The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-30
CURRENT COMMENT

Butler as newspaper publisher-well,
WE'LL We shall probably next hear of the
devil blowing soap-bubbles with holy water,
Springfield Republican.
How penitently ought members of con-
gress to say: 1--WE have done those things
which we ought not to have done, and left,
uudone those things which we ought to have
done. boston Globe.
Apropos of Grants yindication of Boss
Shepherd, the n. Y. Evening Post makes an
odious comparison: Suppose after the ex-
posure of the ring frauds in New York, the
legislature bad decided to turn over the gov
eminent of the city to three commissioners.
Suppose Gov. Hoffman had then sent in tie
name of William NJ. Tweed to be chairman
of the commission,
The Graphic thus comments on the ad-
journment of congress: Now that the ses-
sion is about over, business undoub.edlywill
improve, which is perhaps the severest COM
mentary that can be made upon its con-
duet. Congressman can hardly be uncon-
scious of the utter want of respect which the
people at large feel for them. And this want
of respect will soon become downright hos
tilty unless they show a little more regard
to the duties and dignity of their Office.
Precious preaching is this of the Cincin-
natl Commercial. Would it were practiced:
An organ can hardly understand how an in
dependent journal can praise the good in
president usually wrong. The Office of the
independent journalist, however, is to tell
the truth, whether it hurts the wicked or
helps the righteous. We have as much
pleasure in praising Graut when he is right
as if We had never had occasion TO blame
him. II is the truth that is the thing 10
tell.
Owing to the scarcity of currency in In
diana, Senator Morton has instructed post
masters to pass through the mails letters to
which sticks of seasoned cord-wood, at least
three inches in diameter and three feet from
point to scarp, free from knots, have been
affixed as stamps. basket of chips will
frank a transient newspaper. By this means
he hopes TO tide the country over the sum-
mHr till the pawpaws ripen. If there is an
average crop of that luscious fruit, the suf-
fering west will have a sufficient circulating
medium not founded on the pernicious gold
basis, till the forty-fourth congress MEETS
st. Louis Globe.
Thus does the Rochester Democrat discuss
the third term project: If dc .Iocracy is q
failure. better that we learn the fact than our
children. third term might not mean des-
potism-it would not, in point of fact, if it
should come. A third term would be the
choice of the people, precisely as it has been
hundred times; and if the choice
Of the people is not democratic, what is9
There is executive patronage; but there al
ways has been. There is executive infiu-
ence in a hundred ways; but not to a greater
extent than heretofore. The suppositiOn Of
The lunatics is that the people do not know
how to take care of themselves; and if that
8 the case, to tell the truth, they need to be
aiken care of.
The performance of Butler and the rest on
his field, furnishes the Utica Observer with
ood for melancholy: 1t means that the law
yivers of these United States are hardly ca
able ofrising above the coarsest personali-
les. 1t means that in the place Of states
men we have adventures and demagogues
% legislate for the Republic. 1t means that
he Forty Third Congress is so mean in its
Ibility and low in its instincts that after
eaving the most important questions which
ould engage its attention unsolved. it de-
lights itself with attacks and rejoinders in
he style of frontier debating club. 1t
means that the government has fallen under
he control of men who are not ut to admin
ster il.