The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-12
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

As and American citizen Mr.. Hendricks has
perfect right to hold whatever views upon the Irish
or any other question he pleases: as the Vicepres
dent OF the United States he ought to put guard
upon his ordinarily loose tongue when he refers TO the
course of friendly government in relation to its pol
icy IN home Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
WITHOUT doubt Mr.. Cleveland thought he was
Fighting the wrong of Mullen but the chances were
infinitely eater that he merely gratifying the
desire of Governor Hoady at the bitter expense of
the success of his own administration. The pardon
OF Mullen is the strongest point made against the adj
ministration on the Ohio stump.-Springfed Repub
lican.
HAVE the Irish people any reason to be grateful to
England fer the commercial policy under which they
have been ruined and impoverished deprived of the
exile! They have history and their leader has not
forgotten IT 1t the history OF people impover shed
and crushed by the cruel greed OF Englands CONNER
cial policy.-New York Tribune
In the commerce of the world the silver dollar to-
day is worth only about 80 cents in gold and the gold
dollar is worth about 100 cents in silver. Nothing
can be more foolish than to coming dollars thus
widely separated in actual value, and insisting that
they shall be regarded and accepted equivalents of
each other 1t is like attempting to defy the law of
gravitation. Milwaukee Sentinel.
IF there is leading governing thought or principle
in the Republican party to-day is that there shall be
free and fair suffrage everywhere and before another
presidential election comes around it will be the issue
upon which every Republican, North and South VIII
be in earnest accord To denounce men for pleading
for equal sufrage-free and honest elections-is to
place oneself outside the Republican party-PittSbur
Commercial Gazette.
LET Democrats and mugwurnps GO on with their
sneering at 'the bloody shirt" Having no other
answer to the most serious charge-with but single
eXception-that has been preferred against any
party in the United States, their only is
stereotyped sheer. 1t is great thing-it is almost
the of all things-to be right in a struggle like
this. party whose feet the bedrock of Gods
eternal justice has to fear for the ultimate
result of conflict with party that wallows waist
deep IL quagmire OF fraud-National Republican.
SENATOR SHERMAN has truth and Justice on his
American loves fair
Governor Hoady has his side the spirit which
would overlook wrong because done to black man.
and the narrow zeal OF all the who fancy that
every other issue must be put out of the way ncon
nenty, and called settled whether it is not in order
to give them room to thrust their theories and their
isms to the front. But which to the very
foundation of free government cannot be put out OF
the way in this of-hand fashion.-New York Tribune
On the sole basis of equality in values, gold and
silver dollars may circulate side by side and assist
each other in performing the most important func-
tons that pertain to the transaction of business and
of commerce There seem to be no sufficient reasons
why of the precious metals should cease to be
ployed for the Office end purpose for which it has been
invaluable for thousands of years. Silver should not
be demonetized in the sense of being dismissed from
further money. 1t should be coined into good
money true standard money and kept up to the right
standard for perpetual use as current CON- Frank
Leslies Weekly
No doubt most Americans agree in the sympathy
for Irish independence expressed at Mr.. Hendricks
meeting. But most Americans viii also agree that
the public discussion of the politics of another nation
is not proper function of the Vcepresilent of the
United States 1t is true that the Vcepresdent is
officer without powers but that can hardly be under
stood abroad where his position next to the President
himself must give his utterances the appearance of
the highest official authority. Under these circum
stances it Is. Of no consequence whether Mr.. Hen
bricks views on foreign politics right or wrong.
He ought not to exploit them at lnass-meetngs. and
his performance at Indianapolis is ndecorous the
point of Observation-Disclosures Times.
THE danger to which the continuance of the Bland
law in force will subject is not merely that Of over
burdening pockets and till with nconvenent coins
that is comparatively small matter easily provided
against by the of small bills; the actual danger
of change in the standard of values IF the Bland
law is not repealed the time must speedily come when
every dollar of currency IN circulation and in bank
will represent 100 cents but so cents.
That is the thing to be dreaded and provided against
by the repeal of the law The danger is of dishonor
to the government and people the hand, and
of financial disaster on the other; for change of
standard from the gold to the silver dollar will of
necessity involve both disaster and dishonor.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
THE Prohibition convention of New York State di-
versied it's proceedings by listening to attacks upon
the church and the ministry, made by hotheaded
delegates who undoubtedly read their Bibles with
cold-water amendments. The great majority of
churchmen are beginning to in stringent regala-
ton with high license practical and feasible
measure of reform which may be rapidly and
efectually emp Dyed in curbing the evils Of untram
meled liquor selling and of course the fanatical few
who demand impractical legislation against individual
appetites turning their feeble voleys of invective
against the churches. But it is all of The
tide of high license sentiment is rising everywhere,
and those who gather to carp scott at it, whether
ru1n-sel!ers total abstaners must eventually be
submerged Philadelphia Record
THE Democratic and mugwump papers ay.assail
Senator Sherman, but they dare not meet the ncon-
testable facts he presents the inevitable concu-
sions he draws. The only valid would be
to shake his statements and this cannot be done To
acknowledge the facts but to insist that it is Idle to
protest against them is to say that the country must
make a cowardly submission to monstrous wrong.
Men of spirit will do nothing of the sort They will
cry out, and will spare rot. They will arraign this
crime against free suffrage in the South, as they
would arraign similar wrong in New York or Penn
South, they win appeal to the of right and fair
play in the North to unite against the continued tr
umph of such usurpation and appeal resting
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