The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-31
TOPICS OF THE TIME

text of tho probIh,tie decided yesterday that the
Ing upon re 'iT nmr o amendment not nppesT.
1881 II IL q journal OF tine General A sse,nhfv u
T'bis " !, therefore,, not before this Ts@jsIatty II
hut rs ts eciuently an "Off year" wis n9sss'
to "catch on. is mTas9g'"there were twenty
THERE lie ~.AsaInst an estate, and the seaac3G.
sirsre all allowed, the clerk conla runibitIon
for filling and enteriTde a desperate effort
Should he adm'~' ,nnati News DemJ
claimants. more sense in taxing stock, which is
,.Ly evidence of ownership in property than
there would be in taxing a title deed OF real es-
tate in addition to the real estate itself. II our
Legislators wOuld content their souls with taxing
tangible property, and not try to do anything
more, the problem of double taxation would vex
their souls no more fOrever.-ChioagO Times.
LOUISVILLE follows Cincinnati with another
painful but strong argument in favor of the pas
sage Of the bonded extension bill. A firm
Of that city failed yesterday, and the
break was due to tho Unfortunate situation
OF the trade that Congress- can so easily rectlfy.
These are but the skirmish guns of a campaign
of disaster, If relief does not oome.-Cinclnnatl
Journal.
THE serious part OF the business Ia the loss that
she government will incur by the exporting of
large quantities OF whisky. A careful estimate
has been made, and from the figures which
experts have given, the loss by leakage. and
from the spirits which Will not return, VIII
amount to the snug sum OF 81 O,O0O.0OO II all
the whisky which is to be taken out of bond this
year seeks relief in this expectation pian.-Cln-
cinnati Enquirer.
FROM the Missouri to the Alleghenies, the
West, and what was the West. has gone into
manufacturing with energy, and they have cut
more forest AMI plowed more prairie, ana built
more towns and court-hOuses and churches and
schools than their brethren of the South have
have. The south should have done before what
it Is doing nnw-bilut fact cries of its own. The
West cannot he counted TO give much help for
free trade. and the South will not continue solid
for { ng.-LOuisville Commercial.
TIE person who asks that the law shall release
him from "a debt ought to he compelled to show
that he contracted the debt properly; that he did
not intend TO cheat his creditors; that he has not
wasted the proceeds of the debt. and that his
inability tn pay IL is not due to his own fault.
THIS should lie required of him, In the first place,
because he ia asking a peculiar favor FROM the
law, an exemption from obligations which the
law. in all ordinary cases, ia bound to enforce,
and, in the second place, because, If he have
kept u proper Sci of books, he can establish his
claim without difacully.-New York Times.
THK free-trtde congressman are not deliher-
ately irving to starve American .abOrers. But
they make "A mistake of Judgment. They may
hunesily believe that n reduction would be safe
when il would bs fatal. A mistake of judgment.
IL vote cast without sufficient Information on
this subject, means starvation TO some industri-
GUS wurknen, aud great injury TO many more.
If members OF Congress Will remember this
when they are voting on the tariff question,
they will not he. in haste to act againsJ the
recommendations of those who have given to
the subject most study.-New York Tribune.