The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-03


won for her such notoriety and such testimonials 1t
is hard for the healthy mind to understand such
diton of judgment and feeling But it has got to be
recognized nevertheless and it has got to be squarey
met if would correct the evils which lie at the bot
tom of these crimes against the person.-New York
World
The fears entertained quite generally in regard to
approaching suspension of gold PAYMENTS through the
operation of the silver law are entirely irrational.
Far from having any foundation in probability, they
do not within the line of financial possibility.
There is danger of deterioration of the currency
under present conditions, absolutely whatever.
We wish to be understood speaking in this matter
with the EXTREMIST distncness and positiveness All
this talk about sudden descent from the gold stand
Herald.
It is serious thing to saw that these Fenians are
trading on the suferngs of Irshmen in Ireland, and
at the time cheating the poor Irish women and
men of the United States out of their harde armed
money 1t is to allege meaner reachery than that OF
which Benedict Arnold was guilty But the leading
agitators have shown themselves capable of it-and it
Is not necessary to refer for proof to the Irish inform
er shot by ODonne or to any of the other informers
with whom ireland seems to abound. The treachery
appears to in the Fenian blood and to be bred in
the fenian bOne-New York Graphic
THE wisdom of the policy of making these grants to
railroads or the amount of profit that may be made
from them is not now an issue. Without the land
grant the Northern Pacific road would not have been
built on the faith of its validity it has been built
Even with the lands the company not yet out of the
struggle of financial difficulty and it relies them to
make It's future secure Considering the purpose of
the grant, and what has been done and left undone in
the past, the action of the House committee at this
late day has the appearance of what in vulgar par
lance is called a strike New Gork Times.
THE numerous petitions from sufferers by the floods
in the Ohio valley asking Congress to appropriate
money to restore private buildings that de
stroyed, purpose entirely unintended by their
authors. They show plainly enough that the frequent
disbursement of large sums of money by the general
government for public relief in times of distress, is
propagating among thoughtless people erroneous
and dangerous idea of the government and it, rea-
lions and duties to the citizen The federal authority
is not relief committee and the impression that it is
must not be allowed to Philadelphia Press
THE iury-fxer is incident of the jury system.
lie is as old as the jury system; and will survive as
long the system. While questions of life and death
and of the utmost earthly moment are left TO the de-
cison of twelve men, there will be open and allowable
and covert and criminal attempts to sway their decs
ions But we do not cut down oaks because they
sustain parasitic growths and should not lose faith
IN lurleS because at tunes they have been corrupted
Ii Jures dispensed with justice would be further
removed from the of the people and the rugged
equity of our judicial system would be ost-Phadei
pha Record.
If in the British French legislatures there any
Tom Ochiltrees or Finertys, or Robnsons, they are
not permitted to let their folly demagogism compro-
mise the government All such foolish and mschiey-
Gus fellows held in check by the Ministry We
have such check here We have, however, the
German and Irish vote and hence, when the Ochit-
trees Fnerys wish to pay obeisance to it. partisan
expediency seals the lips of the wiser conserva
tive statesmen and either by voting yea OF by their
silence, they give to such resolutions that
asking for reprieve for O'Donnell that of con-
dolence upon the death of Herr Philadelphia
Telegraph
IF the policy of the British empire can be shaker
or shaped by mysterious system of massacre and de
sruehon is it not certain that the argument will be
used in this countryl If make America the hot
bed of an internal nihism for assailing European
adjustments, can it not turn its weapons republic
an institutions! Have we colossal public edihces,
monuments store houses art treasures testifying TO
our glory and Undertaking. our pride that NAV be
shattered with dynamite carried in yaises with clock
work and revolver attachments! If we do not wipe
out this infamy aimed for the moment others,
shall ourselves by the legie of events and the eter
nal laws that rule all the nations of the earth be the
great sufferers.-Cineinnat Commercial Gazette
THE change to the silver dollar the sole basis Of
the business of the country will simply the in
haton of prices Is per cent, the transaction of for
eign trade through the hampeFing and annoying mem
of gold brokerage and the resumption of gold spec
uladon with all the demorazing reactions upon trade
which were experienced from 1862 to 1879. The
fluctuations if they come will be of less degree and
there is good hope that they will not come at this
jucture. But the fears Of that result which are
awakened by the expectation of a few millions of gold
significant and not the less because they are the
most important effect in six years of the attempt Of
Congress in 1878 to legsate 50 cents worth of silver
into equality with 100 cents worth of gold.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE British thought when they ran upon American
ground the human mash from the diateries -l.szs
their landlords have for their cruel profit been
had done with this animate refuse. America pre-
tends to be the home of the people, the refuge of the
oppressed Let her take these, they have said. We
at least are quit of them. But if the London Times
is right they not quit of them. The wrongs Of
these victims of English rule in Ireland have arms
that can reach back 5000 miles into the fairest
haunts of British pride and wealth and scatter ruin
there with mysterious hands invisible that eyes
sharpened by the fear of death them as thew
fire their mines in the streets of London The English
proud of their business heads but they have not
yet learned the first lesson of empre-that in politics
justice is the best MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.
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