Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-04
RDITnRHRE NOTKS.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
 item of expense entaiied in keeping up En- glish tyranny in Ireland amounts to. The gross amount spent on the-Irish constabulary for fast year was e1 ,5e0, 900, the pansiors and gratuities to industrious evictors coming alone to nearly e500, ,0o0.
 The insane asylum for negroes at Gold boro, North Carolina, has just been enlarged on account of the rapid increase of insanity among the colored people. Thirty years ago madness was almost unknown among the southern negroes, but now the number of those affected in North Carolina alone Is esti- mated at 1000.
 The Virginians and North Carolioans are very much disturbed because the Democratic majority in the House will not repeal the tobacco tax. The LYnchburg Virginian, grumbling over the matter, says: "There is grave danger that these States may slip their moorings and glide into the Republican port if affairs remain es they are now" They could do much worse.
 The Hartford Times is one of the most in- fuential ot the Democratic newspapers, and it admits that it is mistake on the part of some of the laboring people of Indianapolis to revive against MT. Harrison now his action ! in 1877 in aiding the authorities to suppress what threatened to become vast riot, like l that of few days before at Pittsburg, which cost the taxpayers of that neighborhood mil = l lions to pay for. The Times says tha. Gen. | Has !, d,1Ex
 The action of the Iowa railroad comnis- sioners in forcing upon the roads in that State a schedule of rates alleged to be ruin ous promises to develop an extended and inn portant piece of litigation wherein are in- volved fundamental questions regarding the 1 functions and powers of the State in its rela- tions to corporate interests. Arguments will be first heard before Judge Brewer of l the United States circuit court at Leaven- worth, Kanses, Thursday, on the question of whether the temporary injunction against the Iowa commissioners shall be made per- manent. The main question at issue would seem to be: Is there any limit to the right oi State, through its legislature or a ooAmis
 sion created by that legislature, by drastic | ASSAoAao4Oh3 Sc SV AoNuC0 b0o Eof0AuoS VI . l railroad that it cannot be run at save loss l to the owners2
 In March, 1886, in speech on the rela- Etions between the senate and the executive
 departments General Harrison said: t'I free
 ly say to my colleague (Voorhees) that ths
 Republican party would be stronger in Indi
 ana if you would put every Indiana Republi can out of office, and think the Democratic 1 party would be weaker in precisely the same proportion that you put Democrats in" Int 1 Republicans have been turned out, and tht result is what General Harrison said it would
 be. Further on in the same speech he said
 I do lift up hearty prayer that we may never have President who will not eithe pursue, and compel his cabinet advisers tt
 pursue, the civil service policy pure and sim
 pie and upon g just basis, allowing men ac
 cused to be heard, and deciding against then
 only upon competent proof and fairly-eithe
 have that kind of civil service or, for God
 sake, let us have that other frank and bold
 if brutal, method of turning men and womel
 out simply for political opinion. Let us hay
 one or the other.
 According to all accounts the new Lsbs