The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-27

ing every device of rascality to defeat such
leg1slatlon.--New Albany Tribune.
A bill has passed the State Senate creating
a State Board Of Pharmacy. its alleged duty
being to protect the people from incom-
petent persons selling poisonous stuffs. This
board is to be composed of five persons. APP
pointed at regular intervals by the Governor.
For time actually spent in attending TO the
duties OF the board they are to receive s.
per day each. There is enough red tape
III the bill to condemn it in the minds of
All thoughtful people. = Shelbyville Repu-
hcan.
An argument in behalf of two-cent fares
on railways is that if one-t thousand mile
tickets can be sold at cents per mile the
railways ought to be willing to make that
rate for all tickets 1t has been shown
that at the current rate of 8 cents per mile
for trip tickets and cents for mileage the
average is merely a fraction above cents
per mile for each passenger carried, and
tnat the net earnings on that basis are in
slgnifcant. The Injustice OF still further
reducing railroad earnings is therefore APP
Observation-Disclosures Star-Vidette
If those who are continually denouncing
trusts would present some feasible plan
whereby the same could effectually be abol-
ished the people generally, as well as the
trusts. might have more respect for them.
All this ''resolutin' and whereasin' amounts
10 nothing, and is only a species of very
cheap demagogy. Admitting that trusts
are as injurious as they have been de-
picted, they, in character, do not differ
much, if any, from other forms of combina
lions, such as labor unions, etc. II is diff
cult to see how the one can be struck down
without affecting the other.-Kokomo News.
Legislative mileage, if the House has it's
way, will be reduced one-half-from 20 to 10
cents a mile-it having yesterday adopted a
report recommending such action. This much
is somewhat of an evidence that the spirit
Of ,r6fO 70 80 -1
and indicates that some day justice may be
attained. There has never been a reason
why legislator should be allowed 20 cents
a mile for ticket that cost him not to eX-
coed 3 cents, if it cost him anything, and
there is no better reason for insisting that
he should have 10 cents, further, than too
common inclination 10 get at these things
gradually.-Lafayette Courier.
The State Legislature should go as far as
it can, should exhaust its power, in prevent
ing the organization and operation of trusts
in the State, but with other States left free
to trusts the Indiana Legislature is power
less to accomplish much. To enact law
for mere buncombe would be worse than to
do nothing. If there is one thing above an
other that the people dislike 1T is dema-
gogy, and that is largely what is back of
this talk about antitrust legislation by the
State. The only effectual antitrust legis-
latlon that can accomplish the desired pur-
pose must come from Congress. The states
can do little unless they all act in har-
mony.-Middletown News.
The Legislature is finding the convict
labor problem a hard one to solve 1t is
agreed that to continue the convicts in
idleness is an unjustifable cruelty to them.
They must have work because their idleness
is intolerable and leads to insanity or sui
eide or both. The puzzle is how to employ
them without making them competitors
with the labor of honorable free men. IT
can't be done. There is no work that any
fln Fhlf t1fav1fA hi
could not do and would like to have to do.
There are two sides to this problem. The
State doesn't owe its criminals a living. To
support them in tdlenesS is burden upon
the State, as well as an unbearable cruelty
TO the convicts. Convicts should be self
supporting, but those who are most friendly
to free, intelligent, honorable labor will have
to confess that there is no way to employ
convictS and avoid competition of their la
Dor with other labor.-Huntngton Herald.
Representative May, of this county, has
introduced bill in the Legislature to re-
duce the interest on the county school fund
from to per cent. per annum. He says
his reason for introducing the bill is be-
cause the money cannot be loaned at per
cent. The Republican this morning called
on County Treasurer Wilson and County
Auditor Carson to ascertain how far this
statement is correct so far as it relates to
Shelby county. These officials are agreed
on the point that the law is not needed so
far as this county is concerned. The school
fund amounts to $4,000. every cent of which
is now loaned, with applications a year
ahead for any money that may be paid in
The cost of securing a loan of this kind is
only $4, and the principal is never asked for
long as the interest Is promptly paid and
the security remains urimpaired. Mr.. Will
son mentioned loans that were not paid in
twenty years. He thinks if the subject was
given close examination that it would be
found that the conditions in this county are
but little removed from those of other coun-
ties. To reduce the interest on this fund
simply means loss to the school fund Mr.
Mays bill should be critically examined be-
fore it receives serious consideration.-Shel-
hNNille Ranuhlican