The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-27
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

GEN. BUTLER is altogether too willing candidate for
this generation of voters 1t is possible that at
stage of the worlds history people looking for
just such an accommodating seeker of office, but they
certainly are not this year.-Washington Post.
No MAN with a healthy mental organization, or a
soul exceeding the breadth of tapemeasure, could
have written published such epstle. MacVeagh
letter to Bristow 1t is the deliyerance of spirit
that is plainly devoured by petty Spleen of character
ronr1ent of fathomless selfconcet 1t is an adver-
tseent to the world that that unhappy character is
suffering the agony OF some dreadful disappointment
and it does not skifuy conceal what that dsappoint
ment is.-Chicago Times.
THE apathy and delay the part of those whose
duty it is to take cognizance of the oenses against
the national bank law and to proceed against the
offenders are more than amazing mysterious 1t is
encouragement of crime that only be produc-
tive of mischief There has been and should be no
no lack of confidence in national banking system.
But how can this confidence be maintained mistaken
unless presidents who wreck and plumber national
banks are DEATH with promptly and vigorously by the
criminal autnorities?TNew York Herald
EVERY man with common intelligence can see for
himself the real and widespread harm that drink is
doing continually Who Is there, on the other hand
that has succeeded in showing per contra fit to
be put in the balance against this mischief9 Yet that
is what the drink traffic is called to do, and if it
cannot do this if it cannot justify itself before the
nation, those who fighting most stubborny for it
may well recognize the handwriting the wall
and make up their minds that though conviction may
not be instantly followed by sentence the Judgment
of the country certain to be carried out eventually
in the interests Of progress and civilization.-New
York Tribune.
NOBODY who remembers what the drinking habits
of this country thirty forty years ago is ever
found to deny that there has been in the interval
great change for the better This change has not been
wrought by the influence of temperance orators or
prohbitory statutes 1t has been wrought by the es-
tabishment of German breweres and by the substi-
tuition of lager beer for ardent spirits the
drink of drinking men, It is scarcely too much to say
that if malt liquors had been the exclusive beverage
of the people, a temperance agitation would never
have been heard Of It is certain that it would
have gained force enough to the adoption of
prohibitory law in single State.-New York Times.
WE have in use about 20 per cent more money of
various kinds than suficed 1--WE Years ago The laws
that we now have thrust more money into circulation
continually, whether the country wants it or not.
But the population of the country probably has not
increased more than about 10 per cent. in five years
If 300 enough for 100 people in 1879,
have $40 for 116 people, and the increase in that
ratio has made gambling easy and honest trade hard
The circumstances peculiarly favorable for
has come the inevitable reaction from period of in
ated prices; products low, the cost of living is
low, securities cheap, and gambling is discouraged
New York Tribune.
THE real question for Chicago is not who carry
Maine and West Virginia and Ohio, in the preli,a-
mary contests, but who carry New York and
Massachusetts, in the supreme fight. If there shall
seriously the pivotal October State, which Is Ohio
Let no Republican fool himself with the idea that
candidate reasonably snre to lose New York, or not
fully as strong or stronger than the party in New
York Massachusetts, could be reasonably of
carving Ohio in October The general outlook will
be, and the candidate who shall best for the
whole country. not excepting New York or Massa-
chnsetts will be most certain to Republican
victory in Ohio in October.-New Castle Gazette.