The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-18

combinations contrary to public policy and voidl Is
considerable part of business depression to-
day attributed to the inflated prices which have pre-
vailed for the larger part of the commodities which
are produced manufactured in this country, which
imitation is directly traceable to the influence of pools
and Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
MILLIONS have been sunk in constructing such
works canas and millions must be spent to complete
and maintain them. They stand as invitation to
other like expenditure. There is project to connect
the Chesapeake and Delaware bays at Il cost of from
eight to eighteen million dollars there is the Henne-
pin canal which will require at least seven millions,
and many other schemes involving heavy first cost
and large expenditure for maintaining Is this is a
proper exercise of power tine part of Congress p
New York Herald
THE Mulligan letters, the railway bonds. the guano
legislation, and that sort of political rubbish all
burnt powder elements of power in the contest.
They have all been burnt and over again, not
only in story and song but in political cartoons, and
they won't change a dozen votes between this and
November. They have done their worst already.
They have made, or helped to make, some prominent
Republicans array themselves against Blaine, but
burning that powder over again every hustngs aad
in every organ will intensity his friends without multi
plying his foes. 1t is only burnt powder.-Philadel
phia Times 1nd.)
THE best safeguard against frauds and embezzle
ments by speculative bank presidents is to hold bank
directors to full responsibility for their share in such
transactions. The directors must necessarily be
legally responsible because if aware of the frauds they
parties to them and if ignorant of them they must
them by the trust they hold If the directors of the
Marine Bank had faithfully and efficiently performed
their duties it would have been impossible for PreS-
dent Fish to have made large number of heavy loans
to fictitious borrowers securities which had no
istence.-New York World.
LET the party that resorts to SANDER meet and
overwhelming defeat Then there would soon be less
of the dastardly crime that embittered the life of
Washington and of most of the more distinguished
among his successors. The people have begun to APP
ply this remedy SANDERS against President Garfield
made his election sure, but should have made his ma
iority millions of votes ISLANDERS against Mr.. Blaine
insured his nomination But they need to be rebuked
by election decisive that assassns of character
shall beware for all time to 1t is still the worst
fault of people that they too prone to give
to calumny. But they begin to feel how it blackens
their national character and poisons their public life.
When they realize it fully, they will be swift and
kind of murder.-New York Tribune.
A DEMOCRATIC President cannot possibly be elected
this year without the vote of New York for to spare
New York, he must carry the solid South and fifty
electoral votes in the North and that implies Demo-
cratic in both Indiana and Ohio, and in
enough of the smaller doubtful States to add twelve
more votes to the thirty-eght of Indiana and Ohio
No who to be candid and who has sufficient
intelligence to comprehend the most obvious facts,
will contend that any such result that is within the
bounds of reasonable possibility. New York is
absolute Democratic necessity this year; and even
with New York it is by no means certain that Dem
ocratic President can be elected Hence it is both
waste of time and gratuitous display of ignorance
for Democratic arithmetcians to undertake to make
figures say that their party has winning chances in
its favor.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
ONE would not have to look far to find that Mr.
George William Curtis is the chief rabbi among the
Pharisees and the biggest phylactery In May,
1876, he examined Mr.. Blanes record and pro-
nounced it spotess and satisfactory. In 1884 he re-
fuses to support him the ground that his record is
not good, though no charge has been fabricated
by his enemies. In 1882 Mr.. Curtis quoted Mr.
Baines speeches in favor of cvilservice reform In
1884 he opposes him on the ground that he has not
advocated cvilservice reform and now he his
hypocritical record by declaring that Blaine was
doubtless the choice of large majority of the Repub
ican party and by refusing to support him after
taking part in the convention sets himself up above
the laws of honor and as knowing more than the Re-
publican party and being better than its majority,
which is Pharseeism personifed and repeating itself
in the old II thank Thee that not as other men
are Chicago Tribune.