The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-03

Nebraska can rest happy In the glorious
fact that her soldiers in the Philippines are
more than overcoming the bad reputation
the State Is getting by the mouth OF Bryan.
Richmond Item
1t would appear from the recent cables
from Manila that men ike Lawton. Mac
Arthur and Funston have done more to Sc
cure peace I'm the Philippines than all the
peace conventions that ever met In Boston.
Fort Wayne Gazette.
Some of the Democratic leaders think
they see good thing in the. trust question
for next campaign. 1t Is when out OF power
that the party fights the trusts the hard
est The Democrats have been In power. put
the record doesn't tell or any herculean or
very effective work against the trusts.
Franklin Republican.
There are forebodings of more things than
one that may block the feverish tendency
of forming trusts in industries. Laws to
curb them are needed. and legislators should
lose no time in seeking out A remedy; ont
whether this or not most of them Will In
time fall of their own weight. and with
such a crash that 1t will be heard around
the world.-Anderson Herald.
We do not need to be told that these are
Republican times. We can see 1t on the
smiling face of the happy farmer as he
feeds his sheep and calves; We can hear II
at O'Clock in the morning in dozens OF
steam whistles; we can feel 1T in the hearty
handshake of the day laborer as he greets
you on his way to the factory: you can
ing day.-Bloomfield News.
Events multiply to establish the truth that
Admiral George Dewey is the big man OF
the American navy. He never loses his
equilibrium. His head is always level. No
speeches or letters have come from him 10
annoy or embarrass. His every act COM
mends itself to his country and to the world.
No occasion for apology or diplomacy TO
help him out of hole. He never gets IN
hole.-Kokomo Tribune.
Attorney General Taylor gives 1t as his
opinion that all unskilled labor on public
work in the county must be paid at the rate
of Is cents an hour. according to the provi-
sions of the act passed by the late Legisla-
ture This will have one effect. 1t will cause
much harder work to be done on the road
tax worked out in rather lazy fasnloh.
The man who worked out his road repairs
at a shilling an hour didn't die from over
exertion. AT the increased rate the super
visor is likely to put on the steam-ken-
dallville Standard.
There is more industrial expansion going
on in the Indiana gas belt this year than at
any time since the close of the last Repub-
lican administration. What is going on. and
what has been going on since election day
1896 Is the phenomenal of an industrial
resurrection. More factories are adding TO
their capacity. more men have steady and
profitable employment, more houses ana
business blocks are being built than at any
time since 1892. No one stops TO inquire at
this time concerning the whereabouts or the
promised Mckinley prosperity.-Peru Re-
publican. er -
Dewey's greatest victory was not his an
initiation of the Spanish fleet but in the
success of his humane and peaceful, though
tedious plan of taking Manila without the
fearful results of bombardment Dewey's
course in the war in the Philippines has
been singularly correct, and, as II mas peen
point. and say: Here Dewey made a mis-
take" The plan of the battle one year ago
suaded him TO pass Corregidor in line ahead
instead OF in line abreast. but the deter
mination to enter the bay TO nght was
Dewey's.-Evansville Courier (Dem)