The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-19
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THE mission of cholera is to emphasize the gospel of
cleanliness. 1t is sanitary agency which strikes its
heaviest blows where they are most needed If Chica
go would not be struc she has it in her to
avoid the blow. People who do not invite cholera
need not fear it Chicago News.
ALL Democrats desire to the important Offices
Of the country filled by Democrats with further
delay than is necessary to select the right Democrats
but there every to believe that the Presi
dent desires the thing there can be no division
this point. Opposing the life tenure of Office ideas
advocated by Messrs Curtis and Schurs is in no sense
opposing Mr. Cleveland since he has never advocated
them The election of a streght-out Democrat in
idea and an assurance of Democratic harmony and
success in the future.-St. Louis Republican.
AS corroboratiye of the value of Christianity as
prophylatc against cholera attention is called to the
immunity of the New England States. This may be
true in the Of that region but is also that
if the New England Christianity protects against
cholera it is not efcacious against consumption or
sterility on the part of its women against grad
ual disappearance of the 1t is well understood
tina; if the population of New England left to
would become extinct. If cholera is directly from
heaven punishment for lack of Christianity and it's
qualities, whence this curse which has been
laid Oh New England?-Chicago Times.
DECREE that many ounces of silver should
equal in value one ounce of gold would be of
avail than decree that many ounces of lead should
equal in value an ounce of copper This is the prac
tcal and the nsuperable obstacle to international BIZ
metasm it is to all bimetalsm Human laws can
not override natural laws but must recognize them
and conform to them No country has ever yet sue
ceeded in establishing bimetaism and country
number Of countries will establish it. The stand
ard of value must be single standard, whether it be
gold, silver copper wheat or any other commodity.
double standard is an impossbility, as well as
contradiction in terms.-New York Sun.
ADMITTING all that can Justly be adduced in praise
of the present administration, seriously
claim for it conformity to the true ideal of civil
service reform The best that be said is that the
guiliotne is not working with the greatest possible
activity that some disposition to respect the literal
requirements Of the existing laws is still manifested
and that important new a?pontees have been in
formed that hey will be expected to administer their
Offices on BUSH principles. Party claims and
quiremeuts however are by means ignored. The
real differences of opinion developed among those high
in authority possessing genuine influence relate
mainly to the best methods for entrenching the De.
mocracy in power.-Philadelphia Inquirer
The stagnation in the New York money market has
has been broken The bank reserve is on the decln-
ing scale. This shows that there is an overflow of
currency to the crops. Rates for money are
also hardening in New York. These signs for
an Improvement in business There is speculative
prospects for the fall trade are favorable When
this it will likely be made to appear that stocks
of goods in the country not large as the
stagnation made appear Prices too very low; in
many if not most cases below the cost of production
There is efore no lower level be found There
could not therefore be more solid foundation upon
which to recover from the dullness and depression
that have Observation-Disclosures Commercial Gazette.
Now one, not Office cat will pretend
that the presidential chair de facto filled for the
four years of Mr.. Hayes's presidency that Mr..
Hayes did exercise the functions Of President If
Mr. Hayes had only received ten votes in the country
and only from the electoral college, but had then
been inaugurated and kept in Office during his term
enjoying all the prerogatives which attach to the
office during that time he would have been President
of the United States, and there would have been no
interreguum The question of whether he was legal
" elected or not is absolutely irrelevant He was
naugurated and did presde ard that fact is all suf
ficient According TO the Suns theory the greater
part of the history of all the monarchies 10 the
world is but the record of series of inter and
q auduu
since the world began.-Minneapolis Tribune.
AF"EE,TRADE party is not friend of labor; and the
enemy of labor is the enemy of the Irishman party
that has the right of slavery cannot hate oppres
sion And party that does not hate oppression has
no right to expect the support of-Irishmen who
drink in hatred Of oppression with their mothers
milk. The Irish American voter is beginning to I'M
derstand this The scales are falling from his eyes.
Democratic leaders again successfully claim
that they the Irish vote in their breeches pocket
The large portion of it that lost Democracy las,
year lost to it permanently. These voters will
never forget their transfer Of allegiance. In becoming
Republcans they identify themselves with a party
which has done for the prosperity of the
for the advancement of government by the
people, more for the great cause of humanity than
any other political organization that ever existed
since the foundation of the tnion.New York Tribune.
MCDONALD and the other Democratic cheftains of
MS way or thinking seem quite willing to accept de-
feat this year for the sake of Furnishing their Pres
dent for not showing zeal and haste in turning
over the audiences to the Democrats Though the ad
innlstration has done lit else during its FIVE months
" power out dispose OF oices the hungry and thirsty
are not satisfied will they be content as long as
there is single Republican fourthclaes postmaster
left in the land Chastened by defeat and enlightened
as to the real opinion of the rank and file of the
Democracy they believe that President Cleveland will
throw cvil-service reform to the dogs aud go full
length in the distribution of the Offices among the
Democrats who want them badly. Cevelands
civil reform is of the thinnest shaowest kind
but it places him far ahead of the organized appetite
called the Democratic party and of the leaders who
criticsing abusing and threatening to betray
their President. VIII these threats shake his purpose
and will defeat compel him to let the entire civil
service at once into the trough for the benefit of the
eager, importunate and disreputable herd who are
ciamoring anil crowding about it'Phadelphia Press.