The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-31
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If these men can be shut off from this source Of
to 90 to work or into some kind Of overt crime for
which the law find suitable and merited punish
ment. They would like to be enemies of the human
race but cowardce does not permit. Failing in this
they like to have the reputation Of unusual bru-
talty.-Philadelphia Times.
The opinions of ODonovan Rosa, Patrick Ford,
John r. Finerty and others of their kind not OF
the slightest concern to anybody except the men who
deliberately misrepresent the real sentiment of OUT
people Ind the honest purposes of Irish patriotism
me . wide s nr Of their 6eodhrsty
ferocity can never hurt England nor do other than
injury to Ireland but it does help these persons to
impose upon the ignorant the unwary and to this
extent the newspaper notorety given them is just so
much gratuitous advertising.
WHATEVER criticisms may be made upon Mr..
Evarts 1t is evident that his election is the best poss
BILE issue of the contest The qualities and character
istics of no public man better known. Al
his age do rot change. What he has
been he will continue to be-. The mere intrigues
and management of party will not be promoted or
aided by him. But he will be faithful party follow
or, as he has always BEEN and in the great debates
% an sne
which properly belongs to the Empire Stste.-Harpers
Weekly.
FROM whatever point viewed the dynamiters cannot
be excused their criminal folly palated They
assassins striking in the dark, for one know
who will be the victims. and behind them be
found no definite cause Concede that they really
anxious to break the yoke England has placed upon
the neck of Ireland, and even then no sane man can
suppose for moment that the English government
would bow the knee to Rosa and beg him to the
terms which he would call off his cranks In fact
great derived advantage from assassnar
ton, whether large small scale.-Chcago In
ter Ocean.
EVERY civilized man must rejoice in the victory what
ever he may think Of the wisdom honesty of max
ing the Stewart the representative of civil
cation in struggle with barbarism. The forces OPP
posed to him not like the Afghans Zulus the
Beers. men merely defending their native country
against an invasion of conquest They gang Of
the meanest of all thieves-slave thieves, namely
They have converted their habitat, by nature q
desert into slum, and their abject vices in
degree redeemed by their fanaticism So far they
are concerned there is room for sympathy.-New
York Times.
BUT of all habits which seem impossible the habit
af listening to tariff speeches is certainly the most
That any man can acquire, during brief campaign.
melancholy habit of listening to such speeches. and
can find himself encouraging the persistence of the
tariff speaker is almost beyond the belief of thH
credulous age. Of sll forms of human misery, mont
is so benumbing that of sitting under tariff talk
Tariff editorials are bad enough but the suffering
they inf1ct is limited because the reader falls into
deep sleep before the stage of paralysis is reached
But the loud voice of the tariff orator does not allow
the victim to sleep. The punishment is merciess,
milwaukee, Sentinel
THE Democratic senator's and representatives whose
lifelong habit has been to obey the mob and who
their position to past success in counting the favor Of
the pothouse politicians at home are not going TO
follow Mr. Cleveland anybody else in a policy
which does not please those whom the members recog
nze their influential constituents. Were Mr..
find it hard work to command such a set of men az
represent the Democratic party in Congress But,
being what he is-a gentleman not overcrowded with
ideas, or overloaded with polcies-he will probably
recognize the fact that he could not command if ha
wanted to, and will let Congress go much as IL
pleases.-New York Tribune.
If these Oklahoma lands are sacred to the indiana
ard to the treaties" made with the Indians why are
they not sacred when great capitalists and syndcates
drive their herds them and keep them there year
after year with profit of millions of dollars every
yearf If they sacred why is it that Congress can
grant rights of way railroads not only through the
unoccupied land where there Indians but
right through the country actually inhabited by the
Greeks, and Cherokees, and Choctaws? If President
Arthur holds such intense views about the direct
trust assumed by treaty by reservation why Ii
that he permitted the alleged treaties to be disre
garded and the reservations to be invaded without
protest long the invaders railroad corpora
tons and cattle syndicates9-Chcago Tribune.
THE inability of the Indians to manage the land
they supposed to occupy but in which they have
real interest points to reformed methods in the
line just suggested and the repeal of the useless pre-
empton laws would simplify the cumbersome
system of land laws. AS to the movement against
ALLEN land owners, this seems to us like crusading
against foreign" importers. So long as they obey
the laws of the land they ought not to be condemned
merely because they foreigners The evils attend
ing large holdings great, but they may be coun.
teracted by better than the prohibiting of
investments Of foreign capital here The whole land
policy of the government needs reform it offers
many opportunities for fraud.--New York Herald.