The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If this Samoan furry shall be the means
OF stimulating increased activity in the
strengthening of our navy, 1T Will have
answered good purpOse.-Illinois State
Journal.
If Canada sets the example, Congress
ought to follow with statute establishing
a complete reciprocity in the mutual sur
render of fugitives from justice.-Spring-
field Republican.
THAT revision of the tariff list is desir-
able may be true enough, but the Nation
has decreed that there shall be no violent
OF material change in the tendency of tariff
egislatiOn.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
BENJAMIN HARRISON is going to make
fitness the test of appointment to Office,
and while changes will be needed in the in
changes interfere with the rights of the
public to prompt and efficient service.
New York Press.
u THE South must make or mar it's own
future, and its fate will be decided, in large
measure by the manner in which it re-
Republican President, whose election was.
in part, solemn protest against political
Outrages and race tyranny.-Cleveland
Leader.
A WHOLE year is long period in the life
of a man who has arrived at the dignity of
seat in Congress. There is no good reason
why members of the national assembly
should not be set at work within a few
weeks after their election. Death and old
age are foes of the present system.-Chi-
cagO News.
The negro must advance in the degree of
his intelligence and in his sense of respOn-
sibility; the white man must advance IN
his ideas of freedom, and of liberation.
Till such mutual advance is made from Op-
pOsite directions, by the two races that
Providence has thrown together in the
South. the white will hold the reins of
pOwer.-Omaha Republican.
IT is national humiliation that the honor
and wealth of the country and the rights
of its citizens should be at the mercy of a
third or fourth-rate power which happens
to own modern war ship. We cannot
build a navy too soon. In the language of
President Harrison, construction should
progress as rapidly as is consistent with
good wOrk.-Minneapolis Tribune.
IT is a fact well known to every OBJ
servant and uprejudiced person in Rhode
Island that the consumption of intoxicat-
ing drinks has increased in that State very
greatly within the last three years, and
this increase is fairly attributable to the
prohibition law, which invites a man to
take two drinks in secret where he would
have taken but one in public.-New York
Times.
THE turn in the tide of trusts is appar-
emily near at hand, and this exasperating
problem may soon remove itself both from
the political arena and the avenues of
trade. The longer it maintains its grip the
more permanent will be the lesson when it
does let go, and the wisest men will con-
clude that their Wanted sagacity is folly
when it attempts to revOlutiOnize political
economy.-Baltimore American.
THE impulse to acquire new colonies,
and to expand the area of national infiu-
ence, which is now especially active in
some of the leading countries of Europe,
particularly Germany, will bring the United
States into controversies in the future
which were never dreamed of decade ago.
and we must prepare ourselves to meet the
new problems which the changed cOndi-
tiOns present.-St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
If the Republican party hold well in
hand the vantage ground they now occupy,
and. besides healing their own internal dis
sensiOns, give to the country an admins
tratiOn such as the President has fore
Swallowed in his inaugural message, it will
make little difference who the Democratic
nominees of 1892 may be. If otherwise, the
Democracy will not have lost their chances
of return to power, and the men for the
occasion will be found in due time.-Wash-
ingtOn Post.
Ii is to be hoped that the President will
carefully consider the matter of an extra
session, and then call it to begin at an
early day. Among other things, the fact
that State is denied honest representation
in Congress is grave enough to warrant an
extra session. 1t certainly is of no less i'm
pOrtance than the admission of a new
| of representation under the Constitution,
what is the practical advantage of being a
| State!-Wheeling w. Va Intelligencer.