The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-18
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WE are seeking foreign trade. The government has
been making commercial treaties, and a commission
has been to South America, Mexico and elsewhere to
see what openings be made for American products
These efforts useless unless regular lines of
munication under the flag of the Republic are estab
shed to these countries. That is the rst step to be
TAKEN and the first attempt of Congress to adopt that
policy has been frustrated by the Administrations
procedure which cannotbe too deeply deplored-Bos
tor journal.
WHEREVER prohibition has set up a separate party
organization there the progress of temperance reform
has been most discouraged and its future is least
hopeful. In States where the prohibition mania never
obtained strength high license has here and there been
tried with admirable results. The active prohibition
States in the worst of all. Maine STANDS
the warning of generation against the futility of
statutory prohibition Kansas and Iowa awful ex
amples of the curse of prohibtory amendment.-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
THE Prohibitionists of Massachusetts announce
that they will put full State ticket in the field and
that artful old friend, Mr. St John will make
the principal speeches of the campaign. Perhaps if
the Republican managers of Massachusetts, should
think it worth the expense, they might by of
those persuasive which it reported st.
john devised for himself last induce that
suddenly to fall i'll and thereby to be shunted off from
the track of further political eloquence for the year.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
INTER STATE extradition ought properly to be per-
formed by the federal government instead of each
State being left practically free to do it pleases
about demanding surrendering fugitive criminals.
Congress has full power to make such change. 1t
of impartial power than to leave it to the disputes
OF governors with arbitrator to settle the contro
versy determine the rights OF either party. The
only true method is to put all interstate relations in
the hands of the federal government fer practi
cable.-Chicago Tribune.
THERE can be no modification in the civl-service
law without the concurrence of b tn honses of Con-
gress and the approval of the President The Senate
is Republican, and will remain for several years.
OF course, nothing would give the Republican Sen
ators greater delight than to have the De1nocrttie
House pass notifications which the Senate could
defeat Even If such measures passed the Senate the
President could be depended upon absolutely to veto
them. The idea therefore, that there can be found
any considerable number of Democrats in the House
who will be foolish to engage in which is
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THERE is no reason why they 1.-THE mugwumps[
should want to go over to the Democrats, and
cause to believe they will If the Republican papers
and leaders will cease abusing them one by one thew
will drop away from their leaders who will she rtly
look round. and to their disnay find themselves
movement with such history as that of the indie
pendent revolt. But Republicans should remember
that the of all the bad words in the dictionary
will not reclaim single wandering mugwump. Sheep
that have strayed from the pasture sometimes
recalled by pleasant words, but by clubs and
stones.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
A LITTLE knowledge of the facts of the case also
leads to the conclusion that the present lack of
ployment for labor and capital and the consequent
sagnaton III business due not to the fear of the
silver dollar, but the actual grinding pressure of
the gold standard. Prices of all commodities
measured in gold have been falling for ten years
past, and it is not certain that they have touched
bottom Hence, capitalists wait, and the laborers
wait and everybody waits to what is going to
happen. similar stagnation. produced by the same
cause prevails in Great Britain where silver coin is
legal tender only to the amount OF forty shillings
and where the fear of the silver dollar is unknown
New York Sun.
THE independent voter is not identified with or en-
roll ed in any party. He forms his conclusions
regarding candidates and platforms, votes for the
men and principles he deems best and is not contin.
uay procaiming his own projections from the house
tops. The mugwump, on the other hand, is Repub-
lican who marched out of his camp because OF
his antipathy to Blaine, aud now insists don,ineer
ing the Democratic party He is noisy out of ali
proportion to his numbers; he contends that the saliva
ton of the country hangs upon the nostrums and
formulas of Eaton and he declares that if he
have his way he will go srag ht back to the asso-
ciates whom he denounced and abandoned year ago.
New York Graphic (Dem)
EITHER self-government is good investment or it
is not If it is, if the money the people expend in
their corporate capacity yields larger harvest of
practical results for the benefit of the people as
whole than the money which they spend through cor
poratons Individuals then it is safe to say that
as the people become more intelligent and compre-
bend better what they need they will insist that pub.
lie servants shall serve the public more efficiently
Reform will be in the direction of larger and better
service not of fewer servants and moro stingy pay
If any machinery of reform will better prac-
teal service the people will insist upon it and get it,
it not, not. Theorists worship forms and formulas;
the people want results.-New York Tribune.
The latest scheme of the professional labor agta
tors is one that apy displays the caber and charac-
ter of the men who live off the real tolefs and which
will excite general public ridicule The would be
leaders OF the movement to have extra session of
Congress called show their ncapacity to comprehend
financial and commercial questions by the absurd sug-
gestlOns they make For instance it is claimed that
the cancellation of several hundred million dollars of
the public debt would relieve alleged financial strn.
gency by putting that much ready money into crcu-
laton. etc. How much of that money would go into
the gaping pockets of these labor agitators9 How
much better off would it's distribution make the aver
york; what thar n-nd0
of enforced ideness9 The petitions GENT out for
signatures to-day unworthy the attention of any
Intelligent American Observation-Disclosures Tele-
graph.