The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
STATE PRESS OPINION.

Spain seems to be the sick man of Eu-
rope now.-Marion News,
1t is gratifying to hear that at last the
insurgents have begun to insurge-Hunting-
ton Herald.
There are farmers in every township in
this county that are loaning money and
will have more to loan after harvesting
Spain must send out something more SUBJ
stantial than the report that the Cadiz fleet
has sailed in order to get the United States
excited again.-Muncfe Times.
If Spain would stop issuing victory bulle-
tins long enoug to watch how Uncle Sam
issues bonds she might learn something to
her advantage.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
The word "coin' in the new bonds has no
reference whatever to Mr.. Harveys kind of
money. 1t means gold or its equivalent,
worth 100 cents on the dollar.-Terre Haute
Express.
When Spain comes to paying the war in
demnity we hope that rag-baby statesmen
will not insist on our people taking Spanish
greenbackS or Spanish silver, either
knightstown Banner.
There is no reason why any man should
vote for the free coinage of silver this year.
The theory of getting something for nothing
no longer has any advocates among reason
able NOTWITHSTANDING Press.
Somehow one can scarcely help thinking
that General Miles and General Shafter are
handling affairs quite as well as the sef-ap-
pointed critics could do if they were in
charge.--EvanSvie Journal.
The men who persist in shouting ION to
Cuba" and nothing else will satisfy them
belong to the ''Curbstone Board of STRAIT
egists'' and do all their fighting with their
mouths.-Greenfield Republican
No man who believes in the future of
this country can honestly oppose the annex
alton of Hawaii. The United States have
future and it is not a future of isolation
National Isolation is a sure prescription for
national decay.-CrawfOrdsvil Journal.
The wool crop is nearly all marketed and
the price has been SO satisfactory that the
growers are beginning to fully appreciate
the difference between free-trade prices
as under Democratic rule and the protec
ton TO nome industries under Republican
rule.-Goshen Times.
The end of the Letter wheat deal is like
unto the end of hundreds of its predeces-
sors, in thai the dealer is done. Scores of
Henry county people who have been in Chi
cage wheat deals have ended the same way,
and other scores are on the road to the same
end.-New Castle Tribune.
1t is a significant fact that wherever
Spains flag has been lowered as the sign
of waning power republics have sprung up.
So in it's removal now from Cuba, Porto Rico
and all the rest of the colonial possessions
OF the Madrid government the symbol of
freedom VIII take its place.-South Bend
Tribune
The manner in which the new bonds
are being sold to the common masses in
small denominations, will necesitate the
Populists to revise their cry of the Shylocks
controlling the administration. and all bond
issues beng made in the interest of gold
bugs and the Great red dragon of Lom-
bard street. '-Richmond Item.
What If, after scooping in the Philippines.
Porto Rico and Cuba, we would be under
the necessity of planting Old Glory on
Spain itself before commanding perma-
nent peace? 1t would be great gain if
thereby the royal and monkish parasites
that are. responsible for the present humil-
alton of Spain could be driven from the
land and its government exercised by the
mass of the Spaniards the rightful SOW
ereignS.-NoblesViIIe Ledger.