The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-02
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

Mr. CARL SCHURz is undertaking the BIG Contract
of running the national Republican party and Cctatc
ing the nomination that must be made at Chicago If
the public will only call to mind Mr.. Schurzs man
aSeinent of the Republican party in Missouri fol-
lowed by the nomination of MIR. Greeley at Cincinnati
it will give Mr.. Schurz another opportunity of being
bowed down with woe at Chicago.-Kansas City
Journal
WHENEVER a bank is ruined by the thefts of its
officers there is harsh talk of criminal prosecutions
But, except in the State of New Jersey tho talk
dribbles away into mere words. The Penn Bank rob
racing and chasing there would have been il the cash
in tho Penn Bank had been tum5led out of the win
do'Vs and carried OIL by gang Of mere vulgar burg
lars!-New York Times
PUBLIC morals require radical changes in extrsdi.
ton practice Embezzers defaulters and suyindlers
ought to be placed level with robbers and forgers
The discrimination between poor and desperate thieves
and the rich and extravagant thieves, or those who
have been rich and exravagapt is that ought not
to be maintained aprncpe of international comfy.
The eighth commandment is the shortest and plainest
OF the decaogue. IL contains only four words yet Is
explicit and not liable to misconstruetion Exradi-
ton practice il modelled after that simple rule of hon
est living would make no distinction between the
social standing and previous condition Of thieyesNe
York Tribune.
THE national convention will be very much moro
truly representative body of Republicans than
either that of $40 $780, the delegates ranrs
directly from the masses Of the people than usual,
and they less trammeed by instructions and cast.
iron unit rules than ordinarily. II is that which
ders uncertain the result The organs of the pro
pretors of the apparently formidable blooms" pre-
Va ~ i0i7''i "a o"S" ""Su t,sor
Iloilialioh requires 70 oe cnangesi almost 1aiy'
lneie arc 80 many ueleg"tes uhstfueted ana un-
peose anu peiiecty lloo 70 Tote Tor whoever Chey
p9ae as % rehuer u Impossible ol any one 70 even
Philadelphia Telegraph
WHEN Mr. b. Il. Butler, as his latest contribution
to campaign literature declares, with characteristic
palnness OF speech that free trae is not possible
he is uttering one of those nconestibe truths which
he is in the habit of uterng now and then to the
fusion OF the people who fond of denouncing him
as constituencies and matchmaking demagogue II
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i'''"''-p'''S Ae'esraP"
GAMBLING is gambling whether it be done at the
stock exchange on the curbstone, or over green
cloth; and the world realizes this no matter what
futile attempts may be made to put the things into
different eategories 1t may be that the common
passion Tor gambling IN some form is as yet too strong
and prevalent to be attacked successfully. But GER
ainy no useful preparation can be made for reforma
tary movements by ignoring the actual state of the
case, and pretending that while one form of gambling
Is immoral and against public policy another and III
1nlteiy more harmful 1 form Is praiseworthy aud