Great Indignation Is Expressed

cause of Col. Ingersoirs aiiusion iu Gresham in his brilliant speech before the Chicago convention. They say it was in poor taste. Why so? Ingersoll didn't want to talk. He had a cold. He declined several times to speak till the demand was too impetuous to resist. The convention was adjourned. He told the people the plain truth, that Gresham was the best candidato they could name. The Sanitary News, of Chicago, says that " the disposal of the dead continúes to be a leading topic with sanitarians, with the inevitable endorsement of cremat'on." Amons; the minor reforms now advocated, cremation holds a very important place. ín sanitary work, its importance can hardly be estimated, although earth-burial is know to be a possible source of much sickness. There is, positively, not a single sensible thing to be said in favor of retaining earthburial. There are now nearly a dozen crematories in the United States. The Kepublican platform doesn't squint, and we think that is a great merit. It is unmistakablc ; it means the same thing in Minnesota as in Pennsylvania. There is all the more merit in it because in Minnesota the Republican party is as badly committed to free trade as the Democrats are, and henee there was temptation to " straddle." The Democratie platform, however, looks in two directions. After commending President Cleveland's free trade utterances and the record the party has made in tne recent uougresBional debate, in which free trade was boldly proclaimed (not " tariff reform," bnt plain free trade), it makes as strong a protectionist plea as the Republicana can make. It takes the ground that the tariff can be made to help the laboring man by making " due allowance for the differente between the wages of American and foreign labor." It claims that the tariff can be made to "promote ana enemi,rage every branch of tuch industrie and enterpriset by giving ihem asiurance of m extended market and tteady and continmowí operation." The Republicans claim no more for protection than that. The Bemocrats stand convicted of declaring, in their platform, for two totally unreconcilable ideas. It ought to sicken even honest free traders of the party. The nomination of Harrison, as is nearly always the case under our system, isnot as good as might have been made ; but, unlike most presiaenuai nominations, it is certainly not the poorest. The party would have rushed to certain defeat had Blaine been nominated. Mr. Harrison has many points of availability. We are inclined to believe that Gresham had more such points, and is better equipped in every way to fill the position well, than any other man named. But Harrison will be a candidate of whom no one need be ashamed. He is a man of courage and of forcé. Although a strong partisan, he can withstand party pressure if his convictions are aroused. He can espouse an unpopular cause if he thinks it right to do so. He is a man of many gallant and amiable qualities. He has been such a strong party man that no faction in the party that professes to hold legiance as the first duty will have a shadow of an excuse for deserting him. Mr. Harrison will draw a large Republican vote. We predict that he will get a very large share of the independent Republican vote, especially in Indiana, where the independents are justly exasperated against the present administration. On the whole, the Republican chances of success in November are good. With a consistent platform, and with a reputable and safe candidate who has had much experience in public life, there ought not to be any question about Republican victory. A prominent Methodist clergyman in Detroit, Rev. Wm. Dawe, last Sunday in his sermón declared that " everything that relates to the well-being of man belongs to the domain of religión," after which sensible declaration he discussed the question of poverty. He said : " A free government in a land capable of entertaining hundreds of millions ought to be able to take care of 60,000,000 with ease. But we do not take care of our 60,000,000 as we ought. There are thousands who lack the necessities of life, and tens of thousands who are struggling unceasingly for a poor maintenance when their well meant efforts should be better rewarded." Mr. Dawe wants to know what we will do when we have 200,000,000 eitizens, and says : "We talk of the failurein the old world governments. I wonder what we would do if our 60,000,000 were crowded into New York state." We give it up. Mr. Dawe continued : " If this is a government for the people, a little honest legislation would lift every dark cloud from the horizon of this nation today. We are well able to do it; no home should be dark with want and despair in this rich emoire. We are organized until nearly every man you meet on the street is president of something, but there is little or no practical result coming out of it all to the suffering homes of our land. Let the government select wise, well-known heads for villages, towns, and cities, that the small as well as the greatmay have justice done them. This would be government for the people; this would be statesmanship worthy this republic, and the cry of discontent would not be heard in the land." This is all very pretty, but just what law would Mr. Dawe have passed ? Would he have the government support everyone who needed help? What does he mean by " justice ?" Wouldn't it be better to have a system by which each healthy man could take care of himself, and in which children and women would not have to toil in factories and mines ?