The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

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CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
THERE has been a deal of sympathy and bad logic
wasted upon these people 1.-THE Mormonsl and it is
time to have done with bubbles concerning them.
They are rebels, law-breakers and organized criminals,
who must be punished and reduced to subsection. The
Edmunds law is doing good work in that direction. but
that even stronger measures may yet become neces-
sary.-New York Commercia Advertiser.
THE credit of Russia is vastly better to-day than
that of the United States was when Fort Sumter was
many characteristics, they are alike in this, that each
Is industrially Independent n 2 great degree, and
tions: A war between Great Britain and Russia is
not likely to be prevented, or to be brought to a
speedy termination, by the financial weakness Of
either power.-NewY York Tribune.
If the rink matches were broken up the immensely
larger army OF fools who pay their money to see the
skating fools skate themselves to death would save
parted, of course. andif he doesn't spend it in watch
ing a lot of skating fools commit suicide, he will find
some way Of getting rid Of it; but. perhaps, If pre-.
to see skating matches, his investments would be a
triae less foolish.-Philadelphia Times.
THE Republican, in one of those brilliant flashes of
sentimental idiocy for which it is remarkable sug-
Grant and r. E. Lee-the two Unity, as Captain Cut
tie says. Next We shall hear the suggestion of a "sin-
gle shaft to commemorate the virtues of Jefferson
Davis and Abraham Lincoln. And, perhaps, after
awhile somebody will think of another single shaft
to commemorate the patriotism Of Benedict Arnold
and George Westinghouse Louis dlobe-Democrat.
THE rink managers are not to be blamed for com
bining against their prosecutors, but with church and
State arrayed for their overthrow, they have no easy
task before them. It will occur in the meantime to
any disinterested lookers-on that while the roller
craze may have its faults and run sometimes to ex-
cesses, it is in itself no more than an innoc emit diver
sion, h~ealthful, social and, under proper regulations,
entirely proper; although it might not accord with
the ethics of old Cotton Mather or have been popular
at Salem.-Washington Critic.
No set OF reformers, however sincere or jealous,
have a right to expect that any President, in making
appointments, will cut his cloth by such a pattern, or
so discriminate against one-half the voters of the
country, especially the half with whom he is polit.
ically associated. The cause of civil-service reform is
too good and it's success too desirable to have any Of
it's friends destroy their own influence and weaken
that of Others by advocating views so extreme that
they cannot be adopted, and which are repugnant to
it's most earnest Observation-Disclosures Post,
Dem)
THERE was a very general feeling that Mr.. Bayard,
as a member of the administration, would be conserva-
tive, dignified, and fair, but it looks as though he is
actuated by marrow and selfish purposes. The impress
sion is gaining ground that he is using his influence as
Secretary of State to advance bis personal interest as
an aspirant tcr the presidency in 1888, and as if he
intends to pr stitute the diplomatic and consular
service to this end. If this shall prove to be his pol
icy, the sooner President Cleveland shall put his veto
on it the better it will be for his administration and
his party.-Chicago Tribune.
IF Mr.. Gladstone has consented to the cession of
Penjdeh in the hope of avoiding war, he has jeopar-
died the ascendency of England in Afghanistan, and
by consequence in India itself, even more seriously
than he endangered her supremacy in south Africa by
his capitulation to the Beers in 1881. At that time
he ridiculed prestige as a costly fantasy, but since
uation of it's power. If he has again sought peace
through huniliating concessions he will surely find in
Asia, as he found in Africa, that national safety is not
to be attained by abasement, and that the peace
which comes with dishonor is never secure.-Boston
Herald.
If the unsophisticated mugwumps think tie millen-
will learn their mistake as the plans of this third
Daniel come to judgment unfold. He may be slack
as some men count slackness, but partisanship will
triumph just as soon as the safety of the public
service will admit. The general public cares little for
the personnel of the Offices one way or the other, but
let the service itself be d~eranged, clogged Or bungled
to any appreciable extent. and the effect upon the
party would be disastrous. Mainline knows this as
well as anybody, and the changes viii not go on at
any break-neck rate.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
UNDER the undisturbed rule of the Southern
whites, who have the approval of Henry Ware
Beecher, the negroes are in practical enslavemeni
again. A negrois not allowed to leave South Caro-
lima TO 60 to Arkansas. The whites have taken vigor
Gus measures to prevent the emigration of colored
laborers." and these measures consist in driving out
all emigration agents. In the North a man can &c
into a neighboring State and employ ~workmen, and
the yorkmen are permitted to go with him. But in
wages of laborers or to take them where they can
earn more money, is run out by armed whites. The
land of the free and the home of he-siave.-Milwa
kee Sentinel.
An lCiSlf o tAoon 10 . CIo NV 70 Juob q :
likely to be a Democrat as a Republican. Perhaps
this is one reason why Mr.. Cleveland is SO slow about
making changes. He does not wish to put out one
offensive partisan merely to put in another; there
would be no logic and no reform in that. And YET
that is just what the Democrats are clamorous to have
him do. They want him to remove Republican officials
on the ground of offensive partisanship, and ill tEs
vacancies with men equally Objectionable in such
respect. except that they have made themselves OBJ
noxious on the Democratic side. The absurdity Of
such a proposition is manifest. But that will prob
ably not deter the Democrats from continuing to urg,
it as if it were the very essence of Louis
Globe-Democrat.
FAIRLY considering the apparent vantage GROUND
Of Russia, on the Afghan frontier along with her gov
ernment's protestations of a desire for peace, Mr.
Gladstone seems inclined TO take the benefit of tn,
doubt. He knows what a declaration Of war viii
certainly lead to, and he hesitates to issue the deere,
for bloodshed until all honorable efforts to settle tn
dispute have been tried. Ten days hence we shall
probably know what the future policy Of Great Brit
the government viii be fully prepared to meet every
demand upon it, The delay may make the cost of tn,
war heavier, should it come, but there is at least
chance that the a~rbitrament of the sword may bs
avoided-that peace, with honor, is still possible
Philadelphia Inquirer.
If England is defeated in the Afghan passes, Indi
may become the. loot of Turkomans and Cossacks
whom the Russians are forced to conciliate by wars o.
conquest, in order to retain their allegiance. India to
day, judged in the light of its past, is contented, well
governed, prosperous and advancing. Its progress il
ways of peace and education is one of the wonders o.
the century. Yet it is by no means the chief example
of the civilization which the English speaking race ha
planted in every quarter of the globe. Our settlement
and development of this continent Is a part of thu
same great task which our kindred are carrying out il
Australasia. South Africa and in varying forms IL
India. To wish that England may be defeated by thu
d~espotism which owns Siberia, produces Nihilism as it
natural fruits, persecutes jews, and seeks to overruI
the world for booty, is to wish to strengthen an ob
stacls to the progress of enlightenment. civilization