The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-19
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

OSE prornotive of business depression in this
country is that business uncertain of the fu
tro VI ioSlSlaVOl a1ecVhg BUSINESS lulete71si anu
they are made so by seeing the leading organs of par
ty which claims that il does Lot to establish free
trade persist day after day in declaring that free trade
IS the only remedy for our business troubes-Louis-
Vile Commercial.
If the Nicaragua canal scheme can be shown to be
of national and commercial Importance to us-and
this can be easily figured out-a have to do is to
go ahead and build it. We need not go over the water
to ask consent Of Great Britain France We need
not fear that they viii fire gun to nufy any treaty
we m ay make with Nicaragua or any other Central
American state The objection offered by these tmor
souls is absurd its very face.Chicago Tribune.
IF there had been or could now be a free and fair
vote in obedience to the Constitution of the United
States, and honest count of the votes freely cast
the result would be substantially as follows For
Blaine 100000; for Cleveland 1900, 600; for aIl
Others, 356,000 By the greatest crime against free
government that has been perpetrated in this
country a candidate having real majority of
million and half against him has been elected under
the forms OF law-New York Tribune.
THE growth of protectionst sentiment in the South
and especially in the States which Mr.. Randall intends
to visit is menace to the democracy which natur-
ally enough alarms the party leaders, but tits difficult
TO how the situation is to be bettered by visit
from the leader of the tariff wing Of the party. Mr..
Randall will either have to the Southern Demo-
Gratis that his party is not under control of the free
traders tell them that he is in full accord with the
Carlisle Morrison clique-and we don't believe he will
have the teme1y to do the one the cowardce to do
the other.-Philadelphia Press.
WE may remind our British cousins that most of
the Anarchists and dynamite advocates have Of
British production, and that even Herr Most came to
$ from London. Would it be asking too much to in-
sist that Great Britain shall keep her consprators and
assassins at home for punishment reformation in
stead of sending them to and then blaming fol-
all the anonymous crimes committed in Great Britain
the theory that the men sent hither have plotted
theml We did not want Herr Most, nor did we spe-
ciay ask for the company of the skrmsh fund people,
New York Commercial Advertiser.
To refuse an appropriation for clerk hire to the
savior of Germany overburdened with work and now
in wear is
Besarus. The German Liberals have done what the
English Liberals would have done if they had ent
shed the staff at the Horse Guards in resentment for
his opposition to the passage of the reform bill to
the repeal of the corn laws Generous Germans,
like generous men of other countries must view this
action of the Liberals in the German legislature with
regret and shame.-New York Times.
UNDOUBTEDLY, if the choice were only between
national bank notes and those of State banks, the
former would be far preferable but not limited
to this alternative There is no more chance of our
being compelled to resort to State bank notes for
rency than there is of having to sawlogs for dol
lars and shingles for small change Whom the nation
al bank circulation has gone, as go it must in few
years through the operation of the financial forces now
at work, better form of national currency-namely,
that supplied directly by the national government will
take its place and do its work.-New York Sun.
THE House has at last passed the bill making the
Agricultural Bureau into a Cabinet Office 1t is not
explained upon what principle this has been done
less it that of determination to pass something
after having been in session than two weeks 1t
making this ridiculous bureau into Cabinet Office 1t
has done anything for agriculture, and real
farmers have asked this boon. The whole thing has
been aughngstock during all the years of its exist
ence, and has absolutely claims to respect much
less to additional Observation-Disclosures Times.
THERE win be enough of the true inwardness of the
solid South displayed within the next four years to put
the overwhelming masses of people guard so that
the support of that section section will be the de-
feat Of whatever cause it sustans Then the South
reduced to just proportions be at peace and learn
to appreciate the unparalleled generosity and magnan
unity of the conquerors OF tho great war OF the six
ties and the Southern people will gain the inestmable
advantages of social conditions settled upon the eter
nal basis Of the rights Of man. and the glorious at
mosphere Of the institutions and customs of freedom
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
WE are not ready to believe that the Democrats Of
Indiana mbued with the lowest sort of parti-
sanship that they would support most infamous
SANDER the Blaine loell il it shown. 1t they
deficient in manliness and honor, they should be
forced to take the responsibility Of proving it to the
people of the Nation So far as that is
cerned it will hardly furnish answer TO the general
feeling of disappointment that tho libel suit not
pushed. That feeling win be stronger on account Of
the opportunity of trumphing which it will give to
one of the most lespicabe organs of campaign slam
der that has ever dsgraced politics.-Pittsburg
Dispatch
TIE truth of the matter that Davis is and ALWAYS
was, an engregious huinbug. A sort of martyrdom
which he has been compelled to suffer Of
a certain Northern sentiment which has concentrated
upon him a largo portion of the animosities of the
civil war; has had its effect in preventing many of tho
Southern people from giving proper recognition of
this interesting fact There signs however, that
they beginning to recognize it, and if General
Sherman provos-as he is doubtless able to do-the
charge which he brings against Davis, he ought to
produce the effect of destroying what credit the
still has with the people he deuded and betrayed
Philadelphia Telegraph.
LoRDLY orators from Parliament proclaim emigra-
ton the remedy for the troubles in Skye they
have previously done for the troubles in Ireland.
Their policy is to improve the country by getting rid
of its people: In the words of Sir William Harcourt,
Mr.. Giadstoues Home Secretary, they will make
solitude and call it political economy. England
not have the crofters and Danish them too, She
not have defenders for the wealth she imports from the
Ganges and the Indus aud from the diamond fields Of
south Africa If she drives her hardy peasantry across
the sea defend the wealth Of other lands There is
parting of tho ways here, and which way England