The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-18
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MAKING cities to order is not, as a rule, a promising
business, as the recent example of Rugby, in Tonnes
see, proves. Still, it must be admitted that the capac-
tiles for iron making possessed by certain districts on
the Tennessee river are attracting the attention of
capitalists in that direction, and it is probable that
many thriving manufacturing towns may be the re-
suit of these advantages in the near future.--St. Louis
Republican.
If the candidate be not Mr.. Tlden himself it will
surely be some other millionaire, and one, too, who is
known to be willing to spend his money freely. and no
Bill English" He will have to be like Tilden, but not
necessarily liked by him. 1t matters little whether he
lives in New York or oho. he must be the owner of an
pie of natural selection in its application to the pres
idency is as unalterable as the laws of the Modes and
Pe~rsians.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mr.. TMDENs candidacy afforded the only loop,hole
of escaping the tariff as the prominent issue in the
coming presidential campaign. Whether the Demo
cratic managers felt that it did not make any differ.
ence what was done since Mr.. Tlden would not be Il
candidate, Or whether they intended to create such a
state of things as would compel him to be a candidate,
or whether they concluded it would be better to lose
on a principle than win without any, or whether they
simply did what they thought right. leaving the CON
sequences to take care of themselves, remains to be
een.-Louisvile Commercial
WHY, in this country the ordinary pistol, supposed
mot to be loaded, is far more destructive than althe
Irish Internal machines taken together-we kill more
with it. In view OF these facts, would it not be well
for the London Times to modify the extravaganza of
its languagel-or does itsreeently appointed and some
what juvenile editor feel himself under obligation to
make the fur fly and stir up the Americana Our
peNple are against the dynamite policy; and our gov
ernment will do all its duty in the premises; but Of
fensive language in the English papers will hardly
prove advantageous.-New York Herald.
ACAIRo dispatch states that one of the English
proposals will be the abolition of the Egyptian army.
But a military force of some kind is necessary. Is
this force to be a permanent British garrison, and is
it to be supplemented by a British civil service? The
bondholders could afford to accept a new financial
compromise if they were assured that a European
government would be responsible in future for the
administration of Egyptian affairs. But thati is a favor
which the Liberal Ministry are not inclined to ask at
the hands of Europe; nor is it by any means certain.
that either France or Russia would aecede to the re.
quest.-New York Tribune.
THE Democratic leaders must be sadly Inundated
by the detection of thirty-fve members from their
ranks. No party ever made a finer show on dress pa.
rade than this one when the roll of Representatives
was drawn up after the election of 1882. Where are
the banners which were then thrown to the breezeg
Where is that good working maiority"l Where are
the forces that made Mr.. Carlisle Speaker and Mr..
MORRISON chairman of ways and means2 Demoralized
in tho first contest waged by the party. and reduced
to a feeble command of two paltry votesl Our polit-
ical history hardly affords n parallel for this inglorious
fall.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
MIscARR1AGEs of juries are to be expected. They
are infrmities of the jury system which we suffer for
whatever may be good in it, and such a miscarriage is
no new thing. That in the Berner trial is not so dis
couraging to the administration of justice as the two
rulings of the Supreme Court which sent back two
jury verdicts in the McHugh case for retrial, on tech
nical points, which did not touch the question of the
justice of the verdicts. A jury fails to give a just ver-
diet, and that is the end of its action; but a judicial
ruling which sets aside a just verdict on a mere tech
IitulilN II continually tulIB u Lnt lOllS WHICH, ullhS
impracticable the administration of justce-Cinein-
natl Commercial Gazette.
FREIINGHUYsEN has done it again. He has repeat
ed the stupid blunder he made in publishing Minister
Sargent's letter, which stated the current belief that
Bismarcks object in prohibiting the importation OF
pork from the United States was protection of Ger
man pork, rather than the protection of health, which
was the preext. This time it is with regard to the
British government and the cattle disease. Mr.. Lowell
wrote that the cattle disease was used as a political
weapon, and that the exclusion of our cattle was to
protect the British farmers from our competition, I'M
der p%retext of protection to health. Frelinghuysen
told a member of Congress, and then it went straight
to Observation-Disclosures NewsJournal.
THE political situation Of Europe has, in fact,
been changed so materially during the last six months
that China has now little to gain from the tardy pal
ace coup detat by which the cautious party led by
Prince Kung and by Ii, the viceroy of Tcheli, has
seemingly been made to give place to the violent fac
ton controlled by Tso. the eonqueror Of Kashgar.
Unless the Pekin government decides to make the
best Of a bad predicament, and TO promptly acknowt-
edge the French protectorate over Tonquin, it may
not included in the English guarantee OF the ChusaI
islands. which Lord Granville has announced the in.
tention of upholding.-New York Sun.
WE may be sure that the principle Ieivilservice
reform will be unmistakably embodiedin the Republic
an national platform. However, lightly some people
may regard it, and while a large class of Republicans
may care little about it, there is an influential class
that will insist upon its adoption in good faith, and
that will cause their support of the ticket to depend
upon such acuon., Inns sentlment mas grown steaony
since 1876, and the tria! that has been made has
greatly added to its strength. The fact must not be
lost sight of that independent voters are steadily in
creasing in number, and that in nearly all the North
en States there are enough such voters to turn the
scale. These are not in a majority in any State, but
the minority is large enough to put leaders upon their
guard-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
tT is said at Chicago that an expert can make three
tierccs of refined lard out of one tierce of natural
lard. 1t is of a piece with the sharp practices which
first excited official vigilance in France, and resulted
in the French and German interdiets against Ameri-
can bacon and pork; with the spirit which campers
with grain inspection and makes foreign buyers dis
trustful of American wheat; with the adulteration of
American butter, concerning which an official inves
tigation is about TO be ordered in England, threaten
ing the prosperity of that valuable trade. Persons
who practice these arts are pirates upon commerce.,
and one of the greatest needs of the hour is the insti-
tuition of a thorough system of official inspection in
every State, coupled with powers to intiet exemplary
punishment upon the uilty.-louisyille Courier
journal.
THE record of the former bankruptcy law is the
best guide for avoiding the errors and abuses which
are likely to fastcn upon the system. 1t was aban-
doned because the expenses attending liquidation were
excessive. Its evils outbalanced its benefits. What
is needed is 2 law which will confer the benefits of a
uniform and equitable system of bankruptcy proceed
ings at a reasonable cost. This condition should be
kept STEADILY in mind by Congress, and unless it can
be guaranteed it will be better to go without any
national law. There is no reason why a new law
should be experimental, because the experience
under the old law was so extensive that
Il revealed all the shortcomings of the sys.
TEN and suggested the changes which ought to b
made. The theory of a bankrupt law is at once hui
name and Just. but that theory Is necessarily subvert-
ed by any conditions which eat up the remnant of a
business and rob the creditor as much as IT the bank
rupt could escape his o~blisatins by chicanary.-Chi'