The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-17
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE time is coming-and disclosures of the true
character and habits of the British aristocracy will
hasten it-when public feeling in this country with
respect TO England and things English will undergo
bracing change We shall learn to discriminate, to
recognize that the only Englishmen that fully merit
respect and sympathy are the English Radicals
who look to us for inspiration and example who
striving, in other words to make their country like
our own.-New York Sun.
HIGH license laws are practicable and practical and
prohibtory liquor laws are neither. But, all the
same, the Ohio Prohibitionst, not being able to rule
and yet willing as the alternative, to ruin, going
to introduce their wretched side-show candidate,
with the possible probable result of defeating the
Republican candidate for Governor knowing they
do full we'll that the Republican party is the only one
that has ever effected any real temperance reform in
the country Philadelphia Inquirer.
The withdrawal of tAe Woman's Christian Temper
n:era1ee Union of Cs$e!and from the State and ma
its future work to partisan action are signs that
the Ohio Prohibtionists are losing their grip upon
what have confessedly been the most effective bodies
IN the whole cause of temperance reform. There
accommodating evidences that prohibition as political
issue for the basis Of third party, has its
strongest days not only in Ohio, but in other States
where 1t has been honestly, even if mistakenly advo
Gated by large body of intelligent and reputable cti
zens-Phladelphia Press.
CITIZENS associations and non-partisan clubs are
important agencies of municipal reform. They
the useful purpose of mparting practical instruction
to voters, of protecting their rights of redressing
grievances, and of awakening wholesome sense of
civic responsibility. We approve heartily of every
agency whereby officials placed under supervision
and restraint and home rule converted into living
issue In which the humbest citizen is actively inter
ested But after ALL there is reform organization
whose influence the whole can be constantly
erted, whose authority in the long run is so com
handing as great body of Intelligent and frugal
property-owners.-New York Tribune
THE mer who have forced silver upon the country
for years will have to face very grave respon
sibility when Congress meets. They have hattered
themselves that silver could be kept at par with gold
despite the compulsory coinage because up to the
present time it had been kept. The New York
h0J1lr al
the government s hands to prevent silver and gold
from parting company, Mr.. Cleveland pithily
puts It. before Congress has time to act but they can
only do this for time. When Congress comes to-
gether the question whether to have honest
safe and sound currency, or whether we are to go
back to the dehased of the times will
have to he answered.-New York Times
THERE are not many modern fathers who occupy
themselves at home with the mental and moral train
ing of their children less than the American father
but-and perhaps for this reason-there is father
who expects SO much mental and moral training from
the university. 1t is very hard for him to admit,
when his boy remains Ounce, that the faculty are
not to blame, or that when he i'll debt goes
sprees, that the fault is not somehow n the elective
system, or exemption from compulsory church serv-
evolution by some OF the professors In fact like
many other institutions, the American universities
are in transition stage which will probably last for
gnning.-New York Evening Post.
We apparently suffering for example, from the
over-constructon Of railroads, but how would the
matter stand if the railroad stocks of the country
represented real outlay 1t would be found that the
railroad business has not been largely overdone
that the trouble arises fran the rascally method of
swapping the railroad, sometimes before it is con-
structed by stock issues bearing proper relation
to the cost. When the railroad gets to running it is
expected pay dividends upon two three times the
actual investment. In this way the people are de-
frauded yearly out of millions of dollars. No better
deterrent for putting end to this style of business
is possible than swinging tax 1t operates fine
upon the corporations which profit by stockwatering
corporations the extent of the fine being precisely
proportional to the quantity of Observation-Disclosures
Record.
WITH the great blessings which have already re-
suited from lard reform and many more which must
speedily follow, with their comparative freedom from
the cruelty of landlord oppression with the improve
ments which have been instituted in their local gov
ernm ent, and with home rule to before
long the Irish do better at home than they do
here, and there is for millions of them there
There is why there should not be speedy
return tide of emigration from this country Ire
land reerossng the ocean to take part i'll her rede-np
ton. The Tory policy OF driving Irishmen away and
turning the islandinto cattle pasture for British
beef is at last impotent. Mr.. Painen has given it
the finishing blow The great purpose of his agita-
ton is fast nearing accomplishment and Ireland will
soon be given to the Irish. Under the stimulus of
his policy and with the help of fresh infusion of
IrishAmericans, prosperity is yet in store for 1.-The
green isle. Chicago Tribune.