The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-03
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE numbering band should be hunted down
and killed or captured and hung, and the reser-
walton Indians should have their arms and po-
MES taken from them, If that were done, they
could give no more trouble. In the meantime ie
is well to remember occasionally that tha trouble
with Indians has never come about because the
Indians go where the white men live 1t always
comes from the fact that the whites insist
going where the Indians hYe.-LoulsVille COM
mercial.
A GIRL who is true to her lover must reject all
offers of marriage and even decline marked at
tentions which would naturally precede offer
of marriage The obtaining Of sum of money
by virtue of verdict in n breach Of promise suit
might afford no consolation for the modification
experienc ed, no balm for a wounded heart, but it
may supply the means of support and provide a
home. This, in most cases, offers the only rea-
sonable excuse for suits for breach OF promise of
marriage.-Chicago Times
NEW YORK may never erect monument to
Irving's memory in any of her public places; she
may be content merely to possess him as her
most illustrious son, which he unquestionably
is abroad as well as at home; but she cannot
forget that he did her name the chief honor it
has ever received in our literature-that he was
the first American to make American books
known and read abroad, and the day may yet
come when she will be prouder of having given
him birth than of possessing the bridge to Brook
lyn or the houses Of the Vanderbilts-New York
Times.
THE signs of the times are those that were seen
In 1913. The revolution, wholly unexpected.
swept in that year over every nation in Europe
Emperors fled and thrones went down. Young Ire
land and the Chartists rose In England. Cavaig-
and Spain were cOnvulsed; the avalanche rolled
into peaceful Switzerland II the next popular
movement is at hand IL is likely as of old. to be-
gin in France. There are all the dangerous
symptoms in the third Republic which preceded
the overthrow of Louis Phiippe.-New York
Herald,
NEITHER MIR. Parnell nor his followers evinced
any adequate sense of the disastrous consequen.
ces OF systematic law breaking; they promoted
the ends of violence and crime by their speeches
in Westminster and by their silence in Ireland;
and they cannot efface their personal accounts
bility for those deeds of darkness by which pub
lie morals have been debauched and Irish honor
foully polluted What a different country Ire
land would be to-day if in advocating the land
movement Mr.. Parnell had adopted Mr.. O'Con-
nell's maxm "Crime gives strength to the enc.
mics of the cause."-New York Tribune.
THE State of New York ought to own Niagara
Falls. sentiment of State pride in the might
lest natural wonder on earth would have
prompted the Empire State to purchase the
property, one would think A State richer than
many whole little nation over in Europe could
well afford 1t. II looked that way to some of
the people of New York, and this winter a bill
was introduced into the Legislature making
The Legislature refused to pass 1t. Members
who opposed it declared that they chad
timent." An intelligent Legislature, that.-Cin-
cinnati Journal.
Mr. GLADsTONE's Irish land acts are both DO.
tent evidences that even il he is sincere in his
proessed desire to dole out some relief for Ire
land he does not know how to handle the ques-
ton. He says distinctly on two occasions that
the great need of Ireland ia local selfgovern-
to be prodded with bayonets, arrested and jailed
on fimsy suspicious and for writing and speak
ing about the government, as scores of English-
MEN do every day. He is utterly without def
mite, iniexible purpose and consistency. They
who place him beside Pitt or Palmerston, or
above them in craftsmanship, judge wildly, err
roneously.-
WHAT with the Anarchists agitating for revolu-
tiOn, and getting up work and bread riots, and
the Bonapartists ever waiting their opportunity,
and the Republicans split into Conservative and
Radical factions, and the arbitrary measures to
suppress the more ultra Radicals of the Com.
munes on the one hand, and &c persecute those
suspected of monarchical ideas on the other; and
the Chamber and ministry attacking the army,
which is the only safeguard against a revolution
by which the Anarchists would play the game OF
the Bonapartists, the situation of the republican
France must be regarded as one of great danger,
IRON which a great change may not be sur
prise at any time.-Cncinnat Commercial Ca
zette.
THE growing attention paid in all Legislatures
to the needs of the working classes is one of the
most interesting signs Of the times. 1t by no
means argues an increased tenderness for the
sons of toll on the part of those who divide with
them the results OF their labor 1t is simply q
recognition of their rising power. The working
classes can vote, and those who can vote hold in
their hands the mechanism that can be made to
de ermine the tenure and distribution of all
rights OF person and property. The remark OF
an English workngman speaking to his fellows
not long ago exhibits a thorough appreciation Of
the power which they gradually gaining,
"Mates," he said, "let us make up our minds
what we want, and we shall get it."-Chioago
Tribune.