Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUE SHAY. 31 ARCH 3. 1003.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. MARCH 3. 1903.

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C.-RIms House. Ebbitt House, Fairfax Hotel. WllUrd Hotel. DENVER. CoL-Louthain & Jackson, Fifteenth and Lawrence atreets. DAYTON, O. J. V. Wllkle. Zi South Jefferson street. COLUMBUS, O. Viaduct New Stand, 234 Iliah street. The Pink er ton detective agency has seldom given bette- evidence of Its resources than In tracing two murderers from Missouri to Connecticut and finally locating and arresting them more than two months after the crime was committed. It will be cause for regret if the Senate does not find time to pass a measure which passed the House unanimously to prohibit the killing of doves and pigeons and llvepif eon shooting matches. A civilized people should do something for dumb animals and harmless, helpless creatures. Now that the President has called an extraordinary session of the Senate to consider the pending treaties, it is not probable that Senator Morgan will undertake to talk the Panama treaty to death, but should he do so the Senate could arrange to take a few days vacation, leaving Mr. Morgan at his speech. U Is reported that the advocates of the ship subsidy bill are not disposed to give up, but will try to have a committee of senators and representatives appointed, with Denator Ftye for chairman, to investigate the conditions and needs of American shipping and report to the next Congerss. It can be added that no investigation will be able to show that subsidies should be' paid to American ships for the European trade, when I he competition is so great that there is little money in it and will be less for outsiders when the Morg-an combination . becomes operative. In recognition of Mr. Bowen's work in th settlement of the Venezuelan controversy some of his fellow-townsmen in Brooklyn tendered him a complimentary reception and banqueL He felt obliged to decline the invitation for diplomatic reasons. In a very polite letter to the committee he said his position as Venezuelan plenipotentiary was so peculiar that he felt he must consider himself as temporarily a foreigner in this country. He added: "This Is the view- taken of me by the government of the United States, and I beg that you will kindly present it to my Brooklyn friends who have been interested in the proposal to honor me. with a dinner." It is indeed a peculiar position for an American to be placed in, but it is altogether honorable to Mr. Bowen. There can be no doubt that the members cf the Senate considered all the objections to the bill Increasing the salaries of the Judges in Bcverai of the larger counties, and by their vote declared that the withholding of an Increase from the circuit judge in Vanderburg county 'does not affect the general merits of the bill. It Is the opinion of several lawyers that failure to increase one salary does not affect the constitutionality of the bill. It Ehould not The judges in this county, because of the work they are obliged to do, are entitled to the increase which the bill gives. There is little doubt that this is the case In Delaware, Madison and other large counties where Increases are made by the .bill. Because there may be cause for criticism in the Rasch case is no argument why Justice should be denied to a dozen hard-working judges In the larger counties. The Journal is not an advocate of increasing salaries, but It believes that the salaries' of the Judges in this county should be increased. A reunion of the Grant Family Association held In New York a few days ago was lirgely attended. One of the speakers on the occasion was ,Mrs. Cramer, a younger sinter of Gen. IT. S. Grant. Her husband was for several years United State. minister to Denmark and afterwards to Switzerland. In the course of some pleasant remark Mrs. Cramer said: Last Wednesday I received a sweet letter from a dear old lady living in Louisiana. So far as I know she wan the first sweet heart or my oldest brother. Away back in my early childhood I remember once see ing her a young wife and mother In the nome or her parents In Georgetown. O. I have also a dim recollection of hearing her name coupled with that of my brother, and that a feeling stronger thnn friendship had existed between them. But he went to "West Point and later to Mexico, and their lives -drifted apart. Years ago she wrote me that they met once in the South during xne civil war and that he treated her with special courtesy. Men seldom marry their first sweethearts. If young Grant had married this Ohio girl it might have changed the course of his life and of j'tory. for hla marriage to the daugb'lr X , General Dent had a distinct ter.tr,. '.n bctlr. 7 A contest for a seat In the United States ?nate which haa been pushed thirteen years with relentless energy by J. Edward A--Icks in Delaware has finally ended In t'3 defeat. In these years Addicks is all:zl to have expended hundreds of jhouczZj cf CzWzr la the bribing of voters.

lie made a large fortune In the manipulation of gas companies In a manner which did not win for him any popularity. It occurred to him that a seat in the United States Senate was one of the things he needed, and he went to Delaware to purchase It. After a struggle of thirteen years he has struck his flag, and yesterday Mr. Allee, a supporter of Addicks, and Representative Ball, anti-Addicks, were elected to fill the two vacancies. On Saturday a delegation of Addicks's supporters went to see him and told him that the time had come when he must retire absolutely unless he wished to see an anti-Addicks Republican and a Democrat elected to the Senate. He would not believe his friends at first, but he was finally persuaded to accept the offer made by the regular Republicans, namely, that the Addicks Republicans name any man for senator except Addidks, leaving one for them to name. For the present at least Mr. Addicks Is beaten. It would be a great satisfaction to know that he was beaten for good. FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS IX THE SOUTH. President Roosevelt's letter to Editor Howell, of the Atlanta Constitution, not only makes his position regarding federal appointments in the South clear, but shows that his action has been perfectly, consistent. A statement made by the President a few months ago defined his position clearly enough for all who wished to understand it, but there are those who are determined to misrepresent it. The President refers to this persistent effort at misrepresentation as "an outcry apparently started in New York for reasons wholly unconnected with the question nominally at issue." This means that. In his opinion, it was started for political purposes. The President's political enemies or rivals must be very pressed for campaign material when they try to pervert his attitude of sheer justice toward colored Republicans as favoring; "social equality" and "negro domination." The first statement made by the President on this subject explained his position

from a theoretical point of view. It was, In effect, that he would neither appoint nor refuse to appoint any person to office on the ground of color alone, but would make fitness the first and highest consideration. If he could find a fit and deserving man in his own party he would, other things being equal, give him the preference, irre spective of color, but if he could not find a fit and deserving Republican he would look for such a person outside of the party. He would never consent to close the door of, hope and opportunity against colored men simply because they were colored, any more than he would appoint an unfit colored man to office solely on account of his color. The present letter deals with facts rather than theories and shows that every act of the President in making federal appoint ments in the South has been in harmony with the views first expressed. It Is in teresting to learn what great care he has exercised in making these appointments, consulting prominent Democrats In every Southern State as well as Republicans, in many Instances retaining Demorcats ' in office when he could not find good cause for removing them, or even appointing Democrats where he could not find a fit and competent Republican. It must be remembered that a very large majority of the whites in all the Southern States are Democrats and that In many towns and villages there is not a Republican, either white or colored, competent to fill the office of postmaster. In such cases, making character and fitness the first requisite, the President has appointed Democrats. "The prime tests I have applied," he says, "have been those of character, fitness and ability, and when I have been dissatisfied with what has been offered within my own party lines I have without hesitation gone to the opposite party." He says that in the great bulk of cases he has reappointed President McKinley's appointees, and wherever he has made changes it has been on the advice of citizens of the State of high character. Of the new appointees, that Is, those made by himself, he says only about one in a hundred is a colored man. Finally, he challenges investigation if the standard of federal service In every Southern State is not higher than it was before his'ac cession to the presidency, and he requests Mr. Howell to Imform him if he knows of one federal officeholder in Georgia who Is not honest, faithful and capable. The letter shows that there is absolutely no foundation for the outcry about the President appointing colored men to office solely on account of their color. It shows that he has taken the 'best possible advice in regard to his appointments, and Instead of lowering the standard of public service he has raised it, and It shows that of the new appointments made by him in the South the proportion of colored men Is only about 1 per cent. The letter vindicates the President's action and should stop the mouths of his critics. VINDICATING A SHAMEFUL CHIME. The Democrats are filibustering In the House to prevent the passage of important measures, in tevenge for the unseating of James J. Butler because he was fraudu Iently elected. Who is this James J. Butler in whose behalf the House Democrats are expressing so much indignation? He fs In the politics of St. Louis what his father has been about the City Councils the pro moter of corrupt practice. The father Is the boss of municipal corruption, the man who obtained city franchises by bribing members of the council as a vocation. He is now under a State prison sentence for bribery. Under the Nesblt law, which puts all the election machinery in the hands of Democrats, "Jim" Butler turned a Republican district into a Democratic one. On the face of the returns at the election lust November Butler had 6,233 .plurality. A House committee investigated and reported That committee found so many frauds and irregularities In forty-one precincts that It recommended that the whole vote 'be rejected. Sixty-three precincts were under suspicion, with an enrollment of 23,173 vot era. As a means to test the quality of this .enrollment, registered letters were sent three weeks after the election to the ad dresas of tho names enrolled. Now, a reg istered letter is a ferret which finds a man If he is to be found in the vicinity to which the letter is addressed. Of the 23,173 registered letters. 12.GG6 were returned with the indorsement that the persons to whom they were addressed could not be found. The postmen weru told that 4.CC3 of these supposed persons had removed to some place unknown. Of these 4,669 the names of only 245 appear in the city directory. Moreover, of the 23,179 names registered, 16.015 were

not in the directory, and thousands of

other votes were cast and counted on names not appearing either on the official registry Hat or in the directory. These facts lead 'the Brooklyn Eagle to declare that the fraud "surpasses the Gravesend precedents, and should bring shame to the people of the district and the people of the State." The Democrats of the House see the matter In a different light than does the independent Demo cratic paper in New York. They not only sustain the frauds, but they have called the attention of the country to them and their purpose to revenge the unseating of tho man who perpetrated them by stopping Congress from doing business. A SEEMING "WASTE OF TI3IE. The Congress which expires to-morrow seems to have been unfortunate in the use of its time. At the beginning of the session the Senate took up, as the regular order, the ship subsidy bill, to which sev eral weeks were devoted before a vote was reached. Doubtless the bill was regarded with favor in the East, but it had no popular support in the central West. The more it was discussed the more unpopular iz became a fact senators did not seem to realize. After the bill was sent to the House there was not a day from the date of Its reception until it was killed in committee that It could have commanded a. majority öf the votes of that body. If it had been a bill to subsidize a line of steamers from two or three Atlantic ports to South American ports It would have commanded favor in the West, but, being a measure designed to promote the interests of an existing steamship line in the European trade, public sentiment away from the Atlantic States was hostile to it. Nevertheless, it wasted much valuable time. Then the Philippine question was brought up ia the Senate, and many days were wasted by Carmack, Patterson and others In denounc ing the policy of the administration. The army was slandered and its best officers were held up as fiends. For a time a class of people who read and do not think were carried away by the charges. The courtesy of the Senate was invoked to permit the continuance of this conspiracy to blackon the character of the American soldier. Weeks were wasted in this alleged debate, the outcome of which was the act providing for civil government in the Philippines. When these two tORics had been disposed of the Nlcaraguan canal bill, which the House had passed, was taken up, discussed at length and changed to a Panama route bill. These measures dispose 1 of the Senate had no time to consider other Important matters, including the impossible Cuban relief bill of the House. The House began Its work promptly and passed a number of important measures, including tne isthmian canal bill, the immigration bill and the statehood bill. It talked loudly on the proposition to extend tariff relief to Cuba, while its statehood bill had better never been passed, as It was the bill with which Senator Quay and the Democrats have blocked business in the Senate all the present session. . The House has been in a position to do more business than It has done, but it has not taken up several important subjects for the reason there la no likelihood that the Senate, with its antiquated customs, could reach them. Nevertheless, during this session some Important legislation has been completed. The bill reorganizing the army was passed, and a bill creating the new Department of Commerce and Labor. Moreover, what is more important, all of the legislation regarding trusts which the President promised in his addresses last fall, and which Republicans promised on the stump, has been enacted. Yet Congress, If the two branches could have worked together, might have accomplished much more. THE HUMORISTS. i Somewhat Different. Chicago News. Hotel Porter Ave you a guest of the house? Orowells Not me. I pay two prices for every blamed thing I get here. rinln Brutality. Tit-Pits. "See here," said the city editor, "you speak of the bilde as being 'led to the altar " "Yes. sir: what of It?" replied the reporter. "What of It? Why It's nonsense. There was never a bride yet who couldn't find her way there, no matter what were the obstacles." No Danger of n Shortage. Chicago Post. "lie throws a kles at me every morning as he goes by." "What a waate of good material!" "Oh, dear, no; it's not a waste. They're Just the superfluous ones that he can't deliver In person owing to the shortness of the evenings." Thought Beat to Tell Ulm. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Toplight, having come Into possession of more money than he could conveniently spend, had hit upon the Idea of having a bust of himself made and was negotiating with a sculptor. "Could you make It heroic size?" he .suggrsted. "Yes. I can make it that way If you want It," said the sculptor, "but It cr won't look natural." Perfectly Safe. The King. A tourist In a remote part of Ireland, having stayed the night at a wayside inn not usually frequented by visitor, informed the landlord tn the morning that his boots, which had been placed outside his room door, had not been touched. "Ah, . shure," said the landlord, "and you moight put your watch and chain outside your room door in this house and they wouldn't be touched." ' As It Iteally Happens. Washington Post. Johnny." cautiously Inquired Mr. Slzaweek of hcr little brother when he called the other evening "she" was puttfng the finishing touches to her toilet upstairs "have you er does your er do you er ever hear your sister speak of roe?" "You can't pump me." promptly replied Johnny. "I don't butt into my sister's business." Then Johnny picked a shinny tick out of the hall rack and went out. This Is the way It happens In J03 cases out of 1.0CO. but the funnyists lor the colored supplements could never be clubbed into believing it. Municipal Ownership Not a Success. Columbus (Ind.) Republican. The success of Indiana cities In the matter of municipal socialism is not sufficient to justify the theorythat nationalizing our Industries would bring in a millennium Montpellor is losing $.70 a month on its thetrlc light and water plants. A dozen other Indiana municipalities are getting to the place where they would like to unload. It will be just an well to exjeriment a little longer on a small scale before going more extensively into governmental communism. Ileward for Major (iardener. Milwaukee Sentinel. Mej. Cornelius Gardener is to be made a Hteutenant colonel. The major I a good soldier, ana his former errors of opinion are not iaia up against, mm.

THE PANAMA CANAL.

Experiences on the Isthmus What the Canal May Coat In Life and Money. T. W. Williams, in London Express. Now that the canal treaty has been signed by the United State government it Is understood that the work will shortly be commenced on the canal which Is to unite the Atlantic to the Pacific. I was for eighteen months in the service of the French Canal Company. I controlled regiments of laborers working on the excavations. I write, therefore, with Intimate knowledge of the subject, and the experiences related are personal ones. The French company receives 8,000,000 for the amount of work already accomplished and for their machinery and plant j on the isthmus, which has cost the French nation 70,000,000. The Colombian government have agreed to accept 2,000,000 down and 50,000 per annum for the concession on a hundred years renewable lease. Opinions of engineers vary as to the length of time and expenditure of money before the canal will be completed, but a general estimate is that it will take ten years and cost 30,000,000. The American engineers recommend that the waterway, which will bo forty-seven miles in length, should have a depth of thirty-five feet, with a width at the bottom of 150 feet and one lock at the Pacific end. The old Panama Company has constructed over two-fifths, or nearly twenty-five miles, of the work, a portion of which will have to be reconstructed owing to the difference between their plans and those drawn up by the American engineers. One of the greatest drawbacks to the Isthmus of Panama is the climate, which is notorious for its deadly effect on the white man. The American engineers who constructed the Panama railroad, fifty years ago, had in the end to import Chinese coolies, who were the only human beings that seemed able to withstand the ravqges of the Chagres fever. It is stated on authority that the fortyeight miles of railroad cost ten lives for every sleeper laid on the track, and when it is considered that they are only four feet apart, some idea may be gained of the fearful loss of life the construction of this railway entailed. Already thousands of persons have perished since the commencement of the canal undertaking, and doubtless thousands more ' will fall victims before the waterway is completed. In addition to the Chagres fever, which Is a peculiarly virulent form of malaria, the inhabitants suffer from yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid and dysentery. Doctors state that the planting of a number of eucalyptus trees along the course of the canal would do a great deal towara improving the climate, but It will be some years before Panama becomes a health resort. In the' dry season, which lasts only four months In the year, the Colombians and Indians generally get un a revolution, and set fire to Colon and Panama. Falling this there are frequent earthquakes, which are sometimes very severe, notably those of September, 18S2. 1 was in Panama at the time, ana was roused from my slumbers about 2 a. m. by the sudden waltzing of my bed across the polished floor of my bedroom in tne hotel. The noise of falling buildings was terrific. It was mingled with the screams of the ter rified people, who were running about the cathedral square like mad people, not knowing what to do. I dressed hurriedly and left the hotel, which seemed to be doing an Impromptu polka on its own account, causing the furniture and articles suspended on the walls to fall In all directions. On arriving at the beach, which I con sidered the safest place, . I found that the water had receded for some miles, and an American engineer Informed me that he ex pected a tidal wave In an hour or so. I waited till 8 a. m., but the tidal wave did not come along, and as the earth seemed to have quitted the quaking business I went back to the remains of my ho tel. At that time the canal company was em ploying thousands of West Indian negroes from Barbados and Jamaica on a yearly contract of 4s per day and their lodging. The half-caste Indians who exist on tne isthums are opposed to work In any form from their birth, and resented the negroes coming and digging up the soli of their native land. Conflicts between the two races were frequent, and sometimes resulted in the suspension of work on the canal for days, in addition to the loss of many lives. Americans do not like the climate of Panama, which is bad enough to make even politicians nervous, and there will be a dearth of engineers, which will probably be made up by volunteers from Germany, Norway, Sweden and Scotland. At the zenith of the good times under the old French company's regime, when 12,000 laborers were employed, negroes were earning as much as 2 per day, gambling and all forms of vice went on unchecked, and robbery with murder was very prevalent. The prosecutor had to pay 2s to the police officials for every day the offender was kept in jail. Out of this sum the prisoner received about flvepence per day for his food, and had to sweep the streets of the city with an iron ball attached to his foot, for the benefit of the community. This made criminal investigation by amateurs a luxurious pastime. There Is every likelihood that the riff-raff from all parts of the States will flock to Panama as soon as the work is commenced. The Panama canal, when completed, will save between 3,000 and 4,000 miles to vessels proceeding from the east coast of America to the Orient and Australia. The countries on the west coast of South America will benefit the most, and it will doubtless open up Peru and Ecuador, which have boundless mineral wealth hidden in their mountain regions. Peru is very fertile, and has a splendid soil for the cultivation of sugar, indigo, coffee and other products. The canal will cheapen freight rates between the Atlantic and the Pacific, and cause passenger and freight steamship lines to be established between New York. New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia and China, Japan. Australia, and New Zealand. It is expected that the canal, in a few years after Its completion, will pay a dividend of 6 per cent, to the United States treasury. Living on the Isthmus Is very cheap, as Colon is a free port, and there will be plenty of positions vacant for healthy young men who are not afraid of a climate with a bad reputation. The French company paid large salaries, and there is no doubt that the Americans will do the same. BLISTERS FOB GLAD HANDS. Effort to Utilise the Services of TaffyDlnpenslusr Candidates. New York Sun. One of the sweetest sights in this world of Joy is the candidate patronizing agriculture. The candidate loves everybody that has a vote, but if you believe him, he is happiest when he is among the farmers This is especially the case if he is unfortu nate enough to live in a city. He likes to "get down to mother earth;" to look into the tanned and manly faces of the tillers of the soil; to grasp the sinewy hands of those who wrest wealth from the ground, the feeders of the world, the most intelligent, the most independent, the most Indispensable of all our noble army of freemen. As. he looks at their fields of smiling grain the progeny of Ananias doesn't know wheat from oats these broad and fruitful landscapes, the days of his youth come back and he sees himself a barefoot country boy again. Applause. In all ages the culture of the soil has been the most healthful and useful of occupation?, the nurse of strong men. aye, and of beautiful, cleareyed, rosy-cheeked women cheers and the loveliest girls In the world immense cheering, the farmer girls of America tremendous enthusiasm. Why has no painter done justice to "Polltics Dispensing Taffy to Agriculture?" It Is a noble theme. Innumerable are the wellheads of this "taffy." Perhaps the commonness of the article makes the farmer unduly suspicious of it. Certainly he is a shrewd fellow, full of dry and deep humor, secretly or openly despising his professional praisers and chuckling at their attempts to pull the wool over his eyes. He has seen lightning-rod men and book agents ami gentlemen from New York that have just won a prize in the lottery. He is acquainted with men of sin and deceit and he is amused by the game of the candidate. At least, he used to be. In Mississippi he proposes to make the candidate do something more than talk. At a mass meeting of the farmers of Lee county, In that State, the other day. this highly original and meritorious collection of resolutions was passed, no one contradicting: "Resolved, That we purchase a supply of hoes to be used by the candidates in this campaign; and. be It "Resolved, That when a district candidate appears on a farm we are to require him to hoe two rounds of 4J0 yards each; and, belt

"Resolved, That all county candidates be required to hoe ten rounds of 400 yards each; and. be it further "Resolved. That state candidates who canvass In buggies be given a double dose of work In the manner above outlined." The farming business is good, and the farmers can't afford to knock off work and hear political speeches unless they are paid for it. Kconomically the proposition is for a time charge. Morally, It provides a touchstone of the love of the candidate for the farmer. Practically It will keep the candidates from bothering the farmers in the daytime. How many politicians In Lee county or anywhere else can hoe satisfactorily from MO to 8,00i) yards? Still, candidates will do or try to do any task. If the example of Lee county is followed, there will be a good many lame backs and blistered hands: possibly a few cases of sunstruck candidates. A race of really Vhorny-handed" politicians will arise.

By exercise we thrive. . MME. HUMBERT'S ABT. Well-Lnld Plann for Her Snbtle Cam paign Against Capital. London Telegraph. New stories nrA annoaHncr dailv about the wonderful Mme. ilumbert. The latest refers to her artful dodges for putting persons off the track of the cryptic Crawfords. In the days of her ostensible splendor, she was ne gotiating for a loan of 20,000 from a wealthy Parisian who had "his doubts about the existence of the two Americans. "Come down to my Chateau of Vives Eaux she wrote one day to the Parisian. "Robert Crawford is one of the house party and you shall see him. I am sure that you will like him, for he is not a bad fellow, and, in any case, he is better than his brother." The reluctant lender started for Vives Eaux, and at the rustic station Mme. Humbert's carriage was waiting for him. He also saw the lady herself on the platform of the station. She was waving a tiny handkerchief at a man who was in a departing train, and who, in his turn, wafted farewells with a bandanna in her direction. As the train went out of view Mme. Humbert rushed up to the Parisian, saying: "Oh, my dear sir, I'm awfully sorryt Would you be lieve it? That's Bob Crawford who has just gone off In tlie train. He is called away on most urgent business to Paris. He received a telegram this morning from his secretary, and he had to rush away. All the same you can come along to the chateau. The Parisian accompanied Mme. Humbert to her carriage and the house was duly reached. Inside, the hostess handed the new guest over to a footman, who conducted him up stairs to a room. Mme. Humbert suddenly called after the man servant, saying: "Baptlste, you need not get the new room ready, as the gentleman will not stay long, and he is pressed for time. Take him to the blue bedroom. You know, the one Just left by M. Robert Crowford." The guest from Paris was accordingly ushered Into the place indicated by the mistress of the mansion. As he was washing his hands his eyes fell on a crumbled bit of blue paper. He hesitated before picking it up, but the recollection that he was about to be called upon to lend a large sum of money made him act. He took up the paper, opened it, and found that the contents ran: "M. Robert Crawford, at .Mme. Hum bert's Chateau des Vives Eaux. Come at once Paris; pressing business." The Parisian was now satisfied that Robert Crawford was no mythical being, but a living person. He went down stairs .all smiles, enjoyed Mme. Humbert's hospitality until the following day, and lent her the money that she wanted. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE. Interesting: Problem Affecting the World's Coinage Currency. Minneapolis Tribune. The appointment of a commission to conslderthe possibility of establishing a uni form rate of exchange between gold-using and silver-using countries will give new interest to this subject. It is understood that Congress has about decided to authorize the appointment of such a commission, on the request of Mexico and China and the recommendation of the President. The pur pose of this movement seems not to be generally understood. It is not intended to "do something for silver" In the phrase of the mining camp senators, it does not seek to revive the iridescent dream of "bimetal lism." The Teal purpose of the movement Is to heln Mexico and China to aoont the cold standard as it has been adopted in India and Japan, and as we are about to adopt It in the Philippines. That is to say, these countries have a large amount of silver money, which they cannot retire. They de sire to adopt the gold standard with a con stant ratio to silver, and keep this money in circulation, preventing further decline by exchangeability with gold at that fixed ratio. This Is exactly what France and the United States did with the great volume of silver one Inherited and the other foolishly coined; only we were rich and strong enough to' maintain silver at the old ratio with big gold reserves and free exchange ability. India and Japan undertook only to sustain silver at a lower ratio. The Japan ese silver yen exchanges for only half a gold yen, and the Indian rupee for only 18 pence instead of 24. Just so, we are proposing, to coin , a Philippine peso, bigger than our silver dollar, but worth only nair our gold dollar. Mexico and China want us to help them do the same thing with their currency. Their plans seem to be to hoard gold to sustain their silver currency at a uniform ratio far lower than the old, but somewhat above the present depressed commercial value of sliver. They want gold-standard countries to co-operate by agreeing to maintain a uniform ratio of International exchanges. Really this seems to.be a matter for determination by the laws of trade and finance, on which governments can ex ercise little influence; but it can do no harm to investigate the subject. IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE. Money Seeded for the Defense of Pour er and Howard. Louisville Herald. Another -call is made upon lovers of Jus tice and fair play to contribute funds for the defense of Caleb Powers and Jim How ard. The retrial of both prisoners is ap proaching, and they are wholly without funds to employ counsel, procure witnesses r meet the costs of court records necesary to protect them in the fight for life. These appeals have been made before, and the public has responded liberally, but funds are nevertheless as urgently needed now as ever before In the Interest of a fair trial and the protection of these men against the Influences of political passion. We publish elsewhere an appeal signed by a number of the most prominent and peace-loving citizens of Iuisvllle. asking ,or contriDutions to tne defense, merely in order that the accused may have the bene fit of the utmost chance to lay their defense before the court. They do not contend that Powers and Howard are either guilty or Innocent. They do recognize, however, that political excitement has ho enveloped the cases that they have not yet been proven guilty to the satisfaction of the public. As it stands, both men are to be tried be fore rourts provided with abundant means to procure conviction, and the prosecution Is supplied by the Goebel reward fund with enormous funds to induce witnesses to tes tify. It is the sense of fair play and human sympathy that leads these gentlemen to appeal for assistance that will enable the accused to bring forward their defense. A considerable sum will be required to meet the expenses of the trials, and all who can contribute are requested to do so In any amount, however small or large. The custodian of the fund is Col. John II. Leathers, cashier of the Louisville National Banking Company, an ex-Confederate Dem ocrat, and all contributions should be sent to him. Depend on Whose Ox. Portland Iress. The New York Sun, which Is the outspok en organ of the trusts, thinks the opinion of the minority of the court in the lottery cases Id far sounder than that of the ma jority. A good many people thought the same in the insular case the New York Sun was not among them. One is apt to consider that opinion the most rational and sound which best accords with his own opinions. This, perhaps, is why the New iork Sun admires the minority opinion In the lottery cases, and did net admire the minority opinion in the insular cases. World's Desire for Peace. London Dally News. What we desire to make plain is that in the United States, Great Britain. Germany and France the underlying democracy ia

bent on peace. It Is the bureaucrats they

and they alone who stir up the embers of strife. That which has rendered a second Franco-German war improbable to-day is the Irresistible awakening on the continent of liberal internationalism, which simul taneously has elevated Mr. Jaures, tne Socialist, in Paris, and has dethroned Count Beiestrem, the monarchist. In Renin, in France, as in Germany, socialism Is the only alternative to bankruptcy, by which we mean that socialism is the only iaitn which can be expected to act as an antidote to military extravagance. Democracy has had Its opportunities, and it has failed to cope with the economic situation. The autocrat was tolerated because it was believed that, his high-handed efforts were successful in producing prosperity. If the Kaiser's position is now insecure. It Is clearly because he cannot point to results and because he stands condemned by his own standard Implied in the words "real Poli tik." Socialism provides an Infinite variety of fields for International co-operation. each nation serving instead of emulating and caviling at the other. The revolt against Imperialism In Germany, like the revolt against Imperialism In France, will be followed by a revolt against imperialism in Great Britain, just as soon as we. like our neighbors, find that our military ex penditure is insupportable. The condition or Europe suggests considerations which are profoundly encouraging to humanity, and it is not unlikely that we are on the eve of a great democratic uprising which iwlll real ize many of the Ideals of practical lineraiism. GEN. BOOTH'S ERB0B. Intemperate Statement, by the Salva tion Army'a Leader. Memphis Commercial Appeal. "We have 13,000 criminals," said General Booth, of the Salvation Army, "and If the rich do not give us funds to carry on our work we will turn the 13,000 loose and give them the addresses of the rich men." This strengthens the mystifying theory that nothing was made in vain. The burglar and highwayman may be used to advantage. But is not this form of religion a trifle ultra-militant? Passing around the hat or the contribution box, telling people to "let their lights shine," etc., or thundering de nunciations against those who refuse to contribute to the cause of religion, used to suffice. Then came In the church entertain ment or bazar with its multifarious meth ods of extorting coin from the close-flsted. Many complained that "Rebecca at the well," with her pink lemonade drawn up, "dripping with coolness." in an empty and hlghlv ornate oyster can: the soup In which slumDered In death's embrace the yet fugitive oyster; the grab-bag into which arms were plunged to the elbow, only to extract an exciting bunch of rubbish; the chances In the various raffles that all these are a species of hold-up. But General Booth goes beyond. all this, and threatens to turn loose an army of thugs with the names and addresses of those who possess what is worth while seeking, unless the rich purchase immunity by liberal contribution to the cause of religion, much the same as people purchased. Immunity from the border banditti in the days of Robin Hood. This Is a form of strenuoslty in religion that few will fancy unless they belong to the criminal class, and who "would rejoice to have their devious ways of life receive high religious sanc tion. But whether the infirmities of advancing years have impaired the vigor of his In tellect or whether a sudden access of zeal has produced In him a blinding hallucination, or whether, dominion and success have produced in him an arrogance and temerity unusual In sensible people, are questions that' may be pretermitted! but the fact remains that the venerable Salvationist has unfortunately and agreglously erred. He is using the exact argument of the criminals whom he is harboring and endeavoring to reform. These claim that the world owes them a living, that the rich have yeverythlng and will give them nothing, and that they have a right to take as a matter of self -preservation. If these 13,000 criminals are guilty of having committed crimes they should be turned over to justice and pun ished; if they have paid the penalty of their crimes, they should not be encouraged by suggestion to enter anew upon a life of crime. General Booth should hasten to repudiate his intemperate utterances. BILL'S LAST BIDE. . It Carried Him to a Land Where Dangen Do Not Exist. Detroit Free Press. "Yes, it will soon be the season for bikes again," said the farmer as he backed up to the stove in a Michigan-avenue grocery, after selling six bags of potatoes, "but there won't be nobody around my farm to go cantering about." "Haven't you any sons who ride?" asked the grocer. "No, not now. I had one last year, but he was burled In September. His name was Bill, and he'd rather ride a bike than eat dinner." 'Did some accident happen him?" "Well, rathyer. The railroad crosses the road a quarter of a mile below my house. and BUI used to ride that way and take chances. It wasn't no good talkin' to him. He had the blghead and knew it all. He crossed the tracks twenty different times ahead of trains with only a few feet to spare, and come home to brag about it. "But he got caught at last?" queried the grocer, after Alling an order for sugar. "He did. One evening he started out. and a few minutes after he had gone I heard a great tooting at the crossing and went down to see what the matter was. As I reached the tracks an engine came backing up and the engineer called out: " 'Say. old man. be you lookin fur any body or others? "Fur my son Bill.' I says. " 'Young feller on a bike?' " 'Yes.' " 'Ride with his nose on the handle bars and his ears full of cotton? " 'That's my son Bill.' " 'Well, we picked him up jest here at the crossin . Mebbe he flggered he had half an inch to spare, but he was wrong. How fur Into the next county he was flung I can't say, but you ought to get his remains inside of three or four days. "And did you? asked the grocer. "Yes, sir," replied the farmer. "Yes. we found the remains of Bill and the remains of the bike and we buried 'em both in one grave. "And were they badly mangled? "Well, ro. They was sort o driv together. and all mixed up. and If It hadn't been fur the expression on BUI 8 face, it would hcv bin hard to tell one from 'tother.- Bill was a smilln'. He was flggerln' that his hind wheel would clear that cowcatcher by a hair's bredth, but he miscalculated. Poor Bill: lie s got wings now and don i hev to pump ud tires and fool with chains and wrenches and oil cans, and there is no railroads in heaven to knock him sky-high and across lots. Point of View of the Negro Himself. The World's Work. In most of the discussion of the race problem little is said of the negro's own point of view. He Is the chief figure of It all. He is at once the innocent cause of it and the chief factor in its solution. There has not been time enough nor work enough nor money enough nor opportunity for great masses of them to be built up to responsible citizenship, but the leaders of the race the real leaders show a steady growth in thrift, in responsibility and good citizenship. A study of the result of the work done at any of the great schools where they are properly trained will give tne most despondent man high hope. In fact, the record of the best men and women who have gone-out from Hampton and Tuskegee and other such training places make one of the most remarkable chapters in numan progress. 'in negro conferences that are held at Tuskegee show year after year growth of character and of economic einelency amor.g large masses of them: and the reports of the Negro Business Men's League. and other such bodies tell of remarkable progress. . The negro's children, too.- will be wiser than he is; and. after all. this whole problem Is not one that we who are now living shall see the end of. If we pass It to the next generation in a better shape than we round it tnat is an we can hope to do. And no man who knows Southern life can for a moment doubt that it Js now in very much better shape than it was twenty years ao. So much better is It that the aspects It now presents are not discouraging to those who know what has been done. Int Km All In. Milwaukee Sentinel. Professor If onaghan might have added to his assertion that poor cooks make, drunkards the further fact that they Incite to profanity, assault and battery, defalcation and eulciie. -

SENAT0B SM00T, OF UTAH.

He Submit tn an Interview and Ctve Some Information. Washington Special in Philadelphia Press.. At the age of eleven Reed Smout was put to work. He began as a bobbin boy In the woolen ml!ls at Provo City. His father was one of the Mormon stockholders In that corporation, and by this means he secured employment. In six years from that time he had been promoted through all the grades to general superintendent of the establishment. He won his way, according to the statements of personal friends, by Industry, business capacity and executive ability. Mr. Smoot does not talk much of this stage of his career. "I never had to ask any man for a posi tion," he said, with a certain self-satisfaction under the circumstances. "Positions came to me, I am glad to say," was his sole statement concerning his early life In the mill. He is a college graduate. His education was gained in the Mormon schools and the university of his native State. He picked up his education by the wayside, as it were, as he Jogged along in his business career. In the course of our conversation I took up the direct question of his politics and religion, and asked: 'How closely are vour nnlitlr and vour religion interwoven ?" "Not any more closely than those of any other member of the United States Senate. One of the first rules of the Mormon Church is tnat we must give allegiance to the gov ernment under which we live. If a Mormon missionary were to meet you and hand you his card upon the back of it you would find Rule 12 of our church, which commands every member to give allegiance and faith ful adherence to the government and tha ruler under which he lives, whether he be King, Prince or President. "You are an apostle one of the twelve apostles of the Mormon Church?" "Yes; I am." "Does that impose stringent obligations. certain restrictions, greater than those im posed upon the ordinary member of the Mormon Church?" "No; for the reason that the entire adult male membership of the Mormon Church is composed of officials in that organization. Under these clrcumUances there Is a marked difference between the Mormon Church and other religious bodies, and the oDjection of my being a high church official' does not hold. "Do you know what the duties of an apos tle in the Mormon Church are?" asked Mr. Smoot, turning questioner. Principally to exercise supervision over the spiritual and general welfare of the wnoie cnurcn," was the answer. "1 II tell you." continued the senator-elect from Utah. "Out of the great body of the male members of the church twelve men are selected, each with some particular fitness for some particular work. I had been superintendent of the mills at Provo for many years, and it Is possible that the success of that operation was in a measure responsible for my selection. My duties as an apostle or the church have been what? To attend a meeting from 10 to 12 once a week on Thursdays and offer any suggestions or advice from a business standpoint on whatever business might come up affect ing tne z.. c. u. J., which stands for ZIon s out somewhere and deliver a lecture, but that has been done by me for years." "it has been charged, as you well know, Mr. Smoot, that your first allegiance, above and beyond everything, is to the Mormon, Church?" "I know that, and a great deal more has been charged that is untrue," he said, but without any trace of anger. "As a member of the Senate. If a Ques tion affecting equally the interests of the Mormon Church and the interests of the whole country were to come up, how would your vote be cast? ' ".ror the country every time. Let there that question." and the senator-elect from Utah leaned forward In his chair and, shak ing a long forefinger by way of emphasis. continued: "I want you and everybody else to un derstand that I am an American; that my forefathers were Americans for genera tions, and that, although 1 am a Mormon in religion, I am an American at heart. Besides that, I would. violate the teaching and rules of mv rhurch ' wpr I to irr " fntrary to my duty, to my country and to my fellow-man." 'Then you have no mental religious res ervation that would interfere with your duties as a senator or as a citizen? "None whatever, sir." Theresia a rather amusing story of Mr. Smoot's advent into Republicanism. As stated, his rather was a Kentucky Demo crat, with all that that implies, to the day of his death. While yet a young man Reed Smoot had his attention attracted to th principles of the. Republican party, and during tho presidential campaign cf 2H0 adopted a unique method of settling the question of his party alleglence. He sub scribed to two newspapers, one Democratic and the other Republican, and during the progress of the campaign read each publication carefully, with the result that when the campaign ended he was an avowed Republican. A few years afterward, while a State canvass was in progress, it was decided to hold a meeting in Provo to be addressed by several prominent Republicans. A band was secured, and on the night of the meet ing Reed Smoot. with some other young men. marched behind the band to the place of meeting. It was a rather slim proces sion, and only three out of the crowd mus tered sufficient nervx to sit on the platform with the speakers, loung bmoot was one of the three. Several evenings later he ,islted his father in Salt Lake. After the usual greet ings the father said, with emphasis and a sternness beyond the ordinary: "I understand you had a Republican meeting in Provo?" "Yes, sir, and it was a success," was the son's reply. , "I am told that you took an active part in it." said the father. "Yes. I did." "Well. I cannot understand, and will never be able to understand, how a. on of mine can be a Republican." And that ended the subject forever. The wife of Mr. bmoot was a dauchter of Gen. H. L. lSldrldgc, a relative of Abraham Lincoln. They have six children, the oldest now about thirteen, the youngest u littlo over a year. Mr. Smoot is said to be worth a l alf million dollars. He Is president of the Provo CommerJil and Savings Bank, vice president of tho Grand Central Mining Company, and one of the directors cf tho Zion Co-operative Institution, one of tho great concerns of Utah, in which many capitalists and non-Mormons have stock. The Ilook Famine. 'Indianapolis Special" In Chicago Tribune. The situation in the book mining districts of Indiana is desperate and growing worse every day. The anthracite or historical romance miners have struck, demanding a wage scale of 25 cents er hour for an eight-hour day, and the bituminous miners In the Conkeyvllle district are expected to Join them. 1 h"d a talk to-dav with Mr. Bobbs, the head of tho Bobbs-Merrill Company.. "The difficulty." said Mr. Bobbs. "is the outgrowth of contracts made by the operators with Mr. Carnegie to supply his thousands of libraries with books. We are moving books as fast as we can. but unless the miners return to work we cannot fill our contracts with Mr. Carnegie and supply the general market, too. The operators and the miners will confer to-morrow and we hope for a ettlement." Meantime the price of historical romances has gone skyward. No. 2 Tarklngton is quoted to-day at p) per ton; Smokeless Wallace. $23; Screened McCutcheon. Illklns at the Races. New York Press. When Senator Klkins was In college he liked the races. One day he and his chum slipped off together from school and on the way to the track came across their profesBor. who said. In surprise: "Young gentlemen, what does this mtan? You should lo at your lessons." Klkins said: "Sir, we wanted to go to our lessons and also to the races, so we tossed for It. and It o-m down for the races." "Ah! Then you must have used a two-headed coin, or tried the gambler's plan of heads I win. tails you lose." "No. sir; It was a fair toss," said young Klkins. "What did you throw up?" "We threw a lump of coal up. If it toppetl up we went to school; If it came down we went to the races; and here we are, sir." Socialist and Worklngmen, Boston Herald. Socialist Carey's little trick of trying to Identify socialism with the working people puts him in the same class with the tailors of Tooley street, who called themselves the people. As a matter of fact not one workIngman in a dozen is a Socialist, and a good many Socialists are not trcrtlr j:ta. -