St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 February 1896 — Page 4

£lje Jniicpenbent. WALKERTON. INDIANA. FEB. 1. 1896. XV. A. ENDLEY, Editor. The railroads of Indiana are talking of making a uniform rate of two cents a mile. St. Louis has captured the national populist convention, which will be held July 22. ___ England is talking peace, but according to all reports she continues to prepare for war. Bob Ingersoll has finally found a church that suits him. It has everything in it but religion. A plan for organizing an international bank for facilitating commence with Central and South America is being considered by congress. Should England attempt to get posses-' sion of Cuba by purchase it would doubtless precipitate one of the bloodiest wars on record. The United States would not permit anything of that kind. Senator Allison, who was recentlyreelected United States senator for lowa, has served in the senate twenty-four years. This will make his fifth term, or thirty years in all, if he lives to serve out his present term. In answer to the query what is the meaning of the “Monroe Doctrine” the New York Press tersely says: The essence of the Monroe doctrine is found in the old revolutionary motto: “Mind your own business.” General Campos has resigned from the command of the Spanish army in Cuba and returned to Spain. He manfully acknow ledges his inability to suppress the Cuban insurrection. General Weyler is to be his successor. The halls of congress are now ringing with denunciation of the “unspeakable Turk.” The Senate resolutions calling on the interested powers to protect the Christian Armenians and pledging the support of the United States, were passed. A proposal to sever all relations with Turkey was discussed. General Gomez, commander of the Cuban insurgents, was recently interviewed in the field by a representative of the Chicago Inter Ocean. Gomez, contrary to the recent report that he was afflicted with consumption, is well and active and full of strategic plans for furthering the Cuban cause. ~ Representative citizens of Chicago are agitating reform in municipal government. The bribe business among aldermen has become a great evil. Politics and boodle are synonymous terms with some of Chicago’s leading politicians. There is a crying need for reform in the political affairs of that great city. Theodore Runyon, United States minister to Germany, died of heart disease at Berlin last Monday. The body has been embalmed and will be returned to Newark, New Jersey, the home of the deceased. The death of Ambassador Runyon occurred at a time when important business was pending between the United States and Germany, and it will probably be difficult to replace the deceased diplomat, in whose charge the

major part of this business was entrusted. The Christian Endeavorers who are seeking information from various sources as to the best way to develop their work along the lines of Christian citizenship will find that all their questions *w T ere answered about two thousand years ago by the founder of their religion. The rules for Christian citizen--ship are more plainly and succinctly stated in the Sermon on the Mount than they can be by the most active of modern reformers or by the greatest of modern statesmen.—Ex. John K. Gowdy was chosen chairman of the republican state committee last Tuesday at Indianapolis. Nebecker, Gowdy’s principal opponent, charges his defeat to the treachery of supposed friends. The contest was a warm one, and a little bad blood has grown out of it. The committee has decided on May 7 as the date for holding the state convention for the selection of delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention and the nomination of a stote ticket. The delegates to represent the various districts of the state will be selected March 19. At the next session of the Indiana legislature the special committee appointed at the last session to solve the convict labor problem will present a measure which is now being drafted. This bill will provide for the establishment of an intermediate prison or reformatory, where will be confined the younger convicts, men whom the officials claim can be reformed. The class of work at the prison south, in Jeffersonville, and the prison north, Michigan City, will be changed, the plan being to provide trades for all of the convicts, and thus put them in a position to make living wages, when dependent on their own resources for a livelihood. The making of public highways by convicts will also receive serious consideration. —Nappanee News. ;

The Chicago Evening Journal advocates the purchase of Cuba by the United States. It is reported that John L. Sullivan, the ex-champion pugilist, will become a saloon-keeper in Chicago. It is said that a new process for toughening glass has been discovered which may lead to its adoption for many purposes for which iron, steel and wood are now used. Glass rails for railroads are even hinted at. President Nicholson, of the State Good Citizens’ League, claims that 1,000 saloons have been abated in Indiana under the new law, and that in seventy counties the law’ is found to have gained t thousands of friends. The press is the w’orld’s university. It is the great educator of the age. It I dot's not necessarily make scholars, and • yet all learned men are great readers of the newspapers. Some of the greatest Iw^nd brainest men of the century have *een given us through the inspiration of * press,—Rev. Robert Mclntyre, Denver, Colorado. 11 Those who fully understand Senatorelect Foraker’s views on the money question say he is a much stronger silver man than even his acceptance speech indicated, and that was considered quite a strong pronouncement. When “Coin” first made its appearance Mr. Foraker was so deeply interested in its contents that he bought twenty copies and sent them to special friends.—South Bend Times. The Strength of the United States. New York Sun: We commend to Lord Salisbury’s attention as well as that of certain half-hearted persons calling themselves Americans on this side of the water, some magnificent facts, pertinent to the present situation of affairs, which were laid before the British Association for the Advancement of Science by a distinguished British statistician, Mr. Mulhall, as long ago as 1888. Mr. Mulhall compared the physical energy reckoned on the bases of man power, horse power and steam power of the principle nations; and the result of his comparisons was disastrous to British pride. It showed that by far the most powerful of all nations, both in aggregate and in each particular, was the United States of America. The w’orking power of this union of free states was shown to be equal to that of the two greatest empires of Europe, Great Britain and Germany, combined! Moreover, Mr. Mulhall’s comparison was based on the census of 1880, and he himself pointed out that the next census w’ould inevitably show, as it has done, a yet more marvelous development of the unfathomed physical energies of our country. These are the things that count when nations grapple. Turn this industrial giant into the path of war and there is nothing on the planet that could stand against him. The affected astonishment of certain European newspapers that the United States of America should dare to beard the Great Britain is puerile, in view of the plain truth about the respective power and resources of the two countries. Europe needed an object lesson and is getting one. Lord Silisbury is a member of the British association. He cannot possibly be ignorant of these primary facts of political science.

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Utterance* of the French Press. The Paris press with one accord score Great Britain roundly for her insatiable rapacity. Figaro says: “The English simply wish to do with the mines of South Africa as a pickpocket does with one’s purse, arid with the help of well organized hustle.” The Rappel remarks: “GermanX France and Russia are in accord. What will England do? Will she dare, with the United States already on her hands, to defy Europe with her insatiable rapacity and untenable claims, and end by arousing a formidable coalition, to । which she will be compelled to humiliate herself?” The Lanterne expresses the opinion [ that Great Britain’s contention that the foreign powers have no right to intervene in the Transvaal is nothing more or less than an application of Monroeism. “Mr. Rhodes,” adds the Lanterne, [ “wants to capture Delagoa bay and thus > nullify the conquest of Madagascar.” ; La Justice says: “Dr. Jameson’s at- , tempt at international fillibustering has > inflicted one more defeat on ing policy of the United Kingd^-C •< The Independent and New York Thrice-a-Week World 82. WITHOUT THE

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