The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-30
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

Tue attempt to build up foreign trade by throw
ing away fifty millions year of sugar duties in
eessve slices to Spanish-American republics as brbe
TO modify their customs impoSts In our favor would
be Improbable enterprise to substitute the
cultivation of beet root by way of making indie
pendent OF foreign sugar altogether Union
THERE are some phases of the tariff question which
complicated and difficult but this much at least is
easy to comprehend, viz: that England and Amer
lea rivals in commerce and manufactures, the ad
vancement of British interests upon this continent
would be at the cost of American. In a word, what
the Golden Club wants, American manufacturers and
their worlonen do not want and cannot afford TO have
The intrusion of Golden Club missionaries in our
politics will not strengthen the free-trade sentiment
Ia America--BOston Journal.
IF the administration Importantly in ithis affair be
not abated il will also be suggested that the New
York capitalists who hold mortgages on the Cuban
plantations using the President and his Secretary
of State to further their own selfish interests at the
expense of the public welfare Minister Foster, of
course has paternal pride in the matter and would
like to see the Foster treaty" pass into history but
it Is not strange that he has become discouraged
about it, if he desired to realize historic fame he
should have made better bargain with Spain, and if
there shall ever be Foster treaty the will
apply to some otner negotation-Chicago Tribune.
EVERY dollar in silver certificates has behind it a
piece of silver which would sell in the world market
for about 81 cents. Back of dollar greenback is
present only about 25 cents That is to say were all
the silver certificates to be presented at the Treasury
tomorrow they would be redeemed at the rate of 81
cents the dollar Were every greenhack to be pre-
sen ted only 25 cents the dollar could be paid. 1t
Is not likely that redemption will be demanded but
the nature of our currency prevalent among the PEG
plea misconception that gives occasion to imitation
schemes and protective laws to slver.-New York
Herald.
WHETHER man should be licensed to sell intoxi-
eating liquor to his neghbor is question which
public sentiment is divided But if their true char
actor is understood, there be division of
opinion among decent rightthinkng people but that
these schools of prostitution called concert gardens
should be closed forever No one who has ever visited
Of them but will admit their influence is wholly
evil and is intended to be The attendance there of
lewd women is expected and desired. The latter are
free to ply their calling so long they stimulate the
sale Of liquors. and thus vice goes hand in hand
with another to the Generalization and ruin Of Che
youth of both Philadelphia Times
HERE in New York large part, if not the majority,
of the more serious crimes committed by boys
aud young mon between sixteen and twenty two
years. These the most reckless and audaeious of
thieves and robbers, and they ready TO shed blood
if accessory their purpose. The criminal and ma
rauding gangs who nfest the town almost wholly
made up of these young aavages, who pride them
selves on their lawlessness, and stand in fear of
peither God What is the cause of this
youthful depravty and awlessnessl Is the evil due
TO the novels and tales of criminal adventure
monty read by boys2 Has the decline in religious
faith anything to do with itS-New York Sun
ANY arrangement made for the militia should take
not to ignore any rights of the present State mil
itary organizations, which have been built up by corps
local pride in spite of the neglect of the general
government Starting as volunteer bodies they have
submitted to State laws and have become very useful
organizations They are not only of great value in
preserving order and quelng riots, but at the out
break OF the civil they the bodies TO which
all eyes nstnctvey turned for temporary support of
th national authority until armies could be raised
great need of State militia forces is uniforny
but any attempt to srnply the preselI bodies as
the material for totally different would doubtless
be bitterly opposed-New York Times.
LET the dance go on, and the solid South be rent by
intestine division economic questions Let the
Democratic party exhibit its qualifications for govern
ing the country and show that the soidity which it
has made by the abolition Of elections in the South
IN extreme contrast with its distraction on all
questions Of craftsmanship. The Southern tour of
Mr.. Randall is commendable in every way The South
was stagnating with too much sodity. Mr.. Waiter
sons outspoken fidelity is also commendsble in every
way. The Republicans encourage both of these
Democrats with that feeling of judicial impartiality
which the wife expressed when her husband and the
bear engaged in Greco-Roman wrestling
match.--Cincinnah Commercial Gazette.
CONGRESS- is expected to provide new basis for
bank circulation and the gravest is felt
the character of the security to be substituted for the
rapidly vanishing United States bonds The bill intro
duced into the House week ago last Monday by Mr..
Buckner, "to provide for refunding the public debt
and TO stability of the national bank circua-
tion and for other purposds, presents scheme for
The issue by the Secretary of the Treasury of "cer
caes of indebtedness bear interest at the rate of
per cent annually but to be exempt from all taxa
ton, and to be redeemed at the pleasure of the
United States after the LIST day of July 1907" The
problem before Congress in the provision for securing
the circulation of bank is as urgent as it is inn
portant and the action to be taken for its solution
will affect the prosperity of all the peope.-New
York Mail and Express.