The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-14
STATE PRESS OPINION.

The way to get a surplus is to bring ex-
penses within MISREPRESENTATION Herald.
1t may be settled in advance that no cur
rency reform legislation will get through
Congress this year, yet that does not argue
not be made.-Elwood Call-Leader.
1t is the duty of the. House to pass a bill
providing for monetary reform, regardless
of whether the bill can pass the Senate.
The House is Republican,. 1t should show
the courage of its Observation-Disclosures
County Republican. a
This government has spent from SIS, 900 to
100000 a month for more than a year past,
and has kept fleet of more than dozen
vessels busy in the effort to prevent filibus-
tering against the Spanish cause in Cuba.
These facts answer Spain into absolute
silence.-Lafayette. Call.s5 ISL :a
The recommendation of the President thai
national banks be allowed to issue notes to
the face value of their bonds and the es-
Establishment of banks with minimum cap
ital of $1,000 would be great blessing to
SparSely settled Observation-Disclosures where
banks do not at present ex1St--GreenSburg
Standard.
Joseph B. CheadIe is again asking for a
nomination for Congress. He is Fostering
the life out of the Democratic party and
is honeying around the Popuists. Joe is a
disgruntled disappointed and out-of-joint
Office seeker, and he will never let up until
affairs-Tipton Advocate.
Congressman Faris has introduced a bill
to repeal the civil-service law, and is re-
ported to have said in washington that his
constituents favored the5 repeal of the law.
That may be the case but the Republican
does not so regard it, and believes that Mr.
FariS will find that he has made a mistake
Washington Republican.
The Democrats of Indiana are still we'd
ded to their idol. At the meeting of the
state committee in Indianapolis, this week
it was the almost unanimous sentiment that
the Chicago platform of last year will an
SWer for next years campaign. Almost any
old thing in the way of a platform seems ia
suit the faithful Of that EMBELLISHMENTS
Enterprise. orr
It has been predicted that little attention
would be given to the money question at this
session of Congress. 1t is understood that
the seer who thus delivered himself has
taken down his shingle.9 Seven members of
the House committee on banking and cur
rency have introduced many bills in the
committee providing for currency reform
-Terre Haute Express Tae
The Dingley law was enacted as means
of raising revenue and to protect American
industries and American laborers, and that
it is already contributing to these ends will
not be denied by any one who keeps posted
and is not willfully blind. It simply means
industrial defense against outside COMPETE
ton, leaving other countries free TO leglSlate
for themselves.-Parlxe County Journal.
Mexico, the country we are asked to be-
lieve is drunk with prosperity, is about to
issue series of 5-per-cent silver bonds for
the purpose of taking up the floating in
debtedness of the government These bonds
bear per cent. and are sold at from IS to
so in the market. This makes the interest
the government must pay a shade above
per cent, and just about double the inter
est that sound money pays.-Fort Wayne
Gazette.
There is no surer sign of actual prosperity
than the movement of freight. Between the
wheat movement, corn movement and iron
movement, lumber movement and movement
of agricultural machinery and general mer-
chandse, the rolling stock of all railroads
is kept busy and cars are being worked
overtime. Locally the scarcity of cars is
so great as to prevent the shipment of grain
in the frequency demanded by elevators,
and so it is in all portions of the country
-PendletOn Record,