The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-08
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE party whip held over the North by tho
Democracy of the South will soon be accorded
the place it held in the days of slavery, but be-
fore the time comes when Northern Democrats
again knuckle down to the South, pretense of
independence will be made. 1t is likely to he
little more than pretense. however, for greed
for Office is the ruling passion in that party in
the present, as in the past. and it will sacrifice
independence and and honesty If thereby office
may be secured.-Cleveland Herald.
THE propensity of the colored people In the
late slave States to get themselves shot by the
whites at election time is one of the strangesG
vagaries of human nature. Their success in this
line at DanVille Is fair example of the whole.
Four colored men get themselves killed on tho
spot at political meeting, aud three
ported as since dead Sad to relate, in doing
this one white man was wounded. supposed TO
be by a shot intended for the coored They must
be held responsible for this mischance.-CincIn-
natl Commercial Gazette,
BETWEEN the open homcides which go unpun-
ished and the secret murders which remain mys-
teries human life has become very uncertain
quantity. From the detectives who do not de-
tect to the courts which do not convict the way
of the murderer is along path which has many
by-paths leading to escape. In the Palestine OF
old there cities of refuge, but in these DAYS
and this land safe retreats are found wlthouU
going to any such trouble as that. The eulpriJ
has on ly to go about his business journey in
the usual way to be hedged about by walls which
defy the scaling-ladder and hattering-ram of tho
observation-disclosures Inter Ocean.
THE account given by the Richmond Dispatch
shows that the whites began the quarreiing OF
course the negroes should have submitted ~
any indignity, and then there would have been
no trouble. But being men, and having spirit,
they resented indiGnities In some instances
they went even further, and did little QUARREL
ing. This was shocking, of course. Only whites
have the right to quarrel il Virginia and the
existence of quarreisome negro in Danvllle is
good reason why every white III he State
should vote the Bourbon ticket and why there
should be loud ontcry for a of races from
the Potomac 10 the Carolina border-New York
Tribune
A BOY with a healthy body and healthy mind
properly trained, will never be injured by the
saloon. OF course there thousands who are
morally defective, and it Is important that we
should keep whisky from them. SO far this ia
practicable society should be Il unit in the en-
deavOr. Citizens leagues should be organized
every where to do whatever can be done 10 limit
the dangers of whisky. But it should be Kept
IN view at the same time that the entire aboi-
ton of these dangers rests III the moral educa-
ton OF the race-in the better training OF chill
dren.
"The foe is in the soul within"
Milwaukee Sentinel,
NEVER was the currency in so sound and
moment. With all allowances for the damage
to the corn and cotton and wheat crops, there
is an abundance of everything the soil produces
to satisfy our own wants ana those of foreign
countries Speculation has been absolutely
squeezed out of every department of trade and
finance Where whole classes were reckless
whole classes are now rivaling each other in
conservatism. There is vast reserve strength
IN free and rich nation like ours, and there is
of the years between 1873 ana 1881 have
trenched on anything more than surplus,
that they have exhausted that-Chicago Trio