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

SPIRITS, beer and tobacco ought to be taxed They
are yielding large revenue, which Is paid without
continue to yield it. either to the federal government
to the States If the federal government resolves
to release it, then the question will be whether the
States devise effective scheme for collecting il
for their own beneft.-St. Louis Republican.
THE grand mistake of ALL perhaps in holding
the exposition 1t may be questioned whether
the lower Mississippi is yet ready to make inter-
national exposition. The disaster which has
taken the New Orleans exposition through reckless
expenditure and shiftless management and which may
compel its directors to make further appeals to Cons
gress for help is sufficient proof that the whole project
was premature.-Chicago Tribune
ANY general bankrupt law will do more harm thaG
good, unless 1T provides for speedy and Inexpensive
conversion of the bankrupts estate the ratabe dis
ribution of the proceeds among all legitimate claim
ants and conditions the insovent debtors discharge
upon his having made concealments of property or
having done any other act of dishonesty Wthal, the
discharge should be for once only. As an old NOR
chant remarked IF fails once, it is his mis-
fortune; if he fails twice it is his creditors mis-
fortune. Chicago News.
Ii Mr. Cleveland is wholly in earnest or if he is
only partially So the prospect for the hungry and
thirsty Democrat is not cheerful one; in either
the prospects against him. From point OF
view he is certain be kept out and from the other
it win be practically impossible for him to get in To
this grim pass have things been brought thus early in
the proceedings and who shall venture to predict
further irony is in store for those who suppose thab
the election of Cleveland meant restoration Of the
good old tmesG'-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
If it were not for the unconquerable habit of the
Democrats to play the demagogue, this session or
Congress- though limited by law to eight weeks more
might be exceedingly useful. The party has strong
motives for trying to do its BEST 1t does not need
to pater with all the issues and all the cranks in
the country with all conceivable forms of folly OF
fraud in order to get votes enough to elect Presi-
dent. It is now trial 1t cannot be said that the
people have decided to trust it, but under the forms
of law it is going to be intrusted with power never
theless If it has any facutyor any honesty of pur
pose, now Is the time TO show it-New York Sun.
THE truth is, there is nothing substantial in this
speculation farming
substantial if the farmer speculates with the guano
men and commission merchants. There is no real in.
dependence away from the farm. There may b@
socalled uxury-as there certainly is more pra-
tension in the city; but farm rightly managed q
homestead properly cared for will provide real
comfort and more genuine enjoyment than are to be
found in all the cities in the world. Let the farmer
boys come to the towns if they will but if they have
been properly managed-if their home has been what
it should be-they will make haste get back to the
independence of the farm.-Atlanta Constitution.
EVERY prudent and Woodworking man is doing his
best to make himself capitalist, and the effort
ders him better citizen and a self-respectful
being 1t encourages thrift sobriety and order and
saves the man from many temptations But because
of his sefcrontrol and wise foresight these Chicago
lunatcs would put dynamite in his path to blow him
up. 1t is capital and the organization of capital
which give him work and bring within his reach the
best fruits of civilizations yet these bloodthirsty
scoundres ask him to kill the alists and drive the
money from the land. All thu % world has gained
by centuries of peaceful ind ry they would destroy
with dynamite, turning society into pandemoniuSn.
They would change the workman from an honorable
American citizen who has the ballot with which to
right his wrongs and express his sentiments into
dastardly midnight assassin.-New York Sun.
The five States in which prohibition exists now are
not likely to give il up They Iowa and Kansas,
Maine New Hampshire and Vermont. In respect
these States alike namely, in the absence of any
large cities. Neither be said to have commercial
capital in its midst Wisconsin has it's Milwaukee,
Ohio it's Cincinnati Michigan its Detroit Indiana its
Indianapolis, ETC., but those five States lamentably
deficient or happily exempt from them whichever way
one may view it. Maine and New Hampshire have
always paid tribute to Boston Vermont used to, but
is now part of the empire Of which New York city is
the trading capital Iowa trade does not stop at any
of the river towns but converges in Chicago as
Kansas has built up and is building up Kansas City,
Just the State line in Missouri These facts in
liquor traffic do not by any justify palliate
that traffic. The Inter Ocean gives them prominence
for no such purpose. But they do illustrate and
teach mpressvely the folly of expecting enforce or
pass prohbitory laws in any State of this Union
which has within its border town of sufficient size
and Importance to be ranked among the many business
capitals of the country.-Chicago Inter Ocean.