The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-24
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.


Business is not what it ought to be and
labor is not absorbed as it should be, but
thanks to the Republican party the profit
and the wage are worth 100 cents on the
dollar.-Ft. Wayne Gazette.
The theory that a tailoring man can i'm
prove his condition by favoring foreign i'm
portation of manufactured goods is what
good Republicans have never been able to
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Foreign markets are valuable but the
market that stands far above all others
for the American is the American market.
1t is worth dollars where the others are
not worth cents.-Elwood Call-Leader.
If the tariff law can be put upon the
statute books in time for a glorious Fourth
of July ratification of it it will give the
has had in a long time.--Kokomo Tribune.
Changing the President without changing
the laws which affect the Importation of
goods cannot lift prosperity out of the
slough Of deSpond into which the last adj
ministration hurled it.-Fort Waye Gazette.
Speech making in the United States Sen
ate upon the tariff question is not demand
ed by the people, What the people want is
action-and prompt action. While the
Senate talks the people of the whole land
sutfer.-Shelbyville Republican.
The people are pretty thoroughly in
formed on the tariff question and know
what they want Please push it along with
out any great oratory. We are willing for
it to be made a matter of record that all
the senators are orators. Give US action.
Fowler Republican-Er
The Congress of the United States should
sit down hard on any legislation which
seems to be in the interest of trusts. For
this reason the House should never allow
the sugar schedule as agreed upon by the
Senate to become a part of the tariff law.
-Middletown News.
One of the first countries Mr.. Bryan
should visit during his coming tour is Peru.
They need him there to explain why the
free coinage of silver at 16 to l has not
brought the whole currency up to the level
of gold, as promised in his Madison-sQuare
speech.-ShelbyVille Republican.
This government proposes to spend a
great deal more money in feeding starving
American citizens in Cuba and considerable
for Spain along the Atlantic coast That
is what the change from Clevelandism to
Mckinleylsm means, - Nincennes CONNER
cial ia
Just at the present tine the Wilson-Gor-
man bill is quite productive of revenue, hut
not of protection. However, this is on
count Of fear of additional duties under the
Dingley bill, which importers are led TO fear
will soon be enacted. They are making
hay while the sun shines and are not TO
be censured for it.-Parke County Journal.
The Republican party has not yet had an
opportunity to eriacrfti1zfr policy which it
declared was a condition precedent to pros
perity When it does so, it will redeem it's
pledges. Remedial legislation of such vast
importance cannot be passed IN a day
physician cannot purge his patient OF dis
ease at once; neither can a government re-
cover in six months from four years of
vicious legislation.-Ne rnon Journal.
Taxing life insurance policies is unwise,
invested in them brings the investor per-
scnally no return. Other investments may
earn money for the investor Ordinary life
insurance cannot. The State should en-
courage life insurance, for it promotes thrift
and prevents widows. and orphans from be-
coming a tax upon the public. - Madison
Courier.
A Jeffersonville friend assures the
Tribune that there are now employed in
that city over a thousand more men than
at this time last year. About thousand
at work in the Ohio Falls car works
and about four hundred at Towards ship
yards, where several vessels are on the
stocks. This is in preparation for the good
times coming after the passage OF pro-
tectiVe tar1H meaSure.-NeW Albany
Tribune.
Some people think good times ought to
have come quickly after McKinley's election
and inauguration, because hard times came
quickly after Cleveland's election and inau-
guration. Do they not know that house
can be pulled down or blown up with dy
Mantle quicker than a house can be built?
Free trade dynamite blew our prosperity
house to pieces 1t takes some time to gath
er UP the fragments and reconstruct it.
New Albany Tribune.
Even with the slight steps made by the
dilatory Congress in the direction of proper
legislation a difference is noticed in the
trend and tendency of trade. Commercial
and financial reports indicate a rising state,
and capital is beginning to reach out, seek
ling investments. The leaVen of political
reason will soon sweeten the whole mass,
and return to the old good and whole
some conditions may be confidently expect
ed in due time.-Wabash Tribune.
1t took four years of purely partisan leg
islation and administration to reduce
the business of the country to it's present
impoverished condition. and the wreckers
cry out now, with a chuckle of delight:
Where is the prosperity you promised us?'
A Democratic administration had four
years in which to kill it, and it is a little
too much to suppose that a Republican adj
ministration could restore 1t instantly.
-Pendleton Republican.
1t will please conservative Indianians to
note that their junior United States senator
refused to join the jingoes in a step that
threatens our peaceful relations with Spain.
Senator Fairbanks has kept cool in this
in the Senate Thursday he did his best, by
protesting and by offering substitute res
olution, to stem the tide, but ii could not
be done. Nevertheless Senator Fairbanks's
re cord on the question is what il should be.
-Terre Haute Express.
No development in the business world has
attracted more attention than the recent
announcement by a leading commercial
agency that the sales of goods in April
were within a small fraction of the amount
in the most prosperous business year which
the country has had for a long time. That
there is q genuine revival in business actiV-
ity is apparent, not alone from this an
nouncement, but from the statements of the
press, irrespective of party, in every section
of the country.-Goshen Times.
The visit of a delegation of South Ameri-
can merchants and business men to the
United States this week shows that the
shrewd business people Of thai part of the
world recognize the fact that a party IA
VIC rable to closer business relations between
the American republics IS in power in this
country. The contrast between the methods
of the Republicans and the Democrats in
ging close trade relations between
all Americas is SO strongly marked that
people of those countries found diff
Guilty in recognizing the Republican victory
Of 1896 as an assurance that their trade
ENJOYS would be welcomed and their prof
fers of closer business relations likewise
Huntington Herald.
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