The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-27
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THE purveyors of vile books can not be denounced
too severely for depravng the minds Of children but
parents guilty of contributory negligence in fail
ing to counterfeit the influence of such literature by
commonsense talks to their children-Boston Globe.
THOSE who count upon the existence of powerful
freetrade sentiment in the Northwestern States do
not comprehend tile situation. Manufacturing in
dustries there, as in the South sprnging up
everywhere and where they exist strong feeling for
protection shows itself. Even the farmers see the
benefit Of cultvating home market.-CincinnaiC Com
mercial Gazette
Is it not bad policy for the brewers and LIQUOR.
dealers to be Boosting of their political power and
be threatening control elections in their INTEREST,"
They might be astounded at the result if they organ,
lied for such political purpose especially at this time
when people pretty generally coming to the con.
clusion that the liquor interest extensive and too
prosperous for the common good.-New York Sun.
The impression prevails in quarters that boss
rule is due to the efforts of who scheme sys-
tematicaly to possess themselves of political
power than belongs to them by means fair or unfair
as the case may be- While this is partly true the
greater fact is that boss rule is the product of the
who profess to belong to party and yet decline to
more than 1t does by aggression.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
JUST now the tendency is make the State dc
everything for the individual There is limit to this
beyond which every advance is not only unwise, but
harmful. No idea can be harmful than the one
that every person is the ward of the State and eonse
quenty that the State is in duty bound to take of
him. Nothing be so calculated to deaden ndi.
vidual responsibility and ambition that Inschiev.
Jus rosPoC9ihS tne ODllSdUlOu Ol government
Boston Journal.
AMERICAN agriculture has hitherto met the deficit
in the food supply of the old world almost without a
rival Our vast subsidies of bonds and lands to our
Western railroad system have given it development
without precedent in the worlds history and the wise
abstention of the government from the actual owner
ship of the lines has led to gradual reduction Of
freight rates to point never before deemed possible.
The low freight rate wheat and provisions between
the great central American basin and the seaboard has
postponed for ten years or more the appearance of In
dia in successful competition with in the foodmar-
kets of Europe. This advantage has been exhausted.
Springfield Republican
THE soldiers who fought so bravey for the preser.
walton of the Union deserve all that the nation can give
them without injustice to other citizens who pay
taxes. Our existing pension laws provide for expen
ditures greater than any other nation has given
to the survivors of its armies The line must be
drawn somewhere for the good of the nation. II will
not do to extend the benefits of the pension laws to all
survivors regardless of disability The demandsm ade
oy the veterans are unreasonable II they should be
granted the inevitable result would be the ruin of the
nations credit, and in all probability the failure Of
good government which they fought hard TO uphold
Have the veterans counted the costa-New York
Times.
IT be often enforced that the South must
build up an educational system of its own It cannot
take readymade and apply it to its situation
and necessities. great deal of is also put
forward about the awful danger to which the country
is subjected by the existence of iteracy in the South
in spite of the fact that the ratio of crime to popula
ton is smaller in Mississippi with all its illiteracy
than i'll Massachusetts with all its education. The
negroes and poor whites of the South are hard at
work. doing something for themselves under many
difficulties At the same time they learning what
they can. They are doing it in their way, and
they pay for it, they cultivatng Independence
while mastering the three Rs.-Philadelpha Times.
If the Mississippi levee system has any purpose it
ions of money readily its mud-banks absorb
and let it through The appropriations for the
robberes of the treasury. They have have gone
for years and will continue for years
to unless Congress sunmarily refuses
to obstruct the river any longer. If it
has any money to vote in that direction let it apply it
to the opening of the rivers outlets any of which
could be cut for less than the amount asked for every
year in single appropriation for ping up the mud
banks of the Mississippi and trying to keep the food
from dscharging by its natural outets-Chicago Trib
DEMocRAcYs attitude in regard to the tariff is
nothing if not miscellaneous. The party is without
policy. 1t does not know to-day what kind of tar
if plank is going to insert in its national platform
next July. 1t is everything by turn and nothing
long 1t talks free trade incidental protection
reform, horizontal reduction. But is able
to state what is the Democratic tariff policy, Is it
any wonder that party which doesn't know its
mind en- question which comes home to every
chant and manufacturer, to every farmer and me-
chanic, appeals in vain. for the general confdencei
There will be other important contributory causes
but the Democratic party will be beaten this fall be-
cause of the wretched spectacle of weakness and in
decision that it has made of itself on the tarfNew
York Tribune.
THE cases of trchniasis in Germany, which sup
piled the pretext for the unparalleled assault upon the
product of vast industry, quite as likely to
have arisen from eating of native German pork as
from partaking of the American cured meat. Indeed
since the prohibition of pork far worse and
numerous cases of trichniasis have been reported in
Germany than while its markets free to the for
egn article. To levy prohibtory duty is the unques
toned right of Germany whatever the motive may be;
but without better foundation in fact than she has yet
shown she has right to proclaim the product of
great foreign industry unwholesome and diseased
the injury of that interest in every market in the
world Ii done in a spirit of retaliation, and upon
false pretext much the greater the injustice of it.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
II is known that General Grant regards General
Logan us the ablest the most 1ssrvng and the most
successful volunteer general of the war. Those who
are familiar with his views understand him as beev-
ing that in several critical emergencies General Lo
CAMS Judgment and patriotic spirit were of inestmar
Bile public service. The country remembers how much
impatience-and undeserved impatience-there at
one time with General Thomas before he struck his
great blows in Tennessee. General Logan sent
with power to relieve him and assume the command
When he arrived the scene of action he made his
own observations that Thomas right, quietly
withheld himself and took the command and its
great opportunity which within his reach. How
many men with the commission In their pockets,
would have shown such degree of self-abnegationa
1t is not surprising that Grant who knows Logans
work and worth in the great struggle should favor his
nomination for the presidency The expression is hon
oibe both and it will not be without its effect in
the cauvass.--Philadclphia Press.