The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-01
NJ AND OPINION.

These prohibitionist successes are very strik-
ing Indications of the lack of real political issues,
and OF the increasing weakness of the old party
es.-Brooklyn Union.
The drawing of s~ectarian lines in our politics
would, lndeed. be a result greatly to be d%eplored.
but it would ultimately injure most whatever
cement introduced it.-Boston journal.
1t is a little significant that the Democrats
think that Senator Edmunds should be made
President pro tempore of the Senate, while the
Republicans, as a rule, think that Logan is the
man for the place. w ashington Critic.
If Great Britain begins to consider the inter
ests and needs of its laborers, what excuse will
there be for British free traders in the United
States who have insisted that this country
should not protect American labor?-New York
Tribune.
The voters who preferred Cleveland to Blaine
confidently hope that the Democratic utterances
from washington will be unmiStakable In tone,
aud will ring out boldly in favor of genuine re-
form In every branch Of the federal government.
New York Sun.
The proprieties of the occasion require the
election of a Republican senator to be President
pro tempore of the Senate and acting Vice presi-
dent OF the United States. The fitness of Gen
eral Logan's selection for the place is self-evi-
dent. National Republican.
The liquor problem will not be solved any
where by prohibition. Least of all will it be
solved in communities which are impatient of
personal restraint and where the mountain
dew" OF the moonshiner is distilled upon the just
and the unlust.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The conservative business interests of the
country which cannot afford any political inter
ruption to the era of prosperity now opening.
to gratlfy any mans ambition, would be best
suited with Edmunds, although it would not OBJ
Ject to Sherman.-Springfeld Republican.
The announcement that Mr.. Gladstone has Of
fered to Lord Salisbury's government the sup
MORT of the I1hQpa1 rty ip racict;nO Vuhofnunr
may threaten the integrity of the empire, looks
as though an arrangement may be made through
which the Irish programme may miscarry.
Washington Post.
If the coinage of legal tender silver should be
resumed, the right thing would be to turn
out half dollars, and they, if it should be the
policy to put fifty cents worth. in gold, of silver
in them at the present ratio, would not be a
clumsy bur a marvelously neat coin. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Westward the star of empire has taken its
way, and before another decade shall have pass
ed, the States and Territories lying at the very
base of the Rockies will TEEN with a population
as dense as that which now inhabits the bleak
and barren lands that border upon the stormy
Atlantic. Denver News.
The eyes of the entire people of the South
were turned toward Atlanta. The prohibition
victory there is certain to give the cause a great
impulse throughout the balance of the South.
The political woes of Southern Democrats are
just beginning, and they are entitled to pro-
found sympathy.-Albany Express.
The question seems to become a rather vital
one whether the Nationalist manifesto may not
have been a rather grave mistake in alternating
the party from which the Irish cause had most
to hope, and in placing its faith on the party
which will confessedly do nothing for Ireland
unless it is forced to.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
A President of the Senate should be chosen
witb.a view to his fitness for that place; and
without a moments unnecessary delay, provision
should be made that would remove the line of
succession to presidential duties from the legis-
lative to the executive department of the govern
ment, where it clearly belongs.-New York
Times.
About nineteen out of twenty national banks
whose charters have been near expiring have
applied for renewals, although they might easily
under State laws. The practical unanimity with
which new charters are taken out is the highest
testimonial the system has vet received.-Mlnne-
apolis Tribune.
The Republican senators would be gravely
derelict if they ignored the expressed choice of
their party in selecting a presiding officer of the
Senate to take the place of the late Vice-presi-
dent Hendricks. If Logan will accept the posi-
ton of President pro tenn. he ought to be given
1t by his Republican associates without question
or confess. Press.
We know that we express the sentiment of
many leading Republicans when we saw that.
IT the office is given to an Eastern senator, Mr..
Hoar should be the one. If it is not deemed
best to take an Eastern senator, we
do not hesitate to express the opinion that tho
Republicans of New England would prefer c IN
eral Logan to any other Western senator. -Bos-
ton Journal.
In point of everyday prudence, of ordinary
policy, to say nothing of duty, it is profta BILE for
a man to cultivate the home virtues, to obey
the demands of domestic honesty, to be in love
xrsxh hi1 MIC Ul1 II
ers In this respect, and their approval is certain
where approval Is earned, as their condemnation
is sure and unsparing where guilt is present.
st Louis Globe Democrat.
Congress needs to be stirred up on the cues
tons of business legislation. The advocates of
a national bankruptcy law, however, should be
encouraged to fresh exertionS by the reflection
that the subsistence of electioneerine excitement
will leave the congressman in a frame of mind
better suited for the consideration of business
questions than they have been at any time dur
ing the last two years.-Bra6streets.
In Washington the opinion is expressed that
prohibition is to become the leading issue in
national politics. Local option dominates
Georgia, and is very strong in Tennessee. Mis-
sissippi, Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, and is
making strides in the Carolinas and Virginia.
The South is forcing this question to the front,
and the statesmen of the country are watching
developments with great anxiety .-Atlanta Con-
%stitution
In a country like this it is especially important
that the moral training of the young shall not be
neglected, for grave responsibilities await the
boys and girls of to-day. 1t is none the less need
full that religion should bring to bear Oh our men
and women the full strength of it's elements of
love and fear, that by some means they NAV
learn to reverence that integrity of character
which is the cornerstone of citizenship and of
home.-New York Herald.
The past year has been one of exceptional cold.
or, more properly, of cold which would once
have seemed exceptional, but which now appears
to be becoming the rule; the spring was very
late, the summer only "a green winter" and the
prospect for the winter is most discouraging.
The country has not yet recovered from the re-
cent famine years" and it begins to look as
though nature meant to put an end to the Ma
ton. = York Evening Post.
If battalions of impulsive colored men, after
being stirred up to a condition of emotional
frenzy, must be fed and cooped all night lest the