The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-26
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

WE taxed to death for local purposes. 1t is al
most misfortune for man TO own property When
the taxes for different purposes counted up, man
feels that he is overburdened. large part of his
taxes go to support the police, the jails, the aims
housesexpenses rendered necessary in large part by
men who drink, and for whose pleasure the saloons
exist.-Mlwaukee Sentinel.
IF there should be disposition In the next or in
any future Congress to cut down the sums awarded to
tves or to extend like favors to those who have not
equally just claims upon the government of the
United States it is to be hoped that of all parties
VIII ne round as ready to resist such change as all
should be to prevent frauds through the operation of
the pension act.-New York Tribune
THE question, How shall we elect our PresidentS'
does not touch the real problem. That problem is:
What shall the President be when have elected
himl Shall he be the implement of organized po-
itcal bandtti to break into the public Offices OF an
impartial head of the Nation, under moral, nor
honorary, any other obligation to any party or
combinationl In either case, the method of
choosing him is matter of little consequence.-Chi
cago Times.
ORDINARILY the interference of Vicepresident-
elect with the office giving prerogative of the Presi-
dent would be regarded mpertinence, and
the former would be brushed aside without ceremony;
but when Hendricks comes forward the spokesman
for the horde of hungry and thirsty oceseekers who
fear that Cleveland intends to ignore them he roPre-
sents power which Cleveland may not snub with i'm
punity The quarrel will be a very pretty before
the 4th of March next.-Chicago Tribune.
IT is in vain that Southern newspapers and leaders
make spirited denals of the statement in Mr. Blaine
Augusta speech, so long as they maintain ominous
silence regarding the utterances of Thomas A Hen-
bricks in Brooklyn last week If there has been one
Southern Democratic disavowal of the sentiments
of the Vicepresidenteect it has escaped notice.
The whole tone and drift of the Democratic press
marks an alarming acquiescence in his truculent
declaration of Jacksonian Notwithstanding News.
THE Democratic party have won the election and
they will expect their leaders representatives to
rule the country according to Democratic theories and
with the ends in view demanded by that construction
OF the powers OF the government which are tradl-
tional with the Democratic party. This victory has
been arduous and close. 1t is complete. Our duty
points to Democratic men and Democratic measures.
The people will not oountenance halfhearted methods
and will be disappointed with hating leaders--Mobile
Register.
The manufacturers have long borne the heat and
the burden Of the day and now. when the certainty
of the sound Repub doctrine of protection would
have given aid and comfort to the langushing indus
tries and depressed business OF country 1t Ill be-
comes those who are responsible for large measure
of the uncertainty which surrounds the future, to
Republicans of trying to make political capital out
of condition of affairs that requires all their courage to
face. without making it out than it is-Phia-
delphia Press
MOST of the people who are prominent in America
to-day either because OF useful service to
the public outside of politics. because of the poses
sion of money and of advantages which money will
buy. The negroes now most need enough of this
worlds goods to make them comfortable and to keep
them from being dependent upon their white neighbOrs
They are not likely to get this in politics They ought
to let politics alone therefore beyond the extent of
voting, until their position is better established.
Louisville Commercial.
THERE is little probability that there will be any
essential improvement IN business until after the turn
of the year The increasing number of mercantile
failures shows that the seasons business has resulted
in disappointment TO many who have been unable to
struggle longer against adverse Circumstances, and it
shows what may be expected during the few remain
ing weeks of the year When the record of the year
has been made up aud the debris of the wrecks has
been cleared away there may be hope for encourage
ment; but in any event. progress in the direction of
recuperation must be slow,-Cincnnati Commercial
Gazette.
CIvIL-sERvICE reform will be one of the distinguish
ing features of the coming administration, unless
Democratic rule is to be Democratic suicide; but it
must not be forgotten that honest civil service de-
mands the removal of all who have prostuted public
Office TO marty ends and efforts. The test of Presi-
dentelect Clevelands fidelity to civilservce reform
will not be much in the removal Of anticivilservice
reform officials in the selection Of their successors
but he can't like rascals in without making Dem
ocratio cvservice reform professions mockery and
a le.-Philadelphia Times lind Dem.)
TINS South has everything at stake in the state
of affairs which it is entering. 1t gain i'm
mensel in every direction by civil service, honestly
and impartialy organized TO secure efficiency fair
spect and in the respect Of the whole country by the
contrast which such service established and sus-
tanned by Southern men and Southern opinion, would
present to the partisan service largely imposed from
without under which it labors But to substi-
tute merely partisan Democratic service for the
present would be of advantage whatever. II
would be of great disadvantage, for the South itself
would be held responsible for it and judged by it..
New York Times.