The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-14
NJ AND OPINION.

WHEN history is written in the cool and
impartial atmosphere of the future the
wealth of the nineteenth century will be
credited with beneficent accomplishments
superior to those of any previous era.-Sac-
ramentO RecOrd-UniOn.
NOTHING indicates better the changed
conditions of business and industry in the
Southern States than the invasion of the
Yankee savings bank. 1t implies the de-
velopment OF economy and thrift in the
those qualities in soil that has hitherto been
barren.-Albany Journal.
THERE is something astounding and
farcical in laws which permit the landing
of helpless paupers. who go almost direct
from the steamer dock to our institutions
of charity, and yet render liable to a fine of
81 900 a church which engages a pastor
abroad, OF O college which invites foreign
professors to fill its chairs of instruction.
Boston Journal.
THE suppression of pOlygamy, no matter
what may be the sympatHes of a portion
of the Democratic party, is the settled
policy OF the government and people OF the
United States. and it is this that the adj
minfstration desires to enforce. and not
any personal policy, as the Democratic and
mugwunip press would have the public be-
lieve.-BaltimOre American.
A COLLEGE education was once regarded
as so much working capital or stock in
trade for a business or professional career.
Now it is looked upon as a part of the gen.
eral equipment or preparation which a man
ought to have IN order to enable him to find
out what he Is fitted for. and what he
ought not, as well as what he ought, to
attempt to accomplishment York Tribune.
Is the United States unlike all other
countries on earth! Are we absolutely in
vulnerable to attacks from foreign foesi
would indicate that some people assuming
to be statesmen think so. else property and
life would not be left year after year at
the mercy of any ffth-rate power choosing
to levy tribute upon us.-New York Press.
THE way to strengthen any desire the
President may have. to promote the cause
personally and attempt to dlscredit him in
the popular mind: that does not serve the
cause of reform, SO far as we can judge, but
it does something quite different by incul-
eating a belief in the party masses that
clvll-servlce reform is, after all, q chlmera
Boston Transcript.
WHY endow universities and colleges for
the diffusion of knowledge. and then ex-
clude their teachers when invited from
foreign landsf 1t Is probable that Attor-
ney-general Miller will not interfere with
the decision of Solicitor Hepburn. In such
case Congress should not delay in amend
ing q law which, under the official con-
struction given to it, would disgrace the
legislation of the Chinese.-Philadelphia
Record.
If it is to be considered good form to
tolerate societies and brOtherhOOds that
murder their obnoxious members and there
by throw the community in which the
crime is committed into a fever OF excite
ment and incur great public expense, then
these societies and brotherhoods should
flourish. But if men are to be free to walk
abroad at night. and safe in doing 80, these
bands should perish. They should be
stamped out.-Chicago Mail.
CHRISTIANITY is an epoch of transition.
Presently it will gather up again the essen
tials of its creeds. The superstitions are
gone never to return. The barbarities of
belief are dead. Dead is the theory that
faith is all in all. Coming, In spite of in
difference within and jeers without. is the
regeneration of the theory of Jesus Christ,
that religion is not the thought. but the
deed following the thought. Coming is
the dawn of the great truth that religion
without action Is as useless as the am
bition of the impotent.-Omaha Repub-
Lean.