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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-22

ciety to annul. But it should be remembered
that divorce is great evil, to be resorted to
only in the EXTREMIST cases. Divorce laws
should be strict. and divorce courts not of easy
access.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
WILL the Christian church recognize truth
seeking as Christian virtue-as distinctly
virtue as cnarlty, or justice, or temperance-orA
will 1t continue to declare that beyond certain
nne IL becomes perilous and criminal Is Chris
tlanlty to be understood as the highest type of
personal character, or as set of opinionsY-
Springfield Republican.
THE simple fact is that not O man in Congress
of either party detected the heated pulse OF the
public in regard TO eivilservice reform. The
press supplied the leadership. and the people
overthrow the politicians in a single conflict. A
statesman of the Gladstone type would ind an
ample Held among us for public service of the
higher kind, and easily achieve enduring fame
ST. Louis Advocate.
THEORETICALLY the Irish republic looks we'll,
and II its liberty weresecured from and on the
soil OF Ireland IL might look still BETTER though
we should nave fears as to its stability. The
irish mind Is ingenious, however. and it may
compass some method of overcoming the tre-
mendous power OF England; but at present the
very promislng.-Chicago Tribune.
THE right to print speeches that have never
been delivered has often been called in question:
The custom, lawful or unlawful, has finally been
pushed to the utmost verge of propriety. When
the next Congress meets, some member who is
sufncently sellsacrifcing to relinquish his right
10 PRINT undelivered speeches may become q
public benefactor. Let him cry az object" when
eyer member asks leave TO print.-New York
Times.
No good can come TO ireland through this
dynamite business. The English government is
not made up of the material that shrinks from
danger or comedies through fear. 1t is stubborn
to the last degree, and all accounts from Eng
land agree that both the government and people
are settling down to a quality of anger and in
dlgnatlon that will admit of no compromise.
The dynamite men are visiting upon Ireland
more oppression than she has yet suffered, and it
| is amazing that Irishmen the world over, so far
from contributing to their pockets, do not pro-
| test against them with the utmost earnestness.
New York Graphic
A POINT has now been reached where agita-
! tion can last no longer without action or sub
sldence. Something must happen Either the
desperate and reckless must resort to dynamite,
or the more thoughtful and wiser leaders must
find another means and different channel, or
the agitation will snbside as that over which
O'Connell presided did after Clontarff. Sub
sidence of agitation will be for time the end of
the Irish cause as separate aspiration, leaving
England to deal with, the subject. The dyna-
mite policy will surely lead by other steps to the
same result Now, what have Parnen and the
Irish leaders to propose2 All agtation comes at
last TO this practical inquiry: What next2-Cin-
ninnati News.
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Mr.. JOSIAH GWIN continues his observa-
tons upon the late Democratic Legislature
through the columns of the New Albany
Public Press. We remark again, SO as to
keep the fact before the public mind, that
Mr.. Gwin is good enough Democrat to have
been a member of the State central COM
mittee during the last campaign. The at
tention of the Sentinel is respectfully called
to these comments. Says Mr.. Gwin, as fol-
lows:
1.-THE Democratic party of Indiana ought
not to have been murdered for the benefit of
a few pot-house politicians and dirty dead
beats and bummers of indianapolis and
Evansville. The murderers have already
been convicted and will be hung polit-
ically."
1.-THE late Legislature was afraid to trust
the people; the people ought not to have
trusted such Legislature, and never will
again"
democratic defeat may be expected in
Indiana until the vilainous acts of the late
Legislature are repudiated and the cham
pions of the undemocratic measures are
properly rebuked."
Governor Porter, you have 'under-hoits
on a bad, tricky Legislatures; you have the
worst element of Democracy by the throat;
if you call an extra session of the Legislature
you'll get tripped; you'll fall hard and suffer
injuries. The people say in thunder tones:
No more Legislature, such as we have just
had "
"Does the Columbus Herald indorse DEM
ocratic extravaganza, drunkenness, jobbery,
robbery and downright infamy? The Public
Press believes in purging the Grand old Dem
ocratic party of thieves and scoundrels and
pot-house politicians, and it is not going to
mince words in expressing its sentiments,
either"
"There are some Democrats, and a very
limited number of Democratic newspapers,
so lost to independence as to fully and une-
quivocally indorse the action of the late Leg
islature."
at is good thing to be Democratic. The
Public Press glories in advocating Democratic
measures, and takes pride in defending Demo
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THE faith-cure business has reached the
depth of absurdity, and a Pennsylvania
preacher is declared to have tried it with
good results on dog The animal had be-
come paralyzed in the hind legs, but after
his reverend master had devoted an hour to
prayer on the subject "the dog was walking
IN all four legs and with one of the lately
useless hind legs was scratching feas." If
the outraged dignity of the Creator doesn't
soon deal vengeance upon such impious
noodles, the marvel will be even greater than
all the protested faith and prayer cures yet
recorded
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Legislature.

THERE is question of the truth of the re-
ported assault upon Lady Florence Dixie, and
the elements of inconsistency in the story
are set forth in detail. Such a claim would
receive more credence were this outrage the
first of its kind. Others similar, and with
more deplorabe results, have undoubtedly
been committed by men in sympathy with
the Irish agitation. On March II, year
ago, body of moonlighters. armed and dis
guised, broke into q farmers house at
Brosna, County Kerry and after shooting
him and leaving him apparently lifeless on
the floor rushed into the room where his
wife and daughter were sleeping and dragged
them out of bed. His wife received q
gunshot wound in the knee, and was re-
peatedly dubbed on the head with a rifle.
His daughter, while attempting to defend
her mother, was knocked down by a blow
from the stock of a gun. Six days later a
game-keeper's son was murdered by three
men on the highroad near Clonbur, and his
mother while seeking to protect him was
seriously wounded. On the same night
three ladies returning to their homes from
an evening party near Ballymote were fired
upon by men concealed in ditch, and one
of them severely wounded. On April Q, as
three ladies were driving home from church,
with Westmeath landlord they were fired
upon at close range and one of them killed
outrigh t. On Aug. 10, not only John Joyce
and his two little sons, but his aged mother,
his wife and his daughters were butchered
in their cabin by band of midnight ma.
rauders in one of the most secluded quarters
of County Galway. All of these crimes were
undoubtedly agrarian, and it is only natur-
al to believe that the assault upon Lady
Dixie was perpetrated by the same class of
men. Despite the fact that no lady in all
the kingdom has done more to relieve dis
tress in Ireland than has she, she has made
herself unpopular by specifically charging
the misappliance of funds by certain leaders
in the agitation. Taking all the facts into
consideration, there is good reason to believe
that Lady Dixie was assaulted as stated, and
that her assailants were of those who seem
determined to redress their wrongs by taking
revenge upon all who may happen to incur
their displeasure and distrust.
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IT is long lane that has no turning, and
later that the patience OF the taxpayers and
the people has been abused just little too
far We have heard of some excuses offered
by councilmen for @oting against the admis
sion of the new street-railway company
which, if published, would bring down
upon the heads of those who made them
public scorn and contempt. And they are
business men, too-men with whom, it were
reasonable to presume, the affairs of the city
might be safely left The manner in
which the police force has been
and the principal shelter behind which
the advocates of the metropolitan system
have shielded themselves, and it has made a
large class of citizens feel willing to try any
thing, on the theory that nothing could be
much worse. We are not conceding that this
criticism is all warranted, but it goes with
the saying that there is and has been wide
spread dissatisfaction with the manner in
which the police power of the city has been
used. Had it been welded with better re-
gard for the general public interest the OPP
position to the metropolitan police bill would
have been vastly easier and more effective.
There has been much in the past ac-
ton of the City Council to cause
bad feeling, and as the Repub-
licans are in the majority the effect has
been bad upon the Republican party. The
Republican party cannot stand such work as
the defeat of the charter for the new street.
railway company, and the driving away of
the capital and labor that such an enterprise
would bring to the city. We have not hest
tated TO talk plainly upon other matters,
both in the interests of the party and of the
public, and say plainly what the general
public think of this matter. The members
of the City Council must remember that
they are but the trustees of the people. The
city does not belong to them. Its power and
it's revenues are not theirs to use as personal
prerogatives, and after their own sweet Wills
There must be better and higher recogni-
ton of their relations to the general body of
the people There has been as much person.
alism in the City Council as can be safely
permitted
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THE Terre Haute Gazette, Democratic, has

THE Terre Haute Gazette, Democratic, has
this to say of the metropolitan police bill:
LAS to the metropolitan police bill = n
in the Democratic family, it Is bastard and
for Office and brought forth by throttling the
State and threatening to starve the public in
situations unless its hideous ACCOMPLISHMENT
was permitted. Let there be distinct un-
Outstanding about this.
ITO take the management of the police of
two cities from their own citizens and to
lodge it in four State officers this year, i'm
plies the likelihood of this policy being APP
piled to all towns and cities next year. Then
the fire departments may follow the same
course, the street commissioners, the clerks,
marshals, and in fact all the officers and all
the cities and towns of Indiana will be gov
erned from Indianapolis If this monstrous
doctrine is Democracy, then it is high time
the party was killed and buried
"But it never was Democracy, has not been
in all these years. and is not now. We shall
not be quiet under the shameful betrayal of
the principles of the Democracy, and shall
insist on holding to a strict accountability
for it every person who was active in placing
the party in false position from which it
must recede at the very earliest opportunity,
or be buried in a dishonored grave Ninety
nine Democrats in every hundred, in our
opinion, think as we do on this question.
Death and eternal damnation lie in the in
dorsement of this doctrine in its slightest
particular. The party can live only by re-
lecting and repudiating it."
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DUKES, the Infamous, is reported to be
igreatly annoyed by the reception of in
sulting anonymous letters. This nickel
plated scoundrel should be made to suffer
all the torture possible. He began his infa-
nous correspondence with his murdered vic
tim by the medium of an anonymous note,
which he dropped in front of Nuts house.
1t is disgrace to German township, Union
county, Pennsylvania, that the man is per-
nitted to find an asylum there He is a
ieper, worse than physical leper. He should
be driven out of any community that pre-
bends to be civilized.
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permitted.

Mr.. HENRY GEORGE, the American Socialist
and land reformer, in a conversation as to
the recent London explosion and the effect
it would have, said
1.-THE effect of this explosion will, of course
be most lamentable. 1t has evidently pro-
duced an impression like that of the murder
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke
The crime of a few tells against whole
people. No one can do more harm to the
Just cause OF Ireland than those who en-
courage such things, and there can be no
more cruel enemies of the large Irish popu-
lation scattered through England and Scot
land. What it means to them A. M. Sulli-
vans letter shows. 1t is time this dynamite
talk were stopped. If it means anything it
means the maturing of plans and the pro-
vding of means for the blowing up and
burning down of cities We would not toll
crate that even as against people with whom
we were at war And it is even less to be
tolerated that we should give the security of
this country to those who are engaged in it
against people with whom we are at peace"
Mr.. George talks like man and an Amer
can citizen He has the sense to see, as
Socialist that dynamite will bring no re-
forms, while as an American he has the
nerve to say that this country should not be
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been informed that his presence at certain
Land-league meeting in this country is ''im-
peratiye." And why imperative, pray? Ii
there could be any time when Mr.. Parnelrs
presence was necessary at home, caring for
and standing by his people and his country,
it would seem to be now. But, very remark
ably, whenever there is a crucial period in
Irish affairs, when the voice and influence of
a man of really strong character and high
purpose and sound brain could be of advan-
tage, it is precisely then when the Parnells,
the Egans, and the like, suddenly find
very urgent business in Paris or in
the United States. 1t is not a difficult
task to know why Mr.. Parnells pres
ence is imperative. 1t will be a
in Paris, and it will be good thing for all
those gilt-edged patriots" who live off the
money taken from the Woodworking Irish
men and women of this country, under the
plea of using it for Ireland's liberation from
English rule. The New Albany Ledger, a
leading Democratic newspaper, very truly
says:
'Egan, treasure of the Land League, is in
the United States, and Parnell is coming
For what? The Irish Americans will give no
more money to be expended under the pres
ent policy. The few crack-brained or reck-
less advocates of dynamite cannot expect the
support or countenance of any decent peo-
pie. Either one of two things must then be
nd faH foor
of being implicated IN the Phoenix Park and
other assassinations, or they are coming to,
this country to organize revolution inuIre-
land" Ill
And the New York Herald, which has
proved its friendship toward Ireland in a
very substantial way, has this to say
"The hard-earned dollars of American la
borers are solicited By persons who do not
care to have their accounts audited The
Herald has always supported the reasonable
demands of Ireland, and it has not failed to
denounce the evident expressions of the Brit
ish government, but it cannot stand idly by
and see the honest money of the people
wasted by men who ought to be at their
posts on the field of conflict instead of din
ing and winning and Boosting 5000 miles
away"
OF all the bold, shameful and shameless
frauds perpetrated in the name of a good
cause the levying of contributions upon the
honest, Woodworking Irish people of the
United States by these nabobs who live off the
funds in Paris and elsewhere at the most ex-
pensive hotels, and who travel the world
over in first-class STYLE is the very worst and
demands the most universal execration 1t
is even worse than such villaines as have been
practiced by the Marion Trust Company and
other like swindling associations in the name
of insurance.
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Cinoinnati's New District Judge.

CINCINNATI News.
Judge George Russell Sage is about fifty
years of age, and is a native of Ohio. He is
the second son of Rev. J. Sage, a Baptist
minister, at present residing on the New Bal
timore pike in the Twenty-fourth ward.
His mother was Miss Luckey, the home-
stead of whose parents is located at the foot
of Fairmount, and near the woolen-mills.
When quite Young, Mr.. Sage married
daughter of Hon. Thomas Corwin, at her
home in Lebanon, Warren county o., and
the result of the union was several children,
all of whom are alive. By marital ties he is
connected with Richard Smith, of the Com
mercial Gazette. He is the senior member
of the firm of Sage q Hlnkle, whose Office is
in the Masonic Temple He is lawyer of
established reputation and acknowledged
ability, with temperament that fits him for
q judicial position.
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'9TnB good old lady in sd avid Copperfield" who
was unalterably opposed TO ''meandering about
the world" and yet was so fond of tea that sail
Ors had to meander so far to get, probably never
contemplated recent authorizations of that
article or she would have contented herself
with sassafras tea, or some other mild form of
cheering beverage. Tea drinkers now will be
glad to learn that plain tea is no longer good
enough. and nothing less than a very complex
ana elaborate compound will suffice. recent
analysis of a sample chest of tea at New York
shows that beside some traces of genuine tea
there were nutgalls, currant leaves, iron-tilings
flbert husks, sulphate of copper, oak bark
hornets nests and wasps' nests shredded and
colored, acetic acid, alOes, common green paint
lead in various forms, desiccated doormats,
peach leaves tarred rope that had been ground
to powder and soaked in sea water, MANILA pa
per, bamboo leaves, vernal grass, ammonia, ar
senic, stable sweepings, and many other things
too numerous and disgusting TO mention. 1t is
to be hoped that nobody will be prejudiced
against tea 10y this revelation, it is altogether
probable that coffee is equally complex in it's
makeup.
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THE only trouble with Mr.. Frenzel is,
that he is ineligible to the office He is at
present school commissioner, and in an
swer to question as to whether he would
resign his present office to accept that of
police commissioner, Mr.. Frenzel said en-
phatically that he would not The Attorney
general was then asked whether the two
Offices, both being lucrative, could be held
by the same person, and Judge Hord's opin-
ionis that they cannot, and that unless Mr..
Frenzel will resign his office of school COM
missioner he cannot become police commits
sioner, or rather that the very act of his ac-
cepting the office of police commissioner will
vacate the office he now holds of school COM
missioner. indianapolis Special.
The able Encouragement should read the
constitution and the laws before he ventures
another opinion. The position of school
commissioner, which Mr.. Frenzel holds,
does not interfere with him holding any
other office to which he could be elected or
appointed. Mr., Hord should read up or
shut up Such opinions from the Attor-
ney-general as broke into all the papers yes
terday are not calculated to create a great
impression of the value of the law depart
ment. Mr.. Hords saloon-keeper deputy"
could do better than this.
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made an asylum for assassins and for towards
people of country with which we are at
peace. In juxtaposition with Mr. Georges
words read what Mr., Egan has to say, the
ex-treasurer of the Land League, who found it
convenient to pay hurried and clandestine
visit to this country when the hunt upon his
trail was becoming uncomfortably warm.
We clip from the New York World the fol-
lowing:
'Reverting to the recent explosion in Lon
don, the reporter askel. DIR. Egan if he APP
proved OF political agitation by means of dy-
Mantle.
1T is entirely opposed to the land-league
programme replied Mr. Egan, and it is cal
culated to do injury to our cause. So far as
am concerned, | would not encourage such
Methods
Would you actively discourage themp
1T is none of my business to play the
part of spy or special policeman for the
British government. They must reap what
they have sown. Acts of retaliation in some
shape or form are the natural consequences
of the attempt of the British government to
trample the Irish under foot"
There could be nothing more cowardly and
contemplate than this, speaking from the
point of view of a friend of Ireland Mr..
Egan confesses that dynamite crime will do
injury to the cause, but in the next breath
not only declines to denounce such unfortu-
nate and injurious agencies, but winks at
them, and says they are but natural conse-
quences" of the existing state of affairs Mr..
Egan is not a friend of Ireland. He is an
enemy both to Ireland and to America, and
should not receive consideration from decent
people
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THE recent accident to Queen Victoria is
rather more serious than was apprehended,
and she is confined to her bed. The descrip-
zion of the anxiety among the people of
England to hear from the sovereign gives a
vivid idea of the depth of real affection felt
for Victoria both as Queen and woman. In
her high station she has royalty exalted her
womanhood, and when she dies there will
be grief that means something.
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cratic representatives. On the other hand,
the Public Press delights to hold up to public
gaze small, dirty, mean and narrow pot
house politicians, regardless of what party
they belong to and disgrace.
That the late Legislature was the most in
famous in many respects, that ever assem-
bled in the State there is no doubt. The
members of that dsreputable body them
selves admit the fact. There were a number
OF men holding seats, it is true, who are re-
spectacle and well-meaning, ordinarily, but
when they attempt to defend some of the in
famous laws passed, they are no better than
the worst"
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PhlIaueTpnla Tress.
Some of the Southern papers find some-
thing in the Dukes verdict to make them
think the North is about as bad as the South
in its treatment of murderers Not quite
The court rebuked the jury before they were
dismissed the people denounced the verdict,
and burned prisoner and jury in effigy; the
Legislature is ready to expel the murderer
as soon as he takes his seat, and the press
everywhere denounces the verdict Us infam-
GUS Nobody lionizes the seducer and MUIR
derer and no party will run him for Con-
gress.
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EVERY business man and every manufac
turer in indianapolis is subject to competi-
ton. Not dry-goods merchant, not a gro
GER not an iron manufacturer, can have
monopoly for a moment. But the City
Council establishes a different rule for the
street-railway company. That must be pro-
tected from any rivalry. How do the people
like that sort of legislation by their council
men2