The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-13
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE defeat of Liberal Ministry is exulted in by
the Parnelites This is certainly remarkable poit
cal fact The liberals friendly to ireland in
every way than the Conservatives The one policy OF
the latter has been coercion, while the former have
passed the land laws, and encouraged belief that
home rule would be among the things Of the future
likely to give the Irish people greater freedom.
Boston Advertiser
THE highest medical authorities concede that the
only reliable safeguard against cholera is prevention.
There s no known specific for the disease. Ii is
attacked by it may get WELL but not through the
use of any established remedy. As there is no known
prevention must be relied upon and the greatest
and best preventive of all is absolute cleanliness OF
city house and person The scourge feeds upon dirt.
and is propagated by impure water, into which it's
germs Philadelphia Inquirer
UNDER the present system it takes great deal of
the labor and capital of white men to support the
Indians and their dogs. Why should not the indiana
taught to raise cattle instead of dogs and thus
do something for their own support. White will
not be willing to go on forever paying taxes to main
tain the sayages in idleness; and game disappears
they must be reduced to stlower degrees of beggay
unless taught to do something for themselves. The
true humanitarans the ones who want to see the
Indians made self supporting farmers cattlemen,
rather than chronic government paupers.-Chicago
Tribune.
IT should be the that the mere possession Of
dynamite in sufficient quantity TO do public injury
should compel explanation, and, without due
license, properly obtained, the fact of possession
ought to raise prima facie of criminal intent.
The secretion of ordinary weapons on the person is
dangerous enough, and the law makes provision for
its punishment; but pistol knife can, at the most
most reckless. pound or two of dynamite means o
threat against the lives of mutitudes and tee law
should punish its unauthorized possession or trans
portaton with corresponding vigor.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
We here offer as a suggestion to elicit discussion
way in which the silver dollar may be made and
substantially kept equal to the gold dollar Let the
Director of the Mint include in his official report OF
the actual values of foreign COIN made to the Secre
tary of the Treasury Jan. of each year the sci
entfc estimate of The number of grains the silver
dollar should contain in order to be equal to gold
Let, then. all the silver dollars coined during that
year contain the exact amount of silver that would
render them equivalent TO gold dollars. There are
objections to this as to al plans but think they
be met. VIII present better plant
Frank Leslie's Weekly.
RUMoRs are once more aHoat that the removal Of
Governor Pierce and the appointment OF his successor
may be looked for any day. If tbs true, It's great
pity for it would be hard not in the northwest aona
but in the whole of the United States to find an
official who has done his duty thoroughly and has
used his power persistently for good as has the
Governor Of Dakota, and surely would be impossible
to find one who has done better than he But the
administration has shown itse no respecter OF
records and so far the Conduct of Republican
office holders is concerned il is to be hoped that virtue
has been its own reward-for ii is likely to bring
other. 1t will probably be discovered that Governor
Pierce has been Extensively upright. Minneapolis
Tribune.
A Tory ministry in England il not likely to be Of
long duration. 1t only come into power by d.
visions among the liberals and these viii be speedily
healed under Tory policy The tendency N Eng.
land is towards greater radicalism. great body OF
voters has recently been admitted to suffrage who
will cast their ballots for the first time at the next
parliamentary election The Tories may at first di
vide them pretty evenly, gain majority of
them but for long they cannot hold them Among
the questions that sure to DO more and more agi
taed until they are settled liz opposed to Tory
opinions. are the reform of the land laws The aboli-
tion of the House of Lords its establishment on
some other basis than that of birth and the dsestab.
Eshment of the Observation-Disclosures Sentinel
THERE Is one purpose which all wings of the Re-
publican party desire to accomplish, matter what
differences may have divided them in the past This
is the necessity of establishing fair and honest cleo.
lions in every State in the Union Until this object ia
attained the people cannot give impartial verdict
upon any question Of governmental policy and, CON
sequcntly, until it is settled. and settled rightly ally
other issues must wait The leading place which this
topic occupies in the speeches OF prominent Republic
ans and the interest which its discussion invariably
excites show how strong hold it has taken upon the
public mind. The injustice done to the Northcrn
voter by the frauds aud intimidation practced ia the
States Of the South is palpable TO escape the at
tention of any intelligent man in the Nation That il
will be permitted to continue Is libel upon their sense
Of right and Observation-Disclosures Press.