The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

between candidates, will be open to the most obvious
! bargaining and have been already for months.
| Springfield Republican.
THE most serious effect of this defeat of Baker
Pasha is not in the loss of 1000 whitevered Egypt
ians with few guns and considerable supplies of
munition but in the loss of British prestige in the
ever in the genius of Ell Mahdi these Arabs of the
desert will multiply in numbers, gathering strength
like torrent as they 60 and making the defense of
| upper Egypt letting alone the reconquest of the
| Soudan, serious and bloody undertaking. -Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette
THE truth is that what is called the British mon
! archy is nothing but figure of speech-a form, a
shadow reflected by object that once existed but
that now exists only barren idealty" The only
| British monarchy now in the world is an ideal
Behind that de2ity is the reality of republic of
popul lar representative constitution instinct with all
the vigorous life and liberty of the advanced
| public of the world. 1t is more truly a republican
constitution than own, because il assures a
quick and certain responsibility of popular rulers to
| people, which our own does not.-Chicago Times.
In such event THE balance of trade turning
against us our gold will go abroad and silver will be-
come our standard money. which means that the la
Dor of the country will be paid in dollar that has
only elghty-hve cents of purchasing power while all
articles OF prime necessity the prices of which are
regulated in gold by the gold-deang nations, will be
10 Is per cent higher than they would be if paid
| for in undebased money. And yet it is argued by
men claiming to be statesmen that the continued
coinage of eighty silver dollars is for the adj
vantage OF the laboring pOpuation-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
STEP by step the English government advances
toward popular methods. 1t may be accepted be-
yond question that the enfranchisemen now proposed
| will be effected. While France jumped at a single
bound to universal manhood suffrage the English APP
proach it with such caution will enable the enfran
chised voters to understand their privileges and to be
much better qualified to maintain them. There is
much reason to believe that if government
had approached the subject in the Southern States of
the Union with something like the same deberaton.
1t would have been better for the whole body of the
people.-St Louis Republican.
HIS FIRED Dougass's1 late marriage with a white
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principle involved. 1t has lost him the strong sym
pathetic respect of the whites and the reverent adm
retreated upon shallow ground and claimed that he
had right man to marry whom he pleased. He
pleaded that he was not negro because he
quadroon, and that the other hand it plain he
was not white man. because he had African blood in
him. But this is not honest No man who is
leader of people afford to affront them in his pri
vate capacity.-Louisvie Commercial.
THE horizontal reduction scheme though con-
Venent IN certain sense O crude and unsatsfac-
tory method OF dsposng of the tariff problem. Apart
from the legal and administrative difficulties of
measure like Mr.. Morrisons it has the fundamental
defect OF assuming that financial questions Da dis
posed OF according to simple formula, founded
some general principle 1t is like the plans to raise all
government revenue by single equal tax or to fix
transportation rates on the sole principle of SO much
per ton per mile for each and every article carried
Schemes of this kind little calculated to produce
permanent resuts-Boston Advertiser.
LET the Democratic aborer ask the soft-handed,
sleekfaced and pot-bellied demagogue who seeks to
wheedle his vote by cursng his employer a monopo
list whether he has any other work to give him after
he robs him of his present employment. And if he
has none, let him be asked whether the Democratic
party is going to fix the wages of labor by law and to
compel capital to remain invested at the prices.
This is the only test Men who haveao incomes want
work. They may not always be well paid; but work
they want and have. The Democratic tariff doc
tors are quacks who sell bread pills to oleraby healthy
people by convincing them that they are sick-Na-
tonal Republican.
ANY one but free-trader knows that every million
dollars worth of manufactured goods sent from
abroad which produce at home takes million
dollars worth of production from the labor and the
invested and taxed capital of this country 1t adds
the surplus which have causing distribution to be
less profitable and will in time gut the market with
goods that factories and workshops will be
PEELED to TO a stand-still This is the proposition
of the element in power in the Democratic House.
1t is declaration of hostility to American industry
and that it is part of Democratic craftsmanship to
continue the conditions which will insure the country
prosperity.-Boston journal.