The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-13


THIS is a country where the will of the
people may be the law of the land, and they
alone are to blame if it is not.-Boston Her
aid.
ENGLISH ladies are forming Liberal and
Conservative ladies' clubs. This is not
ion of male suffrage.-St Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
OPEN competition rests on the solid basis
of equal rights and fair play, and it is prin-
ciple so thoroughly democratic in its charac-
ter, so completely in harmony with the
theory of our institutions and the spirit of
our people that the method would seem to
commend itself to universal approval
Governor Hill.
THE whirligig of time never brought about
a more complete, symmetrical revenge than
that which makes the despised Irishman
master to-day of the British Parliament. Up
to within five years, home ruld has been
only sort of standing, recurrent joke in that
body, Just as women suffrage is in our Leg
islature, and as the abolition of slavery used
to be in the days of that pesky crank, John
Quincy Adams.-Boston Transcript.
Bur, if the press may say a word to the
pulpit, nothing is palmer than that there
must be some defect in either the spirit or
the methods of the churches. There must
be more which they could do to popularize
the good which they present. And there is
nothing so popular as downright honest
human sympathy. Churches whose men,
bership, teachings and methods are pervaded
by this spirit, on week days as on Sundays,
will always and everywhere draw people to
them.-Chicago Inter-0cean.
THE establishment of schools for Indian
children lis a very important step in the
right direction, and their effect is excellent,
so far as they go; but from the imperfect
knowledge in my possession it seems to me
that they should be established on a larger
scale, and that thus far mistake has been
made in attempting to spread their adyant-
ages over too many tribes at the same time.
If small number of educated young In
dians-half dozen or so-are sent back to
their tribe, they are too few to stand alone
ard keep each other in countenance, and
are apt to be lost in the mass of the tribe
without producing much, if any, influence
upon them; while if, instead of taking half
dozen from each of several tribes, as many
as 100 are taken from one tribe, they would
upon their return strengthen each other,
and accomplish good results with the others.
George B. Mcclellan, in Harper's Maya
zine for January
THE Wisconsin Central Railroad, for pro-
hibiting the porters of their parlor and sleep
ing cars from receiving any gratuities what
ever from the patrons of the road, should
receive the gratitude and patronage of all
that portion of the travelling public who
have eyer been subjected to the abominable
and growing custom of tipping. In the first
place the patron of the parlor or sleeping car
pays, in addition to his regular fare,
sum which the railroad COM
pany has named as being an equiva-
lent for the extra accommodations which
they agree, for such extra payment, to fur
nish him; and having paid for the accommo-
dations once he is clearly entitled to enjoy
them without further payment either to the
railroad company or anybody else. In the
second place the traveller has nothing what
ever to do with the relations between the
railroad company and its employees except
to make complaint to the company when
the services which it has guaranteed the
public are not rendered as the company
agreed they should be.-Chicago University.