The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-25
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

AS matter of fact, the people of the United States
have not the least desire pick quarrel with Ger.
many, or to insult Prince Bismarck Neither in this
nor in any other instance will they suffer their
servants in the House of Representatives to NEEDLE,
upon any pretext however plausible, with the domes
tic politics of foreign nations They will therefore
hear with satisfaction that the Lasker Ochitree Incl
dent is ended, and they will only regret that
Der of the House committee on f0reirn affairs was
wise enough to nip 1t in the bud.-New York Sun.
IT would be hard to suggest many better uses for
half million dollars than to put it into schools fOrthe
Indians. 1t is cheaper not to say Christian to
educate Indian than it is to fight him The respon-
sbility for these erates rests directly upon the
tonal government, which can hardly be said with
strict truth of the iitertes of The Soutbthe blacks
The question of education is a serious in both
But in the case'of the Indian the government
has already promised them education and Congress
should see to it that this promise is keptNew York
Tribune
THE structure and functions of government are so
complex and intricate to call for the very highest
qualities ofinteigence to properly comprehend themi
and the wise exercise of the elective franchise is
sacred responsibility. Surely here, if anywhere in
human conduct, we ought to expect repression of
feeling and passion and the predominance of that
reasoning faculty without which mans acts
more dignied than the brute's. Less of claptrap,
sentimentalism, and Juror, and more of sober
and calm deberaon, will add wonderfully to the dig
nifty of politics and the stability of insttu
tions.-Chicago News.
WHEN the South is ready to discard its lying his
tories, its vilanOus arithmetcs its hatred of the
Union and Republicanism, and consents to conduct
its schools they conducted in Ohio and Massa
whether
white, common-school education, then will be the
proper time to give assistance from the national
treasury. But so long Bourbonism continues its
hurderous policy and refuses to recognize the const
tutional rights Of those who differ from that policy,
Just so long should the South be permitted TO grope
its way amid the darkness of iiteracy unaided by the
federal overnment.-Cleveland Leader.
THE fundamental principles of the Republican
party still of supreme Importance. With the
tire South in the hands of buldozers and the Demo.
cratic party under the lead of men who would close
the factories and put out the fires in the furnaces Of
the country, we cannot see in the spos system, bad
as it is the greatest issue of the day And this wa
fully believe he the feeling of the great majority of
the Republicans of Chicago Illinois, and the country
at large. The professional ofice-brokers and place
hunters very small percentage of the party.
Their strength lies in their compact organization and
the cohesive power of spoils-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE attempt dispense with the homely Chrstia6
virtues which ancestors priced and praeticed has
in fact not been successful. We have imported into
civilization barbarc selfshness, inAexibility
of character which prevents harmonious assimilation,
and rreverence which gives fresh force to the
teralism of the age and which in aid of all the
disntegratng and demorazing agencies in operation.
But most of all are the evil effects of this crude phi
osophy seen In the marriage relation for there the
very foundations of the state assaed and in the
disruption and degradation of the family bond the
whole future of the nation is threatened.-New York
Tribune.
1T is very difficult to distinguish this sham butter
from the natural product. Even experts are sone-
times deceived by the spurious stuff What are the
consumers going to do about It'll! They should make
common cause with the suffering dairymen and pro-
ect themselves. Do the manufacturers say that pro-
hibition will deprive the poor man of his butters The
stuff which they sell is not BUTTER it is hog fat and
coton-seed oil washed in nitric acid. The poor
paws as much for it as he would pay for butter and it
is the poor mans stomach, well the stomach of
the rich man who can buy butter from the farmer,
that should be protected by effective law.-New
York Times.
RIGHTLY understood city administration has not
the least relation of any kind to politics political
theories In reality it is administration of the affairs
of a corporton between which and a railway company
tho Of &c tbnnb
and political society. In any correct definition of
city corporation, it business society whose admin
istration should De founded business principles,
without any regard to political notions theories doc
trines dogmas systems. Nothing could furnish a
surer guarantee of the badness of the administration
of business corporation than division of response
bility between the executive fnctonary and number
of persons not clothed with the executive function.
Chicago Times.
As TO our undertaking to dry-nurse European revo.
lutionsts for they should get into mischief while
they are here we are really not equal to the job
Americans look upon such chaps Herr Most and Pat
Grove, of Peoria as ''amoosn cusses; we are sorry
they are not in better business When they say they
are going hang the last aristocra with the entras
of the last priest people Just laugh Men who blus-
ter and blather seldom formidable. Ardent patri-
OTIS who here full of fire and fury against Euro
pean despots, generally subside after awhile into
peaceable farmers grocers saloon-keepers, and
rarely the public eye agan-unless it be as Alder
men or ward heelers. The country treats them
Little Bo-Peep treated her sheep; if they leave their
tails behind them, society bears up-San Francisco
Chronicle.
HAD the resolution rtho proposal to bar federal
courts from Furnishing election outrages passed. the
South would have been made solid for 1854 not only
to the presidential but as to the State vote The last
safeguard would have been removed from the ballot
box and majorites would have been manufactured to
order. That it was defeated was owing as we have
said not to any lack Of disposition but TO their
neical insuficency under the two-thirds requisite.
That the South is at the helm" Jefferson Davis
says was manifest by the promPtness and unanimity
with which the Northern Democrats voted for the
notification of United States law in the interests of
the ex-confederates. Their action is significant
showing that there is difference of views between
Northern Democrats and Southern Bourbons, where
election frauds are concerned-Chicago Tribune