The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-18
CURRENT THOUHHr 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.Ocean.
The theory that it is best to suppress news
of scouge or an epidemic IS fsllacy of
criminal magnitude End should be so
declared by law.-Topeka, Kas., Saturday
Evening Lance.
ONE thing is established. The President is
the head of the administration. He is big.
ger man than any one of his advisers and
every one of them feels it and admits it,
Washington Capital.
SUcH.imagination as is left among authors
finds its Fl ED most readily in novel writing.
The great poets are dead or dumb. The
world waits for their successors. Will they
appear. Boston Herald.
n NEVER was one to fesl good because
another man felt bad. How would you have
liked ii If someone had taken comfort be-
cause HE boy lived when ours died p" Silas
Laphsn" in Howells new story in The Gen.
tury.
u
be is not, o terrible disaster TO the Dominion
troops is in etors. Toe two leaders are play
ing a 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 stoppsge of the redemption
of the public debt The Eastern stock gam
blers want more chips to pay with.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
BESIDES being made illustrious by an un-
exampled 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 orator-the Grafton
Of Abraham Lincoln Louisville Times.
Our system of paying fair salaries to legis.
lators permits workmen to enter legislative
bodies, and go care for the interests of labor.
II the workers, with their heavy vote and
complete organization, fail to protect them
selves at this point they have only them
selves to blame.-Philadelph Evening Call.
The spirit of communism in Chicago ap.
pears to have about resched its limit in the
strike of the prisoners confined in the Bride
well for Improvement in the quality OF their
food. The authorities should open their
culinary department to competition, and
give Dslmonlco and Plnald q chance to bid.
Brooklyn Union.
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 al good men.
1t will do much toward keeping down social.
istic Observation-Disclosures State.
IT is unfortunate for the country that no
means exist for discipliniBg State of this
kind. 1t has not g republican form of gov
eminent. 1t is plutocracy and aristocracy
which develops not American citizens, but
"better CLASSES and poorer classes" aristo-
Gratis and slaves rulers and subiects.-Chica.
60 Herald on Rhode Islands laws.
GIVE Europesn Turkey over to Russia, and
she would not have completed the sssimila-
ton of that acquisition before che would be
intriguing for the Valley of the Euphrates.
Give her that and she would want Persis.
And when she had swallowed everything
else her hunger for India would be stronger
than ever-Washington Sunday Herald.