The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-08
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.

THE Republican is always delighted to learn that
any deserving Republican official has good prospect
of retention under Democratic administration But
the contempt of every honorable mind is the just de-
sert of every Republican place holder who has gone
ton of contempt due to the few who have sought to
insure their own sodity by working against their sub
ordinates or associates in ofice.-National Repub-
lican.
friends and foes of temperance less actve but
with Kansas druggists getting rich from the sale OF
liquor, Iowa common councils defying the laws OF
the State and drunkenness acknowledged to be on
the increase in Maine, remedy seems TO suggest
itself alike for ALL that remedy is high license whch
shall regulate and hold in check evil that system,
of legislation however stringent and with whatever
penalties, has succeeded will succeed In
wholly suppressing. brooklyn Union.
MINISTER KEILEY's bad luck is miscellaneous and
enduring Having been duly slated by the nom
Catholics bigot and reactionary, he is in
formed by the Catholic Mirror, of Baltimore that hs
because he has Justified Victor Emmanues niquitoua
usurpaton of the Popes domains" on the ground OF
the acquescence of the inhabitants -acquiescence AT
the bayonets point the Mirror calls it, Mr.. Kelley
furnishes an excellent illustration of the incon.
veniences OF importing religion into politics.-Pha
delphia Record
1T would have been disgrace to our common civ,
ilizaton if England and Russia could have dscov
cred some other mode of tracing the border line of
Afghanistan than by tracing it in the life blood Of tens
of that fact great expectations may properly be
entertained from the present posture of affairs The
fatal drifting the East which would inevitably have
ended IN prolonged strife, will give way 1t may
be- to definite determination of the rights of all in
terested parties so that no excuse remain foi
palpable infraction of conceded claims. There are
reasons for believing that the Ministry viii avail
themselves of this opportunity to lay deep the foun
dations of peace.-Boston Transcript.
1T is useless for the Democratic organs which cring
and fawn upon the administration to try and
down this opposition Their constant assertion that
there is dissatisfaction appears as ridiculous the
effort Of the man who tried to check bursting reser
will oh Nv adulo.
ton and arguing that his will give the party
victory at distant day in the future is windy
the Republican ofice-holders denounced as rascals
from every stump last fall, and they cannot be con
WINGED now that these men should not be turned Out
at once without admitting that they themselves were
guled with false charges. To be made laughing
stock is not pleasant to Democrats any than it is
to other men.-Philadelphia Press.
BLOODY strikes can hardly be said TO be Indigenous
to American soil. Even the great railway strike OF
1877 was almost wholly the work of men of foreign
birth and the descendants of men who came to this
country less than generation ago. 1t may be said n
explanation that the kind of associated labor which
liable to strikes is almost entirely in the hands Of
foreigners and the children of those who came to this
country not earlier than 104S but the fact still
mains that evidently great many Europeans come
to America with distorted ideas of what liberty
in country which recognizes no king except the
sovereign people 1t is high time that impressive
notice were served upon the representatives among MS
of all nations that law is supreme and that mob vo'
lence cannot be tolerated. Chicago Inter Ocean.
IL is au efrOf, OF course 10 suppose
would benefit the people of the United States as
! whole. & few persons only would be made richer,
while all the others would be made poorer by precisely
their proportion of the worlds wealth destroyed in
the struggle. When Europe is impoverished Anaerica
has so many customers the less for American products
and when the .pauper laborer' of England and
France and Russia and Germany has to pay higher
prices for his bread and clothing his fortunate
rival in the United States may count with confidence
upon having TO pay higher prices here for the sama
articles The losses occasioned by European can
not and will not be restricted to the peoples engaged
in the war. They will be distributed slowly but
surely over the civilized world and the people Of the
United States will have their part to pay in the end
And the is that expenditures--except in
national and self.regarding sheer waste.
Charleston News and Courier.
So strong are the barbarous instincts of the race
even among the civilized nations that probably
very large proportion of the English people to-day
do not like it arbitraton and peace simply because
it has not been preceded by the slaughter Of one or
two hundred thousand young men, by the burning
of large numbers of merchantmen and the wasting oil
great tracts of country by FIRE and sword They want
to the attention of the civilized world distracted
for year or two from commerce, and art, and
science and literature. and invention in order ia
count the manged corpses great battle fields and
to rejoice over the number of buildings destroyed and
ships sunk. They want to see the Russian olelgy
thanking Almighty God for the slaughter of many
Englishnen and the English clergy praying to Him
to help the English gunners to kill plenty of Russians
with the least possible loss to themselves and fill the
land with widows and orphans whom nobody elso VIII
take care of.--New York Evening Post.