The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-17

fouror five years previous TO the depression
has fortified them against the effects of a
siderable period of dun trade and small profits
But they troubled about tho future,-NeW
York sun.
THE people of this country are still bound up
in the logical results of the war which esab-
lished the supremacy of the United States gov
eminent, and are still determined that this SUI
premacy shall be used TO insure equal protection
TO all citizens. II the cons titutiual amend
ments already adopted are not sufficient to en-
able the government to exercise the national
function the people will he in favor of extending
and enlarging the constitutional powers of The
government. The agitation in that direction
comes properly from the Republican party.
-Cnlcago Tribune.
IT Is curious that mona of the great men who
have entered the House OF Lords, and whose sole
distinction has been literary genius, have ever
cut any marked figure in that body, Byron was
a fiat failure as a 6ehateI; Maeauay was tedious
and uninteresting, and Lord Lytton, by his ex-
cessive flOridty, mad all the faults of the sopho
more and none of the wit of the politician. In
direct contrast to this fact stands the one that
the best speaker now in Great Britain, Glad
stone and John Bright excepted, IS an American
litterateur-James Russell Lowell, our minister.
Frank Lesie's Weekly.
MANY deaths of women may he attributed to
the recklessness with which acquaintance are
formed in certain classes. In the cities and
manufacturing towns many women have accept
edNas suitors men with whom their acquaintance
has been very SHORT and OF whose antecedents
they know nothing. Without the ordinary and
proper restraints of home society such women
are at the mercy of the men whom they trust.
Recent events should teach women in all grades
of life that although to appear fearless and UNI
suspicious may seem very pretty, 1t Is worse
than idiotic.-New York Herald.
PLAINLY stated, the French are simply at
tempting to appropriate territory to which
they have IN equity absolutely no claim. France
is doing this, to be sure, upon the high-soundng
plea that it is IN furtherance of civilization But
| this is Il cover for her selfish scheme which will
not deceive people of discernment. This terri
tory has been, time out of mind, dependency
of China, and II China persists in defending it
and In driving the foreign invaders out, she
should have the sympathy of all who believe
that nations, no less than individuals, should
mind their own business.-New York World.
WHEN the lions skin is too short, that OF the
| fox must exc it out That is not only time-hon-
| ored diplomatic doctrine, but human nature. All
| suhjugated people have recourse to deceit Tits
| too often their sole protection. The Chinese in
| America have been defenseiess strangers Iii
| hostile country. and there need be no wonder,
| therefore, If they have tried TO protect them-
| selves sometimes by ways that are dark and
tricks that vain" But the habit of branding
nation of 400,000,O00 with ''incapacity 10 dis
| tinguish between truth and falsehood" is GER
! tainy not warranted by the facts, and it is a
loose and reckless way of talking winch ought 10
| be abandoned.-New York Tribune.
IT is not surprising that public sympathy
| should go out 10 Cox, as the San Francisco dis
| patches report. Public sentiment is cOnserva-
| tive and not easily aroused against the law and
| authority; but it cannot refuse to recognize the
! CALLING and goadiDg influence of five reversals of
| honest verdicts which were designed TO compel
| rich man TO pay poor man his valid claim.
| The very fact that such case shOud be tried
| five times and as often set aside is sufficient
| evidence without any information as to the de-
tails, that the law the courts are at fault. 1t
| is lawy er-made law, which is Responsible for
large proportion of the crime and injustice OF
| our time. and until it shall be reformed an in
| crease CT violence and revenge may be expected
| cannot be ayerted.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
| II a ship-load of immigrants infected with
cholera, or yellow fever, or smallpox, or leprnsy
shOuld arrive in of our ports, the land would
| be filled with alarm there would be heard
a
mand for rigorous enforcement OF quarantine
regua ti0ns; all along the line of Ofcialism and
| legislation would be seen movement to guard
| society against that menace of danger to its
| physical health. Bnt thousand shiploads OF
| Immigrants infected with the more dangerous
| Diseases pauperisn, crime and insanity, enter
our ports and deliver upon our shores during
| every decade tens of thousands of moral and
| mental lepers, but no public cutlery is heard, no
| movement of ofcialism seen, to guard society
against the more deadly menace of its mental
and moral health.-Chicago Times.