The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-20
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

Mr.. VILAS's circular is only an invitation to village
gossips to recall or invent trivial instances of political
Partially in the cases of postmasters; and it is gener-
ally commented upon as a concession to the demands
of rapacious office hunters. In that view it is a very
~ontemptib document and unworthy of a member of
Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet.-The Republic.
WHATEVER may be the limits of credibity for Cos
sip about the two younger men, it is scarcely to tie
expected that a tale %imputing worldly foibles to Mr..
ing billets-doux in the intervals of debate in the
House of Commons would evoke any other comment
than an inquiry who the fool might be who had writ
ten such stuff.-New York Times.
THE new administration need not hurry about
making either removals or appointments. The people
are in no haste. But it ought not to allow members
offices, and it ought to view the recommendation Of
such people with constant distrust. And that re-
minds us that the President ought to make an order
to all his Cabinet officers that they shall pay no at
tention is the entreaties or recommendation of Vice
president Hendricks.-New York Herald.
ENGLAND is in the awkward position of having an
ally who is willing to concede every demand that is
made by its aggressive rival. The Ameer prefers to
surrender territory from which he derives only a
scanty revenue rather than give the signal for a de-
~vastating war in his dominions and take the risk of a
rising of disaffected clans against a British army.
Under the circumstances England has either to COM
promise the boundary dispute on the best terms OBJ
tainable, or te give orders for an advance which will
ALLEVIATE the Ameers support.-New York Tribune.
The President selects his own advisers; if they be-.
tray him into injudicious appointments he should call
others about him. Ii his present avenues of informa-
ton are not broad enough or do not reach out far
enough, he should extend them. If he has a genuine
ambition to build up an efficient civil service which
shall be bipartisan in the administration of the
offices. he should adopt methods which are better cal.
culated to assist him in this purpose than those which
he has followed thus far. The responsibility is upon
him because he has the authority, and he cannot evade
it.-Chicago Tribune.
IT is impossible to exaggerate the hold which the
King James version has secured on the English
speaking world. To a far larger proportion of people
than scholars suspect it is not a version, it is the book
as it came from the hands of it's writer's, and they re.
sent any tampering with It's original form. The re-
vised New Testament had a great sale at first, but it
was a success of curiosity, as is shown by the fact
that the old version is still by long odds the fayorite
with purchasers. The time may come when the
King jam es translation of the Bible will be generally
supplanted, but it will not be in the nineteenth centu-
ry.-New York Evening Post.
A FEW generations hence it is possible the new yer.
sion tof the Bible may make its way and be accented.
but for the present it will not take hold upon the
affection nor command the generation Of the world at
large, however much the scholar may prize it. Some
men and women may possibly have both, but the new
one will remain in the librar and gather dust. The
old one-the Bible of their young days and of their
fathers and mothers-win be read. 1t is sacred to
them from personal experience and association, and,
although the new one may come weighted with the
authority OF the modern scholars and attractive to
the eye, the old Bible will still retain it's place. and
men and women Will still turn to it for a comfort and
corsol alton which they will fail to find in the old text
clad IN a new and strange v~esture.-Chicago Tribune.
CoNsIDERINa the fact that farm hands have their
ohu ouhhAf PCIHQiSilico III duOlU1On tOstho wages
of from $40 to $50, it is clear that they are better
paid than any other class of unskilled laborers. And
if they are fortunate in their employers, their life has
a great many comfortable features about it. The
young c~ollegian who goes out to teach a district
school, finds that the capable Farmland is better Maid
than he is himself. that the same Farmland eats at
the same table with the farmer and the schoolmaster.
and admits no social inferiority, and that there are in
the life of a farm-hand many little ameliorations
which are denied to the ~collegian school-master. And
yet there are prejudices against farm work in the ca.
pacity of a hired man, and the supply falls short of
the demand in many a Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
No, we do not greatly like Englishmen as English.
men. Why should wei We like some of them be.
cause we have personal reasons for doing so: but
that great mass of people who were hungry and thirs-
ty for our defeat dur ng the years of our Rebellion
we are not in love with. To be sure, they paid us for
a part of the physical damage they did US; but they
have not nor can they ever pay us for their antagon-
ism oe heart and mind, which helped prolong the strife
and added to our too long list Of killed and wounded
US to abolish slavery in those days2 If so. history
has to be all expunged and rewritten. In those DAYS
England was making propositions to France TO recog-
nize our enemy as a nation, and Russia sent us her
heets-one to San Francisco. one to New York. and
her flagship she sent up the Potomac-to give assur.
ance to the world that her ships would be ours if
needed, and thatin Europe we had at least one friend
and ally. America does not forget these things; she
has had no cause to do it, for she does not recognize
as sufficient the pretty sentimentality about blood be-
ing thicker than water, or that other rubbish about a
common tongue and common literature. -Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
1T Is by no means certain that our jury system is the
best approximate means OF obtaining justice, espe-
cially when the law compels a unanimous verdict.
Scarcely any criminal could be convicted if that alb
surd provision were rigidly carried out. In Scotland
the concurrent verdict of nine of the jurors is received,
if unanimity is found impossible after three hours de-
liberation. Is there any good reason why such q rule
should not be adopted in this country? If a majority
of one vote may be trusted to elect a President, can.
not the same majority be trusted to enact justice be-
tween man and man? Another thing: Why should
the jurors, who have heard all the evidence, DO after
wards turned loose in a private room and commanded
to CONSULT What purpose can consultation have ex-
cept to enable the stronger to influence the weakerl
AID is not 0 unanimous verdict almost always forced
by the obstinacy of some and the acquiescence of the
rest-a combination of local bulldozing and the sur
render of opinion already forneda Could the average
mischief be any greater il the jurors were forbid.
den to consult. but were compelled TO stand up in
their seats as soon as the case was closed. and each
one give in his individual finding. q majority of the
whole to constitute a verdict Something better than
we have must be attainable. What is iti-Frank Les
lies Weekly.