The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-29
BROTHERS-IN-LAW

WORSE THAN MOrHERS-IN-LAW.
TIC HIST0RY-BREwERs OF TROUBLES AND
FoMENToRs OF DIsCoRD-CAsES IN POINT,
The New York World has the following
editorial over the caption of the brother-In-
law: A great deal has. been written against
the mother in law She has been the target
o. everything in literature from the sarcasms
of Artemus Ward TO the plstitudes of Eli
Perkins. She has been compa ed in sue
cession to all the plaques of Egypt,
greatly to the advantage of the plaques.
She has been pronounced a more danger
Gus visitor than the hghtning-rod man, and
| greater bore than the life insurance agent.
She Is said 10 be the very person In the
world who will come oftener and stay longer
than the book peddler. IG is reported that it
costs more TO keep ber for a summer than a
whole army of tIamps, and finally she is de-
clared TO be worse IN a household than a
revolution in ate, an earthquake in a
city, or an eruption in a volcano. or the
truth or falsity of these estimates OF the
average motLer-in-lsw We have nothing to
say at present; but we do think IL is time that
the atte ntion of the American people should
be diverted from female relatives By mar
riage and turned
SERIOUSLY TO THE RACE OF BROTHERS IN
LAW.
Who is ii that takes the husband out to the
theater, carries him off TO the billiard saloon
when the play is over, and brings him home
soaked with old Falernian? The brother
in-law. Who is it that is always asking you
to Il nd him money or iDdorse his paper or
GO on bis baIl-boud? Your brother in law.
Who is it that ta, got you into 80 difficult
ties and never got you out of one? Your
brother-in-law. Above all, who is it that
has corrupted and degraded our whole sys-.
tenn of politics until the civil service is like
a den of thieves? We answer mournfully,
the brotber-ID law. The beginning Of.
President Grants misfortunes lay in the
multitude OF brothers-in- law. 1t was.
impossible that be should 90 his
duty honestly with them about him, and
as one blupder followed another the public
grew accustomed to the curse, and asked
plscidly whenever new piece OF mslfea-
sance in office was reported, (which OF his
brothers-in-lsw is it this timer" 1t was
soon tound out, howeyer r, that Grant WAS
not the only mao in the country who had
brother-in-law. Nearly every politician Of
any influence was supp lied with one Of
tbes6 valuable articles, and anxiously
sought to get rid of him 10y foisliug him into
the federal government t. The consequence
has been that we are p.ow livipg in the era
of brothers in-law, anfi every Thing Is goin e
to destruction. II a revenue collecsor is q
defaulter you may be sure that he is
SOME SENATOR'S BRoTHER-IS-LAw.
If an Indian agent is caught In piece OF
knavery, you are pr city certain to be on the
right track when ou ask what member Of
the administration be is connected with by
marrisg4. Ii a soldier runs away, it is
prima ,acie proof that some leading politi-
clan is married to his sister. And even in
cases where the brotber-in-law happens to
be decent fellow and inclined to perform
the duties entrusted to him with fair
amount of DILIGENCE, he invsribly mas some
brother, or ANGLE, or brother in-lsw OF his
own who 'Orings him TO destruction. A
striking illustration of this fact is
offered in the case of the postmaster
OF Indianapolis, who is Senator Nor
toms brot her-in-law, and is sffi cled with a
wicked brother, Who has been cheating the
department for months directly under the
postmasteT's - own eyes, and has now been
indicted by the Unifed States srand jury.
rhe discredt of bis knavery is reflected upon
his own relative aud through him ials upon
| the austere figure OF the senator from In
diana, who is compelled to blush for the
crimes of his brother-in-law's brother. This
is not proper state of things. lt is time
that in the interest of all Cbristian states
| men the reign OF this class should cease. Let
| the vile deceivers be thrust from office. and
let IL be understood hereafter that 10 mans
brother-in-lsw shall be put on guard,