The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-31
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THERE are active political managers among the
officials but the great body of those employed in the
ing the right Of suffrage. Of the hundred thousand
names on the public rolls only small proportion
bear any share in political affairs so that there can be
no pretense either of public political justit
cation for the wild declaration that they have
defended every principle of an honest evilservice
system. Philadelphia Press.
IT is reasonably certain that if the ex-saves could
not retain their rights under the rule of the Repubi
can party they will be still less able to do under
Democratic administration of the national govern
ment. Mr.. Hendricks knows well as he knows any
thing that with full vote and fair count III the
Southern States Democratic victory would be mpos-
Sbie and that he his nominal success to the fact
that the colored men were permitted to vote at all
their sffrages overslaughed by tissue ballots
-Rittsburg Chronicle
THERE is one way for Henry Watterson to get even
with Uncle Randas conduct in carrying the banner
of protection down into the freetrade Jericho and
Haunting it in the faces of its beardless statesmen.
Let Mr.. Watterson equip himself to war footing and
come up to Pennsylvania and assault the protectonist
bull his own clover patch. No tariff man will OPP
pose Mr.. Watterson's coming as he has opposed
Uacie RSndalls visit to Kentuckyon the contrary he
wiz be welcomed Hospitality and with respect. Col
one Wahterson trousers are reported in good eond-
zion and that bull needs exercise-Philadeh Press
TIE government has done everything IN its power
kocaFry into full effect and to make successful, if 1t
scd succeed the policy of silver coinage 1t has not
succeeded simply because the country does not want
that kind of currency and beyond certain limits will
not use it, retain it in use. The silver dollars
thrust into circulation the silver certificates though
issued In far-On cities, gravltate back surely and
swiftly to the custom-houses of the chief importing
cities particularly Il customhouse of New York,
and through them into the Treasury which is thus vr-
tualy compelled to redeem them with gold.-New
York Tribune.
italy and France are having little unpeasantness
because France is ortifying the whole of her Italian
frontier. The Italians disposed to consider this
q covert threat. They are siding with England and
against France in the African problems and fear per
hAps that France is resentful Switzerland had a
season of the same irritation against France year
two ago and for the reason. But there seems
20 be real ground for the alarm. France is but
ryg out scheme for the defense of all her interior
borders and however unpleasant may be to adjacent
nations. there is occasion for any diplomatic
hics.-St. Louis Globe-Demoerat.
THE party most vitality concerned in these treaties
Is not the government, not the executive, not the
Senate but the country. The theory custom that
permits the Senate TO consider and discuss these inn
ortant measures with locked DOORS to exclude from
the country all information of the facts and reasons
that senators may adduce for against them, and
otherwise deal with them affairs of the govern
ment that not affairs of the people, is scandalous
that the country would not amoment tolerate
original proposition. Should it be the tolerabe
because, instead of original proposition it is
vivai of monarchical system and monarchica era,
whose presence in republic is anomaly and a con
tradieton of the republican prinoipleI-Chcago News.
THE Nicaraguau treaty is the knen of that policy
which has turned the forces of the country upon itself
for twenty three years That policy has certainly
achieved tremendous results in the way of organizing
Territories and States building railroads multi
plying industries, extending settlements, popuating
the West, accommodating wealth. extorting taxes, pay
ing the public debt and increasing the national power
But il is exhausted The public domain is settled.
The choice public lands all taken up We have as
much population need. Oar wealth is enormous.
Our revenues are greater than we require. Railroad
building may be left to itself. The national energies
amazingly developed in the last quarter of cen
fury. growing FESTIVE and impatient and have
already begun TO exhibit their impotence in the labor
troubles in the North and East They demand new
objects to expend themselves upon and the Nicara-
guam treaty points out the way The narrow waist of
the world is the focus where the future drama of
conquest TO be enacted and hher the great powers
of the earth already beginning to move.-St Louis
Republican.
WITH all due Difference we do not see the pressing
necessity for such correspondence this THE Hon
Heudricks's II is unwise for colored Americans to
convict their brethren in blood of absence of in
be.ligenoe aud of faith in the Constitution of the
country which amounts to impeachment of their
capacity fulfill udicously the obligations of citizen
ship. 1t is unwiseso, at least it appears to us-for
prominent Democrats TO the universe upon
that their party does not intend to abolish the Cons
eution-or, at least, repeal the amendments paw off
The Southern claims and the confederate debt re-
snslave the negroes and miscellaneouslv and with
feonious intent stand the Union and the whole order
of things on their heads. Even when regarded from
the low levels of partisan expectancy there nothing
more foolish than this too practice of tacitY
pleading unprepareness and ncapabty for tasks and
responsibilities which majority of the people are
willing that political organization should assume
unless perhaps it be the proneness of political
organisations in opposition to adopt policies and
sMbboleths which their antagonists in power have
Just discarded about to discard as valueless
snd Observation-Disclosures Record.