The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-18
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IT may not be amiss for the good elders and
deacons throughout the land to look in occa-
slonally upon the social gatherings affected by
the youth of their respective churches. They
may find novelties of amusement that will cast
the Flatbush system into the shade, difficult as
this may seem. At present, however, our friends
OF Long Island may easily go to the front for
originality and completeness. The Flatbush
sOclable has never been equaled.-Philadelphi
Record.
1T is an outrage for man or woman to wan
tonly Impose sorrow, reproach and suspicion
on others in order to escape from the troubles of
life. There is no excuse for suicide except in
santy-exceDt an uncomfortable impulse to
sef-d struction in the Individual who dies by his
own hand Otherwise it is offense OF the
most objectionable sort, and it makes DO differ
ence whether the suicide thinks that death is
the end or has faith in a future existence.-New
York Sun.
IN this country, as in all free countries, par
ties are necessary. The government must be
carried on by them. In order that they may an
swer fully and efficiently the purpose of their
organization it is essential that the individuals
composing them should belong them ia the
right sense If they are made up of mere slav-
lsh followers of a name cry of men whose suf-
frages are owned and controlled by the organi-
cation, they cease To be useful for the purposes
for which parties necessary, and become
dangerous to the body polite and hindrances TO
neatly national life.-Louisville Commercial
The South is worse than Mexicanized. 1t is
soidfed hostility to the United States govern
ment, as 1T has been conducted since the war.
Malone had broker a corner from the solid
South, but last month due notice was given that
pubhcans in Virginia to cause terror and cap
ture the State. This merely the Mississippi
plan. TWAS carried out; and the Republican
party have just as much chance to get Southern
electoral votes next year in the consolidated
Southern CoEfederacy they have in Mexico,
Tartary or Acknowledgement Commercial Ga
zette.
IT is to be regetted that the French Jury sys-
tenn could not be imported into this country.
That system is sentiment. In France 1t is es-
| teemed an honor to be drawn and accepted as
juror 1t is an office of trust in point of fact,
| and the French view of it is certainly rational
and wholesome 1t is, in fact, the only effective
cure for the abuses of trial by jury These abuses
are not serious as compared with its advantages
over every other method of administering JUS
tlce, but the very excellence of the general
method makes it all the more important to rem
edy, so far possible, all defects in its practical
| operation.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
ONCE entered on, a war by the French republic
| would be very different thing from war by
| the late French emperor. The army that could
| be placed in the field is powerful fairly organ
| lied and equipped, and absolutely sure not TO
| crnmbie to pieces, as did the army Of Napoleon
| III. Nor is it at all certain that the allies of
Bismarck would in such contingency do all
| that he expects of them, or all that they may
| have promised him. Such war would be "a ter
1 rlble misfortune for France and for Germany,
and for all Europe but it is by do means unlike
| ~ that France would come out of it as little
| hurt as her foes.-New York Times.
| SINCE the war closed the people of the South
| have learned nothing and forgotten nothing
which would tend TO prevent recurrence of the
war. The right of free political discussion or of
| government, and perhaps, under existing legal
and constitutional machinery. cannot be- This
| being so there remains only for the North and
| the country to wake up to the fact that the
| rights of American citizens in the South must
and will be maintained, and that the longer the
delay may be in enforcing these rights the
heavier will be the costs 10 be taxed up against
the delinquent party.-Chicago Inter Ocean
THE extreme reluctance of the American peo-
pie to resort to eXtra-cons ttutOnal agencies
and.the real completely of the problem itself,
account for, and even justify the hesitation with
which 1t has been approached. And in order to
convince the pubic OF the necessity for far more
severe measures than have vet been attempted
1t may be advisable TO test Mr.. CullOm's bill, or
some other based the Presidents recon-
| mendations But it seems most probable that in
the END the United States will be compelled to
adopt measures for the suppression of p0lygamy
which may ar first sight appear incompatible
with the philosophy of American government,
New York Tribune.
A LAWYER must live, and if he has but one
client, thai client must pay for the privilege of
having the exclusive use of lawyer. The legal
profession have always acted on the principle
adopted by some railroads of charging all the
traffic will bear A lawyer would like to be busy
all the time, II he Is not it is not his fault, and
he must charge his few clients, not only for the
time he gives TO their business, but for the equal
| ly valuable time which is wasted while. waiting
| for business To come. There are not nearly 50,
many lawyers in England as in the United States.
1t would he - great boon If several hundred
thousand OF those here wound follow the exam
pie of Judah P. Benjamin and this New York
lawyer and emigrate TO London elsewhere.
Philadelphia Press.
WHILE have detectives who don't detect
crime Will be encouraged and VIII increase in
boldness and enOrmity. That is certain. We
do not believe that in France or England muir
ders like those of Rose Amber, jennie Cramer,
the Paullin girl and others nave named
would 80 undeteeted. But here there seems TO
be some fault which needs remedy. When there
is nothing hut the punishment of a criminal to
be secured by the discovery of a murder an
apathy seems to prevail among many of our de-
tectives They do not seem of the right sort of
stuff To work for Justice alone. at all events,
the number of crimes left Undecided is rapidly
increasing and to this may, in some measure be
attributed the peculiar offenses which continue
TO shock the communicative York World.