The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-29
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE original design of the Clayton Bulwer treaty
was That the two governments should be equally re-
sponsible In every way for the construction of the
canal and should, after It's completion have joint and
equal control. It now looks as if the State Depart
ment and Mr.. Edmunds were bent on having the
United States assume the whole cost of the enterprise
and leave Great Britain still in full possession Of her
right of joint control. A Vermont horse Jockey who
never heard of international! law would be shrewd
enough to see that his distinguished senator was pro-
posing a bad bargain.-New York Tribune.
LIKE murder and crimes against property not ma
tlonal, the criminal use of dynamite wholly within Q
State Is q matter that falls within State juris-
diction. For this reason the effort of Congress 10
stamp out the barbarous business need to be and
should be supplemented by State legislation. A
the introduction in the Senate yesterday of Mr.. Gil
nerts bill. Ii Congress and the Legislature of New
fork, wall pass the most stringent and effective acts
WITHIN Their respective powers on this subject, tho
cowardly villains who are engaged in this work will be
brought within the reach of the criminal law.-New
York Herald.
THERE should be no more fooling with impractical
BILE measuses for the regulation of the details of bust
ness OF railroad or other corporations. It is for the
Democrats of this Congress to make the way clear for
the party IN the next. The way to do this is to cling
to the Jetfersonian landmarks, abide by the old doc
trlnes, follow the old traditions; The cardinal princi-
pie of Democracy is the largest individual liberty and
strict limitation of federal powers. So long as the
party adheres to this, it will retain the confidence Of
the people. 1t will forfeit their confidence, lose popu-
lar support, and pass again into a minority if il de-
serts that standard and turns it's back on the old faith.
New York Sun.
THE sentiment of a large and important class of the
English people has been with Mr.. Parnell in many Of
his demands. He has found sympathizers even in
Parliament outside the Irish members. But the acts
of the ~dynamiters will set the whole Nation against
him and against the most reasonable of ~agitators for
the reform of abuses. The London press well knows
this fact, and hence its appeal to English prejudice.
Can anything more forcibly illustrate the folly and
wlckedness of the dynamite outrages than these proofs
of the mischief they do, not to the British ~'oppres-
sor," but to the patriotic men who are devoting them
selves to the removal of the evils and abuses under
which Ireland has so long sufferedl-New York World.
AS Mr.. Hoar saws, we cannot put s stop
to agitation, TO mere Tuning. and the ex-
preston Of indignation and hatred, but
of feeling, however violent or malignant, and tho
avowal of purposes of prorniscuous slaughter and the
promotion of their execution through public prints.
Liberty of the press. like personal liberty, is to be ex-
ercised with a proper regard for the rights and safety
of society. If our people detest these infamous out
RACES. if the Irish people of this country discounte-
nance them, and if the government desires to clear
itself OF any share in protecting the perpetrators, our
statesmen will do well to consider whether it is possi~
BILE for law to reach the sources from which they
spring, if these are found to be within the jurisdiction
of the United States.-New York Times.
WITH the opening of a ship canal across the isthmua
this supremacy of American tonnage on the north Pa.
cifc will disappear. That ocean will then be covered
with English and German steam 'tramps," which
least ten to one as against American-built steamers.
The building of American sailing ships for the Cali
fornia trade will cease entirely. The only advantage
which California can gain from the construction OF q
ship canal is the shortening of the route to Europe FOR
grain exports; but before the opening of any proposed
canal can become an accomplished fact, California
will have ceased to be a large exporter of grain to Eu-
rope. The soil of that State is being fast diverted to
the growing of more profitable crops, while the do.
mand for wheat and -four from markets bordering
upon the Pacific is increasing TO an extent which will,
in a few years, take all the wheat and -four that Calf
fornia then has to pare.-Philadelphla Chronicle
Telegraph.