The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
COMMENT AND OPINION.

IT is only the professionalwriter of sneers
who can find any discredit in the accept
ance by an editor of an unsought Office.
New York Graphic.
IT is the European occupation of Africa
which will alone stop the atrOcity of Arab
slaTe-tradIng, and it is the chief glory of
Stanley's career that all his work in the
Dark Continent has strongly tended to en-
courage and hasten the time of that Occupa-
tion.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
CITIZENSHIP, the right to vote and to
have his vote counted, has made the white
man of America what he Is. Give the negro
the same chance and there will be no race
question, for he will have no excuse for
any. Don't prohibit the colOred boy from
going near the water till he has learned to
swim.-New York Press.
UNLESS the Mormon Church will take its
lean conscience and the American ballot. it
is the very height of fOOlishness, indeed, it is
a crime, to continue to permit them to 60
on settling and possessing the lands which
are soon to make up States of this Republic.
Salt Lake City Tribune.
stead will have to explain and account for
their conduct at the bar of public opinion;
but so far as their relations to the Presi-
dent are concerned. it would be very fool
ish either for them or for him to let es-
arrangement ensue where there is really no
AOl " lts-OUs AOulo
BEFORE there are fair elections in Louis
lana, Mississippi, Texas and South Caro-
lima, the laws and Constitution of the
United States will lave to be enforced by
federal authority. The State courts and Of
ficials deride them in so far at least as they
are framed for the endowment of the col
Ored race with the right to vOte.-ChicagO
Inter Ocean.
WE hope the President, without seeking
a quarrel with the Senate, will stand by
his WI constitutional duty and right. Tt
help him in that course he would do well to
refuse to hear Senators, Representatives or
any one else on patronage business, but re-
quire all applications for Office to be made
in writing, with all the recommendations
and Endorsements, senatorial and Other-
wise.-New York Herald.
RACE slavery had it's day and ceased to
exist. Mental and political slavery will
have its day and cease to exist. KnOwl-
edge, experience, the aspirations of prog
ress, the hope of gain, the ambitions that
success In business and industry breeds
must at no distant day shatter the solid
South. and break the rule of depotism main
tanned through intimidation at the polls
and frauds on the ballot-box.-Chicago
Journal.
THE curious parallel between the rise and
fall of the mugwumps in America and the
mugwumps in England is an amusing re-
semblance between political organizations
INV - ~ WV
countries. The Tories and the Democrats
rise and fall together, and the Liberal and
Republican victories coincide in a very con-
%spicuOus way as the years roll round. The
Anglo-Saxon race has its tidal movements
in common in the two hemispheres.-Ne-
braska State Journal.
THERE is not a single head of a great
banking house, or a great commercial en-
terprise, or a great industrial establish
ment, in this or any other country,
who allows his time to be monOp
lized by applicants for clerkships and other
posts of employment. The peculiar ar
rangements by which the President and
his advisers are to be relieved from the
rush and crush of Ofice-seekers are matters
relief is as much beyond doubt as the me-
cessity.-Boston Advertiser.
WHILE it is not expedient for US to draw
lines of too restrictive a character in any
~extraditiOn treaties which we may make,
it seems to be only fair that we should ac-
cord to those who represent the govern
| ments of other countries the same degree of
protection that we should expect them to
accord to those who represent our govern
murder public officials with impunity
while the same offense committed by pri-
yate individuals would lead to the prompt
extradition of the criminal.-BostOn
Herald.
| GREAT BRITAIN is the native soil OF
trusts and syndicates-that is, of vast ag
gregations of capital workings to a certain
| and specified end. Any country which has
a great deal of money boarded up. as Great
are beginning to have them, not on account
of any tariff, but because accumulations Of
| money are becoming greater. and because
! the owners Of that money u IL more Il