The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17
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III may ba that some day In the near future. the
people of England in order to bring about better
and state of public morals will feel obliged to
abolish the nobility, and royalty itself. Then
vice unable hide behind privileges of rank and sta
tion would certainly assume less formidable proper
tions and the civilized world would be spared horrors
like the lately unearthed in the greatest city of
| the word.-Rochester Post-ExpreSs.
| UNPaINCIPLED demagogues have their brief day
They may tip the scale at an important moment But
in the slow and steady of free public opin-
| ion they count for little and only for short time
The evolution of the nation in which they exist goes
on in its due with result which their in
fuence is scarcely perceptible. Undoubtedly Democ-
racy breeds demagogues, but, equally beyond doubt,
il is capable of taking of them and of suppressng
| thAm.-New York Times.
THE South will never be really independent till it
| shall raise unmortgaged cotton crop belonging
wholly to the planters and farmers who produce it
and it be necessary for the Southern farmers to live
year in state of semi-starvation in order to
compsh this, the cost would still be cheap Raising
mortgaged crops for creditors is semisavery none
| the less CALLING and oppressive for being disguised
| under the form of business transaction. There is
subject in the planting States comparable in i'm
portance the question of dsenthrarnent from this
| irksome and exhaustive bondage.-St. Louis Repub-
| Gcan.
STRIKERS talk about their struggles against the op.
preston of capital but they forget the oppression
which they themselves inct upon other workn gnlen
Capitalists sometimes endeavor to induce men to work
for low wages but they have yet been known to
60 to opposition mills with armed force and en-
| deavor to compel the employees of the mill to quit
work Yet it may be greatly to the disadvantage of n
| mill which is shut down if another continues to run
full time producing goods and keeping the market
stocked 1t does indeed appear that often the
oppresSOIs and the most severe tyrantS workingmen
| have workngmen Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
| OHIO is not State inhabited by men, ruled by
who sell themselves for gain to the worst enemies
of the principles they profess 1t is not State ip-
| habited or ruled by people who make a business Of
serving the of evil through blind laundering
efforts for reform. Hence it is not likely that the
sincere temperance people of that State will defeat the
only practical policy which has secured beneficial re-
suits thus far out of childish spite because they
that the election approaches, such opinions and
such questions have increasing influence with the
minds of sincere and earnest menNew York Tribune.
| WE cannot permit gold to be driven out and the
country to be flooded in its stead with eighty three
cent silver dollars, or with such desrcable
lous and fuctuatng apology for currency we
should find ourselves compelled to use were the wild
scheme OF Congressman Warner to be adopted Should
| such a catastrophe unfortunately occur President
Cleveland WILL rightly or wrongly, be held responsible
for by the country in consequence of his present
| tempted dial lance with the silver kings He will be
forced the end of his term to retire from the White
House in disgrace and we can assure him that the
Herald will not fail to be there to throw the first
| stone!-New York Herald.
OUR trade last year with the whole Of South Amer
lea about thirty mont of exports, t,mght Just
as well have been three hundred millions and had
compelled foreign to do
their dnty, exports might have approximated the
latter instead of the former figure minister always
the ground and knowing the peobe and the course
of business ought be able do more for the trade
| of his own country among the people to whom he is
| sent than a hundred commissions, and if the laws
establishing the various foreign diplomatic appoint
ments will not admit of the ministers devoting large
share of their time and attention to advancing the
trade of their country, the laws ought to be
| changed.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
If the Indians to be civilized as General Crook
| General Miles and of other officers who know
| the savages thoroughly say they be- the sooner
the reservation system abandoned the better and it
is to be hoped that provision will be made before the
end of SS5 for negotiations with the tribes for the
distribution of land to be held in severaty 100
| to each head of Indian family, and half as much to
each other male Indian. the surplus Of more than
100 900 900 of reservation land to be sold for
the benefit OF the Indians III the maintenance of
schools and the presentation of a reward of stock
seeds and tools to each Indian who qualities himself
manage a farm The policy here suggested should be
kept before the people until they compel its adoption
| by Congress.-Eew York Mail and Express
| WE regret to see that a plain honest Democratic
President and his Jeffersonan Cabinet have decided
weakness for special cars and not above travel
ing without returning any cash remuneration to the
absenteeism is quite noticeable vice of the higher
officials in Washington as it ever was under Re.
publican rule The canting carpng critics who made
| SO much of Republican junketngs aud absenteeism
have nothing to against the prolific development
| of the same vice under Democratic administration
Bayard anG Endicott deadhead through the We t
In special without extortng a protest from the
| most vrtuous Democratic Sheet while Viii ney En-.
dcott. Manning and Bayard though absent from their
posts since May l about half their time have not
\ once drawn upon themselves the righteous rebuke
which used to be always kept ready for Republican
official Observation-Disclosures Press.