The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-06
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE general situation calls for the exercise of eau
ton in business but the clouds are breaking up, ard
the country will want the usual amount of supplies,
that the spring trade promises to be large in vol
ume, but whether it will prove to be profitable
mains to be seen.--Cincnnati Commercial Gazette.
IT is an open onestion whether or not use of the
public funds for highschool purposes is not peryer-
sion of such moneys 1t is true that the State is for its
own protection interested in the education of the peo
pie but education that does than fit the youth
for the duties of life is held by many to be
Observation-Disclosures News.
SOME of the liquor dealers have worked themselves
into state of noisy and offensive agitation and boast
of the votes they control and Of what they ac.
eomplsh in elections. We do not believe that these
blatant fellows represent the respectable dealers
They are certainly making great mistake. The tenn
per of the times is distinctly favorable to careful and
1udicious limitation of the traffic. limitation that
shall go further than the present system. If they
stand out against this, they are simply inviting Sc
verer policy.-New York Tribune
THE reasons given by Secretary Chandler for not
making appointments in the Navy Department on the
strength Of cvilservice examinations have air Of
nsincerty One cannot but feel that the real truth of
the business is that Mr. Chandler is politician rather
than a statesman. He should understand that the
American people very much in earnest about ro-
form in civil service and that neither party afford
resist their manifest purpose The defeat of Sena-
tor Pendeton renders it all the more important that
representative Republicans should be true to the pop
ular demand in this regard.-Chicago Inter Ocean
If publishing is private business let it be conduct
ed wholly at private expense like the grocery bust
ness If it is a public business let government
nopolize it, as it has monopozed the postal business
1t is of avail to say that has recognized
the propriety of transmitting printed matter at the
public expense by deadheading newspapers within the
counties where they published The fact that gov
eminent does this does not prove that government
ought to do it. If it be shown that 1t ID proper
and expedent for government to go TINS length, then
there will be basis of for gong further
But this has never been shown.-Chicago Times.
MORE than all, however, the pupils in the schools
are already overburdened with work The great
trouble with our educational system is the multiple
y of the studies to which the children are required to
devote themselves. School boards have gone intro
ducing new devices for taking up time and distracng
attention until it has become wellnigh impossible for
a child to get more than superficial confused
Lnowledge of his tasks. Rather let the
school course be simpfed that the boys and girls
shall come out with thorough knowledge of few
things, instead of superficial knowledge of many.
Then the pupils will be sounder in mind and body,
and less disposed to indulgence in stimulants when
they reach maturity.-New York Sun.
THE whole and sole object of the movement for the
regulation of the railroads is not to impose single
disability them; it is only to make them recog-
nize the centuriesold obligations of the common car
rer The railroads of this country have placed them
selves outside the law of their being. They assume
to act part in the distribution of the wealth and in
dusy of the country that is not only opposed to pub
ho policy but is in direct conflict with the law OF the
carrier that has been built up by the ex'
perience and the struggles of generations Ihey are
to be brought back within the social Told. They
to be compelled by force if need be to cease their
Determinations their favoritisms to persons and
places their defiant negatons of the authority OF the
laws and the courts.-Chicago Tribune