The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11


allegiance. and 1t is not clear why it should give
him. special rights in foreign country. Chicago
Tribune.
THE President has pardoned George r. Sims.
sent to the Illinois penitentary for conspiracy
to defraud the government in pension case It
Is not stated what Office will be given Mr. Sims
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND announced some time
ago that no office holder should be removed ex-
cept for cause However, Mr.. Cleveland ddn't
know at that time what hypocritical admins
tration we were to Observation-Disclosures Press.
AS the people value their liberties. they should
cry halt to the politicians in Congress who ara
dicing with government teegraphy. The as
sumption of the business would be the beginning
of the end of democracy in America. New York.
Sun.
THE hardest thing in this world to please is q
woman. Mr. Young. of Wabasha. Mimi, locked
his wife into the house; Mr.. Potts, of Pepn,
Wis, locked his wife out of the house. Now
both women have sued for divorce. -HolyokG
Mass Transcript
NOTHING could be more disastrous to the
Bell people than the return or sale of his stock
by the Attorney general and the cleansing of
the department. of justice from the scandal which
now weighs down and paralyzes the government
suit-New York World.
THE cry that 1.-The Chinese must co. when
made by mob accompanied with violent at
tempts to execute the order should be met By
the United States army ready to emphasize
with bullets the executive declaration that the
Chinese must be protected. Chicago News.
The conscience fund at Washington was begun
in 1927 1t now amounts TO over 1920, 000 and is
increasing every year So far. however, no
congressman has been known to contribute to IL
because of his absenteeism. That he ought IL
contribute goes without saying. Baltimore
American.
We are drifting into such relations with China
as must, under existing treaty stipulatious in
volve this country in serious difficulties We
shall have to pay damages or repudiate our OBJ
legations. If our citizens in China were NAL.
treated and their property destroyed, we should
demand reparation, and we should get it, too.
National Republican.
IF Mr.. Garland retires no blame need attach
to him. 1t will only be case in which public
officer, finding his business relations unfit him
for the performance of duty which his official
position places upon him. ,retres in order that
the duty which he may not do with propriety may
be done by another in his stead-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
THE South owes her power to enforce pro
hibitory and Sabbatarian laws to the unmixed
character of the population and the great infu-
ence Of the churches. It is for these reasons
that the South remains fixed in her ways; hold
ing the old faiths unchanged, and sending forth
such evangelists as Sam Jones and Sam Small 10
preach the gospel Of the old version in the North.
Chicago Tribune
IT certainly was not the intention of Congress
to enact q restriction law which should be prac.
tically useless, but through inexparience such
was the result OF the attempt to afford relief II
may almost be said that the endeavor to check
Chinese immigration has to be begun again, so
little use has the law been, and whatever is nee.
essary to give California what the country has
already promised her should be conceded prompt
ly and cheerfully.-New York Tribune.
PosrERITY may smile at our legal processes
Gov anfo 4 nf loh<
smile at the old English notion of locking man
up for life because he could not pay his tailors
bill. But however this may be, there should be-
process by which an honest but unfortunate
debtor may escape from the burden of his debts
and begin the world anew. Frauds will OCCUR
under every bankrupt law, but they are less in.
furious to society than the crippling annually OF
aconsiderable proportion Of its active members.
San Francisco Chronicle.
THE purity of Cleveland is to be depended upon
as sufficient for ALL The Attorney general had
given him by an alleged telephone company q
huge block of stock. It was for "'fuence,n az
the boys term it. When he was wanted to bring
a suit, the effect of which would be to put this
stock up, he declined, but one of his subordi.
mates has been pushing the matter. This is
thought to establish the complete innocence Of
the Attorney general He and the President
seem to feel at ease. There is a mugwump purity
about this that is pleasing -Cincinnat Com
mercial Gazette
BE the owners of the coke works who they
may, is not this time for them to remember
that they are personally responsible, at the bar
of public opinion, and before the Ruler above
for what may be done in the coke regionsf They
cannot escape that responsibility, whoever they
may be, by sitting in distant parlors on charita-
BILE boards. and knowing nothing about the de-
tails of management" It Is their duty to know
whether their property is used uprightly and
worthily. or with the cruel and brutal inhuman-
ity which sometimes characterizes the action OF
corporations York Tribune.
CATHOLICS throughout Germany may guess
how the iron Chancellor would treat them when
he had no longer need of them, from the some
what premature avowal Of his ruthless scheme
for the forcble appropriation and repatriation OF
the Poles from Posen. Nor is this the only obs
structi0n to the Chancellor's designs that may DO
caused by the violent proceedings against the
Poles. The anti-Bismarck party at Vienna has
whether it can sensibly affect the relations of
Austro Hungary to Germany is too complicated
to be incidentally discussed.-New York Sun.
THE facts in the cases Of Bristor, at Spring
Valley, and Downs, at Boston, together with the
course pursued by these two men since they were
indicted, show that there should be change in
the polity of the religious organizations with
which they are connected. Clergymen accused
as they have been should not be hastily con-
demned, but after strong body of evidence has
been presented against them, they should not be
until final determination of the matter has been
reached by the courts church authorities
They should be effectually silenced until their
guilt or innocence is authoratively determined.
New York Times.
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