The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-21
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

CALLING protection legalized robbery is on par,
weapon of offense or defense, with that suberb
interrogatory of earlier era-"Do you want your
daughter to marry niggerl' Professor Sumner
ought to be allowed to have the monopoly of that sort
of nonsense.-New York Tribune.
THE schools are top-heavy. Their usefulness has
been largely systematzed out of them They no
longer they were the schools of the children
of the people. They have become machine schools,
and the teachers who teach paid poorly while the
superintendent who do not superntend and the floor
walkers who represent the carcus, paid largely
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
In the meantime intelligent Congress goes
ahead spending millions for purposes that could be
easily postponed for generation, and leaves
coast defenseless and our navy laughing stock for
ourselves ana the Jest of the rest of the world A
foreign gunboat could shell Congress out of the
Capitol and with all wealth and power we have
no means ready to prevent such disgface.-Louis'
vile Commercial. -
AMERICANS cannot be too deliberate and explicit in
expressing their Judgment respecting atrocious out
RACES of the dynamite order Ignorance armed with
the most dangerous explosives known to modern sci
fence, and making war innocent and helpless
throngs of travellers in railway stations cannot be
justified any grounds of right patriotism. No
attempt should pc made to pRlliate such crimes to
confuse the public Judgment respecting them.-New
York Tribune. 8f ta ''
THE sprightly eoquence about going down with
colors flying will suit the Republicans very we'll They
will be delighted to see how admirably Watterson is
planning their victories and will gladly let him go
in his able way He can have all his talk about the
flying flag undisturbed, since it is just the thing
the kepubllcAuS want to enable them to secure
The next President. The free traders force the
disaster any time by undertaking to force the Demo
Gratis into TO be bound to the freetrade course
on this question. Philadelphia Times.
THE truth is that fishing and morality can be recon
eed only by the sternest laws All fishermen should
be compelled to have their fish weighed by public
officer and any fisherman claiming to have caught a
fish TO the weight of which he cannot show Ger.
tieate signed by the public weigher should be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor and punished therefor. In
this way will be possible to keep fishermen within
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other ingenious device be expected to change the
hearts Of habitua and hardened fsheImen.-New
York Times.
THE prediction has often been made that the people
of this country will have to look at last to the Repub
liean party for such tariff reforms they demand,
and there many to believe it may be full
filled. With control of the House four terms out of
the last five and control of both branches of Congress
in of these terms, the Democratic party has done
nothing to redeem its pledges in regard to the tariff
Poor and lame the tariff act of last Congress,
it was least something better than all that the Dem
ocrats have accomplished in the last ten years.-Pa
dephia Record
THERE is one quite important change in the plan Of
conducting the government which be made with.
out alteration of the constitution and which has much
to commend it. The time for the assembling of Con
gress can be changed by an amendment of the stat.
utes to date after the election of House.
The interval of than a year, which eapses
between the election and the meeting of Congress.
prevents that speedy enforcement of the wishes of the
people which ought to be feature of republican gov
1t may have been necessary before the days
Of railroads or telegraphs but 1t IS no longer SoDoS
ton Advertiser.
The country has been through several crises
when there appeared to be quite general demand for
new issues Of paper money, under the pretext that
su,,h currency ~ ",Oious quantities would revive the
business Of the country On these occasions e S
branch Of Congress the President mas oeeh nos
tile to every such proposition ana thus frustrated the
various schemes. In these years the cu.ry mas oe
come wiser the money question The E"ihDeir OF
who believe that permanent rer1S VI OF
business be produced by the issue of irredeeg e
paper money is very small. Intelligent people would
as soon look to such remedy relief for business