The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-01
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.


SOME of our Democratic contemporaries like the
Boston Post, for example take great pleasure in de-
claring that 1.-The death of General Grant makes
Arthur the only surviving ex-Presdent." We trust
our contemporaries will get their fun out of this sort
OF thing without any loss of time. 1t kills old Mr.
l1lden, according to the Democratic view while il
ignores Rutherford e. Hayes whom history will recog
nlze as President who, in his way, caused the
Bourbon Democracy about much trouble as any
man who ever occupied the Philadelphia Press
IT remains for the President to accept the
gauge of battle offered him through the official agent
of Mr. Hendricks at Indianapolis and either to tight
the battle out principle succumb to the dictates
of Hendricks and other Democratic partisans. Should
he take the latter he will be damned to all
coming fame and his administration will be swept
from power with loathing and disgust The fight is
now on and the indianapolis postmaster is the ZEN
tering wedge which will either split the Democratic
party into factions or the club which will knock the
life cut of the civservice law under Cleveands ad
miniStraton. cleveland Leader.
IT would be an immense satisfaction and an enor-
gain to the people of this country to have State
department with just little of the the dignity
of American citizenship. If James G. Blaine, Of
Maine, were President Secretary of State even, Mr..
Santos would not be languishng in prison of
Ecuador, would our flag continue to be "a faunt.
ing lie, pretending to protect without doing it.
When such topsyturvy nation Ecuador insults
the United States and imprisons its citizens without
being brought book it is time for our State Depart
ment to put up it's shutters and retire from business.
Ecuador cannot possibly cOntemn its weakness as
much as the people of this country do.-Philadelpha
Inquirer,
WHATEVER were the reasons which induced the
Republican party to deny President Grant the nomi-
nation for third term, they did not arise from a
lack of respect or admiration for the This es-
tabshed, and there is other feature of that
troversy appropriate for consideration at the present
| time AS regards the feeling among the people of all
parties toward him. it is too spontaneous and hearty
to admit of question 1t did not need his election
the presidency for third term to make this apparent
and it is not likely that Grants fame greatness
would have been enhanced had he attained that honor
fhl NJ orfxy
or another the discussion easily and appropriately
wait.-Boston Herald.
IN choosing the boycotting plan of dealing with
their opponents, the Louisville. KY, iquor-sellers
have adopted policy which observation and common
sense should have taught them to avoid under any
circumstances. Experience has repeatedly and
cuslvsY p1 oyeu that tho lquor business OF all forms
OF traffic IN the world, can least afford to resort to
such means for the protection of its interests There
is no community well pleased with saloons and
solictous to have them MAJ ntained that it will long
submit to open and arbitrary dictaton from them
questions affecting the general welfare of society;
ard when they attempt That sort of thing they simply
increase the difficulty from which they wish to
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
WHEN Mr.. Lamar talks of employing "the best lit
erary business and legal talent of the South in the
service of the government he merely promises that the
defective education the false notions of caste, the
mania for politics. and the lazy, shiftess improvdert
habits which keep the South poor shall be utilized for
filling government offices. This policy may be of adj
vantage to the Southern people in supporting class
of men who would otherwise hang about crossroad
groceries to talk politics. put there is small prospect
that it will promote the great work of reform i'll the
department service" which Mr. Lamar promises.
Reform does not go backwards, and return to the
practices, and methods, and men of Buchanans and
Pierce S time Is by no means observation-disclosures
Tribune
THE Republican party feels that if suffrage
free and elections fair in the South in the North
it would now be in power and would have majority
in both Houses of Congress. 1t regards the suppress
sion of the Republican party in States where it is
generally admitted that it has had majority of the
yOfar tp1ad IIrip fha St n
great injustice and subversion of popular govern
ment 1t has just the feeling in regard to frauds
upon suffrage elsewhere. Republican journals have
denounced the late frauds in Chicago in the lam
guage in which they have spoken of them in the South
1t is the theory, not the locality The sectional feel
ing is due to the fact that the evil is sectional The
feeling will to exist when the evil is eradicated
Boston Journal.
No good to the Indians can be expected from any
plan devised by their avarcious enemies The aver
age frontiersman may find no fault with the maxim
that right to shoot rob and cheat the Sioux it
to cheat rob and shoot the Mohawks and the Mo,
hicans and that the white mans advantage is an
ample Justification But this is answer to the ap
peal of civilization and Christianity to deal honestly
with the remnant of powerful people We
have granted them lands for hunting grounds but the
game has been destroyed by white hunters. II the
lands extensive than the dWindling
tribes need for cultivation let the work of reducing
the reservations be undertaken honorably, with just
regard to the rights of the Indian pOssessors and
with their free consent This is the course to which
the national honor is pledged.-Boston Advertiser.
CERTAINLY 1t cannot be said that the working
people find that the dollar will buy less than it
would buy five years ten years ago On the other
hand it may be doubted whether unless for month
two at time, the purchasing power of the dollar
was ever greater than it is now Yet there has been
such decrease in the general rate of wages paid
within the last three years there has been i'll the
level of prices Is this time to be extreme and OBJ
stnate in demands for wages? In not few cases the
workingmen must be able to that persistency in
their demands will PROSTATE the industry upon which
their employment depends. In better times, when
ployers securing large profits and BUSINESSES brisk
and growing the sympathy of the public is generally
with the laborers because it is felt that the employers
probably afford to pay in such times than
they had previously paid. But in times of unusual
depression, is it strange if intelligent observers lean
in most cases to an opposite judgment?-New York
Tribune