The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-12
WILL ]. LANeToS.

THIS export of gold is as intimately re-
lated to the coinage of silver dollars as il is
TO the next transit of Venus or the bean
crop of SO. 1t is about time for some able
monometalist to discover that silver coinage
is responsible for hog cholera.-Rhode Island
Democrat
CONSIDERING the frequency with which
lawyers reach tor their pistol pockets in the
courts of this city, it is remarkable that no
blood is ever shed. This severe self-control
and high respect for human life saws much
for the moral grandeur of the Bar-San
Francisco Post.
THE Louisville Journal calls-for ''defni-
ton of Democracy" complaining that
prominent Democrats are found on each
side of every proposition" The only defini-
ton that will hold water at the present time
is that Democrat is one who habitually
votes the Democratic ticket. Beyond TINS it
isn't safe to go.-Boston Herald.
THE money going to France will never be
repaid. The French debt has passed across
the dead-line. 1t will be abolished. Let
America take notice. The way to evade any
such mishap this side of the ocean is to pay
our public debt as we get the money-uot
let $500, 100000 lie in the Treasury, as now,
temptation for communists and a false
source of income for per cent. bondholders.
II is probable that the statutes of nearly
all the States afford protection to peaeable
citizens against undue oppression and If not
the present agitation will doubtless lead to
the perfection of legislation bearing on the
case. If there is grievance the legal rem
edy ought to be sought in all cases. This
country is not going to be given over to mob
rule and the reign of violence for the benefit
either of the boycotters or the boycotted--
st. Paul Dispatch.
"PooLs" create an enormous and un7e-
strained power over commerce, which is mob
provided for in legislation. They can in a
days session make rate changes affecting
commerce more than any tariff bill of Con-
gress and enact edicts which may suspend
the movements of great staples over half the
country. 1t is by pool combination of this
absolutism of corporate power, that the
Standard Oil infamy was poSsible.-Nash-
vile (Tenn.) American.
THE best boycott vet proposed is that of
the genuine workingmen of New York
against the blatherskite Socialists and disor-
derby scamps who undertake to gain notori-
ty on the shoulders oil the genuine working
men. These adventures do not work; they
loaf around the street corners and the sa-
looms. They hear early of any proposed
meeting of workingme1, and as they have
plenty of time to spare they are on the
ground early, occupy the front places and
do the shouting.-St. Lake Tribune.
THERE is no reason why the State should
recognize the death of Christ that would not
he an objection to its recognizing the birth
of Washington. The death of Christ has thus
far proved an event of greater historical, sig
nificance than. the birth OF Washington and
the recognition of its anniversary as an his
torical event is perfectly proper, and is not
in any sense an interference of the State. with
religion. The appointments of an annual
fast may be objected to on grounds of public
expectancy, and it is not Improbable that in
few years this ancient Connecticut custom
will be abandoned, but it is evident that the
spontaneous recognition OF Good Friday is
growing all over the country, and will con-
tinue to grow until it is usaiveraal New H4-
ven Conn Morning News.