The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-28
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

EVERY effort to check incompetence and to mitigate
its evils is real philanthropy deserving all encour
agement and aid Every proper means of promoting
the of total abstinence whatever theoretical diff
ferences of opinion there may be about it, is com
mendable but legal prohibition is wholly different
matter, which will never command the support of
broad intelligence, calm judgment and sober common
sense.-New York Times. 81
WE hardly thought that Blaine would coyertly at
tack Cleveland he has in his letter acceptance Of
course the Maine man must have had the reformer in
his eye when he wrote SIhe sacredness and unity of
the family must be preserved the foundation Of all
civil government; the Of orderly administers
tion; the surest guaranty of moral piety." The
words contain cruel thrust az Bachelor Cleveland
but in politics these things must be expected.San
Francisco Chronicle aii s4aa (; e5st
1T is always pity to throw away votes and it is
special pity when good earnest men, whose influence
and example are needed and who by putting forth
half the effort within the Repu hliean party eoulddo
ten times the good, insist going off by themselves
and sacrificing their political weight to idea Of duty
which, we have shown, cannot benefit the cause in
any way but the contrary is calculated to hurt it,
The figures show that prohibition work has thus far
all been done in off years in fact, and the figures
ought to be accepted as trustworthy guides in case
of this kind--New York Tribune.
WE leave Governor Clevelands personal life and
character to those who responsible for him. To
independents, who turn from the associate and friend
of Lincoln and Garfield to whose personal acts
and associates cannot be 50 much named dis
cussed in newspaper passing into tens of thousands
of families, and anxious each day SO to mirror the
worlds wide news that vice may never receive
essary mention needless publicity leave the dis
cusson of this unfortunate subject never within the
memory of men now in active life associated with a
presidential Candidate Philadelphia Press.
HENDRIcKs stands to-day the embodiment Of dis
loyalty, cowardce and national dishonesty. At the
close of the he willing TO reenslave the col
ored race and he would as willingly to-day had he
the power degrade white labor by aiding and abettne
the wing of the Democratic party that is most blatant
for free trade. How an honest Republican, even
If he be freetrader vote for HendricksY With such
record it surprising that his name was skipped at
the independent meetngl Yet with all this hypocrisy
be it remembered boiling Republicans, that vote
for Cleveland is vote for Hendricks.-Ph Philadelphia
Press.
THE abolition movement grew with the growth Of
enlightment, for it proposed to free from an
involuntary and cruel bondagei but the growth of the
prohibition sentiment in politics will depend upon the
spread Of faith in coercive methods Of making adults
involuntarily teetotalers by deprivng them of the
privilege to purchase stmulants. The prohibition Of
selling is, Of course to prevent people from drinking
Prohibition never become political issue in the
sense that slavery was, and those who vote with
the national Prohibition party must do so without the
hope Of any practical result or in the future.
Chicago Tribune.
WE cannot concur with those who affect to believe
that this publication will not prevent anybody from
voting for Governor Cleveland On the contrary, we
think that the only question with large number of
voters will be as to whether the stories true
false If they are true Governor Cleveland is not 9
of the United States, and thousands of Democratic
voters will declare. On the other hand if they
false there will be reaction in his favor which will
make him stronger than IL the purveyors Of scandal
had let him alone. Thus far we have seen no denial
Of the truth of these charges National Republican.
PROHIBITION does not prohibit in the States where It
has been tried because there is not enough MOI al
force behind the to compel obedience to the
law The only practical dscouragements to the rum
seller and rum-drinker have been social. These may
be made absolutely successful If there is majority
opposed to liquor as of course there would have to
be in thirds of the States to national
hibitory law. Let the Prohibitionsts stay at home
instead Of running TO political conventions Let them
work at home against rum they would against any
other social disturber What they win not do with
out law they never do with it.-New York
Herald.
THE truth is that the American boy had better be
taught to be American. At this late day when Mr..
Gladstone has to battle with House Of Lords to get
measures accepted which the people demand when his
greatest embarrassment comes from the long continued
misrule in Ireland and his next from the rebellion
caused by corrupt British officials in Egypt and when
theunspeakabe filth in official circles in ireland and
the recent conviction Of lord for beastly crime at
tract attention. it is not wise to teach American boys
to envy the blessings and the gores Of arstocrafic
government Our own government has for many
years been more economical and more pure than that
Of Great Britain.-New York Tribune.
The State Is no less responsible to the individual
than the individual to the State and If person must
suffer for oense done the State the State should
suffer fort wrong put upon the person. In ma
teria respects 1t Is not only possible but just that