The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-13
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE country and the party need General Logan in
the Senate Through all his long years of public
ice he has been an able, fearless and Trustworthy
leader. He has hestated in the discharge OF
his duty and breath of suspicion has attached
| to his name The Republicans in national conven,
ton last year unanimously named him for the second
place their ticket and have had cause regret
it. They still have the confidence in him, and
demand now that an opportunity to do so is pre-
ate.-Cleveand Leader.
DURING the interval before the meeting of Congress
the Secretary Of the Treasury will be compelled to act
with great caution and skill to avoid the dangerous
disturbance of public confidence that would follow
payments in silver but that danger cannot be finally
removed without the repeal of the silver coinage act
and the currency never be brought to sound and
safe basis until the debt represented by the United
States notes is paid and the notes withdrawn and
DESTROYED; Then with proper adjustment Of the
be freed from the hiudrances that impede it.
| New York Times.
PRIvATEERs if they could get out from our ports.
they would have neither port for refuge for supplies
for the disposal of their prizes The talk about
capturing harbor in the West Indies is simply non.
Even if it were captured and held it would be
effectualy shut up by British blockaders just St.
Petersburg, Riga. ODESSA Sebastopol and Batum will
BE- and they are Russias only ports It is safe to say
If it is sanctioned by Russia. for the very good
that it will not pay and blockade running by adven-
turOuS Americans will be hardly more fashionable.
St Louis Globe Democrat
THE Republican press generally is treating Mr..
Cleveland fairly and it does not attack his appoint
ments without cause. It's criticisms have been
founded upon actual and serious grounds; and the
treatment which Mr. Lothrop receives at it's hands is
an ample vindcaton against the charge of partisan
malevoence brought against it. The Republican press
holds that public Offices should be filled by Of
spectacle private character of good habits and of pa
triotc impulses; when gamblers blacklegs ballotbox
suffers drunkards, and men notorious for disoyaty
to the flag OF the country are placed in important
positions Of honor and trust it believes itself justified
in hostile criticism.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
AS cannot interest ourselves in the selfish ambi
tons of Russian craftsmanship we cannot and do not
hold anything in common with the newly acquired but
wholly fictitious virtue of the English people, Eng.
land and Russia are robbers, both. If America has
any choice between them it falls Russia as the
less pretentious, but moro courageous, of the two.
Russia has the right to be in Afghanistan that
England has and neither Of them has right there
whatever With the Russians and the Afghans now,
it was with the English and the Afghans in 1879
ii is merely question of might. When Russian
might meets English might the rational struggle will
come Then may the best win.--Washington
Post.
THE working classes of country are entitled to
every facility, advantage and protection that intell
gent legislation for them. In the economy
of life, they occupy the posts of danger; they handle
machinery steam fire and electricity; they work on
lofty scaffods in the air and in the silent drifts of
face TO face with gunpowder, dynamite and other
dangerous explosives they the brakes on the top
of railway trains; and they first to encounter the
pers of frost FIRE and storm Their situations are
difficult at best, and humanity and fairness unite in
requiring that it be mtgated far possible by the
| precautions and defenses which experience points
| out---St. Louis Republican.
THE promotion of assassination and the defeat Of
the law in behalf of assassins things which can
not be tolerated bere. In Ireland deplorable crimes
are committed, and some explanation of the causes
that lead to them is found in the unhappy condition
and desparing heplessness Of large portion of the
population. The disposition to such practices here
must be stamped out at its inception This city is
the best place in the whole world to-day for lshen
and should DO tho poorest for assassins and their
sympathizers. We want no exotic crimes in New
York 1t an American city and those who claim the
right to live in It and enjoy the distinction of its
free citizenship must conduct themselves as Ameri-
cans and conformto principles. II ought to DO