The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-28
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

If the elaborate enforcement of the necessity of
protecting the citizen in his exercise of the right of
suffrage, and that not only from personal violence,
but from fraud in the count is waving the bloody
shirt, then let it be unfurled until the end in view has
been accomplished. The doctrine of forgiveness for
rebels is sound, butt must not serve as a pretext for
surrender of any principle of national justice, and
Republicanism which the war secured.-Chicage Inter
Ocean.
WHAT with vast tracts of the richest soil yet un-
occupied, the revelation of unexpected fertility in
what was once considered sdesert" land, and the pos
gions, it is evident that there is no occasion for get
ting worried over the notion that the country is filled
up. 1t is the opinion of experts who have made a
careful study of the subject, including, we believe,
General Francis A. Walker, late chief of the Census
Bureau. that the area of land which invites settlement
is still so large that it would not be exhausted inside
of thirty years at the usual rate at which land has
been taken up York Evening Post.
The amount of misery and wrong still caused by
drink is very great. The selfshness and heartlessness
of men render the work of reform doubly difficult.
But Notwithstanding all this, a dispassionate review of
the SITUATION discloses cause for hope. On the whole,
temperance is gaining ground. On the whole, intern
perance is being pushed back. The work of the de-
voted souls who have toiled so faithfully is rot with
out it's tangible good effects. And it should not be for.
gotten that one of the consequences of an increasing
sensibility is a tendency to exaggerate the evil of the
time, and to underestimate the changes for thu better
which are taking place.-New York Tribune.
BY a singular coincidence an example which affords
a sharp contrast with the state of manufactures in
Great Britain is at this precise moment presented in
the United States. Amid general evidences of a re-
vival of business in the East, a large Pennsylvania
iron establishment has increased the wages of all its en-
ployes, in some cases by as much as 20 per cent. It
has not done this out of pure philanthropy, probably,
but because of a rapidly growing demand for its
product. We shall not be surprised to learn of a SIM
liar movem ent in nearly all of our protected industries,
and as England is driven more and more to confess the
insuffciency of free trade as a preservative of her COM
mercial greatness, the United States will reap increas-
ing benefits from their wise traditional policy of fos-
tering American labor and enterprise.-San francisco
Chronicle.
A REPUBLICAN, victory in Ohio this fall means an
earnest effort to settle the liquor question decently
and satisfactorily. a Democratic victory means the
continuance of the freeliquor regime. Respectable
Delnocrats-there are some such in Ohio-ought for
once to rise above their hide bound devotion to party
and vote the Republican ticket in order to get the
perennial liquor question disposed of. There are ma
tional issues which will play a part in the Ohio cam
paign; but there can be no successful eva0ing of the
paramount local issue. The Republicans had better
not trim or dodge; and it is not likely that they will
attempt any equivocation. They represent the re-
spectacle public opinion of the State. The Prohibi-
t%ionists will, of course, be in close league with the
Democrats, as usual, intent upon the disgrace of the
State.-Minneapois Tribune.