The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

JUSTICE has had a tedious and tragic road
in Ireland. but never did the times and the
fates promise better for the Irish cause
than nOw.-Boston Globe.
IT is not so much the victory of the party
which Is ushered into power as the triumph
OF popular government. which must chal-
lenge the admiration of the world.-Balti-
more American.
PRESIDENT HARRISON will never urge the
people of the United States to buy the
products of foreign Orkme in preference
to the products of home labor. He is a
protectionist through and through.-Wheel-
ing Intelligencer.
ONLY knaves are benefited by the present
extraditiOn laws, which are unjustified by
either tradition or precedent. Men who
wrOnged the community here are not the
kind to benefit the people over the border.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
1F changes in the national administration
must change the large body of the public
servants, Jet us ut least Ia a mail service
founded upon efficiency alone. and there
can be but little efficiency where the fear
of dismissal constantly demOralizes.-Chi-
cago Inter-Ocean.
REPUBLICAN government is government
by a party with a defined and intelligent
purpose. Democratic government is gov
eminent by a mob, impelled by greed for
the fruits of ~Office-holding. The latter we
have had for four years. The fOrmer,we
shall nave for a good many years to come.
cleveland Leader.
THE transfer of power from one party to
another has seldom been witnessed with
such tranquility Ofmind on the part of the
great mass of the citizenship as ON this oc-
casion. This is due almost wholly to the
fact that the people have at last come to
believe that no matter which party is in
control their great fundamental interests
will be carefully guarded.-Louisville Com
mercial.
1T is an instructive career, this of Grover
Cleveland. 1t teaches that no one can af-
ford to build a wall around himself and to
keep from rubbing up against the people, If
he wishes to be useful in public life; n it
teaches that in the long run the broadcast
sort of self-culture, moral as well as intel
lectual, is needed to keep one who aspires
to. lead a nation from making fatal mis-
takes.-New York Press.
THE public debt of the United States in
creased by st ,0O0,0 600 during the month of
February. Luckily it was a short month.
This IS the first instance of the kind that
has occurred for about twelve years and is
a pretty severe scald on the administration
that came into power four years ago on a
whine about the surplus. Evidently the
surplus would have gone glimmering i'm a
year more of Democratic rule.-Nebraska
State Journal.
THE memories of the rebellion exercise
less force than they held, even up to half
a dozen years ago, on the minds OF the peO-
pie of the North. With the disappearance
of the negro problem as a factor in national
politics. which is reasonably certain to Oc-
cur within the next eight or ten years, the
sectional element in partisanship will be
eliminated and parties will fully and fairly
divide on economic questions, as they did
at one time during the old Wing days.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The man who wants chiefly to please
Democrats and mugwumps and the settlers
on-the-fence. whose political capital is their
freedom from political convictions, will
find it easier to please them out of place
aud Office for the present. For the country
has intrusted power to Republicans, be-
cause Of their Republican principles, and
in the confidence that a brave, and manly,
and faithful application of those principles
to the problems of the day will bring the
country better government and larger
prosperity.-New York Tribune.