The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-28
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Scripps-McRae syndicate wasted a lot of
space Thursday in telling about the escapade of
Carrie Nation at Washington The sooner that
woman is shut lunatic Anarchist
the better for all concerned.-Elkhart Review.
workman engaged on the steel frame work
of a temperance hotel at Indianapolis fell a
distance Of five stories into the basement and
never broke a bone received serious injury.
Which goes to prove the advantage of temper
ance in all things, including hotels.-Lafayette
Journal
The Circuit Court found that SaIoon-keep
Harris did not harbor boys make the lads
drunk who confessed having bought the drinks
of him when tried in Police Court. 1t is a cold
day when the liquor interest fails to bag the
benefits of all doubts raised in the Circuit Court
Fort Wayne News.
State troops are to hedge Governor Beckham
about at the coming Inauguration in Frankfort
KY. Regular Warsaw peace reigns in Kentucky
and there seems to be reason for putting this
great expense upon the people than to ease a
conscience that has made towards Of tyrants
ever since the world began.-Brookville Ameri-
About the only argument that any political
freebooter has advanced in favor of making q
presidential candidate of one William Randolph
Hearst is that The would put lots of ginger into
the campaign" BY ginger Is meant lots OF
money-inherited, and of It earned And
yet some of the fellows who talk this way occa-
sionally pose champions of reform.-South
Bend Times Dem.)
1t is often the experience Of cities that public
Improvement is done at q much higher cost than
1t could be done in private contract and the city
engineer is not always embroiled in the fault
There are many property holders in Anderson
who believe that for some cause or other the i'm
provement here the past year has been at an
exorbitant cost The fault here. however is
largely due to a contractors trust, but a con-
tractors trust would not wrest money from a
big private corporation very long.-Anderson
Herald
The $4,000 cash that fell into the hands OF the
f. w. Nicely. formerly of Muncie, and which the
latter has been trying to get back will remain
in the possession OF Uncle Sam. Judge Lacombe,
in deciding that the money rightfully belongs to
Cuba said: 1T is difficult to understand by
what process OF reasoning a provision as plain
as this amnesty act can be so construed as to
transfer the title to property from the true
owner to the thief VINO stole it," This language
is plain enough to De understood by everybody,
/ even Nicely himself.-New Castle Press.
One thing we need to consider in these times
is that good intentions are not an insurance
policy against evil consequences. Good inten-
tons. as rule behind the manufacture OF
gunpowder and other explosives. but the power
| for destruction and the liability to 1t are none
the less for that reason. Nitroglycerin never
asks where the conclusion comes from. 1t ex-
| plodes just as readily at the careless touch OF
good intentions as from collision with deviitry
And the destruction is Just widespread and
| just complete and just deadly.-vincenne.
Commercial.
Senator Fairbanks has undertaken to get per-
| mission OF the Treasury Department to permi,
| the erection of the Harrison monument at the
south entrance OF the federal building at Indian.
apolis. 1t is to ne hoped that he will succeed in
| this matter. While this would be a variance OF
the rules of the government 1t would certainly
/ be very appropriate thing to make an exception
! In this instance. A suitable monument to tbs