The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.


A STATE Legislature cannot regulate values and
any attempt to restrict the hours of labor to
hance wages must inevitably fail.-Pttsburg CONNER
cial Gazette.
UNLESS the government has the right and exercises
IT. to protect citizen in the lawful exercise of the
elective franchise it is not worth the blood which the
humblest soldier spilled in its defense.-Natonal Re-
publican.
A MAN who secures the presidential nomination this
year must do it in clean and square way, his
merits, and by of belief that he can poll
votes than any other person that may be suggested
lhere VIII not be any want of enthusiasm in the con
venton is safe to say; but it will be enthusiasm for
the party rather than for any particular individual
st. Louis Globe Democrat
SUCH reduction as Is contemplated by the Nor
rson bill would open our home market to the immense
surplus stocks of European countries while no addi
tona advantages would TO this country in for
egn markets 10 be forewarned is to be torearmed
and it behooves the American people to to it that
party dangerous to the general prosperity is kept out
OF power.-Cleveland Leader.
THE increasing failures some of which reveal dis
honest praces not punishable by existing laws bring
still more clearly into relief the need of general
bankrupt law. The recent failure of a prominent dry
goods in New York State shows that the diff
cutes began and ended with stock speculation. Trad
who take such chances should risk going to jail at
the same time.-Brooklyn Union.
THERE was too much gall and NORWOOD in his
Phillips oratory and the impression left always
combatve and unrestful. Such men are conspicuous
in the times that try mems souls but when the evil
fought against is vanqushed, and there is call to
grid the sword upon the thigh feels that the cham
pions work is done, and that the hour is passed.
the man is no longer needed.-Brookyn Eagle
THE whole question of the tariff belongs not to
party politics but to the realm of craftsmanship.
Neither party to-day is wholly in favor of wholly
opposed to reduction. The measure then should be
debated as question of business, and no attempt
should be made to divide party lines. Yet
whatever is done should be done quickly The country
is waiting to have the matter disposed of that it
may go its way 1ejoicing.-Detroit Times,
WITH the tariff of last winter untried with nearly
every industry suffering from depression that is
worse in free-trade England than in our own country
Mr. Morrison comes forward with proposition that
in its least harmful features will unsettle business
and in its worst features will ruin manufacturers
whose only crime has been the employment of
American labor and the reduction of the cost of
goods to the American consumer-Phladelphia Press
EXTREME poverty, the sudden death of protector
the prevailing disposition to give work to unless
be found who will do it at half price and
nearly starve 10 death at it. do more to fill houses of
bad character than anything else Thousands of lost
women would be saved women--women beyond the
possibility of harm-but for the excessive gallantry
the oldfashioned ideas of propriety which refuse
women the right to their bread in honest
way.-New York Graphic
STREET-CARs remain just as they were at the be-
ginning of the institution. Did anyone see a
line that had enough cars to accommodate the public
which it processes to serve Is there any other land
than this under the broad heavens where people
satisfied to pay for seat, and not be able to obtain
it than half the tmel Is there any other
try but this where the infiiction of overcrowded
close Ieeing streetcars is habtualy borne with if
provdential Observation-Disclosures Telegraph
SHOULD Slnkat be taken and Its garrison be massa-
cred through the failure of the British authorities at
Cairo to forward reinforcements; should Baker long
delayed attempt to succor that place meet with the
fate which beell the Hicks expedition; should Gen
eral Gordon be killed in his effort to reach Khartoum
and to retrieve situation which the blunders and
vacation of the British Foreign Office have perhaps
made irretrevable; then it is by impossible
that the credit of the Gladstone ministry might be
seriously shaken at the bar of public opinion and in
the House of Commons as to compel its immediate re-
tirement from oflice-New York Sun.
THIS bill, it comes from the hands of Mr.. Nor
rison proposes a reduction Of about 20 per cent on
duties generally But it also provides that reduc
ton shall go below the duties levied by the Morrill,
tariff of 1861 The first step, Mr.. Hewitt says, will
be to apply this beautiful principle to every item
in the tariff and Ito correct any case in which it
would be iniudicious in which it might be i'm
proved" In other words, the first step is to abolish
the so-called principle and to make new tariff
throughout We suspect Mr.. Hewitt is right in sup
posing that this will be necessary if the tariff bill is
to be anything but disgraceful hodge podge But it
is precisely the most difficult of all tasks for which
Mr. Hewitt supposes the Democratic majority is
potent. Verify such faith is rare.New York Tribune