Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1903.

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If you take one you will want to kaep in touch with home. The best way to do this is to have the Journal mailed to you. Leave your order before starting. We will change the address as often as you desire. Newspaper men have never found much IfBculty in finding- out the proceedings of lecutlve sessions of the Senate, but the mclave now being held at Rome is quite different proposition. The present encampment haj been a good pal more like work and less like play than iy the Indiana militia har ever had. Ttie d effects of the federal government's itchfulness over the militia organisations already apparent. No doubt away down in the bottom of leir hearts all the cardinals think that a lore rational und modern way of electing Pope should be adopted, but none of lem would dare to suggest It. The tratlons of centuries are very binding. Newspaper correspondents are gener.i'y itcrprlsing in getting news, but enterprise mnts for nothing when the only way of irnlng whether a Pope has been elected not is by watching for the smoke to is le from a little orifice away up In the air. president of the Marion window glass irkT makes a very clear statement of the tht i of employers and workiagmen. The Mrs of the land are above those of any bot organisation, and the citisen derives nghts from a higher source than that a trade union. The Democrats will find very slcuder plckkg in tints1 efforts to make political capital it of the postofflce investigation. No party made a mistake by cleaning up wrongs hat had ;-own up in government. It la Ihen tts resps nsiblo leaders seek to smother ?h thing that it lays up trouble for itself. showed the biggest traffic the railids ever enjoyed during a similar month ind the stock market showed the lowest tees for the stocks of these roads that ive ruled for a long time. It is a rather biking illustration of the lack of concordbetween speculation and real business. jlf Dr. Wiley's examinations of foreign Is do not yield more practical results in his much exploited borax boarding itwe did they had better be abandoned ifore they are undertaken. There is a rowing imprenalon that Dr. Wiley is a pry visionary person. The latest information regarding Kua la s plans in Manchuria Is that the proInce will be opened to foreign commerce toon as Russia shall have restored quiet id order there, and she hopes to do that about six years. The bear la a little w in ita movements and must not be rowded. Kvitntly there is not much personal ifort In being a cardinal just now. Few lacoa on earth aro hotter than Rome in ugust, and probably In norrs, except taplea, are the odors more disagreeable. In shut up In a close cell under such mdltlons for days would seem a good deal te a foretaste of purgatory. No person denies the right of workingnv-n organise or doubta that such organisation beneficial In many ways, but there is a lit beyond which it cannot be carried ithout reacting to the injury of worklngken themselves. When they attempt to dieits to employers the terms on which they til do business, or to override the legal fhts of workingmen who are not members unions, they take ground that cannot be ilntained, and the attempt to maintain iich weakens their cause. 'here are some other effects of the Evanslis riot apparent besides the hounding of lardsmen. and these latter are of a more Waring nature to record. There is very luoh better general enforcement of law by e municipal authorities, and the grip of te unholy alliance of the gambling and luor interests on the city appears to have iti broken. It Is sincerely to be hoped tat the reform will be permanent. The leson the result of contempt for law was severe one, and probably it will not be a forgot. That alleged circular of unnamed Republeaders in New Orleans askinaputh-

ern Republicans to oppose the re-election of Roosevelt as a negrophile. sounds a bit fishy to start with, but, supposing it to be true that such a circular has been Issued, and by members of the Republican party In the South, It is difficult to see whAt purpose it could accomplish. So many Republican conventions of Northern States have declared for Roosevelt that his nomination is a foregone conclusion. Nobody entertains sny expectations of Republican electoral votes from the South. GOING TO A GOLD BASIS. Mexico seems to be moving with fair rapidity toward a gold basis, with the token value oi the Mexican silver dollar fixed at 50 cents In gold. A part of this movement, namely, the conferences of the Joint commission from Mexico and the United States, with the financial officers of European governments, has been heretofore outlined in

these columns. Thnt commission is now sojourning In 8t. Petersburg, having received assurances of co-operation in London, Paris and Berlin. At the same time a purely Mexican commission has been sitting for come months in the City of Mexico, preparing recommendations to the Mexican government for changes in the currency system of the country, and this commission is nearing the end of its labors, under the guidance of Mr. Llmantour, the very able Mexican minister of finance. Modern Mexico, in its current issue, while disclaiming any official information as to the conclusions of the commission, says: It is' understood, for example, that the monetary policy which it behooves Mexico and other countries similarly situated to follow has been outlined by the commission in a recommendation which is substantially tojhe effect that the adoption of the gold standard by silver-using countries on the basis of a silver coin of unlimited legal tender, but having a fixed value in gold, would greatly promote the development of rhose countries and would stimulate commerce between them and the gold-standard countries, besides augmenting everywhere the opportunities for the profitable investment of capital. Incidentally, the readiness and good will with which the United States took up the initiative of Minister Llmantour. giving it the support of American prestige and Influence In Europe, has. among thinking classes here, been considered as a fresh pledge of the friendliness of the great neighboring Republic toward Mexico. In the meantime, the local monetary commission has been voicing the views of Minister Llmantour to the effect that whatever monetary policy be decided upon as best adapted to the countries which desire to be freed from trie evils of a fluctuating exchange, its chances of success will be enhanced, if, with unimportant modifications necessitated by local conditions, the same line of policy be adopted by all those countries. Specifically, It is said that the commission believes that approximate uniformity in the coinago ratio between gold and silver money, in the countries henceforth going on the gold basis. Is desirable. What th.it ratio Is to be is n point that has been extensively discussed; but for some time past the consensus of opinion has pointed in the direction of the 50-cent dollar. This apparently Is the conclusion that has found favor with the commission, which Is said to believe that if in future serious changes do not occur in the price of bar silver it is to be desired that the coinage ratio between gold and silver money in countries thnt are now on the silver basis and may In future go on the gold basis be fixed approximately at 32 to L The encouraging point to be noted In this statement is the evident understanding on the part of the Mexican government and press that the only way they can have stability of exchange in their dealings with the rest of the world is by going to a gold basis. The problem of uniformity In the gold value of the sliver coinage of Mexico, China and other silver-using countries is not so serious as might at first appear. The two great coins in almost universal use in Mexico, China and the Orient are the Mexican dollar and the Hong-Kong dollar patterned after It and of practically the same bullion value. An exchange value of 50 cents In gold for this coin will not be difficult for the governments issuing it to maintain with anything like a reasonable gold reserve. If the silver-using countries once take the important step of going to the gold basis, the rest is a matter of detail that can be adjusted with comparative eas.. A CLOSED IXCIDEXT RECALLED. A recently published life of Charles Butler relates his connection with a transaction which at one time bad great interest for the people of this State. Mr. Butler was a New Tork lawyer of high character and ability, who was born In 1802 and died la 1S97. The transaction referred to was the funding of the bonded debt of Indiana growing out of the construction of the Wabash and Erie canal. Mr. Butler's success in managing a similar negotiation in Michigan led the holders of Indiana bonds to employ him to undertake the work in this State. It involved the question of maintaining the credit of the State and saving it from the dishonor of repudiation. 1 It had already defaulted on several years' Interest. Governor Whltcomb had said in :.ls annual message that "sines the State, being a sovereignty, cannot be sued nor forced to pay her debts to the holders of State bonds, it is, for that very reason, bound to act as a sovereignty. Its honor must be sustained at all sacrifices and its plighted faith remain inviolate." Everybody agreed to this in theory, but the attempt to carry it into effect by providing for the payment of the bonds met with strong opposition. Governor Whitcomb spoke of the State debt as "a fruitful source of bickeripg and strife, the withering effects of which upon the moral, social and .pecuniary condition of the people have been as visible to reflecting minds as the sun at noonday, and cannot fail to excite the deepest solicitude." Governor Whitcomb was a most ardent advocate of funding the debt. Mr. Butler came to Indianapolis in November. 1845, shortly before the convening of the Legislature. His mission and its results are described In letters to his wife, covering a period of nearly two months. In his first letter, dated Nov. 29, 1S46, he said he had had two interviews with the Governor, "one at my room and the other at his own house, and they have been quite satisfactory. He is one of the most cautious and timid men In the world; at the same time he is, I think, entirely honest and would be glad to have right done." In his message, which was gent to the Legislature a few days later, the Governor took strong ground in favor of refunding the debt. Mr. Butler prepared a letter presenting the case of the bondholders and the moral obligation of the State to pay its debt, which he read in person at the bar of the House. He wrote to his wife: "It took just an hour, and when I had finished they immediately ordered a thousand copies to be printed for the use of the House, wb,ich shows their estimate, as one hundred is the usua. number." He says he received many congratulations on the letter, "among others from Rev. Dr. White, president of Wabash College, who seemed perfectly delighted." The ;..vernor and speaker of the House expressed great satisfaction, "and compliments are pouring lp on every side." But he had a long and hard tight before him.

From the beginning he placed his case on high ground, and his appeal was to the moral sense of the Legislature and the people. After being printed his letter was referred to a jbint committee of twenty-four, with instructions to confer with him and report. By this time the Legislature was divided Into debt-payers and repudiators. Mr. Butler had many conferences with the committee and labored with members night and day, the Governor supporting him heartily all the time. In one of his letters he wrote: "All eyes are now directed to the result of the conference pending between the State and its public creditors, the latter represented by me. The momentous question of the public debt is to be settled, and the foundations laid for the future prosperity and grtatnesa of the State. The theme is a noble one and the occasion extraordinary." Again, on the eve of another conference, he wrote: "It is profoundly interesting, and I feel oppressed with the weight and burden of it. On the result depends the question whether the Slate will or will not repudiate." Dec. 1 he wrote: My committee meets again this evening. The Governor helped on this afternoon by a in s.sage to the Senate in reply to a resolution. He gad Mr. Bright go in for me strong, head and shoulders, arid now I have a strong team, indoors and out. My

room Is run down with people constantly, and to-day I have done nothing but see company and make one call on two ladies. One of them is the wife of a leading senator, whom I have not seen yet, but who is dead against me. His wife I got all right in an hour's talk devoted exclusively to the subject, and she goes in strong for my plan. 1 made the call this morning and this afternoon the genatst Kave a vote in my favor. So you gas what a good wife can do in an important affair. This morning he voted against me. The committee meetings continued, as also open discussion of the matter in the Legislature. Dee. 28 Butler writes: "I have been under such high pressure, both mental and physical, the last week that I felt the need of the Sabbath very much. I was assured last Sunday when a senator came to sie me and talk with me, and I declined talking with him about It, and he remarked that he thought 'it was like lifting the ox out of the gutter,' and that it was a work of necessity and mercy; and so, In truth it is." Jan. 4, 184G, writing after returning from church, he says: "Mr. Beecher preached an admirable sermon, bearing on the great question pending before the Legislature, to a full house containing a large number of members." During the next week both the Whigs and Democrats held their State conventions, the former declaring in favor of refunding the debt and the latter straddling the question. In the evening Governor Whitcomb called a caucus of the Democratic senators and made a strong plea for refunding. Both the friends and opponents of the measure continued to work night and day and Sundays. One day after the Governor had had a long conference with Mr. Butler he writes: "The Governor seemed completely worn out and complained of indisposition, and I sent out for a bottle of champagne for him and gave him a glass, which he said tasted good, and revived him. 1 told him to take the bottle along to the Capitol, which he did. You will laugh at this I am sure. I could riot help laughing myself." Not to dwell longer on details, the refunding bill finally passed the House by a vote of 61 to 33 and the Senate by 32 to 15. Mr. Butler writes: "My labors have been crowned with complete success. The public credit of Indiana is restored and her bondholders provided for." Two days later he wrote: "I am happy to say to you that the bill to redeem the credit of Indiana and finish her great canal has this day received the signature of the Governor. He signed it in bed, in my prfpence, saying that it was one of the most gratifying acts of his life." The terms of settlement were not as favorable as the bondholders were entitled to, but the passage of the bill was a turning point In the history of the State and did much towards establishing a higher standard of public credit in all of the Western Blatts. Under the terms of settlement Mr. Butler became one of the trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal, and rendered faithful service In that capacity for nearly a generation. ECONOMIC "WARFARE. Mr. Chamberlain's remark that Great Britain is on the eve of a great economic struggle was no idle phrase. No man that studies the trend of politico-economic events can doubt, indeed, that the whole commercial world is not merely on the eve of such a struggle, but that the fighting has already begun in the way of skirmishing for position. It has only been within the last few decades that goernments have learned much of the nature of the economic weapon that lie within their hands, and it may be doubted If any of them yet comprehend the ultimate results of any particular line of policy until experience demonstrates those results. War, the meeting of physical force with physical force, is the simplest sort of struggle there can be between peoples, and yet it is a good deal of a science; but when governments begin to wield the vast and vaguely defined economic forces that lie within large masses of people they are dealing with a much more complicated question. Leaving aside the questions of currency, of transportation subsidies and all the other methods for the development of a nation's Industry and commerce, the single question of endeavoring to regulate exports and imports by means of taxes and bounties presents a whole mass of complicated and vexatious questions to every great government. In our own case we have demonstrated that, under existing conditions of world commerce, a protective tariff is the best policy for the development of a new country with greatly varied resources and just as greatly varied capabilities of the people; but the conclusion is an empirical one, and It does not follow that this policy is the best for a much older, more thickly populated and more highly developed country, such as France. A long time ago English statesmen came to the conclusion that their tight little island could beat the world in manufacturing and needed cheaper food than it could pOllbty grow. Therefore the free-trade policy was adopted for Great Britain, but not for the British empire. The tariffs of the various colonies have been arranged as seemed best titled to the conditions of each. Now with Canada. South Africa, Australia, India and various other colonies, with the widest possible diversity of products and popular capabilities to draw upon for food and raw materials, the British mind, led by Mr. Chamberlain, is turning toward the scheme of economic unification of the British empire by a syste.a of preferential tariffs. Notwithstanding present opposition and British conservatism, this plan, sooner or later, will go into effect, because, with such economic knowledge as

the world at present possesses, it looks feasible and profitable to both the British people and the colonial subjects. And when It does go into efect It will very soon resolve itself into free trade within the empire and protection ns against foreipm countries, just as we have free trade between the States and protection agemst others. No other nation is situated to successfully follow this plan. France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and Holland have neither sufficient territory at home nor variety of colonies to give the necessary diversity of production. Russia has territory enough, but not sufficient popular genius for industry. At present we find all these using the principle of protection, and most of them supplementing it with bounty laws and "most favored nation" treaties. , In contemplating possible policies of reciprocal trade treaties, both France and the German empire have put on higher duties as bases for trading. The policy of absolute protection will not do for them as a permanent thing. Certain classes of food and other commodities they do not produce in sufficient quantities, and they are made too costly to their people by this policy. Yet, strangely enough, both these governments are trying the experiment of putting excessively high duties on this very class of imports, In the hope of thereby gaining greater trade concessions from the nations from whom they buy, notably the American people. Observing this policy closely, the American people are rather inclined to fall back on their economic independence and let their European customers sweat it out than to pubmit to this sort of international blackmail. At any rate, the new German and French tariffs have given a distinct chill to the reciprocity sentiment so strong a couple of years ago in the United States. There is a pretty general feeling that we can do without their money a good deal more comfortably than they can do without our pork. Most fortunately for the United States, just at this juncture has come the expansion of territory that gives us production of coffee, sugar, hemp when in 1908 we can take down the Philippine tariff and a number of other tropical products, practically completing our economic Independence. When "the groat economic struggle" Mr. Chamberlain talks about comes the United States will hold far and away the best position in the grnoral contest.

An article in the Detroit Free Press begins with "We have no recollection of a really good novel that owes its origin to a clergyman." Opinions might differ as to what constitutes "a really good novel," but preachers have done some clever writing In the story line. Not to mention others there are Rev. Edward Eggleston, who wrote a number of good stories besides "The Hoosier Schoolmaster;" Rev. Edward Everett Hale, some of whose stories are Inimitable; Rev. George O. Hepworth. author of several good stories; Rev. John Watson (Ian Maclaren), who has written some very good ones. The preachers do not show up very strong In fiction, but they have been prolific authors in other fields. An investigation started by Commissioner of Immigration Sargent shows that the United States is being shamefully imposed on in the way of undesirable immigration. Although abemt 8,000 paupers were turned back during la?t year there are now more than 6U0 who are inmates of the penal and charitable institutions of New York city and State alone. "These figures," says Mr. Sargent, "are only a part of what the whole investigation Is likely to disclose, and I have no doubt that the other big cities like Chicago and Philadelphia are going to show a similar condition." There is evidently need of more stringent legislation and strict enforcement of it. The appointment of Mr. Herbert K. Smith, of Hartford, Conn., as deputy commissioner of corporations in the new Department of Commerce is criticised in some eiuarters, apparently for no other reason than that he is not known in national politics. There is a very large number of able men In the country of whom that Is true. Mr. Pmith is a graduate of Yale, a lawyer hi general practice, served with distinction as a member of the Judiciary committee in the Connecticut Legislature, and has made a special study of corporation laws. This is a sufficient equipment for any departmental position. The State of Minnesota, whose Governor had little faith in the Sherman anti-trust law, began a suit, based on its own statutes, to have the Northern Securities Company declared Illegal. This suit has been fought out, at much expense to the State, and lost. In the meantime the action of the federal government under the Sherman law has been successful. Governor Van Sant must have been deceived by too much reading of the comments of Democratic and Populist newspapers on the Sherman law. It appears to have plenty of vitality when the right sort of determination and brains are behind it. THE HUMORISTS. ' . Needed It In His Bastaess. Comfort. Dentist I think I'll have to removs the nervo. Patient Don't do that, doctor; I'm an insurance agent. Snapped Up. New York Sun. He Do you think It will be hard for a rich man 10 enter the kingdom of heaven? Fht Oh, Mr. Moneybagss, this is so sudden: Put I am sure mamma will be delighted. Pressing It Hone. Yonkcrs Statesman. "Are marriages made in heaven, mamma?" asked little Te?sie. "Beme of them are, dear." "Where was yours made, mamma?" Paw Knew. Baltimore American. Tommy Flggjam Paw, what is nonpartisan politics? Paw Figgjam It's the disease that attacks an offensive partisan Just after he gets a deathgrip on a fat Job. She Wan It. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Soihtly I saw you in the restaurant where I took lunch to-day. Mifs r.ewt!e Nunsense! I haven't been in a rests urant for weeks. Mi. Sophtlv O but you were there all right, and they had you on the bill ot fare in big typ "peaches and cream." ConierTRtliim. Washington Star. "Wasn't the execution of the man who stole horses a trltle irregulär?' "It waa Jes' as reg'iar as we eould maka It." answered lironco Bob, stoutly. " 'Course, we didn't have no Judge or Jury handy. But we captured the feller on Wednesday an' put olt taa

nan In' till Friday, so's to have it accordin' to custom."

Polities in Blllvllle. Atlanta Constitution. Two candidates obliged us by plowing six acres for us yesterday. Our school children have been patted on the head so often of late that every ten-year-old boy in tbe town is baldheaded. Some of the candidates for local offlces in this settkment are running so fast that the sheriff can't get close enough to levy on them. A Lesson in Gravity. Judge. "Archimedes." reads the pupil, "leaped from his bath shouting. 'Eureka! Eureka!' " "One moment. Jame?," says the teacher. "What la the meaning of 'eureka?' " " Eureka' means I have found It.' " "Very well. What had Archimedes found?" James hesitates for a moment, then ventures hopefully: 'The soap, mum." THE DHIFTJ)F POLITICS. Walter Brown, of Elkhart, member of the Republican 3tate committee from the Thirteenth district, was here yesterday to be present as one of Governor Durbin's staff at the closing ceremonies of the National Guard encampment. Mr. Ilrown and the Thirteenth district have been the subject of some little gossip among politicians during the last few weeks and considerable interest is taken in the question as to whether he will be a candidate for re-election as district chairman. The question was put to him last night at the Columbia Club. "I don't know," he replied, with a quizzical smile. "There have been times when I thought I was a candidate, and again I sometimes think I shall be a candidate, but when I see interviews with prominent Republicans of the district, such as 'Alphabetical' Harrison, one of Attorney General Miller's deputies, I doubt whether I know just what I am doing or just what I shall do. You know Harrison was quoted recently as saying that I shall retire from the chairmanship. Perhaps Harrison knows best, although I don't know just where he gets his inspiration or information. He is somewhat of a puzzle to the Republicans up our way. He was formerly Identified with the Goshen Democrat, and in that position was anything but a pillar in the Republican party. He was placed In charge of Republican headquarters during the last campaign, and while in that position wrote articles for the Democrat attacking the Republican legislative candidates. He never tried a law case in his life, but Attorney General Miller selected him for one of his deputies. I may say that the Republicans of Elkhart countv feel very grateful to Mr. Miller for the recognition he has given them in this appointment. - "By the way, I might tell you a good joke on Mr. Miller. A day or two after the appearance of Senator Dausman's famous interview In the Journal I came down town and met one of our good Republicans. He asked me if I had seen the Dausman interview. 1 had. sT hi' sakl 'that Daysman says the Thirteenth district will be for Newt Gilbert for Oovernor next year because Gilbert was for Miller last year. That means, I suppose, that Miller traded off on the governorship. Well, what Dausman says must be true, for he is a close friend 0i Miller's and ought to speak with authority.' "And then he studied a minute, looked down at his little boy, who was with him, and added: " 'I woi.der if my boy, when he grows up, will ever see the day when he can go to a Republican State convention from Elkhart county and vote according to his own wishes.' " XXX To get the full benefit of all Mr. Brown had to say along this line it would be necessary .to give the fine shades of emphasis and sarcasm which he threw into his voice. Brown is known as a fighter and has been thoroughly aroused by the Dausman Interview and other things growing out of that, and he is in a frame of mind now when he does not hesitate to "say things." Senator Dausman said that Mr. Brown was seeking to control the legislative nominations from Elkhart county next year in order to be able to deliver three votes to Governor Durbin. who would be a candidate for United States senator against Beveridge. Under the circumstances Senator Dausman said he might become a candidate for renomlnation as a Beveridge man against Representative Van Fleet, who, he understood, would seek the senatorial nomination as a Durbin man. Mr. Brown denies that he has taken the position attributed to him by Senator Dausman. "All I ask," he said, "is that Senator Dausman produce or name a single reputable man in Elkhart county to whom I ever made the statement that Governor Durbin would be a candidate for the Senate, or that I had undertaken to deliver three legislative votes to him from our county. I have not said that the Governor will be a candidate because he has never intimated to me that he will be. As I said a few days ago. I have heard no talk of opposition to Senutor Beveridge except that which comes from Beveridge's friends, who seem to be borrowing trouble by insisting tht there is opposition to him. 1 still think that Beveridge is in the position of the man who needs to be saved from his fool friends, although I do not wish to be understood as implying that all of the S nator's friends are fools. I merely m an that some of them are poor advisers and poor lieutenants." XX Mr. Brown believes that Representative A. I,. Brick, of the Thirteenth, will be renominated next year without opposition. "I have heard of no opposition to Mr. Brick," he said, "and do not believe there will be any. Under any circumstances I believe he will be renominated without difficulty. Mr. Brick has made an excellent record In Congress. He has represented the district ably and is entitled to renomination. As long as a representative is satisfactory I believe that the interests of the district and of the State demand that he be continued in Congress. Indiana ia just beginning to have some prestige in Congress now because her delegation has been returned from term to term with but few changes. xxx The situation in the Thirteenth district as regards the chairmanship is growing in interest. From Mr. Brown's statement it may be taken for granted that he will be a candidate to succeed himself, and It is generally understood that Frank W. Boss, of Marshall county, will be a candidate as a Bt-verldge mii In pursuance of the efforts of the Beveridge forces to secure control of th State committee. If both men get Into the race in earnest a lively content is assured. KMX Crawford Fairbanks, of Terre Haute, le another Democratic stalwart who dodg at the suggestion that he become a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination f)f his party next year. A dispatch to the Journal from Terre Haute says: "Crawford Fairbanks, who has been making his usual end-of-the-week visit home, says the talk of him as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor next year is an Idle piece of gossip. In regard to the Indianapolis municipal campaign he said: "Some of the Indianapolis Democrats have strong hope of winning, but personally I do not care to make a statement regarding the campaign, as I am going to take no part in it." "Mr. Faiibnnks says that the Torre Haute Brewing Company is still buying property in and around Indianapolis, but he denies the purpos" to buy property in irvlngton to be used for saloii purposes. He also says there is no truth in the report th.u he is trying to get control of Spring Iake Park on the Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company's line. xxx William Jennings Bryan will enter Indiana again this week, and during the SVtll of August he Is scheduled for several addresses iit various points. To-morrow he will be at Richmond, and later In the month he will lecture at several assemblies. Met of the addresses will be as ncnpolltlcal as It Is possible for him to produce, but an effort is being made t. have him deliver a genuine, simon-pure partisan speech at Zionsville Aug. 12. Zionsville is the home of Edgar D. Maines, president of the Jefferson League, and one of the leaders of the Hoosier Bryanites. Mr. Bryan will probably be his

guest over night, and it is understood that the occasion will be made one for a rally of the promoters of the league. Mr. Bryan may pass through Indianapolis, and in that event It will be interesting to hear from htm again his opinion of l-m-ocratic City Chairman James L.. Keach. The last time he was here Mr. Bryan obaenred very sarcastically that, from all he had heard, he was inclined to think Reach would make a better chairman for a Republican committee than a Democratic. It will alsa be interesting to learn what Mr. Bryan thinks of the man Keach nominated for mayor. xxx A. S. Peacock, of the Attica Ledger, at the Columbia Club yesterday, made the statement that W. B. Reed, mayor of Attica, will be a candT?rate for State senator from the counties of Fountain, Warren and Vermillion. The district is now represented by Senator Goodwill?, who will not be a candidate again. ' Mr. Reed." said Mr. Peacock, "served four vears as prosecuting attorney of Fountain and Warren, and for four consecutive terms has ben mayor of Attiea. during which time he has put in one f the best water works plants in the State, installed a model electric light plant and made various other Improvements. And while he has been doing this he has be. n whittling the tax rate. He Is an expert In municipal affairs and in building association matters and is so thoroughly conversant with important things that come before the Legislature that he would make one of the most practical and most valuable members of that body. He is a fine speaker, a ready debater and. altogether, we thing Mr. Reed is so peculiarly fitted for the position that he ought to go there by common cons- nt." SOME OF THE NEW BOOKS

The Influence of Emerson. "As thinkers," said Emerson, "mankind have ever divided mto two sects, materialists and idealists." Emerson was an idealist, or trauscendentallst, which is another name for the same thing. Emerson was poet plus philosopher. It is thus this book discusses him, showing clearly the whole of his beliefs and high thoughts and not, as the title might indicate, tracing the influence of the philosopher on systems of philosophy. On religion, indeed, the author does show the influence of Emerson, as might be expected, since author and subject were both of the Unitarian faith. Emerson's address on "The American Scholar." before the Harvard Divinity School, was a bombshell thrown among the religionists of New England. Df. Holmes pronounced it "our intellectual declaration of independence." Emerson spoke of the beauty of nature, of spiritual laws, of which all nature that we see is but the clothing and the symbol. He spoke of the more overpowering beauty of the sentiment of vittue, which teaches us that we are "born to be perfect." "The laws of the soul execute themselves," he said. "He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled; he who does a mean deed is by the action itse contracted. If a man is at heart just, then, in so far, is he God. If a man deceives he deceives himself. Thus is man made the Providence to himself, dispensing good to his goodness and evil to his sin. " This sentiment, he said, lies at tXe foundation of society. Its absence is the presence of degradation. Such a time, said this new prophet, had come in the history of the American church. Its prayers and dogmas were grown as fabulous as Dante's "Inferno," wholly insulated from anything in the life and business of the people. Tradition, said he, characterizes the pi caching of this country; It comes not of the memory and not out of the soul. "Jesus Christ was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God Incarnates himself in man and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of His world. Jesus said: I . am divine. Through me God acts; through me speakt. Would you see God see me; or, see thee, when thou also thlnkest as 1 now think.' This address was the first clear, complete and uncompromising utterance of rational religion in America. It split Cnitarianism into two parties. Channing stood by Emerson, and, had he not died soon after this time, would have saved Unitarianism the half century which it has taken to reach Emerson's side In religious belief. But Emerson had aroused a young man of the divinity school who said of the address: "It was the most inspiring strain I ever listened tc; so beautiful, so just, so true and terribly sublime." The young man was Theodore Parker. In 1841 he preached his sermon on "The Transient and Permanent in Christianity." which, with Emerson's address and Channlng's Baltimore sermon of 1819, are the three landmarks in the history of Unitarian thought and progress. Parker was called the "Paul of Transcendentalism." 8o the influence of Emerson must be calculated partly by the influence of Channing and of Farker. Since these three men, the process of "rationalizing" has continued and has spread in the various denominations of Protestantism and has even touched the hem of Catholicism, till now in the Inner circle we seem to be in danger of rationalism as much as we were before of tradition. It seems that the constant onslaught on creeds is becoming wearisome to many, and that we now have quite as much light as we can manage well. These great men did great things in the sentiment they created, but that which humanity now needs most is not enlightenment, but sweetness and the disposition to do something. American Unitarian Association, Boston. The Mettle of the Pasture. The theme and the ethics of James Lane Allen's novel were discussed at some length in yesterday's Journal, but It must be said In addition that in this book, like others by the same author, the story is not the main thing. The charm of Mr. Allen's work Is the soul that lies back of It, the philosophy he incorporates In It, the love and appreciation of the out-of-door world that cannot be kept out of the pages. He is not only a poet, but he Is deeply spiritual, and he has an imagination that enables him to comprehend the mental qualities of men and women quite unlike himself. The minor characters in "The Mettle of the Pasture" are drawn with great care, and some of them are more Interesting than the leading figures, the feline old lady Mrs. Conyers. for instance, and Dent, the brother of the hero, and his sweetheart" Dent, a student, said one day to the girl "You know we arc all pantheists of some kind nowadays. I could never see much difference between a living thing that stands rooted in the earth, like a tree, and a living thing whose destiny it is to move the foot perpetually over the earth, as man. The union Is as close In one case as in the other. Men used to speak of the secrets of Nature; there is not the siighstest evidence that Nature has a secret They used to speak of the mysteries of the Creator. I am not one of those who claim to be authorities on the traits of the Creator. Some of my ancestors considered themselves such. But I do say that men are coming more and more t think of Him as having no mysteries. We have no evidence, as the old hymn declares, that He loves to move in a mysteriovs way. The entire openness of Nature and of the Creator these are the new w of thinking. There is nowhere sa sign that the Creator wishes to hide from us even what is life, if v.. , Ver discover what life Is. no doubt we shall then reallxe that It contained no mystery." One feels that in this and In passages following are embodied the author's personal religious views. Altogether th book is a refreshing variation from the mass of current fiction In that it recognises the existence of an Inner life, goes beneath the surface, shows that much thought has gone into It beyond the mere working out of a plot Its literary finish also shows that the author knows nothing of the haste whl h is so evident In much of the fiction of the day. It Is a real contribution to literature. The Maemillan Company. The Triumph. This is a story of love and hate, of passion and platonism, of quiet country hie and rampant lawlessness. The scene Is laid In western Pennsylvania, where oil and gas have made and unmade men. and where, in the early days of the craze, evllilisposed drillers and thdr -assistants were not always the best citizens. Arthur Stanwood Pier, the author of "The Triumph. " has made an Interesting story out of the material he had to work with. Dr. Robeson Is a typ of the aged country ph -i aa that Is not rare even In Indiana s f-sacrificiug, devoted to his patients, who has attended two or three generations of even famiiv ! In the neighborhood and who hes worn I his life away by long drives at unseemly hours and In all kinds of weather. Seal, the old doctors son. 1 the hero, and the story opens with hJs return from eollege. H. Is athletic, sympathetic and de- irolmd.

with an up-to-date education la, medicine and surgen and w'th the powes. will and intelligence to do great things. Neal. h u -ever, like many other men who cannot read aright a woman's heart, who cannot solve her whims and ways, cornea near losing the woman he loves by not openly declaring himself. Eleanor Uralg. the heroin in the story, is the woman in the case, and all enda as It rhould Other leading characters are Ike Braddish. a villainous oil driller who strikes a monster gas wed and host misdeeds finally cost him his life; Lindsay Neville, an aristocratic pulitlctaa whose parent con . try r idence Is neat Eleanor t'raig's home and whom the heroine eiinao-d h rself to marry; n4 Sally Packer, a well-known type of vsla girl whose th mghtl-ssness ame near ending disastrously for herself. The book ia well worth reading. McClure. Phillips Co., New York.

The Subatltu4. Will N. Harben has written a good story in "The Substitute." It is a type of tha better fiction of the day. well constructed, romantic, tragic, yet popular. The author wastes no time, but begins his story in tha first chapter. Geirge Buckley, of hnmbla parentage but fine innate character, falls In love with a blue-stocking of his nativa town. His father has committed a crirau which will send him to work in the coal mines. The girl George is In love with ia proud as a gut n, and George fears tha sentence placed on his father will separata him from the object of his affection. Thia love affair has a strong effect on the ymini man's character, but the ending is a haopir one. The book is so named heraus t.i hero is adopted by an old man who desirs to atone for a past sin by so edm ating and training Qaorga that he is a moral substitute for the old man In the eye of Pro 1dence. The scene is laid in northern Georgia, and there is much quaint humor and philosophy in this book of the kind found in "David Harum" and "Eben Holden." For inst; nee, Mrs. HUlyar, wife of OaOTfl a emplover, savs: "My father, who eat an si. p' with the Bible in his hand used to always keep savin', when folk? was continually a-eomplainin. 'Don't kh k agin the pricks.' An' he was right, f you s. t down on a board with a tack in it the harder you set the more tack you git, an that's so with life; it s full of tacks, an' don't you forgit it. The Lord put old Buckley in jail to keep 'im in a bunch of his kind. Oh, noi You ain't a-goin' to put up with it. an' right now yore face is sour enough lookln' to spile cream in the middle o' December.' Harper & Brothers. New York. School Gardrniag. As 65 per cent, of our exports are products of the farm, it is almost alarming io think that so few of our children know anything about them. One reason why tho country furnishes a large majority of the successful lu;-int ss men of to-day is because of the habits of productive industry taught in early childhood in farm life. There is no kind of training that squares itself for all around development like agriculture. Farmer boys are brought up to use their hands as well "as their heads, and they have quick observation and qui' decision, which is of great value to them throughout their lives. "How to Make School Gardens," by H. D. Hemenway, is Intended as an ahi to those who wish to engage in the work of cultivating a small garden In connection, with school work and tl a stimulant to enlist the interest M children in the instructive features of light gardening, it tells how to mak a school garden, how t) fertilise the land, how to plant seed, pot plants, take cuttings, how to graft and bud and many other things calculated to Inter, st intelligent children. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Felix. There is too much that is disagreeable in life without "ringing in" disagreeable things simply to occupy time. Robert Hichens's new novel can have no didactic value from any standpoint whatever. Why he should use four hundred pages of small print to tell of the love affair of a young ignoramus, who is filled with "purple emotions," and fascinated by a narcomaniac, a married woman of thirty who has formed the morphine habit, is more than any Intelligent reader can understand. Th' pathology of the mania is exposed In detail for the reader's delight, and the young man's heart, which is not a very healthy organ, is disseeted for a like purpos. . This youth has lead the "Human Comedy" of Balaac and las started out to comprise In his own life experiences as numerous and aa varied. After he has fallen a victim to the morphine eater and learns the secret of her habit, he is properly disillusionized. The book is not worth reading. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. Our Feathered Gasne. The author of this work, Dwight W. Huntington, has produced a book that will delight the hearts of all who are interested in game fowl and birds and especially of hunters. "Our Feathered Game'' Is a very complete manual of the game birds -f North America, both of land and water varieties. The author la a sportsman and the book is written prin -ipally for sportsmen, but It carrh'S enough technical information to interest ornithologists also. Beginning with a chapte r on guns . .: and one onamo clubs, parks and preserves, the authTTr treats In separate . aajvters of the different kinds of gallinaeous birds, as pheasants, grouse, partridges; of water fowls, including wild geese and all kinds of ducks, of shore birds or wader, and of rails, reedblrds and wild pigeons. The book Is handsomely Illustrated and the portraits of raawn birds an particularly One. New York: Charles Scrlbner's Sons. The dohlen Klngdoa. This is a long-winded novel of fanciful adventure written by Andrew Balfour. Three men, the principal one being Dr. Henry Mortimer, who Ulla the story In rather stiff, semi-urchalc hmgusge, sc k the Golden Kingdom. They have adv ntures of most mystical and mythical kind, the variety of which Is shown in the number snd diversity of objects that within their knowledge and experience. The hammer of Thor, great apes, the pagan, the yellow cats, paint- d caves and poisoned pots, great swamps nnd isolated Islands make a hodge-podge of ingredients that do not combine well to enchain one's Imagination. Then the narrative purports to have b.eii found nnIn the boards of a Boer Bible during the late war. Modern geography and scientific education have done much to spoil this kind of story for adult readers, and this story is too long for jdvenlle fiction. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. A Book Ahoat Dogs. All children love dogs, and they will therefore take kindly to "Dog of All Nations, in Prese and Rhyme." by Conrad G. Miller. The author is evidently himself a lover of dogs, and he has made a remarkable collection of stories about them, many of which read like tr.e stories, while some have a flavor of fiction. Most of them are In prose, but some are in verse which might fairly be called doggerel. They were first related to Interest an audience of children, and the book Is primarily a Juvenile, though adults who love do; will find something In it to interest them. Its 240 pages are devoted exclusively to stories about dogs of all kinds, sorts, sizes and nationalities. It is profusely illustrated with pictures of rlnRv. New York. Kunk & VYaaaalfl ' mpany. 1 lie Overflon ins Waters. The Topeka Fod ration of Women's Cluba has Just lssu'd a souvenir booklet bearing the above tit and containing an account of the recent flood at Toieka. The story is told by M trgar t Hill McCarter In a graphic way and contains much Information concerning the destructive and tragic evfht that did not reach the general public. A number of ill. titrations show tha character of the damage done. The pi c'Ods from the sale of the book ge to the relief fund for Notth Tpeka. The price per copy Is 2 cents ami mail or- .:! sie uM bt h .. i" Mt.-s Lue l Kingman. t2 .Monroe street. Topeka. K i lei erted Irovrl. A subtitle of this volume designates it as "a manual of Immorala for th many." The author, Col. D. Streamer. has shown his remarkable gift of versification In two or three other volumes, and In this one he applies It to expounding some wellknown maxims In a vein of irony that almost turna them Into ridicule. Such proverbs as "Virtue is Its own reward.'" Knough Is as good as a feast." "A rolling stone gathers no moss." "It is never too Isle to mend," etc.. ar- perverted by clever v rse Into very la-iialixing conclusion Xhc