The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-11

the cattlemen but to the government and IL il The
duty of the President and Congress to call off the
troops, declare It open for settlement and allow the
farmers OF the west TO go in there and make homes
for themselves The same should be done all over the
Territory and be without doing any injustice ID
the Indians.-Chicago Tribune.
IT is true Afghanstan is not actually British terri.
tory stl, it is an outpost of India To allow en-
croachments upon it would be to permit India itself
to be struck in of its vital parts This it is
tain. no British government afford to do and va
Consequently We may lock to see other Russian
croachments in the direction of Herat repealed with
the whole dsposabe force of the of Great
Britain and thus these persistenty sought Russian
desires disappointed in their expected favorable out
THAT man once having filed Che place Mr.. Arthur
has just left should quietly set about earning his v-
ing IN an independent and honest way is in all proba
olty possible only in true democracy: and that his
doing SO should be in good faith pronounced "a start
ling turn in affairs is only possible in country like
England, where profound reverence for loyalty
some exalted, distinct and sacred quality has boon
bred III the people through generation after genera
ton, dating back to barbarisrn where royalty had its
origin and its most effective onisylle
Courier-Journal.
IT is probably true that Mr. Hendricks does not like
Mr.. Mcdonald, and that Mr.. Mcdonald does not like
Mr. Hendricks but the relations of the two. men are
where they supply theme for talk and perhaps make
or mar the political fortunes of a good MANY am.
bilious gentlemen never herad of outside the State.
The ex-senator is in private life with only remote
prospect OF leaving it for any public place while the
Vice president holds Office which he will find dis
tressingy barren of all convenences for rewarding
his friends ard Furnishing his enemies. 4 political
hight between two eminent personages thus placed will
scarcely interest this sensational and exactng age.
New York Times.
In some of the Southern States remarkable prog
ress toward absolute prohibition is being made by
local action. One county after another has heen cap
tured until in several States there is prospect that
the liquor traffic be entirely prohibited. In that
region it is noteworthy fact that the Democratic
managers are content to pursue the which tho
Republicans in many Northern States p,rsue they
leave the people of each locality decide as they
choose on the liquor question. irrespective of politics
In the Northern States progress would have been
quite easy if the advocates of prohibition had not
chosen to serve the Democratic party rather than
their cause and to create political issues which
for the present render their impossibe-Eew
York Tribune.
IT is not merely accident, we may be sure that
policy which has given to the West during tho last
twenty-four years full half of the.Cabinot repre-
sentation is suddenly changed that all the
recognition she gets is not equal considering the
chosen to that which is given to the single little rac
ton of territory called Delaware. The Republican
party did things differently 1t gave the East and the
South equally with the West, due share of repre-
sentaton in its Cabinets; and time did any of its
Presidents so far depart from the principles of good
faith and gratitude to practically ignore in that
respect the States that had almost half of the
party vote. The contrast is instructive and sug
gestive one-St. Louis Globe Democrat