The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-24
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THERE seems to be always disposition among peo
pie generally, outside of college, to side with the stu
dents in any contest with the faculty Oneclass calls
the faculty set of old fogies; another remarks with
wink tn Ut is intended to be reminiscent that boys
will be boys third condemns any attempt at re-
strant opposed to the modern notions of self-rel
and manliness in boys; and through the
list The truth of the matter is that in at least nne
teen cases out of twenty the faculty is right and tbs
students wrong in any direct contest they may have
New York Mail and Express.
THE present administration should see in Utah les
great opportunity. Steadily the work Of suppressin
polygamy has gone under Republican rule, until
now the conditions fair for striking a decisive
blow. If much progress is made during this presi
Dental term there during the one Immediately
preceding it, there will be very little of the abomi
nabe institution left at its close The great thing
to get grip upon it which would be at practical
and legal Having at last accomplished that object
there should be no hesitancy in making the utmost
possible of all the machinery of the cr minal law
for graduating the deadly abomnation- Chicago In
ter Ocean,
prohibiting State from mpairing the obligation Of
contracts was required by the condition of the
times justified in history, the exemption of the
State from suit under all circumstances a CON-
cesson to mistaken views of the rights and position Of
the several States and has been productive of mis-
chief If it possible to restore the right to
State, under proper conditions and restrictions
it hardly be doubted that the general credit OF
advanced, while no substantial injury Of any kind
would follow to any State.-New York Times.
WAR is the manifest destiny" of Russia. Civil
cation does not march in the of Russian agrees
sion only despotism and oppression. Her wars arc
undertaken to crafty the avarice of her military
statesmen and enlarge the territory tributary the
Gear. Every dispatch from Russian territory to-day
indicates that the nation is preparing for Of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Russian finances cannot stand any
other. They cannot afford the vast expenditures
being made for peace without some large accessona
of valuable territory and prospective advantages.
Russia war unless England backs down. Eng
land cannot suffer Russia to command Herat without
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pire-Chicago News.
FRANCE, looking round for pretexts for making
trouble in Egypt has seized upon the suppression of
rbaid belous French paper in Cairo as. sufficient
cause for controversy with the English government
at time when it is dangerously complicated with
Russia 1t the truth were known it would probably
be found that the seditious and insulting articles
printed in that French paper instigated officially
In order to breed quarrel Any cause is sufficient
power Russia; and what better opportunity will
France ever have in Egypt than now, when she can
recall her troops from China and reinforce them from
home and land them in that country from which the
English about to retire their own trapsl IL war
is declared between England and Russia the French
will go into Egypt as an ally of Russia--Chicage
Tribune.
AFTER war Of any duration, with even such
power as Russia, she may find that the worlds
merce had made new channels for itself and
longer be brought into the old bed It is npossi
BILE for the people of America to regard the prospect
of such loss for England with any kind of regret.
Twenty five years ago this country entered great
war Win ueTcdutuo marine next 10 ner cWu Ia
tent and Importance. We out of that war with
far down the list of shipowning nations
| The change due TO the losses inflicted our
shipping by privateers fitted in her dockyards and
with the collision of the government For tie spe-
cifc losses inflicted on our merchants by those
privateers she has made compensation, thus admit
ting her wrong But for the far greater indirect IL
| jury through the sale of our ships under foreign
flags and the loss of time and start in the for the
worlds carrying trade she neither has nor will make
us any compensation. At Geneva her representa-
tyes successfully resisted the claim for such com:
pensation. But the whirligig of time brings round
its revenges, and it is far from improbable that her
time has come. to pay indirect damages in anothec
shape Philadelphia Press.