The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-14
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE South alone. DISTINGUISHING a third
of its voting population and fighting the
party that has built up its vast prosperity
IN spite of itself, is its own worst enemy.
Chicago Journal.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is doubtless civil
service refOrmer to considerable extent,
but he has not found it necessary to make
that the most prominent feature of his adj
Observation-Disclosures State Journal.
THERE is no danger of our American life
becoming too strait-laced, but there is
national danger of too great laXness in
morals: and the example of such a man as
President Harrison, in such place as he
now holds, cannot be otherwise than most
Observation-Disclosures Wisconsin.
THE administration has many things to
do besides dividing the Offices, and those
who want offices are only postponing the
time of getting them by putting themselves
In the way and bringing on confusion of
interests. Give the administration chance.
Don't get Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
HAPPY will the people of the Southern
tier be if they free themselves from the oil
garchs who have long ruled and depressed
them. By their own efforts or by those of
the Nation they must be made free. A bal
lot must count for just as much and be just
as freely cast in Arkansas or louisiana as in
Maine or Illinois.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
ANY further neglect by this country of
the means of defense and offense will be
criminal. We can no longer rely upon our
isolation and the policy of nOn-interference
for protection from troublesome quarrels
The tail of our coat will be trOd on eventu-
ally, and we may as well prepare efectual-
ly for the ensuing rOw.-LOuisville Com
mercial.
THE postal service ought to be admins
tered without regard to partisanship, but
with special care to secure efficiency and
promptness in the discharge of duty. If
Mr.. Wanamaker can remedy the mistakes
of his predecessor and make the mail service
what it should be, he will win the lasting
gratitude both of Democrats and Republic
ans.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE Republican party is destined to con-
troll the politics of the whole North, with
the occasional exception of two or three
States. To this result the solidity of the
South has largely contributed. The South
has no such chance to extend the area OF
it's political domination. There will be no
new Southwestern States for many years to
come, and when any do come in, they are
more likely than not to be anti-BOurbOn.
Cleveland Leader.
WoULD-BE carpet-baggers have learned
that carpet-bag rule in the Territories soon
will be thing of the past, only. The Re,
publican platform makes this promise. and
the President intends to live up to it. The
announcement that practical printer will
be selected for the Office of Public Printer
is another disappointment to the politicians,
because it is another evidence of the sim
cerity and good faith of the President.
Minneapolis Tribune.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has invited the
United States District Attorney for West
Virginia to send in his resignation. That
is right. The President can't begin any too
soon to purge the public service of Demo-
cratic partisans who have been using their
positions for partisan purposes and to de-
| feat the ends of justice. West Virginia
needs overhauling. State that will per-
NIT such gross election Outrages as have
no. afYot tod fhar oh III nc
Iowa State Register.
If Arkansas is ever to have the prosperity
which her people desire, she must abandon
| the idea that political injustice and rascal
| ity can be safely permitted and defended.
| Her valuable resources will never be de-
| veloped, her waste lands will never be inn
| proved. her industries will never reach the
| full measure of success, if she persists in
her present policy of sacrificing all consid-
| erations of political honor and decency to
| the maintenance of Democratic rule.-St
| Louis GlObe-Democrat.