The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-25
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.


Prices of farm products continue to go
up, while the price of silver continues to
fall. These facts destroy completely the
foundation upon which half of the silver ar
gumentS OF last fall were based.-Rushville
Graphic.
Mr.. Bryan does not like the Southern
protectionists. This is doubtless due to the
fact that the intelligence these men have
exhlbited on the tariff question is likely
to guide them Alright on the money ques-
tion.-Terre Haute Express.
By careful use natural gas in this coun-
try will last fifteen years yet. but if reck-
less and INSCRIPTIONS oil prospectors are
permitted to continue the waste of the
natural fuel as they have been doing with
in the past three months five years will
see the end of it.-Elwood Call-Leader.
Word comes that President Mckinley is
at work on another arbitration treaty
that shall meet the approval of the United
States Senate and Great Britain also If
our President is equal to that emergency
his craftsmanship will be regarded as the
wonder of the nineteenth century.-Fort
Wayne News.
In point of fact all the leading arguments
now used against the Hawaiian treaty
were marshaled against the annexation
of louisiana, Florida, Texas, California
and Alaska. The answer which time has
given them in these cases may be safely
predicted of the annexation of Hawaii
-CraWfordSVllle Journal.
The absolute unanimity Of purpose in
the Republican party and the soidity of
its ranks in the Senate is distressing it's
political enemies greatly. The party dis
sensions which they had expected to see
made their appearance on their own side
OF the chamber, however, and this adds
men who assume to be the leaders Of that
party in and out of Congress.-Vincennes
Commercial.
That the sentiment in favor of a pro-
tective tariff has grown vigorously within
the past year or two is evidenced by the
Democratic vote cast for the Dingley
bill in the House and then again in the
Senate Men of all parties have come to
recognize the fact the labor of this coun-
try cannot prosper so long as it must COM
pete with pauper labor of Europe, and
that the only way to prevent this competi
ton is to tax for protection such products
as come to us from foreign shores.-Mid-
dletown News.
If Mr. Bryan continues to stir up the
malcontents, even in the face of returning
prosperity, we move that the Republicans
and sound-money men get out their yellow
badges and shame him out of the country
run him into China or some other sea-
port, where his mouthings could effect
nothing. What the people want is, not a
continuous howl about that played-out
legend 16 to ], but chance to make
decent living in country where the cur
rency appears to be doing it's function all
right and proper.-Muncie News.
If Mr.. Nicholson knew enough about
finance to appreciate an economic argu-
ment he would know that a part of the
evil of imitation or overissue of credit
money is this very apparent prosperity
that he talks about. AS long as it's credit
is good and confidence in it is mistaken
any money is good But nations credit
has it's limits like an Individuals and it
may be endangered in the same way,
either by an overissue of demand OBJ
legations, or by a threat of reputation
both of which conditions existed in the
United States in the last campaign. The
first would mean danger through inability
to redeem the second would mean danger
through downright shonesty-Richmond
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