The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE people are perfectly willing that reasonable
sum should be given to any Indian tribe for its right
TO lands which it does not need and they entirely
willing furthermore that every Indian shall have
guaranteed to him in fee simple as many acres as a
white man can secure under the homestead act But
they not content to have large and available tracts
condemned &c perpetual uselessness point
of morbid sentiment; and statesmen may well
be getting ready to put end to that sort Of policy
st Louis Gobe-Democrat.
IN its best aspect, the Soudan expedition has as
sumed the proportions of great national disaster
Ii s impossible to survey the situation. its colossal
errors and failures the complications it has involved
and the superhuman difficulties that obstructit its aIneli-
grafton and not be aware that the emergency is crit.
zeal for England The question is not Of the
cue of one Engshmaa, but of thousands, and each
succeeding day reveals additional evidence that no
practical relief assistance can be extended before
next autumn.-New York Sun.
IT is a singular fact recently pointed out that
while we assumed neutra. duties by the treaty of
Washington, dated fourteen years ago, the law of
neutrality IS half century behind the alert dyna
law and when Americans fond Of quiet life suggest
an amendment of the law they are met with bubbles
about the conflict between local and federal iurisdic
tons. Did we take the plea of non possumus from
England! Would England take such plea from rs?
What the judgment of the Geneva tribunal to
that plea of incapacity under municipal law to dis
charge an international dutyg-New York Times.
IT appears to be the duty of Republicans in Con-
gross to insist that the party recently ntrusted with
power shall no longer shirk all responsibility, in the
dishonest and cowardly fashion it has so long fol
lowed; TIE Republicans ought to insist that square
vote shall be taken upon amendment to stop the
coinage of silver and the issue of silver certificates at
If the Democrats will rot face such vote the
country will understand that they willing to have
the Treasury dishonored and all business disordered
by relapse into the monetary barbarism Of China.
If they ask Republicans to help them give measure
OF confidence to Democratic President which has
been refused to Republican Presidents, and which
Democrats alone not pass, they should be taught
that, whether Democrats have any selfrespec not
Republicans have-New York Tribune.
IT is significant that the Democratic papers main
tain profound silence with respect this Chicago
crime ballotbox stufinel refer TO it only to rii
cule its im.por ance. They have sought to keep it
from the public mind just they tried to prevent all
discussion of the enormy of slavery and just as they
try to smother every investigation into the eoos
sal frauds upon the suffrage in the South by protest
ing against the waving Of The bloody shirt They were
eager grasp the fruit of this crime in Chicago just
as they have willingly proted in the past by the
nefarious schemes i'll that city and elsewhere 1t
only by the aid of the federal election law that this
Western fraud swas unearthed, and against that law
the Democratic party opposed solidy. No part of
their national triumph has given them much real
satisfaction the prospect of repeating multiplying
this statute. But the law was found to be power
ful an aid in the Chicago that the people will
hardly ston with patience to demands for it's repeal
from party that now is. and always has been, the
enemy OF pure politics.-Philadelpha Press.