The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
TOPICS OF THE TINE.

CONGRESS would try a hazardous experiment
If it should adjourn without stopping the forcing
of the coinage of the silver dOllar.-Clnc1nnati
Commercial Gazette.
THERE is charm about the Presidents ap
porntm-nts now generally acknowledged: He
does not make them in a hurry, and in TIN part
of the country they are not bad when made
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE proper course for all advocates of prohi-
biton to pursue is to favor the adoption of a
constitutional amendment that will vest the
Legislature with full power TO settle this ques-
ton in any way corresponding TO the will of the
people reflected in that body.-Cleveland
Leader.
THE large majority of the Republicans have
given the most unmis taxable evidence of their
desire to revise the tariff and reduce taxation,
and If the Democrats would join them in like pro
portion the legislation could De effected within
the time now at the disposal of Congress,-Pitts-
burg Commercial Gazette.
IRISH independence is a mere dream; local
home rule is a practical aspiration. Neither
England nor Ireland, lying so ciOse together and
naturally dependent, could endure independ-
ence; neither can much longer endure serv-
itude on the ono hand and a destructive oppres-
sion on the other.-Cincinnati News.
THE plea that the law against poygamy was
unconstitutional because 1t interfered with re-
ngious freedom having been sci aside by the SUI
preme Court, another plea is made to the effect
that the rights nf Territory are greater than
the rights claimed for the States under the old
State rights doctrine.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
LOUIS PHfLIrPE's title was every whit as valid
as President Grevy's and his descendants, while
they have renounced their parliamentary rights
and accepted at FrOhsdorf the tradition of legiti-
mare heredity the most formidable oompeti-
tors of president in a republic which has not
ceased to dread some form of restOration.-New
York Tribune.
THE silver bill was a bride given TO prevent
the repeal of the resumption act. 1t avert
ing present evil by submitting to the danger of
one somewhat removed in the future. 1t was,
in a sense, selling out to tine devil to escape an
imminent misfortune. And now the time Is ap-
preaching for paying the devil his due. We are
in favor OF not living up to tue bargain in this
ST. LOnis Globe-Democrat
COUPLED with the scandals which attend the
expense of almost all congressional funerals
these post-mortem honors on the floor of the
House and Senate lead people to wish that men,
bers of Congress could defer their departure for
the unknown and unknOwable until their terms
expire, and they can do so and be inferred with
the aolemnity, decorum and sincere grief that
al end similar events in private lite.-ChicagO
Herald.
1HE Irish, it seems, are unreasonable. They
are prejudced against government by police as
a permanent system, and they are visionary
enough to dream OF reforms which shall give
Them some voice in the management of their
affairs. 1t is rank sediton, of course. for them
to harbor such thoughts, but until their migrate
full aims are accomplished every session VIII be
either Irish session or gag law session.-N
Y. Times.
A $5O0.LICENsE will not do anything like as
mucn moral good as Sl,O00lcense; still
S1-a-week fee from traffic which abstracts more
than 81 100000 year from the earnings of our
people, threefourIhs OF which is profit. "A $500
license will yield the city treasury over 81 600,
600 instead of the pltiable $4,000 collected
last year, and it will abolish some 800 or 800
of the worst rum-holes in this doggery cursed
city.-Chicago Tribune.
SUPPOSE that a majority of the people should
decide TO prohibit the manufacture and sale of
tobacco, or sausages, or sauerkraut or corsets,
or candy, or hot biscilte, would there be nothing
for the minority to do but to SUBMIT Is there
no question of vested rights in property In
volvedf Are personal liberty and the rights OF
minority wholly at the mercy OF a majorityf
AS q M after of practical fact there Ia DO proba-
bility that prohibiGory liquor law. either or
ganic or statute. can ever be enforced: but the
legal questions involved are not all settled Yet
Boston Herald.