The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-15
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.


IT is evident that we are drawing near the final dis
appearance of prohibition from politics. Where it
has succeeded in getting temporary control, it
only to prove the falseness of its fundamental doc
trne by humiating experience Where it still exists
political force it is alternating the support of self
respecting men, Though their faith in prohibition
not be destroyed, they cannot fail that it
has been reduced to st. Johnsm and they know what
that means.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
C1vIL-SERvIgE COMMISSIONER EATON'S declaration
that the rules must be extended to protect the
scrub women and laborers who employed in pub
lie buildings from the petty vengeance of the spoils
men, would be ludcrous but for the pitfu aspect Of
it. Not many years hence it will incredible that
man. who secured an appointment to all important
postothce by reason of the recommendation of the
Wee president took pleasure in drawing political lines
in the employment of . few poor women who earned
their living by manual labor.-Brooklyn Union.
In the scramble for the worlds limited available
stock of gold, we stand much better chance than
any other nation We of all nations best afford
to get along without silver. And we certainly cannot
afford to silver merely accommodate the of
world In the fullness of time the true remedy will
force itself upon an unwilling financial world in the
form of international bimetallism When the nations
become willing to credit and accept it, silver will
prove reliable concurrent standard with gold. In
ternational bimetallism is mother absurd I'M
scientific and it affords the true solution for the
worlds present currency acknowledgements Tri
bune.
IL the Republican leaders of the North made use OF
the same means to make that section solid as have
been practiced in South Carolina, Alabama Louisiana
and Mississippi for years there would be no limit to
that they are wronged as national party and that
there is supreme peril in the suppression Of suffrage
which is at the bottom of all disrust of the South
the part of Northern Republicans If this expression
OF natonasm and patriotism which the death OF
General Grant has called forth could be followed by
such change in regard to the exercise of suffrage
and the management of elections that TO which
have referred, sectonasm would be buried.-Boston
journal.
PEsKY and petty politicians whether ''horizontal'
or 'ght. should stop their empty threats about
interfering with the business of the country through
visionary schemes in the interest of foreign
iacturers and capitalists. They will amount to moth
ing but disturbing agents, while the United States
Republican Senate stands wall between them
and mischief. What the business of the country
wants is settled conditions. Give the country that,
and the coming year will be without doubt of the
most prosperous financially which the country has
enjoyed Let newspapers and business men order
croakers TO the rear, and let the workers of the
nation of every class put their shoulders to the wheels
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE Republican party asks nothing of the South
but an honest perform ance of duty, and proper
hospitality for difference of political opinion That
much it has a right to demand and to contend for:
General Grant wished counseled to be salts
fed with less Whenever the South shall be willing
to strike hands such basis all sectional trouble
and uncertainty may be ended at once and forever.
But until the arrival of such time, 'the of
twenty years ago likely to be heard right along:
and the death of the great leader who in his life was
their inspiration and source of hope and perseverance
will serve to invest them with still of soberness
aud of determination, should that be found necces
sary.-St Louis Globe Democrat.
WHILE the Republican party has been willing at
time in the past to let the bygones of the re-
main bygOnes it never can will, trust the
South until all its citizens placed an equality
and Individual rights respected. The Southern States
must first accept in good faith tie constitutional
amendments and the legislation by Congress- and
accord the black citizen his legal status before the
Republican party can fully trust that section. When
Republican IN Mississippi and other Southern States
permitted to vote their honest sentiments without
murder staring them in the face when every vote that
is fairly is honestly counted as they are in the
North, then, and not till then, will the Republican
party have to put confidence in the South
Cleveland Leader.
The is something creditable to our press and our
people, and which to to have hardly had the
recognition it deserves in the manner in which the Pail
Mall Gazette scandal has been treated this side of
the water The number OF papers that reproduced it
few and the sensation it caused was not remark
able, has it been enduring. Especially are we to
be congratulated that attempts have been made
rival it in our country by any revelations in kind
We would not that it could be paraeled in its
than and public opinion less in line with it.
there might have been something sought out or manu-
featured to crafty prurent appetite The difference
between and England is all in our favor in this re-
spect.-Boston Herald.
BUSINESS and professional men from the South
have removed to Northern cities in large numbers
since the where they have assimilated readily
with the Northern people, and do not believe that
one OF them can be found who will assert that his
Southern birth sympathy with the rebellion has
interfered with his social business or political stand
ing. When the broad assertion can be truth
fully made OF the South, then complete harmony of
the sections will have been achieved The people of
the North have done their share toward establishing
this harmony, and still willing to make allowance
for the bitterness of the Southern people in the defeat
and sufferings of the war; but after all harmony is
reciprocal affair, and the South must contribute its
part.-Chicago Tribune.