The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-02
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

A Kokomo man Is under arrest for at
tempting to kill his neighbor in a quarrel
over load Of wood. Evidence of the ex-
haustion of the natural gas field continues
to accumulate.-Kokomo Dispatch.
II Governor Durbin and the Legislature
wish to remove somebody without investi-
CATION they might turn their attention to
Judge Rasch. who has been investigated al
ready and condemned, but will not resign.
-Terre Haute Express.
Our next war will be with Germany"
said Dewey at Manila. There has been little
since then to indicate that the prophecy
was not we'll founded. On the other hand
there are several facts that tend to confirm
the opinion.-Marion Chronicle.
Senator Fairbanks yesterday thanked the
Legislature of Indiana for the honor of
electing him to the United States Senate,
but the people whom the legislators repre-
sent should not forget that they have much
for which to be thankful to Senator Fair
banks.-Anderson Bulletin.
1t is a hard thing for a conscientious
man to defend the conduct Of members of
Congress who. in the face of the peoples
demand and the Presidents advice, con-
tinue to stand pat for tariff law that
needs revision almost as badly as it needed
crestion.-Starke County Republican.
1t keeps the newspapers very busy these
days, regulating the legislatures. state and
national, and at times they seem to do
mighty little regulating, the legislative bod
les seeming to listen more readily to the
politicians than the press. The discredit Is
not always to the press.-Elkhart Review.
While the Venezuela trouble is not strict
ly funeral of the people of this country.
We doubt not that If Venezuelan cannon
ball should put German cruiser in condi-
ton for immediate communicat ton with sea
bottom all America would regard the big
power as having got something that was
duly coming to her.-Fort Wayne Sentinel.
Now that the nine days sensation created
by the ripper" bill Is about over we sug-
gest to the Legislature the propriety of
turning its attention to the proposition to
protect our friends. the quail and the tur-
tie dove. Give the quail chance to live
long enough TO raise a family, gentlemen.
And why on earth should there be an open
season for killing the poor little turtle dove,
the ideal and emblem of innocence and
purity?-Richmond Palladium.
Writing threatening letters to Senator
Beverage, in condemnation of his hostility
to the omnibus statehood bill, is not cal
culated to help fiery New Mexicans in the
effort to be admitted into the Union. If
New Mexicans haven't sense and decency
enough to know that such methods don't
commend themselves to orderly people, it
furnishes an excellent reason for keeping
them on probation some years longer.
While John Mitchell is being toasted at
Indianapolis and is "toasting' his feet by
warm fires at first-class hotels. thousands
of poor people all over the country are suf-
fering with cold because of the scarcity Of
coal occasioned by the protracted coal
strike organized and carried into effect un-
der Mr. Mitchells guidance. The time will
come when the people of this country will
see, If they do not see IL now that men
who array class against class, labor
against capital, and organize large bodies
of men into excited and lawless mobs who
seize and hold the property of those by
whom they have been employed and by
force, violence and even murder prevent
persons who do not belong to this partic-
ular organization from earning bread for
their families by honest labor, are not pub
lie benefactors, but are the enemies of or
ganized society. Then John Mitchell and
all the crimes and suffering for which he
is responsible will be viewed In their true
ight.-Steuben Republican.