The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-21
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

SOCIETY cannot afford to make martyrs and heroes
OF those who violate the statutes upon which its very
existence depends And good taste does not seek the
dramatic display of its gentler virtues 1t is not the
lady OF Narbonne who PUSHES out in her carriage when
a murder is committed but Miss Montague Fother-
lngay Fhlpps, of the Royal Arena.-New York World.
THE freetraders would gain in dignity if they were
more consistent-but the rest of us wouldn't have
nearly so much fun Here is one Of the leading free
trade journals of England pointing with pride to the
fact that the revenue Canada has trped within the
last fifteen years. Yet the of the increase is
notwithstanding protective tarif.-Milwaukee
Sentinel
THE return of the Lasker resolution simply ndi-
Gates that the courtesy not appreciated SO rude
repuse, unnecessary an afront, ought not to be
seriously, much less angrily discussed No effort
should be made either by the State Department or by
Congress to prolong this international incident. The
best answer to the Chanceor curt message is silence
IL VIII be at once dignihed and contemptuous an
swer.-New York Tribune.
THE the glaring fact of General Hazens utter
ncapacity recognized and the signal service put into
competent hands, the sooner it will become efficient
and very useful service In the hands of vain weak
martinez whose highest achievement has been his book
military etiquette, how interiors should act to-
ward superiors and his grandams weather wisdom it
is disgrace to the country. Capable subordinates
make it useful service, but its usefulness might
be quadruped with directing head in place of Jelly
fish Northumberland News journal.
INSTEAD of trying to work up mock passion over
this return, shall we not commend the blunt and
plain-spoken Chancellor for giving spread eagle
proper clipping and our Congress lesson in propri-
ety. 1t needed this. It's resolutions the hanging
OF the assassin y Donne another act OF bad
ners. Ii the snub which Bismarck has put upon our
eagle shall give Congress effective lesson its
sponsblity for its pumpkin resolutions toward other
nations, the country will have to send him
resolution of thanks-Cncinnati Commercial Gazette.
So far the German Chancellor is concerned, he is
probably supremacy Indifferent as to the manner in
which we shall take his affront He is aware, if we
are not that America is in no condition to resent any
form of curt treatment. No doubt some of our rat
tlebrained congressman will endeavor to retort by
another resolution proceeding which in dignity anu
effectiveness might be ikened to that of the who
satisfied his wrath after having been ebowed off the
sidewalk by burly rufian, by making up faces at his
assailant. Prince Bismarcks act had better pass
noticed.-Boston Herald.
RUSSIA would at any juncture have reason to con-
graduate herself on acquiring control of the main
avenue of travel between western Asia and Afghans-
tan She is now close to Herat. which is universally
acknowledged one of the main keys to India But she
may gain special advantages from such propinuuity
Just now, seeing that the Amer of Cabul is her old
friend Adder Rahman, who, when fugitive,
welcomed at Tashkend, provided with prncely in
come, and obligingly permitted to escape with
strong band of followers when the hour assert
successfully his claim to rule in Afghanistan-New
York Sun.
IT seems to us a self-evident proposition that it
would not be safe to make the market value of bonds
any other movable scale the of the circu
lation of the banks. That would introduce the ele-
ment of instability The currency would be liable to
contraction expansion from all the affecting
the value of national securities 1t is gratifying to
observe that so far as Congress is concerned, thu
banks out of politics; that they to be treated
their merits, in non-partisan spirit 1t is not
likely, therefore, that there Will be d1fculty be-
tween the Republican Senate and Democratic House
in deciding what to adopt to prevent injurious
contraction by the calling of the three per cent bonds
Washington Post.
THE "Gothenburg system doubtless owes much Of
its to pecuiarites of the Scandinavian char
acter and the national environment. But the Sweed
ish experiment ought to have its lessons for temper
reformers in America One of its chief features
is element in the problem which the average re-
former usually overlooks-the necessity of providing
rival for the bar The sale of liquor is steadily de-
creasing in Gothenburg. not simply because the op-
because the who drops into saloon finds it
something more than place for getting drink
Men often to be attracted from drunkenness
readily than they be driven from it. However
impracticable the methods of the "Gothenburg sys-
tenn may be American soil, the spirit in which it
attacks the great evil cannot be too heartily comlaend
ed.-Brookyn Union.
If the resolution of coincidence adopted by the
House of Representatives the occasion of Herr
Laskers death has been intercepted its way to the
Reichstag by Prince Bismarck and returned through
the German minister. the proceeding alth ugh en-.
tirely inconsequential in itself is intended to be in
sultng and it should be construed insult by
government and action taken to indicate to the
German Chancellor that the American people are not
disposed to quetlysubmit to insults from him. Apart
from this however the affair will not be without its
practical value If it puts stop to certain congressional
doings which undignfed in themselves and which
do credit to the country. There no call for the
House of Representatives to make any expressions
whatever the subject of the death of Lasker
and when the proceeding to be looked into it
has decidedly comical cast-Philadelphia Telegraph