The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

TREASURER JORDANS plan TO aO0lSh the sub
treasury and deposit the public moneys in private
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is likely to meet with more OPP
position than he apparently anticipates. Something
like the policy he advocates was In vogue in 1887;
the government money went with the rest and in
tensifed the public distress.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
THE rather silent administration at Washington
may not need hints how to express itself, but if Mr..
Cleveland should at any time be at a loss for a phrase
| to fit the occasion he is so frequently confronted with.
marks to a temperance meeting in Atlanta: s'If any
of you fellows gets tired, you know the way home.
We wouldnt have missed you if you hadn't come at
all. "-Brooklyn Union.
THE organ of the Utah Norm oru, the Deseret News,
declares it "a notable fact that the Mormons as a body
have always voted the Democratic ticket" We don't
see anything notable about it. Polygamous Mormon
ism received it's first recognition and approval when a
Democratic President made Brigham Young Governor
OF Utah, and the votes which the Mormon Church
| has since cast for the Democratic party have been but
a fair manifestation of a welI-deserved gratitude for
Mr.. Buchanan's action.-Philadelphia Press.
THERE is a mischief in the delusion which con-
Pounds hysteria with religion, for the consequences of
this mistake are of a kind to disgust sober and ra-
ional people, while they afford opportunity for ridi-
icule to unbelevers, and disturb and expose to bad in
fuences the weak men who accept them for what they
are not. A little sound education in physiology and
the elements of medical science would dissipate the
halucination that the evidences of diseased coalition
are analogous with the proofs of religious conviction.
| New York Tribune.
ASA ShOi SAS ~ "a NOhOSSo eO01y
have fewer illusions and more closely calculated fu-
lures than most Of the old boys, whose leathery faces
the plans and dreams of their youth, had in their own
day of graduation. The worlds working force is
recruited with the best material when the va!edicto-
ries are spoken in this leafy month of June. If there
is one thing that the colleges are succeeding in doing
better than ever before, it is in teaching American
youth how to work, how to bring itself to bear, how
to make the best use of such power and capacity as
it has.-New York Tribune.
PROFESSIONAL temperance men, prohibi tionists or
temperate temperance men. are cranks of greater or
less degree. While they may be right in principle
and that question is still up for argument THEN meth
DDS may be not only tyrannical but childishly unwise.
However good their intentions. the unwritten idea
that they are wasting their lives in order to reform
others and perhaps negiecting their own reformation,
and thas meanwhile their opponents think they are
able to regulate and taxi care of themselves. has a
Judgment In pretty nearly the universal human breast;
and it is certain that the man with a hobby, however
strong he may be as to that, is too weak in other es-
sential particulars to serve ~proftably as a leader of
public sentiment or as a manager Of publ.c ways and
means. It is to be hoped that this idea viii not de-
velop itself sufficiently to 0e destructive further than
it has been in Sprngvale, Me-; but the radical temper.
ance man has no latitude or longitude in the violence
OF his language or his works and has long invited the
retaliation we here and now regret.-New York
Graphic.
SUPPOSE we try. just az an experiment, TO treat
these Chiricahuas as we would treat white men. When
they commit murder, suppose we hunt them dow,
catch them, try them. and, if they are fO.=f guilty.
hang them, instead of contenting ourselves with send.
Ing Attn back to their respiration and treating them
to "a gospel of peace Might this plan not work bet
ter than the old onea Might IL not pay to commit the
pursuit of the Chricahuas to officers who would put
thoir souls in the work, and would show more animos.
ity to Indian marauders than to American settlersf
AS to the %pretense that the seventeen companies of
soldiers under General Crook cannot capture seventy
Indian bucks. that must surely be an excuse for luke
warmness. IL the murderers of deronimo's late victims
ago. Here was q man who murdered a foreigner the
other day in the city of st. Louis, and the State of
Missouri has sent detectives half way round the world
to bring him back TO st. Louis to be tried for his life.
Cannot something like this energy be infused into our
pursuit of the Chiricahuasf-San Francisco Chronicle.