The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-04
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

A GOVERNMENT that could not detect and prevent
the fitting out aud sailing of the Alabama will surely
not feel justified in complaining if the United States
should find it impossible to prevent two three Irish
men, in the privacy of their apartments, from storing
away bit of clockwork and package of dynamite
in valise. Such job is much more difficult to de-
tect than the construction of iron steamer.
Milwaukee Sentinel
IT is generally felt that if Mr.. Edmunds should ac-
cept nomination it will be because he believes that
duty demands the sacrifice of his personal ncnations
and that if Mr.. Blaine becomes the nominee it will be
largely through his sl1fu. efforts to that end.
The feeling appears to be general that Mr.. Blaine de
shrewdness; and that Mr.. Edlnunds is ready bnt not
eager to take the Office, if it seeks hm.-Boston Ad
vertiser. .-.-----...
THE spectacle of English troops fighting in a coun-
try which is to be speedily evacuated and defeating
the wretched Soudanese who had risen with right
their side against oppressive and rapacons govern
ment is not by any inspiring 1t is to be hoped
that second battle will not be required; that the IN
srgens will accept honorable terms of peace coupled
with the rights of segovernment and that the Brit
ish troops Will soon be able to retire from pestlen
tial district where they exposed to outbreak of
cholera well wilted with heat. The prestige that
a single battle will confer upon them ought to suffice.
New York Tribune.
UNLESS Congress shall reject the advice of the
President and neglect refuse to make an appro-
priaton for the continued operation of the civil service
law it will be found that steady and valuable prog
will be made The principle of the law is sound
and practical Within the scope to which it is
fined it is quite capable of producing improvement
even more marked and general than that which has
already been made. All that is necessary is expert
ence the part of the commissioners and on that of
those the service to obtain from the law advantages
which the people will never consent to abandon when
they understand them.-New York Times
NOTHING is more certain than that if the question
becomes an issue in American politics the campaign
will be short sharp and decisive. The decent sent
ment of the country of all parties will be arrayed
against the cowardly brutes who abusing Amer
can citizenship by seeking shelter here for the safe
commission of crimes which the whole civilized world
condemns. The men who would seek political prefer
ment by catering to the ODonovan Rosa conspra
tors as we'll as the who would hold their peace
lest they lose votes will be driven into retirement by
indignant people, who will refuse to be longer re-
garded partners in the vilest ourages of the
fury. The dynamters must go.-Hartford Caurant.
THE public have a right to know whether Mr. Van
derbts head is good his heart kind his morals pure
what he says, what he does because these facts
depends the welfare of multitudes of his fellow
creatures. A mistake of head fit of temper on
his part in the management of the railroad corpora
tons in which he is the dominant influence may
change prices and disturb business equilibrium from
New York to Omaha and beyond. The demand for
privacy for such a man is ludicrous in any event.
especially is it so when it is made for Vanderbilt who
drags newspaper man into his library whenever ne
thinks he him to influence the market or
frighten his enemies, silence his opponents-Chi
cago Tribune
THE Ansonia clocks it is admitted, are sold openly
in London so that the of in infernel ma
chine is merely the use of the cheapest gearing OF
wheels and may be resorted to by men who never
came this country The operations of cOnsprators
in this country if any there be- have of those
elements of publicity which attended the building of
vessels at Liverpool to prey upon our commerce
during the war neglect of the proper vigilance
pected of neutras which cost Great Britain 800
900 in the settlement of the Alabama claims. The
United States ready to suppress all acts OF host
ity the part of the Irish but those acts must be
tangible and something for which can be con
victed lawfully. And. moreover, it is her own Irish
who are making all the trouble for Great Britain
whether they are there or here-Springheld Repub-