne the heavy burdens of power and responsibility. Fourth It is possible that the necrosis or lowered healing power was due to Injury to the solar plexus whereby the trophic power was inhibited or deranged, partially by direct trauma, or partially by the action of the pancreatic exudate, reaching Ifs complete effect only after two or three days. Fifth The necrosis was indirectly dim to a concussion of the pancreas, which was not perforated by tho bullet, hut which was "grazed" and slightly injured, or contused by it, and which within two or three days began to pour out its natural or morbid secretion; and this, extending along the track of the wound, induced the necrosis by its strong nnd positive digestive power, or because of the natural or acquired lack of healing powr in the tissues. There is a whole science yet to bo revealed concerning the pancreas, but from many published cases it is clear that this organ is easily injured; that fat-necrosis and other kinds of morbid results soon ensue; that fatal results follow from slight Injuries to it; that its secretions, normal and morbid, rapidly pass through its enveloping membrane, and soon work irreparable injury to other structures. Until further light may be shed upon the pathology, either by cultures made from tho tissues secured at the autopsy, or by some discovery, we hold that dogmatic opmlon is not justified. We frankly say, however, that the theory last suggested above seems to be the best working hypothesis. A rigid analysis of all the cases of pancreatic disease and injury might tend to confirm It. In this case the pancreatic exudate, causing the necrosis, might possibly have co-operated with a minor bullet injury to the solar plexus, and tho absorption of necrotic products thus added to the trauma, to create both Intoxication and nervous shock; or possibly also, as we have said, troph.c lots may have been in part or wholly due to direct traumatic or cumulative degeneratlvo injury of the solar plexus. Wnnhlneton on Suffrage. Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery." I believe it is the duty of the negro as the greater part of the race Is already doing to deport himself modestly in regard to political claims, depending upon the slow but sure influences that proceed from the possession of property, intelligence and hlh character for the full recognition of his political rights. I think that the according of their full exercise is going to be a matter of natural, slow growth, not an over-night gourd-vine affair. I tlo not believe that the negro should ceas voting, for a man cannot learn the exercise of selfgovernment by ceasing to vote any more than a bey can learn to swim by keeping out of the water, but I do believe that in his voting he should more and more be influenced by those of intelligence and character who are his next-door neighbors. I know colored men who. through the encouragement, help and advice of Southern white people, have accumulated thousands of dollats' worth of property, but who. at the same time, would never think of going to thse same persons for advice concerning the casting of their ballots. This. It see'm? to me, is unwise and unreasonable and should cease. I do not mean tht the negro should truckle, for the Instant he ce-ases to vote from principle he loses the confidence and respect even of the Southern white man.

ATHLETE IN HIGH PLACE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT HAS LED A VERY STREM'OI S LIFE. Lover of Sport, Including limine, Hunter, Cowboy, Fighter In War nnd Peace, and Unten a Coward. Washington Letter in St. Louis Tost Dispatch. Theodore Roosevelt Is one of the few Fresidents who have been athletes. Georgs Washington was a good shot before he ever began his military career, and he could ride to hounds and row and swim and even fight with his fists, as every Virginia gentleman was bound to do in those days. Lincoln enjoyed splitting rails to the last day of his strong, active life. Grover Cleveland liked the comparatively mild sport of fithing and duck hunting. Roosevelt is the first allround athlete to sit in tho President's chair. It is safe to say that before he has been at the capital a month he will have a gymnasium fitted up where he can work off the superfluous energy of absolutely perfect health. As Governor of New York he had a trainer at Albany whose business it was to wrestla a match twico a week, and stand up for a boxing bout once a day with the executive. Sometimes Roosevelt beat th trainer, and then he was as pleased as a high school boy. It is almot certain that President Rooaevelt owes nearly everything he has in life to the fact that he has the instinct of a fighter. A thin-shanked, bright-eyed boy, ho starUd in tho world with a prospect of seml-Invalidlsm before him. Then, as he tells it himself, something happened. What happened was that he got the first and only "licking" of his life. It made him mad, and it made hira an athlete and a strenuous liver. "1 was brought up by a maiden aunt." says Roosevelt, "and until I was twelve or thirteen years of ago was of a timid and retiring disposition. I was not in good health, and was sont into the north woods un a certain occasion to try and build my-' self up. "While en route there I came in contact with a boy who was Just my antlpode. It was not long: before he found cause for complaint at something I had done, and systematically thrashed me. My pride was hurt at the whipping and I vowed then and there to make myself proficient in an art that wouid e-nable me to take my own part. "On my return to New York I had a master engaged at once, and have continued to box at Intervals all my life." HIS STRENUOUS CREED. Roosevelt shocked a mother's assembly In Albany once by putting his strenuous creed in a very concrete way. "The boy that won't fight Is not worth his salt," he said, bluntly. "He is either a coward or he is constitutionally weak. I have taught my boys to take their own part. I do not know which I should punish my boys for quickest for cruelty or for flinching. Both are abominable." When Roosevelt was a boy he was as strenuous, as impulsive as he Is now. Ha never flinched, and he "hit the line all the time as hard as he knew' how." He belonged to the rowing clubs and the football team at Harvard, although he could not excel in either sport. He was slender and weak, but he kept everlastingly at it in the gym nasium. He was a good amateur boxer. One day he put on gloves against Billy Edwards, the pugilist. Edwards merely smiled at his antagonist, and while he smiled Roosevelt stepped up nimbly and landed a blow that closed the prize fighter's eye. It was the last chance he got, because afterward Billy Edwards went in and mauled the college athlete in a very genuine fashion. Still, true to his mrtto in athletics, Roosevelt bad "hit the line as hard as he knew how." At another time some horses In a. stable near Roosevelt's rooms on the campus raised a disturbance in the night. From the noise they seemed to be battering the barn door ciowr. Young Roosevelt, the strenuous, without waiting to dress, without donning his inevitable spectacles, jumped out of a second-story window and i an to the stable. He quieted the restive horses and was back in bed before the rest of the people in the house realized what the fuss was about. It was about 1SS1 that Roosevelt went out West and began the ranch life and the grizzly bear huntwig that made him the Idol of the cowboys. There he laid the foundation of the powerful shoulders and the won derfully muscular body of the ligliter who went through the Cuban campaign and came out of it as trong as a bull meose. Along with his strenuousness, Roosevelt has always had an eye for the picturesque. The man who wrote the "Winning of the West" and "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" has a streak of poetry In his make up. So when he started out to rough It, he dressed like a second Daniel Boone. He wore leather leggings finishetl with fringe. a fancy coat and a silk bandanna handkerchief knotted about his neck. This, with his spectacles, m nie him nn odd enough figure." The cowboys at once dubbed him the "four-eyed tenderfoot." He took their gibes pleasantly. One day somebody told him of a bad man who was going to kill him. "How interesting." said Roosevelt, the strenuous, showing his teeth. "I should like to see that man." HOW THE COWBOY DIDN'T FIGHT. Obliging cowboys pointed out the tent of the bad man, and after supper Roosevelt walked over. He told the bad man that they had as well fight it out then and there To the surprise and chagrin of his backers the gentleman from Bitter Creek changed his mind in a twinkling. He said that there was nothing to tight about, and that, for his part, he had not thought of it. "Bad Man" Finnigan was another char ter from Bitter Creek who met the strenu ous "four-eyed tenderfoot." Finnegan at one time "went up against a large quanti ty of "Big Mouthed" Bob's barbed wire whisky. It put him to sleep, and while ho slept the cow boys cut off his Sampson-like hair. Finnegan woke up. started on the warpath and burned the only town ho could find. Then he set out for the Hitter Creek hills, and on the way he passed Roosevelt's Elkhorn ranch. He helped himself to a line bunting cane and started up the Lit tie Missouri. Shortly afterward Roosevelt heard how the gentleman from Bitter Creek had been amusing himself- and also mised his ca noe. He jumped into another boat and set out in hot pursuit. For läO miles up the winding mountain stream he followd the fleeing Finnegan. He caught the b.d man, marched him back and lodged him in the county jail at Dickinson. Roosevelt soon convinced the cowboy that he could fide straight and shoot straight and tak-; his medicine like a man. He undertook to break a few ef the sixty wilt! ponleis with which he stocked one of his ranches. The first pony be tackled was a lor.g-legeed, Roman-nosed bay that they called "Pen Butler." Bn "sunfish?d" as scon as Roosevelt got on his back and the future President promptly came off in a heap. Some one eaucht the pony and brought bim back. RoJ;evelt, very pah, jumped Into the saddle flgiln and rode "Ben Butler" to a lather. ! Three of Roosevelt's ribhad been broken bv his fall, but he said nothing about it until the pony had given out. Afterwards in: a famous address the strenuous President said: "I have foueht and not always won, but I can say that I always come up for the next fight v.-hen I lose." Perhaps he war thinking of "Ben Butler when he used tlvse? wonls. Roosevelt's saddle is famous to this day In the Dakota?. It hangs in a room on the Elkhorn ranch, and whenever he visits there he uses it. It weighs forty-five pounds, was maöe in Denver, and oot Jl. It is beautifully embossed, trimmed with silver and stamp 1 with his monogram. His bit and spurs are inlaid wih silver and his "Chapps" are real Angora. WHY HE CAN SHOOT SOME. Of his prowess as a hunter Roosevelt has written: "I mys-.-lf am not and ;pvr will be more than an ordinary shot, for my eyes are bad and my hand not over steady; yet I have killed every kind of game to be found on the plains, partly because I have hunted very pe r'severingly and partly because by practice I have learned to shoot aloiit as well at a wild animal as a target." President Roosevelt has been making hunting trips to the West for fifteen years, up to and including the famous Colorado hunt which ended about eight weeks ago. He has been in more tight places and has lefended himself at cbser range than any "tenderfoot'' that ever crossed the Rookies. When he hangs his hat up In the hallway of his home at Oyster Hay, he hangs it n the prongs of a deer than mizht have be

longed to "The Kootonay R,m." This i only one of the many meraento- of th-

chase that fill all the available u vk of recount ry home. When Roosevelt stood en Mount , Marc v the other day and heard th m n n that made him President, it ad!-d ,.;;iv t;:.t!ir picturesque and c:ir.iterlst!c ir-.i-.r.t t.. his life. It was str nu'.u ; it was t!. things that hae always happ-n-d to thi.i American man on horseback. Many a night his impar-sive. bb.ekl f.gure on a stout little pony has push lfm and on through the darkness of a t iht ii the Rookies, with b'g game ahead, and the pelts of mountain lions siurg a r,s tii sae'dle bow. In one of his bnk hefns !escribed such a ride on the plains: ; r or nine hours we roele st addy a'-ro5.t the moonlit prairie. The ho .flf.its .f o:r norses rang out in steady rytnm um nn the silence of the night otherwise u; brk--ti save now and then by the? wail.ig ry of a coyote. The rolling plain s"tii-. d out on all sides of us. shimmeriru.; ia th clear moonlight, and occasionally ?i band of spectral-looking antelopes swept .-ib ntiy away from before our party. ln a hunting trio Just 1 tore bis inaugu ration as Vice Pre sident Co'eriel R.-oSe:t killed twelve mountain lions, lour f them at such close quarters that be put a A end to mem witn bis hunting knif in one encounter a big lioness, although mortally wounded, cnarged at him aft r lie b id spent all the bullets in his rifle. He j.nnm-d the stock of his gun Into the beast's mouth, and by that time Dr. Webb, who wis with hifr.. came up and dispatched the iim.il. Terhflps the most exciting of al President Roosevelt's hunting xperbmis was the killing of a big lion while he !hims If hung suspended bv the feet over a fortyfoot cliff. It Illustrates the character of t' man whoso most salient mental trait Is pure grit. He and his guide. Goff, were, coming into Coyote camp, exhausted at the nd of a hard day. Suddenly the dogs gave a yelp and the party sighted two splendid dons at the top of a cliff. One of them scaped and the other swung lown to a projecting ledge a long distance below. Cclonel Roose velt suggested that he and the guide, Goff. ?o up on tho clln; and shoot the lion from fifaove. Tn the fading: davlicht thev mnd a de tour and finally reached the bluff cver.th lion. A bump of rock projected just far enough to shut off a sight of their quarry. A few Inches of the lion's body cniid be seen gleaming in the first shine of the ris ing moon. THIS WAS A NARROW ESCAPE. "Here, Goff, you catch me by the 1 et and swing mo over the cliff until I get flear of the bulge of that rock," said RoosevcUt. Goff braced himself against a tree and swung the Vice President of tho United States over tho ledge. Colonel R lusevtit was a little slow, straining his eyes for a square shot. "Quick, quick!" Goff shouted. "Thirty seconds more and I won't be able .to haul you back." Roosevelt banged away and tho beast below toppieei on me con. It was a narrow escape, nut quite in line with other incidents in tho life of the "strenuous President." Colonel Roosevelt has hunted the Adlrondacks until he knows every foot of the game region. During bis short irm as Governor he used often to slip awjjy for a few days hunting. As a wrestler and boxer Roosevelt's established reputation is also farm us. He hired M. J. Dwyer, a professional light, r, to stav at Albany and put him through a course of training every day. Th billiard room on the top floor of the executi"e man sion was fitted up as a gymnasii in. ana here tho Governor spent about two hours a day wrestling, bag-punching and boxing. Roosevelt likes nothing better man a gallop on a wild day along tho Long- Island shore, with the wind dashing tho rain and sprav over his bronzed face. While he was police commissioner.of New York he. let it be known that bo would never Interfere with a legitimate boxing contest. He witnessed the Maher-C?ioynskl fight, and after the bout was over peremptorily forbade arrests. "It was one of tho best contest I ever witnessed." he said. 'What I like see 1 two evenlv matched men. Ther can be no possible harm in such an exhibition. Jn mv opinion it is much better for a man to Know how to protect himself with fils lists than to be forced to resort to itrearms, knives or clubs." I But Governor Roosevelt signed jthe bill which put an end to prize fighting in New York. Ho has consistently opposed fights for money, lie is. however, an ethuslastlo admirer of Jeffries, whom ho calls. a great man and an honest fighter. I Late Jn tho night of the day thaLColonel Roosevelt was elected Vice Prosidbnt two newspaper men rode out to his house at Oyster Bav to take tho news to htm, II had had all the telephones taken out of his house and was In ignorance of tho ejection re"Well, I'm glad. I'm glad, be saCl. as b marched delightfully up and don the room, his hands working convulsively under the abbreviated tails of his shdrt coat. Then he turned, his eyes beaming through his thick, gold-bowed glasses. "What was tho score In the -football game?" he asked. HE LOVES TO FLAY FOOTBALL. When ho was assistant secretary of the navy at Washington ho used to play football by the hour with Gen. Leonard Wood, now Governor General of Cuba, Bth wore sweaters and went at the spot Ulla lively schoolboys. Knowing all sports, Roosevelt wcj all antagonists on their own ground. W-th Senator Lodge he took long crosscountry walks. With ex-Secretary of State Olney he used to play tennis two hours a jlay. Gulf is the one sport to which, be has never taken with any great relish, tile has had a long standing agreement, llowevcr, with Secretary of War Root to. play a matched game. Mr. Root to go on a big hunt in the Rocky mountains in casa Roosevelt defeats him. Fighting, always fighting In one .form or another has been the record of the' strenuous President. And yet this stirrli g. warring man can be as gentle as a waf-nan. as every Rough Rider In his regimen known. At San Juan ho went among the wounded, straightening a hard blanket her, filling a canteen the re, and Riving the lnjujred men little sips from the whisky flask hcarrled. "All the great masterful races h.jve been fighting races," he has said. "Cdwardic in a race, as in an individual. Is -the unpardonable sin. A class of professional noncombatants is S hurtful to the reahhealthy grow th of a nation as is a class j of fireeaters." Upon tho day that Roosevelt befimo assistant secretary of the navy. jut Previous to tho Spanish war, he tgan to 'put hie strenuous theories into official practice. He asked for nn appropriation ef J.Vt.ej jor th purchase of ammunition. It wa rrrmnt!, and pretty soon he requested f",." more. He was asked to appear before 11 propr authorities and state what had bf?.n don with the money. "I bought cartridges with it." sli Roosevelt the strenuous. "And what became of the cartridges?" "All been fired," said Roosevelt pjomptly. "Target practice." I "What arc you going no -uzi me tsiin.oo?" 5 "Buy more ammunition and burn it up, smiled the strenuous assistant f;cTetary. He had his way. When the war earr.c up the marksmanship of the American navy was the marvel of the world. ? As colonel of the Rough Riders Toosevelt was the same impetuous fichter. Not ling that wj.s not strenuous suited bim Everywhere the flaunting blue and whije iolka dot of the big handkerchief twist.? I about bis slouch hat led tho regiment 2ike the white plume of a Navarre. . "Give 'em hell, boys, give 'em Tlc'd." he shouted. I After the fight of La? Guaslm;ts somebody found the colonel under a tr e prylr g beneath his saddle flap. "Have they hurt your horse, Co-onel? ask d an orderly. i "No, no." replied the colonel, with tears in his voice, ".but b'ast ' m, they'v smashed my specs'.'' He was looking for one e.f a lorm pairs of reserve spectacles which he carried In his saddle bags. , Roosevelt has always be n as lag. r to teach his stn nuous lo trir.es to ii- e-hil-Ireii as to practice them him.-.; f. The Roo-cv It children do not kr.ow tl meaning of the word fe.ir. "I do T.ot fb.net to anvbodv knowing that my little folk are not brought up to be eoward-." he sa.d once. "TIP v are not taught to Jrrn the othe r i h. e k'if they are struk; f: . y ure told to bit back and hit hard. I w n t have any weaklings in my b-.':. hd !. I vw-:u mv bovs to grw up to be n.an.y and gentle. " That is what 1 tell them rt p.atedlv that 1 expect them to be- moi:s anj gentle." "And tho girls?" ' "Why. I tell them the same t!.l:g-to be strong and geiitb-." At the top of Mount Marcy tj- other dav. Tl . Mlore Eu-ev.'.t. Jr.. trudO d al-'tig b. .-i'de bis fatb'r. Intent u;m. ki'.lmg hi first deer. A little ! f re a xr n-. r r.-adnd th.in. Oi-rai Roosevelt -.cd th antl. rs of ; big Lurk, lie p.irt.d h.-m out to the eager bov. Th ir.r-. Jr.. X ei-ed h. tp t'l bands, grabbe d his rn- br.w ly an t fir. d It was a beautiful ;-h"t. so the gv.M said, and the d.e r f ll with a iien bullet hole back of the ar.tU rs. Relayed Sene of Decency. Baltimore American. The haste w ith w hbh the antl-Mt Kinley books of cartoons h.iu- been withdrawn from the market IndKate-s a sudden understanding of public sentiment.