The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.


INSTEAD of entering into another granger agitation,
let the farmer accept his lot There few industries
in ourishng condition and the farmer is not alone
in experiencing depression. The wordY orators in
Congress might drop with profit much of their bun
combe in discussing railroad management and turn
to serious questions The railroad corporations
far from perfect but it is not by such measure
Congress is considering that they to be
formed.-New York Herald.
ALCOHOL is to the system it has been said as the
spur to the horse and the sme would be true if the
horse spurred himself. 1t is, therefore, physic,
remedy. not food. Its value restorative cannot
be denied but the restoration is but the whipping and
squirting of the jaded energies and collapse will
the unless the real restorative foed is taken at
once. Yet many man, aided by cordial has risen
to take food who, without that cordial would have
lain quietly down to die, and many man has thrown
off the effects Of severe chill by the agency.
followed by the same essental-Philadephi Record
IT is judgment that the people of this country
extremely sick of peddling sentimentaliss in pol
itcs. They have done no good, but great deal of
mischief In Ohio the net result of their crusades is
the political saloonist attorney Governor the Supreme
Court declaring for free liquor and the temperance
dam aged by the contemplate and disreputable
associations that surround it. Let them look to the
Democratic party, which they have lifted upon the
head of whisky barrel, for hid and comfort. We
have nothing of the sort to bestow upon them.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
ONE of the drawbacks as well as dangers OF news
paper work is its enormous strain upon the
tensions it's regular rregularity its constant assault
upon the vital energies and intellectual activity.
Hence, in journalism, many bright young lives fall
by the waysde. There is not doubt but that it is
unhealthtul work, and there Is but one remedy for
this and that is to be sought in exatng its purposes
and making its methods cleaner Honest dealings
with the public, fidelity to professions, dsinterested
in the line of duty self-repression, and
more serious of moral accountability, these
so many tonics which will strengthen the newspaper
system, and need to DO applied to itLouisvle Cour
ier-Journal.
So far from being responsible for it from having
covert sympathies with dynamite workers. the Ameri.
can people have done than any other nation to
avert the evils from which European nations
suffering The great service which they have
dered civilization their share of the worlds work
has been to furnish homes work and prosperity for
the surplus population of Europe. For hundred
years they have been receiving the ignorant and i'm
poverished classes of the old world and have been
training them to habits of industry and to the respon
sbilities of citizenship. The evils of overpopuation
pauperism, misgovernment and political discomfort
have been to large extent counteracted by American
prosperity. The of disatfection abroad would
have been widened in every quarter if the surplus
population had not been steadily drawn of-New
York Tribune
THE appearance of the Democratic House In an eva.
sion of the provision Of the Constitution which should
govern its action is not very hopeful indication
of the professed devotion of that party TO constu
tional principles. The Constitution provides that
Neither house. during the session of Congress- shall
without the consent of the other adjourn for
than three days The provision has been violated in
spirit by the House in taking vacation which it is
clearly understood shall last for two weeks although
pretense of obeying it in the letter s made by hav
ing few members meet every three days and adjourn
for three days This sort of evasion of of
the panet restrictions of the Constitution is highly
discreditable It may be better for the country to
have Congress out of than but the
should be taken according to law. party VIII ch has
made especial profession of strict loyalty to the prn
cples of the Constitution should certainly pay more
of Congress than to evade them by such a subter-
fuge.-Pittsburg Dispatch.