The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

them pleasure to feel that the temperance cause has
been rendered insignificant in appearance has been
used tool by the solid South and the party of free
liquor, and has made hosts of enemies instead of
trlends.-New York Tribune.
If the m argin in New York had been found on the
other SIDE, the Democrats prepared for a dis
turbance- and many of them think now that it was
their talk about civil that counted Cleveland in
There nothing to congratulate the country about in
the result of the election, except that the Repubcans
seeing that the face of the returns and forms of law
We're against them have submitted patiently TO the
greatest outrage upon popular elections and the worst
swndle in the name of election, ever perpetrated
IN the history of manknd.-Cincinnat Commercial
Gazette
OUR present almost prohibitcry tariff is already
bearing its inevitable fruit in the reprisals of other
nations. We producing and trading people.
Our industries and manufactures longer require
sch extravaganza nursing in the first early stages OF
their Development They arenow wellfedged, and re-
qure but little support to be able to fly alone. We
cannot afford to see England, France and Germany
closing oy way Of reprisa their ports at all to our
produce and manufactures. We need trade as
with us.-New York Herald.
THE almost unanimous vote of the French Deputies
for prolongng the is strange since France has so
little to lose by making peace and so little gain to
wrongs or insults TO avenge. All that has been DONE
and the glory, though cheap, is secure. No doubt
China would be willing to pay now than France
has any reasonable expectation of exactng the net
result of necessarily Of enormous cost. Be-
sides there is always the chance of complication
with neutral nations, which will leave France with
nothing whatever to show for the war but the glory
already gained.-New York Times.
IT is not the decadence of Republican maorties in
the South which is deplored in the North so much
the methods used to bring about rule of the minor
ity, methods whose employment by great political
party with intelligence and persistence, is dangerous
to that fabric which is of infinitely more importance
than either any party. When an ascertained Re-
publican majority Of fully 10000 in a congressional
district can be changed to Democratic majority Of
600 as is the case in the Shoestring district Of
Mississippi, there is something wrong there. 1t is
fact that gives the lie direct to Mr., Randals high
aharaa 1E
solid South-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE United States possess an immense advantage
the countries of Europe in the fact that all their
coonizng is done continent. and that all their
expansion only increases the strength and the unity Of
the Republic. The colonization of foreign countries
the other hand, produces only seeming but pre-
carious increase of national strength and the process
carries with it the influences which tend to separation.
There be doubt that the weight of the English
speaking people has been greatly increased regards
tho whole world, by British colonization. But it is
not clear that the position of great Britain has
been improved permanently by the policy 1t is also
to be remarked that the modern philosophy has thus
far effected change for the better in the external
operation of national ethics for plain that in the
passion for annexation which is Just now so rampant
the utter indifference prevails as to the rights
and wishes of the feeble people whose countries
being seized and appropriated governed the same
kind of proceedings in the days of Cortez and Pzarro
New York Tribune.
THE silver shr;ekers will have TO content themselves
with arraigning. They will make the discovery, in
process Of time, that the New York clearinghouse
Association has not refused to receive silver certif
Gates. On the contrary when the foolish act referred
to passed the association resoinded a resolution
which it had previously adopted, protecting itself
from the 85cent dollars As for the Secretaries Of
the Treasury since the passage of that act it has
been plain to them as it has to the bankers that
every precauon should be taken against the descent
of entire currency to the silver level They have
simply refrained from offering silver certificates in
payment of clearing house balances in New York.
just the banks belonging to the association have
themselves done with a view to postponing as long
possible calamity which must befall the country
some time, unless this dangerous silver business is
stopped The Secretaries of the Treasury have hoped
that Congress would recover from the silver in
time to avert that calamity altogether. May it
that they havenot hoped in vain.-Chcago Times.