The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-27

powers for some months to come, unless tho Russian
war party, in . burst Of petulant folly, should play
directly into Lord Salisbury's hands BY demands 30
arrTgant, or encroachments 50 fisgrant, that tho Lab
OF conciliating Russia and to support the governments
In an uphinching attitude that, perhaps, would lead To
war.-New York Sun.
WHAT the country needs is a more active interess
manifested from the mass Of the people in public az
fairs aAd IN the conduct Of public officials, Our faith
ers were warned that sEternas vigilance Is the price of
nperey. us no cheaper now than it was then. You
can = guy IL ior any less price than eternal vigilance
now any more than they could a hundred wears ago.
and We cease TO pay eternal vigilance we are going
to lose our liberty, that's all. Each individual ouchf
to feel that he has a responsibility resting upon him:
that ne has a duty to perform in the politics of his
country, and that a failure 70 perform that duty inn
pcrils the very liberty Of which orators speak in praise
every Fourth of ~July.-Kirwin (Kan) Independents
THE temperature Of July in the country east Of ths
Rocky Mountains Except near the Atlantic saaboard
and the great lakes will probably be generally higher
tricts being subject for q few weeks to ''cool waves
from Hudson's Bay. But in August we may expect
quite a general. though possibly slight excess Of heat
and but moderate rainfall in the country east of the
10th meridian, with but little exception, unless ON
the New England and Jersey coast. September also
than usual until the equinox in almost all districts iy-
ing east of the Mississippi valley, with a sequel OF
heavy rains in the central States bordering the upper
Mississippi. 1t this outlook is correct it suggests the
need OF sanitary precautions and vigilance, especially
in all our inland town and cities, and holds out to the
~ Iuo nOpc OK DetCer lafyeSlS JR30
they now look for.-New York Herald.
If civil-seryice reform is so poor q thing as to need
such aids; If 1t must shun the light of day, crawling
fearing beyond everything tie bright sun of Heaven
IF these are the methods we have brought to our
assistance in the sacred name of reform, then the
sooner we. r~epudiate reform and put on another garb
the better for the fragrance of our memory and for
every decent and reputable cause throughout the
land. But this is not reform. 1t is the sick. distorted
nightmare of some dreamer who thinks he dreams OF
reform. IL Is o carlcaturo, q sarcasm, a griunluE
masque from the Dark Ages, a relic of L.oyola. 1t Is
impossible that the Democratic administration really
means to father and to nourish the unwholesomo
thing. 1t is incredible that into this free country aud
enlightened age we intend to transplant the most
loathsome meanness and cruelty of the inQuisition.
Washington Post (Dem.)
IT would be unfair to the virginians to assume that
they are all like Kelley, for their criticism of his re.
cent utterances has shown that they do not entertain
his revolutionary ideas; but the recklessness of their
blind provincial partisanship, such as was shown, let
us assume, in their ignorance of his real character, is
the danger that Northern men have feared from tho
South. The revival of the Confederacy, the payment
of the confederate debt, the pensioning of the ex-ccn-
federate soldiers, and all such impossible projects
have not frightened anybody, nor has danger Of their
accomplishment been seriously thought about by som
sible men. But the dullness Of public sentiment in
the South. which has not encouraged the expressionof
ger to good governm emit. The stolid solidity Of q
party which rests on so broad and Illogical a basis a.
the color-line has made public opinion useless for good
purposes, and turned it into q weapon for the poHG-
cians.-Brooklyn Union.
TIL peace Of a community is never so secure az
when it contains a gathering of Union veterans who
have assembled to renew their fellowship and recount
the battles and sieges they have passed. 1t is quito
possible they might feel inclined to pledge a toast or
mad that would anticipate scenes of public drunken
ness at such a time. In Portland, as in every other
place where veterans are gathered together, there was
good cheer and enthusiasm, and at the same time the
most perfect good order. A fanatic whose blood was
too cold to be warmed by the patriotic memories which
the scene recalled might still be unable to find in ie
anything to condemn. And ii is the sheerest hypocrisy
to claim Partland as a prohibition town when there
arer2 0 known places there where liquor is sold every
day to several thousand citizens Of the city with very
little disguise or secrecy. If the old veterans carried
any liquor in their baggage into camp it was because
on account Of its scarcity enFd diaiculty o in / procn = :; e
there.-Chicago Tribune.