The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
CURREST THOUGHr AND OPINION.

THE present silver dollar is an honest dol
lar. and must be accepted as such. butit may
be for the best interests of the country to in
crease sOmewhatits intrinsic value.-Chicago
Inter-Ocesn-
The theory that it is best to suppress news
of a scouge or an epidemic Is q fslIacy Of
criminal magnitude. aud should be go
declared by law.-Topeks, Kss., Saturday
Evening Lance.
One thing Is established. The President is
the head of the administration. BE is big.
ger man than any one eft his advisers. snd
every one of them feels it and admits it,
Washington Capital.
SUcH.imsginstion as is left among authors
finds its field most readily in novel writing.
world waits for their successors. VIII they
appear Boston Herald.
ST EEvER was one to feel good because
another man felt bad. How would you have
liked il If someone had taken comfort be-
cause his boy lived when ours died?'-"5Iss
LsDham" in HoWells' new story in The Gen.
fury.
II Riel is 3 coward Middleton is safe. II
he is not, terrible disaster to the Dominion
troops is in store. The two leaders are play
ing q high game, and just now it is difficult
to say which of them Is bluffing the more
New York Herald.
EVERY few days We notice plaintive cry
from the East for more United States bonds,
or at least for 8 stcppage Of the redemption
of the pub debt. The Eastern stock gam
blers want more chips to play with.-SsA
Francisco Chronicle.
BESIDES being made ilIustrious by an un-
exsmpled exhibition of American courage,
on the battle field Of Gettysburg were spoken
the most eloquent words that ever fell from
the lips of an American orstor-the grafton
of Abraham Lincoln -LouisVille Times.
THE scheme Of q syndicate composed of
such men as the Duke OF Argyll for buying
up the great tracts of land in England and
selling them out IN small farms ''at cost is
one that will be approved by all good men.
1t viii do much toward Keeping down social
istic Observation-Disclosures State.
Qua system of paying fair salaries to legis.
lators permits workmen to enter legislative
bodies, and so care for the interests of labor.
If the workers, with their heavy vote and
complete organization, fail to protect them
selves at this point they have only them
selves to blame.-Philsdelph ia Evening Call.
TBE spirit Of communism in Chicago ap-
pears to have aboGt reached its limit in the
strike Of the prisoners confined in the Bride
well fer improvement 10 the qua ity of their
food. The authorities should open their
culinary department to competition, and
give Delmonlco and Pinard chance to bid.
Brooklyn Union.
IT Is unfortunate for the country that no
means exist for disciplining State of thia
kind. 1t hss not republican form of gov
eminent. It is a plutocrsoy and sristocracy
which develops not American citizens, bat
'better ciasses" and poorer classes" aristo-
Gratis and slaves, rulers and subjscts.-Chica.
20 Herald on Rhode Islands laws.
GIVE European Turkey over to Russia, and
she would not have completed the assimila
ton of that acquisition before she would ba
intriguing for the Valley of the Euphrates
Give her that and she would want Persia.
And VIXEN che had swallowed everything
else Der hunger for India would be stronger
Than eveT.-Washington Sunday Herald.