The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-20

/ GREETED taking his advice. we may be tolerably
Il certain that they will follow it once n,ore.-New
/ York Sun
/ A MAJORITY of the gentlemen who are thus
/ preparing the tariff bill from Southern
| States. and have little no experience in in
dustrial matters. They are wholly unequipped
for the task. And what is still worse. they are
unwilling to have the facts submitted. Mr..
Mills has publicly announced that he will have
no hearings. The industries are be doomed by
the star chamber committee, sitting in secret,
without being allowed protest of any kind
New York Press.
Mr. LAMAR will not be strong influence upon
the bench, and he is not likely to do much harm
there, whether from his lack of judicial and
legal experience or from his unsound constitE-
tional views. But the precedent of his appoint
ment and confirmation is bad one, and if it is
to be followed IN future it will bring about the
degeneration of the court as judicial body and
its dangerous departure as an interpreter of the
Constitution from doctrines regarded as
well established Tribune.
LAMAR's conduct while in the Interior Depart
ment. vouched for by such men Holman,
and Payson, and Weaver, should convince any,
one. even Cleveland, of his unfitness for high
judicial position, and if the President insists on
adhering the nomination, he makes himself
an accessory after the fact to the schemes of
public plumber which the railroad corporations
have sought and seeking TO carry out by
means of having control of the Land Depart
Inent-San Francisco Chronicle.
If the principle of our public school system is
right, and in the eyes of nine-tenths of the peo-
taees it gives to the masses of the people the
better. the proper sphere of the public
schools is to give the people such education AS
will fit them for the duties of citizenship and for
the duties of business professional life. Elk
perence has shown that the people care little
for mere opinions this question. Their ex-
perence in the matter of public schools has
been valuable and so satisfactory that preju-
dice and opposition have been gradually beaten
down.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
IT was expected that the Democratic Senators
r0szlH 1fafa ina and hQ s0lid in their
support of Mr.. Lamar Rlddlebergers action
was no surprise. even had he not expressed him
self as favoring the nominee. but for the two
straight Repu blicans who betrayed their party
at such a critical time words of condemnation
ara sufficiently severe. Stewart, of Nevada,
and Stanford of California, have made tor
themselves a record of shame to obliterate
which all their gold could be spent in vain. They
have committed political suicide and should
never be resurrected from their graves of dis
honor.-Nebraska State Journal.
THERE is no more political capital to be made
out of the further agitation of the Chinese
question. 1t is an old, wormy, moldy. political
chestnut, which only alien politicians take
pleasure in chewing. The more the question of
Chinese immigration is agitated the oftener will
the question be asked that Governor Waterman
Observation-Disclosures an industrious, decent, law
abiding Chinese laborer, who cannot vote and
never strikes riots, is not a more desirable
member of the community than ignorant
gin-drinklng. foreign born loafer who won't
work, and will riot, and strike. and vote often
as the opportunity presents itself.-The Argo-
naut.
HAPPILY for the Republican party the day
has passed when it coveted either the counsel or
approval of its enemies In antagonizing with
every weapon in the armorv of legitimate DIS
cussion the elevation of Mr.. Lamar, the Repub-
hean leaders have acted from a high sense of
public duty. Had they betrayed the trust COM
m1tted to their keeping. fawned at the feet of
authority and acquiesced in manifest wrong
they would have earned the smiles of their ad-
versaries and avoided the foul abuse ard impu-
tations showered upon them by the Cleveland
Snn1n II,nr- have III ~
by responding to the manifest sentiment of the
loyal Republican masses, voiced in an unnis-
taxable protest against the exaltation of Mr.
Lamar. Their policy whether viewed from the
standpoint of the public interest mere par
tisan expediency, has been wise. just and in n
tire accord with the views of the citizens whom
they commissioned to represent It will be
sustained by sincere and thoughtful Republicans
everywhere-Brooklyn Standard Union.