The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-13
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EVOLUTION as applied to check has never received
the attention it merits, The earlier stages are famil-
lar to all observers, but the more advanced and eXag-
gerated development, now seen in the case of New
York appealing to the churches of the entire country
to take up collections to build a Grant monument for
that city, and the appearance of John Bull on our
shores asking the United States to chip in toward
building a Gordon poor boys home for London, ex-
cites general amazement only because we have. as a
people failed to appreciate the growth and the posi-
bilities of cheek culture.-Boston Record,
THE North has shown what equal rights and citi-
zenship can do to elevate a degraded race to a plane of
usefulness, activity and intelligence, while the South
has demonstrated that the barbarism of slavery may
be continued after the form is destroyed, and every
right OF citizenship still be crucihed in the person of
me negro. Iho country will not continue with free
Citizenship IN ore section and political slavery in the
other. Chattel servitude was not destroyed to make
room for slavery in another form, and the present
contrast between citizenship North and South is not
one that the people viii consent to make permanent.
Chicago Tribune.
NEW enterprises wait all over the country for the
settlement of the currency question. Capital is
locked up; the banks are full of money and cannot
lend it out at even the lowest rates of interest; the
spirit of adventure is crushed; manufacturers and
commerce anguish, mainly because no man who has
money is willing to put gold dollars into a new enter
prise, with the probability that he will be able to draw
out only e;ghty-three cent silver dollars. If there is
stagnation, If there is lack of employment among the
laboring masses, ii interest is low and money a drug,
and capital and labor both suffer, this is due mainly
to the fact that we arc cursed with two kinds of dol
lars, one worth seventeen cents less than the other,
and both legal tender by act of Congress.-New York
Herald.
THE British free traders have always held that their
policy was the only true one, and that Great Brltalns
commercial pre- emineace was due wholly to its benefi-
cent operations. The country has been suffering more
severely from business depres sion, however, than any
other part of the world, in spite Of her free trade pol
icy. and now the new government proposes the form.
alton of a commission to inquire into the causes of
the dizziness, They disclaim any idea of formulating
a new trade policy, sim ply desiring to know what is
the matter with things in general. II is beyond doubt
that a very large proportion of tie thinking people of
England are disguised with free trade, and the propo-
sitlon for this commission is the outgrowth of that
feeling. Great Britain may adopt a protective policy
yet.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
THERE never was but one chance for the Confed-
eracy and that was BY the active intervention of for
eign powers in its behalf. Failing to secure more
from the leading foreign governments than the bare
recognition of belligerent rights, the Confederacy was
confronted with the simple task of whipping twenty
millions of people, to whom the rest of the world was
available as a recruiting ground, with twelve millions.
one-third Of whom were slaves, and became in the end
an element of weakness. 1t is all very we'll for Mr..
Toombs to theorize about what might have been, but
the cold figures show that but one result was posi-
bic. No system of mathematics was ever yet invented
that could make twelve millions count more than
twenty millions, all other things being equal, and no
man by the name of Toombs will ever invent ore,
Observation-Disclosures Times.
THE surest way for a man to find work is to search
for 1t among those VINO know him, and to take what
ever offers that is honorable. False pride impels
many persons to wander off among strangers, feeling
that If they have to come down" by accepting work
beneath then standing or capacity, they will be able
to conceal tie fact from former friends. This is a
great mistake. The world respects the man who, be-
ing compelled to work, is not afraid to do with his
might whatever his hands find to do" There is no
nobler trait IN tGe character of the breadwinner than
his willingness to accept honest toll in preference to
charity. Such men soon find their proper level; but
the most unlikely way in the world for obtaining en-
ployment is TO start out q homeless wanderer, FIR: end
less and penniless. Such a method invites bitter dis
appointments and is almost certain TO result in fail
ure.-Pittsburg Commercial.
THE number of people who believe in a gold stand
ard only is very small in the United States-a mere
handful OF d0ctrinaires represented by the New York
Evening Post. They desire that silver shall have a
place in our currency on terms of co quality with gold
a place which can only be made permanent by inter
national action. That place our coinage system will
not and cannot secure for it. On the contrary, the
the full restoration OF silver to the money Of the
world. That is one reason why the law should be re-
pealed. Another is that the increasing stock of silver
exposes Us to the danger Of silver monom etalism,
that will come whenever there shall be a drain upon
our gold from abroad, OF whenever from any cause
gold shall command a premium. Then the silver will
be all the money IN the country. This is a positive
and growing 0angcr.-Boston Journal.
THE civilservice rcformers are much mistaken if
they imagine that the Democratic party at large finds
any now charm il competitive examinations and perma-
nent Republican tenure of office. TO Democrats
civil-service reform means simply keeping their po-
htical opponents in Office. 1t is thoroughly opposed
to a genuine Democratic policy, and so far is it from
making gains among Democrats that it is not improb-.
able that a serious movement may be made by Them
next winter to repeal the existing law. No political
nGrty is likely to take kindly to the civil-service sham
except for the purpose CT keeping its own men in
power. Tat is how it seems to the Democratic party
now, and the Democrats are much more liable to labor
for the total suppression of the civil-servicc project
than for it's extension. Anybody familiar with the
general sentiment Of the Democratic press or the gen.
eral sentiment among The Democrats of his acquaint-
ance will, we think, agree with US that the civil
service theory is not making progress in the Demo
cratic party.-New York Sun.
LOOKING upon the Indians as a race apart, with
whom we hare, in q way, to deal as we would with
foreign nations. and resorting to diplomatic casuistry
instead of dealing with them with the same impersonal
imEartiaity we exercise towards monopolists or ha-
bitual criminals, or any other distinct class of our
population, has never resulted in anything but disas-
ter. The state has plenty of difficulty with the Chin
csc of the Pacific slope, with the Mormons. with the
Southern negroes. But the state never attempts to
anticipate legislation in its dealings with these. On
the other hand, the Indian Commissioner, the general
of the post, the Secretary of the Interior, or whoever
has to consider each difficulty as it arises, has always
been accustomed to dispense justice in the manner
and with the spirit of an oriental cadi. The practical
result has been that the frontiersmen and the Indians
regard each other as traditional enemies, because thew
ere treated by the state on a different basis. As it is,
Senator Dawes's philanthropy simply in~furiates the
Colorado pioneer. Tho conduct of the cowboy simplv
intensities Senator Dawess love for the noble red
man. The perpetual agitation which ensues is yalu.
able only as preliminary to legislation in the matter. TIC
actual administration it is a handicap and a hindrance
of the worst sort.-Philadelphia Press.