The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

The daily paper has become so eclectic in its char
acter that on Sunday and Monday one Of the chief
features of every frst-class paper is the religious in.
t~elligence. Church people are compelled to take a
Sunday paper to ascertain what is the news from the
various sections of the moral vineyard, and those who
love to read sermons and devotional literature will
find more of such matter in a frstclass daily paper on
Monday than they will in an average volume OF ser
mons.-St. Louis dlobe-Democrat.
THE important Offices and heads of departments will
all doubtless be filled in time by Democrats. The
Democrats demand and expect it, and the Republic
ans expectit it; but a definition of offensive partisan,
shrp" can be made so broad as to practically destroy
the small beginnings of civil service reform and con-
stitute a pretext for for the removal of all subordi.
nate employees. Such a course would be highly hurt.
principles, and would be a club which would In the
end belabor the head of the Democratic party.-Louis-
vile Commercial.
1T is not the usual thing when a country really
means war to blazon every movement so that it can
be read by all the world; in the dictionary of slang,
such a course is termed blowing" and is intened for
the enemy, in the hope that it may ntimidate him.
just now England is going through the process of in.
forming Russia and the world that it is a bad man;
and like the frontier ''tough" is trying to win the
fight without fighting. 1t is not likely, however, that
Russia will scare worth a cent" and, after all En-.
gland may conclude to get along without an apology,
and turn its attention to some smaller antagonist.
Chicago Tribune.
EVEN if legally Incorporated in Louisiana, this lot.
terry business is merely legalized robbery. as it proves
upon the face of it's own official statements; but its ls
gal authority in Louisiana is more than questionable,
dnU L Is COllucnutQ ny penal SCaUuteS In every oCaL0
and Territory of the Union; it is condemned by the
laws of the nation which forbid the transmission of
its schemes, tickets or remittances in the mails, but it
is conducted in open lawlessness by lawless men. and
Generals Beauregard and Early pose as 1.-The decoys
OF the lottery rogues." How long shall this blot upon
the country be permitted to rob the people and utterly
defy the laws of State and Observation-Disclosures
Times.
IT is quite likely that if any foreign nation were to
send as it's representative at Washington a man who
had made himself locally conspicuous at home by de-
nOuncIpu tho Decentralization Drro1ovnafiCp Np ~ Ton
stltutional amendments as IAN outrage and impiety, )"
'a spoliation" and "a sacrilegious invasion"-quite
likely if such a man were sent on a diplomatic mission
to Washington-this government would protest rather
vigorously against the affront and insult which his ap-
pointment implied. And yet we are about to offer a
substantially similar insult to Italy by sending as
minister to Rome a man who applied the epithets
quoted above to the establishment Of the present gov
ernment of Italy. MIR. Kelley, the gentleman whom
is too much of a religious enthusiast to make a safe
Observation-Disclosures Press.
THE first aim of the English will be, of course, to
blockade the Russian fleet in the Baltic. 1t is for this
end, no doubt, that the British Admiralty is now con-
centrating a powerful iron-clad fleet in the channel and
North sea. The escape to sea of even a small fleet of
fast Russian cruisers might be a serious matter to the
English. Such a feet, well managed and reinforced by
a few ships now on the Siberian coast and elsewhere,
might, without stopping to fight equals. worry its
enemy in many ways. A threatened descent upon the
British West Indies, for instance, would necessitate
the diversion of a numerous English fleet, as we'll as
of troops, to protect those exposed possessions. Two
or three fast and well-armed Russian cruisers in the
Indian ocean would employ another and considerable
British force to protect the Mauritius. the cape. and,
perhaps, to guard some Indian ports.-New York Her.
aid.
WHETHER Mr.. Parneil foresaw the riot at Mallow
or not, nobody can doubt that if he chose to do so he
could make the visit of the Prince and Princess of
effect. If the visit has any political purpose, it is that
of coaxing the people of Ireland from their allegiance
that it is perfectly manifest to everybody that
it can be effected only by Parnells forbearance,
if not by his active interference, in behalf of the
''honored guests" of the people of Ireland. It might
have been foreseen that this would happen. As a
demonstration that Parnell is omnipotent in Ireland,
and that the future King of England is ~impotent. the
a pretty position to put the Prince in, and the political
sagacity of the statesmen who advised this singular
method of extending an olive branch is equaled only
by the wisdom with which the war in the Soudan has
been conducted.-New York Times.