The Indianapolis journal., 1885-01-05
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

No course of education and no Sabbathschool can
keep men with criminal instincts out Of the penten
tlary But Sunday schools act most powerfully IN
preventing the formation and development of irregE
lar or vicious habits. Parents or guardians cannon
afford TO ignore such benefcent agency in fixing the
moral status Of future generations The Sunday
schools should be kept fled--Phladelphia Record.
MR. GLADSTONE has inherited the mistakes of the
governments that have preceded him. as in Ireland he
has had TO undo. against century of prejudice and
any centuries of misrule the lifted knots of former
legislators As he has succeeded measurably in Ireland
so will he in the long run triumph we believe in
Europe. for greater he himself has said in Parla-
ment than armies in array and naves in line of bat
tie is the spirit of Christian civilization which shows
mankind that the good of all nations and individuals
is really the good of each.--Brooklyn Eaglo.
IT ought to be plain any intelligent observer that
the country is now In greater danger from an en-
iarged pension list than from all other evils which
threaten it. The bill has cost so much beyond
even the widest estimates of its opponents that it
mlght% ~ ven 9 stand as continual warning. With
than oOoOoo pensioners the roll the Nation can
not be taxed with ingrattude, and it saght well be
permitted to recuperae its resources for time until
it relieve the suffering millions to whom the war
and its attendant dangers are little more than dim
traditions Philadelphia Times
WE win say to these fancy and play Socialists how
ever that they need not hunt far to find perfect So
cialistc theory. They have only to read the New
Testament and to weigh the words the founder OF
Christianity Ii they and all Christians should in fact
and in truth live up to those sublime doctrines
nearly two thousand years old, the problem over
which they waste many words would be solved
ana the millennium OF which this Inanufacturer
speaks would already be here. But verify it is hard
to be Christian especially for rich man, harder
than for camel to go through the eye of needle.
New York SUM-
THE business of picking holes is not the best train
ing for mending them. In England it has often been
deplored that the most active and successful assai
ants of an administration should for that be
chosen to supplant it when the country is convinced
that their criticism is sound There is practically
choice however, except between this method of gov
ernment and that in which the governing class Is
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naturally the pleasing to Prince Bismarck, but
the whole civilized world is against it, and it cannot
be successfully practced much longer, even in Ger
maEy.-New York Times
EVERY intelligent fairminded man. whether he be
radical Republican or rabid Democrat would say, it
he wholly frank that Mr. Randall general idea of
tariff revision the idea which he has expressed to the
Southern people within the last few days is the true
and just and that upon which all honest Repub-
icans and Democrats could wisely unite. He has
made it perfectly clear that free trade is utter m
possibility that such policy be tolerated in this
country. Then he states the policy he would have
adopted. and only selfish interest ignorance
say that it is not good poicy.-Phiadelphia Tele-
graph.
WHETHER would not have been wiser If he
had continued the ancient policy of keeping woman
down, is not now practical question She is up and
hands broke her bonds. The irrepressibe conflict
must go on and must take the consequences
whatever they may bring to his ancient empire
woman. If the signs thus far in this conflict may be
accepted as testimony, the consequence will be that
man shall lind retribution In being himself reduced to
that condition of subordinaton in which he had kept
woman in all the dreadful ages.-Cincinnat CONNER
cial Gazette
So long as the community is faithfully served by
postmaster he cannot be fairly said have perverted
his trust to political ends though he should spend q
deal of his time in perecng his party organization.
And yet we believe that such official has made hint
self obnoxious to the Presdenteects party that his
removal will be demanded and made. We further
believe that there not hundred Republican Off
cas in the North who have not by their interest in
the success of their party. made themselves OBJ
noxious that they will be removed. We may be in
error; hope that are; but there is nothing in
Governor Cevelands record and change in the
purpose of the Democratic party to warrant differ
ent conclusion Furthermore, the view of the Jour
after reading Mr.. Oeveands letter.--Boston Jour
nal
The American people not much concerned
Our population and our wealth will give us all the
preponderance we want without treaties. 1t is not
necessary to buy preponderance, and our experience
with Brazil shows that the article is not for sale IL
is far more to the the purpose that should make
up minds to definite commercial policy than to
be bothering our heads about preponderating. It
impossible to run commercial country with eye
protection and the other free trade In
part of his letter Mr. Frelinghuysen says that his
policy is the essence of wise protection" while in
another he points out the advantage of securing
customers for articles produce in return for the
products which cannot proftably raise, which is
pretty sound doctrine. SO long the gov
ernment is thus muddled the principle which is TO
guide future commercial policy, had better go
slow making treaties which may bind us for term
of years.-San Francisco Chronicle.