The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-14

continue the missionary work. mourning more
debts from time to time, as Of old. Such . way
OF doing business keeps the mission enterprises
In financial hot water, and brings o noble Work
into contempt-New York Star.
ONE hundred million dollars viii be dis
tributed IN the shape of dividends this month
throughout the country. This is a great deal or
loose money to set afioat at one time, and it must
contribute to the awakening desire for invest
ments-Philadelphia Record.
If President Garfeld's sacrifice TO the impor-
tunities of of6ce-seekers is not sufficient, time
yyill sound the knell Of the spoils system, and
firmly root the principles of civil service reform.
In antagonizing the latter the Democratic party
fails to recognize the handwriting on the wall
Albany Express.
IT does not become General Butler or Gen.
Vest to oppose the admission of Dakota. II JUS
tice is done. south Dakota will be admitted as q
State and the remaining portion of the Territory
named Lincoln" in accordance with the
recommendation of the Senate at the last session.
New York Tribune.
No greater danger TO the Republic can exist
than a class of workingmen who even in early
childhood have known little or nothing of
SCHOOLS, and whose education is solely that Of
factories. When such workingmen are the rule,
the anarchist doctrines will find PROMISING
ground to spread -Pittsburg Dispatch.
The liquor traffic, with all its evils, Is SO
strongly fortified by the valuable service it rem
derS ward politics, that moral indignation is NOT
likely to spur the Legislature to action unless il
becomes evident that the community at large,
and not simply the churchmen and professional
reformerE, feels moral ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Union.
The balance Of power is in the hands of some
thing like twenty five Democrats and eight or
ten Republicans. If these people vote as they
dld In the spring of 1884. the tariff bill will be
beaten. If the twenty-five Democrats conclude
not TO oetray their party q second time it will be
passed over to the Senate stamped with the APP
proval OF the peoples immediate representatives
Washington Post.
IT is not more natural for birds to fly or water
to run down hill than it is for the American
heart to give its sympathies to the Irish in their
movement for local self -government. To refuse
them our sympathy in such a cause would be to
belle our record as badly as England belied hers
when she took part with the cause of slavery
and against the cause of freedom in this country
twenty-five years ago.-National Republican.
Mr. CLEVELAND may or may not want a
second term, but he has got the first one, and he
will use it industriously, onscientiously stub
Dornly, not always wisely, not always as the
Democracy would like, not always for the good
OF the Democracy, but always according to his
own notions. These notions were perfectly we'll
known when he was nominated and elected, and
nobody has any right to complain of them now.
New York Sun.
1T takes from two to four years to get an i'm
portant matter settled in the courts of this coun.
try, and so, after the panic of 1873, it was not
until 1878 that the amount of capital affected by
foreclosures reached its maximum. But it is
right to remember that the clearing away of
wrecks is a healthful process, and that the rail
way wrecks of which DEGREES of foreclosure bear
witness are the effects, not Of present misfort-
une, but of the disasters Of 1884 and the pre-,
vious year.-New York Tribune.
THIS boycotting of postmastsrs. instead Of be-
ing an exhibition Of narrow party spirit, is the
protest of outraged communities against the
reckless partisanship and spoils-mongery of the
administration in it's use of the smaller appoint
i've Offices. 1t is not a pleasant form Of protest,
but it ought to be s~alutary. There is no boycott
ing in the case of decent appointments, even al
though made to fill vacancies caused by the re-
moval of unexceptionable officials. Each now
instance of boycott bears witness against the ad-
ministration. Minneapolis Tribune.