The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-25
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THE manual system should be made part of pub
lie instruction in every city of the country Its effect
is no longer altogether experimental 1t has been
tried with marked success in several places in Eng
land especially and is likely Boston will this year
carry out the plan of Superintendent Seaver for a
public training school for 800 boys Chicago should
not jog behind in interests of such obvious import
ance to the welfare of state and socety.-Chcago
Inter Ocean. 81
THE spirit of violence, spoliaton and awlessness IS
beyond doubt rife in every Christian country Winds
of destruction seem to be rising in various guises
ready like cyclones to break in pieces the safeguards
of society There appears indeed to be little prospect
of the introduction Of millennium by the gradual if
not quite imperceptible, diffusion throughout the
world, by existing methods, of an imperfect Chris
tianity and modern Civilization. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
No amount of good crop prospects, which really in
dictate the foundation of renewed prosperity seems
to have the power to infuse the public with any
siderable degree of confidence. If there is anything
to it would be well to have it quick
ly The general business of the country will
cuperate when it is freed from the Oppressive infu-
ence of the armyof wreckers who fattenng upon
the wrecks of the properties which they have
saiied.-Cincnnati Commercial Gazette.
No steady going business should be sent away
from the bank without desired assistance account
of the troubles in which Mr. Jay Gould and Jim keene
and other spectators Of like kidney find themselves
involved Their losses take value out of wheat,
corn. IRON cotton coal, petroleum, tobacco lumber,
other of the great staples of the country 1t is the
business of the banks to protect the business of their
customers out of whom they make their earnings. Let
them continue to give legitimate help to legitimate
trade.-Philadelphia Record.
THE tariff undoubtedly needs to be revised but to
undertake that revision in the interest of freerade
and part of vociferous free trade programme in
the session of Congress Immediately preceding the
presidential election could only result in the dsrup.
ton and defeat of the Democracy and the election of
Republican President Moreover, the undertaking
foredoomed to failure; and the Democrats engage
ing in it foredoomed to accomplish nothing but
quarrelng and mischief for their party while do
ing their best to the triumph of their political
adversaries-New York Sun.
III Compress was enual to the task of transactn the
public business that is pressing for immediate atten-
tion allsummer session would be tolerated and
even welcomed But as that body has been in session
nearly seven months and done nothing but pass
measures to take money out of the Treasury, and
there are no indications that it would do anything
else if it sat till its members old Methusa-
leh the it goes the better. If it gets away
before the Democratic convention assemblies there is
a chance that the Treasury building and the pretty
female clerks will be left, at least.-Philadephia
Times (Dem.)
WHAT the friends of temperance need to realize is
that the people, not the politicians, answerable for
the slow progress of the cause; and because this
country is democraticaly governed it follows that all
Independent temperance movements will prove abort
i've until public feeling has been changed. And as
temperance advocates are, rule, supporters of
good government in all other ways they ought to
feet that by wasting their votes upon impossible
lidates they withdrawing their aid and counte-
nance from that national Republican party which,
whatever its shortcomings unquestionaby stands for
all the best and most progressive influences repre-
sented in American politics at the present time.-New
York Tribune.
THE negro race will not increase in the future as it
has in the past The freedom of the brings newt
ably with il social and intellectual improvement and
it is the world that people become better
educated and grow refined and intellectual the
tendency is for the family to smaller and smaller
The ignorant, squaid and poverty strcken the
mass the children it breeds 1t takes thought
for the future considers how these children
to be dressed and fed. AS the rises, becomes
more comfortable is better educated the stronger is
the tendency not to pass the limits within which the
children be decently subssted. The distinction is
not confined to the extremes, however Even between
people of moderate and those of great wealth it
holds good.-Chicago Tribune
THE idealists have accomplished much in the world
but their work has been merely negative that of pull
ing down. and after it done they have invariably
been forced to wait for practical men to in
and do the building, which, with all their longing
after perfection, they have never been able to
psh In the French Revolution they tore down
everything of value and then waited for others to
construct; in Russia and Germany to-day they pro-
pose destruction, but nothing beyond The ideal re
formers of the national politics of to-day may not feel
much complimented by the thought that in politics
they trying to accomplish what the Socialists and
Anarchists propose in social life but if this is not
their aim will they be kind enough to rise and inform
the'wor1d what they trying to do-St Louis Globe
Democrat,