The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-01
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THERE is reason to expect revival of trade early in
the year, reopening of mills closed, and
restoration of confidence which will have beneficial
effect everywhere All the country needs for the pres
eAt is to be let alone 1t would be wise for Congress
to do little possible as quickly possible and
adjourn. Tariff tinkering is the greatest danger
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
WHY does not Mr.. Finerty, Mr.. Cox, some
other gentleman who represents Ireland III the Con-
gress of the United States introduce resolution for
investigation into the opposition of the ODonnell
defense fund. Some 500, 600 raised and, in the
interest of his constituents Mr. Finerty should find
out what has been done with the money. 1t would be
quite as legitimate much of the work Congress is
asked to do.-Boston Herald
For several years Bismarck has been the retreat.
He has found that this passive resistance of the
church made it difficult to govern Prussia much
the German Empire. He has abandoned his school
prescription of the Catholics has taken the vitas out
of the Falk laws has restored the bishops, and has
gone to Canossa to what more he must do to
store way of living with the Roman Catholic Church.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
THE election in New York served no purpose but to
show the utterly selfish intention of liquor men-to
demonstrate to what wretched level political ways
and means and party policies have sunk. 1t but af-
forded a shameless organzation-we will not say
industrythe chance to advertise its blind greed its
wanton lack of principles and there sharp touch of
irony in the fact that two parties were necessary to
the humiliatng demonstration. -Refonner.
AS there is no prospect that Sunday laws will ever
be made rigid to places of entertainment, the
aliss who do not hasten to throw open the better
der of them will find their losing ground. The
devil continues his invitations on Sunday without in
termssion and he grins to find that he has most of
the field to himself The strict Sabbatarians he is
grated to observe playing directly into his hand
and all through their unwilngness to look at society
it really is and meet its wants.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
IT is notorious that the wines from the continent of
Europe have been outIageousy aduterated for many
wears past and aside from every consideration of
faation II will be of benefit to the American people
to shut the wines out until they shall be improved.
This policy might be the means of convincing the
thorties Of France and Germany that there i
trichna i'll American hogs than in those which feed
upon French and German soil, and that the way to
avoid the ravages of the among the people who
eat pork is to cook thoroughly the Americans do.
Chicago Tribune.
PERHAPS it would be too much to expect that pro-
fessional educators should prove the exception in
the world to the general rule that members of pro-
fession are slow to lay aside their suspicion of re-
forms that from the outside The recognition of
the claims of industrial education is not earnest and
hearty, it should be, but questioning and almost
aueruous whenever the merits and the necessity of
this addition to present scheme of education is
not wholly denied. This is of the inevitables of
most professional work whose tendency is to lengthen
the perspective through which everything external is
viewed-St Paul Pioneer Press.
THE average citizen of African descent is not very
proud or very sensitive; but he would be lacking in
regard for his kindred if he did not resent the
end-man of the minstrel show as a reproach and a
cruel SATIRE And there to be forty of them in the
Cincinnati festival And the poor patient inofensiye
part of the price they have to pay for their feedom
and Cincinnati under pretense of promoting the
OF art, takes steps TO insult Unenl III
measure never known before. To such complexion
have things come so after the election of DEM
ocratic Governor in Ohio-St Louis Globe Democrat.
IN its preliminary stages the present canvass is
of the most remarkable in the history of the Republic
an party. If there animosities they have been
adroitly hidden If there pronounced preferences
for candidates they have not been expressed II cam
dates themselves are in training they working in
secret The spirit of the canvass is in marked con-
trast to the whitehead work of $50 That all this is
changed now means that Republicans are thinking
more of a candidate for the party than of their oy
individual preferences. But because they are don
this must it be assumed that there Is in the party
element of weakness not present four years ag
Common sense would say that the very opposite
true--Chcago Inter Ocean.