The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
STATE PRESS OPINION.


Popocrat this year means a man who ex-
plains what he thought he meant last year.
-Logansport Journal.
Wool has made as big an advance as
wheat in the past year. Is that the result
of scarcity" too?-Gas City Journal.
Why have railroad stocks gone up? Simply
because there is more work for the roads,
more grain and people to transport, and
greater earninGs.-VinSennes Commercial.
President Mckinley is no longer the adj
vance agent of prosperity, because, having
arrived and taken possession of the coun-
try, prosperity no longer needs an advance
agent--GoShen Times
With confidence fully restored there
seems to be enough money to do the busi-
ness of the country, and that too when bet
ter prices are paid for products and better
wages to DECENTRALIZATION News.
1t may be that the advance in wheat is
due to shortage abroad, but how about cot
ton. wool, barley, corn. tobacco, oats and
meats of all kinds? They have advanced,
too, and yet silver has fallen.-Kokomo
Tribune.
So valuable are the wheat nuggets in Tip
ton county that the largest acreage ever
known will be sown this fall Farmers are
not afraid to put out big wheat crop
under a Republican administration.-T1pto
Advocate.
The year 1897 will go down in history as
the yellow year of the century. While
the farmers are cribbing the yellow grain,
Klondikians are gathering yellow gold,
Democracy is showing a yellow streak on
made his appearance at New Orleans.
-Greensburg Review.
The Republican doctrine of the supply
and demand fixing the market price has
stood SO long and is so plain that the free
silver push are now attempting to appro-
pirate it to their own use But that at
faOOf nnlV establishes the firmly their
dishonesty, because they have always ar
gued against charlottesville Republican.
What did Republicans say would be the
case in the event of their winning at the
last national election? Didn't they say that
there would be no lack of gold in the re-
serve fund? Hasn't it proven true? For the
first time in years the treasurer of the
United States has officially informed the
subtreaSurers that gold is not wanted by the
government-Laporte Herald.
VIII the gentlemen who year ago were
telling us that this country was going to
everlasting smash and the people to wretch
edness and proverty please tell us how it
is that farmers are paying off mortgages
right and left and getting good prices for
their products, with silver lower that at
any time in its history mount Vernon Re-
publican.
The negligence of the people, the good
people, at that is what permits the growth
Of bands of thieves and conspirators who
rob and harass communities. Inattention
to the simple. primary duties OF citizen
ship allows law breakers to get into power
or to overawe the courts and public opinion.
Mob law is the inevitable sequence OF such
neglect.-MadisOn Courier.
Bryanites will certainly not be such min
MES as to rejoice at the claim that Mexico's
silver basis will enable her farmers to I'M
dersell American farmers in the wheat mar
ketS of the world, when 1t is remembered
that the Mexican farmer is too poor to AFT
ford To cot hVoo Ho lie Ourr7 NH
or tiitches of bacon from the pig which has
been raised as member of his own house
hold.-Peru Republican.
The prompt action of Governor Mount in
the Versailles lynching affair is highly COM
mendable, and all law-abiding citizens will
sustain him in his efforts to ferret out the
lynchers and bring them to speedy justice.
Indiana will not tolerate such disgraceful
proceedings and If necessary the entire re-
sources of the State should be brought into
action to aid in the arrest and punishment
of the guilty parties.-Muncie News.
There is a sort of sickly sentimentality
growing up in this country that gives Ii
cense to crime. 1t is found in the jury box,
where the eloquent lawyer hides crime and
paints word pictures to deceive. 1t is found
in pardon boards which review cases and
send criminals out into the world to renew
their desperate lives without thought of the
heart-acheS on the other side. 1t is found
in the deprecatory gesture of the hands up
lifted in horror over the acts of good people
who take measures for protection when
other means fail.-Evansville Journal
The Indianapolis Sentiners attempt to
make Governor Mount responsible for the
Versailles lynching exposes the intensity of
that newspapers prejudice. OF course no
one will accept its theory that the lynchers
were encouraged by the belief that they
would escape punishment because weak
man is Governor of the State. In the first
place ii is not probable that the mob ever
thought of the Governor as having any pos
sible duty to perform in the matter. In the
second place Governor Mount is not a weak
man. The Sentinels prejudice has blunted
it's perceptive faculties and ii does not see
that it is simply exposing its animosity
toward the Governor without convincing
anyone of what it says about him.-Terre
Haute Express,
The Wells county schools have been pro-
vided with sheet iron boxes in which slate
pencils will be placed and then put in an
oven to roast germs to death. After speak
ing of this novelty the Bluffton Chronicle
ironically observes: prior to the introduce
ton of this pencil-boiling apparatus the
! mortality in the Wells county schools has