Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

Kansas City's Kidnaping. Such <>ff >nBC9 are the refinement of cruelty; they are worso ilian death Itself, because the future is unknown.— New York Evening Sun. There ought to be a law passed which makes the Stealing of children for the purpos i ot securing a reward a capital offense.—Kansas City Journal. It is scarcely ocssib’e to conceive of a crimo more heinous than that of which she has been guilty. Murder is. indeed, of inferior significance.—Brooklyn Times. Parental lcve took precedence with him of the public interests affected by his submission to blackma'l, and so it would with nearly everybody.—New York Press. If Mr. Peals had broken his promise, arrested the thieves’agent and"devoted his $5,000 to charity rather than to the encouragement of kidnaping, would not ‘.ho end have moro than justified the means? —New York World. It is gratifying that thy father was fortunate enough to <ansom his son: but the. authorit os owe it to every child, as well as to e.ery parent in the land, t» hunt down the kidnaper ', each and all of whom should bo summarily dealt with.—L,ou svillo Times The kidnaping of a child in Kansas City, with the object of extorting moic y from its parents, was a crime the successful accomplishment of which would have caused the hearts of millions of people in this < ountry to throb with fear. —Philadelphia Becord. The prompt payment by Mr. Beals, of Kansas City, of s-5,030 for the return of his abducted child will no doubt inaugurate a boom in child stealing Editors and other rich men will please keep a bulldog handy and a sharp eye on their children.—St. Louis Sunday Mirror. David T. Peals lived up to the letter of his agreement in pay.ng the ransom promised for his child, but now that the conspirators arc in tho tods without any violation upon his part of the con pact, he should prosecute to tho fullest extent of the law.—Kan as City Times. The father cannot bo blamed for losing sight of everything but gaining tho possession of his child, any devoted parent would have done the same; but ali the fathers and mothers in the country have now a vital interest in the severest punishment of these abductors.—lndianapolis News.

The Active Train Robber. It may yet be necessary to build all sxpross cars of steel and arm them like a modern man of-war on a small scale.— Linco n Journal. Two moro Western train robberies. If this thing keep; on every car Will have to bo provided with a c ouple of Jailing guns.—New Y’o k Becorder. The latest train robbery In the West shows that this bu iness <ease* to be. a io ;e the moment it gets beyond the porter of the pa'ace car.—Philadelphia Times. St. Louis is very proud of the train robbery which lia- brought that ri.er town into prominence again. It was getting most fearfully uuiet down in that region.—Toledo Biado. The St Louis train robbery was evidently patterned after the raids at Racine and Omaha or perpetrated by ;he same men. There was v striking similarity in the methods employed.— Minneapolis Tribune. After all, train robbing seems to be about the safest of all forms of robbery. It is not alone tho Northwestern train robbers who have escaped, but those in New York and Missouri have not bcon arrested.—Milwaukee Sentinel. The new way of opening cars put tho pxpress messengers into dangei that they cannot dodge. Heretofore they have offered resistance and taken tho chances of fusi.lades through the sides of their cars, but dynamite is more effective than cannon and a messenger would be committing suicide to remain in a car while robbers were opening it in tho lastost. style.—Milwaukee Wisconsin

Revolution in China. Tho Chinese are growing civilized. They a first-class revolution out there.—Poston New*. What has happened in the outlying territory of China wvll bo as nothing to what will occur if the great wall fai s to keep the rebels out of Pekin.—New York Wo* Id. To find a parallel for the accounts of diabolical cruelty which come fronj Ihina, in connection with the Takow massacre, wo must go back lo the Indian mutiny of 1857. —Louisville Commercial. Christian missionaries in China show grod sense in promptly getting out of tho path of the insurgents. Thoy would show better sense by getting out of the country a.together.—Providenco Telegram. The contest is one between progress tnd retrogression, between darkness and light, between civilization and barbarity. The fight, however, vvi 1 do much to zlear the atmosphere in China —Boston Journal. The consideration manifested by the Chinese in keeping their juvenile eaperor in ignorance of the revolutionary troubles in his country is touching, ft s one of tho defects of a monarchical system that affairs of state have a most way of failing to come in Poys’ sizes —Washington Star.

The Keeley Cure in Court. When the case conies to trial It is reaonab e that the cm y matter to be considered is the I octor's abi ity to cure iipso iian;a, not its e ect-, which is a iifferent affa r a to ether.—Harri burg Patriot. The Kee’ey Institute at Dwight has ocen sued for ( a i aaes by a pat ent who vhges the bichloride treat rent iai.ed to cure him. The sa'oons didn’t try to ;ure him and therefore are not sued.— P,ttsburg Pre.-s. If the suit proves successful Dr. Keeey will do well to make contracts that are 30 doub e headers. If the a lesed cures ire failures the patients wi.l want the money expended with Kee'ey t > buy iririks in the future.—Milwaukee News. The Kee ey drunkenness “Cure” is to be tested in court on the suit of an inebriate who paid 8150 on a pledge that ae should be cured, which was not done. He a so wants §12,000 for damases done so his const tut on by the treatment. Inc'den'al y this last suit mav raise the luestion whether an incurable drunkard ins 812,0 .0 worth of constitution.—Doiroit Free Press.

Indians as Soldiers. The prob em of preventing Indian wars in the West e\erv few years lias eeen happily solv< d. The Indian war:io s a e being pnt in the United States t-my, and the e is no enemy to fight.— Kew Orleans Picayune. Secietary Pioetor is undoubtedly cor■ect in his theory that dressing an InHan up and treating him in such a fashon as to make him self-respecting does lira good. It is the same way with the Taucasian.—Boston Becord. The experin ent perhaps helps to ssilve she Indian problem. Such Indians as can ie induced to take np farms and Improve them, or go into stock-raising, ihonld be encouraged to do so, bnt the roung men who prefer a soldier’s life mould be enlisted and made useful In ifcat capacity.—Lincoln Joutnai.