The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-22
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THERE is no use in any preliminary panic about
cholera. 1t is not going to break out here. IL it APP
pears at all it will come across the like any
other traveller We shall know Of its arrival III due
season. Anterior to this announcement, all pauics
and arising from the condition Of the internal
organs of Detroit policeman or the eating of green
apples by woman i'll Toledo are premature and use
less.-Chicago Times
SENATOR EDMUNDs albeit prqtectionist is
garded with great favor by the freetrade docrnares
ideal statesman. Possibly his plain and incisive
comments upon the present condition of industrial
England may induce reflection on their part # over
production has caused unexam led depression by gut
ting the English markets, it is not altogether safe
to condemn protection in America : a system
that inevitably leads to the result.-New York
Tribune. - ,4sa
GIVE the peasantry and the poorer classes of Ire
land the opportunities to profit by their industry,
their energy, their sobrety, and there will be radical
change III the industrial status of that country, To
make the most of home it necessary first,
that the workman shall know how to make the best
use of his own physical and mental powers and
second that the oneyed classes cooperate with the
laboring classes with the purpose TO dignity labor
by paying for its best resultsChicago Inter Ocean.
Thus as ever before, there is a struggle between
the government Of the United States and organ
lied rebellion in Utah against its authority 1t is not
the less rebellion against the law because IS cloaked
by pretended religious beliefs and obligations. What
is really trial is the existing law and if that is
sufficiently effective to break up the authority of the
Mormon Church and to put end to its resistance,
the enactment OF other law to that end will be
necessary and will be sustained by public opinion.
New York Tribune.
IF the Democratic House passes bill reducing the
tariff forty millions and certain classes of Tnanuac
clamor for free materials, the Senate may
be driven into compromise and duties be reduced TO
the extent of twenty or twenty-five millions This
viii be the entering wedge for further reductions in
the future 1t behooyes the friends Of American labor
to close up their ranks and prepare for desperate
struggle. There is time to lose, and tariff organ
cations should be at established all over the
try for the purpose of educating the people sub
ect which affects their personal interests and tho
national prosperity .-Cleveand Leader.
i,+a Of he
has experienced revival and has "a favorable
outlook than it has for many years, full of sign
canoe. As goes Pittsburg 50 goes the country in
manufacturesthat city is a very trade thermometer,
not only in iron but il various other material in
terests important. There have been other sugges
tons OF the long-wated turn of affairs, but
encouraging this. Things are certainly the
menG,-the fall trade feels it sensibIy merchants
remark on every side At first the movement win be
slow; but there is a wellfounded conviction upon
those who have studied the signs that the cloud of de-
preston is about to be definitely lifted The bears
! have had their day.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
For the first time in the history of the country
have administration which refuses to let the people
know what sentiments it holds upon issues which per-
tain to their everyday, material interests They are
told substantially that the great task and aim IS to
| establish method of deciding between rival
Ofhce-seekeTs and preventing set OF politicians
from getting the advantage Of another IN that con-
nection. TO this object all else must be subordnated
That is what IS meant when is declared that the adj
minstration is solemnly dedicated to policy of re-
form. The business of every section may languish.
and traders lose heart, and worllingmen go unem-
poyod but all this is trivial to an administration that
Is nothing II not reformatory.-St. Louis Gobe-Dem-
! ocrat.
| 1T part Of the Democratic scheme to have the
! Republican press antagonize the Methodist Church.
the object being to draw all the votes possible out OF
that body to the Prohibition ticket. Dr. Leonard be-
gan his campaign by saying that good Methodist
could vote the Republican ticket, words to that eff
! rect. In opposing thus pretension the hepuoncah
papers have attacked the Methodist Church They
have taken pains to say that they attacked Dr. Leon
ard and not the church which he is trying to drag
! subject
is clear enough to the great mass of Methodists in
Ohio They can see very plainly the game which
Democratic managers and few political Prohibitions
lists trying to play, and there is danger that
any intelligent Methodist will fall into the trap.
Cleveland Leader.
WHEN the government BUYS the TELEGRAPH lines we
shall have the principle Of monopoly firmly es-
tablished instead of its being, "a now, a transient
phase OF our industrial developments; evil nsepara
bic from a period of transition but evil which
carries in itself The seeds of its destruction Had the
Western Union sought faithfully to anticipate the
! nee OF the commercial community as II has to
smother all rivals. it might have been in position to-
day to defy the shrewdest Vaccinations OF it's enemies
Compared with any government telegraph, the West
! ern Union has done well Taking into consideration
the territory covered by its lines and the sparse popu-
lation to which it furnishes telegraph facilities the
service of this company is good and its charges are
as reasonable, as the service and charges under the
! English system.-Louisyille CourierJournal
| IN their formal statement the Knights of labor
strikers derounce certain judges of the United States
courts particularly Judges Treat Brewer and Krekel
Tor inateas8hce m once ana Tor high treason TO tho
| American people, and demand their impeachment.
! These judges of the highest standing and
character, and there are not many the bench who
| have more fully deserved public confidence But they
have faithfully and honestly enforced laws enacted
for the protection Of citizens and companies in the
exercise of their r hts When strikeIs have resorted
TO acts of violence these judges have enforced ING
law against them, precisely as they would aSaihss
other persons guilty of lawless violence, whether
strikers not In effect then the strike is an organ
lied resistance to the laws of certain States Ats It the
United States, and there will be not little lnb1a
interest to see how it results.-New York Tribune.