Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — It Costs You Nothing. [ARTICLE]

It Costs You Nothing.

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The Indianapolis Sentinel afad its co-worker the Chicago I'ribnnc are trying to make trouble and dissensions in the Republican party by . publishing what purports to be an account of an “Anti-Har-rison” meeting said to have been held in Indianapolis lately. The account as published is no doubt a pure fabrication, throughout. Among other features of the article is a list of some of the Republican papers of the State which are alleged'to be “vouched for as solid for the anti-second term movememt,” which list includes The Rensselaer Republican; an entirely unauthorized act, for the justification of which no ono„ca8 point to a single line in our columqf, nor quote a single spoken word.

Some years ago the then superintendent of the Soldiers’ Oif phaus’ Home, at Kuightstown, this state, committed suicide at Now Orleans. A few weeks ago his. successor in the tame position wisited New Orleans, and he, too, •committed suicide. This occurence might perhaps be explained as simply a remarkeble co-inci-dence, but the more reasonable as well as the more scientific explanation is to be found in the law of suggestion, or association of ideas. It is this tame subtle bi t not til el ess real law of human mentality that causes many deeds of violence and folly in theso days of universal dissemination of “news.” It is not many years since the fin t

case of the rejected lover killng his * inamorata oceured, but what an epidemic of deeds of that character has prevailed since, although hap- i pily it has now largely spent its force. It wjts not many years ago,; either, when such an occurence as ; a man killing his wife or mistress j and then himself, was an almost unheard of thing. ’ For the last ten or a dozen years, however, almost every papeT hascoutained the particulars of such a deed. In the same way through the whole catalogueof crimes of blood. No sooner are the particulars of some terrible deed that is novel in some of its features published over the country, than a succession of similar deeds is almost sure to follow.

The publication of the particulars of crimes, whether through the newspapers or by word of mouth, is one of the great- - est causes of crime; and we believe that the time is not far distant when this fact will lie recognized araiwhem ~snch—reeog.nition will result largely in the suppression of the publication of the details of crimes through the uewspapers, and especially in such aggravated and pernicious forms as in the Police Gazette, and similar publications. The reform must come from the people themselves, however, for ns long as they deni and and purchase that kind of reading, so long will they be furnished with it

Col.lngersol says the new thirdparty movement is “the old greenback party, revamped and halfsoled.” He thinks thatasa party organization it will hardly last till November, 1892. “In fact, he says, ”it has already begun to divide. The farmers in Ohio want a prohibition plank—the farmers of some other State will want women suffrage, or a coustitutiona amendment against cigarettes, and •so the isms will be added, from month to month, until the whole fabric falls in pieces and the farmers will seek reform in one of the great parties.” This will probably be the outcome of the matter. The inherent folly of the movement will prove its death, and most of those who are engaged in it will drift back into the old parties. There will be a noisy few who will continue to pose as reformers and bob up every year or t wo as leaders of a new party movement, but even they will finally wear themselves out. The parties in the future iu this country are the Republican and Democratic patties.