The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-18
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

WHAT is needed in Utah more than anything else
excepting reduction of the religious spirit is not
local legislative assembly to grind out grst of local
statutes aimed at the ecclesiastical power 1t local
administration capable of exerting the civil power of
performing its function by executing the laws of Con
gess that its members have been appointed commits
stoned, and commanded TO execute.-Chicago Times.
ONE who compared the miasmatic poetry of a
modern English school, whore all looks fair and yet
all is redolent of miasms which pervade silently and
secretly and give odorous warming and are deadly
with the barn-yard filth of old Chaueer would be able
without agreeing with Whitman to say that he had at
least some warrant for his view If 1t were not that
singuary that is the very English school which has
been most attracted to Whitnan.-Cincinnati News
journal.
THERE is a very simple question coming before the
people in simple form US ever great matter APP
peaied for public consideration and decision. 1t is
whether these United States shall be handed over to
the Democratic party for management in its interest
subordnated that party is all questions affect
ing the general welfare to the consolidated Southern
Confederacy We are opposed to the surrender of the
country to this party for solid Southern purposes
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
WHILE Mr.. Garfield lived Farmer Henry, as he
familiary known in Washington had the entire to
the White House and loved TO put his cowhde boots
under the executive mahogany He is an object of
pity, maybe of commiseraion, but he divert at
tention from his peculiar ntrnity and more peculiar
methods while in official life only by obscurty Hen
ny made himself the butt of ridicule by his uncouth
manners while in Washington, and demonstrated the
wellknown fact that that beggar placed on horse
back will ride to the deyil-Chicago News.
IT is possible to give for believing that the
government should have lines of its own, connecting
distant parts of the country but that has yet to
be shown. Monopoly of the telegraph is another mat
ter. No company has that, would the people toll
crate such monopoly in the possession of any COM
pany. But it would be incomparably odious,
CALLING and uncomfortable in the hands OF the govern
ment. Mr.. Hubbard may rest assured that postal
telegraph system if it at ALL will not come
in that way or at such cost Tho tendency to cen
tralizahon has not advanced thus far nor Will 1t at
present ,-New York Tribune
A GREAT deal Of money would be required TO buy
off the many pensioners who would avail themselves
Of offer Of communications but in business IL = CON
sdered good policy to anticipate absolute Obligations
when much money can be saved by so doing It is
better TO give the pensioner FIVE hundred dollars
this year, if he will be satisfied with it
and agree to ask for more, than to
give him several times as much in small
sums during the coming twenty or thirty years. The
aggregate sum required would probably be far in
of the treasury surplus or Of what can be OBJ
tanned by the present scale of tariff and internal rev
taxes but il hgher taxation seemed inadyisable