The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-23
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE benefits of the law are most apparent in the
rural districts and the smaller cities and towns of the
State There has been reduction of 3, 500 to 900
saloons in Illinois since the Harper law enacted
and this reduction has occurred although many
changes wore made from mo license TO license"
caused by the guarantees of protection and strict regu
lation which afforded by the stringent provisions
of the new statute.-Chicago Tribune.
THERE is very little room for universal distrust
because there has not for long time been anything
approaching that universal blind confidence By which
panic is preceded The country is recovering its en-
erges gradually but surely, and enterprise industry
and invention of the of affairs finding. step
by STEP the way out ofnacon into profitable activity
There is every reason to believe that we have in the
immediate future not period of booming" but
period of steady and satisfactory progress in which
every will have his fair share.-New York Times.
THE independent Republicans and some Democrats
believe in perpetuity in Office that is to say tenure
during good behavior which is equivalent to tenure
during life, and III giving the present Republican
oficehoders who have behaved themselves the first
chance This is strong principle but the Demo-
cratic party must have greatly changed il it will accept
it without making row. Perhaps the Democracy
will change, and perhaps the little eaven of indie
pendent Republicansm will leaven the whole lump
Mr. Cleveands task will then be uch lighter and he
may then be able to satisfy both the Democrats and
the demi-D Democrats. New York Sun.
If the country sure to-day that its tariff would
not be medded with fer four years to come that there
would hot be another dollar of silver coined or paper
money issued, that Congress and State Legislatures
would not destroy the value of invested property un
der preext of protecting public interests and that the
public money would not be recklessly squandered by
the hundred millions in jobs for political ends there
every probability that remarkable improvement in
business would at once begin The difficulty is thAk
the country is not sure of such thing and in the
until the effects of its last election have been exhaust
ed.-New York Tribune.
IT is an honorable ambition to desire to represent
| the State in Congress- or in the Senate, in the
State Legislature 1t is honorable and praiseworthy
to wish to give to the public the benefit of what
capacity and training citizen has. There is a.wide
difference between this and Office holding for the sake
Of hn mr. E,,ya,i tta
most lucrative offices, when regarded as means OF
living easily and accommodating money. snare and
delusoI. For one Office holder who honest and
is rich there thousand who honest and are
poor. Oficeseekng is about the most degrading pur-
suit that any can engage in and working at the
poughtail will be profitable in the endCharies-
| ton. 5. c., News.
/ AT the same time uniformity of divorce law IS i'm
portant enough to warrant exceptional efforts to So
/ cure it. beginning might be made with the passage
of joint resolution by the Legislature inviting other
States TO send three representatives from each
to divorce reform th coIyensi9n 70 oe
| the Governor TO appoint such commissioners for
Pennsylvania and approprating reasonable amount
| for their expenses One of the delegates from each
| State should DO jurist, familiar with the divorce
| laws of his Commonwealth. Such convention ought
| to be able to agree form Of divorce law which
every Governor could recommend to the Legislature
of his State for enactment Its deliberations would
receive the benefit Of multitude of suggestions from
every quarter and ought to result in good because the
opposition TO snch measure as that proposed could
not concentrate itself make itself felt under The cir
cumstances--P Philadelphia Times.
THE old idea to concentrate tho capital of the
South upon three four great agricultural industries
peculiarly adapted to its soil to discourage employ
ments requiring skilled labor, and TO depend on Great
| Britain for cheap dry goods and manufactures In
short 1t was essentially colonial system, and the
only one 20 be thought of in connection with the in
stituton of slavery The Southern leaders We're right
then in being free traders but if they alive to-
day they would be the first to ridcule stupid and
obstinate adaptation of their political programme
! TO condition of things to which it was never meant
to apply Facing the fact that to-day so per cent. OF
the entire agricultural, manufacturing and CONNER
cia values of the country in the North proper
| GLIDING tho Pacific coast they would counsel the
Southern people to adjust themselves to their
vronments and TO the spirit of the time. And they
doing and will continue despite the ptiabls plat
tudes of some Of their woud.be leaders and pseudo.
! rosentatyes.-Nashyille American.