The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-08

come from the people; and it follows that he
must be the choice of the Republicans In the
states relied on TO elect him, and must not be
forced upon them by rottun borougns office
holding politicians in Democratic States.-Phila-
delphia Press
The people of the present generation have
zone enough POsterity, which is to share in the
results secured by the war, can be safely allowed
TO pay lts share of the cost. In fact il will ba
much better able TO pay off the debt than we are
now. By the close OF the century, when we have
population of eighty millions and have doubled
our present resources, surplus of S1OO,o00,0U0
or S2O0, 000,0 900 will be a urIfe-a contribution
which will not be felt.-New York World
LET intelligent persons take what view they
may OF Mr.. Goulds career, they will search in
VAIN Tor anything of the commonplace. He has
SIMPLY Dought when other people wanted 10 SELL
auu solu When they wanted to buy. AS q result
ne mas himself at forty seven, one of the rich
est men In the world, with ability and q iscipline
to maintain his fortune and with intellectual re-
sources to enjoy it when the taste for mere
acquisition Is gOne.-Philadelphia Times.
- A YOUNG man who goes to West Point or the
naval academy ought to have some spirit abOuB
him. When, as was developed in the testimony
at Annapolis, he stands on his head, goes SWIM
ming on the back of chair, violently pitches
himself out OF a hammock, and does many other
silly things, simply because some older student
mas required him to do 1t, he is unsuited for even
such tadDole navy as that of the United States,
ana should he relegated to the dominion OF his
Observation-Disclosures Enquirer.
THE trouble with our schools is briefly this:
100 many ornameutals, too many hours attend
Ince, anu too little play or physical exercise.
Inc case is so plain that, outside of schoOl-mas-
Ter circles, 1t does not admit of argument. All
tne arithmetic, grammar, geography, reading,
ana writing that the average hoy gets in
eight years before the high-scho o., he could get
between the ages of eight and eleven, ii not
handicapped by unproductiye fooling with edu-
cational side shows.-Chicago News.
WHEN they come to choose President next
year, the American people not going to ask
winch party Is immaculate for they know that
neither one is that nor opportunities to that.
Ihey are simply going TO inquire which has the
mas the better general average; which has beeu
the more patriotic, the more useful; which, II
tne future or each is to repeat the past of each,
VIII be more likely TO promote the public peace
and prosperity.-New York Tribune.
"THB woods are full" of Republican scratchers
and kickers and boilers, but the only Democratic
kicker is Tammany. Yet Tammany controls its
party, and the Democrat who openly deieated
MS party four years ago ia its absolute dictator
to-day. 1t ls striking illustration of the pOlit
lcal value OF mere courage and Independence,
even for the most selfish purposes. Thus it ap-
pears that the way proposed to the country TO
get rid of Republican rascality s to intrust the
government to party which can be successful
only by reporting at that headquarters of purity
and reform, Tammany Hall.-Harper's Weekly.
WHEN Gould remarks that something ought
to be done to educate the masses and elevate
their moral standing" and that that is the only
protection we can secure for the future of our
the remarkerl is overpowering. There is nothing
more depressing that we know of to the "mOraI
standing Of the masses" than the spectacle of
Gould rlch and talking as if he tmagi ed himself
TO be respected and in any event at large. A
man whose good fortune is most surprisingly
manifest in the fact that he out of jail should
not set up for professor of ethics.-New York
Times.