The Indianapolis journal., 1885-05-21
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

CANDID view of the situation reveals not the
slightest hope that Mr.. Cleveland will improve the op-
portunity as a civilservice reformer which is un-
doubtedly open to him. He is removing men on the
ground that they have been offensive partsans but
he is filling their places with partisans equally pro-
nounced who will prove to be fully as offensive.
Chicago Tribune.
To the independent observer it clear that the
Democratic defeat in this important election fin I
nois is chargeabe to feeble self seeking and ncom
petent leadership and to the envious jealouses of
number of aspirants some of whom were strongly
any other candidate than themselves. Whether the
suspicion was just not, the result indicated has
been reached without adequate apparent effort their
part to avert it-Chicago Times
THE truth is that the liberal tendency of religious
teaching of the signs of the times and that this
should be recognized by the two leading divines
whose utterances we are considering certainly of
general public interest. Christian unity means
Christian freedom and though this should be gained
through acceptance of the theory of evolution it
not likely that the law which has been dviney
ordained for matter go very far astray, even if
applied to spirit.-New York Herald.
THE power of example is great. IF an administra
ton denies its obligations to the party which made its
existence possible may not the real leaders of that
party and the who believe in its principles be
disposed to become lukewarm to tho administration!
The clear policy of the President if he does not de-
sire to lose his State is to strengthen the party
that elected him and not the temporary allies, who,
after receiving all his favors very likely to go
back to their old Republican fellowship.-New York
World.
THE people of the United States have been for
good many years soaking their brains with the mar
cotc idea that the govern ment was sort of super
natural Institution which could make them rich by
taxation and stuff their pockets with paper worth
much gold because it bore its face the cabastic
inscription legal tender" The administration that
the facts they are and forces the people see
that eighty three is not hundred, may not have
very agreeable task before it, but it WILL in perform
ing that task do incaculable service to the State
New York Times.
IT shown last winter, that skating in the rinks
indirectly the cause of pneumonia. When heated
by exercise. skaters exposed themselves in the raw
outside air and suffered the penalty for their care
lessaess Physicians have said that skating upon
rollers is injurious to young and undeveoped persons
of the weaker SEX. disappearance of the mania for
the failure of the match at the Garden is sign that
rink skating is to become unpopular it will as we
have h said many good people to rejoice It
able the theater men will shed no tears-New York
Times
PROGRESS backward is the order of the day. Start.
ing with loud professions of determination not to be
diverted from graver duties by the boring and the
greed of ocehunters the Pre- sident now lifts up his
voice and walls because "he has time for anything
else but to listen to the appeals of the greedy His
troubles all come from his attempt to satisfy the in
satiabe hunger of Democratic workers. but the more
he suffers the more he tries to satate the Unsuitable
he declines to appoint Blackburn, who wanted Union
blood deep enough for his horse to swim and then
has to listen to sulphurous language from Senator
Blackburn, and piteously asks, 'What do you want
me to do2' The chariot of reform drags heavily.
New York Tribune.
AS to the effect of this probable suspension Of gold
payments and the substitution of silver we repeat
what we have often said before. The change will
not be the calamity that many suppose it will be- It
will not cause financial panic nor a collapse in
business On the contrary, Judging by the results of
the suspension of gold paym ents in 1862 it is much
more likely to revive industry and stimulate specu-
lation. There will be rise in the prices of all kinds
of property at least cessation of the continued
fall, which for the last FIVE years has checked new
enterprises, and thus capital will be encouraged to
begin making those investments on which labor de-
pends for employment. We await the event with
curiosity, but without the least apprehension-New
York Sun.
GENERAL LOGAN deserved great credit for the wav
in which he bore himself in the late presidential
campaign. He deserves still greater credit for the
way in which he has borne himself in the senatorial
struggle. Those who have watched him closely ara
free to confess that he has made few mistakes and it
is certain that he entered the Senate with the
Republican party of Illinois nearly in unit in his
favor as it is to-day Independant of its relations
to General Logan, the result is most important to the
Republican party. It puts tried and strong man in
the Senate instead of free-trader like Morrison or
demagogue like Harrison, at time seemed pos-
sibe. It continues in public life man very near to
the soldier element of the party East and West and
it puts the Republicans of Illinois in good condition
for whatever contest may come.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.