The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
AND OPINION.

DYNAMITE possesses one extraordinary
property. The man whom 1t IS used agalnst
may be hurt or not. The man who uses 1t
is certain to suffer, and so, indirectly. are
all his associates connected with the cause
he pretends to serve.-New York sun.
No mans political rights are safe in a
community that permits and encourages
corruption of the ballot in any manner or
for any purpose. The only SAFETY is IN de-
manding under all circumstances a fair
ballot and an honest count.-ChicagO Trib-
une.
ALL persons intending to go to Oklaho-
ma would do we'll to prepare themselves as
far as possible to meet with d~!sappoint-
ment.. Several hundred dollars In money
and plenty of clear grit with which to face
hardships should be taken along by every
would-be settler.-ChicagO News.
CHINA trades with us because it is to her
advantage SO to do; but as to there being
any friendship On the part OF the people OF
China for the American people, the. Chi.
nese have no conception of the meaning OF
the word. To them we are, in common with
other nations, outside barbarians, and less
in their estimation than h dust under
their feet.-San Francisco Chronicle.
THE Southern men who have a faint and
shadOwy desire to see their new industries
defended by adequate duties. but who,
to show their superiority to the negro, are
not after all more ridiculous than the North
ern men who begged Democrats to vote for
Mr.. Cleveland as a good protectiOnist, and
got kicked into a corner for their pains.
New York Tribune.
THE body of Southern society is per-
meated with the influences of institutions
that have passed away, and with beliefs
and opinions that are at war with the pro-
gresslve spirit of the age They can only
s se entirely a{ so pe%Syed w Hy changing a wo the
shop, a rOlling-mill, or q factory of any
Kind is introduced, it will begin it's silent
work.-Cleveland Leader.
If any man is weary of reposeful life in
the States; if politics, railway accidents.
his pulses, he may find something to excite
him in the Oklahoma early days. But if he
wants to settle on Oklahoma land. he
would be wise. probably, to wait until next
spring shows a collapse of prices. For he
will have to pay for his homestead unless
he is disposed to fight the "boomer."-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
AT present we are building wal ships at
the rate of one or two a year. This is slow
work. And in the meantime we are obliged
to tempOrise and avoid issues that might be
settled immediately with credit to the
country and to its commercial advantage.
Every foreign nation having an issue with
us takes account of our puny naval force.
and defes us. Build plenty of ships in
stead of worrying Over the surplus.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
EVERY European country subsidies it's
steamship lines to South America; they are
governed by common sense and not by in
applicable theories. Our government alone,
of all commercial nations, regards the fool
ish objections of free-traders, and pays its
ocean steamers for carrying males at a rate
which, if applied all through the service,
would take away from our people more
than half their present mail facilities, and,
in fact, would leave extensive regions with
out any mails at all.-Loulsville Com
mercial.
TRUsTIsM has been offered as the only
means of relief from destructive competi-
ton. But a remedy SO desperate cannot be
accepted. 1t means that each branch of in
dustry shall be converted into q mammoth
monopoly, with power to dictate absolutely
to labor and to the consuming public. 1t
would destroy altogether the competition
of employers for labor and discourage in
ventiOn by removing the inducement to
adopt new methods and improve production
in order to retain patronage and prevent it
going to cOmpetitOrs.-ChicagO Tribune.
THAT Utah will come into the Union
some time is as certain as anything in the
future can be, but it ought not to be while
the people there are Mormons first and citi-
Zens afterward, and anxious to avail them
selves of citizens privileges for church
purposes only. The laws of the church are
to the Mormon above the civil law. and the
degradation of woman through pOlygamy
is one of them; and until that is absolutely
his politics from his church, Utah will not
be fit for statehood. At present the church
is the state with him.-Brooklyn Standard
Union.