The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24

moving thereto, TO cast the first stone at any
OVher erring and accused comiaunlties.-Cincin-
natl News Journal.
TIE question: is really a very simple one when
looked at squareiy and eandIdiy II an Ameri.
can citizen desires to promote British interests
at the expense of those of his own country, he
should act with the f-for-reveu ue-only''
people, and with the London Times: otherwise,
he should give his favor ana assistance to q
party which is in favor of encouraging Ameri-
can enterprise and protecting American labor
against unfair and degrading competition.-St.
Lonis Gobe-DemOcrat
THE New York Herald repeats the observation
that the mission OF the Republican party is
ended. BY no means. Not until every Qualified
voter, black white, in the South as in the
North, Is permitted TO go to the polls and vote
Whatever ticket he prefers as unmOlested he
would be in Ohio or Massachusetts, will the mis-.
sion OF the party be accomplished. AS long as
the south is terrorIzed by the shotgun, so long
will the Republican party continue TO exist as q
zette.
IT is not pleasant thing for the American
who stops TO think what the Senate is meant to
be, aud what it might be, TO see the majority Of
them accepting, without apparent annoyance,
the proof that they hold their professed princi.
Giles on any subject subordinate to their partisan
interests And the time is surely coming when
the people VIII not tolerate the practices now
INDUCED ill., The tendency of public opinion is
toward getting rid of all sorts of patronage, and
conhnng changes to important elective posi-
lions, which Will usually be filled with reference
TO the character of candidates and the policy
they Representative York Times
THE Irish "patriots" who are disposed to re-
gard the American republic as a "pOltroon" be-
cause 1t does not espouse the cause of the In-
vincibles and declare war against Great Britain
should initiate the excellent example of Mr..
John Ryan, in New York-surrender their nat
uralizltiOn papers and repudiate their allie
glance to the American government. AS this
would involve resignation from Congress in
some cases, and of fat offices in many Others
and abnegati0n in voting early and often at cleo
ton times. it is to be feared that Mr. Ryan's ex-
ample Will not spread with the rapIdity and inl-
Retuoslty which could be desred.-C hicago
Tribune.
THE cases of Entertainment OF heather by mis-
slonaries which have occurred of late suggest
the question whether the character of the class
of men who engage in mission work has not de-
Perforated OF late years, No nobler and better
men than the early missionaries to the North
American Indians and TO the heather of Africa
and india ever lived, and to whatever church or
sect they may have belonged, they were alike
| incapable of flogging men and women. 1t 10
strange that JudsOn and Moffatt and the French
Jesults of North America should have numbered
5mong their successors capable of the
brutal crimes perpetr9ted in South Africa and
the rufianism reported from Aaska.-New York
Times
Mr.. EDMUNDs opposes President Arthur's
plan for the government of Utah Territory by a
commission, and does not believe that either the
WORD OF the Lord or the sword of Gideon Is es-
sentlal to suppress polygamy That job, he Is
confident can be done if Congress will pass a
little bill that he has Just introduced, Suspend
ing female suffrage in Utah, ordering the pub
llcity of every species of matrimonial ceremony
and giving additional powers to the courts In re-
spect to compelling evidence. We remember
that Mr.. Edmunds was just as confident of tho
wonderful efficacy of another little bill upon the
same subject that he drew and got Congress TO
pass year ago But IL proved to be an utter
Tailure.-New York Herald.
SENATOR EDMUNDs stated both the law and the
practice and the common sense of this question
when he said the other day that y senator
designated In this way to preside could never
claim to be in the line of presidential succession,
for the reason that such a designated senator
has never exercised any of the important tunc-
lions of the President pro TEN. He has never,
so far as the records of the Senate show, signed
Dill or joint resolution, or done anything
more than to act as stop gap in the chair. This
is the practice, and the law and common sense
coincide with 1t. The real President pro TEN. is
and it is only reasonable to suppose that he con-
ttnues to hold the place so long as he is able or
willing to do so, until the Senate chooses his
successOr.-New York Tribune.
THE blatant, loud-mouthed socialists hut indi-
cate the existence OF a real, in one sense conser-
vative, sentiment and movement. They mean
what they say, destruction; they say what they
mean In words borrowed from the Jaeobius OF q
past age, or from the Internatonale or NihilistS
or Communists OF this age; but they only seek to
Iasten themselves onto reality. That reality
despises them and their help That reality rec
OgDizes in them only clog and a preventive
scarecrow, deterrug good men from going with
their own int erests while it drives hem TO alli-
ance with their own worst enemies. That reality
is nine-tenths of all the capital, brains, labor,
business enterprise, and real solid business inter-
ests of America against the railway wreckers
and stock waterers, lobbyists, log-roers, and
privileged interests of all kinds. That reality
recognizes in every occupation the legitimate
part of it and proposes to draw the line there,
combining all men as nearly may be possible
to legitimate opportunities and prohts.-Cincin-
natl News journal.