The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08

that painted fraud broke in two on wave. She
was as tender as biscuit. You could run a
knife into her sides up to the handle. attended
the funeral OF some of her passengers. It did
not make so much difference who her captain
was or clerk. The disease was dry rot in the
thing itself, and nobody had any desire to ex-
We have plenty of cheerful optimists in this
CONTEMPORARIES of good. and | am one of
them. The people are slow. General Dumont
said: ''The people never are right, but they
woooe right They put up with an
evil until it threatens to be fatal
and then rise and cure it. once
thought that nation that could go
flag was safe as against anything But you
remember our old war-ship Constitution.
Proud and victorious on the deep sea,
buoyant in battle. But the old ship
could not stand the days of peace. the
still water of the harbor, and was defeated from
within. Men go that way-ride at the head of
armies, stand safely at the mouths of shotted
guns, come out of hail and smoke alive and
white and then die of some throat or heart
trouble Who ever saw General Mcclellan and
thought OF death? Ships must go to pieces men
must die, but there is no need for the death of
nation Injustice! There is plenty of medicine
tor that A surgeon can attend to that. All the
things that nations die Of are within the power
OF eltlzens to cure. Foreigners are visiting the
Republic. Those who do not visit us read our
newspapers. OF all the times that l especially
90 not want to see foreigner l would select the
fore part of November as the time. We are not
at our best then. Perhaps the foreigner is
Iory-believes in kings and dukes-and he
watches election, and goes home and says:
Il told you so. These people cannot govern
themselves; they will need doctor Some
kind of car is the thing" And then he reads
the prophecy of Thomas Carlyle entitled,
shooting Niagara and After" and feicitates
himself that are in the current just before the
falls, and so busy with business that we do not
know it,
The destiny of the Republic is not a question
that concerns only one side the ocean. Any evil
that happens to the theory of government by the
people is the grief of all the brave lovers of lib
erty in all the earth. Failure in this theory. and
the world goes back beyond that great year of
our Lord l776. The men of that time had hope.
Let the experiment, then, begin to fail or show
signs of failure and hope is killed, and there is
resurrection of the four Georges. Every old
form of tyranny will roll it's eyes and jerk its
elbows and come to life That will be an Easter
without bells or flowers We under pledge
to Almighty God and the whole earth that gov
eminent by the people shall not cease
There is a little book just published in
England, entitled 'Why am l a Liberal2" Mr..
Gladstone sends the following definition: 1.-THE
principleof Liberalism is trust in the people,
qualified by prudence. The principle of Con-
servatism is distrust in the people, qualified by
fear" 1t is essential just now, of all times that
trust in the people of this Nation be qualified by
pruueuce' put III Is eSSentlal GnaI we nolu our
place.
The coming democracy of Great Britain can
not bear any Encouragement from this side
the sea- 1t is only as we succeed that any one
dreams Of succeeding. The support of the rad
cal in England Ireland and Scotland is America
builded after the plan of the architects who so
far forgot their business as to die for their
country; and not only died, but sit is pleasant
and sweet so to die. An English editor and
member of Parliament says of democracy in
Great Britain: 'She has wandered too long in
the Wilderness she must dwell no longer among
the rocks and the sands. We must possess the
the land at once. In every successive Parla
ment there will be greater number of Demo
Gratis, of men who know little of the old party
cries and who care less. Doctrines which only
few short years ago were regarded
area of practical politics. Pledges are
demanded from candidates for
Parliament, which would have been deemed not
long ago revolutionary. Old Mother Parting
tons will find it impossible to stop the incoming
motion with their mops. The day of checks and
counterposes is over. Our triumph triumph
complete and absolute-is not far distant" So
writes Henry Labouchere And now, when
people so long disinherited in the old world are
coming to their own, suppose the news should
60 that the people of the new world having come
to their own, had by carelessness and wicked
dsinherted themselves: had no king in
deed-no such luck as that-but mob of hire
llngs. l have always had confidence in this
country since the great boss, the banner boss of
the world, the man who asked the question.
What are you going to do about it," had his
hair cut and wore striped clothes Excepting
the French Revolution that was the most cheer
full thing that has happened for centuries The
one gave hope to the nations and the other gave
hope to all cities