The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-20
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE Brooklyn Eagle has invented what it advertises
as cure for civservice reform It's plan is to
allow persons to stand for tho cviservice exami
nations who are not first nominated by executive
authority, other words, by the old patronage
| DISPENSING machine The Eagle says of this plan:
Every Democrat would welcome it, while those
among Republicans WI believe in tic reform, might
kick but their opposition would only be additional
argument in favor of the suggestion" The Eagle it
is needless to say is one of the most persistent and
ingenious Democratic foes of the present administers
| tion.-Boston Advertiser.
CIVIL rights bills will be in vain unless the negroes
make use of their opportunities to place themselves
above want. Why should they fret themselves about
riding i'll palace and dining in fashionable restau-
rants when they are unable to pay for suca prveges
Multitudes of white people the inside of
such places for the good and sufficient that
they unable to pay for the accommodations there
ing his people that after the law has done all can for
them they must still fight the battle with poverty.
Their best leaders the who set examples Of
thrift and industry.-ChicagoT Tribune.
IT is patent to the country that there is no gen.
eral disposition to aid in the erection OF Grant
ument in New York. The universal feeling is that
national monument must have national site and
suitable surroundings, and the unanimous verdict is
that none of these conditions would could be full
filled by selecting New York as the domcile. Upon
this hypothesis at least tho people of the country
determined to act. They will not forward with
their money to build monument upon spot which
they regard as utterly ina propriate and illchosen,
but will bide their time until circumstances give them
the oppor unity they desirethat of contributing to
monument at Washington. Washington Post
large amount of money can be raised
| through the fundamentally of very small subscrp-
tons, if the people who only contribute small
amounts properly approached, and the Grand
Army of the Republic with its posts in all parts of
| the country, is in position not to make coec
tons of amounts large and small but to stimulate the
making OF collections through agencies outside of its
own organization. 1t should be understood however
that it will require very large sum of money to
erect at Washington, elsewhere a national monu
ment to General Grant which will be entirely ere lit
able to the Nation. and that. under the very best
| auspices, it will take considerable time to collect
the m oney needed. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
THE Presidents duty is to enforce the United States
laws, carefully framed to secure in every State free
vote and honest count If he does enforce the law
beyond quest on his party i'm Virginia will not at.
tempt to violate it, But if he does not enforce the
law the Republicans who supported him will at once
see that they have been deceived. 1t matters not
whether they conclude that they deceived to
him, and that better Democratic President would
have indicated the theories which they acted or
become convinced that those theories were false and
that there does not exist at the South he measure of
loyalty which they suppose In either the ques-
ton of a free vote and honest count inevitably be-
comes the controlling one in coming campaigns -New
| York Tribune.
AT time like this when it is well known that rail
way companies are making little money it is poor pol
icy the part of employees to force any issue that
will disturb business and cut off their wages 1t
might be good policy to fight the corporation when it
not well prepared to do battle were it not that
the employees in worse condition than the corpora
ton, and that the welfare of both depend largely on
the continuance of business If there was time
n
sentative view of the situation and should know their
own minds, is the time. But, according TO some
| interviews published yesterday morning the striking
railway employees do not have the sympathy of the
Knights of Labor in other departments of work. If
they have not the sympathy of their brotherhood
they cannot expect the sympathy of tho pubc.-Chi-
eago Inter Ocean.
IN the old days of camp meetings the measure of
the number of converts made; but nova
DAYS the efforts directed this porpose occupy only
small fraction Of the campmeeting season, and the
statistics of conversion fall quite into the background
season includes missionary unions seaside schools
Of philosophy. national holiness conferences temper
gatherings, summer scientific circles teachers
retreats ard on; and sandwich somewhere among
these is the camp meeting proper itself vastly
| formed from what was oT6e known by that name
| Some of these outgrowths and appendages of the
camp meetings very pretenous but per haps they
| do no harm, unless the principle that a little
knowledge is dangerous thing. Pastimes have also
been added in great variety to the attractions of the
| modern camp meeting and even the skating rink is
| now sometimes found hard by.-New York Sun.
| THE policy of repression, of suspicion, of contin
insult and criticism is an injustice done to the
country. We destined to live together; that is
| evident. That was the verdict of the war. Scowls
| and groans, then, examinations and recrninations
are Of place. Extremists both sides can do us no
better service than to hush We have listened to them
long enough. and have grown tired of their untruth-
| fuln-ss. The South wants war; it has had
enough. The North wants more war; it is satisfied
The work that remains is worthy of our attentiopto
encourage the South to rebuild its old mills and 10
| build ones to till its rice and cotton fields that
they may be more productive than ever and to in
the spirit OF loyalty by the increase of mutual
| interests. The South needs the North. but more
than the North needs the South We need each other
and. what is very important. we both know it-New
| York Herald.
THE ballot should be offered TO every Indian In the
Territories of the United States who read and
write. and should DO devised TO touch the
pride of Indians who not qualified for citizenship
OwnershiPiof land In common rather than by indi-