The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-13
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

| WHATEVER stands in the way of the right of the
American government to enforce manhood suffrage,
fair elections and the safety of the voter and citizen
must be removed If this impedment is the doctrine
of State rights that dogma is entitled to
sderation than system OF viliany-National
Republican.
AN active interest in political matters, which
active interest in the wise organization and proper
administration of the government under which we
live, need not be preudicial to any business enter
prise whatever. Indeed business suffers more be-
cause business take too little interest in poll
tics than because they take too much.-New York
Sun
THERE is no reason why the Senate should give ex-
senator's n monopoly of the lobbying opportunities
it's floor and the House accord similar exclusive
chances to ex-representatves. Let both houses leg
isate openly and directly against the lobby abuse.
That Is the only proper course and beyond all things
the only which public sentiment will approve.
st. Louis Republican
If plots against the lives of our high officials
being Matched in the sums of London, Paris
Vienna as they against foreign rulers in the pur-
would be called to it without delay The people Of
the United States who have no sympathy with these
apostles of assassination have right to demand that
their stay here be made hot and short h has been
in the land of their birth, which rejects then.On.
cago News.
WE sympathize with tree-plantng conventions and
enterprises because there will never be time when
the country will not want lumber and shade; but
complete restoration of all the forests that have been
cut down by the axes of the pioneer and umbermen
could not prevent the accumulation and sudden melt
ing of in the mountains the great rains which
laundering down the creeks and to the rivers.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE Irish question constitutes the real and continu
ing problem Of British politics. to which the Egyptian
protectorate is merely episode. The hatred Of six
hundred years cannot be allayed in a day year by
policy of concation, but it can be embittered and
reinforced by lapse, for very short period,
into policy of repression unnixed with Cancellation.
1t would be unfortunate for England and for ireland
if the Gladstone ministry should be put out of power
what is really the side issue of the Egyptian ques
ton although that question has by accident and for
the moment been brought to the front--New York
Times
THINGS are not all bad even in France whose moral
state Mr. Arnold finds low that there remnant
to it from the fate of Sodom. The condition Of
the people is vastly better than in that country where
literature great As for America, if salvation
from the bad majority is through the good remnant if
nation has TO reach certain size before gener-
ate an effective SAVING remnant II the bigness OF
the moral remnant is in proportion to the
nation destiny is pretty safe and shall increase
the bigness of moral security by pushing
manifest destiny the whole eontinent-Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette
WHEN the Senate labor committee investigated the
condition of the industrial classes of the country they
very appropriately settled down for long time at
Newport, where there no laboring class. and the
of the etetna fitness of things is shown by
the decision of this outrage committee to sit in New
Orleans where there outrages except the very
plain outrage of the enormous expense to which the
tax payers of this country will be put paying their bills
in ncludng extras at the most expensive hotels and
defraying the cost of bringing witnesses all the way
from Copiah county. Mississippi to New Orleans,
THE whisky interest" distllers and banks alike,
have rushed into their present dicultios with their
eyes open and their appeal TO Congress to to the
rescue by partial remission of taxes is as cool as
load of ice in January Ex-Commissioner Raum and
his clients protest that the bonded period be
tended to save them from ruin. But Congress il
der obligation to relieve them of the consequences
of their own folly. The bond limit extended
few years ago in answer to similar appeal and the
manufacturers went on over-producng all the same.
The cry of Distress moreover is largely fictitious.
The law should stand unaltered.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
THERE has been great uprising of English opinion
against the policy of the governmentits vacillaton,
its lack of courage and its unwingness to deal with
facts as they are. The disasters in the Soudan and
the pers of General Gordons mission directly att
trbutable to the hesitation of the ministry to
responsibility for the government Of Lower Egypt.
Public feeling is declaring itself enthusiastically on this
question. The shadow play at Cairo-the khedivG
puppet managed by the British resident and the grin
ming circle of Egyptian Pashas in the Ministry each
manipulated by the English secretary-must cease.
The reality of efficient and responsible adminstra
ton must begin.-New York Tribune
EXPERIENCE has shown in England that there is a
tendency to increased outays in proportion to in
creased receipts The result of this is that while the
public there is well served by the postal telegraph the
annual surplus of earnings expenditures is very
small indeed. On the other hand private company,
bound strictly conscientious performance of their
contract would constantly have two ends in view the
being avoidance of penalties for bad work and the
other such economical administration of affairs as
would result in bringing its dividends up to the high
est possible point Thus selfnterest and fear would
unite to insure good service The motives are not
the most exalted in the world but they among the
most powerful.-Chcago News.
WENDELL PHILLIPS was wrong, not singly, but
Systematically and persistently wrong on every new
issue that crossed his path except slavery He trusted
to emotional eoquence to guide men, and blind emo.
ton led him into the ditch. As the second natural
result Wendell Phillips proved useless on all ques-
tions but one. As Greenbacker on the labor ques-
ton, in supporting Butler in every act of eighteen
years since the war he worked evil and not good and
proved harmless only because he powerless. His
method has year by year, fewer imitators. The old
conception of an orator man who kndled the pas
si0ns of an audience is disappearing. Day by day it
becomes clear that must know something to
direct the thought of his day and that even its politics
needs the patient mastery of detsil.--PhsdelphiA
Press.