The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-27
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

NATURALLY. the American is not an ofice-beggar.
He becomes an ofice-beggar by association and
tact with Office beggars and patronage brokers' who
have sinister purpose to serve by corrupting and
using him. He catches the emplecmania, the spoils
disease just he catches the eases the cutane.
Gus disorder that the Saxon branch of ancestry
called gicha and the Danish branch jeukte by con-
tact with those that have it. Quarantine it by law
and the dstemper viii disappear to the relief of those
that affected with 1t well as OF the country.
Chicago Times
If the time has when the railroads will with.
draw their opposition to government regulation, then
Congress will soon agree upon some law which will
probably be modelled on the English system. Such a
law has been delayed only by railroad influences But
the railroad managers will make another mistake if
in their interest for it will be failure and che
people will demand its repeal 1t is entirely pract
cable to establish system which will protect the pub
lie from extorton and discrimination and at the same
time protect the railroads from blackmail and cut
throat management-Chicago Tribune.
THERE are indications here and there in Mr.. Ceve-
lands pie bald specked and ring streaked policy thus
far of desire to do something that shall paint the
lily faint tinge whittier than it is known to
grow. There is also becoming recognition of the
fact that very black order of muck indeed is re.
oured to generate the llys extreme wilderness. The
task before the President is to get the strongest and
rankest ordure of past political rottenness personal
corruption and official tTeachery into his compost
heap Of civservice reform in such proportions that
the intoerable stencil Of the soil shall affect the
whteness fragrance of the fower.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
faithful champion. He pleaded for many con.
demned criminal, defended revolutonists and Com
munists denounced the execution of John Brown as
an outrage against civilization. and persistently be-
friended those whom the world mercess in it's
judgments When Voltaire made his grand entry into
Paris few weeks before he died what touched him
most the poor woman's question in the street:
do you not know that he is the preserver of the
Calasl" The humblest classes in Paris will pay SINH
lar tributes to Victor Hugo that his life is ended
He had sympathetic feeling for the hard pathos of
their lot. He had noble and magnanimous nature as
well as genius.-New York Tribune.
THE tim and energy of the Treasury Department
at the present time to be engrossed in hunting
up pretexts for the removal of Republican employees.
Painful investigations made to learn what
poyes went home to vote last autum n and how they
voted and what they said political topics and the
records of the department searched to ascertain
their political antecedents 1t would be much simpler
honest and in better taste TO the fact that
it is tina purpose to all persons who have not
been partsans of the present administration and give
their places to hungry Democrats It would save
time and labor and enable the department TO bestow
some OF its attention upon the public business The
people not deceived by the elaborate efforts made
to carry the spos system under the cloak of civil
service reform and will have greater respect for the
administration If it adopts frank and open policy
this subject-MilwaukeeS Sentinel.
THE removals which have been made thus far by
President Cleveland and the heads of departments
would indicate that almost any Republican in desra