The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-17
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THERE have been plenty of more wonderful winters
in regard to severity, and in regard to mdness; but
mot many perhaps in which the two extremes have
been thoroughly mixed than during the present
1t must be trying season for amanac.makers
and prophetic old residents. The Sgnalservce Bur-
finds it impossible to keep up with the changes,
though doing its best 1t would almost though
the weather in that state of unstable equilibrium
which perhans corresponds in meteoroogy to the
dtion of change announced by politicians when they
unable to discover the tendencies of things.-New
York Tribune.
1T seems that the Oneida Community has practical
y fallen to pieces-not on account of outside opposi
ton but because of it's own inherent weakness and
wickedness. The founder Moves. is in Canada and
the members scattered in all directions and it is
not likely that the organic will again attract
any particular attention. Such is the fate of
these experiments at the substitution of other
rule of life for the ordinary moral codes and the fact
is to the credit of human nature. Mormonism has
managed to survive longer than any other of the mod
denominations of this sort, but it will go in time.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
MOST American women are domestic toilers wage
workers women of affairs, and we more
prospect of an awakening coming to them than to
the ''ideazed women" They remain for the most
part entirely Indifferent to the programme of the suf
fragists. Till women become interested in
woman suffrage it cannot be said that it has made
much progress. Moreover the great changes brought
about in way another by the anti.slavery re-
form still being wrought out The spirit of agita-
tion the desire for further change not strong
as they were twenty five years ago and as they may
be again. At present there inevitable problems
enough to solve without taking up one, great and far
reaching indeed but in which yet few people take
lively nterest-New York Snn.
THE real issue in the Oklahoma matter is between
the cattle syndicates whose individual members want
1000 600 each to Craze their cattle upon and
the individual settlers who want $50 for Quilt
walton. The government authorities thus far have de-
cided with the syndicate and against the settler In
the meanwhile Congress cruelty and criminaly re-
fuses to take action, and calmly waits collision be-
tween United States troops and the determined set
tiers who know that living person Of any national
ity being wronged by their going on these lands to
make for themselves homes, The Indian title has
been extinguished no Indian tribe claims part of
the lands Why will not Congress pass the necessary
legislation for the perfectng Of titles by the setersl
st. Louis Republican.
THE rinking fever which is having its run like
croquet Tom Collins" the fifteen puzzle or the walk.
ing mania, and set in England recently with the
rapdity, and it is probable, with the igno-
minious end. 1t met there hot social condemnation
just as it is attacked here by variety of religious
bodies and while it lasted had its influence on the
theaters. The rinkng ankle came to be as distinctly
quet foot" of earlier day. The Kinks will probably
empty. themselves quickly here in England; but
the rapdity with which empty nothing like this
spreads is of the most singular and striking proofs
that organized society do much towards max
ing nonsense homogeneous as spreading intelligence
uniting in one generous enthusiasm. AS for the
vacant depths OF an anusementess public which each
of these rpples OF pursuit proves to exist it is
only one more proof that civilization do good
deal more to provide people with leisure than with
the sense to enjoy it.-Philadephia Press
THE defense has never been any other
than the jesuitical that the ends justified the
means, and will deny that the territory now
occupied by the United States is employed in man
ner better calculated to benefit the human race than
it would be if still occupied by rowing tribes of wild
Indians Still morally considered our policy should
be condemned, and, when active war breaks out
between the government and Chief Joseph or Sitting
Bull the sympathy of the world, if the question is
judged in the abstract, should be with these NAL.
treated Indians. and not with the United States
troops. who are hired to slaughter them. The same
reasoning will hold good of these colonial enterprises
i'll Africa The rights and the lives of these Arabs a,
neither more nor less worthy of respect than the
rights and the lives of Indians bat it is possible that
it, in the Soudan in the United States the entrance
of civilized powers puts end to the barbarty of ex.
listing customs by replacing them with civilized meth
benefited by the change though the transforms
ton is brought about at the expense of great
of individual suffering-Boston Herald