The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
THE INDIANA PRESS.

An English Methodist has offered a prize
of $500 for the best essay on the Leakage
of Methodsm and How to Stop It.
Last year William Jennings Bryan said;
This is an agricultural country, and pros
perity to be permanent must begin on the
farm" It has begun on the farm. and now
w. j. 3. wishes he had let the truth alone
and confined his remarks to finance.-FOrt
Wayne Gazette
That failure abroad that Democrats talk
about must have been an awful one. Among
the crops that failed were the cattle sheep,
cotton, tobacco and real estate crops. At
least that is what they will want us to be-
lieve for the value of those things has
risen.--Elwood Call-Leader.
Rev. Hinshaw will have to return to the
penitentiary and serve out his life sentence.
He goes back with a good deal less public
sympathy than he had when he first en-
tered that penal institution. Many who at
first had doubt about his guilt are now con-
xinced that the jury was right.-Richmond
Palladium.
Lawlessness breeds lawlessness as flies
breed flies. Wherever the representatives of
duly constituted authority fail in their duty
to society, no matter what the cause of such
failure, whether it be neglect or inability to
cope with a particular problem, revolution
airy results are certain in time to follow.
--Terre Haute Express.
IHe SllNeTlteS nave some utIle excuse Tor
working the foreign famine racket as the
cause for the rise in the price of wheat. But
how about corn and oats and potatoes and
all other products of the farm, including
wool? There is no foreign famine in WOOL
yet the price has advanced about 60 per
cent. in one short year-South Bend
Tribune.
When wheat was down to so cents the
sniveling Popocrats were weeping with the
farmer and telling him how anxious they
were to be elected so they could put the
price up to a dollar. Now that wheat is up
IN spite of their predictions, they are blub-
berIng over the WorInngman because it is
nigh, and they are telling him how sorry
they are for him.-SheibyviIle Republican.
1t is doubtless true that the denizens of
Ripley county, intimidated by the presence
of a band of outlaws, hesitate to commit
themselves to the merciless vendetta of the
keno-Levi gang. The existence of such an
element IN any community is depIOI dDle,
but Indiana is not to be condemned because
OF the presence of these bad men any more
than Greater New York is to be condemned
because or the corruption of Tammany. A
states virtue must not be measured by the
evil OF its darkest Acknowledgements Call
The Baney-Hinshaw episode has ter
minated in cheap fiasco. The exposure of
the scheme leaves Hinshaw thoroughly dis
credited as a man, to say nothing of his
claims as a minister. In the light of his
heroic" attitude of month ago, when he
declared he would not accept pardon but
must have the Governor, the courts and
everybody else ask his pardon, as 1t were,
his part in this transparent conspiracy
would be laughable if it were not pitiable.
-kichmond Item.
The Republicans will not need to spend
much money to publish campaign docu-
ments in 1887 or 1898. The dispatches in
every daily newspaper in the country telling
of the opening of idle mills, the extension
of the hours of work in mills which had
been running on short time and the adj
Vances in wages are campaign documents
which cost the party nothing but which
will gain hundreds of thousands OF votes for
it in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.