The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

If Competition" and the natural laws of trade
able to cope with the gigantic problems OF trans
the regulation of railroads than for the regulation of
the dry goods trade the farming business. But it
has been demonstrated beyond all successful contro
versy that corporate monopoies superior to the
ordinary regulative forces of competition. There
need to be laws which will preserve the natural forces
and enable them to operate.-Minneapolis Tribune
THE way to beget confidence is to be confident and
the to fair and just treatment at the hands
of the dominant political forces is to show ready
disposition to trust them The prosperity and sue.
cess President Clevelands administration depends
upon the prosperity OF the people during his term of
Office, and understands this better than he.
The disposition of the Iron and Steel Association to
meet him half way and assume that act Of the gen.
eral government while under his control will be mimi
cal to the best business interests of the whole people
is manly and will do much to bring about the result
much desired.--Philadelphi Times
Rules that will not work both ways are poor rules
the British Parliament should pass law to prevent
Americans from holding large tracts of land in Eng.
Land or Scotland the movement to prevent foreigners
and foreign corporations from acquiring thousands
upon thousands of acres in the Western and South
western part of this country would rapidly gain
ground here. Mr.. Winans, once of Baltimore posi-
bly, is the only person of American birth who would
suffer much by such act Of Parliament but the
name of Englishnen, titled and otherwise who would
suffer If excluded from lands is legion. So
America could stand it, we think if England could
New York Tribune.
The Italian statesmen have not forgotten the cum.
ming OF their ancestors. 1t Is very clever idea to
convert England into ally who must support
Italian conquests in Egypt whether she wants TO sup
port them or not II some other nation ries to drive
Italy out of Egypt how can England stand quietly
aside and let the gallant nation which rushed to her
aid in time OF peril suffer for her generosityf Italy
has long wanted ally with whose help she could put
curb on French power the Mediterranean She
has secured this ally by the cleverest stroke of
craftsmanship since Cavour's dispatch Of an army
corps to the Crimea.--New York Times.
GREAT BRITAIN is now at war with a people with
whom she has no quarrel, for an object she cannot
define. She has gone to work to ''punish" them.
The of her vengeance is TO be regulated not
according to any legal moral standard but entirely
by the feeling of the British public. A pecuniary
indemnity is ont of tho question. The fee simple of
the whole country would not bring enough at auction
to pay the expenses of Lord Woseleys army for a
week It does not appear whether the recapture of
Khartoum will be held to have avenged Gordon or
whether it will be necessary TO catch and hang The
Mahdi or whether all the tribes which have adhered
to him must be extirpated. All that depends upon
public opinion.-New York Times.
DIVORCES in this country are sought by two classes
the youd-be fashionable order. and strange to saw
the hard -working farmers of some of the New Eng.
land States. immortality exists among the same
classes in Europe for the reasons-one are fryol
and unreasoning the Other slavish drudges aud
in both the sensual instincts predominant The only
difference between them and their European con-
geners Is that in this country the moral sense is
strong enough to induce them to seek divorce before
they break their marriage VOWS while oyer there they
do not trouble themselves with any such formality