The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
CURRENT PRESS OINTMENT.

THE Blair education bill is step in the wrong direc-
ton 1t may not be in strict unconstitutional
but believe it to be bad measure and likely to set
in motion influences which will tend more and more
to centralize what State functions into the
hands OF the national government, which is already
overburdened with duties. We trust the bill will be
killed in the House. efectually vetoed by the Presi
dent, should it pass that body.-New York Herald.
WE read in manuals of political economy that the
folly of attempting to fix prices by law has been gen
orally recognized. Yet It to that even, if this
be granted there is still entirely too much interior
ence with the course of the markets Instead of ex
planning prices by the relation of supply to demand
we must refer to the fances Of it may be, few men
who do control, or who seeking to control, the
markets. Fortunately such attempts, being of an
artificial character more frequently fail than succeed
New York Herald.
A WAR with Spain would be an unmitigated evil for
it has yet to be shown that the Cubans have the ability
to satisfactorily govern themselves, and il by any
chance the island we're to become part of the United
States, it would be of endless trouble in
sequence of the conflicting religious social and politi-
cal opinions of its people If the Cubans are deter
mined to again test their chances in the fight may
give them fair field for the enterprises but should
not allow their quarres to drag into any
sary disagreeable mplication.-Boston Herald.
THE mob in this, country is in just sense the
people An idle lazy reckless crowd with which thieves
and murderers and raseas of every kind and degree
associate themselves and which if unexpected swes
to maddened mob dealing terror and ruin every
side is not the American people, and those who call it
merely panders to the spirit of crime. The
cent events at Cincinnati will remind other cities that
leave their government to the discretion of those
whom they do notrust respect is not joke and
disgrace; it is an immediate and appalling danger.
--Harpers Weekly.
WE have quite much territory as we need
or use to advantage, and apopulaton which many
of us wish were, if not smaller, at any rate less
heterogeneous To admit Cuba a State would in
troduce a new element, troublesome than any
we have now, while our form of government and our
national habits about i'll adapted they could be
to governing Cuba a dependency. The Spanards
may feel assured both that do not want Cuba and
that will give support, physical moral, to the
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Times.
THE militia should be well armed uniformed and
provided with necessary buildings and drill grounds
at the public expense, and men should be fairly
pensated for the time required for regmental eXer
cses and parades other than public holidays 1t is
only on these terms that prompt and general disci-
nine can he had and that is what must be had if the
militia is to be of any serious value. Not Only would
the discipline thus obtained be worth all it costs, but
its indirect advantages would be very great The call
ing of defenders of the public order would become
attractive; the would have rational pride in the
duties they were called upon to perform and would
receive the respect of their fellow-ctizens-
York Times.
THIS widespread depression lin prices is fortu-
netely, not due to any financial catastrophe. 1t is
simply the return swing of pendulum which vibrates
between excess and deficiency A supply scanty in
proportion to consumption makes prices high; high
prices while they check consumption, stimulate the
production of an increased supply increased sup
ply lowers prices and low prices again. while they
increase consumption, diminish production, and so
tend to correct themselves The present state of the
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ever: it will be followed later by an adj
vance nd this in turn by another decline Ebb and
fow like night and day as inevitable in the
mercial as in the physical world.-New York Sun.
THE candidates most likely to be elected are those
who will bring to the polls the largest number Of the
Republican voters, and will attract the largest number
of independent voters in the States in which the two
great parties are most nearly balanced. The States
that may be depended upon certain to support the
Republican ticket whatever its compassionate any
such there be-are perhaps not less TO be considered
than those which, like New York Ohio and even
Massachusetts, have shown disposition to disregard
party obligations when coupled with candidates who
do not inspire confidence; but the States which are
certain not to choose Republican electors should be
discouraged from taking conspicuous part in decid-
ing who the nominees shall be.-Boston Advertiser
THE falacy of the view that can prepare for war
after it has been declared to be generally
realized. 1t is beginning to be understood that we
cannot order guns for coast Notifications from abroad
and obtain them in a few weeks, but that we must
forge and manufacture them ourselves, and that in
order to be able do this must purchase an
i've and costly plant and then not expect any guns in
less than two or three years. Congress is disposed to
make haste slowly in this natter but there are hopes
that enough money will be appropriated this year to
make a beginning. Guns of our making we must
have if we are not be forever at the mercy of the
weakest armed power in the family of nations and if
we cannot get a navy must all the strenu-
ously insist upon having adequate coast defenses.
New York Tribune.