The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12

must help both the miner and mine op-
orator by raising the price of coal-Peters-
burg Press.
Prosperity is returning. little by little, in
spite of Popocrat efforts to keep it back
by sowing the seeds of discouragem in
men minds and discrediting or belittling
every forward step of the country.-RuSh-
vile Republican
Let the coal miners and their friends
bear in mind that the starvation prices for
mining have been brought about by the
Wilson tariff law. Miners wages have been
reduced TO 80 cents ton since lS93.-Rich-
mond Palladium.
Iowa, Ohio and Indiana farmers are not
going to be as easy meat" for the calam-
ity howlers this year as they We're last ow-
ing, to the fact that they are getting a
trlie of 100000 more for their wheat crop
this year than they did in i1S96.-Wabash
Tribune
The "statisticians" who furnished those
exciting tables of prices for last falls sill
yer campaign by which they protested to
show that wheat and silver had kept, pace
in rise and fall since the crime of 49,
are finding little market for their tables
this year.-Rising Sun Local.
The spectacle of a President refusing to
sign his party's tariff bill and calling
it "a measure of party perfidy and party
dishonor" as Cleveland termed the Wilson
German bill, will not be repeated. PTesi@
ing the Dingiey bill at once.-Noblesville
Ledger.
The figures concerning farm mortgages
complied by the state statistician indicate
healthy condition. The proportionate
number of releases of mortgages increases
and purchasers are paying a larger pro-
portion in cash This indicates a settling
down to sound business basis. - Seymour
Republican.
1t ought to be in continual remembrance
that the highest point of prosperity the
country ever reached was under a Repub-
lican administration and the Mckinley tar
if, while the period of it's lowest depreS-
sion and greatest loss was under a Demo-
cratic administration and the Wilson tarln.
Evansville Journal
The good times that are sure to come
under the new tariff will be the death
of the 16-to-1 fOolishness. The advocates
of that heresy know it and hence they
are determined not to see the advance OF
prosperity Away with a party whose roots
take hold on disaster and that nourishes
only upon calamity.-NeW Albany tribune.
The United States has $50 tin-plate fac
tories, and eleven are being built but all
our free-trade friends know this cannot be
true, for it is a well-settled fact of political
economy which everybody but protection
fools understand that tin plate cannot BE
made in, this country. That, at least was
free-trade theory and free-trade talk but a
few years agO.-GOShen Times.
The truth of the matter is that the office
of justice of the peace has outlived it's use
fulness, particularly in cities where police
courts havo jurisdiction in all cases of in
fraction state laws, and the Office of
constable, as it is constituted to-day ought
to be abolished summary. If either of
these offices is necessary 1t ought to be
salaried and the number greatly reduced.
Anderson Bulletin.
The United States is recognized through
out the world as a great Nation, and its
markets are priced by traders in every
quarter of the globe. A tariff bill which
throws increased protection around those
markets and demonstrates afreSh the value
which the people OF this country themselves
put upon their opportunities for develop
ment is of worldwide significance and i'm
Observation-Disclosures Journal
Whether or not the tariff commission
amendment to the pending bill is adopt
ed it is nevertheless a fact that such u
commission should be provided for. II it
cannot be secured by means of an amend
ment to the Dingley bill a separate bill
should be enacted at the 'eSulaT session
of Congress. The tariff question ought to
be taken out Of politics, and That can only
be accomplished py referring the subject TO
q nonparUisan commission composed Of men
in whom all the people Will have confidence
and letting that commission recommend
changes in the tariff when they seem to be
necessary Plain Dealer