The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-20
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

RIGHTLY viewed and improved this week will turn
out TO have been the most productive of permanent
good to all honest and legitimate business interests Of
the country that it has experienced What has
not happened, than what has occurred has been
and will be the of lasting congratulations-New
York Mail and Express.
CHICAGO proposes to hold her lead in the work Of
Mexcanizing our Sabbath and Is about to inaugurate
sunday horseraces. They are to be strictly
moral affairs, with liquor-selling the grounds
and gambing but the chances that it will not
be long before they just like other horseracas
The Chicago press and the good people of that city
generally ought TO set themselves stubborny against
this innovation 1t is step in the wrong direction
and can only lead to the most pernicious conse
unconstitutional Leader.
THE gladiator was a necessary product and part Of
the Roman civilization in the time of the Caesars and
it because the effeminate and luxurious people
tenance of class who could exhibit the manly virtues
which they themselves had lost. VIII we ever come
to gadiators in the opulent cities of the Eastl VIII
the time come when New York and Boston will have
their marble amphitheaters for shield and broad
sword fighting between naked men and the stately
DANES of those cities decide the question of life and
death for vanqushed athlete with turn Of their
dainty thumbsR-St. Louis Republican.
IT was only when an overabundance of money had
caused prices so to advance that everything the
chant. manufacturer stock operator touched was
quickly turned into gold that speculation became ram
pant 1t is folly for bankers and socalled nancers to
lay this panic TO mere speculation when that was butthe
result of congressional enactments which to
render speculation by reckless traders inevitable
The that made the present condition of trade
unless removed by prompt congressional action they
will again lead up TO precisely similar results and in
much less lengthy period of time.-Chieago News.
THE offer of interest may be legitimate enough if
the money is to be used for legitimate purposes but
when it is employed for margindeangs in stocks and
for building parallel roads and telegraph lines by nan
little faith that any check will this evil from
the comfortable deliberations of a few high-lving
cold-tea drinking senator's in the wckedest city in
America. It's most effectual remedy is the very
retribution which has just been administered
in the markets. 1t must be evident even to them
selves that have been the pilots of the wrecks
that strew the streets of New York are not sue
cessful" men.-Chicago Tribune.
THE North is, in the light of such events as this
lthe acquttal of Matthewss murderer forced to be-
lieve that in the coming presidential campaign the
Southern Democrats will have recourse to the old
evil practices by which in the past they have under
taken to secure solid South" for their ticket
There is desire at the North to perpetuate this APP
prehenson but when it is that political crimes
pass unpublished as of old, and that the community
sentiment holds harmless the sayers Of those who
branded as the political friends allies of the col
ored voters it is impossible to escape the conviction
that no ehange for the better has yet occurred in
Southern public opinion.-New FORK Tribune.
THE Copiah county jury have simply said to the
country I'VE assume the responsibility of killing
Matthews. We are all alike down here. We are! To
vote the Republican ticket in Copiah county is
crime, and wen punish it with death We'll punish it
prayerfuly, kindly and piousy. But we'll punish it
with death, and we precede and follow every murder
with earnest invocation of the divine blessing upon
the purity of our hearts and the ambike peaceful
ness and sweetness of daily walk and converse
ton. Amen and amen" 1t is these little peculiari-
ties that make it interesting to be citizens of the
country with our Southern brethren. But purpose
to stand by the flag for SPELL yet.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
THERE is not the remotest necessity for assuming
that the American population is dying out growing
less vigorous. AS the exceptional preponder
ance of men and of the collaborating age in
the immigrant population has disappeared with its inn
migrant character, the next generation will show
larger rate of increase than the next generation of
those whose ancestors have been here two hundred in
stead of forty years, and the American stock will
remain it is to-day the directing force of the CON
tinent. controlling its great enterprises and hold
ing the future for its own strongest of all in the abl
ity it has shown to assimilate TO its model the
enormous immigration of the last half eentury.-Phil
adelpha Press
CUT them [the Indansl off from the nomadic life
altogether Make them work for their daily bread
all other Americans work Make them citizens.
Bring them under the laws. Sweep away the rifraf
of vicious white that always gather around the
skirts of the reservation. Give the In
dians free contact with the better ell
ements in our civilization; and then let them
take their chances with the rest. If they have any
staying power this policy would bring it out Cor
tainly 1t would stimulate their energies and their wits
rouse them from their sluggishness, create in them
rational ambitions and give the rising generation OF
schoobred Indian children relief from the degrading
and thwarting influences opposed to them.--New
York Tribune.