The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Editors of County Papers Are Saying
on Topics of Current Interest.


| of the management of the Cook county
| Qllinois) asylum, orr Dr.. Harrison feels
| about halfway respectable.
Warsaw Times: Governor Hill. of Ne W
York, says that he lis refOrmer," yet he
| vetOes every reform bill passed by the
Legislature 1t is evident that Governor
Hill is only Democratic refOrmer.
,Ligonfer Leader: The indications are
| that the Prohibition party is losing
strength everywhere, 1t has never ac.
be soy9a fG Sag and
| it should disband entirely.
Charlottesville Journal: The Western
| Christian Advocate remarks that it is bet
| ter to prohibit in a town or a township
than not to, prohibit at all" The few
| should now send to the Advocate, stop
| my paper"
Morgan County Reporter: Some people
| possess the happy faculty of being pleased
| with an article of whatsoever quality if
| they but know that it has cost them an ex-
| enacted State laws will doubtless prove
especially edifying.
Huntington Argus: Corporal Tanner has
| issued an order which prohibits the post
| office address of pensioners being given out
| for publication. This is to protect the
| soldiers from the arriy claim agents. 1t is
| a good thing. Your home attorney, if you
| must have one, is the best one to employ
| Tor many reasons.
Columbus Republican: Already can
ee seen pn1 CHANGES ra ae
| Democrats to Republicans, but improve
| ments in the efficiency of it. The incom-
petents are being displaced by experienced
hand. and in the course of few months
| the people will again have some confidence
| IN the mails.
Hunting ton Argus: The Civil-service Com
| mission already has some 1900 applications
| on file from persons who desire to be exam
they understood clearly the severity of the
work, and the inadequacy of the pay, the
majority of them would devote their ener-
| ges to some line of labor in which the COM
pensatiOn bears a ulster relation to the
work demanded.
| New York Tribune: The competition
| caused by the Southern iron-producers has
| brought down the price of iron to point
| SO low that even free-traders admit that
the tariff does not affect it. and forthwith
| they begin clamOr of voices demanding
| to know what is the use of the tariff. Its
| use is to prevent foreign producers from
closing our mills and then putting up
| prices higher than ever.
| Huntington Herald: Democratic organ
| asks: If the mail service was bad when
| clerks We're dropped out gradually how is
| it to be now with nearly all new menY"
| The bulk OF the appOintees in the railway
| mail service are the old men that Villas and
Dickinson kicked out of office to make
| room for Democratic bummers One of
them knows as much in minute about the
mails as the other fellows know all day.
Marion Chronicle: The discovery of what
| promises to prove an lncxhaustlble Oil ter
| ritory in the neighbOrhoOd of Terre Haute
| again brings the State of Indiana into prom
inence. With the largest gas fields in the
world, with enough coal just beyond the
surface of the earth to supply the country
| for centuries, and with the richest farming
| lands in the Union, the HOosier State is
| bound to come to the 'front.'
Terre Haute Express Mind-reader Bish-
| Op may have been dead for ducat, or for
all time, so to speak, but the surgeons
| might have waited more than three hours
to discover the peculiar brain formation of
this remarkable individual. 1t is hardly
the proper thing to publish the news of a
| mans death and the analysis of his brain
in the same issue of a morning paper when
death comes in the afternoon before.
Indiana Pocket: The Democratic Phila-
delphia Record saws that tariff reform is
going right along" Certainly it is. The
| Republicans are in control of the legisla-
| tive as we'll as the executive branches of
the government, and will push tariff reform
right along. Experience has proven to the
country that the only party having the in
the Republican party, and that is one of
the reasons why that party has been put in
| power.
Richmond Palladium: The Atlanta Con-
stitution is excited over the report that
President Harrison will select a Pennsyl-
vania man to fill place on the bench in
Florida, and revives one of its old editori-
ais on carpet-bag rule in the South. The
Constitution found no fault with carpet
bag rule in Dakota and other sections of
the West when President Cleveland sent
| New York men out there to act as Govern
Ors, sit on the bench as judges and hold all
the other offices. Mr.. Grady is always SEN
sitive when it is his own bull that is gored.
Hancock Democrat: Ten or twelve hogs
in each of the cars arriving at Indianapo-
lis, Oh Wednesday of last week, were found
to be dead. but whether from heat or dis
ease is not known. They were all taken
out and, probably, made into lard, if not
bacon. Fears of this kind is what operate
against the sale of the product of the hog
in foreign ports. Even the Greasers OF
Mexico have interdicted the sale of Amer
lean lard in that country State legis-
latures and Congress should pass severe
and wholesome laws to prevent adultera-
ton in articles of food of all kinds
How to Crush the Sugar Trust.
Boston Herald.
If specific tax of, say 1-2 cents pound