The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-02
TIE CURRENT OF OPINION.

TIE CURRENT OF OPINION.
The man who, in days of prosperity, does not
make moderate provision for wife or minor chill
dren is either short-sighted. or criminally reck-
less, or hard hearted.-Atlanta Constitution.
1t remains to be seen whether he [Flowerl can
be persuaded to withdraw his declination by
promises of Democratic support when it comes
to choosing another United States senator.
Boston Transcript.
The violent temperance zealots who have al
ready begun their promiscuous abuse Of both
parties, are in fair way to force the advocates
of high-license law to disclaim sympathy with
them.-Brooklyn Union.
The State belongs to the Democratic party,
and if that party does not choose to possess it's
own it ought to dlsband OF course, only the
best of faith can be expected of the administra-
ton and its friends-New York Graphic.
DR.. Leonard is plausible talker upon pro-
hlbltlon The most plausible talker In the world
can not show how the taste of men may be regu-
lated by law That is solely matter of educa-
ton or moral Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
Whether Mr.. Flower would be willing to take
the Lieutenant governorship could some reason
ably positive assurances of his being able To get
it be offered him. is of those things we shall
probably never find Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
Mr. Ferdinand Ward says he is tired of being
cOnSluerSQ q KnaYe, ana threatens 10 puOllSn o
statement which will show him to be fool. 1t
is hard choice between the two. but it appears
to be the only choice left open to Mr.. Ward.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
While the Turks have unquestionably, the
right on their side in this matter. there is a nat
ural feeling which cannot be overlooked. that it
is impossible to ignore the claims for indie
pendence put forward by the Christian inhabit-
ants of Roumela.- Herald.
Lieutenant Schwatka and Engineer Melville
are again laying their plans to find the North
pole 1t would be easier for them and less ex-
pensive to go to bed and blow the gas out The
obituaries of arctic travellers have been too
highly colored-Springfeld Republican.
The Republican Senate will not make war on
the President because he is Democrat Our
system of government would be fatally defective
if if it recognized political differences between
the two branches of the executive mechanism az
a valid cause for strife between them.-NationaI
Republican. :.
It is extremely amusing to notice that the
Democratic editors who are rejoicing SO pro-
foundry over the departure of the mugwumps to
the support of the Republican State ticket are
using almost the identical terms of consolation
which were employed by the Blaine editors last
year.-New York Evening Post.
This search after old and buried personal cor
respondence in order to attack an enemy is a
pretty mean business all around But what
Halstead may have thought of Grant and Lin-
body now" They are both far beyond his praise
or his malice. Philadelphia Record.
The Maxwell case, at st. Louis, is argushing
for lack CT funds TO carry on the prosecution, the
district attorney having exhausted his appro-
priation 1t would be pity should such a
finely sensational case lapse for any such rea-
son. The ST. Louis newspapers might chip in
to carry it on as a matter of characterization
Record
Ira Davenport as Controller was the first man
in that exceedingly important Office to bring
about the system of having surplus of at least
81, 000, 900 in the Treasury to meet the current
expenses of the new fiscal year, beginning on
the LIST of October. PAY as you 60" was his
nrinciple, and he reduced it to practice New
York Mail and Express.
General Slocums reply to the request that he
take the Democratic nomination fer Lieuten-
ant-governor '.If they nominate me l will
write letter of declinaton that will make their
hair stand on end. The idea that l. who was
second in command under General Grant
in the Union army, should play second fiddle to
David b. Hill is preposterous Albany Jour-
nal.
The reports of rich silver discoveries in Mex
leo must be taken with many grains of allow
The mining "booms" which have been
worked up below the border during the last few
years have been specially disastrous to Ameri-
can prospectors, and any man who starts out for
a new gold field in old Mexico should have ample
resources to guard against disaster San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Socialism gives to the state the pre-eminence.
1t sinks the individual in the state or general
society. 1t makes the individual man a nero
cipher, and it reduces to a minimum the infu-
ence OF individual men in the affairs of the
world. 1t gives into state control all the affairs
which pertain to the ownership of land the
manufacture of products OF every kind and the
tilling of the soil-Denver Tribune.
In few isolated cases the President has stood
up for the principle of the civil-service law but
in most the old policy OF the spells is going
forward as openly as under any past administra-
ton. Congressman are parceling out of the
offices; the department mills are grinding out
large patches of new appointments every day;
and Mr.. Cleveland is going beyond any predeces-
sor In his removals Philadelphia Press
The gradations of color between the malattoes
and the whites on the one hand and between the
muattoes andthe blacks on the other are indeed
innumerabe; and we have said. are too finely
blended to permit rigid classification of the
''colored people" as such; but that the colored
class, as whole. is bound to Garken in color and
thus decrease gradually in number is plain to
every one who watches the course of racial rela-
tons in the Standardization News and Cou-
ier
Now that we are beginning to have little
leisure in the land, having TDssed our first CEN
fury of very hard work. we might, with adyan-s
tage. appoint members for national conven-
ton of nomenclature. authorized, after due de-.
liberation, to provide new and fitting names for
such places as have been disfgured by titles
without the slightest excuse for existence. The
old Indian names should. by all means, have tho
preference. We shall be original so long MS wa
remain aboriginal York Commercial ADJ
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