The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-25
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

AS day after day passes, and Russia and England
seem direct settlement. the opportunity or
Prince Bismarck 10 suggest, and even demand, arbi
tration becomes more obvious he will do the world
service if he will use it.-Bcston Advertiser. ~
Ir new appointment must be made, 1t should be
given to a South Carolinan. No State in the whole
and successes achieved for the Democratic cause and
General Lawtons withdrawal enables the President to
recognize the claims of this State. To carry cleo
ton in Georgia is easy falling off log while
this side of the Savannah river it is hard climb
ing pine tree without spurs South Carolina is in the
Union, and will feel very happy if the President shall
recognize the fact by sending of her citizens to
St Petersburg the representative of the peace and
dignity of the United Standardization News and
Courier
THESE unfit appointments are the consequence Of
the subterranean policy of the administration. A
small cabal of politicians including the Cabinet Mr..
GOrman Mr.. Barnum and Q few of the Presidents
New York ntmates, acting in secret make the selec-
ton of officers from their personal friends Thus
it happens that important Offices filed by mon hith-
erto unheard of by the people generally, and OPP
portunity is afforded to discuss their qualifications or
antecedents prior to their appointment IL 1t had
been known in advance that Phelps, Lawton, Kelley
and Roberts candidates for the places to which
they were named, the weak points in thoir records
would have been exposed and the President spared
good deal of modification. Their selection Ia in
stance where too much craftness has defeated its
purpose The methods of the Albany regency nos
suited for the larger stage of national politicsMl-
waukee Sentinel
THERE is glow" of enthusiasm derived from dis
interested Christian endeavor that far surpasses the
merely emotional and evanescent kind engendered by
solemn music or prayer or the most eloquent preaoh
ing Think of the wrongs that need righting, the
evils that need graduating the moral filth that needs
cleansing in this community. They should be studied
and investgated-not systematically and narrowly.
but broadly statistcally and scientifically Instead
of sending missionaries to preach to the heather
gospel they refuse to hear do not send
young to them to learn how they deal with the
same vices that beset Instead of paying large sal
aries to the pastors to prepare religious essays and
conduct purely emotional services let the churches DO
to transact the business of carrying on the Lords
work, under the superintendency of the minister.
whose duties shall be practical well sentiment
al.-The Sanfranciscan.
WHY should Russia and England fight? Neither can
afford it, even from low, financial point of view
Russia is and deeply in debt. England 10 out OF
work. and living on her former savings Why should
100000 British peasants and 5000 Muscovito
peasants be flung against each other in mad and Bloody
neutrality-suspicious. who have everything in COM
mon who naturally friends and brothers and who
are more interested than anybody else be in the
maintenance of peacel Russia wants to get to the
Persian gulf undoubtedly for she needs outlet in
that direction, and England insists upon monopoly
of that sort of thing. But commerce, not cannon
rules the world to-day. Let Russia buy the outlet she
needs by the cession of territory other con-
sideration and let the sword be left sheath. So
shall all the nations interested be saved from the most
fearful of human caamties and the labor OF tho
world shall continue to produce articles which pro.
mote the comfort of the world, instead of being food
for powder Frank Leslies Weekly.
TT is not that England state has been uniformly
pend should regret her defeat, but because, his
torcay and upon the whole, England has been the
great champion of liberty in modern Christendom and
that her objects and course the extension of popular
rights tho progress of the great body of people, have
been and objects also. Would any sagacious
American with pleasure Russian privateers sweep
England from the ocean or Russian military hordes
expeling England from India, and the Gar replacing
TIE Quecn' Undoubtedly England and Russia
both invaders OF India But the present question Is
not that. The qcestion of to-day is whether the
world whether liberty and civilization would gain by
dslodging England from India and planting Russia
there. Would We substitute Russian influence for
English influence in the wordl There be no
doubt Of the answer to that question. Russia IN
vaing Turkesan may be the advance OF civilization
upon quasi barbarisn. But Russia driving England
from India quasibarbaris advancing upon cviliza
tion--Harper's Weekly.
In the mere matter Of accepting the statements of
these two officers we fancy that almost everyone
would take the British generals assertions before
those Of the Russian commander If for no other
than the welknown deposition of the Russians
consider that in diplomacy and artifce OF any
kind is perfectly allowable; while, however brutal
and dogmalc the English may be, their diplomatists
aud generals have shown q scrupulousness regarding
the trutluness OF their personal statements that has
given them confidence which is not, perhaps.
possessed by the public of any other European
nation. The English people, therefore, are justified
in stating that Russia has forced quarrel upon them.
Whether, in spite of this the English viii fight de-
pends upon circumstances which vary SO much from
day TO day to make it mpossibe to draw absolute
and definite conclusions from em.-Boston Herald.
THE cheap, bad literature can be displaced by
equally cheap, good literature, and the boys DO
taught be ashamed of the and enjoy the other
movement in this direction is already begun 10
England, and one or two writer's notably the Rev. I'D
ward EVEREST Hale, have sought to make the plan
practicable in this country fund for printing tns
best books Cor boys at low rates might be estabsned
that the iye-cent healthful book could enter Inv
vigorous competition with the fve-ccnt book OK w
slllls Of lterature.-Boston Journal