The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-21
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RUSSIA, some one once wrote, is giant with her
head bedded IN eternal SHOWS, and her feet resting
among beautiful spring flowers She has long felt the
necessity Of putting her head where her feet have
been. of opening up the vast OF her Asatio
dominions which she is developing, and of shaking
off the last of the humhating conditions hampering
her entrance to and egress from her southern doin
ions, and England will eventually have to submit TO
these necessities being FULFILLED be prepared to cp
pose them alone. Can she do soa-New York Herald
IT is desirable that the wage-earners on railroads
should not be in position to be oppressed by the
Notwithstanding no means of self-defcnse.. Under
such as this Brotherhood of Engineers not only
sirable but almost necessary But the time may
when. under more perfect social system some means
will be devised of having the cooperative principle
applied to all forms Of work. so that the humblest
wageearner will feel that his interests closely
bound up in the prosperity OF the corporation fcr
part.-Boston Herald y.
THE party that, having been intrusted by theeouA-
try with the direction of its governmental policy and
the exercise of its legislative and executive powers.
hope to retain the trust only by using its public
offices as engine of political bribery and debaueh
cry is not fit to- live, and It may be seriously doubted
If ii Is fit to die. Still for the welbeing of the
nation, the sooner it is destroyed the better. lie
stopping the treatment Of the public Offices party
patronage will destoy it. the President who puts
effective stop to it will occupy higher place in the
history of this nation than the most lustrious of his
predecessors. Times.
DOES any one believe that England proposes to
spend between twenty five and fifty millions OF dollars
merely for the purpose of crushing the Mahdi and
taking revenge for Gordon oss9 is it likely that sh6
would construct great lines of transportation open
the navigation Of the Nile from Berber to Khartoum.
and clear out the obstruction below Berber merely for
the sake of smashing the Mahdia' The Mahdi may
be crushed. but after that will come the commercial
control Of this vast region The construction of these
lines is not alone for the transportation of troops.
Birmingham and Manchester goods are going over
them to Khartoum and Ell Obeid-Chicago Tribune.
LET us turn it around little and suppose that Mr..
Blaine had been elected and that he bad chosen his
Secretary of the Treasury the most INSCRIPTIONS
political boss to be found anywhere in the Republican
party and that the immediate outcome of that seleo
ton had been the choice for appointment clerk of the
Treasury of the most shameless legislative lobbyist
discoverable in any Republican State What would
the reformers have to say of the matter then, and
with what scathpg contempt would they have treated
the suggestion, il anybody had been silly enough TO
make It. that the selection of such scamp not Of
Importance because he had nothing to do but merely
to look after appointmeuts?-New York Tribune.
THE displacement of clerks letter carriers etc.
the small fry of the official sea-ill not be so easy
Democracy may yet canonze Senator Voorhees, for his
jealous opposition to the act when it bill before
Congress. The teeth gnashers might console them
selves however with the reflection that undoubtedly
the American people would not have ventured upon
the experiment of letting the Democratic party hold
the rens of government once more had 1t not been
for precisely this safeguard against the spols system
It is very restricted in its scope but stlno small pre-
lection to the clerical force at Washington and in the
larger Offices throughout the country Inter
Ocean.
BUT even were there no such legal restrictions and
such guarantees of protection. it would be mon.
to suppose that without survey classification.
other required preliminaries these condtionaly
ceded dom.ins have become public lands open ses
Element. Were the Oklahoma coonists in Belgium or
England, they might complain with more reason OF
the difficulty of getting farms for themselves; but in
this country they could buy thousands of for the
money wasted in their flibusterng expeditions Of
all these awess projects the current one has been the
most outrageous since Congress only few weeks ago
authorized negotiations for removing the restrctons
against free settlement from part OF the soeaIed
Oklahoma ands.--New York Sun.
THE single fact that next summers wheat crop La
going to be more than one hundred million Of bushels
less In the United States than the cropef 1884 s
enough make return of good prices certain But
greater in amount. And in addition to these price,
making facts must be noted the imminence OF Eu.
ropean Even If the crisis IS not reached. the
coming year is to be of augnentated armannents
and constant readiness for the impending conflict
Europe Asia and Africa to be the OF mil
itary movement and preparation. The whole eastern
hemisphere from center to circumference is in con-
dition of tremendous agitation 1t Is not humane TO
wish for famine and pestence abroad. But 1t II
not in human nature to ignore the fact that such miss
fortunes make q demand for American products. and
bring prosperity to our Minneapolis
Tribune.
THE mus,vump organs of civilservice reform have
all come out against Higgins OF course We want no
other evidence. They swallowed Dan Manning
braveiy. They clearly that Evans ought to be
removed from the Commissonership OF Internal Rev.
enue They have admired every word and deed Of
Mr. Cleveland's. We had begun to believe that they
would find flaw in their idol. and would show
good bad or indifferent. We had fully believed that
they would prove in columns OF the choicest English
That the sacred cause of civil service reform had made
the appointment of Eugene Higgins imperative the
President On the contrary, they are mildly but
firmly protesting against him. and asking for hts
dismissal, This is enough That Higgins is . mon.
stsr /. would now be worse than useless TO deny.
An appointment BY Grover Cleveland which does not
appropriate to oar infatuated mugwump friends
must DO simpsy egsegious Let Higgins DO dismissed
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