The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-10

Iears TO assume ana spare hiels lIe.-NeW I ork
Telegraph.
The protectionist party has grown so strong
in England that Lord Salisbury has felt called
upon to make very bold bid for the votes OF
protectionists. The British people are beginning
to think that they have had enough of the trade.
-Meriden Conn Republican.
The New York banks need money at this sea-
son TO send West and South to move the crops,
ana that IS why they are taking greenbacks from
the treasury In exchange for the gold they de-
posted with so much patriotic pretense and
needless hypocrisy last summer.-Denver News
1t is rather change of view on the part of the
New York Evening Post to say now that the
Republicans were defeated account of their
platform. The theory Of the independent papers
generally was that the candidate was the plat
form. and platform enough-Charleston News
and Courier.
The real cause Of the Republican defeat in
New York is that a considerable number of Re-
publcans in the country, thinking that the mug
wumps numbered 10000 instead of 5000,
thought it would be safe for them to stay at
home and thus avoid getting wet They will
never again make such a mistake.-Boston Jour-
nal.
The time will surely come when the manifold
crimes of the Democrats in the South will also
recoil upon their authors. 1t may be almost
here. it may not arrive for years, but such
monstrous wrongs do not go unrlghted forever,
and, when re:ribution comes, it is apt to be the
Leader
Professor Tyndall's attack upon Mr. Gladstone
for permitting General Gordon to perish in the
Soudan Is extremely bitter, but the Tories who
so geefully circulate his letter should remem-
Der that their opposition, and not Mr. Glad
stones lndlsposltlon to send relief prevented the
rescue of the hero of Khartoum.- York Mail
and Express.
Cheap and bad. and for the most part nasty.
ttiy describes the whole class of pictorial repre-
sentation in the daily press which has usurped
the province of the police gazettes and under
taken to compete with the artistic work of the
weekly and monthly illustrated journals. Art
istc excellence. or even medlocrity, In the daily
EDITORIALS is out of the question. -Philadelphis
Record.
The fact that New York and Virginia have
gone Democratic show that the party that won
the presidential election last year holds the
centers and pillars of their power-all, indeed
that is essential. The solid South, with the
enormous city of New York and its immediate
surroundings. are all that the Democratic party
require for presidential purposes. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Ultimately, there can be but one outcome
The railroad system of the country will pass uu-
der the ownership and control of the federal
government. and have unified central admins
tration, conducted In the interest of the people,
The pooling system is fastening the era of gov
eminent control by reducing the roads to sys-
tenn, with management from central source
minneapolis Tribune.
1t is but just to the intelligence and power Of
the Roman Catholic Church in this country to
say that the oldest and bravest temperance
workers among Protestants have time and again
reached tho conclusion that it is not to be by
pledges, or by human secular laws, but by the
power of spiritual and moral truth, putting new
and higher purposes into the minds and souls of
men, that intemperance can be cured.-Philadel-
phla Times
Woman suffrage means an IRE pressible con-
f1ict between man and woman. This idea ia now
prevailing The notion of woman suffrage in
subsection to man has pretty much gone out
And now the>question is raised whether the no.
iltlcal freedom OF woman is compatible with
marriage. All perceive that it requires radical
reconstruction of the marriage relation. The
question is whether any of the substance Of it
can be ned.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
A legitimate application of the truth is to say
that every community must have the right to
protect itself against system of boycotting by
which it is proposed to paralyze ali the indus
trial forces of the community. When boycotters
threaten to take by robbery what they need
rather than to be starved into submission" to
the market rate of wages, it is time for the rest
of the community to remember that self preser-
walton is the first law Of nature. York
Times
The opposition to free schools in England is
found chiefly among the Tories who generally
believe that the Established Church should con-
troll education This is impracticable now
when dissenters and non religious persons COM
prise the large majority of the population. The
frees school proposition is popular in England,
and while there Is very little probability Of
actualzing such measure in the next Parlia-
ment, 1t will be ripe enough in q few years
St Paul Press.
It is only by cooperation of all classes-wheth-
or in politics, Christian activities. or efforts for
temperance and other reforms, that this can be
made such metropolis as the country will feel
proud to acknowledge The men who make sx-
listing parties better are thousand fold more
useful citizens than all the critical pessimists
who have newspapers in which to ventilate their
own virtues and arrogance, sand their contempt
for the sef-confessedly human and imperfect
beings who honestly try to make their own little
worlds better and better worth living in and for.
New York Mail and Express
The laboring men may rightly band them.
selves together to help each other and elevate
their own condition. But when any of them
tdrn murderers and attempt to attain their OBJ
jects by deliberate plot to take human life they
forfeit the sympathy OF al right minded people,
besides subjecting the organization to which
they belong to undeserved odium. The only
remedy left the reputable members of the organ
lzation is to show that they have no sympathy
with such criminals and that they in common
with all good citizens. demand their prompt
punishment -Philadelphia Times.
AS nobody claims that Gladstone is god or q
saint, the only way TO judge of him is to COM
pare his words and work with the words and
work of other contemporaneous English states
men. and when seen in this lghs be still remains
head and shoulders above all his companions
and rivals. And when men use such language
that attributed to Mr.. Tyndall and Archdea-
con Denison in reference to such man thew
condemn themselves and the good sense of their
own nation infinitely more than they injure the
fame of the ablest living English statesman Of
this generation. -Phiadelphia Times