The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-25

Of the House to refuse to the country. The Senate
bill proposes to give the country within three years
seven steel cruisers effectively armed and four har.
Dor defense monitors of class good that aeast one
European power is now building several of their kind
Mr. Randas bill proposes to deprive of harbor de.
Tense and to limit TO the three steel cruisers now
completing but to which he refuses guns. Is that
statesmanshP! is 1t common prudeneef Is it com
mon senseF Will the country be satisfied with thatl
New York Herald
THE enterprise 1.-THE New Orleans expositionl de-
serves the encouragement of citizens. 1t will hasten
the development of rich country and tend to estab-
fish good feeling between the peopIe of the North
and the people of the far South 1t must not be for
gotten, however, that the taxpayers of the whole
country asked to support it by loan of 81 OOO
900, which the directors may be unable 20 repay IL
the loan is to be made at all and especially if it is to
be- IN fact gift it should be concusively shown that
the exhibition will be national in its scope like the ex
hibtion of 1876 and that will be of service to all
who pay national taxes-New York Times.
THE Democratic party had its cradle rocked by An.
drew jackson, and Thomas Jefferson not only not
its father, but he belonged to it. Think Of
comparing the men who founded this great republic
ana VINO managed it up to Jackson's time with the
crowd OF old copperheads secessionsts Staterights
Bourbons and exConfederates that have the manage
ment of the Democratic party to-day! Think of the
author of the Declaration of independence going out
with his State and joining in armed revolt to de-
stroy the Union Mr. Tildens history of The or;n Of
the Democratic party is merely tradition that has no
more foundation in fact than old womans fable.
Chicago Journal.
So long representatives be elected and elected
without doing anything for Ireland but to execrate
England and to annoy the legislature of which they
form part so long it is unlikely that they will at
tempt to any more solid good for their country
An rishman who wishes now to earn the gratitude Of
his countmen should be able to discern that the period
does not call for agitation at all but for Cancellation.
inc thing tor such to do is to take advantage of
the present temper of the English legislature to wipe
out the relics OF the unequal laws which have
enmlty between England and Ireland and to do all
that he can to destroy the enmity himself instead Of
doing all that he can to keep it alive.-New York
Times.
REFORM of the TEnglishl land laws is certainly in
p NOT I'D
revolution based on robbery. Naturally this doctrine
has not been cordially received by the English people,
1t has it appears been approved by few of the land
less and by certain advocates lin theory of commun.
ISM But there is evidence that it has made the
faintest impression upon the English nation and
it is indeed perfectly clear that it could not do so
less the English had changed their character essen
tally Mr. Georges doctrine is alike immoral and i'm
possible 1t is incompatible with the maintenance of
progressive and orderly society under any form of
government It is wild vision founded on false as
reckless.-New York Tribune.
COZ we are" is the frank headline which the
New York World places an extract from Re-
publican paper suggesting that 1.-THE New York World
appears to be exceedingly anxious that Mr.. Blaine
should receive the Republican nomination" If other
democratic journals were equally candid they would
make similar confession The reason is perfectly
obvious. The Democratic papers want Mr. Blaine
nominated because long list of Republican papers,
OF the highest character and influence have declared
IN the most emphatic terms that he cannot be elected
The support which the Democratic press generally
gives the Blaine movement, on account of the weak
not be lost upon Republicans who want to see their
man elected as well as nominated--Brooklyn Union
TDEN himself is in such condition Of physical and
mental decreptude that he lives only in the past and
his feeble mind naturally reverts to the old order Of
things in the days Of Pierce and Buchanan. He ig-
the work of the war, which created nation ont
ofdisjoined parts He reves in the original Bourbon
theory of government in utter disregard of the
effect which revival of that theory would have on tho
prospects of his party. He would arouse new politi
cal antagonism to the spirit of natonalsm 1t is easy
to understand how his infrmity of body and mind
should betray him into the advocacy of an obsolete
policy. but it is strange that live and active men, whose
chief interest in the election of this year is for the
of their party should be willing to adopt his senile
and unpatriotic utterances gHde for their pOlti
cal campagn.-Chicago Tribune
ALL remember the Little Rock g. Fort Smith railway
bond investigations how, after reading certain por
ton of the Mugan letters he stopped and defed the
committee; how, when the investigation was being
pressed, he stricken down by sunstroke; how,
when the committee about to resume its labors
it was announced that absolute quiet necessary
to save his life; how the investigation postponed
and before it could be resumed Blaine had passed
into the Senate and beyond the jurisdiction of the
House; how his life was saved but he forever
rendered ineligible candidate for the presidency
1t is because the people remember all this that they
are not deceived by Blaines aggressiveness, which
cannot conceal the rottsnness of his past There is
other Republican mentioned in connection with the
presidency whose record will not come unscathed
through fire that would leave nothing of James G.
Blaines but an unsavory odor.-Chicago News