The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-12
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.


THE supreme Court having thrown down the bar.
rier against issues of paper tenders for private debts
which was carefully reared by the fathers it will
now devolve upon the people to prevent this action
from having any miscellaneous consequences To this
end they should to it that but men having
sound constitutional not Supreme Court views Of
currency and finance shall be elected to Congress
to the Office of President.--Ph Philadelphia Record.
MODERN naval warfare is essentially matter Of
engineering and rests upon very different principles
from those that governed twenty years ago at which
time the United States practically ceased to make any
advance in naval construction and armament. No
ships and no guns but plenty of officers are poor stuff
Co to war with. There has been reproduction
in officers, resulting in gut and this must continue
until the number of vessels is sufficient to give Op
portunity for working them off in active service-New
York Herald,
THE next Republican candidate for President will
be nominated by the free, honest uncontrolled popu.
lar Republican sentiment of the country He will be
named by the broad Republican party and not by any
personal or fractional machine He will be the Repub
lican chief towards whom the Republicans of
Ohio and those who speak for the full Repubcanism
and not tor any mere section of New York and the
ardent independent Republicans of New England
of the great West shall finally turn the who
can best lead the party to vctory.-Philadelphi
Press.
FROM every point whore the floods have broken over
the information is that small additions to the levees
would have prevented the overflow. If the experience
of the present and the last two years proves anything
it shows that perfected levee system few feet
higher than the lowest which have been already made
would have averted the overflow of the Mississippi
and protected nearly all the low country. The phe
thus far observed, and the conclusions which
may be fairly drawn from them, will prove of great
value in future operations the banks of the river.
st Louis Republican.
THE abuses and disreputable practices that flourish
in the legal which the fraudulent divorce
traffic is conspicuous exampe-are carried on 10y
shysters and INSCRIPTIONS attorneys who could not
gain admission at the Bar Association even if they
wanted to- By proceeding vigorously against this
class of men whenever charged with fraudulent prac
tce gross unprofessonal conduct the Bar Associa
ton will render a valuable service to the public as
we'll 1eoal sSiO
to adopt the proposed bylaw and undertake this inn
portant work in earnest-New York Herald.
NEW day has dawned for this section. Industry
has revived commerce 1ourishes agriculture is fol
lowed more intelligently and more proftably than
ever before, Our cheap coal lands, forests,
mineral wealth. our facilities for cheap manufacture
of cotton goods attracting the attention of capt.
tass and vast changes must take place in the indus
trial situation in the South in the future 1t is to
be longer beggar nation, but the States to be
wellto-do and independent able to for their
children, giving them far better facilities for educa
ton and greater opportunities to -Louisyile
Courier-Journal
THOSE gentlemen in Congress who imagine that it
would be smart thing to omit the appropriation
for the Civil-service Commission very much mis-
taken. If they will rub up their memories and recall
the circumstances under which the reform law was
passed, they will learn that it was the response of
Congress to the overwhelming defeat of the machine
ruled Republican party IN New York. and to its many
reverses in other States. The response supposed
to be made in good faith but if Congress should now
be false to the pledges then made the baot-box is
still open for the speedy and permanent interment Of
those responsible for such treachery-New York
Times.
AMERICANS are asked to abandon the economic sys-
tenn under which they have prospered as other
ton on the planet has prospered. They adj
vised to return to policy which in their expert
ence has not worked satisfactorily, and which
nation after another has given up until England
stands almost alone Before they decide upon dis
astrous experiment they will do well to consider
these evidences of formidable reaction against free
trade in Great Britain. 1t will be fat-witted for them
to the American system at 3 time when En-
gish Conservatives already striving to prevent the
importation of American cattle means of encour-
aging home production-a genuine protection measure
clumsily disgused-and when appeal TO the
sttuences may prove the first great blow at the pol
icy of free trade, New York Tribune.
THE long period of stock depression has indeed
had its comnensatng advantages for il has tapehts
many the folly and the absurdty of trying get
rich at a business they knew nothing about--a bust
ness which is the most difficult and dangerous into
ers, farmers, lawyers. physicians and clergy
men all over the Union have deuded themselves with
the notion that they could contend in stock specua
ton with the shrewd experts of Wal street. Fair
profits and small savings seemed contemplate to
them. They wanted to turn hundreds into thousands
and thousands into millions by a few operations
through a broker. 1t was a mania which was wide
spread and most demoralizine and it could only be
checked by such bitter experiences stock speculate
of the ignorant sort have been going through
during the last two years. They have almost uni
formly lost their money and consequently have aban
doned Wall street with and troubled hearts, and
the disasters have been general that they have not
yet been repaced-New York Sun.