The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-13
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

TIE Indications are that the voters and tax
payers of Ohio who feel themselves responsible for
having turned the State over to the Democrats are
heartily Disguised with the results of their work.
That party has been tried and found wanting. and
when the time it wilbe kicked out in disgrace.
-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
OvERPRoDUCTIoN is in fact like the balance of
trade. creation of an naaned imagination. Ii is
not uncomfortable but industrial condition it is
unattaineble. Overproduction that there is
more of the good things of life produced than man
kind has any need for; more wheat houses,
more clothing, more shoes, more pork, etc. To
any hungry to speak of the overproduction of cloth
ing when there any naked in rags is absurd or
it is nockefy.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Upon on the whole the result of this experiment
at colonial expansion by France cannot be called
satisfactory The glory acquired in whipping China.
men does little to restore the military prestige of
European nation. 1t would be difficult to show that
France has acquired any commercial privileges in
Tonquin which she might not equally have gained
without war in which case the whole enormous
cost of the is sheer waste If it be true that the
cholera was brought into France by transport re.
turning from Tonquin, the has been far more
damaging to her than to China.-New York Tribune.
THE recent seizure of English vessels by France
may be nothing more than argument TO convince
England of the necessity of welcoming the friendship
of France by demonstrating its necessity The boast
full words of Mr. Gladstone that England is not de-
pendent upon the friendship of any country may be
attering 10 English pride, but second thought may
show that this spirit is not conducive to the conserY
ton of substantial interests As soon rs this appears
evident such language will not be popular in England
and will be regarded additional evidence that the
present government does not possess diplomatic sagac
ity-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
THE materials for eonhsgration, the like of which
has not been for centuries in Asia have been at
hand from the moment the Russian forces at Sarakhs
ard Merv were steadily pushed forward on converg-
ing routes Herat For competent observers it was
only question of time, and of short time when
some incident like that which has occurred Penideh
would apply the fatal torch What will be the issue
of the Titan struggle foz predomr ance in Asia no
man can yet venture to predict. But that
England has now entered on duel of momentous i'm
port to her own imperial fortunes if not to the pros
poets Of the whole Engish-speakng race.--New York
Sun
ENLIGHTENED by the harsh experience Of our own
civil war public opinion in this country win insist
with peculiar unaninity and energy that the question
whether Central America shall remain weak and diyd-
ed or becc me d compact and strong state
is not question to be settled by Mexican intruders
but must be LETT the decision of the people vitality
concerned. And if, as proved to be the case in our
own land, the process Of refrigeration only be
effected by coercion, the five Isthmian republics
should be allowed light out the controversy among
themselves Without the nterInsddLng Of any foreign