The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-04
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

HEMatter with Kelley seems to be that the scheme
OF creation and of the present time is upon larger
scale than that upon which his mind constructed
Some accident left him out of proportion and as
as he called upon to take place in it, he slipped
clear in the hole, and began to rattle around in it.
That's what's the matter with Kelley He rattles too
much.-Lousvile Commercial
IT is time for Manning to drop his newfangled sys-
tenn and return to the plain and simple method of
stating all the liabilities of the government bal.
anced against all its without creating a
multiplicity of funds q. d special deposits not
ranted By law in any case and condemned by on
in several The Old method of stating the pub
lie debt plain. simple and honest. The new form
is piece of juggery that serve no good purpose
and ought not to be imposed the public any longer
Nonsensical and misleading changes not reform
Chicago Tribune.
WITH overthrow OF slavery there ceased to be any
good reason why Southern man should prefer the
Democratic to the Republican party and the attach
rnent of the Southern whites to the Democratic party
rests on purely sentimental basis. With it's rising
manufactures the South is in fact interested
that of the Democracy for the latter have no welde-
fined policy the tariff question, but are Just enough
characterized by eetrade tendencies to keep the
country IL condition of uncertainty and uneasiness
| respecting the future of its ndustries.-Miwa
Sentinel.
MORMoNIsM to-day, aside from polygamy is a thorn
In the Nations SIDE The power of it,. priesthood
menaces political freedom. It's influence is hostile
education. Although the triumph of the Josephites
in crushing poygarny might be ground for national
rejoicing the reunion of the Mormons under one
head and on a footing where law would have no OK.
cuse for reaching them, would be event boding no
good. Were this reuniting of the Mormon church
Christian churches of the Eastern States what could
these churches say in tho future against the hierarchy
they had reformed and strengthened?-Boston Adver-
tiser.
President Cleyeands determination to live up to the
letter of the Nation with it's
wards But the day is coming, and is not far distant
when the people of these United States cannot spare
thousand acres of arabic land to support lodge of
amiabe children of the forest 1t is too much of the
soil for any family to occupy red or white When
that time comes the tribes protected in the In
dian Territory will be obliged to abandon their no.
madic habit of life and some other means of pro-
vlding for them will have to be devised It is none
too soon to ask what the people and the government
are going to do about it.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
GooD news should outweigh bad for the remainder
of the year. Southern roads will show large earnings
the trunklnes will work out their time contracts by
january, and will then be earning we'll Congress may
suspend the compulsory coinage of silver If prices
hold mean time, confidence will increase. AS the good
in the situation expands and the bad contracts the
certainty of profits long contracts. whether in
stocks commodities will increase. 1t is certain
that the next great in prices will be up.
ward. The turn may be right here-it may be year
or more away. In any event. it is time to watch:
time to think with broadcast grasp of principles but to
scrutinlze Tacts in the most minute detai-New York
Mail and Express.
ONE mistake raade not by the administration but
by Congress- has been the delay in giving effect to the
trade treaty with Mexico, which was ratified last
winter by the Uni ed States Senate and although the
administration may hold that the matter is now
entirely out of its hands President Cleveland should
not hesitate to whatever direct indirect in6u.
ence he may possess for the purpose of inducing the
House of Representatives to make those changes in
the statutes that needed to give force to this inter
national agreement. Whether the decline of American
influence at the capital of Mexico and the corresrond
ing increase in English influence are due to the defects
in the personnel of representation there
ton which tho State department may at some later
day be called upon to answer.-Boston Herald.
In these piping times of peace no serious dfcu ltv
can arise from the existence of these varying views in
the minds Of the secretary and general in command
but in these times the discussion does NOT tend
to strengthen discipline good deal more is in.
volved than question of etiquette or red tame
An army with dual head would not be very effective
instrument, and it s easy to imagine
when embarrass ment or Generalization might result
from such conflict of prerogatives It will he found
eventually, think that the secretaries are right
and that General Sheridan is in error The President
is commander -nchief of the army and the Secretary
acts ia that capacity 1t would seem to be essential to
the orderly movem MT of the government that the
authority thus delegated should be supreme in that
department the authority similarly delegated is in
other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Journal.
IT is strange that the workngmen do not appear TO
sec that the heaviest burden which arises from cleo
toral debauchery falls upon them They do not roam
the spells beyond the scanty pittance which few in
dlvlduas OF them receive twice year at cleo
tions. Do they reflect that the who buys votes is
usually himself open to corrupt influences and that he
often gets the money wherewth to degrade the ballot
from corporations and private individuals whose inter-
ests require the oppression of labor7 Do they know
how hard 1t for poor and honest to be elected
or even nominated to Office? Do they believe that
the services of dishonest in public positions are
of any real value to heml TO put the plainly:
Is not the purchase of essentially dishonest and
corrupt! Would not defeat such an issue be more
glorious than by methods of political debauch
eryq Is it about time for the sleeping sentiment
in favor of honesty in politics to wake up and strike
vigorous blows for purifaction2-Albany Express.