The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-20
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

IT is time soc thosein the Democratic party who
crying for harmony to act. Three fourths of the
party who believe in tariff reform above all other is
sues have yet made all the concessions. The Nor
rson bill, which they have agreed on, is simply
promise They cannot go any further to har-
mony. They do not propose to yield everything The
minority must meet them part of the wav If they can
not come as far as the Morrison bill. then further
talk of harmony" is useless.-Louisville Courier
Journal
THE last survivor of his own generation Mr.. Glad
stones greatest service to the Liberal party of to-day
lies in the possibility of union to Wing and Radical
offered by his leadership. If by his own act or the
pressure of others this leadership ceases, contest
long postponed must begin and for the moderate
measures which Mr. Gladstone draws and Lord Hart
ngton approve, will be substituted in the Liberal
party tire unchalenged ascendancy of Joseph Cham
berlain and the unchecked rule OF Radical
-Philadelphia Press.
THE danger of the time is that the silver lunacy
may bring ruin If the currency once gets debauched
in that way, if public opinion gets used to the
dishonor of forcing silver upon creditors instead of
gold almost anything ruinous dishonorable may
come afterward. But the weak place in the dam is
the continued coinage of silver dollars, and the
nue9 Issue OF paper notes protessedy based there
on If that danger We're out Of the way the country
could afford to laugh at all others of the monetary
sort.-New York Tribune
THERE Is no installing the temper and meaning of
Speaker Carlisles speech at the dinner of the New
York Free-trade Club the other night. He is plainly
in the saddle" and resolved to push things" All
his power will be used to compel the acceptance of the
Morrison tariff bill by the Randall crowd, and TO
init the Democratic party to nearly free trade pO
stion as possible There must be step backward
he declares, and this that Democratic
will be called and the choking process naugurated
To say that there is fun ahead is to state il mildly
st Louis Globe-D Democrat
As a question of power, Congress may now
quadruple the existing amount of legaltender notes
and levy forced loan the people to the extent of
the increase OF course there is present danger of
the exercise OF the power. 1t would be act of in
sanity But let disaster and bankruptcy and the reck
less spirit of Reputation, the equally reckless
spirit of extravagance public and private rule the
Of NCS51lf
be worked out under the very instrument which was
meant to be the surest guaranty of its preservation
New York Mail and Express.
THE time may come, and it may not be distant when
the Republican party in the several States will feel
strained to lead public sentiment on the liquor ques
ton led in the days of the free soil issue but at
present its attitude and its proper attitude is that of
keeping abreast of the best and progressive pub
lie opinion and acting the interpreter and executor
of the best conscience and of the coun-
try That the whole nation is being rapidly educated
in the matter referred to none so blind not to-
see That process of education should be given rea-
sonable time.-Minneapolis Tribune.
IT is too late to make capital out of his TTildensT
assumed wrongs He win be regarded by the people
lettering old man and out politician whose
vanity in running fer place he is longer Gf ever
tit to occupy will deprive him of the consideration &c
which his age and condition would otherwise entitb
him. And the Democratic party, by confessing its
weakness in selecting such person standard bearer
will forfeit the respect of the intelligent and ndepend-
emit voters who constitute the balance of power in
the debatabe States The Republicans may regard
with complacency the signs of Tiiden's improving
prospects.-Chicago Tribune.
THE country which supplies the money has right
10 ask that the education which it pays for shall be
the best attainable in kind and limited to the direc
tons in which it will do the most good and that the
money be made to go far as it 1t is obvious
for instance, that, whatever may be done with the
money of the various States the federal should 10
expended solely to give sound elementary education
the greatest attanabe number of children II should
not be devoted, on the hand, to colleges, high
schools and academies and the other it should be
made to procure the best primary education in the So
called lower schools-New York Times.
THE constipation theory imputes to it the same
untness to live. If the powers of its government
not the inherent powers of sovereign people if they
are powers that have been delegated by other entities
to federal agent, if they restricted by reserva
ton or otherwise the Bourbon doctrinaires still as
ser express letter of delegations if the govern
ment Of the republic is in condition of constipation
that the restriction theory implies and Mr. Pendleop
procaims. then it matters not how soon the death
knell shall be actually sounded, for the miserable
thing that is incapable of performinS ~
functions Of its life is both to live.
Chicago Times
THERE was q time when Great Britain sent US more
emigrants than any other nation but Germany now
sends a greater number Doubtless, to exchange
for hogs Is not to Bismarcks liking for in the he
loses fighting force which no wishes for bis army.
Where many men are withdrawn from productive
and devoted to unproductive pursuits in Germany,
every able-boded worker counts; yet in ten years
more than million Germans have come to these
shores. This constitutes heavy drain upon the
country, and it is the real complaint that Bismarck
shut out Germans as they have the Chinese Bismarck
would be happy.-New YorkHerald
THE State has nothing 10 do with religious creeds,
but it has of course to do with public morality for
the preservation of which secular education is neces
sary. Hence, guaranty of citizenship, the State
has right TO ask Of every religious denomination
either to send its children to the public schools or 70
give them the elements of secular knowledge in schools
of its If the members of any religious denomina
ton whose enets not adverse TO liberty and
atty prefers to open private schools of its own it has
perfect right to do There must be impartial
justice aud freedom. without fayoritism invasion
of the rights of others in the dealings of the state
with religion in this country-Brooklyn Eagle
TILDEE is human and would love to be elected Pres
ident and he is human again in dreaming that all
are mortal bt himself but he is not fool in politics.
He well understands that the party will not risk the
chances Of halt for funeral in the midst of cam
paign or accept White House funeral as the newt
able result of Il Democratic victory And he Is hu.
man also in his friendships and his hatreds and
Hendricks. who would be practically nominated for
the Presidency by the nomination of the old ticket is
not the man for whom Tilden woud labor and die as
a matter of choice Grateful as would be the Demo
cratic nomination to 1lden be understands that it e
not practicable and he understands, also, that the
sweet Of vJtory would turn to bitterness bh the eae
vation of Hendricks to the presidency
Times.