The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-29
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THERE is point beyond which there is no sense
in depressing prices and that point has been reached
Property is generally worth more than quoting
it at to-day and there is more in pushing
prices lower than there would be in wiping out all
values and declaring that nothing has any worth We
have gone far enough in this direction and it is time
to stop before convusive action sets inPhiladepha
Inquirer.
In all these cases where fools elope it is the woman
who is the chief fool She has everything to lose and
in ninety-nine in a hundred she loses. The
Long Island case is not singular one The wife of
the runaway husband takes him back but the husband
of the runaway wife cannot do that, and the
is the victim The experience of tie fools who eope
is lost upon the other FOOLS however. They will
tinue to elope, and women will continue to be made
victims of until the world is burned up-Phiadelpha
Times
THERE is no reason why there should not be
restoration of confidence at once, but it is, alas a
matter that cannot be reasoned in. 1t returns
times suddenly and illogieally it flies from us.
When the balance of trade is in our favor when the
warehouses filled with surplus crops, when money
is drug at the great centers of trade when the wealth
per capita in the country is simply immense, why
should there not be an immediate return of confidence
business activity and good profts2 Such revival
not be far off when all the conditions invite itAt
lanta Constitution.
The restoration of New York to her former position
at the head of the Republican column would threaten
not only the ascendency but the very existence Of the
Democratic party as at present constituted. The i'm
mense falling off of Democratic pluralites in the
Southern States indicates that the South will not re-
main solid for another four years. and there few
Northern States, if any that likely to take their
cratic party will then be probable and it is not too
much say that will require the greatest sagacity
on the part of it managers, and prominently tho
part of the new President to prevent such result.
New York Sun.
DID any nation propose to do anything to build
up its home manufactures extend its commerce
that it was not met by objection from the same
quarter. Has not England created a school of So
called political economy, the fundamental idea of
which Is running objection to other nations doing
their own manufacturing! Let England go object
ing and let the United States go ahead with the canal
We have the means at hand and the popular feeling
is in favor of the great public work. 1t has been
aptly called gateway between Pacific and At
lantic coasts Are we to have the key or is England
or France! Let every patriotic American answer for
himself.-Ph Philadelphia Press.
SHOULD the State Legislatures pass laws prohibiting
that discrimination in making greater charges for
shorter than longer haul which the common law may
not reach, the courts may be depended upon to en-
force them. When unjust discrimination is then
made in carrying freights State lines the place
whore the injury began can always be fixed, and the
court having jurisdiction apply the remedy The
great objection to the Reagan bill and such
is that they may lead the general government step by
step to a dangerous exercise of centraGzing power
Such legislation should be applied only in the last re-
sort when the State governments and the courts of
the country fail to protect the people against unjust
determinations. philadelphia Record.
If we do not build that canal some European
power will The republic of Nicaragua cannot be
pected to suffer the canal route between the two
oceans with which nature has endowed her. to remain
forever unimproved. She offers the privilege of
improving it. Ii we do not accept the offer, she will
make it elsewhere-to some other great power that
will accept. And then, after time, there will
to regrets for shortsightedness and cravings
for territorial acquisitions southwark to retrieve
lost opportunityby annexation. Shall we build this
canal and take the risk of other great powers inter
fering 10 stop us Or shall we, by refusing to build
it, first throw the concession into their hands, and
then take the risks Of interfering to stop heml That
IS the whole of the Nicaragua canal question.-New
York Herald.
THERE can be no greater mistake by workingmen
than that of assuming the merest and most inds-
1tnnla Vaatta Of fact all
antagonistic to them. That cannot be the when
the employer has wit enough to conduct large bus
mess He must and will know that tho closely
he unites his interests with those Of the people he
interests of capital and labor identical and to dis
turb the is to disturb the other If in quarrel
the workingman loses his wages the employer in
evitably loses not only his natural profits but he
loses we'll what may be called his interest returns
upon the capital he has invested in mills, machinery
etc. While it is idle it is wholly unproductive rep
resenting so much money hid in the earth which earns
nothing at all.-Phladelphia Inquirer
In a railroad depot of one of the leading Southern
cities the traveller may read the following notices.
"Cientlemen's Waiting-room, Ladies Waiting-room,
''Colored Passengers Waitingl oom" Il is indeed a
libel civilization that the implication should
thus publicly be made that colored man cannot be
gentleman colored woman lady. And yet the
fact that 'colored passengers" have q waiting room
in the same depot with white folks is a mark of i'm
,prOvement; few years ago it would have been mig
gers waiting room, and few years before that
room at ALL Progress is making 1t may be slow,
but it is Revolutions backward.
The only thing to do is to hammer away" until
wider education and broader views have done their
full work Meanwhile we must remember that it is
work of time and have ENTHUSIASTICALLY Union.
OF old, when the stage great institution Of
art, the manager the consummate flower OF the
actors art. He began life in some mental capacity
boy; his ambition did not rest at the footlights
Nor he u star when the English drama
at its best lie aspired to be manager and before
ne could be a manager he had to be thoroughly com