The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-16
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE issues and responsibilities with which the Ma
hostities abroad are too grave to be- left to the Pres
dent alone They will demand legislative elaboration
and call for the exercise of legislative power 1t will
be unwise and unsafe to wait till the regular meeting
of Congress in December. True statesm anship and
the interests of the country demand that declaration
of war in Europe be at once followed by the Presi
dents call for speedy assembling of Congress.-New
York Herald
WHEN Black nominated fo- Commissioner of
Pensions the Republican papers OF his State COM
mended his selection in the heartiest terms but it has
turned out perhaps, the most unfortunate which MIR.
Cleveland has made Shrowd observers at Washing.
tary Of the Interior neither of whom he has been in
cined to regard as his superior in Importance would
not feel at all sorry if he should resent the snubbnes
they have been obliged to administer by sending in his
resign ation.-Brooklyn Union.
INSTEAD of Chase and Fessenden having been in
need of going to school to such vealy milksops j.
Laurence Laughlin, this college tutor shows every
page he writes how greatly he needs the practical in
formation which he could have got by attending for
two three years the sessions of the ways and
means committee at Washington. Indeed it IS not
legislators that need to be educated in economies by
college professors, but college professors who need
some means of picking up few grains of sense by
being brought into contact with actual legislation.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
IT is largely owing to the Indifference of the public
that cheap and unsafe mode of building is becoming
popular Tenants make iitt inquiry to the safety
of a building but anxious to secure only cheap
and snowy quarters. If the carpenters and builders
of 100 years ago could revisit the of activity
go inside some of the fashionable and pretentous
buildings of the present day People generally
careless and indifferent to the safety of the build
ings they occupy that the only possible regulation of
the matter must come from the public authorities
Chicago Tribune
LAST of the lands learn the lesson of forestry we
of the United States must yet learn it. Commencing
the Eastern seaboard and in those Western States
where trees scarce arboriculture will gradually
take hold upon the entire Nation and the lu1n
boring communities who have hitherto looked upon a
ont al yyhic tO
POSSIBLE in little space of time possible and
who have recklessly destroyed the young growth in
their rude methods of getting out the older will either
learn wisdom be taught it by the hand of the law
administered by the representative of public too
ightened to permit one Of the greatest sources of
struggle for philadelphia Record.
WHEN that the centuries have reduced pau
perism from one in three to in 49, there is rea
son for hope The duty of the pulpit in discussing
this social phase not teach the poor that they
because they have been robbed by the rich for this
wilt assist them in lettering their condition. ma
jority of the who have a competence, in this
country, and many of those who have great wealth.
have from the aborng classes This fact proves
that provery is not in the nature off fixed remediess
condition, as the case in earlier times and when
the matter of birth decided for all his life the social
position of the individual member Thrift, health
temperance industry will do more in one year to
eve poverty in this country than centuries of dyna
mite reform.-Chicago Tribune.
REL asks good deal, but he could hardly have
fomented an instruction had his neighbours been
absolutely without grievance. The Indians who are
aiding him have doubtless been Influenced in part by
the hope of plumber, and perhaps in many cases by
poverty since the operative this sde of the
boundary to reduce the red to sarvat without
the increase of government help also at work on
the other The misfortune is that the suddenness of
the outbreak and the distance of the of host
ties hare apparently made further fighting almost
necessity before the parleying be of much avail
But. whatever the upshot of the campaign, it viii
be well for the Dominion government TO carefully
review the original grievances. and to take all just
| steps to remove them. Otherwise it viii never be
free from the danger of renewed revolt,-New York
| Sun.
Or course it angers Democrats to elect a President
and then find him adopting and enforcing Republican
policies. The silver Democrats have been boiling
over ever since February; the freetrade Democrats
| began TO boil it that Mr. Randall
| hsd the upper hand in the Cabinet and the great
majority of Democrats, who detest the Republican
civil service policy. have been ravng since Mr.
Cleveland began to recognize that policy in his action
His departures from have been many and discredt
able but the world sees in them the almost rresisti
tle influence Of great party ravenous for spos and