The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16

public has a right to demand of the wealthy
railroad corporations of the country this safe
guard against danger and loss OF lite. In the
pnlmlng or ocean steamers iron and other metals
nave largely taken the place of wood. 1t is high
tline that u new departure of this kind be taken
In the construction OF cars for the carriage of
passengers by land.-New York Herald.
IT is said that this labor Tcigar makingl makes
the enement-houses unwhOlesome, that children
are kept at IL when they ought to be III school,
ana that the cigars thus made are not good.
That all may be true; but certainly those evils
could be corrected without entirely prohibiting
work at home. as the law stands it seems TO
mean poverty or emigration for many honest
tamllies.-New YORK Tribune.
IN south Carolina there is now a great demand
Tor cats TO grow fat on cotton-seedj fed rats. In
various Northern regions-in and about Cinein-
natl, for Instance-tnere is at present an over
plus in the supply of cats, and if some enterpris-
ing individual were to gather up a few carloads
OF these gaunt night pro wlers, and shin them TO
South Carolina, he would probably realize a
smart little fortune in profits Cincinnati jour
nal.
THE silver coinage is likely to go on until one
or the parties becomes convinced that iJ is
strong enough to win without the help of the
Adullamites. And there is reason to fear that
u VIII go on until our entire paper currency Is
broken down to the silver level, and gold ia
banlshed as completely as it was in the days
When sreenDacks were below par. When that
time comes our boosted national credit will be
pretty badly s~haken.-Chicago Times.
THERE are n large number of honest and repu-
liable agents who do what they can TO assist in
the honest procuring and collection of PENSIONS,
put there are a much greater number of charac-
terless adventurers who live upon the ignorance
or the fraud of claimants. 1t is, therefore, graft
Tying to see that the present commissioner is not
inclined to favor these harpies, and it is credit
able to him that he has secured their opposition
early in his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Times.
THERE ia no likelihood that any amendment
Will be ratified. P0stponenent Will not stop the
agitation. Impraeticable restrictive laws will
only disgrace the party and contribute TO It's
defeat. On the other hand, would not the enact
ment and successful working of even q very
mild tax on this trade the liquor ~traific1, which
for thirty years has paid nothing to the public
revenue, be an achievement worthy of high
statesmanship2- Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE pretense that the fight in 1880 was made
on the tariff issue is equally false. The same
plank was in the platform of 1876, when Tilden
swept the country. In 1880 it was sprung by
the Republicans late in the canvass, and the
Democratic managers had not the skill, wit or
courage to meet it. They ran away from it and
got the defeat they earned. This is the whole
story, ana as often as it is repeated it will have
the same end and mOral.-L0uisville Courier
Journal.
THE English news about France is most Of i6
artificial news. Anything that goes to the dis
magnified, and reported to the world. Ths
same way in its years of tribulation during the
should help us now to interpret the gloomy
advices about the decadence of our sister r..
public that comes to us from London.-Chicag0