The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-02
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GENERAL LOGAN probably has some positive opin.
ions as to the theory that prejudice exists in the
Point. He is not West Point man." was the rea-
son assigned for promoting another to the command
which he had earned in of the fercest battles of
the war. He might contribute some interesting sug-
gestons to the discussion in Congress whether West
Point graduates resolved to crush General SWAIN
Express.
THE police cannot--and do their duty to the re-
spectacle, peaceabe part of the communit7--palter
with the rioters They must preserve the peace main
tam order, protect the citizen in his right to work
to refuse to work if to do requires the employment
of all the available They must strike terror
the hearts of lawbreakers and rioters and thus pre-
vent the increase of lawlessness rotous mob is not
dangerous if convinced that the regularly constituted
guardians of the peace determined to preserve the
peace--Philadelpha Telegraph.
WHEN silver is deprecated and driven out of oircu-
lation the Greenback party will be revived and it will
have it's platform the recent decision of the SUI
preme Court, which declares that Congress has the
right to issue egaltender notes. 1t would be very
strong platform indeed and If the monometalsts and
gold-bugs influential with the Democratic Pres
ident and Congress they profess to be, we shall
have a repetition of tho Greenback movement which,
few years ago, created such CONSERVATION in Wall
street and among the gold-bugs.-Atlanta Consttu-
ton
THERE is not as a matter of fact ANYTHING in the
land to prevent women from doing whatever men may
do lawfully. They count money in the National
Treasury, distribute the mails in thousands of post
pillow and SOW many Western FARMS and figure as
bread winners in almost every other position the
important of porter sleeping-car. It may be
added that they VOTE hold elective offices and sit as
jurors in every place where they have made practical
efforts to these privileges.-Louisville Com
mercial.
and indelible reproach reflected upon the country
by Congress, if General Grants days were numbered
without his restoration to the army 1t is not asked
for tribute of generosity, but it is demanded by
the consderate Judgment of the Nation the tribute
of justice. The member of the present House who
shall lead that body to the passage of the Edmunds
bill win be gratefully remembered by the American
people, and his laurels will brighten in the early flu
ture when the country one bereaved brotherhood.
will sorrow the grave Of General Grant.-Phila
delphia Times
THE great mass of London poverty is of tho utterly
hopeless kind The laborers of the East End are not
capable of being organized into trades unions
repeated experiments have shown. 1t is manu-.
featuring city without factories port without dock
yards It's people live by small and ipaid industries
do the ccupaits of the New York tenement houses
They have not the heart to speak up for themselves
and their empoyments do not bring them together
large groups which suggest united action of any kind.
When such people begin to clamor around public
officials for employment and to storm public Offices in
their search for the means to get bread it is sg
nicant. 1t is though the sheep had risen in revolt
and had begun to try whether their teeth would
to bite their masters. -Philadelphia Press.
HIGH license is not only restriction of evil but
1t is beneficial measure to tho consumer and both
the sellers and the know this so well that
when the measure becomes law the brewers will be
compelled to cease opposition. High license once en-.
acted always takes care of itself. 1t has done in
Illinois, in Missouri and in Nebraska and all that the
Wisconsin the Minnesota legislators have to do is
to go ahead and pass it. They will make grave
political social and moral mistake it, through cow
ardly fears they fail to do IT, They will fail to pass
measure which will regulate the evils of intemper.
ance, diminish the volume of crime and increase the
public revenue, thereby diminishing the burdens of
taxation with satisfaction to the sellers the drinkers
and the general public-Chcago Tribune.
PRESIDENTS have before now broken with the party
to which they owed their election and thereby to
grief but III such they have owed their election
to the party alone, and their subsequent has
failed to the support of strong public senti
ment which the party would have been compelled to
respect The sentiment in behalf of vseryice re.
form has developed in the last fourteen years that
President who owes his election largely TO its nau.
afford to disregard it. b. adhering the principles
to which he is fully pledged, and applying them il-
win the glory which General Grant predicted for the
administration that should begin the reform Of the
civil service vigorously. New York Tribune.
THERE is undoubtedly marked distinction be-
tween coin, which always, as metal, has market
value, and inconvertibe paper currency which may,
like the continental currency the French assignats
dollar, for example, is not likely under any cir.
cumstances, to be worth less than from eighty to
eighyfvc cents in gold. To this extent silver is bet
ter than inconvertble paper But there is reason
why the people Of the country especially the poorer
people, should the risk of losing fifteen twenty
cents on the dollar, or of having their incomes cut
IN,
take this line, and advocate that view without being
regarded the enemy of the Democratic party which
claims to be the party of the people News
and Courier.
THE liquor doing moro than an offensive
and disreputabe thing when they buy up cheap egis-
lators and defanty oppose tho public wll-they are
also doing stupid and self destructive thing Tactics
of that sort pay in the long The people of
Minnesota will not permit the liquor interest to die
tate, or to veto legislation. This is the calm fact lie
the liquor men persist in preventing the passage of
law which the people want there can be only ono out.
come. The people will somehow manage to crush tho
liquor interest. Such revulsou Of popular feeling
world not really aid the of temperance at all.
In the long run it would have deporable effect upon
tbs good order of the State. But while it would in.
iure the State 1t would still seriously injure the
men who ofensively preventing the enact
ment of just and reasonable law.---Aiinneapolis
Tribune.
WHAT have the American people gained b, taking
part in this the Congo conference through accredited
dent at variance with the oldest traditions of thor
diplomacy What compensation has been offered In
return for what the House committee on foreign af
fairs condemns "as a departure from the policy which
forbds the of tho United States TO par
ticipate in any political combination or movement cut.
side of the American continentl" few compli-
1nents to tie American representatives and the as.
sumption by the of capital in Europe that
the United States had entered upon new career OF
active and meddlesome diplomacy. One of the fun.
dame,l. al doctrines of Washngton's farewell address
has been officially abandoned in the very year whom
the great obelsk dedicated TO his memory has been
completed.-New York Tribune.