The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.

NOW II Mr.. Bryan viii follow the exam
pie OF the women who kept dumb for fifty
years all VIII be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Call.
Mr.. Bryan can get up highly humorous
lecture by, piecing together his serious re-
Times.
The Democratic party may count itself in
great luck if it can find an issue on which
une.
II things keep on coming our way as they
have been for the past few weeks it will
certainty not be out of order to spell pros
perity with big P-Middletown News
Now that free silver stands no show of
again being a campaign cry, the party
without an issue might take up the anti
vaccination hobby.-FOrt Wayne Gazette.
Those farmers who spent their time last
fall eXpounding on the certainty of calam-
ltous times this year if Mckinley was
perlty now, They have neither wheat nor
corn 10 sel.-Decatur Journal.
AS soon as the strike is settled and the
miners receive living wages for their labor,
there Will be but few-tmen out of a Job
except the calamity howlers. For this par
uculaf class the signs of the times are now
very lnausplclous.-Parke County Journal
The Democratic theory of the taxed dim
ner pail is no longer listened to by the
workman who is now receiving regular en-
ployment and wages. Let the dinner pail
be taxed, If necessary, he says. Better fun
ana taxed than free and empty.-Wabash
Plaindealer
Young men about the towns and cities
eking out a miserable existence. might
make themselves Independent by going into
the country and help cultivate some of
America waste acres. There are certainly
great opportunities in store for the Amer
lean farmer.-South Bend Tribune.
Men who are crazy on the subject of free
silver are pretty hard to please. Now that
the free-silver theory that the rise and fall
IN the price of silver, rather than the law
OF supply and demand, regulates the price
OF wheat mas been ulsproved, they find
fault because the farmers are not getting
two dollars for their wheat rather than one
-Ierre Haute Mail.
The single tax, the, initiative and referen-
dunn, and other new fads in regard to gov
eminent functions are now being carefully
studied by the Democratic leaders who see
that their cid ISSUES have lost force with
the people. 1t is perfectly apparent that
the Democratic leaders have got to find a
new issue for next campaign, or else go out
of business.-Huntingto Herald.
About the largest farmer at the new
French postotfice in this country, who
is infatuated with the 16 to 1 free-silver
fallacy and fully persuaded that wheat
would decline in price in exact ratio to the
decline of silver, as he proclaimed on the
stump and everywhere last fall and in the
past spring and summer, advised and urged
his neighborS to sell their wheat Just as
soon as possible. A number of them did
and got 80 cents for it, Now that 1t is
worth so cents to 81, they are kicking them
selves Tor being led by party prejudice and
theories to sacrifice their crop. They now
admit that facts and conditions are against
Democratic Notwithstanding Sun Recorder
To carry out the provisions of the new
compulsory educational law the city school
board of Indianapolis intends to levy the
maximum limit of tax for that purpose
that being 10 cents on each 800. This will
yield an additional revenue to that city of
$llo, 900. Superintendent GOss, Of the city
schools of Indianapolis who was the au-
thor of the compulsory law, says that the
erection of new buildings was contemplated
IN the measure, although no section of the
law expressly SO states. One section pro-
videS for the building of 'truant homes
for ipcorrgibles. We do not believe the
courts will sustain his theory that the spe-
cal levy can be used for the erection of or
binary school uildings.-Noblesville Led
ger.
The enforcement of the new compulsory
education law will cost Marion county On
dianapolis) Sis, 600 the coming year. The
Indianapolis Journal makes vigorous pro-
test against this additional expenditure in
that county for educational purposes. In
discussing the matter the Journal says:
THE compulsory education law, if pushed
to the limit, will be repealed the first week
of the next session, not because the Legis-
lature will be opposed to compulsory educa-
ton, but because compulsory education in
the present law is simply a pretext to
strengthen the grasp of the official school
managers upon the State" We hope the
Journal is correct in its prediction that the
law will be repealed AS framed it may
and will impose an unnecessary burden on
the taxpayers of the State The truancy
figures as presented to the Legislature were
simply a shrewd piece of jugglery. There
is not One-fourth the amount of truancy
in the State-such as is expected to be
reached by this law-shown by those fig
ures.-Richmond Palladium