The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-21

death losses paid which are chargeable to
liquor, the companies do not stop to Contest.
If this estimate or statement be true, and if
the investigation present fair e xample of
the whole business, it is an affair of vast
moment to all policy holders IL mutual COM
panies. In justice to some OF 1.-THE best COM
panies, it should be said that 1t is not likely
such a showing could be made OF their bust
ness. There is another aspect of the case
of still greater Importance. Admitting that
too much leniency is allowed in accepting
these moderate drinkers, as they style them
selves, it yet remains that the insured por-
ton of society is the soundest, taken as g
class. If six. tenths of these die, directly or
prematurely, from the fatal cause, what
would be the showing if all the deaths were
investigated promiscuouslyf And what an
enormous restriction of human life is
wrought by the common enemy, whisky?
Even Canada is beginning to ask for rest
from the fatiguing formulas of royalty. Just
as the fiuttering hearts of the home govern
ment let out the purposing OF the coming of
Arthur, to viceroythe dominion, the sturdy
Canadians are showing the colOrs of repub-
licanism and speaking out for freedom. The
been altogether pleasing to the Canadian
people; whether justly or not they charge
it to the home government and just as that
government is contemplating a closer
union between the two countries. The first
"onpleasantness" arose from a resolution
passed by the Dominion parliament last
May, directing the then governOr-generalt to
veto certain bills passed by the New Bruins
wick legislature in relation to education,
The Macdonald government referred the
matter to the home government, and Glad
stone replied that this was matter in which
the governor general must act on his own
discretion, and in which he must not accept
the advice of any responsible ministers of
the Dominion. The Macdonald program is
now superseded by the opposition, and the
interesting question comes up as to how far
Great Britain can go, in regulating the local
affairs of the Dominion, and whether if the
governor general amends one law he may
not others. In endeavoring to find salts
factory answer to these questions the people
seem to be nearly in the position of
the colonists when they were forced
to make a declaration of independence
Besides the Discussions between the French
Canadians and the 0rangemen in regard 10
Riel, there is a chance that Lord Dufferin,
the present governor general, may be sue
ceeded by the Duke of Edinburg. The To-
ronto Globe, in commenting this last
probability, says that it sees difficulties of
such magnitude in the way that it regrets it
has to place ''the attractive notion of
being governed for four years by a
royal Duke among the category of impracti-
cable things" All these expressions and
act go 10 show how strongly the local or
national spirit has been recently developed
in the Dominion, while the success of the
United States on the free and Indifferent
basis self-government must be to the
thinkers of Canada a convincing proof that
the highest developments of both countries
is identical with liberty.