The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-11
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If the Spanish people could in their present temper
weigh the facts they would recognize that the Bour
bon dynasty may gain from Germany more deferentiaa
treatment and substantial concessions than can
be hoped for by any form of government discredted
IN Blsmarcks eyes by revolutionary origin.-NeW
York Sun.
THE English character may have an element of hys-
terra in it, but practical common sense always pre-
walls in the end If there evils in the social life OF
London they can be eradicated by proper and efficient
means These means do not in our Judgment include
q detailed account of crimnality hawked about the
streets and thrust in the faces of young people who
ought to hear little about such things as possible
New York Herald.
The consumption of cigarettes is almost entirely by
boys and young under twenty-five and that is one
of the great evils of them 1t is easy to learn to
smoke that contract the habit who never would
undertake but to smoke cigar. BOYS have no
business to smoke The physiological effect of tobacco
Is to deter the change of which is necessary to
he is pretty sure to stunt himself If smoking must
be done. and we suppose it always will be more or
less let 1t De done by men, and in the form of cigars
or pipes. Cigarettes are nothing but injury to
their consumers and nuisance to everybody else.
New York Mail and Express.
WHILE the Presidents present task is simply to
execute the experimental law and to work for its
tension, the question of its early extension is
question for his party to answer, and the great work
OF reform is yet to be dcne both in Congress and the
White House. Mr. Cleveland may be able to force his
party to do it, but the chances not fattering.
The promise is that he will carry out the experimental
law to the dissatsfactionof his party and that the
tune to complete the work that will then have been
hardly begun proper view of the political bearing
OF the reform may exempt the President from severe
criticism, and yet hnd him Democrat unable to do
the larger task As for that larger task it is ques
ton of parties, and it remains to be seen which, IL
either, will prove equal to t.-Brookyn Union.
SECRETARY MANNING Is an honorable man espec-
tally upright and trustworthy a of business.
As a politician he has been sometimes suspected Of
thinking all things fair in the game of politics. but
otherwise his entire record is uDimpeachabe There
hat he is int
personally in making "a corner in and two-dollar
bills But all the same his order the sub;reasuries
to send all they can lay their hands upon to the
Treasury at Washington, which promptly withdraws
them from circulation has made "a corner" in them
and retail merchants are now forced to pay apremiu
for them by the act of the Secretary aud the require
ments of their business The Secretary has thus far
neglected to state to the public the act of Congress
which authorizes the Secretary to put them in but ii
is wholly ignorant of that which authorizes him
to put them out of Giro ulation-Phiadelphia In
quirer.
No there is no fear that Senator Hoar will have to
stand alone in his advocacy of pure elections. He
will have behind him the great majority of the inte
Egent voters of the North, who viii speak IN thundes
tones through the Republican party For twelve
years this section has witnessed the suppression OF
honest suffrage in the South and itself deprived
of its just rights in Congress and finally Presaene
chosen by colossal frauds placed in the executive
chair The patience with which this has peen oorho
has been exhausted at last and the stern deternina
ton reached thai the injustice T S Se asEs bnt e
plain, undenable rights and those II ieahs W h"Ve'
Senator Hoar go forward WIN ene VOTE con.
scious that he is champoning inst cause ana THAI
he is supported by the solid Republican party-PhiL
adelphia Press.
II is stated that the Chinese authorities have been
preparing for some time past detailed information In
regard to other of violence Of similar character
concerning which they nave medtated earnest repre-
sensations TO our government. 1t cannot be denied
That the number of such outbreaks has given occasion
for complaint to the Chinese authorities, and that
cheir appeal to the government for more satsfac-
tory enforcement OF its laws. and performance OF
Atalt
temporarily residing and employed ia this country,
will deserve serious consideration. The question
whether the further immigration of Chinese workers
ought to be permitted prevented by stringent
laws does not here arise. In any case. the United
States under obligations to comply faithfully with
the of the treaties in force and to give 70
the Chinese who lawfully in this country the pro-
tecon which, under those treaties, they are entitled
New York Tribune.