The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-15
STATE PRESS OPINION.

The sound-money vote in the United
States Senate has been strengthened by the
elections of 1897. In rolling on, the silver
moon is nearing the last Quarter.-ElWood
Leader.
A lecture in Munce on the failure of the
Dingley law as a prosperity measure would
create about as much real enthusiasm as
a talk on prohibition down in Kentucky.
-Muncie Times.
Municipal governments will never be what
they should be, so long as the machinery is
run by local bosses. The first requisite to
good government in cities is to down the
Observation-Disclosures News.
It's sorry day that bryan does not get
an interview in on the metropolitan press
on some subject. He is the n ost bombastic
transformer in the country end he draws
out his verbosity to a remarkable length
Washington Gazette.
Whenever any one is tainted with the 16-
toll heresy, it is a sure sign that he is
either in or gravtating towards the Popu-
listic party, just as before the war the pro-
slaveryite'S right place was in the Demo-
cratic party.-Noblesville Ledger.
While it would not be to our credit as a
nation to drive TOO hard a bargain with
those seeking trade reciprocity, it is not
necessary to give the benefits Cf our mar
ket to foreign merchants for less than its
true value in like favocs-Pe~c Republican
The old free-trade theory that IF we do
not buy we cannot SELF has received anoth-
er setback through our import and export
trade returns for the last three months
Our purchases from foreign countries were
the smallest in many years, while our sales
increased largely both in volume and value
North Manchester Journal.
With Ex-Governor Altgeld organizing a
paper-money party, Ex-Governor Boies de-
nouncing the 16-to-1 proposition, Senator
Stewart telling the people that they may
fol until H.
silver issue, 1T looks as though the white
metal would have few friends left by 1900
Charlottesville Journal.
Mr.. Bryan says that 1.-The first six months
of the Mckinley administration were the
most disastrous in the history of the coun-
try" That's a pretty stiff one. even for
Bryan. But it induces a cold shudder to
think what would have been the first six
months of the Bryan OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ton County Enterprise. -e-F -itW
The only way to settle the money qdes-
ton is for members of Congress to take hold
of the matter and in an intelligent and pa
triotic manner, without regard to party poll
tiles, and if there is anything wrong with
the money system or any way by which it
can be bettered, proceed at once to do it.
Greenfield Republican
Many find fault because William Jennings
Bryan said in a recent speech in Ohio that
1.-The first six months of the Mckinley adj
ministration is the most disastrous in the
history of the country" Fault-iinders don't
understand him Alright; that's all. He meant
that it is terribly disastrous to Demo-Pop-
free-SilVer nOnsenSe-Angola Magnet.
The protection party is the true national
party. It's aims are to preserve the Union
and to build up all sections alike. 1t 10 the
free-trade party that is trying to keep alive
the spirit of sectional animosity by contin-
ually and falsely urging upon the people of
the South and West that they are oppres-
yal n
and East.-Plymouth Republican.
The great business improvement which
the country has seen since last July is due
largely to the feeling among T. erchants and
business men that the new tariff will fur
nish both protection and revenue sufficient
to run the government. This restoration of
confidence has brought forth millions of
dollars and given employment to thousands
of hands at improved wageS.-Huntington
Herald.
Vast as were the importations of foreign
goods in advance of the Dingley tariff, they
are being rapidly consumed, and when they
have been consumed our American manu-
facturers will have chance to put that
much more American labor at work. At the
same time under higher duty, the smaller
amount of imports will raise even more
revenue than the Democratic tariff did.
Huntington Herald.
Cali it McKinleyism, Dingleyism or
robber tariff, if you please, but we have
every evidence that a protective tariff pol
icy is the only one that encourages the
opening of mills and the employment of
labor. Experience in recent years has af-
forded such emphatic comparison of the
methods of protection and free trade that
the present generation is not at all likely
to forget the difference between the two.
Lafayette Courier.
The world should know by this time what
economists have long known, that it is just
as impossible to maintain the same ratio
between gold and silver as between wheat
and corn. The value of all commodities de-
ponds on the law of supply and demand.
and legislation whether national or interna-
tional, is but one of many influences that
affect that law. To put it another way,
every commodity is as much under the con-
troll of the commercial law of gravitation
as is everybody under the natural law of
gravitation. In fact, both are natural laws
and neither can be overturned by legisla-