Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1902 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1902.

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Viaduct News Stand. 3S4 High streetLet The Journal Follow You. Are you going away for the summer? J .'so, you will want to keep In touch with tome. The simplest and b way to do this while absent Is to hare The Journal to follow yoa by malL Leave your order for the paper before itartln. The addrem will be changed as often as desired. Republicans earnestly hope that Senator regardless of the embarrassments which little men would put In his way. The chances are that the operators cf the anthracite mines would have been much better pleased if the convention In this city had voted a general strike than the liberal assistance recommended by President Mitchell. The prosperous city of Muncle Is to be congratulated on having found an "angel" In an Eastern millionaire who has endowed her new normal school with $100,000. Now if this city could only be equally fortunate In getting an endowment for Its prospective technical institute! The ridiculous Erving Wlnslow, secretary of the Anti-imperialist League, complains through the press that ex-President Cleveland paid no attention to his questions as to why he did not talk anti-Imperialism. Mr. Wlnslow loses a great deal by not seeing how ridiculous he is. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad managers, following other roads, announce that $25,OOO.OtX) will be expended in improvements during the next two years. Such an expenditure would have been Impossible a few years ago, but now, under the improved conditions of the country. It Is not a subject of general comment. The St. Jyiuis Globe-Democrat cannot escape from its blunder of declaring editorially that the reciprocity bill as proposed by the Republican committees of the Senate and House put Cuban raw sugar on the free list by an attempt to be facetious about the Democratic rifle-pit. It made that statement, and it should make a correction. Tapers that are advocating the annexation of Cuba and opposing reciprocity by reducing the duty on sugar 20 per cent., on the ground that It would burden the beetsugar industry, put themselves in a most untenable position. If a reduction of the duty on sugar 20 per cent, would Injure the bect-sugar Industry, then free trade In Cuban sugar would kill the industry at once. Director of the Mint Roberts, who has Just returned from a trip through Iowa, says Republican sentiment in that State Is strongly with the President on all the Issues with which he has identified himself, and there is nothing but condemnation for the senators who opposed Cuban reciprocity. By the time Congress meets again the lenders In that movement will be looking for an easy way out of their predicament. A great many people In this city seem not to appreciate the importance to Indianapolis of a union station Into which all the Interurban linos will run a great clearing house for the people who come to and depart from the city over lines that radiate to all the towns and many of the villages within a radius of a hundred miles. Tl. subject is being discussed, but somehow people generally do not grasp its importance tJ the city and the country roundaboi.r. When former Senater David B. I Till arrived at Oyster Day Thursday evening some foolish people tired a salute of seventeen guns. Why? Seventeen guns are the salute for the general of the army, the admiral of the navy, a member of the Cabinet, the chief Justice of the United States, the speaker of the House, the Governor of a State within his Jurisdiction or a foreign ambassador, but Mr. Hill is none of these. As an "ex" official and prospective candidate for President he was not entitled to any salute whatever. It now appears probable that Consul General Bragg's unfortunate expression regarding the Cubans will lead to his recall. As the expression could not be disavowed, the only explanation being that it occurred In a strictly private letter. It was expecting a littl too much that the Cuban governcaent should overlook It. It has taken cog

nizance of the matter to the extent of asking our minister at Havana whether General Rragg was responsible for the expression attributed to him, and this will probably be followed cither by withdrawal of his exequatur or a polite request to our government for his recall. Either step would be In accordance with International usage when a representative at a foreign government becomes persona non grata.

The Indiscretion was not so much In using the expression in a letter to a member of his family as In allowing It to get into print. Tili: MINERS' CONVENTION. The coal miners convention that has been occupying public attention for the last two days has not yet adjourned, but Its action 13 practically determined. It has been the most important labor convention ever held, and could only have been held In a country where the people are versed In the methods of voluntary organization, free discussion and combined action. In these respects it has been a typical American convention, as it has been also in Its generally dignified conduct and conservative action. Next to the business action of the con vention its chief feature was the address of President Mitchell. This was admirable In every respect. In spirit and tone. In form and expression. In Its ethics and Its recommendations it deserves the highest commendation nnd shows its author to be a labor leader worthy of the name. Nothing could better Illustrate the progress that organized labor has made In recent years than a comparison, between this addres3 and the passionate, inflammatory utterances of the labor leaders of fifteen or twenty years ago. And the manner In which the convention responded to the address wa3 as admirable as the address itself. The spirit shown was that of a great organization which knew Its rights and was determined to maintain them by every legitimate means, and which knew its power but would not abuse it. The emphatic declaration of the convention against a general strike, accompanied by a voluntary contribution of an enormous fund to aid the strikers, showed a clear discrimination against violent methods, while the decided expression In favor of standing by agreements and contracts showed that, for the present at least, the miners are following a high standard of honor. The action of the convention in this regard cannot fail to Inure to the advantag-e of organized labor. If it had voted for a general strike In spite of contracts there would have been no more conferences between operators and miners like that held in this city In February last. The conference set for next year would not have been held. Now It will meet under better auspices than ever before. The operators will have more respect for the miners and the latter will have a stronger claim than ever for the embodiment of Just demands in a yearly contract. Finally, the substantial aid which the convention has decided to vote to the strikers is indicative at once of the prosperous financial condition of the bituminous miners and of the fine spirit of fraternity that animates the union. Never In the history of the world has any organization voluntarily assumed so heavy a monetary obligation as the one about to be assumed by the bituminous coal miners. Few governments would venture to assume so large an obligation, and no syndicate of rich men has ever paid anything like as much Tor the advancement of a good cause. In one month it will amount to more than twice as much as the American Board of Foreign Missions spends in a whole year. When men who work hard for wages that are sometimes meager and never large voluntarily assess themselves in this way for the benefit of others It shows a great motive. Altogether, the convention has made a record to which its members can point with pride. IM PORTA NCi: OP 1MIILV TAH IFF REVISION. William E. Curtis, of the Chicago Record-Herald, writing from New York, says the importance of a revision of the tariff before the next presidential election is recognized by veteran Republicans, and that many of the strongest protectionists In the Republican ranks in the East are advising a modification of the schedules of the Dingley tariff. These men believe that the high duties imposed by both the Mc Kinley and Dingley tariffs are no longer necessary, as the industries are well established and the conditions have changed. There can be no doubt that the late President McKinley was of the opinion that a revision in the direction of lower duties should be made at an early day. His policy, as- set forth In hi3 last speech, was to make concessions in reciprocal treaties, instead of by arbitrary reductions. The platform of the Republican convention of Indiana, adopted April 21, declares in favor of revision of the tariff along protective lines. The platforms of other Republican state conventions, particularly that of Minnesota, urge a modification of duties. One of the pretexts of those who opposed a reduction of duty on Cuba's sugar was that they favored a general reduction of duties rather than the singling out of one article. General Grosvenor, in a speech on the occasion of his renominatlon, declared in favor of a general revision of the tariff. He expressed the same opinion in the House. The Republican press very generally indorsed his views, while no Republican publicly opposed a modification as advocated by General Grosvenor and others, Before the present Congress met Representative Overstreet expressed hlmself freely in favor of a modification with a view of reducing the duties. There is reason to believe that Mr. Overstreet expressed the opinions of his colleagues of the Indiana delegation. Those who get the opinions of Republican business men who are protectionists find that they favor a modification of the tariff. The Dingley tarltf was devised to give life to the languishing industries of the country. For that purpose the duties were made higher than are now necked for the purpose of protection, and duties were Imposed upon a few articles that should be on the free list. The duties should be modified so as to continue the advantage In the hands of the American producer and yet not be bo high as to enable a combination to maintain extortionate prices. Such a modification will doubtltss be opposed by those trade organizations which take no account of public sentiment and a few newspapers which seem to attach to the Dingley tariff something akin to Infallibility. Already these newspapers have attacked auch senators and representatives as favored reciprocity with

Cuba. Nevertheless, It should be understood that the interest of the Republican party demands that the Dingley. tariff shall be modified by the Congress which will be elected in November. For that reason it is highly important that the House shall be Republican to the end that the revision shall be made by tne friends rather than by the enemies of protection. The industrial revulsion Incident to the election of Mr. Cleveland and the enactment of the Gorman-Wilson tariff is not so far away that it can be 'forgotten to the extent that tariff revision shall again be left to the enemies of protection. The Journal believes that the sentiment of a large majority of the peorle of this city is opposed to the laying of any tax upon the cars of interurban roads. At best it is a revival of the octroi tax which French cities a long time since Imposed upon all merchandise brought Into cities in wagons or on horses. It is a very small affair, it seems to the Journal, for a large city to insist upon. It may .be doubted if any city in the country Is imposing a 5 or 10-cent tax on each car entering the city. The tracks over which the interurban cars run are laid and taxed so much per mile, the wires and poles are taxed at their assessed value why should cars using this already taxed system be taxed simply becauso they come from beyond the city limits? Why not tax all wagons that really uso and wear out the streets an amount greater than wagons inside the city are taxed? Why not lay a tax upon every passenger car coming into the city over steam railroads? Another point: Much has been said respecting the fixing of rates for freight by the city government. The city could establish rates of transportation Inside the city, but whence would derive the authority to establish the rates for carrying freight outside the city? There may be some law conferring such power, but it would be a very remarkable piece of legislation. Such authority has been assumed to be vested In the City Council and other

city authorities, but has any sound lawyer rendered such an opinion? If the city authorities can fix rates of transportation for Interurban railways extending sixty or seventy-five miles beyond the limits of the city, why may not the Council assume other functions that seem to belong to the State legislature? It will take a bigger man than Chairman Griggs, of the Democratic, congressional committee, to make the American people believe that the President is not in earnest in his action against unlawful combinations. Even the Detroit Free Press, an ablo independent Democratic paper, takes Issue with Mr. Griggs for saying that the President's movement against trusts is only a bluff. The Free Tress says the entire public career of the head of the national government and the whole story of hi3 life tend to brand such an accusation as a libel. "Such faults as he has," says the Free Press, "grow out of his extreme candor and that aggressiveness which Is at its best when It is opposed. He is not only a born fighter, but he fights in the open, and the prospect of encountering de feat impairs neither his bravery nor his valor." The Free Press believes the Fresi dent to be thoroughly in earnest in the matter of trusts and that no "bluff" would have gone far enough to have dragged men like Mr. Morgan and Mr. Hill into the courts and provoked the meat trust to a threat of dire vengeance. The Free Press reflects the opinion of men of all parties who are not blinded by partisan ship. Whatever else may be said In dl3 paragement of Mr. Roosevelt, it cannot be said that he does not mean and do what he says he will do. He believes that many combinations are helpful, and he so declares with the full courage of convictionHe believes that others are rursuing a pol icy in restraint of trade, and he attempts to enforce the laws against them. In denying and disproving the recent charge that the schools in the Philippines were being used for Protestant proselyting purposes the War Department has fur nished some interesting Information regarding the appointment of teachers in the schools. As there were about one thousand teachers to be appointed the department requested every respectable university or college In the United States and also every state superintendent of schools to nominate persons qualified for the work. The appointments were made from this list with out Inquiry or knowledge as to their re ligion or whether they had any or not The only requirements were that they must be either normal school or college graduates, and must have had several years' successful experience in school work and be engaged In It at the time of appointment. About 130 colleges forwarded names, and appointments were made from almost every State in the Union. From this State three teachers were appointed on the recommendation of the State Normal School, two from Hanover College, three from the State University, two from Valparaiso Normal, four from Notre Dame and two on the recommendation of the state superintendent. The list of appointments shows that they were made with great care to secure a fair distribution and to avoid discriminating for or against any denomination. In order to put a stop to the practice of discharging enlisted men from the navy at the request of relatives, friends or congressmen the President has Issued the following order: No enlisted person in the naval service of the United States shall be discharged therefrom prior to the completion of his term of enlistment except for one of the following causes: Undesirability, Inaptitude, physical or mental disability or unfitness. In every case the recommendation for such discharge must be made by tne commanding officer of the vessel on which the man may be serving. Applications for discharges which reach the department In any way except through the commanding officers of vessels shall be without exception disregarded. It was said at the Navy Department that under the former practice applications for discharge exceeded the enlistments, and in many Instances the applicant succeeded. The President's order will end a bad practice to the betterment of the navy. The Republicans of Wisconsin seem determined to extend the experiment of primary elections to every nomination In the State. The experiment, when tried, will be watched with Interest. Perhaps it would have been wiser to have confined tlv? experiment to smaller political units than the State and to. make sure of primaries In which only those who are qualified shall vote, whether to nominate candidates direct or to choose delegates. The first thing necessary Is to impress upon the voters

that a primary election Is surrounded by

the same legal safeguards as is the general election. On the day that the miners' convention met the New York Sun, commenting on the situation editorially, said: The bituminous miners are now working under a contract with the;r employers, and this it is proposed to break in the hope of assisting the anthracite miners who are idle, demanding that their former employers make another contract with them. As foundation for this new contract the strikers, their advocates among the bituminous men, and, judging from appear ances, their president, Mr. John Mitchell, demand the broken pieces of the bituminous contract. Ifkthat Is a irood business policy then the world is wrong. We think .the world is right. To-day will show what the miners think. President Mitchell's reticence prior to the meeting of the convention compelled one to guess at his views, but the Sun guessed wrong. He took high ground In favor of the sanctity of contracts, and the conven tion was wtee enough to take the same view. It is hinted that some senators will try to dictate appointments on the Isthmian canal commission. Those appointments should have been left entirely to the Pres ident, but the Senate Inserted a clause In the bill requiring them to be confirmed by that body, and now there is some danger that they may give rise to friction between the President and the Senate. The former will certainly insist on appointments for merit only, while the latter will probably try to Inject politics. THE HUMORISTS. A Saving. Judze. She Eut most elopements turn out so disastrously. He Yes, but everybody expects them to. You save all that trouble of keeplns up appearances after the ceremony. Human Nature. August Smart Set. "It is your plain duty, and" "Oh. yes; and that is what makes It so unattractive. I wish we could, once in a while, have a duty so ornamental that it would be a pleasure to contemplate it." The Wrong One. London Globe. A golfing magatl.ne tells a story of a man who applied for the secretaryship of a club. "You understand," said the cartaln. "that we want a secretary who is thoroughly accustomed to managing men." "In that case," answered the applicant, sadly, "I'm afraid It's not me you want, but my wife." He was bunkered. Very Different. Brooklyn Life. F.enham I believe a woman can love two men at the fame time. Mrs. Bcnham If she is a married woman she has to try to. Penham What do you mean?" Mrs. Penbam She has to try to love her husband, and he Isn't the same man when they have company that he is when they haven't any. Old nnd New. New York Sun. Noah, finding his wife weerir.g ort the quarterdeck. Inquired what was the matter. "I'm afraid people will say otir fashions cams out of the ark." 6he sobbed. "Never mind," he returned. "We can have the apes up to dine with us to-night." Reassured by being thoroughly up to date, she dried her tears and went down to swipe some plumes off the ostrich. It IHnsted Ulm. Baltimore American. "Poker," growled the eminent financier, "is the most contemptible game ever invented." Here w gather around him, hoping to hear some pearls of wisdom, for well we know that the truly great are prone to guide us In the proper path by pointing out the pitfalls which beset our untrained feet. "It's an atrocious game!" he continues. "I sat at that table for three hours and never held better than a pair of fives, and a common, lowbrowed person across frcm me, who hasn't got a million dollars to his na.ne, held straights, flushes, fulls and the whole gamut cf possible hands. It's a vile game! Besides, I lost a good deal." INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. We can never again believe that in the far Northwest they are handy with firearms. Tracy's experience is enough to convince, at least, that good shots are not chosen for sheriffs. Lafayette Courier. Since the ice dealers cannot supply all the people with ice, how would it do to erect a municipal ice plant? Ice is as necessary as water and the city could sell it at cost. Why not? Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Senator Bailey's friends are said to be wildly seeking an answer to the question, "How Is he going to protect his honor?" It Isn't protection that Bailey's honor needs. It needs to be scraped. Fort Wayne News. What! The Democrats talking about running another candidate for President in ir04 ? There must be some mistake about this. We read in all their papers two years ago that there would never be any more Presidents if McKinley were re-elected. Auburn Dispatch. On account of the farmers being so delayed with their work this season the Democratic central committee of Cass county has decided to postpone the nominating convention until Aug. 2?,. No county convention ought to be held before September. Two months of campaigning is all any locality ought to be made to endure. South Bend Times. Ry the way, how will the Democrats of Congress explain their failure to promote the administration's policy of Cuban reciprocity when they had a chance to rebuke those rebellious Republicans who failed in their duty to Cuba by standing by a false Idea of their duty to the Interests of beet sugar? As a matter of fact, the Democrats of Congress took all the life out of the utterances of the partv on the question of "duty to Cuba." Elkhart Review. By a large majority vote of his people Dr. Dowie has proved that the Declaration of Independence is a stale, flat and unprofitable fraud. "You are not my equal, are you?" he said to his congregation on the Fourth and without a dissenting voice they yelled "No!" There are exceptions In all cases and Dowie is the exception in this one. There is no one equal to him In cheek nnd conceit. He is outside of the pale of everything. South Bend Tribune. The catastrophe in the coal mine at Johnstown, Pa., will cost the Cambria Steel Company -more than $100,000 In insurance alone. The company has for many years past paid to the family of every person killed In Its employ $1,00", outside of what ie expended for medical purposes, and it j has paid every man who has lost an eye, j limb or became otherwise partially disabled ; the sum of $500. It Is understood that the I rule will not be deviated from. This is a i commendable custom, and the Cambria company is deserving of praise for the interest it manifests in its employes and their families. Muncle Star. Correspondent In Jail. Collier's Weekly. The business of a correspondent takes him Into queer places. One of the correspondents of Collier's Weekly Is now in Jail. We mention this fact, not with priue, but as a matter of contemporary interest. Colonel Arthur Lynch, whose letters to this paper from South Africa (where he served in the Boer army) our readers will recall with pleasure, was elected a member of Parliament for Galway. He went to London to take his seat and was promptly arretted for treason. His offense consisted in joining the enemies of the government while he was still a subject of the King. What his defence will be has not been made public. It will bs seen from this bare presentation of facts that Colonel Lynch goes to Jail, not because he Is a correspondent of Collier's but because he is an Irish-

man. At the same time we may be permitted to express a wish that his bed will be soft and that he will soon receive the benefits ol amnesty and join his friends in the House of Commons. He is a good correspondent and a brave, if unlucky, soldier.

ANTI-COEDUCATION WEDGE. AVltat the Action nt ChienRO University Heally Mean. Chicago Evening Post. The junior college faculty of the University of Chicago has reaffirmed, by a two-third vote, its decision In. favor of "segregation" or "co-ordinate education." In plain English it has voted to abandon coeducation for the first two years of the college term. The college authorities, or some of them, vigorously challenge this interpretation of the action proposed to be taken, but neither the educational world nor the average lay observer of Intelligence Is impressed by these vain disclaimers. Co-ordinate education, as we have said before, Is an excellent thing in comparison with discrminatlon against women or inferior Instruction for them. Rut where coeducation has once prevailed coeducation in the real and comphehenslve sense of the term what is called "co-ordinate education" is a high-sounding euphemism for reaction. Now, if coeducation has proved a failure or blunder, the University of Chicago is not only entitled but in duty bound to discard it. But the people are entitled to a candid and honest statement of the facts and the reasons for the step now practically assured. There can be no Intelligent and helpful discussion of educational problems without such plain and honest dealing. The hollowness of the disclaimers is beautifully revealed in an interview with Dean Castle. If correctly reported, the dean said that "men do better work in classes by themselves;" that "they do not like to enter Into competition with women students." and feel disgraced If scolded before women; that "the new plan will give opportunity for better discipline" for each sex, and that "the unity and solidarity of the (respective) groups of young men and young women will be of great benefit to the university." What is all this if not an argument against co education? It applies to the last two years of the course with as much (or as little) force as to the first two years. Yet some of tho members of the faculty pretend that the "reform" is In no wise a blow at coeducation! Not only the acts, but the equiv ocal and lame explanations advanced, refute this pretense. The whole educational world knows that the University of Chicago is about to take a long step backward. Pennsylvania i'niverslty lllch. Ihiladelphla Record. Since the close of the last fiscal year of the University of Pennsylvania the cash and invester funds of that institution have alone increased to the amount of a million and a half dollars by donations, bequests and from other sources, of which $475,000 was in two gifts of money announced at the recent annual commencement. The university now has productive funds of nearly H.OOOm'i, one-third the amount of Harvard, and four-fifths the amount of Yale. The total valuation of the property and funds of the university has reached the great amount of $10.5.Oun. In wealth it now stands third or fourth in the list of older colleges, and Is only exceeded by some of the later universities endowed in recent years by immense private fortunes. It has become a conspicuous monument of the pride and public spirit of its sponsors in Philadelphia, who have so earnestly promoted Its development. Doom for 'neii-IInr.M London Letter. Coronation books by the dozen are tumbling off the presses, but the general Idea that the season will be a poor one for novels is leading to the postponement of most of those that are ready for publication, including Marie Corelli's new story, "Temporal Power." Reprints of standard works are taking their places. The most successful of these are the halfdozen editions, at varying prices, of "Ben Hur," which has had a big boom through the success of the play at Drury Lane. Three new editions of Dickens have just been Issued and as many of "The Mill on the Floss," the copyright upon which expired recently. Booksellers everywhere report also that the recent disaster in Martinique has resulted in a tremendous demand for "The Last Days of Pompeii." Seton-ThnminonH Trap Snap. Washington Post. Thomas Holland, of Colorado, state superintendent of fish hatcheries, has just had an experience at the Statehouse at Denver, which came near crippling him for life. One of the exhibits in his office is a heavy steel trap which was seized when Ernest Se ton-Thompson was accused of using venison for bait. He showed the trap to some visitors and left it set to frighten the janitors. About midnight, when he left his desk and turned out the light, he forgot about the trep until its jaws snapped about his leg just above the ankle, two of the inch-long spikes penetrating to their full length. The bone was almost broken by the iron grin. It was after daylight before he managed to attract the night watchman, and then it was half an hour before he got the grip released. Good Man for the Pluce. Washington Letter. What Secretary Cortelyou was to President McKinley he has now become to President Roosevelt his trusted assistant. It might have been expected that President Roosevelt would insist on having a man for this place of his own choosing, but, after a short trial of the trained secretary, he evidently had no desire to look elsewhere. It has been a great mistake to use this office as a political reward or personal "recognition," since its requirements are so exceptional, and almost all men thus selected have proved failures. The office is one of the very greatest importance viewed from almost any standpoint, and Mr. Cortelyou has proved tactful, ready, well Informed, of good executive ability and seemingly tireless. NoIore lllne Uniforms. Philadelphia Record. Many changes are to be recommended In the forthcoming report of the Army Uniform Board to the secretary of war. Probably the most important of the board's recommendations is the complete abolition of the blue cloth uniform that has distinguished federal troops for more than a century past. The new uniform cloth will be of a khaki shade, with braid and fancy trimmings to render it properly decorative. Experience in hard campaigning against alert foos armed with weapons ot precision has shown the absolute necessity for final abandonment of the traditional uniform made famous in song and story. The boys in blue are to be boys In khaki and butternut brown hereafter. Until er So. Boston Transcript. Is it not a little bit patronizing for a West Point writer to refer to Winfield Scott as a "citizen-soldier?" General Scott was a professional soldier, and his name was borne on the ro!l3 of the regular army for fifty-eight years. He entered the army when he was twenty-two, at a time when the military academy was a struggling kindergarten. To Scott's unstinteo praise of the West Pointers in Mexico and his generous advocacy of the institution the military academy owes much. P. I. People Shoeked. Hollo (P. I.) Times. A dispatch to an Indiana paper relates the details of the discovery by the police of a cockpit in a little town there where regular contests had been carried on for seme time. The dispatch winds up by saying: "It is asserted that a few nights ago several birds were pitted, and that when the match was over one of them was taken from the pit dead and the other dying!" Now this is really Just too shocking for anything. Congress ought to make an investigation at once. A Senator Kcononir of Time. Washington Star. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, has a natural and abundant supply of New England economy. Not only does he economize In his expenditures he rides to and from his hotel to the Senate In the street cars but he economizes in time. One of his peculiar street-car habits, which can be observed twice a day any day. is his seemingly unconscious desire to set a seat near the door where ho Is to

get out. The other day he boarded a long F-street car, which was well filled. The venerable senator had to take a seat near th front end. As the car proceeded toward the Capitol the passengers gradually got out. Every time a person next to the senator got out he promptly slid Into the vacated place. By repeating the sliding operation a half-dozen times the senator arrived at the seat next the door, which he held the rest of the Journey. The Bible In the Schools. Warren (Ind.) Review. Should the Bible be used In the schools? is a constantly recurring question. And It ought to be as easily answered as the question of using Ridpath's history or Longfellow's poems or Ben Franklin's maxims In the schools. Ought history and literature, and morals be taught In the schools? No one will deny them a place in the common schools curriculum. The Bible is a storehouse for any of these subjects. The history of the Hebrew race is Just as Important to the student as the history of the Greeks or the Romans. And grant that the Bible stories of the Hebrews are highly colored, they are no more so than the Greek and Roman stories of their heroes. No one can intelligently and understandingly read the literature of the past and present who has not a general knowledge of the Bible, than he can if he has not seme knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology. And whether one believes or denies the divine authority of the Bible, In no literature or language can there be found as reasonable, consistent and pure a system of morals as is laid down In what a great majority of the enlightened people of the world believe is God's word. It is nowhat the Bible contains or docs not contain that bars It from the schools. Neither is it a disbelief in its divine authority which prevents its use infidelity does not keep it out. It is Its own defenders who make impossible its common use in the public schools. Sectarianism, with its many-sided interpretation of the meaning of the word, has done and is doing more to keep the Bible out of the schools than all the disbelievers and infidels have done or can do.

News that Is Not News. Philadelphia Press. No more ridiculous piece of "news" has come out of Washington for many a day than the story sent broadcast recently about President Roosevelt seeking to build up "a Roosevelt party" in and out of Congress, and his arrangement to that end with Congressman Llttlefleld to rrepare a bill on the subject of trusts to carry out the President's views. As all the old leaders in Congress and practically the entire Republican membership of both Houses is a "Roosevelt party,'- and as practically every Republican convention so far held has taken th unprecedented course of declaring two years In advance in favor of the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt for President in T4. talk about his seeking to build up a "Roosevelt party" by the selection of a few persons to act in his behalf in Congress or anywhere else is idiotic. The President Is not arranging with anybody to introduce bills to represent th President's particular views. He has stated them in a message so far as trusts are concerned, and has exemplified them by the action of the attorney general, and will no doubt reiterate his views on all proper occasions, but there is not the least probability of his arranging with Mr. Littlefieid or anyone else to draw up a bid to be introduced at the request of the President. Stories to that effect are imaginative. Coal Strike Conditions. New York Times. The frank confession of suffering among the miners is pitiful, but indisputable evidence that the anthracite strike is disintegrating. From no source In sight, or likely to be discovered, can the means needed to feed the Idle anthracite miners and their families be had. All that the soft-coal miners can contribute for this purpose will go only a very little way toward meeting the needs of families which have had no wage incomes for nearly three months, and whose savings have melted under the drain of dally expenses. We are sincerely sorry for the unfortunate victims of misplaced confidence in the leaders who deceived them with promises of impossible triumphs over their employers, and made them believe that to ask for what they did not want and did not expect would add dignity to the position and help establish the power of organized labor. All accounts agree that the number of men applying for work in the mines, and ready to abandon the strike if It is given them, is steadily increasing. Why They Need Wa. Washington Post. We can understand that the Chinese minister is wanted at home. That unfortunate country needs -enlightened intelligence more than any country' in the whole round world. When Mr. Wu gets back to his native land, he can tell in one day more about Christian civilization, about liberal institutions, about modern energy and de velopment, than the Chinese court can assimilate in six months or a year. If the Emperor will only leave It to him, China can formulate a foreign policy that will at once command .the respect of the outside world. Mr. Wu Is the ideal statesmen. He possesses all the ejualittcatlons for that career. He is intelligent beyond comparison, and he has that girt or humor which amplifies information and plays upon conviction as though it were an instrument. We trust that Mr. Wu will receive at home the rewards he has so richly earned. Deserving of High Honor. Minneapolis Tribune. Trobably General Chaffee Is called back from the Philippines because, with the es tabllshment of complete civil government. the command out there is r.ot worthy of his rank and reputation. He is to hnve the best assignment in the United States, the command of the Department of the East, with headquarters on Governor's island. General Chaffee has done the state great service in the East. He made a campaign without fault in China, and won the respect of all nations for the American army. In the Philippines he retrieved the mistakes of his predecessors and established a real peace where a too cherful optimism had made only a delusivei appearance of it. Public opinion, as well 'ns military law, has acquitted him and his subordinates of undue severity in bringing about this result, and he will come back to an appreciative and grateful countrj. Democrats Are Illue. Washington Post. "I would not undertake to prophesy in the matter of a leader of the Democracy in ir0i, but my opinion Is that It will bo some man of whom nothing has been heard to date," said Judge W. R. Speare, of Sacramento. Cal. "Out on the Pacific slope the Democrats are feeling pretty blue, I assure you. The people are strongly in favor of the Republican policy of expansion, because they .v e evidence of the practical results of that policy in the disbursements locally of large sums of money. There .is no enthusiasm, on the other hand, for a single cause that the Democrats favor. Free silver coinage is no longer a slogan on th coast. Besides, President Roosevelt Is personnlly very strong, and the masses consider him an incorruptible man. He can carry the entire Pacific coast unless there Is a revolution between this and the next presidential election." Secret of Roosevelt's Strength. Nebraska State Journal. The Washington correspondents are saying ihat the politicians are utterly at a loss to account for the strength of the movement all over the United States among the rank and file of the Republican party to make President Roosevelt tue leader in the campaign of ISM. The Cuban reciprocity matter has perhaps ben responsible for the strength of the declaration made by numerous state conventions. In gome of the States, as in Nebraska, the Republican? contented themselves with Indorsing the President's course In dealing with Cuba, while In others he was Indorsed and declared to be the choice of the State for a renominatlon two years hence. The strengh of the President with th people seems to have put a stop to all talk of bringing out new candidates before the national convention of 14. Where the Factory Workers Are. Mahin's Magazine. More than half th factory workers of the Nation (Z2.2 per cent.) are In the nine north Atlantic States, while only 3.6 per cent, are in the Western dliion. In other words, one In every eight of the population of the north Atlantic States is In the factory.

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Speelnl Pent tires That Will Add to the. Interest of To-Mnrron's Issne. CHINESE RESTAURANTS Talk with Moy Kee. who is sn expert in his native cookery. LOCAL LITERARY ASPIRANTS Indianapolis has a Lirge number whoso work seldom appears in print. COST OF LIVING Present prices of clothinc. food, etc., compared with those of former years. SAFETY-DEPOSIT VAULTS Indianapolis has several of these Institutions, all well patronized. TALES OF A VILLAGE Another chapter of observations by tho man who has visited his old home. A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC A very Interesting one cherished by its owner as the only such relic m inaiar.a. GEORGE ADE'S SOCIAL STUDIESFour Weenv Little Fables About People Who Infest the Earth at this Writing. ORIGINAL STORY "Why Victor Tremaine t Rewrote His Novel," by Joseph Hocking. AMERICANS IN LONDON They are confronted by many reminders of home, soda water among the rest. D'ANNUNZIO TALKS The Italian author of decadent novels discourses about himself with much apparent satisfaction. A VISIT TO ATHENS The modernized carUM of Greece worth seeinsr even by a lover of classic antiquities. STORKS OF AMMERLEI A version of an old German legend, written for young readers, by Prof. L, C. Ward, of the State University. The week in sports, the labor field, city social matters, fashions, are other subjects well covered, and there is the usual variety of well-selected miscellany. while in the Western States the proportion is but one in twenty-one. In the soutn lntlr Stntr the nronortlon Is the Kami' one in twenty-one of population, and in tho north central division one in seventeen. But in the south central States those of the lower Mississippi valleyonly one m forty-five of the population works - within factory walls. SSSBSBBBSiBSBBBSBSHaSBSSBSBBBBSBBSBBSSBBBBaBBBSSBBBBBSlBBBSBlSSBBSBBS Rnlley's Honor Again In Peril. New York World. Of course, Bailey, of Texas, who considers "unwarranted" a word of deadly Insult, is furious over Solicitor Penlield s much more robui-t remark th.it what Bailey said about him was untrue, and that Bailey knew it to be so when he said it. Friends of Mr. Bailey say they "fear bloodshed" and are Migersting arbitration The adantge? of arbitration cr assassination are manifest. But if BaiUy is willing to have his honor satisrtM without homicide, whit is the matter with the. regular process of arbitration prnUded by law? Anv man publicly charp. d w ifu falsehood has a right of action for malicious slander and defamation of character. A verdict in his favor, with costs, is at once a vindication for his honor and punishment for ais slanderer. "There i no wrong without a legal remedy," says Blackstone. Why should Bailey, assuming he is slandered, set himself above thQ law and insist on the death penalty instead of the damages which the law says are hi3 proper and sufficient satisfaction? Sword that Cuts Iloth Ways. Nebraska State Journal. President Mitchell, of the Miners' Union, "severely criticises" the Citizens' Association of Wilkesbarre, Pa., which has been organized for mutual protection asaln.-t the boycotting so freely indulged in by tl.-s .Miners' Union In that town. But it must be just as legitimate for th mrrcr.atus i Wilkesbarre to organize to boycott the bovcotters as It wire for the union to boycott the merchants. Ornanizatlon I a game that two tan play at and in fact It Is the onlv defense against an attack bv an organized body on any business interest. Mitchell should not blr.rue other people for adopting his own methods of warfare. NVholenome rMaclpllne. Minneapolis Tribune. Major Glenn's declaration that the "water cure" in the Philippines has saved many American lives is probably not based upon its excellence as a mode of medical treatment, but upon its efficacy as a means of extorting Information which enabled tho Americans to take the necessary precautions for their safety. Th major further declares that th water cure isn't a torture. He would probably define it as simply a little wholesome discipline Just as spanking used to be regarded in oid-fash-ioned families. Credit Hue to Mr. Hnnna. Cleveland Leader. Former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith says that the United States was saved from a terrible blunder by the selection of the Panama route for the Isthmian canal, and he gives all the credit for the action of Congress to Senator Hanna, whose speech, he declares, was one. of the most masterly ever delivered In the Senate. Plain Spenklutr. New York Mail and Express. The pri liege of friendship may sometimes be used to expre-ss a truth bluntly which outsiders speak with courteous circumlocution. Senator Hawley jiays: "Senator Hoar Is an old friend of mine, a d ir friend, and I love him, b-it he Is crazy on the Philippine question. When all is said. comment is superfluous. The I ncertalnt . Detroit Journal. The lack of enthusiasm which Minister Wu Tingfang shows In the matter of going home is explained in the uncertain method with which China is accustomed to reward her distinguished servants. Until they arrive home they cn never tell whether It is to be a gold dragon or tho silken thread. Words with Donltle Meunlng. Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) Bryan says: "I appeal to all Democrats to stand firm and to place only tri 1 and true Democrats on the ticket." "Tried." "true" and convicted would seem to be his preference. "Tried" hs two meanings. Democracy has "trlM" William and William hiis certainly fearfully "tried" the Democracy. The General Opinion. Washington Post. The gentlemen who cired for the remains are disposed to resent Mr. Bryan's declaration that Mr. Cleveland stabbed the Democratic party. The expert opinion is to the effect that he hit it on the hed with an ax. Something: iw for rw Jersey. Newark Advertiser. New Jersey Is so accu.te:r.ed to acquiring Industries that the removal of a manufacturing plant fiom Millburn to Brld.port. Conn., provides th State with a r.o". rl sensation. o r Privilege. Kansas City Journal. That St. Louis decieion th.it a wife may lawfully go through her husband's pikers does not confer on wive generally r y right that they were net already er.j'yi:.. Once Was En ouch. Washington Pot. It Is a mistake to compare Mr. Bryan with Jonah. Jonah didn't electioneer for a second, much Jes a third, encounter with the whale. ltnoni for Inipro ement at Home. Baltimore American. The Filipinos may not make good Americans all at once. We have some few citizens to tha rnajidr -ota sa are not modU-