The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

ZEAL for the destruction of the power of the Roman
Catholic Church will induce extreme Protestants to
applaud the attack on the propaganda. What would
be SAID were our government 70 suppress the Bible So
cety and the General Theological Seminary in this
CITY and to seize the property OF both! Yet this would
be precisely analogous to the recent act of the italian
government.-New York Times
CHILDREN of tender age are compelled to assist in
the support Of the families of their parents and
deprived of attendance at school. Free trade has
created monstrous land monopoly in England,
which any will admit who will take the pains to
study the subject and the direct of landlord
ism And yet in the face of these facts heetrade
assert that protection breeds snobs and creates
class distinctions. I'VE advise our contemporary to
put on its thinking cap and consider this. Lafayette
journal.
DESPITE the sluggishness of trade and the deafness
of stock speculation labor is pretty generally
ployed at good wages and we hear of part of the
~ mUhlon where there Is omnous commerclal suffering
The failures occurring continue to be chiefly those for
small amounts and the indications that prudence
prevails in the business community Under such cir
eumstances there may be lack of buoyancy but
there nothing in the present condition of things to
forbid expecting healthy trade throughout the
future.-New York Sun.
CINCINNATI was poorly prepared to resist mob,
but it is probably quite well prepared for such
emergency any other city 1t is part of
sheriffs ordinary duty to make successful resistance
to a mob and the police ordinarily only sufficient
for the discharge OF their ordinary duties The mayor
OF city IS invariably gentleman who temporizes
with the danger until it has grown beyond control,
and, taken all together the modern city is defense
less against the modern mob the worst anarchist
could wish.-St. Louis Post-Dspatch
No Republican candidate can carry New York who
does not unite in his cordial support the three great
sections of Republican voters the Independents the
Half breeds and the Stalwarts. Any Republican any
where III the country who knows what those words
describe. and who recalls the Republican result in
New YOrk in 1879 aud 1882, decide for himself
whether Mr. Blaine would be available Republican
candidate for New York and whether, therefore his
nomination would increase the chances of continued
Republican control of the national administration
-Harper's Weekly.
WHATEVER creates in the public schools a line be.
those who and those VIII do
destroys the freeschool system. If it
schoolbook tax, or if it is seemingly trivial
for printing questions, thing another, it is
rank poison infused into the system. There is no
middle ground. There is but one common school
ground-absolute equality every mans child in school
dpon terms of absolute equality with all others This
is the American principle of free schools. tits strange
that there still ground for saying that this has not
yet been reached.-Cincinnati News journal.
THE present depression in breadstuffs is not a per-
manent condition threatening the availability of
American grain a valuable resource of foreign
change and it is next to impossible that the nations
of America and Europe shall again witness cndur-
ing condition of oversupply. The immense diversion
of labor to artisan industries, mining and transporta
ton the drift of the people to towns and cities the
standing armies of Europe, and the general amelora-
ton of the condition of the masses constitute
bination which must keep the normal status Of tho
breadstuffs markets favorable to producers.-Louis
vile Courier-Jou
THE American principle is free schools, common
school education by the State and community taxes
to make the schools free. The way must be found
perfect freedom open doors absolute equality among
scholars That the bitterness OF CASTE and
ton may not in childhood take root and poison and
sometimes destroy American manhood and the dignity
of womanhood. School books be brought down
to point where taxation meet the expense and
the public only be the better and the richer for it, and
all other eXactons and inequalities be thrust aside
by growing public opinion in favor of absolute demo-
cratic equality in schools-Cncinnati News Journal
THE name of Democracy is a stencil in the nostrils.
1t is associated with all that is meanest and most in
famous in American history A man of sense might
well give five years of his life to get rid of that
smells of defeat and dishonor of slave-pens and An
dersonville prison. of organized assassination and
vote-steang Why should any set of men, starting
in for public confidence, choose to load them
selves down with and record damning9
Such Democrats as have beliefs, such Democrats as
have any desires higher than beasts hunger for
something to eat would better get out into free air
as they can, and form party of which they
need not be ashamed.-New York Tribune.
IT may be safe to conclude that the farce of our
administration of criminal law is to and go on
before A disgrace has been inflicted on the city
and State which stings every citizen. The slaughter
and numbering and manning of citizens in behalf of
jafu of murderers has planted in the people deep
and lasting resentment. All aware that the exc
cution of justice failed not for lack of popular sup
port but for lack of organization The public sent
ment which has long been indignant at the failure of
the courts to administer justice and at their degrada
ton to the trade of the criminal lawyer has now the
addition of lasting resentment for the slaughter of
innocent citizens to jaful Of murderers.-Cin,
cinnat Commercial Gazette.