The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01

| the wrong time and wrong place. He ought to
| have been brother of Abel. The men who
made and signed the Declaration of Independ-
ence and then put it in front of the Constitution
of these United States bore a heavy cross. I do
aot propose to make that cross of no effect.
| When see man elected to be a servant OF the
| people doing any violence to that document, or
attempting violence. do not go to making an
| Internal machine--I can do better-I will not be
satisfied to vote for him; will vote against him.
Any law that permits one class of men to
combine to Tx prices, must permit other classes
of men to combine to fix wages. Any manu-
facturer can shut down his works without re-
gard to the needs of his workmen. Workmen
can withdraw their labor without regard to the
interest of their employer. There is a more ex-
cellent way which is slowly coming ina more
human way-a decent, Christian way. If people
would study the Bible more and inhuman politi-
cal economy less it would be decent world to
live in. There is such thing as cooperation.
Colonel Forney managed the Philadelphia Press
There is a lack of sympathy. and that comes
from a lack of imagination. The man at the
butt end of a whip stalk has no notion how the
fellow feels at the end of the lash.
There is consoling thought in this; that most
Americans have been working men, and perhaps
cannot forget what labor is That experience
keeps sympathy alive But, we are raising a
crop of men and women who never did day
work; who, when they hear that the people have
no bread, will say, like Marie Antonette. I" Let
them eat cake"
If people had imagination, there could never
be any more war. Ii the "powers that be"
could feel with soldier mangled with ragged
iron. slowly dying in the desert, and then multi
ply that feeling by few thousand they would
not have ordered an English feet to shell Alex
andria. But, dull and stupid witha heavy dinner,
without imagination, without sympathy, few
men, assisted by one woman, begin war that is
not likely to end Away go the brave fellows
with an autograph of the Queen and the "God
bless you" of her hopeful son. General Gordon
having stood his lonesome watch FOR more than a.
year, 'cut off from the land that bore him, be-
trayed by the land he found" Is the world it
sorry to say, dead-assassinated by one of his
own men. And now war of vengeance is de-
clared against people who have done nothing at
all except what Washington did. Failing for
more than year to save Gordon, now that he is
killed by of his own men, vengeance must
be taken and the Soudanese slaughtered. 1t is
the most senseless plan of vengeance. It is idi-
otto. Vengeance is bad thing 1t is as if, be
ing insulted down town by stranger, | should
come home and butcher my neighbours baby.
The way of the transgressor is hard;" not only
the end of the way--that we all know is hard,
and dark, and hot--but the way is hard, every
foot of it. tits the most vulgar war on record.
l: began in the interest of private individuals
who had loaned money at enormous usury to
Egypt Great Britain is one thing and her sol
diers another. The Irish, who, it is said, are not
capable of self-government, make excellent gen.
erals lt is pity to see men so wasted-such
splendid valor flung away like dust Are brave
men so plenty and noble causes so few that such
war can be afforded! General Gordon belongs
to the class of Mah0met. Cromwell, Livingstone
Stonewall Jackson. Calvinistic to the extreme
OF Calvlnism. he looked upon the world as the
tooi-chest of God. When the Almighty worker
needed a chisel He took it, When He was
through with it He would lay it down When am
dull, he said. God will sharpen He had no
fear. When he was in Abyssinia, King Johannes
said to him: do you know that could kill
you on the spot?' "Wel said Gordon, II am
ready. So far from fearing death, you would
confer favor me by so doing; you would be
doing to me what am precluded by my relig-
ion from doing to myself; you would deliver me
from all the troubles and misfortnnes which my
future have in store for me-" The man has
seized hold of the imagination of the world in
remarkable way, and men and women find it
hard to admit that he could be killed. The New
York Tribune tells the story Of his last year
"A solitary European has held Khartoum against
a horde of barharians; he has raised armies and
paid and fed them without money. He has
stood on the broken rampant, a solitary English
sentry, refusing to desert those who trusted in
him and awaiting an army of reScuers which
never came, and there he will remain in the
memory of the nation, a sublime figure never to
be forgotten his heroism fortitude, chivalrous
loyalty and Christian faith understood at last
God moves ill mysterious way Gen. Gordon
isdead and O'Donovan Rosa is alive
L have, my friends, entitled this discourse
current events" We live in time when one
does not need to go back nor peer into the future
to find something to think about, to speak of
and to do We are making history. Let US
make it that the children will be proud to read
1.-THE evidence that their fathers and mothers
were wise and kind, merciful and considerable,
strong to bear the infrmities Of those that are
weak, and brave enough to keep free the coun-
try madefree by the brave dead.