The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-14
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

So, while we sympathze with down-troddeu
ireland, while we are e; ateful that the infamous
means follows that we must laud and magnify
O'Donnell. martyr is made of very dl4ferens
. stutf.-Chicago News.
IT will be time enough to inauCurate crusade
against the national banks when the protest OF
the people against them becomes loud enough
to be heard. and when Mr.. voorhees, comes for
ward with something ngihle and better to take
their place-WSshing ton Post tDem.).
WITHIN the next ninety days the overwhelui-
! Ing Democratic majority in the federal House
must decide whether it proposes to attack what
it's leaders call the "rubher tariff or not IF it
does, its party Will be smtten. hip ard thigh,
FROM President to pathmaster, in every doubt
mi state. II 1t does not there Ia end of Its bid
for the floating vote in favor of lower duties.
Philadelphia Press.
IT is an unjust and unwise policy to prodigally
lavish on railroad corporations the public lands,
, the benefit of which should be enjoyed by tho
people of this ami future generations. 1t ba-
comes corrupt policy when the grants made
to and retained by railroads which have not full
filled and probably never will fulfill the cOndi-
t1ons br which they bound. Those are not
! land grants They are land grabs.-New York
World.
INAsMUCH as in England it is still signal
honor to be made IL peer. even the American re-
pubiicans VINO love TennysOn for What he has
sung, and venerate an old age which is still
fruitful in beautiful and vigorous verse, may feel
gratlt1ed that his sovereign has cOnspicuOuSlY
recognized his fame, and, within the means ia
her power, has reflected the respect and affrc.
lion of the English-reading worid.-BostOn Adj
vertiser.
THE Irish question is an exceedingly trOnble-
some one to members of Congress who hays
large Irish constituencies. 1t NAV be feared
That sometimes they. everdo the matter ana dis
close the lnsincerity which urompts gentlemen
sometimes to ask the government 20 do what
they know tue government cannot and will not
DO, and what they would hardly ask if they be-
lieVed the government would do it-CIncinnatI
News Journal.
THAT the lessons of the two last campaigns
have been remembered is very plainly shown
by the reluctance of men to seek the nOmina-
ton. The dark horse was selected at Cincinnati
in l876, and at Chicago in $780, and the men
who sought honor were disappointed. This is as
it should be, a general rule, and il is better
that the party should seek the man, rather than
the man the nomination. All those whose
names shall be presented will be fairly and gem
erously treated here.-Chicago In er-Ocean.
THE British roads have had to submit to gov
ernneEtal supervision of their rates and ao-
counts, hut as compensation they receive pro-
lection from paralleling. The owners of Ameri-
can railroads cOuld do nothing wiser than to &C.
eept national control on the same terms. If the
owners were the managers, or the managers
were the owners, probably this would be done,
but as 1t Ia the managers Will he slow TO surren-
der their present liberty and irresponsibility,
for there are millions in IL for them.-Chicago
Tribune.
THERE is far less freedom of debate, less nx-
preston OF popular opinion, in the House OF
representatives to-day than there is in the
British House OF Commons. The House, as now
organized and governed, is more and more auto
cratic and unrepublican. Time and money will
De saved by making the congressional session
begin with the first Monday after the first day
of January of each year. The time is not far dis
tant when the OppO ntment of the committees
of the House shall he RECALLED to the members of
the House, where 1t belongs-New York Times.
THE foreign office at Washington contains evil
dence, positive and conclusive that foreigners
have come to America ana pursued he forms Of
our naturalization laws nearly enough to get
from some not inqnisitive partisan clerk of
court a certificate of naturalization, with which
they have returned to the country whence they
preten6e American
zenship TO escape military service. or, in too
many instances, as a help to escape justice.
This abuse of American naturalization has come
to be monstrous evil. 1t is a shame and a dis
grace to the nation whose government not only
winks at such abuses of its TOO liberal laws by
foreign scOundres, hut some of whose repre-
pions of such abuses as the record of the House
proceedings prOve.-Chicago Times.